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So who is a Geek..?
HappyDude Posted Mar 29, 2004
I don't have a speed problem with gvim on my win32 box
So who is a Geek..?
DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Mar 29, 2004
that may be so, but an editor should work on a 386 (text) and a P75 (GUI), not a 3Ghz P4. with no slow down. jedit is really bad, but it's writen in java. emacs is bloated too and woddles on high end machines let alone low end. gvim I find is still slow not to the same degree as xemacs but still slow compared to notepad.
So who is a Geek..?
HappyDude Posted Mar 29, 2004
I agree (in principle) but I wouldn't be running XP on a 386 so ...
So who is a Geek..?
DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Mar 30, 2004
XP dosn't deserve to be connected to the internet,
schtop schtop this os isn't ready yet.
So who is a Geek..?
HappyDude Posted Mar 30, 2004
now thats cruel, it's an ok O/S, I think you will find a more accurate statement would be ...
most XP users don't deserve to be connected to the internet 
So who is a Geek..?
DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Mar 30, 2004
nope sorry if you know your stuf you can get XP pro or 2000 to be secure but it just aint there in terms of security and religability.
no windows machine should be connected to the net in my view.
So who is a Geek..?
HappyDude Posted Apr 2, 2004
it's a view, although I'm a rapid BSD fan that don't mean I dislike windows. XP (home & pro(and I although I use pro I still say that home is probally better for your avaerage domestic user) is (IMHO) not bad as for security as long as the user stays on top of the security update & uses a good firewall & AV product (plus an ounce of common sense) it should not be an issue. I still maintain the biggest problem is not the O/S but the users.
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Apr 6, 2004
the idea is that it's the programmers that have common sense and the users that don't.
never forget that.
So who is a Geek..?
HappyDude Posted Apr 7, 2004
Don't, just had my dad on the phone. He was installing the drivers for a new printer and having problems, the software could not detect the USB ports - one trip into the bios setup later (having now enabled the USB ports) all was OK.
Now I'm an old style geek
so no problem but in this day and age is it right that PC's are being sold in a state that requires users to mess with the bios just to get support for built in stuff
I mean how many average users are even aware that the bios exists, let alone how to modify it
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Apr 7, 2004
you see the problem.. thats the thing we need to spred around the geek comunity and pull ourselves together.
So who is a Geek..?
DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Apr 8, 2004
too many techies not enough pointy hair managers in the OSS.
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Apr 9, 2004
I'm a graphics and design manager, I'll pick up an OSS job somewhere.
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