10 λάθη που κάνουν οι νέοι χρήστες Linux;

10+ mistakes Linux newbies make

New desktop users can make plenty of mistakes (as can anyone). But knowing which mistakes to avoid, from the start, helps prevent a LOT of frustration. I’ve handled the topic of mistakes new Linux admins make, but never those of desktop users. Here are some of the most common Linux desktop mistakes I see new users make.

Note: This article is also available as a PDF download.

1: Assuming they are using Windows
Although this might seem way too obvious, it’s not. The average user has no idea there are even different operating systems to be had. In fact, most average users couldn’t discern Windows XP from Vista from 7 (unless they are certain Windows 7 was “their idea”). Because of this, new users might believe that everything works (or doesn’t work, as the case may be) as it does in Windows. Make your end users aware that they are using a different operating system — and that it works differently.

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Δεν λέω. Σχετικά καλά τα λέει. Απλά σχεδόν όλα ισχύουν γενικά όταν κάποιος χρήστης περνάει από κάποιο λειτουργικό σε κάποιο άλλο. Ακόμη πχ. από τα Windows XP σε Windows 7. Μιλάμε πάντα για τους απλούς χρήστες και ΟΧΙ για τους "ξενυχτάω μέρα-νύχτα πάνω στον Υ/Η μου"...

Θα μπορούσα να τους πιάσω έναν προς ένα τους λόγους αλλά δεν θα το κάνω. Θα σας δώσω ένα παράδειγμα:

2: Trying to make exe files work
Unless you have done your homework and installed WINE, double-clicking those .exe files simply won’t do anything. And when that happens, your end users are going to be upset. I have seen many an end user download an app made for Windows assuming that it will work for Linux. Make it clear to users that Linux, like Windows, will only run applications made for that operating system. This, of course, is tossed out the window when WINE is involved. But new users won’t be using WINE anyway.

Δεν είναι ΚΑΘΟΛΟΥ λίγες οι φορές και ΕΙΔΙΚΑ τους πρώτους μήνες που βγαίνει ένα νέο λειτουργικό σύστημα που κόσμος και κοσμάκης προσπαθεί να τρέξει τις εφαρμογές και τα παιχνίδια του που έπαιζε πχ. στα Windows XP και δεν μπορεί να τα τρέξει στα Windows 7. Γι αυτό το λόγο εδώ και καιρό σε εκδόσεις των Windows υπάρχουν τα Compatibility Modes κάνοντας δεξί κλικ+ιδιότητες στα .exe αρχεία στα Windows και ΕΙΔΙΚΑ στα Windows 7 σε κάποιες εκδόσεις υπάρχει το Virtual Windows PC της Micro$oft.

Αλλά έτσι είναι. Αν είσαι τυφλός χαφιές της Micro$oft τις μαλακίες τις εκτοξεύεις ΜΟΝΟ αν πρόκειται για αντίπαλα λειτουργικά.

ΟΥΣΤ ΡΕ!!!

Fuck Facebook νούμερο φτου και βγαίνω

While the debate rages on about Facebook’s attitude to privacy, and in particular the views of Mark Zuckerberg, the current situation is that an awful lot of people make their status updates public, whether they realise the full implications or not. A stark reminder of this comes today in the form of a new search engine thrown together by two developers.

FacebookSearch simply takes those public status updates and makes them searchable, outside of Facebook. The guys behind it, Peter Burns and Will Moffat, have posted a simple explanation: “This is a simple example of just how open facebook has made your information. This data is wide open, and this is one of the least scary uses that anyone will make. If nothing changes, it’s only to get worse.” There’s an interesting discussion over at Hacker News on the morality of what they are doing.

The site defaults to search on the term “playing hooky” but other suggestions include: don’t tell anyone, rectal exam, stupid boss, HIV test and control urges.

The site goes on to tell users how to Delete their Facebook account or Fix their privacy settings.

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Μπα; Ξύπνησε το πουλάκι μου;

Sorry, Adobe: Flash is the new Vista

Here’s some advice, Adobe. The first step on the road to recovery is admitting that you have a problem.

Yes, I know you’d rather frame your fight with Apple as a high-minded crusade for freedom, but your customers think differently. When I hear fellow PC users talk about Flash these days, I hear the exact same frustration and exasperation I heard during Vista’s first year on the market. That is not the kind of word of mouth you want.

And make no mistake about it, those concerns are real. Was Steve Jobs exaggerating when he called Flash the biggest source of crashes on the Mac? Maybe a little, but I bet he has some pretty grim statistics to back that statement up. And Microsoft is reinforcing that same message, albeit more politely and with masterful understatement. Here’s what IE boss Dean Hachamovitch had to say two weeks ago:

Flash does have some issues, particularly around reliability, security, and performance. We work closely with engineers at Adobe, sharing information about the issues we know of in ongoing technical discussions.

