Ubuntu Causes Girl To Drop Out of College

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gxsaurav

You gave been GXified
Actually, there IS something like that. You just need to be curious enough to look around in Ubuntu. Its an icon right in the upper gnome bar. It was one of the first things I noticed (apart from the obviously UNIQUE experience of having two "taskbars") when I first booted from ubuntu live CD.

From a UX point of view, A welcome screen in your face at first bootup like Windows Welcome center is better then an icon tucked away in the corner

When I asked how'd u do it, she said,"Simple! Googled for Proxies and used the first one that came as a result." I felt like a complete J@ck@$$ at that moment but happy too in a way that my little sister does know a thing or two about computers and some that too which I don't. :grin:

Girls cannot survive without Google & Orkut. They will learn anything if it relates to Orkut. :D

My sisters knows everything about the Orkut Interface but gets confused when using Windows Live Webmail :p
 
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gforce23

Rapacious eBayer
E.M.F stands for Electromotive Force, an electrical potential energy which cause the current to flow in a circuit. It is taught in class 10 and in detail in +2 Non-Med.
EMF could also mean electro-magnetic field.

Seriously, the hate attitude being displayed out here toward the girl is just crazy. What are you guys trying to prove - that everyone MUST know Linux? Merely using Linux does not make you a competent programmer or an expert computer user.
Sure, she was lazy in not Googling/Yahooing for the solution but you can't really criticize them for not knowing how to do that. What we take for granted cannot be assumed to be true for someone who lives in the middle of nowhere. There are a literally tons of people in India who've never used a computer, let alone surf the web or call tech support. Are they utter imbeciles who deserve to be ridiculed by all the so-called "elitists" on board?

gaurav_CJ said:
Crappy Linux makeovers and crappy DELL.........+ a girl, that too American, without the slightest knowledge of computers..... perfect recipe for a disaster.
Do you really think that Indian girls are more intelligent than their American counterparts?
Looks like you've never been to the U.S. You'd die of shame if you were to meet some of the female computer whizkids out there. Head over to any major university like GA Tech, Stanford, UCB etc. and they'll put you in your place.
 

Plasma_Snake

Indidiot
Yes my Nucleus friend, u've gone to the core of the thread and u might not be able to say it so I say, This thread has turned into a thread for debating whether girls are smart when it comes to Computer or not whilst the thing is that the case with boys is also the same, u just need to prod around. Today I had my final Linux Viva and most of the boys of my class were stumped over the full form of M.B.R These are final year B.Tech I.T students I'm talking about. So please everyone, no matter how crazy or stupid a girl maybe in ur view, don't bash 'em here. Its a humble request from me otherwise u guys will have a Pandamic i.e. a Panda Pandemic. ;) :D
 

gxsaurav

You gave been GXified
^^^ he is referring to his avtar.

Obviously you guys don't know about some of the girls this forum had in the past such as Neha, Grace, Shalu etc...they are girls & got enough knowledge of technology.
 

confused!!

It's true Im not confused
^^ I am also a Panda but more like Anurag Panda...and Plasma snake you r correct, this thread really got diverted..and what had gone into Gaurav CJ??
 

comp@ddict

EXIT: DATA Junkyard
What a chauvinistic attitude my dear friend! After passing that statement do you feel more man than you ever did? I hope you do cos otherwise it would be a serious waste of those brain cells in which you are having "proper knowledge".

Anyways, even though I am seriously offended by statement that the omniscient above me just passed, but this girl did some serious favour to herself by dropping out of the Technical College. If she doesn't even know how to buy a computer for herself, then she is much better doing something else than studying for engineering or something similar. She should feel that it is a blessing in disguise for her.
U a girl?

Sorry, dun mind me at all, I'm just a fly, just a fly, but an asking, enquiring fly.
 
Well i feel it was just a n00by accident .... Neither Dell's fault nor Ubuntu's ......

Anyways if she couldnt help herself out of that kind of situation with the help of [so many] forums and possibly her techy friends, i dunno how she could have completed an online course [a self study kinda course] by herself ........
 

R2K

In the Zone
^^Well done Hitboxxx :)

Regd Ubuntu issue..Americans are pretty dumb and rich..Thats why so many BPOs had mushroomed in India..so ...it was obvious..

Plus gals dont know much abt technology...Leave Ubuntu alone :D


BPO sector developed in india not because all indians got heavy technical skills......it was because tech support from India is much much cheaper from any other country....

and i came across many forums where US ppl were really unhappy abt these indian BPO services....many of them were describing indian tech support ppl as dunderheads........:(
 
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