recognizes a document by extension and type, then it should at least be able to open it. No. WordPad decided to go a life of crime rather than read that pile of M$ trash. Illegal Operation my ASS!!!
Are there any mirrors or anywhere else that has this? I was trying to be an informed individual, and watch it and make my own opinions, but it seems that every link on the site is dead, and there is 'Closed for legal reasons' on the page.
I've been looking for easy ways to turn an old pc into a netscape box for the purposes of retail sales (POS, records keeping, inventory) where everything is available using links in netscape. Would I need some kind of database? or could netscape do this in some way. I've been thinking slackware as the base distro, but with everything I don't need left out. I know this can be done, and I could probably figure it out, but I'm lazy, and was wondering if anyone has done this. I would say hook it up to the other pc in our store, but the owner needs his games, and i'd need internal DSL modem and USB support for the zip drive, scanner, gamepad, etc... And good support for the sony cd-rw we just got. Everytime the system goes down for some assinine reason, I'd love to have a detailed way of replacing everything with Linux. I've already threatened him with NT4...
This just goes towards proving my theory that M$ is trying to ensla- Employ all the IT "talent" out there. ever wonder why nobody ever has to visit the servers in the M$ commercials? 'Cause M$ wants you to think that's how to do it. Early on in the E-Biz thing, we saw ads from IBM showing roomfulls of IT professionals getting the job done. What happened? Everybody went out and got certified (I got my MCSE in a box of "Sugar Smacks"...)Went to work, found out that an MCSE dosen't go far at all in the real world, got lazy, surly and incompetent, somehow management found out, and now they're all unemployed. The "Software." still needs people to coddle it along, but there are no people to do that. They all work for M$'s "Tech Support" line, where you can press one to purchase an "Incident", or press two to go fuck yourself.
And that's got to be the most gratuitous use of the italics tag ever...
where can I find the e-mail addresses of the top retards at M$? I'd like to give them "customer feedback", and don't see any way to actually contact the actual company without paying an "purchasing an incident". Instead of bitching and moaning about how the big bad corporation screwed us "Revolutionaries" again, why not deluge M$ with well thought out, intelligent constructive criticism. And while they're distracted by that, pump some napalm through the plumbing at Billy Bob's house...
First, the Dreamcast is NOT obsolete. Hello! I STILL don't have a 64bit desktop! Do I need one? Of course not. But it would be cool. I run linux on my home computer because it's free and fun. I run minix on my 286 laptop because I can. I reboot windows at work because I have to. What you morons are missing is that OS's are fucking dead! Average Joe Creditcard does not give a rats ass what OS his box runs. All he wants is streaming porn, email, and well, thats about fucking it. This big ass box with cooling fans all a whir next to my feet is soon to be a relic. The average business/home user can accomplish all their computing needs with a dreamcast. Internet? yep. MP3? yep. Awesome lookin games? yep. (that work out of the box I might add.) DVD? not quite... But why the hell isn't there a vhs quality cd-rom movie medium? I mean, there is a damn market for it. Email? yep. Porn? yep. office apps? wouldn't be too big of a problem. To those of you who whine about good people not working on linux, are you retarded or something? I mean people work on linux cause they want to. This guy does newos cause he felt like it. Microsoft did windows to enhance shareholder approval of their value-added quality initiatives to rake in big fat sacks of cash. I'm more worried about brilliant coders being paid truckloads to implement "Planned Obsolesence". Shouldn't you?
umm... and where do you live? Antarctica? Even here in back-assed-oh-my-god-i-cant-believe-they-got-the-o lympics Utah, I can go to almost any store that sells games, and buy a PS2. Babbages/Software ETC? in stock. kmart? in stock. and since you've been so patient, maybe you should just wait until GT3 ships, and all the PS2's sony promised months ago, will mysteriously show up. or at least untill november when sony drops the price a hundred bucks.
