How do you justify the quantity of patents,frivolous to ALL observers except to MS employees and groupies, that may affect Linux directly if MS ever decides to use litigation and it army of lawyers to "shut down" all free (as in freedom free software) competition? Simply judging from Microsoft's actions in the past, its propensity towards litigating financially weaker companies out of existence, and its monopolistic practices, do you seriously believe that the Linux community will believe anything you say, especially that chestnut about Microsoft patenting everything under the sun simply to protect itself?
This is simply a question of brain(and I use the word loosely)washing. Most Americans have been indoctrinated into believing that economic freedom is un-American. That is to say, that private enterprise, noted for monopolistic, unethical, a-moral practices since the old railroading days, is the New Religion. In fact, it IS the new religion. If private economic interests in a quest for control of the world's oil can even justify a war against a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, it is child's play to convince Americans that freedom in the form of Open Source, Free Software, and free or minimal cost for citizens' broadband access via witeless is un-American, un-patriotic, and against that old fart in the sky some refer to as "GOD".
It is not just laziness as one of the first posters suggested. It is pure stupidity, born of indoctrination and fear of "authority" in the form of be-suited, be-tied a$$holes, admired for their money and nothing else.
Are you tired of the poor educational facilities provided by the public school system? We all are, aren't we? This letter is to notify you that your daughter has been chosen as a potential candidate for out newly instituded "Hey'little-mama-whasssssUP" Finishing School in the heart of downtown Chicago.
All that is required for your daughter to register and to begin classes for the next semester is for you to provide her with the nominal entrance fee of $500 US and provide her with a one-way bus ticket to her destination, the central Chicago bus terminal. We will provide all other necessities, clothing included, as we have strict uniform regulations.Our school's directors, Cooldad and Madame Thathing will be on hand to greet all new arrivals between Sept. 1 and Sept 7.
Red-Neck asshole cowards like you who are willing to sell off their rights and the rights of those around them with their uneducated indifference makes me very happy that I am not an American.
The capatalist piggies are over-excited. They GRUB in the strangest places, like a totally free and democratic, spontaneously mounted methodology like the internet. They have been polluting our environment now, violating every "agreed-upon" restriction made as "gentlemen" and now, they have caught the attention of truly pro-piggies....; like the gov for example. So now we will be taxed, because the cost will be filtered down to us. This is a good example of freedom. Everyone has access, therefore the MF-ucking pig assssssholeees have access too. Eventually, they will control all WWW activity in the good ol' USA, but never elsewhere. Good luck yanks!
Sounds like you installed it once or twice in your short life, and you got lucky..., thats all. I installed the very first years ago from a tape drive and had less trouble. Admit it. The FreeBeee boyZ just dont have their shit together. I have seen homemade Linux distros that installed better than Free B.
On every installation where I tried Run xf86cfg or xf86config, I got an "unknown command" message, that is, if I got that far..... Most of the time, passwords are not written, in pure text mode or not. NEVER NEVER NEVER has "startx" worked after an install and never once has Run xf86cfg or xf86config worked. I nevertheless, have installed FreeBSD on 50 diverse workstations and several servers. On 50% of the hardware, the only way out to continue the install was via the red button. I have seen professors of IT fail to install on compatible hardware. I check all hardware for copmpatibility and functionality before attempting an installation. NO... it's not me.... it's the friggin installer. I write for Extreme Tech when I am not teaching math and I can assure you, I have installed nearly every distro of Linux in several versions each up to the present date and I have never seen auch a screwed up installation interface as the FreeBSD installer.
Nevertheless, BSD is my desktop environment at work and at home. I DO manage to get it installed, but it is never easy. In fact, it's a pain in the ass.
By far the worst installer ever conceived by the mind of geek is the BSD installer. I have installed FreeBSD on scores of machines over the years, and I can say without reservation that it totally stinks. On my machine, a Dell 4100 Dimension, 1GHz, 40GB, I had to do at least 25 red-button shutdowns and reboots to get the friggin' thing to continue its task, from the beginning, of course. This installer NEVER writes the XFree config correctly, and more often than not, it takes no account of accounts, which meand a first boot into a passwordless and useless interface. I believe that FreeBSD is the best OS out there, but the installer is by far the worst. Many times, I have thought just how lovely it would be to stuff the 1st CD up the developers ass sideways......
I have had similar probs with Debian, however I must say that they were user errors concerning XFree*^ and not the installer's fault. But in FreeBSD..... it is definately the installer that suX that causes ALL the probs.
They are using a "redirect" in Frogland...., much as they do here in Quebec, Canada. I can't get to google.com. I am always redirected to google.ca no matter what I do.
It IS in a way Microsoft too because all this would be to their advantage and eventually lead to MS-specific hardware and protocols everywhere. This is why MS is pushing this. There will be two WWW's, one for Americans who have given up their fundamental liberties and the entire rest of the world. This will complete American isolationism by sealing its fate in the eyes of the world.
::one cannot accept "Trusted Computing" from a company that has proven it cannot be trusted time and time again over a period of fifteen years any more than one can believe that the People's "Democratic" Republic of China is democratic..... In the same vein, I would not believe a Microsoft user is intelligent if he were to take the "nick" of Einstein.
Microsoftheads: explain how you can ignore a decade of news articles, court records, and outrageous lies to such a degree that you are incapable of not feeding from the hand of your enemy?
