I love Free software, whether the author decides to release the source code or now. I hate the lying asshole zealots behind the "FOSS movement", Linux users in particular.
The only people that mod you up are the idiots that don't know you are behind BoycottNovell.com, or actually believe even a quarter of the garbage you post to that site, newsgroups, and blogs. You talk about people astroturfing but you are even worse. You spend all your free time spamming crap simply because it gives you a true purpose in life, and that's damn scary.
For the ill informed, this post should pretty much clear things up for you. This idiot, liar, and scumbag shouldn't even be allowed on the net at all. He's the unfortunate side effect to freedom of speech.
Any idea as to how this machine got infected in the first place? Was the firewall disabled? Windows updates disabled? Who do you believe dropped the security ball in this instance?
I'm also interested in why you can't remove the virus from inside Windows. While I have no personal experience with Conflicker myself and I haven't done bench work since 2006, in practice I found anything could be removed in safe mode with the right tools and knowledge.
This entire question is pointless. Have her take the fucking course and be done with it. From the sounds of it, you should ONLY be using a hardware firewall with inbound protection only. You are too naive and paranoid to waste your time approving every little program that wants to have access. You would save a lot more time if you educated her on not installing crap she doesn't need. (i.e. Weatherbug)
For a large majority of people, doing 50 things poorly is not better than doing a few things well. Though you'll never see it that way with a Unix mentality.
It's not so much that you don't know jack (in this instance), but your information is jacked up. As a Linux zealot, when cornered you will lie or fling out half-truths to come out on top. Always. Your example of talking to one brain dead "Windows Admin" shows more about your lack of personal contacts than it does about the group as a whole.
It's quite possible, assuming your story is true, that when he was speaking about the "Event Viewer", he was speaking of tools on par with the Event Viewer used by Windows. Noting the ease of use and how it's organized. Not like the hodgepodge collection of text files spewed out all over the drive and the 3rd party tools cooked up to deal with them.
Unix is not about "inventing" anything. It's about doing the same old bullshit the long way because conservative idiots fear change.
I dropped half a grand for a few copies of Vista Ultimate upgrade. I didn't even hesititate.
Yeah, for starters, it would have been a good idea to actually learn what was provided with the "ultimate" version verses the cheaper onces. A more educated choice would have been the "premium" version. Since you did upgrade, it's hard to know just how poor your hardware must have been, and I'm sure that was a contributing factor to any problems you had. In that case, any new machine from Apple would have won without taking anything else into consideration.
As I've always said, people (like you in particular) will always blame Microsoft for their own gross ignorance.
Vista twice trashed an XP system that was dual booting on the same system.
Let that be a lesson to you. Never, ever, under any circumstances should you use a dual boot system, no matter what two Operating Systems are at play. It's the one surefire way to guarantee you will have problems down the road. You went asking for trouble, and it found you.
If for some lame ass reason you need to go back and use XP, use VirtualBox or get a cheap spare hard drive.
In Windows, the software will keep pestering you about all of the above.
Bullshit, troll. But, I understand you'll want to exaggerate this to make your point. Of course, you won't mention that windows gives you the largest choice of software, period. That's the only reason you have a suppository (!) in Linux, because otherwise it would be to hard to find anything. Hell, pick most any category in Linux, I can find more choices on SnapFiles than you will find for Linux. That's a hard truth you won't EVER admit.
What the hell are you doing using computers that aren't yours? Even worse, you're using Windows while doing it! You should keep a copy of Damn Small Linux on you at all times. This will prevent you from having to use Windows and help protect your freedom.
He's right. . . 'ls' never has worked on the Windows machines I work on, no matter how often I try:)
Though I find most Unix commands asinine, I was using LS on my Amiga for many years. I was so used to using it that when I moved over to Windows I downloaded a windows version of the same command.
While using the OS with the largest install base, there is simply no excuse for not installing it yourself, but you'd rather cry about it.
With all that you want to do, why the hell would you want to run Linux? In the time it takes you to tinker with WINE, you could have your Windows machine running perfectly, with all unneeded services disabled, updated drivers, and everything the way you want it. At the end, you have a machine that runs faster than your typical Linux install.
So again... why run Linux? To enjoy the "freedom" Stallman evangelized?
