On Nov 20, 2003, at 6:47 AM, Brady Hegberg wrote: > Well, what he really said was that your Grandma should use Windows. > That way she can spend 3 hours talking to Microsoft's tech support when > she gets lonely because you're not visiting her because you're playing > Everquest all the time. ;-) > <rant> > My personal belief is that Linux will be ready for home use when > somebody figures out how to fix permissions problems. It shouldn't be > this hard. I installed a DVD player recently and it didn't work. Why? > Permissions on /dev/dvd. My daughter can't play games when she logs in > with her login. Why? Permissions problem on /dev/dsp. Setup my mom's > man chmod Permissions are the most very basic level of security. Its the main thing that keeps users from breaking your machine. > printer and it didn't work. Why? Permissions problem. It's > ridiculous. There should be an automatic system that checks > permissions, sets up a group or series of groups for access to these > resources and offers to add you to the necessary group if given a root > password. > </rant> > > Brady > >> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101690.html >> >> Yeah, the company that in most peoples eyes IS linux (because they >> don't know any better) is telling them that they should use Windows >> instead. >> >> -- >> Justin Kremer >> <kremer at ringworld.org> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Ben Lutgens U.S. Admins, Inc Server Gumby _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list