PDF files : printing protected !

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Thu May 5 21:07:32 UTC 2005


> While I understand your point, just as a point (heh), the Ubuntu live CD
> does not touch your hard drive in any way, it runs totally off the cd
> and does not make any changes to your computer.
> 
> Just making sure you know.
> 
> Trent

Yes Trent ;-)

But there is no point trying a live CD, knowing well that I am never
going to install Ubuntu on it... waste of time.
He really doesn't care the slightest bit about computers, they are just
a painful but necessary machine in his eyes, the less he sees of it, the
happier he feels. 
Plus, although I have not really checked the exact specs of his laptop,
I anticipate that it's not modern enough for Ubuntu.
Hard drive would be large enough I think, it has sound and a dial-up
modem, but the screen is too small, I think the native resolution must
be 800x600, and I really wouldn't want to have Ubuntu with such a
disastrous resolution. On my personal machine, I run my old 17" CRT at
1152x864, which I find good enough, but I would be happier if I could
run at 1280x960 or higher, but sadly my monitor only manages 60Hz at
high resolutions. 1152x864 is the highest resolution where the monitor
can manage 75Hz, which my poor eyes call a bare minimum... 

No really, Ubuntu will never make it on my friends work laptop, at least
not in the foreseeable future...
It won't make it on my dad's machine either, as he swears by Microsoft
and spends lots of money on software. I visited him last week-end, and
he was proud to show me a software he paid 120 Euros (150++ USD ?),
which does nothing but make "virtual CD's". You insert a CD, it copies
it on the hard drive. Then you remove the CD and it appear in Windows
Explorer as a "virtual" CD drive which you can access as if the CD were
still in the drive. I didn't have the heart to tell him that on Linux
you can just do a quick "dd" at the command line to make an ISO of the
ISO, then just stuff it in fstab and mount it wherever you want.
Thanks to him, I now love my Ubuntu even more ! :o) The more I see or
use or hear of windows, the more I love Ubuntu/Linux !!! :o))))


--
Vince






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