Comments on: There are still some… http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.03.30/there-are-still-some/ Free Software Chicago Style: letting proprietary solutions sleep with the fishes Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:19:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: nixternal http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.03.30/there-are-still-some/#comment-491 nixternal Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:22:59 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.03.30/there-are-still-some/#comment-491 Dinda, oh I agree, but not in this one instance :) I got to meet "NOT" so average Windows Vista user. My father, who is an avid Microsoft fanboi even admitted pretty much the same as I. He even told the guy that the "haha" hint is Vista actually laughing at his dumb ass. See, I didn't have the heart to tell him that at least :) Dinda, oh I agree, but not in this one instance :) I got to meet “NOT” so average Windows Vista user. My father, who is an avid Microsoft fanboi even admitted pretty much the same as I. He even told the guy that the “haha” hint is Vista actually laughing at his dumb ass. See, I didn’t have the heart to tell him that at least :)

]]> By: Dinda http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.03.30/there-are-still-some/#comment-483 Dinda Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:15:35 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.03.30/there-are-still-some/#comment-483 Hey Rich, go easy on the "average" windows user, you have to remember that "they are the market." If Ubuntu is serious about Bug #1 then you need to convince not just folks like you (preaching to the choir) but also those who are not like you at all that linux is a viable option. Hey Rich,
go easy on the “average” windows user, you have to remember that “they are the market.” If Ubuntu is serious about Bug #1 then you need to convince not just folks like you (preaching to the choir) but also those who are not like you at all that linux is a viable option.

]]> By: Meneer R http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.03.30/there-are-still-some/#comment-482 Meneer R Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:37:50 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.03.30/there-are-still-some/#comment-482 Why not just give him a gnome-desktop. Open up the ssh and vnc-ports in his/her router, and give him/her a disabled account. I do that all the time. If something is broken or needs to be installed, I use ssh or vnc and fix it. (vnc for user-level stuff, ssh for system level stuff). I Never get any complains. If they don't know how to do something, they call me, I log in with VNC and show them. If something isn't working, I enable it using SSH. Off course, some people don't like the idea that I have access. Other are way happy about the immidiate and quick support. Fortunately, the ssh-level thingie, I don't tell. They wouldn't understand anyway and it would problely be scare the shit out of them, I can see their browsing history and pron-folders. But i've been fixing computers all my life, nothing suprises me anymore. People are just people. Why not just give him a gnome-desktop. Open up the ssh and vnc-ports in his/her router, and give him/her a disabled account. I do that all the time. If something is broken or needs to be installed, I use ssh or vnc and fix it. (vnc for user-level stuff, ssh for system level stuff).

I Never get any complains. If they don’t know how to do something, they call me, I log in with VNC and show them.
If something isn’t working, I enable it using SSH. Off course, some people don’t like the idea that I have access. Other are way happy about the immidiate and quick support. Fortunately, the ssh-level thingie, I don’t tell. They wouldn’t understand anyway and it would problely be scare the shit out of them, I can see their browsing history and pron-folders. But i’ve been fixing computers all my life, nothing suprises me anymore. People are just people.

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