OK, here's my moan for the afternoon.

On the one hand, I am slowly working my way through the issues involved in installing Mandrake 10 Community on my laptop; and realising that a newbie would have no chance at all of getting it working (I had to start hacking around with kernel files to get the initial upgrade to complete, for example). Looking at KDE 3.2, it still looks horribly confusing - I've been using KDE daily for well over a year and I still can't remember where all the configuration settings are. Linux still has a way to go before it gets to the point that it isn't very frustrating for the non-technical user.

On the other hand, I just got back from my parents' house, where I spent 4 hours saving their files from a computer infected with MyDoom-E (which helpfully deletes random Word documents). Using Knoppix, a USB key and my Mandrake laptop as well as a file recovery utility, I was at least able to save most of the files and, when the computer is disinfected, they should be back safe and sound.

So what to do? Buy a Mac, I guess

Your computer will give you a lot less trouble if it is left in a box in the garage.
...otherwise, join the club.

Computers suck!

Computers are evil spawns of the devil sent here to cast misery upon us all!!


Now... where's my chisel and stone tablet?

I agree. I'm so tired of computers as well. I've been playing with them so long and my conclusion is that all OS suck:

http://homepage.mac.com/deadtroll2/....suckscable.mov

that's why I'm trying to find another hobby. I've already moved away from computer gaming to console gaming, so I spend less time with configuring things. Now I'm about to buy a guitar, play a few songs and... that's it. Too much waste of time

Thanks for the entertainment!!

Is that you singing, or playing the guitar??

lol, ghehe. I wish. Maybe someday I could play or sing, or maybe even both...ghaha. Right now the two things I am trying to do is to configure my printer with abiword

My favorite part is when the guy sings Linux and he is not quite sure how to pronounce it

Unfortunately, my parents were doing things pretty much right. They have an up-to-date virus checker (which found it, but can't easily disinfect : no one seems to have an easy fix for MyDoom E), a firewall and they're pretty sure they didn't click on an email file (though they might just not remember). Possible infection route was through a bulletin board-type program they have.

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Originally posted by iainr Unfortunately, my parents were doing things pretty much right. <...> (which found it, but can't easily disinfect : no one seems to have an easy fix for MyDoom E), a firewall Possible infection route was through a bulletin board-type program they have.

Actually I should have mentioned that some (possibly doomE) are compressed, which renders virus scan irrelevant. There is a fix for that lately.

This might change your mind:

http://webdev.o1.com/rvb/movies/switch/RvB_switch.mov

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Originally posted by Megaman X This might change your mind: http://webdev.o1.com/rvb/movies/switch/RvB_switch.mov

Can you explain the movie content? I don't have all week to try to view it on my bandwidth.

Yes, what is the movie cuz i still cant get mozilla to open up video or pdf documents.

Right click -> Save as
gmplayer

2damncommon is correct . Cannot believe you guys have forgotten the save as thing though .

This is a short movie about a "Mac Gamer". He makes a lot of funny jokes about Mac's and games. Also about upgrading one:

http://webdev.o1.com/rvb/movies/switch/RvB_switch.mov

This one is cooler. It's a music video with a guy telling how it was before any Operating Sytem came out and why everything since Apple 1.0 sucks, including MacOS, Windows and Linux . A must see

http://homepage.mac.com/deadtroll2/...ssuckscable.mov