I am using Linux in most of the time with my office PC, and it has just a bit too many nasty problems. Typically they come with no reason and disappear by themselves after several weeks (or months). The PCs are centrally administered and I suppose the technical support people change things every now and then and therefore problems come and go.
The newest invention is that the attachment bar in the bottom of Thunderbird becomes so thin that I can't see and click any attachment in it. And the little plus/minus sign that allows you to expand/collapse the viewing of the complete subject/from/date headers does not work. Well actually it only fails to work for mails with attachment.
Some other problems that get solved by itself included:
1) Chinese characters were displayed normally, then one day all become strange symbols, and then another day the characters came back - with a much better font!
2) Gnome refused to work properly; after the machine was up for a while then gpdf, ggv, gedit, g-whatever all cannot get started. So the very first thing I did after the machine was booted up was to open some pdf or ps files... then it would stay fine.
3) On a few occasions the clock was fast by exactly one hour. Although this one goes away easily (just a reboot).
Monday, September 04, 2006
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Buy your own notebook. Many offers this year.
I do have a notebook (running Win XP), but perhaps I need a new one. But problems in my notebook ain't fewer. The recurring problem is that Windows Explorer changes how files are listed every now and then - ascending or descending, icons or details, etc...
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