Comments on: Edgy Eft, Day 3 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/10/02/edgy-eft-day-3/ because technology is just another ecosystem Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:48:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: stephen o'grady http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/10/02/edgy-eft-day-3/#comment-2443 stephen o'grady Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:57:31 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=1094#comment-2443 rick: negative. my Edgy instance is running 2.0b2. i could install a fresh instance, i suppose. Dan: well, that depends on what you mean. if by usability, you mean make it impossible for users to delete or much with things by accident, than Ubuntu's got you covered. all of the damage i did was by prowling around deep in configuration files, installing multiple sound libraries, and killing things on the console. not, in other words, the kind of things that ordinary users are likely to do. nor could they, with out administrator access. rick: negative. my Edgy instance is running 2.0b2. i could install a fresh instance, i suppose.

Dan: well, that depends on what you mean. if by usability, you mean make it impossible for users to delete or much with things by accident, than Ubuntu’s got you covered.

all of the damage i did was by prowling around deep in configuration files, installing multiple sound libraries, and killing things on the console. not, in other words, the kind of things that ordinary users are likely to do. nor could they, with out administrator access.

]]> By: Dan Davies Brackett http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/10/02/edgy-eft-day-3/#comment-2442 Dan Davies Brackett Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:33:59 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=1094#comment-2442 Watch that usability trap with the sound! What happened was not you being dumb enough to break something, it was Linux/Ubuntu/whatever's insufficiently excellent design that (1) failed to stop you from doing something you obviously didn't want and (2) didn't give you an easy way to fix it. Not your stupidity, its! Watch that usability trap with the sound! What happened was not you being dumb enough to break something, it was Linux/Ubuntu/whatever’s insufficiently excellent design that (1) failed to stop you from doing something you obviously didn’t want and (2) didn’t give you an easy way to fix it. Not your stupidity, its!

]]> By: rick gregory http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/10/02/edgy-eft-day-3/#comment-2441 rick gregory Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:46:07 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=1094#comment-2441 Stephen, Have you tried the RC1 build of Firefox 2.0? I haven't updated my Edgy laptop in a while (playing with a new Macbook) but the Firefox build in the repositories was B2 not too long ago. Stephen,

Have you tried the RC1 build of Firefox 2.0? I haven’t updated my Edgy laptop in a while (playing with a new Macbook) but the Firefox build in the repositories was B2 not too long ago.

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