“Some issues”? Yeah, that’s one way of putting it. My own experience fits right in. I discovered yesterday that Internet Explorer crashes on my wife’s PC once or twice a day. The Windows 7 Reliability Monitor says Adobe’s Flash Player is to blame (yes, it’s up-to-date), and it offers a step-by-step solution: Uninstall the Flash Player, reboot, and reinstall Flash. (The Microsoft prescription is, in fact, the exact same set of steps I recommended right here back in January.)

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Αν και καθυστερημένος στο παιχνίδι, τελικά το έπιασε το τι συμβαίνει. Το τούβλο ο Bott. Εδώ και μήνες σας τα έχω πει, εγώ, ένας πόντιος από τη βόρεια Ελλάντα και αυτός ο επαγγελματίας "PCας" τώρα τα λέει. Καλώς τον βρε. Καλώς τον και ας άργησε.

Για χαφιές της Micro$oft πάλι πολύ καιρό σου πήρε...

Με λίγα λόγια: Apple VS Adobe

The $600 Flash authoring tool is the only way to produce Flash applications.

The free Mac OS X Developer tools (that require an $800+ Mac computer) are the only way to produce iPhone and iPad applications.

Both systems are as closed as each other.

Adobe claims Flash is open.

Apple makes no such claims. If you want to make iPhone or iPad apps you use Mac OS and Xcode, take it or leave it.

If you choose to leave it the alternative is HTML. A truly open platform for which authoring is as simple as editing text. There’s many HTML rendering engine implementations, the best few are totally open source with Apple being the major contributor to the best one, WebKit.

Adobe: not open, claim to be.

Apple: not open, don’t claim to be, contribute heavily to that which is truly open.

Update

As many Daring Fireball readers have pointed out to me via email, I was wrong about Flash (the authoring tool) being the only way to publish SWF files.

SWF is a standard that Adobe has published information on how to produce. However, Flash (the player) is the only appication that can interpret SWF files and my closing point stands.

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Σπαρτιάτικα πράγματα αλλά πολύ σωστά. Ξεκάθαρα. Απλά. Ακόμη και γι αυτούς που δεν τα "πιάνουν"...

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Η Adobe αγαπάει την Apple; Ναι. Όπως ο Χίτλερ τους Εβραίους.

Giorgos Alkaios Eurovision 2010

Δώσε Γιώργο. Δώσε και σώσε!

Snow Leopard VS Windows στις επιχειρήσεις

Three reasons Snow Leopard beats Windows in the enterprise

Some topics are controversial. Apple versus Windows is definitely one of them. So let me state, I don’t “drink Apple’s Kool-Aid.” For proof, just review many of the TechRepublic articles I’ve written over 10 years.

That said, any knowledgeable technician should be willing to admit the following three advantages that Apple enjoys over Windows when deployed in enterprise environments.

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Και λίγα λέει. Όχι μόνο 3 λόγοι! 103 ήθελε να πει... Άντε βρε. Επειδή είμαι στις καλές μου. Έστω και έτσι. 3, 3. Άντε καλά.

Fuck Facebook

Pop quiz: Which is longer, the United States Constitution or Facebook’s Privacy Policy?

If you guessed the latter, you’re right. Facebook’s Privacy Policy is 5,830 words long; the United States Constitution, without any of its amendments, is a concise 4,543 words.

Facebook, one of the most popular social networks in the world, has more than 400 million registered people on its Web site. Half of these users log in to the service every day, the company says, and users spend 500 billion minutes on the site each month.

But in recent months, Facebook has revised its privacy policy to require users to opt out if they wish to keep information private, making most of that information public by default. Some personal data is now being shared with third-party Web sites.

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Δεν σας λυπάμαι. Στο όνομα του Εγώ, της χαζομάρας και της ασχετοσύνης, καλά να πάθετε.

Η Adobe έχει σκάσει από την αγάπη της

Adobe launched an ad campaign Thursday that pushes back against Apple's decision to outlaw most third-party compilers from creating iPhone OS apps. The ad, spotted running on Ars as well as other sites, says "We [heart] Apple," before flipping over to say that the company doesn't support "taking away your freedom to choose what you create, how you create it, and what you experience on the web."

Clicking through on the ad takes you to a page on Adobe's site with a statement from Adobe on the value of choice, highlighting its support for HTML5, CSS, and H.264 "in addition to our own technologies." There is also an open letter from Adobe's founders, Chuck Geschke and John Warnock. The two state that they believe in the value of open markets as well as the freedom of choice.

