Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer

Games would be fine if written to teach kids the things we want them to learn. Online teamplay is a great way to teach kids teamwork and responsibility. But teaming up to kill as many people as you can (with corresponding display of exploding blood and organs) is sort of the wrong idea.

Total agreement, since I just saw an ad on television for a game called something like "Kill all Humans". What's up with that? Terrorist training video? I am totally against government interference but I am afraid that if this trend continues somebody will get the bright idea to pass a law. If this video game actually sells enough it might trigger some politicians little brain cells. The game company in this case needs to have it's upper management in jail or any and all of the companies products banned to the point of putting them out of business before a law gets written. Draconian government action? Maybe, but better than a law that screws things up for everybody. Bill Baka

You are a programmer. Why don't you run linux from the commandline? Just takes a little understanding of bash.

A high-level scripting language shouldn't pose any problem for a C programmer.

_And_ you'd be able to use _any_ linux box.

That's what I do, and I'm not a programmer. Not a C programmer, anyway. Just bash.

"Mounted"? I think you mean "installed". Isn't ubuntu a debian derivative? Point apt-get at the CD and install what you want. Or point it at the web. connection.

That's bizarre. I have no idea what you mean by that. Unless you mean apt-get is pointed at the web rather than the CDs. You can fix that. /etc/apt/sources.list.

$ man sources.list

That's what I use.

pppconfig is the utility you want. Maybe setserial too, if your card isn't recognized at boot. And you'd have to have the serial module or have it be compiled into the kernel. I've heard ubuntu is a graphical distro, so it might not have those.

Don't use a GIDE (Graphical Integrated Desktop Environment), but I do know that almost everyone who does uses KDE instead of Gnome.

It's a graphical distro. What do you expect? Linux doesn't _need_ 'keyboard shortcuts' because it doesn't need a GIDE.

Bash is infinitely superior to any windoze shell.

The GIDE is always slower than the commandline. Your keystrokes are filtered through layers and layers of software.

But that still doesn't sound right.

(By-the-way, I run screen, a textmode window manager, in an x-terminal-emulator. It's as fast as greased ligtning.)

That's a reference to the laptop? What does that have to do with linux?

It isn't? That's bizarre. Try Debian or Slack.

That's like suse or (apparently) ubuntu or redhat. These are attempts to emulate windoze. They aren't the distros a programmer would want.

Nah. Just use a boot floppy/CD.

Alan

Postscript:

The only graphical app I use these days is a browser, and the IE clones like mozilla drive me nuts.

I highly recommend w3m-img with ssl. It just displays the images in place, along with plain text. Does frames but not javascript.

Takes the bullshit out the Web.

I call it aliased to "www='w3m -o auto_image=0"

(Set to "1" [yes] in the config file.)

That makes it pure textmode. If I want to see the images, I hit "!" and enter "img" and it brings up the same page with images.

"img" is a script in my $PATH:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/w3m `tail -1 /home/me/.w3m/history`

W3m doesn't need a mouse at all. (I think it _can_ use them, though.)

The image capability is still new for w3m, so it's a little buggy, but quite usable.

Alan

Beavis, you're beyond understanding.

Right, Beavis. You're not a problem.

Right.

Correct.

I think you were dropped on your head, as a child.

Sounds like a plan.

my=20

Beavis, you should come with a warning label.

You're lying, Beavis.

Right. Errr=E2=80=A6 Wrong. Whatever.

Beavis is making up acronyms.

You don't know anything, Beavis. You're just repeating what Bigfoot tell= s=20 you

You should demand your money back.

Too late.

Right.

Right again.

Post-postscript: :-)

You can also put the cursor on an individual image to view just it. Hit "i". That image file will be brought down and displayed where it belongs on the webpage.

That way you don't have to bring down all the irrelevant image files that most webpages have.

It uses "vi" keybindings for the most part.

Alan

Stop it, Beavis, or you'll go blind.

And then some.

A prudent course of action.