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Here's Illiad's take from Sunday's User Friendly .

Humour or prescience? I'm not sure, but I love the form number.

I remember in the mid-90s Garth Brooks became a part of the "movement" to stop used CD sales, or at least keep used CDs separate from new CDs. (The Warehouse was just starting to sell used CDs in addition to new CDs.) Anyway, he was speaking out against used CD sales, and the record companies were giving less money for advertising to record stores that also sold used CDs. A record store in Eugene, Oregon (where I lived at the time) had a Garth Brooks BBQ.

They were literally burning the CDs.

Ironically, Garth Brooks is probably one of the very few people who actually make a decent living off of the music industry.

(And I was going to get off topic at this point talking about how I hate Garth Brooks and not because I hate all country music. I do dislike most of it but some stuff is good like Johnny Cash, the Dixie Chicks and Mojo Nixon. Buuuuut that would be getting pretty off topic so I won't mention it.)

The article is also mixing comic books and comic strips. Sure, stuff like Dilbert , User Friendly, The Boondocks, and Achewood work well on the web. They're short and easy to read. Most people who read comic books, however, relish the strip to the store, holding it in their hands, filling up the long white boxes...

Please, people, you can't blame Microsoft for SoBig.

You have to MANUALLY (no MIME exploits, no nothing) execute a file YOU HAVEN'T ASKED FOR AND YOU DONT KNOW WHAT IS !!

Jeez, only fucking idiots would get hit by SoBig.

SoBig happened to target Windows systems only. But nothing would prevent me from writing a totally identical version, which would do exactly the same thing, on a Linux system. Or BSD, or Solaris.

Don't blame the operating system here. People who executes unknown files, particularly unrequested files received by mail, should be hung by the balls in the nearest telephone pole.

Obligatory Funny Yet Extremely Relevant UserFriendly Link

• wear sunglasses at night
• get your caffein IV
• eat cold pizza
• 100BaseT IV, maybe IEEE802.11g
• get a plush tux
• avoid direct sunlight
• print out the entire kernel code and pin it to the wall (might require additional houses)
• eat more cold pizza
• subscribe Playboy(tm)

• wear sunglasses at night
• get your caffein IV
• eat cold pizza
• 100BaseT IV, maybe IEEE802.11g
• get a plush tux
• avoid direct sunlight
• print out the entire kernel code and pin it to the wall (might require additional houses)
• eat more cold pizza
• subscribe Playboy(tm)

You mean this Movie OS?

Think of the infamous Vigor. It was not an April Fool's joke thought but a cartoon from Userfriendly.org

Don't touch the keyboard.

But that can't be because . . .

Netcraft has confirmed . . . SCO is dead

Nobody really knows what SCO died of, but two days ago, their site went offline. It could bave been an attack of mad hackers or the SOBIG worm, or just a BIG ASS WHOOPIN by someone they're suing.

SCO, we will miss you. No longer will your name grace /.'s front page.

hehe- Couldn't resist: Today's userfriendly strip is perfect :)

I thought it was Spurious Crime Organization. :-)

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030605& mode=classic

This reminds me of something I read back in 2000 :-)

Microsoft should take a clue from User Friendly!
We (a 30,000 student Midwest University) are currently thinking about making our DNS servers authoritive for windowsupdate.com and and pointing the A record bac k to loopback.

You know, end users would really know how we felt about them if they just read User Friendly a couple times a week. I think it would really enlighten the users ;)

Heeeey Macarena

Dust Puppy can fix his problem.

Disclaimer: That was blatantly ripped from a User Friendly comic. Sadly, their search engine doesn't seem to be working quite as well as the Penny-Arcade one.

This was the closest I could find...

Disclaimer: That was blatantly ripped from a User Friendly comic. Sadly, their search engine doesn't seem to be working quite as well as the Penny-Arcade one.

This was the closest I could find...

We've mastered the singleplayer levels and done the campaign over and over (and over). Now we want to try out this multiplayer thing we keep hearing about.

Disclaimer: That was blatantly ripped from a User Friendly comic. Sadly, their search engine doesn't seem to be working quite as well as the Penny-Arcade one.

But you already know, what you will get!

Vancouver, Canada is the home of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. It also has a rich history of tech-related sites. One of the most fun is to visit the folks over at User Friendly. They're in New Westminster, about a 30 minute drive outside Vancouver, and are right next door to Paralynx, aka Mind Link, the company that inspired Illiad to start the User Friendly strip (he called the company "Columbia Internet" because Paralynx is at the Columbia Skytrain station stop).

They're a great bunch of folks to visit, so if you're on the West Coast of Canada, drop by and say hi to them.

...Erwin will be getting an upgrade?

Of course if a Linux Store (aren't penguins cute), BSD Store (get that by a zoning committee), or an Apple Store opened up in a new place, then campers are to be expected.

It's obvious this article missed the ball, it's a good thing the artist at UserFriendly saw the true nature of the beast.

This Sunday's cartoon :^)

Other sites have also been experimenting with this sort of thing, like User Friendly's membership program.

