Fw: Ubuntu and screen savers.... :-/

[Steven Fredette]

    Sorry about that. This was meant for the list, not private.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Fredette" <Linux at prowebsites.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu and screen savers.... :-/


> From: "Vincent Trouilliez" <vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr>
>>
>>> those screensavers,  just brought two more people into the Linux fold.
>>
>> Well, not a problem, we will just put all the screen savers in Synpatic
>> and they will be a click away, for people who really want them. Best of
>> both worlds then, perfect.
>
>    If the idea is to bring in Windows user over to Linux, maybe a 
> hyperlink to Synpatic (is that the same as the Universe?) in the 
> screensaver manager would be best. Something like, "get more great 
> screensavers here" or the like.
>
>
>>
>>> Now  just to get past the learning curve ;-)
>>
>> Well, don't be in a hurry. I have been tinkering with Linux for only 9
>> months, and the feeling I get, is that it is so complex, that you could
>> probably spend all you life learning aobut it, and still not know half
>> of it !
>> So, I try to limit my investigations to the subjects I am really
>> interested in, in practice, rather than try and learn a bit of
>> everything and end knowing nothing at all really, and nothing useful for
>> day to day practice anyway.
>>
>
>    That's my aim too. Learning the Internet end, some aps, and the live-cd 
> end.
>
>    I'm so sick of having to go to a client's office, because some employee 
> decided to allow ActiveX to run in IE, and the whole office is infected 
> with God knows what. Then I have to figure out what they got, using their 
> infected box while being in an M$ environment. My end goal is to have a 
> live CD that I can just pop in, one that does Internet connections on the 
> fly, so can get rid of whatever attacked the box, from online anti-virus 
> sources.
>
>    Of course this will lead to the client asking what I used, and me 
> saying Linux.
>
>    BTW, why do clients stand over your shoulder while you'll work. It's 
> not like they know what's gong on. I can tell by the glazed look in their 
> eyes ;-)
>
> Cordially,
> Steven Fredette
> President http://www.prowebsites.net
> Indianapolis, Indiana. USA (-5 GMT/UT)
> "For Your Internet Wants and Needs" Since 1997