[Chester LUG] You've heard about the Google thing..

[Les Pritchard]

Lol, well if there aren't many people using it that must make it cool in
computing terms :-)

On Thursday, January 26, 2012, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
wrote:
> How is the other pc-bsd user doing. The two of you against the world ;)
>
> On 26 January 2012 17:15, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's interesting. I've been trying a few distros out recently after
> Ubuntu went to Gnome 3. When Mint went to Gnome 3 I gave it a quick go
> but wasn't impressed.
>
> At the moment I've ended up using XFCE on a few different distros and
> am really liking it again. Nice and simple, plus you can use compiz if
> you want.
>
> I've also started testing PC-BSD again, I know it's not appropriate
> for this list :-) but so far I'm quite impressed. I really like the
> idea of all applications being completely independent of each other.
> Could reduce the stress caused when you upgrade one package and it
> breaks others.
>
> Les
>
> On 26 January 2012 15:57, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:
>> I used the gnome version of mint 12 for a while, it was OK but a bit
>> clunky. I eventually went for SUSE 12.1 which is pretty vanilla gnome
>> but did some tweeks, like allowing maximise/minimise windows, plus some
>> tweaks from here https://extensions.gnome.org/
>>
>> Dave.
>>
>>
>> On 26/01/12 15:54, Les Pritchard wrote:
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>> Are you using the Gnome version of Mint? If so, how have you been
finding it?
>>>
>>> Les
>>>
>>> On 26 January 2012 15:45, Paul Williams <wilp4a at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> I tried duck duck go as a default for about a month, but it never
seemed to
>>>> return the results I needed.  Maybe there's something positive to say
about
>>>> google's profiling there.
>>>>
>>>> When I switched to Mint 12, I lost the "right click> search google"
option
>>>> in Firefox.  Since I use it all the time to check IP addresses and
google
>>>> throws up "stop forum spam" within 2 results every time, I watched with
>>>> horror as duck duck go failed to display it for several pages.  I have
since
>>>> hacked firefox back to give google as default.
>>>>
>>>> I respect what duck duck go stand for, but it's not for me.
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:34:39 +0000
>>>>> From: les.pritchard at gmail.com
>>>>> To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] You've heard about the Google thing..
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In fact, that reminds me. A few years back I met a guy who was in the
>>>>> business of selling Eastern European wifes (although I think he worded
>>>>> it a bit better and legally than that!). He was setting up a website
>>>>> for his company, all I could think of were pages with the Amazon style
>>>>> "Customers who looked at this lady also liked..." at the bottom :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> On 26 January 2012 15:30, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>>>> Blimey, their profiling is spot on!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 26 January 2012 15:25, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> I guess for the time being I shall just put up with adverts for
Russian
>>>>>>> brides, Viagra and hitmen for now. (kidding!)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 26 January 2012 15:22, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes, in a way Google is run in a very honest way. They're a bunch
of
>>>>>>>> techies who don't enjoy the support and per
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