Re: [tlug] Ubuntu Breezy and Knoppix 4

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Essertier <essertier@example.com> writes:

    Joseph> What's a kludge?  A bug?

Fragile but quick fix.  Cf. bag, hack, crock.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/K/kluge.html

Note the spelling difference, explained there.  (Hint to experts:
don't bother googling the Jargon File; it pulls in 95% junk from
elsewhere on Eric's site.  Go to the root and use the site's
navigation tools from there.)

    Joseph> Either he is in denial about Windows, or doesn't use MS
    Joseph> Word much, or his definition of the word "problem" is
    Joseph> different from mine.  Waiting 10 seconds for one
    Joseph> kana-kanji conversion may not be a problem for him.

I dunno, I never saw that much of a lag (but I haven't used Word on
Windows since I got a Mac 20 months ago).  I've asked my colleagues
about it, and basically the ones who don't surf the Internet on the
machine they use for wordprocessing don't have any performance
complaints.  The others?  Well, spyware is evidently a huge and
growing problem for Windows users.  (But my colleagues' machines also
average about one year in age; taxpayers take note.)  There was a
(disappointing) special issue of CACM on spyware this month, BTW.

I've also heard from several that when they were learning to use
Windows and Word that they had all kinds of mysterious problems but
they attribute them to their own inexperience.  They don't have those
problems now; I suspect it's muscle memory.  (Eg, I've had my wife say
over my shoulder "oh, don't do that!"  She's been mostly right when I
disobeyed her, but the only way to find out _why_ is to do it anyway;
she usually can't describe it, she just knows that some other way
works.)

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