Bruce,<br><br>Methinks they're trying to confuse the masses. Your trials and tribulations are nothing compared to a reinstall of windoze!!!<br><br>Margaret<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:00 PM, bruce coston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jane_ikari@yahoo.com">jane_ikari@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top">Don't wonder why Linux lost market share recently :<br>
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 . <br>
<br>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 . <br>
<br>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 . ] <br><br>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 .<br>
<br>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 " ! <br><br>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 . <br>
<br>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 . <br>My cat insists I
stop now<br> - Bruce ...<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px"><div>Murder adding the trinity repositories to sources.lst of my installation<br> of the? most recent debian variant of Mint and they don't appear to <br>
work . Does anyone know how to fix it ? I'm not sure squeeze was the <br>right version but nothing downloads from pearson or sometimes debian at <br>all . Is this new version churn from debian . I'd like a " desktop <br>
environment " vs. this filth !<br><br>?- love and kisses - Bruce<br>PS. <br>this bios stinks but an old enough distro cd gave me the grub error 18 <br>that let me figure it out . Why did grub2 change the ui. , I can only <br>
assume " ego - embolism " or commercial sabotage . ...<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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