On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Rajesh Deo wrote:
ride for the user to perform the task. The user need not know anything about the underlying process if she is not interested. But if she is, she
^^^ aw, come on girls dont dig Linux. Just kidding ;)
Ans: Use two ISP blocks in wvdial, one for you, another for your brother. You start *your* ISP with the right command-line argument to wvdial. There are also gui-apps that let you do the
Can you please elucidate on this one. AFAIK wvdial requires wvdial.conf Now lets suppose I (the root) prepare wvdial.conf Obviously I must know my brother's pass to configure my brother's ISP
Forgetting about older windows release, if we consider Windows NT/2K/XP they all require administrative access to install/update softwares. As mentioned before, to the user, this is not visible. The
I guess theres a sort of pseudo administrative acc. in 2K whose user can install software w/o administrative previleges. pls correct me if I'm wrong
than common ext2/3 on Linux. But did anyone care for FAT32 on Win9x, without journaling support or anything. It still works.
I have to agree on this one. I had a nightmarish experience with ext2. But FAT32 is quite resistant to power losses and stuff.
Windows GUI runs faster because much of its functioning is within the kernel, note that windows GUI is a "shell" to the underlying kernel. That
Correct me: I've read somewhere ---> IE is the shell of Windows 98
Considering state of other GUIs in the market, I believe that Linux is 'ready for Desktop' *if* there is a competent admin. Otherwise it is *still* "beta software" in this department, to this date.
very rightly said
consumption. If MS hinders that by making it unrecognizable by common utilities like a browser, whose fault is it, the Linux loving users
but Microsoft is not the sole maker of Encylopedia (Encarta) , Britannica e.g.
student will require. Windows not only sucks but it is pathetic in its default install to support any kind of coding.
VBscript ?
yours. In summary I will say use a system that gives you the best of all worlds, for me it happens to be Linux, it may not be the same for you. But
I'm for Linux because I know I can handle it But I had common people and my own probs in mind while starting this thread