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[Neil Davies]

Get a mac   problems solved
On 8 Sep 2007, at 21:10, John Allsopp wrote:

> Nope, I don't understand.
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> I must admit I haven't come across reflective screen technology,  
> and I know that CRT screens caused a few problems, but I'm not  
> seeing a people's revolution against flat screens. Is there really  
> a huge problem with them?
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> And I think you started out right .. you said you know nothing  
> about Linux. You really, really can't say that voluntary help  
> doesn't work. The whole thing's build on voluntary help for gawd's  
> sake. Linux, Firefox, all of it. Have a read of the Cathedral and  
> the Bazaar, it really helped me understand a little more about open  
> source culture.
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> I agree with you though. Using Linux is very, very frustrating and  
> when you need help, you do have to help yourself a lot too which is  
> a culture change when normally you'd just take something that  
> doesn't work back to the shop. But here, you didn't pay for it, and  
> there's no shop. I have a degree in this stuff and find Linux  
> impossible sometimes. But most of the time it's pure delight.
>
> The answer to getting Linux to use the technology you want is to  
> volunteer to help people who want to make it happen.
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> Richard Lung wrote:
>> As a Linux user, who knows nothing about Linux, and is an old  
>> fogey, Ive found that expecting voluntary help when things go  
>> wrong or when you cannot do extra things you want to, doesnt  
>> really work (and is unfair on Linux experts anyway). Expecting a  
>> mass switch to Linux on this voluntary support basis seems to me  
>> totally impractical. Linux specialists wouldnt have lives of their  
>> own, let alone be able to get on with their own professional work.
>> Recruiting young people to become future experts and carriers of  
>> the open source ethic is another matter. I think you are still  
>> really in that stage.
>> As yet M/S still seems to have an effective monopoly on some  
>> things you might want to do.
>> With no disrespect to the Linux community, its still restricted  
>> use seems to reflect real restrictions on lay people who would use  
>> it.
>>  More basicly, there is a problem with monitors that has been  
>> grossly neglected and that is the stare-into-direct-light eye- 
>> strain they all cause. (I know one SLG member is concerned with  
>> partially sighted users.) Considering that Panasonic e-books use  
>> reflective screen technology from a Cambridge Mass. US firm, it  
>> seems a pity that the industry is so slow on the uptake for  
>> computer monitors to use this eye-friendly technology.
>> from
>> Richard Lung.
>> On Friday 07 Sep 2007 17:19, DAVID KNIGHT wrote:
>>> A prime area for broadening the group would be schools, IT dept and
>>> students if only to raise awareness that there is another choice.  
>>> Several
>>> IT students I've spoken to don't even know what Linux is, many  
>>> haven't
>>> tried it. It seems all most are familiar with is Microsoft,  
>>> Microsoft,
>>> Microsoft...
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