I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.
Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.
Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].
It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.
I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada.
Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot.
People are very confused about how to do things on a computer, but generally, if you hover your cursor over things, it will tell you what it is.
I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.
The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on.
I was really worried about the Windows RT project and these other efforts where Microsoft was creating versions of Windows that would be locked down and could force you to only install software through the Microsoft store.
Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours.... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant.
Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.
What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
I can barely turn on my computer!
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.
