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Retired Microsoft Operating Systems Still Popular
Decaffeinated Jedi writes "Despite Microsoft's recent retirement of Windows 98, News.com reports that many users continue to cling to the company's older operating systems. The study cited in the article suggests that 80 percent of companies still have machines operating on Windows 95 or 98. While Windows 2000 was the most common OS in the study, just 6.6 percent of the desktop machines included in the survey were running Windows XP." The results aren't too surprising. I get a lot of user mail from Netscape 4 users, and it only makes sense that they're running it somewhere.
Microsoft BOB was the best man!.
Very nice. I guess the approach is "I don't agree, therefore I'll censor you."
Good luck... :-)
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
Score: -1 100% Flamebait
Linux on the other hand created a Disk icon on my desktop and I was able to view them with Konqueror.
so, how do I actually -prevent- it from creating the icons? I moved all my drive partition links (30 or so) to a separate folder but they get re-created on startup, spamming half of my desktop.
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So I came home from work the other day to discover my cat mittens laying on the floor. His breathing was very shallow and his eyes were very glassy. When I approached him I noticed a belt tied around his arm and both a syringe and a bent spoon laying beside him. Despite all his promises to the contrary, my beloved Mittens has started shooting up smack again!
Fortunately the paramedics showed up quickly and gave him some naloxone which saved him. Unfortunately the problem of my cat being addicted to heroin still remains. Last week he sold my stereo and this weekend Mittens offered to perform oral sex on me in exchange for a hit.
I love my cat and want to see him off this horrible drug. Unfortunately he won't stop on his own! Mittens says he can quit anytime he wants to and becomes combative when I force the issue. I'm tired of seeing him throw his life away. He could've been a great mouser, one of the best before he got hooked.
Can anyone recommend a way to get my cat off heroin? It would be much appreciated.
Also, this must be said; I dont want to fuck my poor cat mittens. I love him dearly. IF he offered oral sex as a hit, and I would never compromise the sanctity and trust of our brotherly (non gay, non sexual) relationship! I thank youall for your genuine concern for the safety of my genitals with regard to animal contact with sandpapery cat tongues, I assure your that fornicating with animals is not on the repitoire!
Please, if you know how to help poor mittens get off the smack, please, for the love of god help. Its mittens darkest time, and I dont want this to turn out like that beefy rugby guy who died on junk in Trainspotting. I dont want me or mittens to swim in toilets either. Please, help!!
True, though the "Redundant" mod gets the point across rather well...
Some jokes just get better with the retelling, though. ;-)
Chalk it up to my strange sense of humor... =)
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
Score: -1 100% Flamebait
Assembly? Visual Basic? Baah! Real programmers write in l3375p33k!
No they suck all the time and say and do things to the Slashdotting people that is just plain wrong. They treat US worse that cable companies and music companies. They treat us like shit and spray ads at us.
WARNING, SLASHDOT NOW TIES AC COMMENTS WITH USER
/. ties your user account to any Anonymous Coward postings you make... Thus they know who posted it. To demonstrate this:
(Use a disposable account from a disposable IP before moderating this up. Editors generally watch and see who moderates controversial things like this up.)
When you are logged in,
Please *log out* AND use another browser before making your AC comments.
Your UID is being tracked, it's not Anonymous. Lots of people post lots of things to Slashdot as AC only because they believe it is really anonymous - it isn't. They hunt "trolls" (non-karma whores and non-group thinking bots) down.
This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.
Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.
They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.
Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.
FACT: This is in Slashcode CVS
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So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the caboose. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.
Also, sometimes when certain information becomes an active thread, they bitchslap the thread much later so that people think its "safe" to participate and the whole thing gets slapped.
There is a presumption anonymous means something. They lie like rugs to the posting public by using the word anonymous. It is not. They brazenly lie though and the un-assuming poster is having everything he says correlated with him and stored in a computer just waiting to be subpoenaed by the people that Slashdot claims to hate but works for. They work for the fascist forces and components of the US government. I like the US and other Western governments but they have good and bad components - there are things you need to do to protect yourself from the bad components. Basically "covering your ass" so to speak. At Slashdot, in lying about AC, un-protects its posting public (seeding a de-anonymizing privacy stripping pandemic in their own "little" way). This makes Slashdot a very dangerous target for you the posters to have your "anonymous" info
Think that's scary? I transcoded one video WHILE CAPTURING ANOTHER last week with my G5. I still can't believe I got away with it.
I chose the 27 as my personal defense weapon since it has plenty of stopping power (.40 S&W), is quite concealable, is reasonably accurate, and carries the full legal (sigh) compliment of 10 rounds (9+1).
Recommended! :-)
Since large capacity mags were banned, it makes the most sense to go for the max capability in the smallest package, IMO. Come to think of it, if I want 20 round "magazine capacity" I should just get a second 27...now there's a good thought! Heck, I really enjoy the "Akimbo" pistols in RTCW ET, might as well try it in real life... ;-)
(BTW, I chose my handle quite on impulse...I didn't expect to make over 700 posts to /. at that point... /. is a great forum for free speech and free thinking of all kinds - subject to moderator approval of course.;)
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
Score: -1 100% Flamebait
several years ago, before even /., guess that would be 1994, you know, the dark clintonista years, i was able to purchase many (though i had no money to do so!!!) large cap mags for my mini-14 and sig 228 before the ban. most are still in their original wrap with oil. i have a good friend who owns nothing but glocks. he loves them. now, i have too many kids. but i still have the guns!!
subject to moderator approval of course.
it is slightly one sided around here, huh?
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.