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Comment: Re:Really? Pangolin? (Score 1) 543

by Clived (#39812235) Attached to: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Out; Unity Gets a Second Chance

Well I did try Unity from day 1 and it never really worked for me. Maybe it was my computer or whatever so I switched to Linuxmint 11 and now running Mint 12 with the Cinnamon 1.4 desktop. Mint 12 with Cinnamon rules for me at least. Even with all the negativity about Unity, you would think Mr Shuttleworth would drop it ?? Oh no, there starts the fall of a great distro ...
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Comment: Re:300 baud ... and counting (Score 1) 387

by Clived (#39598231) Attached to: Online Services: The Internet Before the Internet

Wow talk about reminiscing. I used Compuserve and migrated to IRC all on an old box running Win95. I picked up Linux in 98 Slackware 3.5, only to discover that I had a winmodem which didn't work too well. Had to write a script invoking isapnptools and a winmodem driver which I had to purchase for $5. Those were the days. Feel that I am getting soft now, dsl, Linuxmint 12, etc. Everything is so damn easy.

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Comment: Re:and you wonder.. (Score 2) 378

by Clived (#38522216) Attached to: IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers

Well said. In my experience as a IT manager, I found most of the users to be clueless and not really interested in the processes on the network that they worked on.
I got tired of being saddled with by people who seemed to want to bitch and whine, rather than doing their jobs with the tools provided,.

Subsequently I am no longer an IT manager

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Comment: Re:Ready, fire, aim (Score 2) 529

by Clived (#38226480) Attached to: Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks

I had that same experience with my bank over the last five years. some charges on the card did not fit the pattern so I was contacted told to cut up the card and I got a new one the next day. Nice to know that some banks have processes which actually work and staff who are still awake.

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Comment: Re:Unity was never given a chance (Score 1) 685

by Clived (#38028128) Attached to: Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu?

Well as a longtime Ubuntu user (been there since ver 8.04 I think), I was looking forward to 11.04. I loaded it up and Unity bitched that my computer had insufficient resources (P4 cpu, 3.2 gigs ram, Nvidia graphics card) so I had to revert to the Gnome 2 desktop. However this disallowed my moving my app icons around my screen, desktop effects were a nightmare to setup so I went to Linuxmint (which I have used before) and everything worked fine. Wonder why people are walking away from Ubuntu ?

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Ask Slashdot: Where Is the Universal Gesture Navigation Set? 177

Posted by timothy
from the which-finger-does-what? dept.
dstates writes "As a mostly happy new iPad owner, I love having lots of apps, but I have got to ask, where is the universal set of gestures for navigation? Pinch and open mostly mean zoom out and in, but sometimes you tap to open, sometimes double tap. Sometimes right swipe is back, sometimes there is a back button, sometimes you just have to go to home and navigate back down. Reminds me of the early days of GUIs when every application had its own menu set with different top-level menus and different placement of various functions. Made life chaos for users. We have been there, done that, and gestures are much worse. At least with a menu, you had a printed tag you could read. Gestures are all magic handshakes until you know them. Seems like the tablet community should not have to learn the value of consistency all over again." What gestures would you like to see made standard in touch-based interfaces?

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