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Microsoft Segments Linux "Personas"
RJ2770 writes "Microsoft has started a project for their partners to help identify the personas of different Linux users in an attempt to sway them toward Microsoft products. In addition to the web site there is a podcast on the market research behind the project, again directed at Microsoft's selling partners."
different types or linux users? Like star-wars vs star trek geeks? Arnt we all just nerds?
I have to return some videotapes...
Thulsa Doom said your faggot ass should be snake food. All hail Thulsa Doom!
Is it just me or is teh Unix transitioner like smoking Christ-jumped up frickin' hot or what?
Hello:
I would like to express my persona to those who might try to sell to it.
My home network has been almost exclusively Linux for close to 10 year.
Currenlty, I have four Linux system and one Windows system. I use the
Windows system about once per week (for a Varilog circuit synthesiser).
Now, my persona.
1. I have lived without a TV or a car since 1978 (29 years).
2. I am a Radical Faerie. Look up Radical Faerie on Wikipedia and you will see a picture of me in some of my finest clothing.
3. I am single and have been single since 1981, when my spouse died of cancer.
4. I am gay and have been out of the closet since 1973.
5. I ride a bicycle 23 miles each way to and from work. That includes a 900 foot hill. That's a total of 46 miles and 1800 feet total hill climb for the day.
6. I have not been to a first run movie theatre for about a year.
7. I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I don't take drugs.
8. I have a hobby in sewing; making my own artistic clothing. Go to the gallery for user allyn on the Wikimedia commons. You will see a delightful sample of my clothing. Or go on Wikipedia and look up raincoat, cape, rain jacket, el wire, Peacock Lane, skirt, or poncho to see more pictures.
9. I am a professional photographor. Of course, to take pictures of my clothing, I have to be.
10. I am also a model. Again, to take pictures of my clothing, I have to be.
11. I operated a professional TV repair shop when I was in the 5th grade in school (11 years old).
12. I built an oscilloscope for my eighth grade science fair, but the judges did not believe I built it. It looked too profesional for an kid to have made it.
13. I made clear plastic raincoat out of clear plastic sofa covers when I was in the third and fourth grade in school.
14. I danced at my high school dance wearing a costome that consisted of christmas lights wrapped around my body and got a prize. Now I dance alone at formal ballroom dances wearing cloths under glowing clear plastic raincoat and still get prizes.
15. I walk down the street in my home made clear plastic raincoat that glows in the dark and stop traffic and sometimes cause accidents.
16. I still maintain good rapport with my childhood psychiatrist, although I am now 54 years young.
Hugs to you all!
Cleara
> Anyway it crashed opera wich is something that hasn't happened in a LONG time. Good job MS. Even on Linux/Opera you can still give me a IE experience.
This is offtopic and should be modded as such, but I can't resist:
I'm running the latest version of Opera (with User Agent Opera/9.10 (X11; Linux sparc64; U; en) ) on a Linux-running Ultra 10. The processor is a 440MHz UltraSPARC IIi.
Opera is awesome on this machine, I love it, it makes my Ultra 10 as fast for web browsing as my x86 laptop, and all of that, BUT...
IT CRASHES LIKE WINDOWS ME ON AN EMACHINES WITH BUGGY RAM!!!
To be more specific, I have at least one crash per day, usually in the form of a hang. I have to kill it and restart it to get it running again, and that is VERY annoying.
Have you ever had this experience? Is it a SPARC-specific bug? Should I report it? It's not that huge a deal but I'd really like to not have this happen, and since you touted the stability of Opera in your comment I'm thinking I should file a bug report with Opera or something.
Any responses are appreciated.
vi ~/.emacs # I'm probably going to Hell for this.