Comment Re:crash faster (Score 2) 563
AD is nothing to do with DESKTOP environment - which is what we were talking about. AD is the NETWORK infrastructure.
Comment Re:crash faster (Score 2, Interesting) 563
Windows is still by far the best desktop environment available for use in a business setting.
Windows is only the "best" desktop environment for business purely because most business use MS Office. Those businesses that DON'T use MS Office (and there a a surprising number, which is increasing with each "improvement" in Office releases), funnily enough would say that Windows is NOT the "best" desktop environment for business.
Journal Journal: Even more on Ubuntu
I HATE KDE! It's awfull! There's far too much of it!
So, after having had many adventures with a dual-boot system, and having had lots of bad superblock errors I've just removed the Windows OS and gone back to an all-Ubuntu setup.
here's to happy computing!
Journal Journal: More on Ubuntu
Well Ubuntu has gone the way of all flesh to be replaced by Kubuntu. This has everything I need - I've put Pan on it, Thunderbird, and Firefox. Upgraded Open Office to Beta 2.
Yippee!
Journal Journal: FC4 has been superceded!
Well I decided that FC4 didn't really foot the bill for what I'm after in a Distro. I decided that it was too top-heavy, especially with all the options available. So I deleted the partition and tried Kubuntu. Very nice. However, I HATE KNODE AND KMAIL. So after a bit of humming and hah-ing, I removed that and went to standard Ubuntu, which has Pan, and a choice of either Evolution (in which I am at the moment struggling to get Gmail to work) or Thunderbird. Just updated to Open Office 2 (beta)
Journal Journal: More Life with FC4
Well things got a bit more complicated recently - I started a new job where they use (yes you guessed - ) Windows and Office. So to be compatible at home I removed FC4, re formatted the HDD and went back to XP and Office 2003. YUCK!
So after a couple of weeks messing about with AV programs and anti-spyware programs, I decided to re-partition my HDD to enable a dual-boot. I did that yesterday, and the install went even easier than the first time, with the knowledge I gainrd. Downloaded Pan, and e
Journal Journal: Upgraded to FC4!
Downloaded the Fedora Core 4 iso's with Bittorrent - my first sally with that software. Install went like a breeze. Only problems, no Xine, no Pan, but that was easily remedied. Everything seems to be OK so far.
Journal Journal: Life with Fedora!
Well here I am at the end of the first week with NO WINDOWS on the desktop at all. I ditched Windows XP and Office 2003 at the end of last week, and so far the result has been entirely satisfactory. OK so possibly installing new apps can be a PITA but on the whole, between yum and Red Hat Network, things haven't been too bad.
I'll report back as the weeks progress!
Comment Re:This is why the "double standard" (Score 1) 275
Hmm. I'm a Systems Accountant, and I've worked in several companies (some quite large) where I (and a number of other users) knew more than the "IT" dept!
My wife's company for example had some IT staff who didn't know about the "stop -a" command to enable a blaster worm infected laptop to download the Blaster worm patch! They knew where the patch could be downloaded from but not how to stop the worm shutting the machine down! I had to tell the person whose machine was infected how to do it, and I don't work for the company!
