"Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night -- why should I reboot at that time?
So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state."
--Email from Bill Gates regarding Windows Usability 2003
Full text of email can be viewed at the Seattle PI's website.
MyNorthwest.com is following the slow decommission of Windows XP and has mentioned Microsoft is offering a legal downgrade from Vista Business or Vista Ultimate for customers who want XP on their new machines. This comes on the heels of the announcement that, today, Microsoft stopped selling XP to major retailers and computer distributors.
Yakuake is a quake style, terminator type terminal emulator, or console for KDE.
With the rising popularity of terminator for gnome, which is very cool, I love that KDE has an equivalent.
An unknown Amazon Basin tribe was photographed recently along the border with Peru. It is incredible that tribes still exist completely isolated from "modern" life and these pictures are just astounding.
Remote desktop, or using a remote session, is a very important part of advanced computing. The ability to do this securely is important as well.
Using ssh, Xephyr and a light weight desktop manager, an encrypted, secure, fairly fast remote desktop setup is fairly easy to implement.
First, you'll need to install SSH on the remote machine:
$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server
BBC News is reporting on the annual report into web surfer's habits by usability guru Dr. Jacob Nielsen.
Not surprisingly, Dr. Nielsen has reported that web users are becoming more impatient and are "more ruthless" when it comes to the web.
When I hear someone ranting and raving about illegal immigrants stealing jobs, I just can't agree. Are people really lined up for the jobs illegal immigrants normally work?
Dave Ross from his self-titled radio show on 710 KIRO covered the story of Dan Fazio from the Washington Farm Bureau who is looking for Americans to legally work the farms for $10 per hour. Dave put an "APB" out looking for "any born and bred legal American -- of any age - who's worked on a farm picking fruit in the past year." His response? ZERO. And Mr. Fazio is having problems finding legal workers at that rate, even offering to bus youngsters in.
I'm just keeping track of some of the differences between kde and gnome in this blog. This will change over time. I realize that you can use a kde application in gnome and vice versa. Still...
*Default torrent client in KDE, ktorrent, is much more advanced than the default torrent in Gnome (transmission).
*No main system settings spot in Gnome.
*Amarok cannot organize podcasts by date, but rhythmbox can. Also, Amarok does not delete podcast entries.
