[Once again, the software download and install was as easy as I've come to expect from a modern Linux distribution.]
Bzzt. Wrong answer. Take off your Linux-colored glasses and try again.
I've got my dad's Windows computer at home repairing it after a few nasty viruses rendered his machine nearly useless. Rather than repeat this cycle every few months, I installed Mandrake 9.1 and I'm going to have him try it out. However, when installing the latest OpenOffice and Mozilla programs, I had to change the permissions on the installer files prior to proceeding. Fortunately I'm an OS X guy so I knew what to do but there is no way that should have to be done on a consumer system.
Other observations. The "Start" menu in both Gnome and KDE is a mess. Too much redundancy. I also placed shortcuts of Mozilla and Openoffice on his desktop. It would be nice if these had a nice pretty Mozilla or OpenOffice icon rather than some generic file icon.
Aside from that, I hope my experiment is a success and there is one more user that realizes computers don't have to break and it's actually Windows that sucks, not computing in general.
BTW, Roblimo. Your article sucked. Sorry, but your, I believe, attempt at sarcasm was pretty bad.
I'm really hating Microsoft. I've never used Windows and my last and only Intel PC was a 286 runinng some version of MS-DOS 3. I've just always thought there was something better. If the Mac wasn't around, I'd be using Linux.
Anywho, I've always just shook my head and wondered why people put up with MS shiite but it's never directly affected me (indirectly, yes) until now. I am simply sick of seeing virus infected emails, emails from my ISP saying I had an email with a virus, emails from friends warning me about the latest worm even though I don't use Windows and reading stories of Mac and Linux users losing services at universities because the staff is too busy patching f*ing Windows boxes.
As most of us do, at work we use Windows. I had a project that needed to go out this week and we were pulling files over the WAN. The bandwidth was nearly zero. IT eventually found out it was a bunch of desktops in a completely unrelated office that were SMSing the remote server I was accessing to death but they didn't have time to fix it because they were too busy fighting virii on the west coast. Project gets delayed.
I hate them. I want to see Linux kill Microsoft. Their ill-gotten reign must end. The Penguin must draw and quarter Bill & Co. and burn their remains. I am tired of having to be bothered by Windows and their sheep-like user-herds. I want to use my Mac without having it affected by the crap that spews out of Redmond. I want to know why people aren't looking at Macs and Linux more seriously. I want to know why Apple and IBM are siezing the moment and using this time to educate the masses. I want to know why the MCSE monkeys continue to be blind to the failure of thier preferred OS.
BTW, as you know, I really want Linux to annihilate MS, just don't kill Apple in the process, I like them;o)
(Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer walk toward Bill's Porche 959)
Bill: Uhmmm, say Steve, I've got to run a few errands before our Senator bribing today so...you might as well drive in your own car, mkay?
Steve: Don't worry about it, I'll just tag along (grabs door handle)
Bill: Okay, Steve...listen, I don't want you in my car (Steve stares on with a wounded and confused look). It's...it's your armpits Steve. I'd rather not have your monkey sweat all over my new car.
Steve: But...I...
Bill: For the love of God Steve, put on some deoderant!
Steve: Deodorant?
Bill: Deodorant!
Steve: Deodorant?!
Bill: (Runs around the parking lot in a fit of crazed anger about Steve's oblivion to his profuse sweating) Deodorant! Deodorant! Deodorant!....Deodorant! Deodorant!
I just installed the update. I have an Open Firmware password running on my PowerBook. Now I can't login. No matter how slow or how many times I type the password, it won't accept it (and no, Caps Lock is not turned on;o)).
I don't know if it is related to the Java install or not but it is a serious problem nonetheless. Any suggestions how to correct or circumvent this problem?
that since you've agreed to be interviewed by Slashdot that, right now, gallons of sperm are being spilled as a result of thousands of geeks flogging their dolphins to your picture.
Thank you. It amazes me how many people here fail to see that.
If he were a black drug dealer that admitted he had plans to murder his competition to gain a greater area to sell his product, everybody here would be telling the authorities to lock him up and throw away the key.
