Re: [opensuse] Protected Kernel Replaced by 10.2 Update

* Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx> [06-22-07 17:12]:
Icons right there between the main menu's File Edit View and Help and
the following column headings for Package and Version. Tooltips are
the expected result of hovering over a toolbar icon that doesn't have
full time accompanying text to describe its reason for existence.

I don't use the gui, preferring the command-line.

I open it up and it says on the statusbar "No interesting upgrades
available!", while providing no apparent way to find out what
non-interesting upgrades might be available.

It will only provide upgrades for installed software

Nothing about its UI makes that apparent to me.

I guess your head is just utilized as a hat rack?

and ONLY from
repositories that YOU have configured :^)

That I have configured, or that YOU has configured? Have is a verb to
be used only with a plural noun. The app YOU is singular noun, an
"it". I have configured. YOU has configured. It has configured. You
have configured. Grade school grammar. :-p

Now you're being ridiculous. The pronoun, you, was capitalized for
emphasis or shouting, your choise. That pronoun happens to be both
singular and/or plural according to context. It was use properly, you
need to return to the books.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
[gcide]:

Note: Though you is properly a plural, it is in all ordinary
discourse used also in addressing a single person, yet
properly always with a plural verb. "Are you he that hangs
the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind is so admired ?"
--Shak. You and your are sometimes used indefinitely, like
we, they, one, to express persons not specified. "The looks
at a distance like a new-plowed land; but as you come near
it, you see nothing but a long heap of heavy, disjointed
clods." --Addison. "Your medalist and critic are much
nearer related than the world imagine." --Addison. "It is
always pleasant to be forced to do what you wish to do, but
what, until pressed, you dare not attempt." --Hook. You is
often used reflexively for yourself of yourselves. "Your
highness shall repose you at the tower." --Shak. [1913
Webster]


On the bright side, at least Smart is there as an alternative to the
tool SUSE users traditionally expect to just work.

there's that "hat rack" again.
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