Comments on: Simple http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/06/simple/ Life, Linux and Technology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:40:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: José http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/06/simple/comment-page-1/#comment-712 José Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:57:49 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=153#comment-712 Oh Leopard! Oh Leopard!

]]> By: Steven Harms: Etc | Techie News http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/06/simple/comment-page-1/#comment-711 Steven Harms: Etc | Techie News Thu, 14 May 2009 09:40:05 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=153#comment-711 [...] Simple Things I did this week using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04: Burned… Share and Enjoy: [...] [...] Simple Things I did this week using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04: Burned… Share and Enjoy: [...]

]]> By: paul http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/06/simple/comment-page-1/#comment-710 paul Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:37:32 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=153#comment-710 Sounds very boring. I hope you find more to do than play with gimp and organize your mp3s. Those were very weak reasons on the quicken, video card, and gaming. To me, it's time or money. The few bucks you've saved on 2nd rate clones of software result in time lost. I want to be productive and save time instead of being frugal and wasting my afternoon tweaking. Linux is still not my choice for desktop. Sounds very boring. I hope you find more to do than play with gimp and organize your mp3s.

Those were very weak reasons on the quicken, video card, and gaming.

To me, it’s time or money. The few bucks you’ve saved on 2nd rate clones of software result in time lost.

I want to be productive and save time instead of being frugal and wasting my afternoon tweaking.

Linux is still not my choice for desktop.

]]> By: tinkertim http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/06/simple/comment-page-1/#comment-709 tinkertim Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:02:30 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=153#comment-709 I'm really glad to know that you _used_a_computer_ :) That still does not solve the problem of many programs being counter intuitive and poorly packaged. I am a FLOSS developer and I want to make things *useful*, without a learning curve. I surely would not want to sit someone down in front of an angry fruit salad and say 'just eat it, its good for you'. When I sit down to make a graphic, I want to make a graphic. When I sit down to manage finances, I want to manage finances. You can't tell someone with 3 kids to sit down and *just learn*. What you can do is ask for their feedback and see to it that their input was not a waste of their time. Why, oh why would we want to call someone who took a leap to a new operating system 'lazy' when all they want to do is be productive? Or should we assume that computer users only want to surf the net and pay for music? I’m really glad to know that you _used_a_computer_ :) That still does not solve the problem of many programs being counter intuitive and poorly packaged.

I am a FLOSS developer and I want to make things *useful*, without a learning curve. I surely would not want to sit someone down in front of an angry fruit salad and say ‘just eat it, its good for you’.

When I sit down to make a graphic, I want to make a graphic. When I sit down to manage finances, I want to manage finances. You can’t tell someone with 3 kids to sit down and *just learn*. What you can do is ask for their feedback and see to it that their input was not a waste of their time.

Why, oh why would we want to call someone who took a leap to a new operating system ‘lazy’ when all they want to do is be productive? Or should we assume that computer users only want to surf the net and pay for music?

]]> By: barry http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/06/simple/comment-page-1/#comment-708 barry Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:28:28 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=153#comment-708 Your girlfriend has a 'workflow'? WTF dude? You suck. Your girlfriend has a ‘workflow’? WTF dude?

You suck.

]]> By: neegelaymn http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/06/simple/comment-page-1/#comment-707 neegelaymn Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:26:57 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=153#comment-707 Tahnks for posting Tahnks for posting

]]> By: hg http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/06/simple/comment-page-1/#comment-706 hg Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:34:54 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=153#comment-706 I've done all that without opening terminals for over 10 years… and never used linux whats your point? oh yeah… LINUX IT SUCKS LESS NOW I’ve done all that without opening terminals for over 10 years… and never used linux

whats your point?

oh yeah… LINUX IT SUCKS LESS NOW

]]> By: jmacg http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/06/simple/comment-page-1/#comment-705 jmacg Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:18:32 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=153#comment-705 The Gimp simply won't cut it in professional graphics work until it has CYMK capability. The Gimp simply won’t cut it in professional graphics work until it has CYMK capability.

]]> By: LinuxUser http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/06/simple/comment-page-1/#comment-704 LinuxUser Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:24:06 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=153#comment-704 *Burned DVDs using K3B *Chatted and Video Conferenced from Kopete *Talked with Skype and Gizmo *Read eBooks with KPDF *Edited web documents with Kate *Watched a DVD with Kmplayer *Streamed music over the network with Kafiene *Organized photos with digiKam *Web browsing with Firefox (including Flash and Java) *Did some major editing on images using the GIMP *Chatted on FriendFeed with Twhirl (Adobe Air app) *Used GMail and GReader inside Prism. *Worked on some school documents with openoffice.org *Opened and converted a .docx for a friend with openoffice.org *Printed some labels using openoffice.org *Ran browsershots.org factories from vms (Xubuntu and Windows XP - one for each OS) *Organized a bunch of to-do lists and such in BasKet *Shared files via Bluetooth All internet connected from a *wireless* accent point today and yesterday. Whip-ed-e-doo-ta... This article was a waste of bandwidth. *Burned DVDs using K3B
*Chatted and Video Conferenced from Kopete
*Talked with Skype and Gizmo
*Read eBooks with KPDF
*Edited web documents with Kate
*Watched a DVD with Kmplayer
*Streamed music over the network with Kafiene
*Organized photos with digiKam
*Web browsing with Firefox (including Flash and Java)
*Did some major editing on images using the GIMP
*Chatted on FriendFeed with Twhirl (Adobe Air app)
*Used GMail and GReader inside Prism.
*Worked on some school documents with openoffice.org
*Opened and converted a .docx for a friend with openoffice.org
*Printed some labels using openoffice.org
*Ran browsershots.org factories from vms (Xubuntu and Windows XP – one for each OS)
*Organized a bunch of to-do lists and such in BasKet
*Shared files via Bluetooth

All internet connected from a *wireless* accent point today and yesterday.

Whip-ed-e-doo-ta… This article was a waste of bandwidth.

]]> By: mack http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/06/simple/comment-page-1/#comment-703 mack Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:20:28 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=153#comment-703 http://www.xkcd.com http://www.xkcd.com

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