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I'm going to check back at 1700GMT on the dot, and if this message is still here and has not been cleaned up, I'm going to call the police.
Hello. I don't believe you know me, but you might be able to help. I use Ubuntu Linux, and I am helping the daughter of a friend to install Linux onto her PC this evening. I have never really spoken to a girl before, and was thinking that maybe if I made a joke, it might break the ice. You are obviously excellent at humour, and I was wondering if you could give me some tips? For instance, it is inevitable that something will go wrong during the process, and I was thinking that maybe if I said something like 'this is almost as unreliable as my beard trimmers!' then it would demonstrate that I am a funny guy. Can you offer any kind of critique of this line, or offer any other advice?
But reading these emails from top execs at Microsoft, some of the richest, most powerful people in the world, and then in the same day reading emails from my bosses, or from my colleagues at work...its amazing how *everyone* sounds the same over email. I guess it adds an element of truth to that saying that 90% of communication is in your body language.
Leopard needs to manual, as it is an operating system used primarily by gaymen, who know instinctively how to instruct the computer to do what they want, which is usually PDF guides to cottaging and other such activities. Linux is also an operating system used primarily by gaymen, but they tend to be the ugly, angry and creepy gayman that never actually gets any action. This explains why they need to edit text config files and recompile their kernel to perform simple operations like changing screen resolution.
This is the kind of problem you should expect when using hardware designed using properietary, closed-source operating systems like Windows. Due to its closed-source nature, Windows is inefficient, buggy and insecure, which leads directly to faults in hardware like this. For example, in the lab where I work, we have a Windows machine which, due to a flaw in an older Intel architecture (designed using Windows XP) always adds an extra capacitor to any IC's that are designed using it.
With Open Source software, these kinds of bugs *simply do not happen*, and even when they do, the users are able to inspect the source and fix the problems quickly. Just look at AMD; they use Ubuntu Linux to design their circuit boards, and our machines with AMD processors never add extra capacitors.
Where these memory chips to be designed with an Open Source operating system, such as Ubuntu Linux, these kinds of glitches would not find their way into hardware. What is more, running on an Open Source operating system, these bugs would have little effect anyway, as the design of the kernel makes it *impossible* to take advantage of such exploits.
Once again we have an example of a product with potential, but completely hobbled and crippled by using it to run closed source, proprietary software. In this case, it is Apple's OS X operating system. While OS X is mildly more functional then Windows, it is still closed source, and therefore inherently inferior to a product running an Open Source operating system, such as Ubuntu.
Apple's software is generally slightly better then Microsoft's (although still inferior to Linux, from which most of the codebase is stolen) and as it uses a BSD based kernel (which is in turn based on Linux) it is *impossible* for the iPhone to become infected with malware. But, Apple's lock-in effect is much more powerful; for example, iPhones can only phone other iPhones, or you have reduced call quality. And like all closed source, proprietary software, it is riddled with security issues. For example, several Linux hackers have found out how to hack other people's iPhones just by ringing them up and whistling into their handsets.
So, what if this device used Open Source software? It would be more powerful, more secure, and more efficient. Users would be able to inspect the source and add teh features they wanted, and audit the code for security concerns. Another win for open source.
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What is this! What is going on here? Please delete your swearing and curse words immediately. I don't care if you do it, or you have to get one of the moderators to do it for you.
I'm going to check back at 1700GMT on the dot, and if this message is still here and has not been cleaned up, I'm going to call the police.
Hello. I don't believe you know me, but you might be able to help. I use Ubuntu Linux, and I am helping the daughter of a friend to install Linux onto her PC this evening. I have never really spoken to a girl before, and was thinking that maybe if I made a joke, it might break the ice. You are obviously excellent at humour, and I was wondering if you could give me some tips? For instance, it is inevitable that something will go wrong during the process, and I was thinking that maybe if I said something like 'this is almost as unreliable as my beard trimmers!' then it would demonstrate that I am a funny guy. Can you offer any kind of critique of this line, or offer any other advice?
But reading these emails from top execs at Microsoft, some of the richest, most powerful people in the world, and then in the same day reading emails from my bosses, or from my colleagues at work...its amazing how *everyone* sounds the same over email. I guess it adds an element of truth to that saying that 90% of communication is in your body language.
Leopard needs to manual, as it is an operating system used primarily by gaymen, who know instinctively how to instruct the computer to do what they want, which is usually PDF guides to cottaging and other such activities. Linux is also an operating system used primarily by gaymen, but they tend to be the ugly, angry and creepy gayman that never actually gets any action. This explains why they need to edit text config files and recompile their kernel to perform simple operations like changing screen resolution.
This is the kind of problem you should expect when using hardware designed using properietary, closed-source operating systems like Windows. Due to its closed-source nature, Windows is inefficient, buggy and insecure, which leads directly to faults in hardware like this. For example, in the lab where I work, we have a Windows machine which, due to a flaw in an older Intel architecture (designed using Windows XP) always adds an extra capacitor to any IC's that are designed using it.
With Open Source software, these kinds of bugs *simply do not happen*, and even when they do, the users are able to inspect the source and fix the problems quickly. Just look at AMD; they use Ubuntu Linux to design their circuit boards, and our machines with AMD processors never add extra capacitors.
Where these memory chips to be designed with an Open Source operating system, such as Ubuntu Linux, these kinds of glitches would not find their way into hardware. What is more, running on an Open Source operating system, these bugs would have little effect anyway, as the design of the kernel makes it *impossible* to take advantage of such exploits.
Once again we have an example of a product with potential, but completely hobbled and crippled by using it to run closed source, proprietary software. In this case, it is Apple's OS X operating system. While OS X is mildly more functional then Windows, it is still closed source, and therefore inherently inferior to a product running an Open Source operating system, such as Ubuntu.
Apple's software is generally slightly better then Microsoft's (although still inferior to Linux, from which most of the codebase is stolen) and as it uses a BSD based kernel (which is in turn based on Linux) it is *impossible* for the iPhone to become infected with malware. But, Apple's lock-in effect is much more powerful; for example, iPhones can only phone other iPhones, or you have reduced call quality. And like all closed source, proprietary software, it is riddled with security issues. For example, several Linux hackers have found out how to hack other people's iPhones just by ringing them up and whistling into their handsets.
So, what if this device used Open Source software? It would be more powerful, more secure, and more efficient. Users would be able to inspect the source and add teh features they wanted, and audit the code for security concerns. Another win for open source.