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Ok... I've just installed Ubuntu. I'm staring at the screen... Now tell me how exactly do I know or find out what "lspci" is, does or means... A friend of mine chrips up and says "Type MAN LSPCI" ... and I ask him how I would even suspect that combination of keystrokes represented anything...

And there in lies the problem. Linux is NON-INTUITIVE ... if you don't know the OS and can't get help... just put windows back in your computer and resume being happy. Since linux was just a playtoy I've occasionally allowed my frustration with windows to override my common sense and...

Price is always a consideration Rob, but the best answer is seldom the cheapest motherboard. Most often the answer is somewhere between the $49 board that barely boots up and the one with 347 features driving the price up. Feature sets are also important but in all truth today's motherboards...

Thanks for that... Depending what is on the drive inside, the warranty might be the least of a person's worries. I really don't like seeing someone lose their family photos, financial records or other important data; especially if it's something simple like a broken cable or dead wall...

I gather from your description this is an external drive in a sleeve... It's almost always the controller, not the drive that fails. If the data on the drive matters to you, your best bet would be to try putting the actual hard drive into a different sleeve (as Rory describes). The...

"subsidizing" .... you mean the way the US subsidized Blacks? I'm thinking you need to give this a WHOLE lot more thought.

Yes. :eek: :eek: :eek: :D :cool:

"Arbitrary" and "Necessary" are antonyms... By definition something that is necessary cannot be arbitrary and visa versa. I say this not to pick on you but to suggest that some things are indeed necessary ... like doors of a certain height or seats of a certain width, and we do pretty much have...

The whole Torrents issue is trivial compared to the levels of harassment and intimidation that are carried on the net every day. Lives are ruined, families are affected, careers are halted cold in their tracks... usually by total strangers operating from the comfort of total anonymity. In one...

Actually I used to have a keyboard with a built in trackball... very nice, but it never caught on. There are Dvorak boards out there as well, but they remain the almost sole premise of high speed transcription and seldom appear outside large typing pools... But Dvorak had the good idea, he...

Yep... in fact we had that conversation here not long ago... http://forums.techgage.com/showthread.php?t=4945 It was designed to force you to move your fingers off home row for all but about a dozen English words and to put the more common letters under the left hand... In fact it was done to...

I guess I didn't word that well enough... your point, quoted above, is what I was trying to get at... If they're going to produce a right handed version without an equivalent (and same price) left handed version... they should lose reviewer points. Well, going by the "writing hand" standard...

Naaa... it wasn't you that stepped in it and I've never said it was. Tell you what... if reviewers started docking a point or two from the scoring when a company produced a product that is not truly universal, I'm betting it would make an impression. Now you're apologizing for them...

Given some of the other commentary I'm not so sure I am targeting the wrong people... but I will agree that this isn't the best place for such a discussion. My original point was that if they must produce such a product it's not to their advantage to bias the thing to only certain users. Not...

This probably correct... because many adults, especially those my age, will actually deny being left-handed (sinistral) because of the prejudices they faced about it growing up. In first and second graders ... kids who haven't had to face the prejudices and punishments... the number is...

Or just about anything else!

Ok... lets say your numbers are right... lets use 10% for easy math... Any company that produces and advertises for "sinistralists" (left handed people) is going to pick up a waiting market of about 600,000,000 customers. If only 1% of them actually buy, that's 6,000,000 mice at 69.95...

I am so tempted to jump on this with both feet... But I'll simply remind you that producing a left handed version would likely bring about sales increases vastly out of proportion with the stats. They'd gain a lot more than a 25% sales increase because they'd be about the only company doing...

They had me, right up to the part about "Right hand ergonomic design". Y'know close to 25% of the world is left handed....

It's not about sound or video... those are Plug and Play drivers that can be installed anytime after the initial install. It's about "text mode" drivers that have to be installed before the system can access it's busses... These drivers lay at the Hardware Abstraction Layer of the machine and...