On Nov 20, 2003, at 6:47 AM, Brady Hegberg wrote:

> Well, what he really said was that your Grandma should use Windows.
> That way she can spend 3 hours talking to Microsoft's tech support when
> she gets lonely because you're not visiting her because you're playing
> Everquest all the time.  ;-)

> <rant>
> My personal belief is that Linux will be ready for home use when
> somebody figures out how to fix permissions problems.  It shouldn't be
> this hard.  I installed a DVD player recently and it didn't work.  Why?
> Permissions on /dev/dvd.  My daughter can't play games when she logs in
> with her login.  Why? Permissions problem on /dev/dsp.  Setup my mom's
>

man chmod

Permissions are the most very basic level of security. Its the main 
thing that keeps users from breaking your machine.

> printer and it didn't work.  Why?  Permissions problem.  It's
> ridiculous.  There should be an automatic system that checks
> permissions, sets up a group or series of groups for access to these
> resources and offers to add you to the necessary group if given a root
> password.
> </rant>
>
> Brady
>
>> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101690.html
>>
>> Yeah, the company that in most peoples eyes IS linux (because they
>> don't know any better) is telling them that they should use Windows
>> instead.
>>
>> --
>> Justin Kremer
>> <kremer at ringworld.org>
>>
>>
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Ben Lutgens
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