Ease of Access Vs. User Friendly

There is a major difference

Microsoft's Window's Vista is User Friendly and has a general sense of the Ease of Access factor. Linux is much more rigid and has almost neither User Friendly features nor Ease of Access bits.

What needs to be created is a version of Linux that has this Ease of Access factor WITHOUT the User Friendly detail.

As of now, Windows Vista is expensive. I received my copy back in November and have been trying to cut down on the monstrous resource hog. Yeah, Aero is nice, it makes it look all Mac-ed up, but are the resources worth it? Running idle, on my 2Gb of ram, is costing me over 545Mb...while I watch the computer sit there!!

Zubuntu is free of charge, different, and, most importantly, almost free of resource hogginess! As an added bonus you can force almost ANY program (made for Mac or PC) run! The downside of course is that it is not the easier of the two OSs to use! You must use the equivalent of the DOS Command Prompt to do certain things...and force things to work. This works fantastically for those willing to learn the commands and update their computers by themselves, but for those who are used to the computer being this mystical machine that does what they want by clicking on the enormous "X" in the center of the screen, this Linux isn't worth it.

To fully combine the two, only a version of open source Linux is needed! We don't need all the flashy SHIT that Vista or even all the way back to Win 98 comes with! Take Zubuntu, or another compatible version of Linux, and make it do all the //nice// behind the scenes things that Windows does...

I use the term NICE because it is that very system of making things run behind the screen that I am so upset with, and only necessary things need be there.

Make Linux one program... just one... that will run behind everything that will check for updates, fix minor problems, and not leave you with a worthless wireless card! But don't make another Windows...please dear god...

Microsoft's desire for the user friendly has murdered new technology coming out. Dumb asses, people don't buy new computers to show off their flashy OS...they run OTHER programs on their computers...that is what an OS should do...create an Ease of Access to the programs you'd like to run, and operations you'd like to continue running... not having the screen fold out from a paper airplane!

Thanks
-Bill

1) Roof Access

An idea we've been tossing around since the beginning the semester was to get us roof access to every building on campus. Although only odd feasible reasons for this existed...we decided to go through with it. Given the layout of our school...we decided to break it down into several parts. I'll give the ones we've accomplished thus far, then give a layout for those untouched.


1- To start this trial off we started with something very simple and went tot he top of the parking garage. They do have it blocked off so Cars can no longer park there...but people can, no problem. Its nice, usually windy... 8 Stories up.

2- Link Lee mansion, 2 Stories. Our school is Rather old, and the main office building is called Link Lee. On the outside of the building there is a ladder, most likely used for a fire escape, and has access to the very top of the roof. We've gone up several times as of now, and it has a fantastic view, but it is kinda creepy.

3- Our dorm building Guinan Hall. 3 stories tall, courtyard with exposed roof, and streets on every side. After hearing about access for a day or so, we looked around to see if such a point was even possible. We found it. An unlocked utility room granted us access to the only ladder capable of reaching the roof from the inside.

Left to go!

The entire academic Mall - consists of 9 buildings that are all interrelated through every level except basement levels. Counting this all as one will be adequate because if you CAN get tot he top of one...you can get to the rest of them no problem. We've located the entryways to the same utility rooms as the one in guinan, and we've seen from the top of the parking garage that every building in the Mall has roof access...now there is only time before we reach our next goal!

Jerebeck - Our gym, possibly the most difficult to reach the top of...it is tallest..has no visible or known entryway to the top...and would be impossible to scale...this one will require more time...

Crooker - the general area for students...where we eat...where we get our daily requests fulfilled...it has one very large peaked window that goes from side to side...and an interesting side building attached to it at a smaller level. Although only 2 stories, it has no known roof access...but an improvisional one is being made by us...and a ladder...

I think I've covered most of them...I know there are others...but I'll cover them in another post...and keep these updated with completion!

-Bill