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LindowsOS Softens Microsoft-Compatibility Claim
jukal writes: "As seen originally at newsforge: On Friday we reported the appearance of Microtel PCs with LindowsOS pre-installed at Walmart.com. Then, Walmart.com and Lindows were claiming that LindowsOS 'delivers the stability of UNIX with the ease of Windows and the ability to run most Microsoft programs.' Today, that last phrase has gone missing and there is no more talk of running any programs designed for Windows, let alone Microsoft products"
but I'm no rat.
she's totally babelicious!
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I guess they dont even read the submissions anymore. That messed up html sticks out.
I will start this article by first explaining a bit about myself. I'm pretty much a nerd. Life goes on, if you don't like that then stop reading now. By many of the females I know I'm considered a 'nice guy' something that I have always been uncomfortable with. Not for the fact that deep down I long to be 'not nice' to the opposite sex and pick them up by using such wonderful techniques as "Dumb Sports Star", "Date Rapist" and my 'favourite' "Finished school, no direction, maccas employee" - but more on these type of people later. I want to be not 'the nice guy' for the sole fucking reality that the nice guy never gets the girl. This summery of the past few months will once again prove that this is the case.
This 'saga' of what I now feel compelled to call, "The worst fucking luck on earth", began after a girl who I'd grown to like a fair amount dumped my sorry ass. But at the time it was what I wanted as well, I just don't have the guts to hurt people's feelings, and prefer to take the pain of carrying on instead of breaking it off. We split because of religious differences, that is I am and atheist, and she's not. And in my poor fucking foresight I lost a good friend because I was too stupid to realise what a nice person she was. But that is water under the bridge now.
During this time bitching and moaning about how there was never going to be a girl for me, I was sub-consciously seduced by the girl who this article really centres about. Oh and when I mean girl I think I really mean, mentally unstable she-bitch. She had been in my class the whole year, she was not the greatest looking girl in the world, but she accepted me for who I was and I felt compelled to return the favour. So after what was probably 3 months of courting I asked her out, now you see, I didn't really ask her out because I lusted after her, but because I didn't know where to take the relationship to next, she was female and my best friend, and well being 17 and under-sexed, my hormones got the better of me. At the time I actually asked her out I was quite horny, as I'd just witnessed the greatest aphrodisiac that is on this earth - The Harry Potter Movie, and the reaction I got from her needed no words to reply. She shoved her tongue down my throat, I hadn't expected that kind of reaction, but that's what I got.
Now we progress a few months to, if my sieve of a brain can recall, just after Christmas time. By this stage I had grown accustomed to her, and every minute I spent by her side made me very happy. But she calls me into her room crying, she asks if we can call it off. I ask why, then after a while talking about it, she changes her mind, but after that I'm fairly sure that she still wanted to be with me, at least for 3 more months. So 3 more months pass and it was the night of her birthday, I was just comfortable, I felt like there was nothing that could break us up. Then 2 days later she comes over to my place, tears my heart out, starts the lawnmower, rides over it a couple of times, and to make sure my ability to care for a member of the opposite sex won't ever work again she picks up the pieces wraps them in a bag, and takes them to what I assume is her lair to consume for dinner that night. That I was fine with, it gives a nerd a bad reputation to have a girl friend. But as she left, she gave me hope, she said something to the affect of, "It's just that I don't have time for a boy friend right now, I have work, school, and music - I bet you that I will regret this decision in a few days and we'll get back together." She also said, "It's not you it's me" But I just laughed at her when she said that, she knew the second she said it that it was a stupid thing to say as I deconstructed it right there and then in front of her.
ANYWAY FOLKS THESE WORDS WERE JUST DECEPTION AND LIES ON HER PART!
After giving me the standard "2 months so that I don't feel guilty about dumping my boy friend for another guy" period. She seduces another poor soul. This is a guy that she works with at maccas. Whilst I have bitter feelings towards the guy, which I have never met, I know that he is not to blame. Actually maybe he is the fucking basted.