But this is Slashdot, murder based upon religious, political or racial ideals (as long as it's not a white person) is supported while murder for profit or criminal violence is not.
Guess what people, murder is murder and murderous intent is murderous intent.
Since I am only an amatuer astronomer, I don't refute your claim but I always understood it to be the process of nuclear fusion itself to be what keeps a star from collapsing on itself.
In fact, when a star goes supernova is the point when all of the star's fuel has been converted to iron and can no longer sustain nuclear fusion (since iron cannot be fused into heavier elements under normal stellar fusion reactions). The star, still emits photons at this point (it takes something like 25 years for photons to reach the surface of the sun from the core). The difference is fusion has ceased at the core and gravity is allowed to act unfettered on the star since there is no longer an opposing force keeping it in check. It takes gravity less than a second to collapse the star. Incidentally, it is the gravitational collapse and explosion of a supernova that generate elements heavier than iron.
That would be a magnificent thing to witness wouldn't it?
I think you misunderstood. He was simply sitting on a lark when he checked Windows Update. The idea of porting an operating system to a bird is just plain silly.
I always found table rendering to be poor in previous versions of Safari. It initially appears that it has improved by looking at my phpinfo() page. Yay.
Personally, I think the choice is clear. Windows is the operating system for you. Let me explain. The creator of Windows (Microsoft) has been fucking the industry in the ass for years. As a result of such behavior, many think that the company is beginning to die. In addition, since the Windows code base is so poorly written, the platform has been compromised and is rendered weak by constant virus attacks. As an HIV sufferer, I'm sure you'll be able to more easily relate to your computer because of this.
So there you have it. Go out any purchase a copy of Windows XP (Extreme Patsie) today. Hurry before you're too sick to install of the the Windows Update patches!
I've been buying CD's now since 1987 or so. I still like some of the CD's I bought back then. I cannot fathom having paid $10/month since 1987 just so I could still have it in my collection.
I want to buy my music and call it mine to play whereever and whenever I darn well please thank you. Can you imagine forgetting a month and -poof- CD collection gone! I'm probably missing something here since I can't imagine this appeals to anybody.
Clearly your incompetence with the English language is showing. It's not with arrogance that I correct you but with a desire to admonish those that perform the written equivalent of running your fingernails down a chalkboard.
Oh and, I'll just let you know now before you commit the inevitable - it's supposedly, NOT supposebly. Yes, you know you say that too. Admitting you have a problem is the first step to correcting it.
Let's give record companies reason not to go with Apple-style DRM and come running into the arms of Microsoft-style DRM.
I hope Apple patches this hole quick before the kiddies ruin it for music-loving adults. You know, I kinda like being able to burn a protected song to a CD whenever and however many times I want as well as uploading it to my iPod.
So Apple says this is the year of the laptop, right? If I'm not mistaken, AMD chips run hotter than just about anything out there. So who wants a laptop with 15 minutes of laptop life and the capability of burning your wang to a small, blackened stump of carbon (or for the ladies a sizzling fajita)?
Besides, are they or any of the Mac software vendors going to support two versions of their Mac products? No.
I find it entirely feasible that a person would not notice a large amount of files added to their computer. Not all people know their computer well enough to notice image files being added onto their hard drive - particularly if added to a system directory or somewhere a casual user doesn't normally peruse. Take OS X for example - I could load tons of files into the/var directory. To see the contents of/var on a normally configured OS X machine you have to go to the terminal or specifically configure the file browser (Finder) to make those type of directories visible. On my Windows 2000 machine at work I cannot browse the WINNT directory unless I click on Show Files (after reading the "This isn't the directory you're looking for. Move along now." warning). I'm 99.99% sure that I could add a gig of porn to my parents hard drive and they would never be the wiser.
Because those of us at Slashdot are more technically adept and let's face it - our computers are a major part of our day-to-day life - we assume incorrectly that everyday people are more capable with their computers and see them more than just a box that balances their checkbook.
Did I mention the 10.4 Pussy will not require a mouse with a button? All you have to do is move the cursor up and down over a button until you get a response from the computer.
