Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer 2737

David Brown

I think it would be a good idea. I know plenty of people, friends even that have Internet access and really have no business there. If it takes them a month to learn how to log on and do simple e-mail just think of the havoc when they learn to post to newsgroups. Actually, one friend has no idea what a newsgroup even is, and one only uses them to download love. OK, so some of my friends are less than properly motivated.

My one friend never even browses and only e-mails his relatives that know how to use a computer. The other goes everywhere in between his love habit but at least has the sense to use some of the free firewall products, until he breaks something and I get a call. My only payoff is a 'not so free' lunch.

The only thing that stops ISPs giving out firewalls is At which point AOL would become even more of a pain in the butt. Comcast offers McAfee, which in my test uses, is pretty much; A. Windows only. B. Useless even with Windows.

I said a while back that computers used to be the new 'Wild West', but now it is the Internet, and I don't see it getting any less wild until the government does something stupid (which you know it will) and ruins it for everybody. Bill Baka