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The Ongoing Saga of Linux in China
Dan Gillmor, who's currently on the road in China, has sent a report about the role of Linux in China. We've talked about this before. Dan hits on some of the high points for *why* the Chinese are interested, which makes for interesting reading.
Hi
Yeah niggaz, prist frost!
Portman's Grits (Jingle Bells)
Written by NickTheGreek, London
Racing through the news
in an MS IE browse,
over the polls I cruise
can't wait for trouble to rouse;
trolling 'bout to start,
make my spirits bright,
oh what fun it is to curse and lie
when I'm trollin' slashdot tonight
Portman's Grits, Portman's Grits,
Miss Portman all the way!
O how much I'd like to see her ride,
My tiny knob today!
A day or two ago,
My mum caught me in bed,
rocking to and fro'
She laid one upside my head;
She said you shouldn't wank;
She asked if I did a lot,
I said I can't stop havin a crank,
I'm a lame asshole slashbot!
Portman's Grits, Portman's Grits,
Miss Portman all the way!
O how much I'd like to see her ride,
My tiny knob today!
About every damn fortnight,
Stephen King, he died;
I went back to the slashdot site,
Posted it and no-one replied!
Still at god damn school,
My future's pretty bleak,
Newbie coders like me just rule,
even though I'm just a fucking piss-streak.
Portman's Grits, Portman's Grits,
Miss Portman all the way!
O how much I'd like to see her ride,
My tiny knob today!
I have about 500 Karma points (in multiple accounts, of course), and -51 karma points in various other trolling accounts. I have a brand new account. What should it be? Troll or not?
And I like to write repetively and redundantly.
What about those hefty ads! 140x800! 13K!
/. had ads that size, I'd buy a whole load more thinkgeek shit if the ads were 140x800!
My poor little laptop can hardy display them without scrolling! And scrolling to read a whole ad is a bit much.
About time
Also, Micorsoft is making teh XBOX!! It can play the fun GAMEZ!!!@!@! Are Lunix people making TUXBOX? NO! Taht is becuse Lunix is teh stupid.
Final, Lunix is having penguin for mascot! Did you know!! that in China penguin is symbol of gay persons? Yu know, teh persons who are man and stick penis into other man?? Ew! No one in China want to use penuin nasty computar. Except for teh gay persons! And tehy nevar use teh computar beuase they is too busy with teh penis!!!
So thar you haev it! China is country of Windows. Windows are being better compueter, and it is free!! So why would anyone use teh silly Lunix? I do not know!
Oh! bad! teh secret police is at teh door! Tehy must have anylized my packet megatexel anti-aliased NICs and seen me posting on Slasdoht! Now I will get teh electric on teh nipple! I haev too go and erase my History in IE now. ANd Temporary Intarnet Files!
Honarably,
Chinaman
As a laowai (foreigner) living in China for a while, I have to say most of the linux distributions really suck for chinese language input, or for display in x. Simplified chinese input is often a hack which crashes more than not.
Given that XP costs exactly the same as linux or 98, most users go with 98.
Most computers come prepirated with a ghost image of 98se, office xp, acdsee and the other various useful apps.
Linux only stands a chance when costs are realistic.
On the other hand, MS is fscked when they crack down on all the piracy.
Its like crack - the first world gets the china addicted to software, then ups the price!
Lawrence 6 years in Shanghai - China
http://www.shanghaiguide.com - The Shanghai Guide.
How could they have missed this one?
Instead of Red Flag Linux, which reminds one of Red Hat Linux, they should have chosen the catchy, obvious, distinct name: Chinux
Knunov
Why do users with IDs under 100,000 or over 700,000 usually have the most worthwhile comments?
With iCab you can block out images with certain dimentions.
/etc/hosts file to block out their server... better yet, get to work on an Open Source browser and help develop ad-blocking software.
If course, you could always edit your
Help the Dillo Project
Somone mod this up (at least from troll if nothing more)--he *is* right, no matter how much the moderators don't like it.
Scott
"Since you can alter the way it work, I think it would be easy to create proxies that would make the international sites available to every one."
Err, no actually. Read the article from a few days ago properly, and try again.
I bet that's what Microsoft would have you beleive. Throw in a bit of sickness or antisocial behavior and you'll have the redmond party line.
I've tried that. It doesn't work. Once you are labelled as a troll, you're a troll according to the slashdolt mentality. Of course, having troll in your name doesn't help.
God I love this Anti MS trolls ..
..
...
:p
Even tho Win XP is 10000 times better for any user beside Console Fetishists.. you say MS sux
MS doesnt suck, you linux zealots suck
I use linux all day for server stuff, but when it comes to desktop windows is a lot nicer..
and other companies have the same behavior as Ms does... and you dont complain about them all day long
How is this anti MS? They state themselves how much they hate the GPL, and give alot of fallacous reasons. Silly AC trolls.
why was that post modded -1 when irrelevant other crap gets like, 1: Insightful?
you get a post from someone with first hand knowledge and most punters won't even read it, but they'll see some opinion from someone who doesn't even know what they're talking about!
get with it!
Yeah, and Osama Bin Laden was secretly encoding hidden messages to his supporters in his broadcasts, so the U.S. Governmebt had to encourage broadcasters
to censor them.
Backdoors in Windows?
No way.
Slashbot; definition : KarmaBlackballed
Shame this is WW2 Germany, you could be earning a healthy living as a propaganda merchant. Several million Chinese discovering Linux every day? Can anyone say "bullshit"?
I urge anyone interested in Chinese language support to check out OS X(tier 2 language support). The Chinese site is here.
Man, slashdot moderation has really gone into the shitter. MS must have a ton of apologists. This is insane!
Do you only get moderator access if you uncheck the "sense of humor" box?
How is this offtopic, but the parent isn't? Slashdot is going into the shitter. I hope the admins are taking note. We have the redmond gonorrhea strain!!
The current moderation system is one dimensional. It is not possible to label things "offtopic but funny" or "ontopic but completely fuckwitted". Therefore, I am proposing that posts be rated in a number of respects:
Informative - how much did it add to the article.
Clever - was the post smart (insightful)or just dumb.
Funny. It might have been offtopic or even a hideous troll, but was it funny?
Insulting. This covers a lot of things like the "Taco Snotting" type postst.
In this way, you could choose to see (for example) all the posts which were clever and on topic, or all the posts which were funny (regardless of whether they are on topic or not).>br>
Introduce a -1 to 5 scale on each dimension and adjust the view to suit and you're there. It will confuse the moderators, confuse the readers (apart from me) and make the site far less usable. And that's the measure of a significant release.
Oh yeah - first posts, "let me get this straight" etc. would generally score very low on all scales so wouldn't be seen.
The parent, in fact, could have gone either way. +1 Funny would've been less revealing of the fear and loathing around here.
I'm not ever going to watch the Olympics. The whole idea of a nationful of couch potatoes taking credit for the athletic prowess of a handful of people is utterly stupid.