Raleigh Arnold wrote:
=Sridhar:
I never said that Windos users didn't have bad habits. The issue here is
that
my idea of "bad habits" differs slightly from yours. In my opinion, a
"bad
habit" is something that locks you into something, whether you like it
or
=Sridhar:
I never said that Windos users didn't have bad habits. The issue here is
that
my idea of "bad habits" differs slightly from yours. In my opinion, a
"bad
habit" is something that locks you into something, whether you like it
or
not.
-yhs
I am locked into bad mouse support
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Not a bad idea, but most mice out there still have only one or two buttons.
That was the doing of Bill Gates.
While three-button mice are cheap nowadays, many people will not switch to
Linux if they have to buy a new piece of hardware, no matter how cheap it is.
If
I think a new user should be faced with something like this:
Xwindows Mouse Installation Wiz
Button 1[add] list of functions
Button 2[remove]list of functions
Button 3 or 1+2 list of functions
Button 4 1+2 or
John and Marcie Alexander wrote:
I am running LM7.2 and I have an all scsi system (hd and cd-rw).
However, I am using an internal zip atapi drive plugged into the
primary ide controller.
Under windows, this drive comes up as rive b:
Under linux, I keep getting "drive reports both x
w, or even get into developing these features yourself?
You seem to prefer a world where everyone agrees with you, and so they
implement everything just as you want without your interaction. This simply
is not possible.
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:20, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
Doing half of these things i
What about parted?
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
I don't think that discdrake can do non-destructive partitioning (yet). That
is a very complex thing to do, and you will need something like
PartitionMagic or System Commander to achieve it. Note that these two
programmes don't support
Jim Thorpe wrote:
As a Civil Engineer every graph I ever saw involving time had time on the X
axis.
Therefor the steeper the curve the quicker things happened.
How come everyone has ir backwards?
Jim T.
What's backwards? The steeper the curve, the faster you have to learn.
.daveA
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_if_they_weren't_so_busy_working_on_making_all_our_lives_better.
David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
I guess I failed to make my point. There should be no double
clicking at all. There should be group select and drag. There
should be no nono nonono alt or ctl + mousebutton clicks ever.
Only one mouse button, never two
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know where I can download a linux OS that will run completly off
a floppy. I remember reading something about it a while back.
Thanks
~Lance
lrp (linux router project) is probably
1. not what you read about
2. what you want.
Raleigh Arnold wrote:
Ian Land wrote:
Well, that's only true if you use a window manager like KDE. Others, like
Gnome, use double-clicks. So, a single-click is not "the Linux way". The
Windows gui can be configured to act like Internet Explorer, which also means
sin
Mark's mail wrote:
Wait...I thought spaces "were/are" illegal in *nix?
Mark
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:25:28 +0100 (CET), Paul said:
Are you kidding? Try
mkdir "directory with spaces"
ls
rm -r "directory with spaces"
but directory.with.spaces is easier, right? ;-}
I would have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just upgraded from 7.0 to 7.1. My 56k external USR modem did great with
7.0.
However, I have followed the HOWTO's and simply cannot get PPPD to function
in 7.2.
The modem connects just great everytime, but not PPPD. Any help would be
appreciated. I am
Mark Johnson wrote:
FYI, I asked for 6 button mouse for Christmas!
yhs:
1
2
3
1+2
1+3
2+3
1+2+3
count 'em.
Windows users have bad habits. Pandering to them
has seriously harmed linux software, and continues
to do so.
Mickey Soltys wrote:
I have been messing around with the version of GIMP which came with
Mandrake-Linux7.2 . It appears as if there is no way to save files.
When you select FILE from the menu, there is no save or save as option.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Thanks and apologies if this
Ian Land wrote:
Well, that's only true if you use a window manager like KDE. Others, like
Gnome, use double-clicks. So, a single-click is not "the Linux way". The
Windows gui can be configured to act like Internet Explorer, which also means
single-clicks. This isn't an OS question, it's a
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Thanks Alan. Well, after due consideration, and playing
around with my dual-boot DOS/Linux setup, I've decided to
undue it. I'm going to setup up my Linux 20 gig HD as the
primary, and use the 10 gigger as a DOS/Windows partition
to run
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Okay, with HD prices so low, I bought a 2nd (20 gig)
Seagate hard drive. I added it to my current system, and
decided to make a dual-boot system, using my old 10 gig WDC
as the boot HD, for DOS stuff, and the new 20 gigger for my
precious
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