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The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story 17 Mar 2004
I've just gone through the experience of trying to configure CUPS, the
Common Unix Printing System. It has proved a textbook lesson in why
nontechnical people run screaming from Unix. This is all the more
frustrating because the developers of CUPS have obviously tried hard to
produce an accessible system but the best intentions and effort have led
to a system which despite its superficial pseudo-friendliness is so
undiscoverable that it might as well have been written in ancient
Sanskrit.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
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Ronco Spray-On Usability
Thursday, 1 Apr 2004
This one is funny.
Eric S. Raymond the renowned Linux/Open Source evangelist/essayist
couldnt figure out how to connect to a shared printer. So he wrote an
essay describing the problem (the UI for printer configuration on his
Linux system is horrible) and proposing a solution (open source developers
should do a better job with UI design). Raymond wrote:
http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability
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The Luxury of Ignorance: Part Deux 22 Mar 2004
A few days ago I uttered a rant on user-interface problems in the Common
Unix Printing System. I used it to develop the idea that the most valuable
gift you can give your users is the luxury of ignorance software that
works so well, and is so discoverable to even novice users, that they
don't have to read documentation or spend time and mental effort to learn
about it.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/luxury-part-deux.html
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Asia seeks to log off Microsoft
China, Japan and South Korea eschew Microsoft in favor of Linux, an
opensource system that uses code jointly developed by thousands of
programmers and free to use.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/international/8343362.htm
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Business
Judge rules Microsoft can sue Lindows.com
Saturday April 03, 2004 - [ 05:00 PM GMT ] Printer-friendly Email Story
Topics: Business
By: Pham-Duy Nguyen
Microsoft Corp. can pursue its lawsuits in Europe against Linux software
maker Lindows.com over the Windows trademark, a U.S. judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle rejected Lindows.com's
request to put seven overseas suits on hold until a trademark-infringement
suit in the U.S. is decided. Microsoft claims the Lindows.com name
confuses consumers and dilutes the trademark for Windows, the operating
system software that runs more than 90 percent of the world's personal
computers
Read more at Oakland Tribune Online
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~10834~2060749,00.html
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Concealed Research Benefits No One
Posted on Thursday 01 April @ 18:47:56 | Send this story to a friend |
Printable Version ResearchI really have to say that as a person who is
capable of reading through research with a very critical eye for potential
violations in the scientific method, I find most market research to be
utterly useless sound-byte material that isnt fit for printing. If you
cannot share the methods of your research, then your research simply will
not stand the test of time. Of course, if you never share the methods,
sample selection, or size, then it makes it harder to refute the
statistical power of your assertions.
http://www.orangecrate.com/article.php?sid=674
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Xandros Offers Free Trial Of Business Edition
discuss Discuss this now (1 posts)
Linux vendor Xandros Inc. on Friday said it would offer customers a fully
functional 30-day evaluation version of its Xandros Business Desktop OS.
The software can be downloaded from the company's e-commerce website for
no charge. Normally, the software costs $129 for a single-user licenses or
$495 for a five-license package.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1560806,00.asp
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Hi guys
i have uploaded the photos taken out at the coffee day.
_warning_:
two pages each about 100k (4 snaps a page)
if they have to be put up on the ILUG site... perhaps who ever is handling the
task currently could simply copy the shots from here or if a tarball is
preferred... mail me.
heres the link
http://www.erlepereira.com/coffeeDay.html
the photos are of course reduced in resolution for the web, if anyone wants
the full resolution (and if so... why exactly ? :-) mail me... they are
slightly under 500k each!!
regards
ERLE
Hey guys,
While Trevor is definitely doing a great job of posting news to the group, I find it unnecessary crowding of the list. His feeds come in quite slowly ;)
To that end, the craving for news can be taken care of by this excellent site I've said about last time around too.
www.dailyrotation.com
feeds u headlines from over 300+ tech sites in a no-nonsense format.
And all said and done the guy managing the site responds to feature requests really fast.
Just have a look at it.
regards,
C
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On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 12:18, Sthitaprajna wrote:
> >
> You can revoke your keys. It does not matter whether the keys get deleted or
> not. Their validity is nullified after the time.
>
Thanks for the info, but I was learning security that time (about 2
years back) and I had created a keys with no expiry date. And I have
also lost those keys now and dont have a revoking certificates for the
same.
If they get nullified (If I understand that correctly that means when
keys will be deleted from the server after the expiry period).
Thanks.
Morning Steven,
Thanks for the article there. It sure does set things in order.
Trevor
Torvalds Did Want to See SCO's Code
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
April 2, 2004
Linus Torvalds, Linux's founder and leader, doesn't agree with The SCO
Group Inc. CEO Darl McBride's characterization of Torvalds as being
unwilling to look at SCO's Unix source code because "he didn't want
to be tainted by it."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1560873,00.asp
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Fellas,
It's time to have some fun, chit chat about fsf/os, give philip the
parting gpl and chill out.
All invited to coffee day on carter road. Carter road with a coffee day
is something you can't just miss. Still if any of you need an uplink to
get into orbit please feel free to write/call.
Trevor
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Greetings,
If I generate a yearly gpg key and upload it to one of the public key
servers, do the keys get deleted once the period of the time key is
over?
I already have 2 permenant keys uploaded to the servers and dont want
to upload any more permenant keys since they waste resources if they
stay for ever.
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
Linux for Grandma, Part 2
Our Free Software guru takes a look at new releases of Mandrake and the
Gnome desktop, with an eye toward bringing one more Linux user online.
Matthew Newton, PC World
Friday, April 02, 2004
As I explained in my last column, I've got a mission: to bring the Web to
my grandmother. She's a computer novice who's going to have a
nitro-burnin' IBM Thinkpad pulling the Internet out of the air so she can
sit out on her patio and e-mail me about how lovely the weather is down
south. The Thinkpad will be running Linux, so when I visit her, I won't
have to spend time clearing adware and spyware and viruses from her
machine. And she won't care what operating system the notebook is running,
which is fine with me. She shouldn't have to think about her operating
system--that's my job.
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,115411,00.asp
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Linux for Grandma, Part 2
Our Free Software guru takes a look at new releases of Mandrake and the
Gnome desktop, with an eye toward bringing one more Linux user online.
Matthew Newton, PC World
Friday, April 02, 2004
As I explained in my last column, I've got a mission: to bring the Web to
my grandmother. She's a computer novice who's going to have a
nitro-burnin' IBM Thinkpad pulling the Internet out of the air so she can
sit out on her patio and e-mail me about how lovely the weather is down
south. The Thinkpad will be running Linux, so when I visit her, I won't
have to spend time clearing adware and spyware and viruses from her
machine. And she won't care what operating system the notebook is running,
which is fine with me. She shouldn't have to think about her operating
system--that's my job.
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,115411,00.asp
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