Re: Hippy Operating Systems

2005-11-06 Thread David Champion
* On 2005.11.05, in <20051106024714.ga16...@srcf.ucam.org>, * "Matthew Garrett" wrote: > > As far as Linux Case closed. -- -D.d...@uchicago.eduNSITUniversity of Chicago

Re: Hippy Operating Systems

2005-11-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:45:52PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > >Hmmm... What am I doing wrong then, with my Kubuntu + IBM X41 setup? > > You're using a Thinkpad. > > Thinkpads are less hateful than pretty much any other laptops. They > still nurse darkness deep in their matte black industrial

Re: Hippy Operating Systems

2005-11-06 Thread Peter da Silva
Hmmm... What am I doing wrong then, with my Kubuntu + IBM X41 setup? You're using a Thinkpad. Thinkpads are less hateful than pretty much any other laptops. They still nurse darkness deep in their matte black industrial-styled souls. You just don't have a large enough sample to have inevitabl

Re: Hippy Operating Systems

2005-11-06 Thread Juerd
Peter da Silva skribis 2005-11-05 17:37 (-0600): > HATE BIOS, HATE ACPI, HATE DRIVERS, HATE SUSPEND, HATE HIBERNATE Hmmm... What am I doing wrong then, with my Kubuntu + IBM X41 setup? Love bios, love acpi, love drivers, love suspend, love hibernate. Only the SD card reader isn't working, but I

Re: Hippy Operating Systems

2005-11-06 Thread Peter da Silva
Laptops suck. Even if you're running Windows, laptops suck. I used to spend twice as much time fixing Windows problems on Laptops than Desktops even though I had more than four times as many desktops to support. If you've got a laptop, you run the OS and drivers and everything that came with

Hippy Operating Systems

2005-11-05 Thread Hakim Cassimally
Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings. My arse. They say that noone ever got sacked for choosing Windows, but even more importantly, they don't get grief from their significant other about how annoying their computer is if its Windows. "Why do weird things happen when I move around using the touchpad