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From: Darren New
Subject: I'm so glad X11 lets you pick any window manager you want
Date: 25 Feb 2010 13:27:10
Message: <4b86c0fe@news.povray.org>
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=470160
Fortunately, vim let me actually tile two windows full of text side by side.
Which is ... kind of sad, really. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The question in today's corporate environment is not
so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
"what color is your nose?"
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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: I'm so glad X11 lets you pick any window manager you want
Date: 1 Mar 2010 17:29:46
Message: <4b8c3fda$1@news.povray.org>
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Darren New wrote:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=470160
Step 1 tells you to download a .deb (not in Ubuntu's official repositories)
and install it. Step 4 gets you a full root shell. Step 6 runs a graphical
program in said root shell.
Sigh. If Linux actually follow this kind of instructions, they have as much
potential to get pwned by malware as if they were using Windows.
(Step 1 should tell you why you can trust that package, and where the source
code is so you can build it yourself as an alternative. Steps 4-6 should use
sudoedit instead, which runs the editor under your user account)
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From: Warp
Subject: Re: I'm so glad X11 lets you pick any window manager you want
Date: 1 Mar 2010 17:36:52
Message: <4b8c4184@news.povray.org>
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Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> Step 1 tells you to download a .deb (not in Ubuntu's official repositories)
> and install it. Step 4 gets you a full root shell. Step 6 runs a graphical
> program in said root shell.
> Sigh. If Linux actually follow this kind of instructions, they have as much
> potential to get pwned by malware as if they were using Windows.
It's actually sad how many horrendously incompetent how-to's about linux
there are out there.
For example, I once had trouble configuring a HomePNA card to work in
Linux because there was some configuration problem and the technology is
seemingly a bit exotic. One how-to I found out there (specifically for
OpenSUSE, no less) was just amazing. If you had believed it, you would
have to jump through numerous hoops, write down tons of things on paper,
boot *at least* twice during the process and whatnot.
In the end I got it working without any of that and without having to
boot even once.
--
- Warp
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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: I'm so glad X11 lets you pick any window manager you want
Date: 1 Mar 2010 18:32:37
Message: <4b8c4e95$1@news.povray.org>
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On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:29:38 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Sigh. If Linux actually follow this kind of instructions, they have as
> much potential to get pwned by malware as if they were using Windows.
Well, it's up to the user to do something like that.
Jim
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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: I'm so glad X11 lets you pick any window manager you want
Date: 1 Mar 2010 18:33:15
Message: <4b8c4ebb$1@news.povray.org>
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On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:36:52 -0500, Warp wrote:
> In the end I got it working without any of that and without having to
> boot even once.
You ran it without power? <scnr>
Jim
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=470160
surreal n00bish irrelevance... :)
talk about reinventing the wheel...
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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: I'm so glad X11 lets you pick any window manager you want
Date: 3 Mar 2010 11:12:14
Message: <4b8e8a5e$1@news.povray.org>
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:29:38 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>
>> Sigh. If Linux actually follow this kind of instructions, they have as
>> much potential to get pwned by malware as if they were using Windows.
>
> Well, it's up to the user to do something like that.
Oops.
"If Linux *users* actually follow this kind of instructions..."
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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: I'm so glad X11 lets you pick any window manager you want
Date: 3 Mar 2010 11:49:12
Message: <4b8e9308$1@news.povray.org>
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On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:12:07 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:29:38 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>
>>> Sigh. If Linux actually follow this kind of instructions, they have as
>>> much potential to get pwned by malware as if they were using Windows.
>>
>> Well, it's up to the user to do something like that.
>
> Oops.
>
> "If Linux *users* actually follow this kind of instructions..."
Yep, I took that as read, but couldn't resist the urge to clarify. ;-)
We have all kinds of users, regardless of platform.
Jim
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