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Open Source's Battle In Africa
eldavojohn writes "The BBC has more details about something we last discussed in 2008 — the showdown of open source versus proprietary software in Africa. When discussing the issue of cost, the piece quotes Microsoft's chairman on the scene, Dr. Cheikh Modibo Diarra, who alludes that open source continually costs you money by saying 'You buy Microsoft software, and you buy it once and for all, the cost that we tell you is the total cost for ownership.' On the other end of the story is Ken Banks from Kiwanja.net who has spent 15 years developing open source applications in Africa. His logic is that 'Today we're seeing growing open-source programmer, developer communities in South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and other African countries. Clearly, if you have this informal programming sector coming up, access to source code is almost critical if they are going to be able to take advantage of these new tools that are emerging.' Well, the battle rages on, hopefully the emerging African developers and users pick the tool(s) that suit their needs the best."
I decoded the secret message: "really fucking this"
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Ion.simIAn.c - Prove what you claimed about being a professional programmer below (because all your errors from the past week now & more don't show any of us you are that is certain, lol!) & tell us more about the Gigabyte IRAM being a piece of trash (it works on Windows, but not Linux according to YOU @ least, so what is the "trash" here? Obviously the OS you use & its SATA access most likely - however, based on your lack of technical acumen below? Lately, I am leaning towards YOU not knowing what you're doing with the IRAM, or Linux, lol!).
You "StRaNgeLy" (not, it's obvious WHY you do) keep avoiding the questions below, even though I PROVE you do see my "A/C" posts, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1230601&cid=27949607 via 'baiting' you so easily (rotflmao on THAT one, boy - you surely are NOT intelligent), like you tried to get to go to some 10 yr. old post @ arstechnica (no way, not THAT stupid here)...
So answer the questions below:
"I'm a programmer." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @11:17PM (#27803057)
Really? Prove to us you are a professional programmer, ion.simIAn.c, won't you?
After all, you CLAIMED that you are above, & demanded others do so as well, here:
"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#27811101)
Ok, same question you asked ME to prove & I did, via the "My Name is Ozymandias" lists below you no longer question (along w/ other proofs I gave you but when YOU are asked for the same proofs? YOU RAN!)
See the lists below (contact the magazines, publishing houses, or software companies involved @ your discretion, if you wish)... because it truly IS a pleasure watching you stick your foot in your mouth, each time you falsely accuse myself & others here.
So - professional technically means getting PAID to do a job, right? That's there below in the "My Name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair" list, in fact, 1st entry...
Funniest part is? When I and others (MEK_LoveBug) asked YOU to prove YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMER, as you claimed you were? You RAN, lmao!
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"Google failed to find any offical mention of your work with Russinovich" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)
GOOGLE didn't fail, YOU DID (as usual, per this reply AND the list of your screwups here I enumerate below in this exchange)...
See this -> http://www.pcmech.com/article/defragging-the-windows-page-file/ (& the comment by "SuperFluid" there)
YOU can't even GOOGLE something right, lol...
You're only showing yourself as what you really are: Nothing more than a "I can't do anything w/out GOOGLE" type online...
SO, AGAIN - YOU say you're a programmer? PROVE IT!
(So, how do you like it? After all, that's the kind of crap you've been saying to me & I provide proof below... and, you do not, & YOU have NOTHING LIKE THE LISTS I PROVIDE BELOW, to your credit)
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"I've emailed Mr. Russinovich to figure out what work that you've done with him" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)
For Sunbelt Software (I'll save you the time there) to whom we contracted out wares we had written, thru LC Tech!
(& also MANY years later, in 2003, when I fixed up his pagedefrag program, instructing him where it was hardcoded and how/why it could adversely affect the operations of his application if people moved their pagefile.sys location AND eventlogs (which is doable on both accounts, & he STILL has a hardcode to the latter) to another disk (he had th