yacreader ubuntu
use "-usbdevice tablet" on kvm command line to fix this
"Re: Messed up .Xauthority
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...1/xauth.1.html
The gist seems to be to run
Code:
sudo xauth generate :0 . trusted"
They may be the planet's biggest time wasters. But Win 8 has been one of IT's best ever soap operas.
MS should stop doing software altogether - they're not very good at it anyway - and go full-time into performance art.
TV, theatre, musicals, Steve Ballmer doing stand-up - the whole comedy enchilada.
It would be like The Office crossed with - er - The Office. Only for real. Streamed live, from Redmond - quicker than you can say 'New revenue stream
"this probably reflects the fact that the GUI shell is synonymous with the OS in most user's mind"
That is because MS have been telling us for decades that the OS IS the GUI and that command line is so old fashioned, slow, legacy rubbish, especialy on servers.
Latest WIndows Server? Latest whizzy innovative idea? er command line operation, no need for that <cough> slow old fashoned GUI here. It is all the usual marketing bollox, and it went badly wrong with 8.
I live in the UK and worked for an American corporation for 11 years - who got bought by an Indian company (the nicest guys but not the faintest clue what they were doing - another story...). I moved to another smaller American company (still in the UK). I've also previously worked for another US corporation.
IMHO
My observation of US vs UK companies is that the US companies are insular and hierarchical. I will get to the point...
The top man has a "great idea". Everyone thinks its wonderful. There can be no argument - if there is it's likely your pass will suddenly stop working. A popular phrase is "Its great isn't it?"... Think about the coercive nature of the phrase. The question isn't an option. It's just part of the culture. Apple is floundering because for all Steve Jobs faults he did have some great ideas. Microsoft seems to be heading tube-wards... no names mentioned. Even in this day and age the US guys seem to have no concept of an outside world to the point where my company for instance still uses imperial sized nuts and bolts for a global product. Trying to explain things just results in buying imperial sized spanners. Customers are the last people they'd listen to. They're bottom of the pile. What do they know?
You may notice I refer to "Companies" and not "People" because on an individual basis, Americans have been accommodating and generally kind people but Companies there seem to have a life and ethos of their own.
The result of this culture is forging ahead with their product no matter what. This used to