Comments on: Helping the non-line get online http://www.connectingbristol.org/2009/01/16/helping-the-non-line-get-online/ creative: smart: green: connected Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:29:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: woodsy http://www.connectingbristol.org/2009/01/16/helping-the-non-line-get-online/comment-page-1/#comment-280087 woodsy Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:37:59 +0000 http://www.connectingbristol.org/2009/01/16/helping-the-non-line-get-online/#comment-280087 Pete - point taken as regards variations; and GUIs are for wimps remember. <br><br>More specifically, why is the Post Office producing a guide for new internet users? It obviously has money to burn on fripperies unconnected with its core business after its announcing of £200 mn. profits.<br><br>Looking at the Post Office itself, when founded in the Victorian era, the fact the Post Office could deliver a letter posted one day to its destination on the next was regarded as some kind of miracle. The fact that it can still happen today is also regarded as a miracle... :-D Pete – point taken as regards variations; and GUIs are for wimps remember.

More specifically, why is the Post Office producing a guide for new internet users? It obviously has money to burn on fripperies unconnected with its core business after its announcing of £200 mn. profits.

Looking at the Post Office itself, when founded in the Victorian era, the fact the Post Office could deliver a letter posted one day to its destination on the next was regarded as some kind of miracle. The fact that it can still happen today is also regarded as a miracle… :-D

]]> By: woodsy http://www.connectingbristol.org/2009/01/16/helping-the-non-line-get-online/comment-page-1/#comment-225704 woodsy Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:58:18 +0000 http://www.connectingbristol.org/2009/01/16/helping-the-non-line-get-online/#comment-225704 Pete - point taken as regards variations; and GUIs are for wimps remember. More specifically, why is the Post Office producing a guide for new internet users? It obviously has money to burn on fripperies unconnected with its core business after its announcing of £200 mn. profits. Looking at the Post Office itself, when founded in the Victorian era, the fact the Post Office could deliver a letter posted one day to its destination on the next was regarded as some kind of miracle. The fact that it can still happen today is also regarded as a miracle... :-D Pete – point taken as regards variations; and GUIs are for wimps remember.

More specifically, why is the Post Office producing a guide for new internet users? It obviously has money to burn on fripperies unconnected with its core business after its announcing of £200 mn. profits.

Looking at the Post Office itself, when founded in the Victorian era, the fact the Post Office could deliver a letter posted one day to its destination on the next was regarded as some kind of miracle. The fact that it can still happen today is also regarded as a miracle… :-D

]]> By: Stephen Hilton http://www.connectingbristol.org/2009/01/16/helping-the-non-line-get-online/comment-page-1/#comment-225698 Stephen Hilton Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:47:13 +0000 http://www.connectingbristol.org/2009/01/16/helping-the-non-line-get-online/#comment-225698 Come on guys, it's the Post Office - even the envelopes have Windows :-) Come on guys, it’s the Post Office – even the envelopes have Windows :-)

]]> By: Pete Stean http://www.connectingbristol.org/2009/01/16/helping-the-non-line-get-online/comment-page-1/#comment-225174 Pete Stean Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:13:37 +0000 http://www.connectingbristol.org/2009/01/16/helping-the-non-line-get-online/#comment-225174 If I can play devil's advocate, for the Post Office to have produced a guide that covered all of the possible variations on a theme that linux has to offer (a command line solution? a gui solution? but then what variation? Gnome, KDE, openbox etc etc? Where do you draw the line?) would have been overkill, and frankly would have resulted in a far more confusing and unhelpful document for Joe Public. As such, I'd say that this is better than nothing, but still not a patch on the DCSF-funded 'MyGuide' of course. The Post Office gets some points for at least making the effort though... And, just for clarification, this is a personal view, not one endorsed by my employer in any way, shape or form... and I'm an Ubuntu 8.10/Windows 7 Beta dual-booter in my own time, and general linux advocate amongst my family and friends also ;) If I can play devil’s advocate, for the Post Office to have produced a guide that covered all of the possible variations on a theme that linux has to offer (a command line solution? a gui solution? but then what variation? Gnome, KDE, openbox etc etc? Where do you draw the line?) would have been overkill, and frankly would have resulted in a far more confusing and unhelpful document for Joe Public. As such, I’d say that this is better than nothing, but still not a patch on the DCSF-funded ‘MyGuide’ of course. The Post Office gets some points for at least making the effort though…

And, just for clarification, this is a personal view, not one endorsed by my employer in any way, shape or form… and I’m an Ubuntu 8.10/Windows 7 Beta dual-booter in my own time, and general linux advocate amongst my family and friends also ;)

]]> By: woodsy http://www.connectingbristol.org/2009/01/16/helping-the-non-line-get-online/comment-page-1/#comment-223979 woodsy Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:24:21 +0000 http://www.connectingbristol.org/2009/01/16/helping-the-non-line-get-online/#comment-223979 At a quick glance it looks almost useful. While there's plenty of advice for Windows users and a nod in the direction of Macintosh, as usual there's no advice for Linux users. Is this because they think we're smart enough to work it out for ourselves? I think we should be told. At a quick glance it looks almost useful. While there’s plenty of advice for Windows users and a nod in the direction of Macintosh, as usual there’s no advice for Linux users. Is this because they think we’re smart enough to work it out for ourselves? I think we should be told.

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