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Is There An OS On My Hard Drive?
stm2 writes "Thanks to an agreement between Lindows and Seagate, from October you will be able to choose a hard drive with or without Lindows. Michael Robertson, in his usual marketing speak, compares this to adding "Fluoride in the water", because now you get for free something you used to need to go after (people used to go to dentist to get their Fluoride). According to the PR, the OS can autodetect and configure itself on the host machine."
because now you get for free somethis you needed to go after
What?
At least it will be easier to explain to people why new hard drives need to be formatted. To get rid of Lindows.
Michael Robertson, in his usual marketing speak, compares this to adding "Fluoride in the water"
Great, so not only do they make a crappy OS, their also after my precious bodily fluids.
now you get for free somethis you needed to go after
:-/
that's how i tried explaining it to my girlfriend, but just like these hard drives, she didn't buy it either
is a poison.... What are you trying to tell us?
Somethis just never cease to amaze me...
Welley Corporation - SLM Scammers
I'll save everyone some trouble, and get the obligatory usual comments over with now...
I, for one, welcome our new pre-installed overlords!
1. Have your OS pre-installed on HD's
2. ???
3. Profit!
Actually, click-n-run is probably their step 2. I wonder if it will work for them?
And yes, I know you can just add the debian sources and do an apt-get install packagename.
Michael Robertson, in his usual marketing speak, compares this to adding "Fluoride in the water"
This is very funny. There is a long history of wackos equating floridation of drinking water with government mind control. Here is an example, which is very tame by the standards of the alternate-science crowd.
Gotta go, my alien gray masters are calling me by mind control satellite to their sub-antarctic base again!
I think Robertson's at 6.7 deciJobs, and climbing.
...their "fluoride" causes a fatal exception in h2o.dll, and causes lungs.exe to be closed.
I've finally got a fan! Now what do I feed him?
When does Kazaa partner with Western Digital to bring us hard drives preloaded with assorted music, movies and games?
They could do like NetZero does and advertise it as Internet SuperDuperDownload Accelerator. Download music and movies instantly! It's just a form of caching right? Right?
-JoeShmoe
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-- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
(1) Shut down computer.
(2) Install hard drive, connect power and IDE cables.
(3) Turn computer back on and make sure it autodetects the drive.
(4) Tear your hair out as the computer proceeds to boot Lindows instead of (FreeBSD/Windows/Linux/Plan9).
(5) Uninstall the hard drive, and sigh in relief as your old set-up proceeds to boot normally.
(6) Return the hard drive to the store, yelling and screaming until they agree not to charge you a restocking fee.
Many conspiracy theorists agree that fluoride was added to water to control the minds of the populace. http://www.sonic.net/kryptox/mcp.htm
Oh, so it's *that* kind of OS... Now I understand why taking it to dinner and a movie didn't get me anywhere.
... am looking forward to 'Lindows Refund Day'
This is what it should do. Sit on an idle and protected partition on the hard drive. Allow Windows to be installed as usual. Then, after six months, or every time there is a BSOD, virus attack, new piece of hardware that needs the now unfindable installation CDROM, popup a little window saying:
Hi. I see that you're having some trouble
using your Windows operating system. Would
you like me to install Lindows so that all
your problems will disappear?
[OK] [Not yet] [Tell me more]
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If some Vegan on a glacially slow Crosswinds account that can't even proofread his site inbetween making childish MS Paint illustrations say it's true, then it quite simply must be! +5 Informative!
In fact, this site is a wellspring of health information. According to the Vegan Children site, meat is nothing but child poison and milk is not only child poison, but also contains "bovine leukima viruses"! After reading this, I've also come upon the shocking truth that I died at least seventeen years ago and that you are actually reading the typed words of a long decayed child zombie! I would now begin moaning "Braaaaaaains!!! BRAAAAAAAAINS!!!" at you while stumbling menacingly in your direction, but brains are poisonous and evil meat, so instead of I must politely ask for whatever leftover celery or tomatoes you have sitting in your fridge. Preferably evil celery and tomatoes, Tomatoes Of The Dead you might say, but I'll take what I can get.
Right at the bottom there is a lovely disclaimer....
Lindows.com is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft Corporation in any way - in fact, we don't even really like them because they are suing us.
James
The six-previous-floridas comment isn't as silly as it sounds, some of the swamps have several generations of ruins under them.
However... I do wonder if LindowsOS will make the hard drive go brittle and blotchy.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing