Ubuntu Causes Girl To Drop Out of College - Page 2

Faun · 22-01-2009, 04:23 PM

^^As they say don't remove the evidence, it will be ridiculous to read Hitboxx's reply then.

Liverpool_fan · 22-01-2009, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by NucleusKore

Well for starters the headline in the source^ reads

27 News Troubleshooter: Woman blames Dell for missing online classes

and not Ubuntu causes a girl to drop out of college.

The OP has chosen to stop at the following line

And I will continue quoting the article highlighting what's required, as I find that misleading for those who will not go to the source mentioned at the end of the article.

When students see her using her Ubuntu laptop for her course, hopefully, it will bring about some awareness that there is life without Microsoft and their products.

Thanks.

Speaking aside.
As a sincere request to everyone, please dont call anyone as dumb or fool. Not everyone is born genius. As geeks ourshelves, we feel, oh its so easy and this and that and laugh mericlessly on someone; but we forget that people need help at the intial stage. But the truth is that for someone who doesn't know already, THIS IS DIFFICULT.
This story is amusing indeed yes but not mock inducing.
So guys before mocking someone, please bear in mind, there would be a field or two where you and I would be as bad or even worse. (Me in Cricket

)
Reading the story in question, the girl in question has been helped and THAT is good.
What is not good is this:

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Sadly, thousands of Ubuntu fans didn’t care about this woman’s struggle to enroll in online courses. They didn’t care whether this young woman went to college or not. They cared about the reputation of Ubuntu.

Source: http://addins.wkowtv.com/blogs/troubleshooter/?p=24

hellknight · 22-01-2009, 04:51 PM

Too bad for GauravCJ.. and i was thinking that i might get banned

.. but seriously.. this isn't the fault of Ubuntu as the title of the thread says.. MVP ji.. try to think about a better title next time you post.. and Ubuntu is wrongly being blamed for all this stuff..

Indyan · 22-01-2009, 04:52 PM

The girl is an idiot<period>
Seriously..all it takes is a google search to find out replacement for MS Office for Ubuntu..infact its built in. And then how hard is it to install windows either. Whats even more surprising is that she didn't even have any knowledgeable friends at hand to help her.

thewisecrab · 22-01-2009, 04:59 PM

What a n00b

I dont think I need to explain myself

Liverpool_fan · 22-01-2009, 05:03 PM

This should really be in Fight Club

EDIT:
This story has got so many hits. :shocked
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Update_Gi...Linux?FC=PRCP0

and the update as well
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Update_Gi...Linux?FC=PRCP0

EDIT:
The update actually does show something wrong...seriously wrong with Ubuntu, none of it technical.

**MetalheadGautham** · 22-01-2009, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by gxsaurav

Stop being a sexiest..

I second that.

I have a sister 2 years younger to me, and she is a pure non-geek. But she still figured out how to turn off my archlinux (while I was downloading something. GRRR...

) by just noticing that there is a menu button which she has seen me click several times.

At the same time, I also have a friend who claims to be a Windows Geek (and he really DOES know several things, and can find his way around registry and can write batch files easily) who thinks its hard to navigate when the "taskbar" (actually, its the xfce4-panel) is on the top.

[quote]She is a paying customer so she deserves to get support from Ubuntu on phone just like she can get on phone via Microsoft. We in India pirate, but in USA piracy is low so since they are paying, they demand support.[/quote[

She paid for the hardware, not the software. There is an option in dell.com to buy support for ubuntu, but I guess she didn't buy that thinking that she is too smart to need technical support.

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there is no "Get Started" Wizard in Ubuntu either showing all the features etc

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.

And yeah, when you compare my status back then, a barely 15 year old who hadn't the slightest clue what linux was or even what the BIOS was, and I was completely ignorant of most of the things in this world. I doubt you can tell that I was smarter then than this adult girl from "the most developed nation in the world".

Plasma_Snake · 23-01-2009, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by gxsaurav

Eat my fries

...seriously even I don't know the full meaning.

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.
Like MetalHead's case I too have a younger sister 3 year younger to me and she too is a complete n00b in computers. We enrolled her this year in a B.Tech program in Computer Science and it is my duty now to not to let her be a n00b but she likes it that way only.
One day before joining college, as she was becoming an Orkut addict, I tried to block the Orkut on my system using that Hosts file modification method and when I came home the lil' bugger was scrappin' away with all her might.

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.

JojoTheDragon · 23-01-2009, 09:04 AM

She was a complete= n00b +idiot - lot of experience of for sure. If she didn't knew this much then she dosen't deserve it.

utsav · 23-01-2009, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by n6300

and btw, from the user name, i thought it was a gal... never had i heard a name called SOUMYA and it turn out to be a guy ... but yeah now i guess its some kinda shortened up name for something else..

but whatever be the case, my apologies to SOUMYA ... sorry mate

i hav two friends, Soumya and Divya , they r twins and the most important thing, they r guys

there was another soumya when i was in school in our class but that was a girl

gxsaurav · 23-01-2009, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Plasma_Snake

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.

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

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

gforce23 · 23-01-2009, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Plasma_Snake

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?

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Originally Posted by gaurav_CJ

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.

NucleusKore · 23-01-2009, 04:42 PM

Man where has this thread gotten to. Better it's locked up.

Plasma_Snake · 23-01-2009, 04:56 PM

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.

Liverpool_fan · 23-01-2009, 05:16 PM

^
Are you referring to me?

gxsaurav · 23-01-2009, 05:35 PM

^^^ 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.

Plasma_Snake · 23-01-2009, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Anurag_panda

^
Are you referring to me?

Dunno about u kid but around here, in this forum, I'm the official Panda. If I'm wrong then forum members can revoke my status.

confused!! · 23-01-2009, 08:51 PM

^^ 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 · 23-01-2009, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by vista__n00b

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.

Plasma_Snake · 23-01-2009, 10:47 PM

Oh le lel le Piluru, ab to Jaag ja!

Phantom Lancer · 23-01-2009, 11:09 PM

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 ........

infra_red_dude · 23-01-2009, 11:48 PM

Logged onto the forum after a long time and it sure was entertaining

R2K · 24-01-2009, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by esumitkumar

^^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

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........