Before the negative posts start arriving please understand that this is my comment to the editorial story on IDG which I’ve linked here for you entitled:
To clarify, I call any PC which a user sits at, that has the traditional keyboard, mouse and display a desktop PC.
I cannot fault the author of that article because it is simply true. You can convert users, but over time without good constant support from a real person they are likely to move back to Windows.
Many times change brings about a better way of doing things. Other times it may bring change to old familiar ways and we may not like them. Take the moving of the Gnome window buttons for minimize, maximize, and close.
The latest version of Ubuntu decided to move these buttons to the left side of the window. This isn’t so strange. Many OS’s over the years have had the close button on the top left, but rarely the other buttons. I understand that Microsoft Windows has set the position on the right and when I adopted Windows as a OS I quickly became quite familiar with this method and today, take for granted their position since both KDE and Gnome Desktops for Linux did the same thing. However as of Ubuntu 10.04 it’s now on the left.
Something I heard about last week but haven’t had time to put up here is the “God Mode” feature. If you want to have a common area to access all your settings features, rather than navigate in the normal Control Panel method you may find this mode to be a bit of a time saver.
To enable simply Create a New Folder and name it this:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
That will change the folder icon to a Control Panel icon and will then give you direct access to all the features in a simple list format. If you prefer having the short explainations they will be missing.
So far no comments from Microsoft about this. Enjoy.
I received a rather interesting spam the other day and it would seem to have included some well private details. It looks like this email contains login information for various mail systems but I honestly did not follow up with it. I figured it may be of interest to the owners of these sites so I’m posting it here rather than attempt to start tracking abuse emails for various domains.
Debian OS
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