Ahh, yes. An article entitled "Microsoft Skull-fucks Iceland's Economy, Contracts Syphilis". That's real classy. It's the kind of mature and dignified attitude I've come to expect from the FOSS/Linux community at large.
my partitions for "extra data" are formatted using the second extended filesystem (Linux's "base" stand file system) and read in Windows using ext2fsd because I don't want my data to be held hostage by Microsoft patents.
Your problems are bigger than just Microsoft, and they will only be solved with the proper counseling and medication. Illogical paranoia of that level is only going to lead you further down a path of harm to yourself and those who care for you.
There is no need to kill DRM. Just don't purchase DRM protected content and you are good to go. You are looking at DRM as some kind of boogy man. Irrational fear should have no place in computing.
I agree that the Memory Usage of each browser should have been part of the article. However, if you think Chrome is bad, don't try the new Safari Beta. 150 megs when opened and sitting on the fancy "Top Sites" screen.
I love how the title uses the words "Real Reason", then goes on to cite a blog author who says "I have heard rumors...", then points to another blog that promotes a "fascinating theory".
And yet we wonder why Kdawson hasn't been reprimanded.
Can you give us some samples? This just doesn't seem right, considering I've been able to run the everything from the OpenGL version of Quake 1 to some obscure TI 99/4a emulators.
Explorer not only crashes at least once a day
Try ShellExView. It will allow you to see what 3rd party extensions might be hooked to explorer, which is a classic cause of explorer related stability problems.
I just cancelled a 10-year Hotmail account and left to Gmail a few days ago because Microsoft thought that it would be cute to splice their own(poorly-implemented, I might add) version of MySpace into my goddamn e-mail account.
You seem like the kind of hot-headed prick that makes rash (and ignorant) decisions out of anger. Case in point. Did you have to cancel your account? No. You could have done this:
Upper right side of screen, click options.
Select "More Options"
Under "Customize your mail" select "Today page settings"
Select "Skip the Today page and take me straight to my inbox" Done
Blaming Microsoft for your own shortcomings. Classic.
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... besides Linux being a higher quality product--especially for the data center
Right. Of course, you can't provide any hard data to back that crap up, but on Slashdot such things aren't required.
I love Free software, whether the author decides to release the source code or now. I hate the lying asshole zealots behind the "FOSS movement", Linux users in particular.
You are a true American hero!
The only people that mod you up are the idiots that don't know you are behind BoycottNovell.com, or actually believe even a quarter of the garbage you post to that site, newsgroups, and blogs. You talk about people astroturfing but you are even worse. You spend all your free time spamming crap simply because it gives you a true purpose in life, and that's damn scary.
For the ill informed, this post should pretty much clear things up for you. This idiot, liar, and scumbag shouldn't even be allowed on the net at all. He's the unfortunate side effect to freedom of speech.
Any idea as to how this machine got infected in the first place? Was the firewall disabled? Windows updates disabled? Who do you believe dropped the security ball in this instance?
I'm also interested in why you can't remove the virus from inside Windows. While I have no personal experience with Conflicker myself and I haven't done bench work since 2006, in practice I found anything could be removed in safe mode with the right tools and knowledge.
You are not alone. Next week: "My 6th grader needs to write a history paper. What's the best 64-bit text editor to use?"
This entire question is pointless. Have her take the fucking course and be done with it. From the sounds of it, you should ONLY be using a hardware firewall with inbound protection only. You are too naive and paranoid to waste your time approving every little program that wants to have access. You would save a lot more time if you educated her on not installing crap she doesn't need. (i.e. Weatherbug)
For a large majority of people, doing 50 things poorly is not better than doing a few things well. Though you'll never see it that way with a Unix mentality.
*nix zealots remind me of Republicans. When things go wrong, they tend to eat their own.
It's not so much that you don't know jack (in this instance), but your information is jacked up. As a Linux zealot, when cornered you will lie or fling out half-truths to come out on top. Always. Your example of talking to one brain dead "Windows Admin" shows more about your lack of personal contacts than it does about the group as a whole.
It's quite possible, assuming your story is true, that when he was speaking about the "Event Viewer", he was speaking of tools on par with the Event Viewer used by Windows. Noting the ease of use and how it's organized. Not like the hodgepodge collection of text files spewed out all over the drive and the 3rd party tools cooked up to deal with them.
Unix is not about "inventing" anything. It's about doing the same old bullshit the long way because conservative idiots fear change.