10.4 "Pussy" will be the next installment of the Mac OS using the cat-themed naming convention.
Rumour has it they will really emphasise the lickable interface and of course change the color of all the buttons to pink. Since Steve Jobs announced this year as "The year of the laptop" for Apple, the ad slogan will be "Put a Pussy on your lap for the greatest user experience yet."
They'll also announce that the new 64-bit processor designed to run this OS is not the long-awaited G5 but instead the relatively unknown G-Spot manufactured by Cervix...errr, I mean Cyrix.
How sexy does Longhorn sound now? I expect a doubling of Apple's market share in 3 months after release.
I haven't seen anybody mention it yet (probably missed it) but this is pretty clearly a shot against Final Cut Pro's bow. FCP runs only on Macs and it has been eating Premiere for lunch. Many in the industry consider FCP to be way ahead of Premiere in features, usability and interface. FCP's weakness is Adobe's main selling point: PC flat-out render faster than Macs. Period. They just have more raw power. The G4 chip has been orphaned by Motorola for the last 3 years. If Macs had the equivalent processing power of PC's, FCP would be a no-brainer for those deciding between the two packages.
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[Once again, the software download and install was as easy as I've come to expect from a modern Linux distribution.]
Bzzt. Wrong answer. Take off your Linux-colored glasses and try again.
I've got my dad's Windows computer at home repairing it after a few nasty viruses rendered his machine nearly useless. Rather than repeat this cycle every few months, I installed Mandrake 9.1 and I'm going to have him try it out. However, when installing the latest OpenOffice and Mozilla programs, I had to change the permissions on the installer files prior to proceeding. Fortunately I'm an OS X guy so I knew what to do but there is no way that should have to be done on a consumer system.
Other observations. The "Start" menu in both Gnome and KDE is a mess. Too much redundancy. I also placed shortcuts of Mozilla and Openoffice on his desktop. It would be nice if these had a nice pretty Mozilla or OpenOffice icon rather than some generic file icon.
Aside from that, I hope my experiment is a success and there is one more user that realizes computers don't have to break and it's actually Windows that sucks, not computing in general.
BTW, Roblimo. Your article sucked. Sorry, but your, I believe, attempt at sarcasm was pretty bad.
I'm really hating Microsoft. I've never used Windows and my last and only Intel PC was a 286 runinng some version of MS-DOS 3. I've just always thought there was something better. If the Mac wasn't around, I'd be using Linux.
;o)
Anywho, I've always just shook my head and wondered why people put up with MS shiite but it's never directly affected me (indirectly, yes) until now. I am simply sick of seeing virus infected emails, emails from my ISP saying I had an email with a virus, emails from friends warning me about the latest worm even though I don't use Windows and reading stories of Mac and Linux users losing services at universities because the staff is too busy patching f*ing Windows boxes.
As most of us do, at work we use Windows. I had a project that needed to go out this week and we were pulling files over the WAN. The bandwidth was nearly zero. IT eventually found out it was a bunch of desktops in a completely unrelated office that were SMSing the remote server I was accessing to death but they didn't have time to fix it because they were too busy fighting virii on the west coast. Project gets delayed.
I hate them. I want to see Linux kill Microsoft. Their ill-gotten reign must end. The Penguin must draw and quarter Bill & Co. and burn their remains. I am tired of having to be bothered by Windows and their sheep-like user-herds. I want to use my Mac without having it affected by the crap that spews out of Redmond. I want to know why people aren't looking at Macs and Linux more seriously. I want to know why Apple and IBM are siezing the moment and using this time to educate the masses. I want to know why the MCSE monkeys continue to be blind to the failure of thier preferred OS.
BTW, as you know, I really want Linux to annihilate MS, just don't kill Apple in the process, I like them
(Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer walk toward Bill's Porche 959)
Bill: Uhmmm, say Steve, I've got to run a few errands before our Senator bribing today so...you might as well drive in your own car, mkay?
