Re: Suitability question

2008-12-19 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Patrick Baldwin patrick.bald...@studsvik.com wrote: Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-19 Thread Ott Köstner
On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:25:51 pm Patrick Baldwin wrote: I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing. What do people think of

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-19 Thread eculp
Quoting Ott Köstner o...@zzz.ee: On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:25:51 pm Patrick Baldwin wrote: I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing.

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:07:23PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:25:51 pm Patrick Baldwin wrote: I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web,

Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is of limited usefulness here. I'm thinking I might be best of

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Patrick Baldwin patrick.bald...@studsvik.com wrote: Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic boxes

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:25:51 -0500, Patrick Baldwin patrick.bald...@studsvik.com wrote: I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing. What

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Thursday 18 December 2008 4:25 pm, Patrick Baldwin wrote: Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:25:51PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread John Almberg
On Dec 18, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Patrick Baldwin wrote: Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is of

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Patrick Baldwin wrote: Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is of limited

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:46:24PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: Word processing won't be a problem, but internet 'toys' like Flash will be a problem, unless you use some wine+firefox workaround. What -- nspluginwrapper doesn't work any longer? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL:

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:46:24PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: Word processing won't be a problem, but internet 'toys' like Flash will be a problem, unless you use some wine+firefox workaround. What -- nspluginwrapper

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Robert Huff
Glen Barber writes: Word processing won't be a problem, but internet 'toys' like Flash will be a problem, unless you use some wine+firefox workaround. What -- nspluginwrapper doesn't work any longer? From personal experience, nspluginwrapper is a memory hog, and only supports

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread matt donovan
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Glen Barber writes: Word processing won't be a problem, but internet 'toys' like Flash will be a problem, unless you use some wine+firefox workaround. What -- nspluginwrapper doesn't work any longer?

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 16:46 -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Patrick Baldwin patrick.bald...@studsvik.com wrote: Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he