Isildur
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Haha, so I see I'm far from alone in having given most of my computers anime names. I've been going with an AI/android/cyborg theme. My PII desktop has its network name set as "SHARONAPPLE", my P4 desktop is set as "IFURITA", my P4M laptop is "OMOIKANE", and my Asus netbook* is "GALLY".
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*Btw, anybody have recomendations about Linux distros for a Linux noob? I'd like to switch my netbook away from Xandros, because my experience with it has been rather poor. I find myself increasing using KDE utils, because the default Xandros stuff is so neutered and buggy. Just taking the Xandros file manager for example:
1) over half the time, trying to look at files' properties in the FM crashes it
2) the status bar often shows the wrong number of files present in --and amount of space occupied by-- the current directory
3) if you have a split window, and you connect to a remote directory (e.g. by SFTP) in one pane, and select a remote file for deletion, it thinks you want to delete the contents of the local directory in the other pane. What the hell.
(It's possible I may have screwed some stuff up by using apt-get -- apparently, from what I read somewhere, although Xandros is Debian based, you can screw things up by doing apt-get for certain things because of incompatibilities between standard Debian and Xandros.)
Plus the Xandros package/update manager doesn't let you reverse any updates. Like the update that disabled the touchpad during typing to prevent inadvertant taps caused by one's palm pressing against the touchpad, which is right next to the spacebar. At the time, it seemd like a reasonable update to install, since I was indeed making some accidental taps as a result of the touchpad's position rightnext to the keyboard. Only the update didn't only disable the touchpad surface itself for half a second after any keypress, it even disabled the hardware left and right keys (which have zero likelihood of being pressed accidentally). So you can imagine how great this is for times when one needs to shift-click or ctrl-click. ("Pressing shift, ok, now I need to wait a second... ok, now I can click.") This one update alone tempts me to reinstall everything, except I figure that if I go to that trouble I might as well go with a version that's more appealing than Xandros, which is almost kiosk-like in its lack of detailed options and preferences.
Additionally, as far as I can tell, there's no way to put a particular update into an "ignore" category. There are a number of other annoyances I won't go into.