Steve: Don't worry about it, I'll just tag along (grabs door handle)
Bill: Okay, Steve...listen, I don't want you in my car (Steve stares on with a wounded and confused look). It's...it's your armpits Steve. I'd rather not have your monkey sweat all over my new car.
Steve: But...I...
Bill: For the love of God Steve, put on some deoderant!
Steve: Deodorant?
Bill: Deodorant!
Steve: Deodorant?!
Bill: (Runs around the parking lot in a fit of crazed anger about Steve's oblivion to his profuse sweating) Deodorant! Deodorant! Deodorant!....Deodorant! Deodorant!
Actually, this is the worst news ever.
10.3 Beats 10.2 In Head To Head CompetitionI just installed the update. I have an Open Firmware password running on my PowerBook. Now I can't login. No matter how slow or how many times I type the password, it won't accept it (and no, Caps Lock is not turned on ;o)).
I don't know if it is related to the Java install or not but it is a serious problem nonetheless. Any suggestions how to correct or circumvent this problem?
My wife (then girlfriend) and I had fun one night playing that.
[sigh] college was awesome.
I'm picturing a spoof on Austin Powers where Bill Gates (as Dr. Evil) and Steve Ballmer (as Number Two) videoconferencing will Darl McBride...
Dr. Evil: Excellent idea Darl, we'll charge them per license...One Hundred Ninety Nine Dollars! Muwahahaha!
Number Two: Uhm, Dr. Evil - that's what we currently charge for Windows XP Professional.
Dr. Evil: Oh. Will somebody throw me a frickin' bone here?! Fine. Each license of Linux will cost of...Six Hundred Ninety Nine Dollars!
Muwhahaha! Muwhahaha! Muwhahaha! Muwhahaha! Muwhahaha! Muwhahaha! Muwhahaha! Muwhahaha! Muwhahaha! Muwhahaha! Muwhahaha!
I beleive they just came out with a patch for this bug.
that since you've agreed to be interviewed by Slashdot that, right now, gallons of sperm are being spilled as a result of thousands of geeks flogging their dolphins to your picture.
Does this affect your campaign in any way?
Thank you. It amazes me how many people here fail to see that.
If he were a black drug dealer that admitted he had plans to murder his competition to gain a greater area to sell his product, everybody here would be telling the authorities to lock him up and throw away the key.
But this is Slashdot, murder based upon religious, political or racial ideals (as long as it's not a white person) is supported while murder for profit or criminal violence is not.
Guess what people, murder is murder and murderous intent is murderous intent.
Since I am only an amatuer astronomer, I don't refute your claim but I always understood it to be the process of nuclear fusion itself to be what keeps a star from collapsing on itself.
In fact, when a star goes supernova is the point when all of the star's fuel has been converted to iron and can no longer sustain nuclear fusion (since iron cannot be fused into heavier elements under normal stellar fusion reactions). The star, still emits photons at this point (it takes something like 25 years for photons to reach the surface of the sun from the core). The difference is fusion has ceased at the core and gravity is allowed to act unfettered on the star since there is no longer an opposing force keeping it in check. It takes gravity less than a second to collapse the star. Incidentally, it is the gravitational collapse and explosion of a supernova that generate elements heavier than iron.
That would be a magnificent thing to witness wouldn't it?
The richest man in the world and he has Melinda throw a cereal bowl on his head for haircuts.
I mean, Pro-Cuts occasionally has $4.95 haircuts and all so why the bowl Bill?
I think you misunderstood. He was simply sitting on a lark when he checked Windows Update. The idea of porting an operating system to a bird is just plain silly.
I always found table rendering to be poor in previous versions of Safari. It initially appears that it has improved by looking at my phpinfo() page. Yay.
Personally, I think the choice is clear. Windows is the operating system for you. Let me explain. The creator of Windows (Microsoft) has been fucking the industry in the ass for years. As a result of such behavior, many think that the company is beginning to die. In addition, since the Windows code base is so poorly written, the platform has been compromised and is rendered weak by constant virus attacks. As an HIV sufferer, I'm sure you'll be able to more easily relate to your computer because of this.
