Re:A way out of the MS tax
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Good point. When I tried to buy a Dell Inspiron without Windows Xtreme Poop, the Dell sales rep told me they have a deal with Microsoft that every machine they sell has to have a Microsoft OS on it. Pffhht! Talk about your evil empire monopolists shite suckers.
Anyway, why would I want to get a barebones notebook when with some judcious picking and choosing, you can have a killer laptop for not too many pesos: 1.8GHz P4M, 512Mb RAM, 40GB 5400RPM HD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive, 1394, 64Mb Mobility Radeon 9000 and a flat out awesome 15" 1600x1200 display. How much? Only $1750 US. Dell Inspiron 8200. Even came with that lump o' shite XP Pro from Messysoft.
That makes you a User. A Real Geek would take one look at RedHat, proclaim it bloatware worse than any Microsoft byproduct and then install either Gentoo, Debian or FreeBSD.
> When you insert a Drivers CD in Windows, it may auto-run, sheilding you from the (often arcane) filing of the drivers.
Windows auto-run - a truly stupid idea. How many times do you want to install the same application/driver/whatever every time you insert a CD? The geniass that dreamed that up should be strung up by his short and curlies.
The presumption being that everyone will categorize their files the same way - ever try and find something on the P2P pirate (Kazoo & Murphious) networks? Same UI issue...
Eh? is fargin' right. I'm still using a Rage Pro Turbo 8Mb and is happy as a clam in sea shite. Why bother wasting hard earned pesos on the latest video card, processor, and/or motherboard??? By doing so, you are simply part of the capitalistic brain wash designed to part you from your money. Not to mention it is against the GNU philosophy...!
Some of us have been using 64-bit processor systems for several years now: can you say "Alpha", "MIPS" and "SPARC"? And cheap too, can you say "eBay" Little GNU/Linux Boys and Girls?
Next time you do a traceroute from your machine in Canada, to a server located in Canada, see that the frikin' packets hop through US networks and cities...:-(
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Anyway, why would I want to get a barebones notebook when with some judcious picking and choosing, you can have a killer laptop for not too many pesos: 1.8GHz P4M, 512Mb RAM, 40GB 5400RPM HD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive, 1394, 64Mb Mobility Radeon 9000 and a flat out awesome 15" 1600x1200 display. How much? Only $1750 US. Dell Inspiron 8200. Even came with that lump o' shite XP Pro from Messysoft.
There's an oxymoron if I ever seen one.
1) Learn to use a digital camera.
2) by turning off the flash,
3) and holding it steady.
As a flocktographer, you create vacuum.
All of the above.
That makes you a User. A Real Geek would take one look at RedHat, proclaim it bloatware worse than any Microsoft byproduct and then install either Gentoo, Debian or FreeBSD.
How about going back to the days when software wasn't bloatware and you didn't need a 3GHz room heater to run software with a decent snap to it?
Hey, for permanent resident status in YankeeLand, the DoD wants to know if you ever used the services of a prostitute...
MBA - Acronym; Master Bullshit Artist, aka Massive Bullshit Artist, also Moron Bunghole Arse, many more...
Two soup cans and a string.
You bastages!!!
I've always pharted my sendmail.cf into the handset...
I propose SpoojAssassin, since spam is so much spooj.
I'll buy one [Smegway] when it also wipes my arse for me...
...and the 31,416th version of the kernel, which required the latest glib, which broke all my apps...
Area 51.
Windows auto-run - a truly stupid idea. How many times do you want to install the same application/driver/whatever every time you insert a CD? The geniass that dreamed that up should be strung up by his short and curlies.
The presumption being that everyone will categorize their files the same way - ever try and find something on the P2P pirate (Kazoo & Murphious) networks? Same UI issue...
Too bad it is in one of those f'g-boy glow in the dark geek cases...
Seriously.
Eh? is fargin' right. I'm still using a Rage Pro Turbo 8Mb and is happy as a clam in sea shite. Why bother wasting hard earned pesos on the latest video card, processor, and/or motherboard??? By doing so, you are simply part of the capitalistic brain wash designed to part you from your money. Not to mention it is against the GNU philosophy...!
Some of us have been using 64-bit processor systems for several years now: can you say "Alpha", "MIPS" and "SPARC"? And cheap too, can you say "eBay" Little GNU/Linux Boys and Girls?
The story is: Americans have their heads up their fat arses and don't know any better.
Actually it is spelled Dumas and prononuced "du-mah".
- Linux is for people that hate Microsoft; BSD is for people that love Unix.
Whoopee Shite!!!!
Next time you do a traceroute from your machine in Canada, to a server located in Canada, see that the frikin' packets hop through US networks and cities... :-(