Comment Re:ahh, different Baron-Cohen (Score 2) 327
No, Vivian (usually abbreviated to Viv) is a common male name, probably the most famous being Viv Richards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viv_Richards)
Comment Re:Just what WVa needs, a new variety of crazy (Score 1) 627
There is an actual case here in South Africa : http://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revelation-in-iburst-tower-battle.html
Residents were complaining of the usual suspects, rash, headaches, etc. iBurst agreed to turn of the tower (having actually turned it off 6 weeks earlier) and the residents symptoms improved suddenly while they had not improved over the previous 6 weeks.
Canonical Designer Demos Ubuntu Context-Aware UI 237
Blacklaw writes "Canonical's Christian Giordano has posted details of what he believes could be the future of user interface design in Ubuntu — a system that detects physical context. Designed to be paired with a webcam or other sensor system, the concept is that the computer is able to detect where a user is in proximity to the display along with an idea of roughly what he or she might be doing. Using this information, the operating system — in this case, Ubuntu Linux — can automatically make changes to the screen layout. For example, when the system detects that the user has leaned back in his or her chair, the system automatically makes the currently playing video full-screen. Lean forward again, and the video returns to its previous windowed mode."
Comment Re:Ubuntu needs two things added. (Score 1) 244
Similarly you don't need to use the terminal to install a driver, or for that matter to do virtually anything a home user might want to do either
Comment Re:Dodging questions about quality. Geez. (Score 1) 244
My reading of the answers is different to yours. He openly said he has only been using Ubuntu for about 100 days and that his experience with it has been great. It is obvious that he has had no experience with KDE or Kubuntu and that is what comes across in his responses. Would you rather have him fob you off with some garbage?
Comment Re:Ubuntu needs two things added. (Score 1) 244
I use terminal commands because it is often quicker and easier than using the GUI tools, and this goes equally for my Ubuntu machine or the Windows machines I have to use at work. Is using the terminal to tweak things any more difficult than having to wade through the registry on a windows machine?
Comment Will there ever be a closing multiple tabs warning (Score 1) 181
One of the earliest issues raised is for Chrome to have a warning when closing multiple tabs (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=147) but this has been marked as "won't fix". This is because the developers feel having such a dialog will interrupt the flow of the browser. This can be a pain as the keyboard shortcut for close tab (ctrl-w) is right next to close window (ctrl-q) As many posters have pointed out, this could be made optional like other browsers and even off by default. Also the developers say the browser will reopen the closed tabs but again as people have pointed out, this does not always happen with state aware web sites or if you are in privacy mode.
It is something as simple as this that can really frustrate people and is easily fixed (as was the case when they added a similar warning box when there are outstanding downloads)
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