One of the annoying questions that he gets asked repeatedly by “nubes’   or neophytes at  “cocktail parties”  is  “Which should I / my kid / my family purchase as a computer – Mac or PC ?  As Mr. D. Pogue relates ”

A: Mac or PC?

“Q: I’m going to get torrents of hate mail no matter what I say, so here you go: Mac, if you have a choice. Why deal with viruses and spyware if you don’t have to? Also, they look nicer, and the hardware and software are designed together.

Of course, there are good reasons for going Windows instead, like running a particular piece of Windows-only software or getting a netbook. And Windows 7, due end of the year, looks really sweet so far.”

interesting answers to a standard question.  Yet the answer includes points of viruses and spyware.  Yet the answer itself is limited only to Apple Macintosh computer operating system as the only available option in the world.  What about Linux ?  Are we missing something ?  Earth to Mr. Pogue .

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Adding items to the panel. To add an applet to the Gnome panel, right-click on a blank part of the panel, choose Applets from the pop-up menu and then select the item from the appropriate sub-menu. You can also choose the Applet menu directly from the main Gnome menu.

Character Picker. The Character Picker applet enables you to copy and paste special characters, such as accented letters and math symbols, into your document irrespective of the particular application that you are using.

Available Applets. Six categories of applets available with the standard installation of Gnome. Among the most useful is Drive Mount, which provides an icon for the floppy disk drive and shows the current state of the drive. Clicking on this icon will mount or unmounted  the drive. This is quicker than right-clicking and choosing the mount or unmount menu items, which are the alternatives.

WebControl is a simple network applet that enables you to type a web address and go straight to that site. It is available via the Network submenu. If you are not currently using Netscape Navigator, it will launch the program automatically. If you are running Netscape, WebControl also provides the option to open the website that you have chosen in a new window.

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The will then see a listing on your computer monitor screen- the terminal , the user and the log-in time.   Note that in real life computer situations the exact output from the UNIX  “who”  command varies from one version of UNIX to another , but it almost always can be counted on to contain at least these listings and parameters .    In addition you can always type out  the command line “who am I “  and UNIX will simply print just that very line for the terminal ( or terminal window), into which you typed that very command.

Next in line , with powerful UNIX command lines commands is the command “finger”, which is a considerably more powerful informative tool. The finger command produces a much more useful as well as elaborate report than does the  “WHO” command.

Although “finger” reports the same stuff as the command “who”  does it also looks up as well the user’s  real name ( if it is in the user’s password file), and tells how long the terminal itself has been idle ( that is how long since the user typed something”.  You can still see the vestiges of UNIX commands and processes even now in such basic and standard programs as Window’s based MSN Messenger systems and the like.

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