DLLs shouldn't be shared at all. There is no technical reason for it.
Congrats. I think that one will win the coveted "Asinine Statement of the Week" award. You've got my vote.
I dropped half a grand for a few copies of Vista Ultimate upgrade. I didn't even hesititate.
Yeah, for starters, it would have been a good idea to actually learn what was provided with the "ultimate" version verses the cheaper onces. A more educated choice would have been the "premium" version. Since you did upgrade, it's hard to know just how poor your hardware must have been, and I'm sure that was a contributing factor to any problems you had. In that case, any new machine from Apple would have won without taking anything else into consideration.
As I've always said, people (like you in particular) will always blame Microsoft for their own gross ignorance.
Vista twice trashed an XP system that was dual booting on the same system.
Let that be a lesson to you. Never, ever, under any circumstances should you use a dual boot system, no matter what two Operating Systems are at play. It's the one surefire way to guarantee you will have problems down the road. You went asking for trouble, and it found you.
If for some lame ass reason you need to go back and use XP, use VirtualBox or get a cheap spare hard drive.
In Windows, the software will keep pestering you about all of the above.
Bullshit, troll. But, I understand you'll want to exaggerate this to make your point. Of course, you won't mention that windows gives you the largest choice of software, period. That's the only reason you have a suppository (!) in Linux, because otherwise it would be to hard to find anything. Hell, pick most any category in Linux, I can find more choices on SnapFiles than you will find for Linux. That's a hard truth you won't EVER admit.
What the hell are you doing using computers that aren't yours? Even worse, you're using Windows while doing it! You should keep a copy of Damn Small Linux on you at all times. This will prevent you from having to use Windows and help protect your freedom.
He's right. . . 'ls' never has worked on the Windows machines I work on, no matter how often I try :)
Though I find most Unix commands asinine, I was using LS on my Amiga for many years. I was so used to using it that when I moved over to Windows I downloaded a windows version of the same command.
While using the OS with the largest install base, there is simply no excuse for not installing it yourself, but you'd rather cry about it.
With all that you want to do, why the hell would you want to run Linux? In the time it takes you to tinker with WINE, you could have your Windows machine running perfectly, with all unneeded services disabled, updated drivers, and everything the way you want it. At the end, you have a machine that runs faster than your typical Linux install.
So again... why run Linux? To enjoy the "freedom" Stallman evangelized?
Ahh, yes. An article entitled "Microsoft Skull-fucks Iceland's Economy, Contracts Syphilis". That's real classy. It's the kind of mature and dignified attitude I've come to expect from the FOSS/Linux community at large.
my partitions for "extra data" are formatted using the second extended filesystem (Linux's "base" stand file system) and read in Windows using ext2fsd because I don't want my data to be held hostage by Microsoft patents.
Your problems are bigger than just Microsoft, and they will only be solved with the proper counseling and medication. Illogical paranoia of that level is only going to lead you further down a path of harm to yourself and those who care for you.
There is no need to kill DRM. Just don't purchase DRM protected content and you are good to go. You are looking at DRM as some kind of boogy man. Irrational fear should have no place in computing.
I agree that the Memory Usage of each browser should have been part of the article. However, if you think Chrome is bad, don't try the new Safari Beta. 150 megs when opened and sitting on the fancy "Top Sites" screen.
pattern dithered PNG images, for that retro look.
I love how the title uses the words "Real Reason", then goes on to cite a blog author who says "I have heard rumors...", then points to another blog that promotes a "fascinating theory".
And yet we wonder why Kdawson hasn't been reprimanded.
many of my games just won't work properly.
Can you give us some samples? This just doesn't seem right, considering I've been able to run the everything from the OpenGL version of Quake 1 to some obscure TI 99/4a emulators.
Explorer not only crashes at least once a day
Try ShellExView. It will allow you to see what 3rd party extensions might be hooked to explorer, which is a classic cause of explorer related stability problems.
C:\Users\Public. Brilliant.
This was introduced with Vista.
I just cancelled a 10-year Hotmail account and left to Gmail a few days ago because Microsoft thought that it would be cute to splice their own(poorly-implemented, I might add) version of MySpace into my goddamn e-mail account.
You seem like the kind of hot-headed prick that makes rash (and ignorant) decisions out of anger. Case in point. Did you have to cancel your account? No. You could have done this:
Blaming Microsoft for your own shortcomings. Classic.