Oh well enough back story
In the introduction I made a slight reference to the kind of guy that I'm not and will hopefully never be - but unfortunately, they are also the ones that get the girls.
Dumb Sports Star - This is the most common kind of male at my homo-erotic school (not that there's any thing wrong with being gay, as long as your family accepts you and your happy). All they care about is sport, sex and alcohol. You can commonly witness these kinds of people driving Utes, even though they live 4 minutes drive from school and have no use for the tray. There method of getting a girl is looking for the most pretty, dumb thing that walks there way. According to there morals there is no need for brains when you are shagging something. But the jokes on them when they get there girlfriends pregnant because they didn't' use a condom. Well done sports brain!
Date Rapist - Whilst not technically a rapist in this situation, these are the most dodgy people at our school, they love there FUBU jackets and visors. They smoke quite a bit, and have no objection to beating people up and breaking any rule to get things there way. There preferred method to getting a girl is to either spike there drink with rookies or to just wait till the girl has drunken so much that she doesn't know up from down, left from right, or nice sensible nerd from possible date rapist. They move in for the kill, but not to worry, it's usually over in about 2-3 minutes, as there dick's are either too small to find, or they only have the stamina of an African humming bird.
Finished school, no direction, maccas employee - These fuckers are the ones I despise the most, because this is what I was dumped for. Now to quote my ex (the night I officially discovered she had a new boyfriend, even though I'd pieced it together over a week before) "I don't know, he's 19, I'm 17, he has an OK taste in movies, but we're from different worlds. He enjoys getting drunk with his friends, and I'm not like that", now WTF!?! Why are you going out with this guy? Why is she attracted to this guy? The answer is because he fits into one of my unfairly created stereotypes. Now for the deconstruction of this stereotype: Whilst not all are bad people, they feel a compelling urge to solicit younger girls, stealing them from the age group that they are actually from, yet after a while the girl realises that she is dating someone with no direction that always wants his way. If the girl doesn't get out of the trap they are destined to become a working mother, divorced by age 30. They make there move by just being themselves, lazy slackers. The female is instinctively drawn to this by there, "Oh my maybe I can fix him and make him respectable gene", but this is usually overpowered by the males, "WOMAN, get me a beer" gene.
Now any nerds or "not-normal" people out there. Unless you want to live a lonely life, suggest that you become one of these kinds of men or your girlfriend will leave you for one. Me? I would rather die alone then let that happen, so I guess I'm fucked These guys will do anything to get some poon, and that unfortunately means your lady friends are also on the menu.
Life is pain, and pain is life. Lucky I wasn't in love or some shit like that.
One day, you may even be able to work out how to have more than one account. In the meantime, your anonymous post is barely even worth the -1 moderation it will doubtless get.
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What does this post have to do with anything?
It never ceases to amaze me how people will jump at even the flimsiest excuse to trash on Apple.. even when Apple has absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand..
Eh.
New Warez Distribution Addresses Ease of Use Issues
.diz files for virii and trojans, installs their binaries into the proper directories, enters the required serialz, and patches the Windows registry as required. RPM maintains a database of the thousands of appz, gamez, mp3z, t-filez, gifz, jpgz, phreakz, and other filez installed on a system so that any package may be cleanly uninstalled at any time. 31337 also contains sophisticated remote administration tools such as BO2K and Netbus installed by default. An animated paper clip on the desktop guides users through difficult parts of the installation.
.nfo documentation and two months of 0-day updates.
Razor 1911, one of the world's largest IT piracy conglomerates, announced its newest software distribution yesterday. Sold under the name (version number?) of "31337," the package is causing quite a stir among PC enthusiasts, especially Windows users. RabidWarth0g, a courier for Razor 1911, described for us a few of the most important new features in the 12-CD package.
