[conspire] greetings from latest debian mint " linux " supposed kde4

[Margaret Wendall]

Bruce,

Methinks they're trying to confuse the masses. Your trials and tribulations
are nothing compared to a reinstall of windoze!!!

Margaret


On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:00 PM, bruce coston <jane_ikari at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Don't wonder why Linux lost market share recently :
> I got the current debian mint version of " kde " 4 " working " - WOW what a
> stinker , you can't even escape the slab to get a root programs menu like
> what a human interface has ! Recent versions of kde4 let you do that but not
> this filth .
>
> It's no surprise that the recent " corporate " version of Pardus uses a
> KDE3 variant , apparently foreign corporations don't desperately hate their
> employees . Last I saw Oracle Linux has real KDE too .
>
> Just because the dying company maned Microsoft moved the panel somewhere
> bad and destroyed their start menu with the " slab " abomination does not
> make it a good idea . As an analogy microsoft coders changed their start
> button as a form of pissing their names in the snow . AND now your users
> don't really expect such microsoft errors any  more . [ More mobile devices
> ship now than computers and microsoft stinks at mobile , the handwritings on
> the wall , barring serious changes microsoft = dead . ]
>
> Honestly , as a manager who authorized all this research etc. do you really
> want to tell your boss " we couldn't make any improvements " or cite some
> study of small sample size that claims an improvement and gets you promoted
> , just like the eventual B of A president who had recommended a bunch of
> ultimately bad loans in S. America but realized he could climb the ladder
> before it went bad .  Enron suffered a similar quirk of perverse promotions
> before their hugely unexpected bankruptcy , unless you looked at the
> accounting exemptions they got from congress .
>
> Can't get a visual tool with root privledges for anything from any password
> on this system when running the " kde " no matter what , not even installing
> their " kdesudo " !
>
> Did the new user interface folks try to implement more " features " that
> oppose the known preferable methods from user research again , and I mean
> really doing research as opposed to polling your best buddies and declaring
> all other facts false . This is degenerating back to the parts of the most
> disfunctional gnome human interface guidelines where I found them boldly
> claiming " real research " proved the opposite of the real referenced
> findings of human interface research amid a Multiverse of obfuscations .
> Kde3.x did so many things so well , like giving me the ' Be II ' window
> title bars when set to do that , that it suffered a giant smear campaign
> over bugs . Nobody does the user preferences as well as they did . The side
> panel here truly stinks when compared to the old kde3 style of
> implementation .
>
> Grub2 seemed to find some more things it can maybe boot as a side effect of
> me  changing the default boot entry . I Desperately wish it had found them
> earlier .
> My cat insists I stop now
>  - Bruce ...
>
> Murder adding the trinity repositories to sources.lst of my installation
> of the? most recent debian variant of Mint and they don't appear to
> work . Does anyone know how to fix it ? I'm not sure squeeze was the
> right version but nothing downloads from pearson or sometimes debian at
> all . Is this new version churn from debian . I'd like a " desktop
> environment " vs. this filth !
>
> ?- love and kisses - Bruce
> PS.
> this bios stinks but an old enough distro cd gave me the grub error 18
> that let me figure it out . Why did grub2 change the ui. , I can only
> assume " ego - embolism " or commercial sabotage . ...
>
>
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Margaret Wendall
mwendall-at-gmail-dot-com
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" - Juvenal
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