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Comment on Linux sucks – Keyboard Shortcuts by JustRandomGuy

JustRandomGuy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:51:43 +0000

“It;s usually not the computer, I blame operator error” Heh?? No-one’s blaming the computer. I don’t think anybody should be blaming the computer. The problem being identified here is that software, that should be built around helping a user get stuff done (i.e. usability is important) seems to be designed to make stuff hard. “Only usable by computer geniuses” is not good design, “HAHA IZ OPERATAH ERRAH U FAILED COZ U IZ NOT COMPUTAH GENIUS” is not a good excuse for bad design.

Comment on Thoughts on the Samsung Rogue by CTho

CTho — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:20:23 +0000

I have occasionally had #1 happen… It seems to be related to sliding out the keyboard while some screen is redrawing. Never had #2 (excluding surprise dead batteries in the morning), though I have had it turn itself on in my pocket (eg on planes). Never noticed the rest of the problems you mentioned but my brother’s did fail (touchscreen issues) before the 2yr contract was up but after warranty. I’m looking forward to getting a non-Samsung phone soon – probably iPhone, which is designed by people who pay attention to detail!

Comment on Thoughts on the Samsung Rogue by amanda blah

amanda blah — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:31:36 +0000

Okay, i’ve had my Rogue for a year now and it has had many problems from the get-go.
1) the screen SPLITS IN HALF daily. almost constantly.
2) it randomly shuts itself off.
3) texts and calls don’t come/go through occasionally.
4) every night at 8:12, it tries to update itself, but is never successful.
5) it freezes often.
6) a fuzzy screen occasionally comes on and the only way to solve that problem is to take the battery out.
7) the touch screen sometimes becomes unresponsive.
tonight, it shut itself off, then tried to reboot, failed, and passed away for good.
R.I.P. Samsung Rogue, you’ve been a really terrible phone.

Comment on Linux sucks – Firefox by CTho

CTho — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 22:24:21 +0000

I guess that has changed in the *two years* since I wrote this post.

Comment on Linux sucks – Firefox by memet

memet — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:40:13 +0000

So much babbling about a function that’s present but not activated by default? No need to about:config. Here’s the click-n-point way:
From the menus open Edit>Prefences>Advanced>General
Click the checkbox “Use Autoscrolling” and voilà!
So, is the problem with Linux or your reasoning?

Comment on Thoughts on the Samsung Rogue by Lance Alance

Lance Alance — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:47:49 +0000

I had my Rogue for over a year and had no problems with it until Facebook borked their font sizes, then I moved on to the LG Ally. I have more problems with the Ally than I do the Rogue.

I lied, I do have one problem with Rogue, it did not support Pandora, which sucks.

Comment on Linux sucks – Firefox by Justus

Justus — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:35:36 +0000

Though I’m a long-time Linux user (I bounce between Fedora and Slackware), I’m in full agreement with the OP. There’s no excuse for these kinds of defaults that really serve no purpose in the modern computing era.

Firefox in general is FAR more clunky than it should be in Linux. Hell, the entire reason Firefox became so popular was because it was a ‘lightweight’ version version of Mozilla. Unfortunately, these days we have a choice between Kiss-Your-Privacy-Goodbye Google Chrome, the file manager that thinks it’s a web browser Konquerer, the idiot savant that is Opera, and bloated beyond all recognition Firefox. We need a new browser. Maybe when Midori matures…

Comment on Linux sucks – Data Recovery / Dirty Filesystems by LoD

LoD — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:33:39 +0000

So your complaint is that Linux is half assing its NTFS support. It’s not enough they attempted to support a proprietary file system created by Microsoft, but if it isn’t perfect, then they shouldn’t have it at all. And perfect meaning it aught to be able to handle a failing hard drive that has a lock on it due to a bad unmount by windows.

1) that warning wasn’t a warning saying it ‘can’t’ be done… it’s a warning prompting you that the drive was unmounted improperly when last used. Windows does this as well, if you just turn off you windows machine (don’t do start->shutdown) and then reboot, on boot, windows will inform you of the improper shutdown and ask to scan the drive.

2) just like in windows, not scanning and force mounting a locked drive is something you do at your own risk (windows will unlock a drive, because it is the lock creator… but try mounting a drive that was force removed by another system… it’ll also yell at you about having to ‘force’ the drive to work). The ‘lock’ flag is a flag telling the OS that hey it may not be safe to use this drive and you may want to double check the journal/other verification architecture to make sure it’s safe to continue on. Otherwise force the bad boy and anything that is corrupted in the journal/verification log will remain corrupted.

At your own risk.

Both in windows AND linux the safest bet is to scan the thing first… or to properly unmount it (it just means but the stupid thing back into windows and turn of the computer CORRECTLY next time).

Comment on Thoughts on the Samsung Rogue by Ronnie Siracuse

Ronnie Siracuse — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:28:15 +0000

I’ve had the Samsung Rogue since January 7th, it previously worked fine until about a couple of months ago. my phone doesn’t receive texts messages until about 20-30 minutes after the other person sent them. almost all of the occasion i will get several messages at once, when i do get them. any time i send out a picture message at times it will send just fine and other occasions it may take a few mins, hours, or a day to get to the other person. i have heard of others having difficulties with their phone randomly turning off, mine does that too. my first samsung rogue got so awful i had to get a replacement, that was practically 2 weeks ago. I am still having the same issues with my new one! I am so frustrated, i just need to get a new type of phone. i payed retail for the rogue and am so mad that it turned out to be a crappy phone :/ just my rant…

Comment on Linux sucks – Data Recovery / Dirty Filesystems by John Clark

John Clark — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:59:15 +0000

data recovery is a very costly option, always make a regular backups.”.,