alright. those of you who say win9x dosen't count, pull your heads out and count again. win9x has found it's way into everyhome and small office. and most big offices. why? supposedly it's easier to use, is backed up by tech support, and looks pretty. if all this is true, then why do most office workers not even know how to switch to the currently working printer in the office? meanwhile, 16,000 jobs are waiting in the print que, and everybody is perplexed. why do all these idiots have forty two icons on their desktop? is the start menu too "technical"? 3 reboots a day under win98 and we considered ourselves lucky. tech support? the top two answers from those helpful fols are: Just Reboot. It's your computer's fault. so much for tech support. as for looking pretty, yeah that's great and all, but explain to me how just starting the word processor with nothing else running should cause the "virtual memory" to disapear. on a 16 or 32 meg system, it's understandable. but a 96 or 128 meg system? that's simply unacceptable. Thats why I run Linux. faster, more reliable, and so customizable, that after the pc leaves the factory, it could be set with giant buttons that do what people do with their home computers: get porn off the net, and try and pick up 13 year old's in msn chatrooms. and does anyone programming for the linux community (thank you) build in security holes, and planned obsolecence? all that and it's free? sign me up yo.
Sega going down in flames? Again? Master System. Flames. Genesis. Flames. Saturn. Flames. Dreamcast. Hope, no wait, it's just more flames. I did take a weekend to compare the dreamcast to the PS2. The PS2 won. Why? Technically superior. When those lazy ass programmers get off their asses and use the anti-aliasing, all the whiners will mysteriously disappear. DVD playback right now. Yes it may not be as razor sharp as the machines you anal freaks out there have, but it does beat the ever lovin' crap outta ANY vcr I've ever seen. Expandability? open bay in the back, two USB ports and firewire up front. And when the laser moves to read the disc, you can't hear it three blocks away. Better hardware, more games and the staying power of sony. All I need. And don't tell me some geek wit way too much time on his hands won't boot Linux on it.
on #1, come on. this is a multibillion $ global organization. do you think if i slipped and fell on the sidewalk in front of their sweatshop, they would lose in court? yeah right. on #2, yes you are responsible. unles it is your child doing the rampaging. everyone knows marilyn manson and dr. dre are responsible for your childerens actions...
Yeah. Nike was quakin' in their "air-what-the-fuck-ever"'s. They probably, like most large corporations, have a legal department that could qualify for third world country status. Even if this lawsuit had merit, Nike would win.
Dammit, dammit, dammit! I knew I shouldn't have used my old SE for bating practice when the monitor died. And I always thought it'd make a great aquarium.
Simply, Debian was the worst distro I ever made the mistake of installing. Ranked right up there with TurboLinux6. Apparently, the debian team has two criteria for software going into their distribution: the code has to be under the GPL (unless it's netscape. god forbid people find out there is no gpl browser...), and has to be at least a year or so out of date. Great volunteer (no one would actually PAY them for that crap) work, keep it up. By the way, who is bitching? If you use debian, then you should have absolutely no problem with getting the packages of the web. Besides, don't most debian users leave it at TWM and forget about it? Last, but not Least, GET THE FUCK OVER YOURSELVES!!! ALL OF YOU!!! IT'S JUST SOFTWARE!!!
Throw Linux on TV, Hype OpenSource, emphasize "Free". Watch MS go bankrupt. Who cares which is easier to use. This is the "Slap the forehead, DOH!!!" we've all been waiting for. It won't take too many "What do you mean, I have to buy another license for windows with that motherboard?!" before MS is history. Nevermind trying to actually explain software licenses and "sales" to the average consumer. Thanx bill.
If I were to kill someone, that would be a crime. If I were caught, I'd do at *least* 12 months or so... My point is, (and as always, I could be wrong) If Microsoft has broken the law, why are they still in business? If I had committed a crime, I would first be locked up, then given a trial, If I was found guilty, I would be locked up again until my sentencing. When I was sentenced, I would *Immediately* begin to serve my time. Microsoft has been accused, tried, and convicted. They have now been sentenced. Whats wrong with this picture? Could I as an individual get away with, "But I don't wanna go to jail, give me a few weeks so I can figure out something else instead..." I think Not. Were it not for the complete idiocy running rampant in this country, I might be offended. But I've figured out that it's the complete lack of logic that keeps the good old U.S.A. on top and in charge.
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recognizes a document by extension and type, then it should at least be able to open it. No. WordPad decided to go a life of crime rather than read that pile of M$ trash. Illegal Operation my ASS!!!
Are there any mirrors or anywhere else that has this? I was trying to be an informed individual, and watch it and make my own opinions, but it seems that every link on the site is dead, and there is 'Closed for legal reasons' on the page.
