Computer woes

Not had any problems with the Windows version, but the Linux one is less
than perfect. OTOH I had many issues with Jave etc in Opera

heh. I have not enough bookmarks to warrant seraching. I find the google
bar excellent. But each to their own

What do you find not good about FB tabbed browsing?

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FB on my laptop (W2K) works fine but I can't get the desktop to work with
java or either to open wmv properly. Gave up and would use IE if I
needed to see something. This played a major part in going back to Opera.

The FB Google bar is excellent but the search boxes in Opera are much
better. Once I'd set them up how I like them with the Search.ini editor
[1].

I seem to have loads of bookmarks, a lot through research for
representation type stuff and the Opera management of them is excellent.
Especially linked with URL Base 4 for synchronising them across browsers
and machines [2].

Its major irritant when following external links, say in a NG post, was
rather than open a new tab it would load on top of the active tab. In
some instances it would open a new window.

Its very good but I found Opera better and faster.



[1] http://www.operapl.prv.pl/en/
[2] It seems to have disappeared from the internet, but I have a copy I
can upload if anyone's interested (freeware).

 

Because the internal architecture is fundamentally flawed
and only works by grace and by gawd.
In the olden days they were slightly stable
but now they're propped up like the leg of the table

Imagine an inverted pyramid,
where everything you knew or did
was likely to send it falling over
That smell, old bean, isn't clover

User friendly? I should coco
the antics of it drive you loco
And when you're wrestling with the beast
Just when you expect it least

Crash! The bloody thing goes down
Hardware? Software? Fuckin clown
who designed this thing should be ripped apart
and made to eat his beating heart

That's why in homes up and down the land
Coming from windows close at hand
You'll hear the outraged scream, to wit
"Fucking Useless Piece Of Shit!"

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Vic wrote

Blaney's Grandmother?

Although even more of a doddering old **** than I, my father is able to
get to grips with windows enough that I only get a call from him about
once a week now.

I am not sure he would enjoy the same measure of success with say what
red hat or suze or mandrake consider to be Linux.

 

FUD? - sorry don't understand.

Now the problem is that I really don't understand what your previous
paragraph means - dual boot? what? why? NTDLR - eh?

Oh and Linux is just "fairly simple" to install. What's the point of
something that is fairly simple when I want "something so reliable I
never ever have to contemplate re-installing it".

 

Never had a problem setting up a dual boot linux system, even alongside
NT type OS. In fact piece of piss, even with odd(ish) hardware.

Getting Linux (Suse 8) to do what I want it to without titting about
seemingly endlessly is a totally different matter altogether. Doom, nice
simple install? Is it ****. Install UT 2003, after 2 weeks it still
hadn't happened. Install anything? Get my bog standard generic CD-R to
write? HP scanner to scan?

That's why I'm still using windows.

 

I've had a PC at home since about 1988. I had a BBC/Acorn Electron
before that. I've built too many PCs to remember. My degree's project
was building a hardware emulator for a microcontroller (which I
completed, it worked including a disassembler for the compiled code to
allow you to step through the code on the target system). I'd say I was
fairly 'computer literate'.

I don't have any problems loading linux, I have a box running suze
should I choose to use it.

I've also got a box running XP.

I find XP is just about as stable. The choice of software is better and
the user interface is (IMO) better although I'll accept this could be a
case of familiarity.

Guess which box I use through choice?

 

Apart from Dell Inspiron laptops..

Phil


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