"No company—no matter how big or how creative—should dictate what you can create, how you create it, or what you can experience on the web," reads the letter. "We believe that Apple, by taking the opposite approach, has taken a step that could undermine this next chapter of the web—the chapter in which mobile devices outnumber computers, any individual can be a publisher, and content is accessed anywhere and at any time."

It's clear why Adobe decided to move forward with this fairly aggressive campaign. Adobe has been on the wrong end of some beatdowns lately from both Apple and the Apple-using community, which came to a head two weeks ago when Apple CEO Steve Jobs published his own open letter on Flash. In the letter, Jobs waxed eloquent about Flash's performance on mobile devices, Flash being a closed platform itself, and the evils of cross-platform development tools.

A full 50 percent of Ars readers seemed to agree that most of Jobs' points were valid, though there were plenty who said they weren't fully on board with Apple's latest approach. Even users who recognize Flash's downsides are left with a bad taste in their mouths over Apple's ban on cross-platform tools—after all, there are plenty other tools out there besides Flash.

One thing is sure: if Adobe is willing to drop big money on an ad campaign to defend itself, it's beginning to feel threatened.

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Με λίγα λόγια από τις μεγαλύτερες μπουρδολογίες όλων των εποχών. Η Adobe έχει χάσει το δρόμο της. Και έχει σκάσει από το κακό της γιατί επιτέλους μια εταιρία με σήμα το δαγκωμένο μήλο ΔΕΝ την νιώθει και της τα χώνει αντί να την γλύφει. Βλέπετε στην βιομηχανία των Windows είναι ο ΚΑΝΟΝΑΣ να γλείφουν όλοι την Micro$oft, την Adobe, κα.

Ας με βγάλει ψεύτη η Adobe και θα ζητήσω γονατιστός συγνώμη. Περιμένω Adobe. Περιμένω.

Το θράσος της Adobe έχει ξεπεράσει ΚΑΘΕ όριο. ΔΕΝ έχουν έτοιμο Flash multitouch προϊόν για ΚΑΜΙΑ συσκευή εκεί έξω και το παίζουν και ιστορία.

ΒΓΑΛΤΕ ΜΙΑ ΡΕ ΖΩΑ το προϊόν και μετά τα λέμε. Αλλά ξέρετε τι γίνεται έτσι; Ξέρετε ότι θα είναι ΜΕΓΑΛΗ απάτη το επερχόμενο Flash για τα Android, κλπ. και έχετε σκάσει που η Apple σας τα χώνει σε αντίθεση με την Google που σας γλείφει από την κορυφή μέχρι τα νύχια.

ΠΕΡΑΣΤΙΚΑ στην Adobe και στους οπαδούς τους...

Δεν θα έχει Skype στα Windows Phone 7

Consider the bombshell dropped. Skype, the godfather of VoIP apps and an increasingly ubiquitous piece of mobile as well as desktop software, has just let it be known that it's not planning on bringing its goodies to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 OS. Dan Neary, the company's Vice President for the Asia Pacific region, said that it's "not developing software for the new Windows Mobile software due later this year," but seemed reluctant to expand on the reasons why. Perhaps, like Mozilla, the Skype devs felt they weren't getting access to the right tools. Whatever the reason, this would be a major competitive disadvantage for Microsoft's great new hope on the mobile front, which is already expected to launch with a few things missing. Then again, we shouldn't get too far ahead of ourselves as this isn't an official renouncement from Skype, merely a statement of the status quo -- and from a regional exec at that. All we can take away from it for now is that the road ahead looks a bit bumpier than before for WP7.

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Όσο περνάει ο καιρός τόσο χειρότερα φαίνονται τα πράγματα για την Micro$oft σε όλους εσάς. Όχι σε μένα. Ξέρω πάνω από δέκα χρόνια την κάτω βόλτα της Micro$oft και απλά πλέον ΚΑΙ εσείς βλέπετε τα σημάδια. Αν δεν συγκεντρωθούν εκεί στη Micro$oft και να κάνουν αυτό που ξέρανε δεν πρόκειται να αλλάξει τίποτα.

Τι είναι αυτό που ξέρανε; Κακές αντιγραφές του λογισμικού του Mac και των άλλων εταιριών και να τα μοιράζουν πειρατικά. Χωρίς activations και χαζομάρες. Ας αφήσουν το υλικό στους άλλους μια και καλή. Ας αφήσουν τα κινητά, τις παιχνιδομηχανές, κλπ. Τέρμα το υλικό. Office + Windows για πάντα. Έτσι ΙΣΩΣ ξαναέρθουν πίσω στην κορυφή.

Inception!

Σε πλήρες HD εδώ. 480 HD, 720 HD, 1080 HD.

Η ταινία της δεκαετίας; Έτσι φαίνεται!