NASA results on Canada.Com? Hmmmmmmmmmmm.........
and sell all the extra licences when bill and the boys leave....
I've been looking for easy ways to turn an old pc into a netscape box for the purposes of retail sales (POS, records keeping, inventory) where everything is available using links in netscape. Would I need some kind of database? or could netscape do this in some way. I've been thinking slackware as the base distro, but with everything I don't need left out. I know this can be done, and I could probably figure it out, but I'm lazy, and was wondering if anyone has done this. I would say hook it up to the other pc in our store, but the owner needs his games, and i'd need internal DSL modem and USB support for the zip drive, scanner, gamepad, etc... And good support for the sony cd-rw we just got. Everytime the system goes down for some assinine reason, I'd love to have a detailed way of replacing everything with Linux. I've already threatened him with NT4...
This just goes towards proving my theory that M$ is trying to ensla- Employ all the IT "talent" out there. ever wonder why nobody ever has to visit the servers in the M$ commercials? 'Cause M$ wants you to think that's how to do it. Early on in the E-Biz thing, we saw ads from IBM showing roomfulls of IT professionals getting the job done. What happened? Everybody went out and got certified (I got my MCSE in a box of "Sugar Smacks"...)Went to work, found out that an MCSE dosen't go far at all in the real world, got lazy, surly and incompetent, somehow management found out, and now they're all unemployed. The "Software." still needs people to coddle it along, but there are no people to do that. They all work for M$'s "Tech Support" line, where you can press one to purchase an "Incident", or press two to go fuck yourself.
And that's got to be the most gratuitous use of the italics tag ever...
where can I find the e-mail addresses of the top retards at M$? I'd like to give them "customer feedback", and don't see any way to actually contact the actual company without paying an "purchasing an incident". Instead of bitching and moaning about how the big bad corporation screwed us "Revolutionaries" again, why not deluge M$ with well thought out, intelligent constructive criticism. And while they're distracted by that, pump some napalm through the plumbing at Billy Bob's house...
First, the Dreamcast is NOT obsolete. Hello! I STILL don't have a 64bit desktop! Do I need one? Of course not. But it would be cool. I run linux on my home computer because it's free and fun. I run minix on my 286 laptop because I can. I reboot windows at work because I have to. What you morons are missing is that OS's are fucking dead! Average Joe Creditcard does not give a rats ass what OS his box runs. All he wants is streaming porn, email, and well, thats about fucking it. This big ass box with cooling fans all a whir next to my feet is soon to be a relic. The average business/home user can accomplish all their computing needs with a dreamcast. Internet? yep. MP3? yep. Awesome lookin games? yep. (that work out of the box I might add.) DVD? not quite... But why the hell isn't there a vhs quality cd-rom movie medium? I mean, there is a damn market for it. Email? yep. Porn? yep. office apps? wouldn't be too big of a problem. To those of you who whine about good people not working on linux, are you retarded or something? I mean people work on linux cause they want to. This guy does newos cause he felt like it. Microsoft did windows to enhance shareholder approval of their value-added quality initiatives to rake in big fat sacks of cash. I'm more worried about brilliant coders being paid truckloads to implement "Planned Obsolesence". Shouldn't you?
umm... and where do you live? Antarctica? Even here in back-assed-oh-my-god-i-cant-believe-they-got-the-o lympics Utah, I can go to almost any store that sells games, and buy a PS2. Babbages/Software ETC? in stock. kmart? in stock. and since you've been so patient, maybe you should just wait until GT3 ships, and all the PS2's sony promised months ago, will mysteriously show up. or at least untill november when sony drops the price a hundred bucks.
alright. those of you who say win9x dosen't count, pull your heads out and count again. win9x has found it's way into everyhome and small office. and most big offices. why? supposedly it's easier to use, is backed up by tech support, and looks pretty. if all this is true, then why do most office workers not even know how to switch to the currently working printer in the office? meanwhile, 16,000 jobs are waiting in the print que, and everybody is perplexed. why do all these idiots have forty two icons on their desktop? is the start menu too "technical"? 3 reboots a day under win98 and we considered ourselves lucky. tech support? the top two answers from those helpful fols are: Just Reboot. It's your computer's fault. so much for tech support. as for looking pretty, yeah that's great and all, but explain to me how just starting the word processor with nothing else running should cause the "virtual memory" to disapear. on a 16 or 32 meg system, it's understandable. but a 96 or 128 meg system? that's simply unacceptable. Thats why I run Linux. faster, more reliable, and so customizable, that after the pc leaves the factory, it could be set with giant buttons that do what people do with their home computers: get porn off the net, and try and pick up 13 year old's in msn chatrooms. and does anyone programming for the linux community (thank you) build in security holes, and planned obsolecence? all that and it's free? sign me up yo.
