Common problems with Ubuntu

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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Sure, here's my list from my Ford. It's a Focus, though, not a Fiesta:
>
> • Front seats recline with dial: cannot be moved quickly.
> • Cannot lock doors from inside when leaving car. When trying to
> manually lock with the driver's door open, the doors automatically
> unlock. Apparently this is a case of Microsoft-type engineering: the
> car assumes that the user is an idiot and prone to locking his keys in
> the car. Thus, the car can only be locked with the key, from outside.
> Forget the fact that there are many valid reasons for locking the
> doors with the driver's door still open. I often have many packages to
> carry, so it's easiest for me to lock the doors, grab the packages,
> and then shut the door with my foot. Not with the Ford Focus. With the
> Ford Focus, one can never carry two armloads of packages away from the
> car. One must always leave a hand free to lock the doors.
> • When the passenger||driver puts the passenger window down, and the
> driver||passenger pushes the button after him, the window stops going
> down.
> • The radio's volume knob is so shallow and slippery that it is
> impossible to operate. Also, pressing CD || Radio does not turn the
> radio on. This is in contrast to the UI of the air conditioning unit,
> in which any button will start it. Even "off".
> • The trunk is so small that the baby stroller would not fit until I
> ripped the plastic moulding off. The light is tucked away in the far
> right corner, and does not illuminate the middle of the trunk even
> when the trunk is empty.
> • No map lights in the back! No lights at all in the back!
> • The gas gauge was strategically placed behind the steering wheel.
> There is no compromise between comfortable seating position and a
> visible gas gauge. Same for the temp gauge, the tach between 3000 and
> 5000 RPM, and the speedometer between 90 and 150 KPH.
> • The trunk must be slammed down to close. Even then, it often seems
> closed when it is not.
> • The trunk release is electric only. No manual override. How are you
> going to open that when the battery dies? I hope that you don't keep
> your jumper cables in the trunk...
> • Huge glove compartment. Too bad it's one dimensional. It seems
> deeper than my arm is long, yet so narrow that one's fist barely gets
> in. Yes, I'm exaggerating here, but the glove compartment really seems
> to have been designed by some burrowing creature. To make matters
> worse, it seems to go in the up direction, so every time it is opened
> the contents spill out onto the passenger's feet.
> • The stiff plastic lanyard on the filler cap is too short. The cap
> must be twisted _just_right_ so that the cap hangs on the loop and
> does not drip gas on the paint. That's difficult for those of us with
> manual disabilities.
> • The fuel filler door cannot be opened when the doors are locked, nor
> can it be closed when the doors are locked! This means that one must
> refuel with the doors unlocked, which is a potential security hazard.
> • Need the key to open the engine lid. That makes a lot of problems:
> 1) One cannot open the lid with the engine running without a spare
> key. 2) One cannot open the lid with one hand. One hand must be
> twisting the key while the other hand lifts.
> • Washer fluid: The washer fluid reservoir was probably the most
> over-engineered component in any Ford vehicle. It sits inside the
> passenger side fender, completely hidden from view. This presents
> several challenges to those tasked with maintaining the vehicle. For
> one, there is no way to determine how much fluid is inside the
> reservoir. Secondly, in order to replenish the supply, fluid is poured
> down a pipe with such a sharp bend, so close to the mouth, that all
> fluid poured in immediately splashes out. Liquid must be poured in at
> about the rate one would fill an ice cube tray. Without knowing if it
> will be 100 ml, a full liter, or maybe five. As the liquid splashes in
> all directions at the (unexpected) moment that the reservoir is full,
> either panther-like reflexes are required, or an apron.
> • The vehicle is very, very loud. I know that this is not a luxury
> car, and I know that instead of a timing belt it has a durable timing
> chain, however the vehicle is unacceptable noisy. At highway speeds,
> the passengers must scream at each other to be heard. At rest and
> idle, the exhaust is so loud that it too disturbs conversation near
> the trunk.
> • The turn signals have a feature where a light tap on the stalk sets
> the signal to flash three times. There is no option to disable this
> feature, and no way to stop the blinking once it starts. At 100 KPH
> (60 MPH) those three flashes mean that I'm signalling for about 15
> car-lengths of distance. That means that one must often signal left
> when one intends to travel right, and vice-versa.
> • The power window switch has two operational positions: a light tap
> for manually guiding the window up or down, and a hard tap for full
> close or open. Well, that is an idealization. In reality, there is so
> little difference between the pressures needed that manual guidance is
> impossible. The driver must take his eyes off the road to stop the
> full close / open procedure should he desire an intermediate position.
> • The air conditioning vents are shaped like whistle. Guess what sound
> they make.
> • The CD play has no anti skip, in fact, it skips constantly.
> • The rear view mirror is placed too low: it obscures when making
> right turns on accents and descents. I live on a mountain. Everything
> is an accent or a decent.
>
>
>
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