[Nottingham] Consumer notes

[Michael Leuty]

You have to admire a software company that stakes its future on a new 
product that will require 2Gb RAM to work properly. No doubt the extra 
space is required for yet more features with which their products 
already bristle.

I was using their word processor at work yesterday, and as my typing 
drew near to the bottom right corner of the screen a balloon popped up, 
obscuring the text. This is clearly a new helpful feature to improve my 
touch-typing, and I'm disappointed that the chaps at GNOME didn't catch 
on to this first. The balloon said "Help us to improve Office", which 
is surely gracious modesty on their part. The only improvement I can 
think of is to make the balloon so large as to cover the entire screen, 
which would improve both my touch-typing skills and my memory.

Meanwhile, back home where the computing experience is less rich, I have 
installed SuSE 10.0 RC1. I figured this would probably be about as 
stable as a Mandrake final release.  ;-)
It does seem to work really well, but I have found a few oddities on the 
GNOME desktop. There is no "Run" option on the Applications menu, the 
"blank" screensaver is white rather than black, and I can't find an 
option for screen power management. Is this normal for version 2.12, or 
is there some problem with the SuSE implementation thereof which I 
ought to report to the authorities?

(This is the non-geek list, right?  :-)

-- 
Michael Leuty
Nottingham, UK