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Windows annoys me when I have to deal with it. It takes so long to do anything with it. I try to avoid it where I can.

Docky for me. Always seems much more responsive and better looking too. The only downer is it is a little bit crashy at times.

Cerebral Palsy is no barrier to anything. I knew a girl a few years back who had it and despite blindness in one eye, some deafness, etc she didn't let it get to her. She was also one of the coolest...

If aliens came here we'd really have to be nice to them. Making it to earth would suggest that technologically they were lightyears ahead of us and would pretty much own us. Believe me, until we...

I'm happy. I'm starting a new challenge in a couple of weeks, teaching 4th graders English, Maths, Health, History, Geography, etc. It's a nice change from computing G4-12 which I'd done previously....

It's the linux way to assume you know what you're doing. That's how I like it.

When I install Ubuntu for people I dual-boot them for this very reason. It means you get the best of both worlds. But, honestly, if Ubuntu's not for you, then use Windows. You can get Apache, PHP and...

Crunchbang (another Ubuntu derivitive) is another option (very very light, tiny and lovely).

PS in Ubuntu you'd look for Applications -> Internet -> Remote Desktop Viewer
PPS There's loads of good freebie VNC servers for windows but off the top of my head I can't remember the names, but I'm...

I've used VNC to do the remote control of Windows XP machines. The only pain is that the VNC server must be installed on the XP machine (which is a fairly easy and painless task).

I might have a go at this once progress reports are done and I have some holiday time :)

What he said.

It's enabled me to learn much more about networking, a subject I'd previously had zero interest in.

Experience + Post-grad will give you very good prospects. Bachelors is getting too common these days, and somewhat devalued (people with degrees working in call centres). Post-grad is where it's at,...

Aye I've had that problem from gksudo nautilus too, it messed up my home directory permissions and caused some untidyness that took a bit of googling to fix. I've got used to CLI for that kind of job...

The obvious problem with running as root is that you run programs as root. Firefox with root permissions.. there's an accident waiting to happen. And yes I know Firefox is more secure than IE but if...

Safer but still exposing yourself to unnecessary risk. Why do it when sudo and gksudo do the job?

Most of the security issues on Windows are due to users running admin accounts by default. It's not a great idea, and sudo/gksudo can always get you what you need anyway.

Sounds like the guy's just uninformed. He's not tried anything other than MS stuff, and doesn't know better.

For what it's worth, at uni I studied psychology. One class was workplace psychology...

Use whatever tool gets the job done. I've been on linux for about a year and dual-boot. I use linux for most things and windows for a few games that won't work in Wine. For games you'll need it. For...

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From what I've seen it looks very cool. It brings something new to the table that Mac and Windows don't have, and doing things in its own way. That's kinda important you know!

I've managed to get a very nice desktop running on 16MB before using Linux, the thing is that open-source means total choice of what you want. It means you have to think a little more about your...

Web development is fun but honestly, don't expect your first jobs to be payers. Clients want to see a portfolio so have something ready to show them so they know what they can expect from you (make...

Employee productivity is technically none of our business... The funny thing though is that it IS our business. Our purpose as IT people is to improve their productivity with IT tools. A good IT...