Sega going down in flames? Again? Master System. Flames. Genesis. Flames. Saturn. Flames. Dreamcast. Hope, no wait, it's just more flames. I did take a weekend to compare the dreamcast to the PS2. The PS2 won. Why? Technically superior. When those lazy ass programmers get off their asses and use the anti-aliasing, all the whiners will mysteriously disappear. DVD playback right now. Yes it may not be as razor sharp as the machines you anal freaks out there have, but it does beat the ever lovin' crap outta ANY vcr I've ever seen. Expandability? open bay in the back, two USB ports and firewire up front. And when the laser moves to read the disc, you can't hear it three blocks away. Better hardware, more games and the staying power of sony. All I need. And don't tell me some geek wit way too much time on his hands won't boot Linux on it.
screw the inferometer, i just want my own interoceter.
It's about damned time...
We all know full well M$ has a team of trained monkeys watching this site 24/7! Stop Giving them ideas! Good ones at least...
"Don't you have better things
to do with your time than scrutinize the postings of other people. "
Gee I was just going to say the same thing...
Careful. That kind of talk is probably restricted by your EULA.
Not quite. It's because for some "odd" reason, you cant "own" a string of numbers.
on #1, come on. this is a multibillion $ global organization. do you think if i slipped and fell on the sidewalk in front of their sweatshop, they would lose in court? yeah right. on #2, yes you are responsible. unles it is your child doing the rampaging. everyone knows marilyn manson and dr. dre are responsible for your childerens actions...
Yeah. Nike was quakin' in their "air-what-the-fuck-ever"'s. They probably, like most large corporations, have a legal department that could qualify for third world country status. Even if this lawsuit had merit, Nike would win.
Dammit, dammit, dammit! I knew I shouldn't have used my old SE for bating practice when the monitor died. And I always thought it'd make a great aquarium.
Simply, Debian was the worst distro I ever made the mistake of installing. Ranked right up there with TurboLinux6. Apparently, the debian team has two criteria for software going into their distribution: the code has to be under the GPL (unless it's netscape. god forbid people find out there is no gpl browser...), and has to be at least a year or so out of date. Great volunteer (no one would actually PAY them for that crap) work, keep it up. By the way, who is bitching? If you use debian, then you should have absolutely no problem with getting the packages of the web. Besides, don't most debian users leave it at TWM and forget about it? Last, but not Least, GET THE FUCK OVER YOURSELVES!!! ALL OF YOU!!! IT'S JUST SOFTWARE!!!
What "Rights" of mine has the MPAA stepped on recently? I'd really like to know.
I think I'll just lie down here in this field of poppies poppies poppies 'till it all blows over...
Throw Linux on TV, Hype OpenSource, emphasize "Free". Watch MS go bankrupt. Who cares which is easier to use. This is the "Slap the forehead, DOH!!!" we've all been waiting for. It won't take too many "What do you mean, I have to buy another license for windows with that motherboard?!" before MS is history. Nevermind trying to actually explain software licenses and "sales" to the average consumer. Thanx bill.
If I were to kill someone, that would be a crime. If I were caught, I'd do at *least* 12 months or so... My point is, (and as always, I could be wrong) If Microsoft has broken the law, why are they still in business? If I had committed a crime, I would first be locked up, then given a trial, If I was found guilty, I would be locked up again until my sentencing. When I was sentenced, I would *Immediately* begin to serve my time. Microsoft has been accused, tried, and convicted. They have now been sentenced. Whats wrong with this picture? Could I as an individual get away with, "But I don't wanna go to jail, give me a few weeks so I can figure out something else instead..." I think Not. Were it not for the complete idiocy running rampant in this country, I might be offended. But I've figured out that it's the complete lack of logic that keeps the good old U.S.A. on top and in charge.