"Users of proprietary software no longer have to struggle with an incomplete set of tools, difficult installation procedures, and high maintenance costs. Our new solution, 31337, brings the user interface of the quality Windows 98 operating system up-to-date with that of the technically inferior 'Linux' and 'BSD' distributions, which were long preferred for their ease of use and extensive lineup of applications. Our new system, 31337, combines the stability and power of Windows with the ease of use traditionally ascribed only to UNIX-like systems. In short: 31337! j00 ph33r!"
The new system is installed and automatically maintained by the use of the new "Razor Package Manager," or RPM. RPM checks compressed
User groups applauded the distro's completeness-it includes networking tools (IE 5.0, AOL Instant Messenger, Microsoft Outlook), text processing software (Microsoft and WordPerfect Office 2000), a warez replacement for Postscript capabilities (Acrobat), and many, many games that -- surprisingly -- run as well as they do on Linux (Quake, Unreal, Solitaire). Affirming Razor's commitment to the pirated software community, the distribution also includes development tools such as hex editors and ripping tools for various media formats.
A 14 year old sKr!p7 k!DD!3 told our reviewers, "This operating system is very advanced. I was able to use my skillz to set up Quake and its networking in under an hour." His parents noted the AI features: "That cute little paper clip is so smart! He even opens our e-mail attachments for us!"
In addition to its extensive lineup of programs (none of the 12 CDs are bloated by source code), 31337 offers improved hardware compatibility over other distributions of proprietary software. Many peripherals are detected and configured after just a few reboots. Additionally, some manufacturers offer drivers for download. While bleeding-edge technologies such as real memory protection, symmetric multi-processing, and RAID are not yet supported, 31337 may work with them as soon as next year's kernel is cracked.
However, free software advocates insisted on spreading FUD about the new distribution. According to the gnu.org "Warez Mythz" page:
"The system's closed-source development methods are completely unreliable. Bugfixes, as usual, will take weeks or months to appear on developers' websites and in retail stores. So-called 'Service Packz' only serve to protect Razor 1911's interests in keeping the system incompatible with freedom."
Warth0g replied to these accusation by pointing to Razor 1911's long reputation for being the first on the scene with the latest hackz, crackz, and ripz. He also quoted part three of the Warez Advocacy-HOWTO:
"Relax with some free beer."
Authors of the software bundled by 31337's have been strangely quiet about the matter, neither refuting nor accepting GNU's accusations. Microsoft, Corel, Symantec, Adobe, Id, and others seemed to pretend that they had never even heard of this enormous collaborative development effort.
Released at the end of April in Russia, Africa, and South Asia, the CD-ROM version of 31337 will be available in the United States as soon as licensing issues are worked out. Until then, get 31337 from your friendly local warez d00d.
The full version (avaliable only from Razor 1911 distribution centers) also includes 100 megs of
Posted on Wed 24 May 05:49:39 2000 PDT
Written by Anand Desai
Yes, shortcuts, and symbolic links, are ways of SIMULATING what i'm talking about within the constraints of a traditional file system. I really bumped into the file system problem because I do a lot of music production and have a huge (4 - 5 gig) loop library of license-free, legitimate samples I wanted to be able to share. The sequencing program I use is file system sensitive, it expects to find the file (and not a shortcut) in the same place it was last time. It can find it if it's not, but it's a pain. So I didn't want to move my library. At the same time, I didn't want to allow general access to that particular folder to the outside world, it has a lot of stuff I didn't want to share. I usually just copy any file I want to share and stick it in a special 'Shared' folder that actually is a share and that I point all file sharing programs towards, but that seemed ridiculous for 4 to 5 gigs and would have taken most of my empty space on the drive. And again the actual files would need to be there.
Anyway, then all the file sharing programs I actually liked (sorry open source zealots, but Gnutella just does NOT scale) started folding so I just gave up on the proposition. But it would have been really convenient in this case to allow the same file to really seem to be accessible in two locations.