So I don't think it's a huge step to get to micropayments - the only real advantage micropayments have over the current methods is that you can try content earlier for lower risk (ie, $.25 vs. $10).

And of course people have mentioned Apple's success with single song downloading. I think people are ready/willing to pay for what they get online, the price just needs to be right.

Floppy drives should no longer be manufactured and all unused floppy disk should be placed in a large pile and burned. Exsisting floppy disk can be kept for archival purposes, but since they're floppies they should probably have their data transfered to something worth having it on.

Here's the starting point of a nice little rant on the subject.

... and runs at blazing speeds

Cheers,

Just like every other PA, that is just not in any way funny. It makes absolutely no sense. It just leaves me with the sense that it was supposed to be offensive but the comic is so badly written I can't even tell why.

The same could be said about any given UF comic, except that the PA comic would invariably have better art. Anyway, the reason I linked to that specific comic is because it was a comment on a stunt pulled by Illiad (I also could've linked to this one, which was made when Illiad et al started whoring themselves out with their "UF Media" thing, or I could've linked to this one, which has a cameo by a PvP character and depicts said character beating the crap out of Illiad). Now, let's take a few random strips. Where's the funny? None of those strips are funny. Now, here's some funny Penny Arcade strips chosen mostly at random (by randomly scrolling through the archive drop down list). Most of those are funny. The last one you'd only understand if you were a gamer and had played Daytona USA, but the news post from that strip explains it. Then you see the funny.

User Friendly is like Dilbert, but less funny, and with crappier art, and lame geek storylines that even most geeks find ridiculous. But if you like it, good for you.

Just like every other PA, that is just not in any way funny. It makes absolutely no sense. It just leaves me with the sense that it was supposed to be offensive but the comic is so badly written I can't even tell why.

The same could be said about any given UF comic, except that the PA comic would invariably have better art. Anyway, the reason I linked to that specific comic is because it was a comment on a stunt pulled by Illiad (I also could've linked to this one, which was made when Illiad et al started whoring themselves out with their "UF Media" thing, or I could've linked to this one, which has a cameo by a PvP character and depicts said character beating the crap out of Illiad). Now, let's take a few random strips. Where's the funny? None of those strips are funny. Now, here's some funny Penny Arcade strips chosen mostly at random (by randomly scrolling through the archive drop down list). Most of those are funny. The last one you'd only understand if you were a gamer and had played Daytona USA, but the news post from that strip explains it. Then you see the funny.

User Friendly is like Dilbert, but less funny, and with crappier art, and lame geek storylines that even most geeks find ridiculous. But if you like it, good for you.

Just like every other PA, that is just not in any way funny. It makes absolutely no sense. It just leaves me with the sense that it was supposed to be offensive but the comic is so badly written I can't even tell why.

The same could be said about any given UF comic, except that the PA comic would invariably have better art. Anyway, the reason I linked to that specific comic is because it was a comment on a stunt pulled by Illiad (I also could've linked to this one, which was made when Illiad et al started whoring themselves out with their "UF Media" thing, or I could've linked to this one, which has a cameo by a PvP character and depicts said character beating the crap out of Illiad). Now, let's take a few random strips. Where's the funny? None of those strips are funny. Now, here's some funny Penny Arcade strips chosen mostly at random (by randomly scrolling through the archive drop down list). Most of those are funny. The last one you'd only understand if you were a gamer and had played Daytona USA, but the news post from that strip explains it. Then you see the funny.

User Friendly is like Dilbert, but less funny, and with crappier art, and lame geek storylines that even most geeks find ridiculous. But if you like it, good for you.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030425

This is a rule that we see broken time and time again.

But... but... Google is the Web!.

Weird huh? :)

I nearly had a heart-attack when I saw that, you bastard!

Fortunately I realised that that was because Google ignored the "The" preceding the "internet".

This should give a more accurate representation.

At least according to to Mike...

People like this is why... http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20021117

Userfriendly has modified a Gary Larson (Farside) comic to fit SCO! It's quite funny!

Today's UserFriendly Enjoy!

I heard it's already taken..

Come to think of it, their stock symbol is SCOX.

Hate Microsoft; hate spam.
Hate Microsoft; hate spam.
Evil greedy corporation; slimy pollution of the Internet.
Illegally abusing their monopoly; illegally hijacking servers.
Overpriced software; lowest mortgage rates ever.
Bug-ridden products; barnyard porn.
Embrace and extend; extend your manhood.
No concept of security; special offers on SystemWorks 2003.
Never innovating; always innovating.

I'm siding with Microsoft.

*sob*

This pretty much sums it up for me

The User Friendly comic strip summed the whole SCO thing up nicely here. Funny? Hidden truth? You decide.

And how about Slashdot?

This User Friendly strip :-)

A breakthrough in quaNTum computing

hehe "Schroedinger's Cat is <blink>NOT</blink> dead."

"What do you call 100 spammers, chained together"

Sid's coffee

Sorry. J.D.Frazier has been there and done that

(read the small sign on the door)