So there you have it. Go out any purchase a copy of Windows XP (Extreme Patsie) today. Hurry before you're too sick to install of the the Windows Update patches!
I've been buying CD's now since 1987 or so. I still like some of the CD's I bought back then. I cannot fathom having paid $10/month since 1987 just so I could still have it in my collection.
I want to buy my music and call it mine to play whereever and whenever I darn well please thank you. Can you imagine forgetting a month and -poof- CD collection gone! I'm probably missing something here since I can't imagine this appeals to anybody.
Clearly your incompetence with the English language is showing. It's not with arrogance that I correct you but with a desire to admonish those that perform the written equivalent of running your fingernails down a chalkboard.
Oh and, I'll just let you know now before you commit the inevitable - it's supposedly, NOT supposebly. Yes, you know you say that too. Admitting you have a problem is the first step to correcting it.
[eyelids half-shut, drool running out of corner of mouth]
Mmmmmmm....36GB should give me more than enough room to do everything I ever wanted to do on a date.
Yes, even that. Mmmmmmmmmm.
Let's give record companies reason not to go with Apple-style DRM and come running into the arms of Microsoft-style DRM.
I hope Apple patches this hole quick before the kiddies ruin it for music-loving adults. You know, I kinda like being able to burn a protected song to a CD whenever and however many times I want as well as uploading it to my iPod.
So Apple says this is the year of the laptop, right? If I'm not mistaken, AMD chips run hotter than just about anything out there. So who wants a laptop with 15 minutes of laptop life and the capability of burning your wang to a small, blackened stump of carbon (or for the ladies a sizzling fajita)?
Besides, are they or any of the Mac software vendors going to support two versions of their Mac products? No.
I find it entirely feasible that a person would not notice a large amount of files added to their computer. Not all people know their computer well enough to notice image files being added onto their hard drive - particularly if added to a system directory or somewhere a casual user doesn't normally peruse. Take OS X for example - I could load tons of files into the /var directory. To see the contents of /var on a normally configured OS X machine you have to go to the terminal or specifically configure the file browser (Finder) to make those type of directories visible. On my Windows 2000 machine at work I cannot browse the WINNT directory unless I click on Show Files (after reading the "This isn't the directory you're looking for. Move along now." warning). I'm 99.99% sure that I could add a gig of porn to my parents hard drive and they would never be the wiser.
Because those of us at Slashdot are more technically adept and let's face it - our computers are a major part of our day-to-day life - we assume incorrectly that everyday people are more capable with their computers and see them more than just a box that balances their checkbook.
Did I mention the 10.4 Pussy will not require a mouse with a button? All you have to do is move the cursor up and down over a button until you get a response from the computer.
10.4 "Pussy" will be the next installment of the Mac OS using the cat-themed naming convention.
Rumour has it they will really emphasise the lickable interface and of course change the color of all the buttons to pink. Since Steve Jobs announced this year as "The year of the laptop" for Apple, the ad slogan will be "Put a Pussy on your lap for the greatest user experience yet."
They'll also announce that the new 64-bit processor designed to run this OS is not the long-awaited G5 but instead the relatively unknown G-Spot manufactured by Cervix...errr, I mean Cyrix.
How sexy does Longhorn sound now? I expect a doubling of Apple's market share in 3 months after release.
I see my grandson reading Slashdot and he clicks on a post titled "Contractor Proposes Death Star for US Military" from the that's-no-moon dept.
He's reading it....he clicks to enter a post...he posts a link to goatse. Damn. My grandson is a troll.
I haven't seen anybody mention it yet (probably missed it) but this is pretty clearly a shot against Final Cut Pro's bow. FCP runs only on Macs and it has been eating Premiere for lunch. Many in the industry consider FCP to be way ahead of Premiere in features, usability and interface. FCP's weakness is Adobe's main selling point: PC flat-out render faster than Macs. Period. They just have more raw power. The G4 chip has been orphaned by Motorola for the last 3 years. If Macs had the equivalent processing power of PC's, FCP would be a no-brainer for those deciding between the two packages.