This is more than simple pandering, that is, if one takes the time to reflect on Microsoft's history of lies and its practice of exclusion. This is simply a way to insure that they will continue to be a monopoly, a dictator of standards that will COST the user, and part of their obvious plan to totally control, with the help of the US gov., all IT communication in the world. Well it won't work, because since Sept 11, when Americans decided, out of shocked numbness, to give back the freedoms they so dearly earned several hundred years before, most democratic countries in the world are more free in freedom of expression and respect for privacy than the US.
You prove my point wimp. You don't know what freedom means, and you are welcome to your playtime OS tellytubby prison. Now, go play a game in which you can do all the things virtually that you will never have the courage to do in life.
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How do you justify the quantity of patents,frivolous to ALL observers except to MS employees and groupies, that may affect Linux directly if MS ever decides to use litigation and it army of lawyers to "shut down" all free (as in freedom free software) competition? Simply judging from Microsoft's actions in the past, its propensity towards litigating financially weaker companies out of existence, and its monopolistic practices, do you seriously believe that the Linux community will believe anything you say, especially that chestnut about Microsoft patenting everything under the sun simply to protect itself?
This is simply a question of brain(and I use the word loosely)washing. Most Americans have been indoctrinated into believing that economic freedom is un-American. That is to say, that private enterprise, noted for monopolistic, unethical, a-moral practices since the old railroading days, is the New Religion. In fact, it IS the new religion. If private economic interests in a quest for control of the world's oil can even justify a war against a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, it is child's play to convince Americans that freedom in the form of Open Source, Free Software, and free or minimal cost for citizens' broadband access via witeless is un-American, un-patriotic, and against that old fart in the sky some refer to as "GOD".
It is not just laziness as one of the first posters suggested. It is pure stupidity, born of indoctrination and fear of "authority" in the form of be-suited, be-tied a$$holes, admired for their money and nothing else.
Finally I feel safe! Terrorist cows will no longer be a threat to my security.
Subject: Private Finishing School
Dear Fathers
Are you tired of the poor educational facilities provided by the public school system? We all are, aren't we? This letter is to notify you that your daughter has been chosen as a potential candidate for out newly instituded "Hey'little-mama-whasssssUP" Finishing School in the heart of downtown Chicago.
All that is required for your daughter to register and to begin classes for the next semester is for you to provide her with the nominal entrance fee of $500 US and provide her with a one-way bus ticket to her destination, the central Chicago bus terminal. We will provide all other necessities, clothing included, as we have strict uniform regulations.Our school's directors, Cooldad and Madame Thathing will be on hand to greet all new arrivals between Sept. 1 and Sept 7.
Yours
Nathan Coolodad
Madame Cynthis Thathing
Would you please be so kind as to post the findings here on the boards so that interested parties may print them out? Thank you!
I wonder how much ink I'll need.......
Red-Neck asshole cowards like you who are willing to sell off their rights and the rights of those around them with their uneducated indifference makes me very happy that I am not an American.
Learn to be humain you worthless piece of excrement.
SuKSuKSuKSuKSuK
Oh I am so happy that I do not have your adolescent pimples to restrict me from doing serious coding.
SuK
The capatalist piggies are over-excited. They GRUB in the strangest places, like a totally free and democratic, spontaneously mounted methodology like the internet. They have been polluting our environment now, violating every "agreed-upon" restriction made as "gentlemen" and now, they have caught the attention of truly pro-piggies....; like the gov for example. So now we will be taxed, because the cost will be filtered down to us. This is a good example of freedom. Everyone has access, therefore the MF-ucking pig assssssholeees have access too. Eventually, they will control all WWW activity in the good ol' USA, but never elsewhere. Good luck yanks!
Yes it does!!! That's the year when it will be optimized for i586. Of course, that will be only five years after platforms began to use the i1172.
Bravo!!!! I second that and I couldn't have said it better.
Therefore, you should visit my URL where you will find yo mama... hehehe..., might get rid of some of those pimples punk. Muuuuhahahahaha
Sounds like you installed it once or twice in your short life, and you got lucky..., thats all. I installed the very first years ago from a tape drive and had less trouble. Admit it. The FreeBeee boyZ just dont have their shit together. I have seen homemade Linux distros that installed better than Free B.
It doesn't work for me at all.......
GeeeZZZZ ThanXXXX! I do use a proxy at home but at work I cannot. BTW, I changed my URL just for U> Enjoy!
On every installation where I tried Run xf86cfg or xf86config, I got an "unknown command" message, that is, if I got that far..... Most of the time, passwords are not written, in pure text mode or not. NEVER NEVER NEVER has "startx" worked after an install and never once has Run xf86cfg or xf86config worked. I nevertheless, have installed FreeBSD on 50 diverse workstations and several servers. On 50% of the hardware, the only way out to continue the install was via the red button. I have seen professors of IT fail to install on compatible hardware. I check all hardware for copmpatibility and functionality before attempting an installation. NO ... it's not me.... it's the friggin installer. I write for Extreme Tech when I am not teaching math and I can assure you, I have installed nearly every distro of Linux in several versions each up to the present date and I have never seen auch a screwed up installation interface as the FreeBSD installer.
Nevertheless, BSD is my desktop environment at work and at home. I DO manage to get it installed, but it is never easy. In fact, it's a pain in the ass.
By far the worst installer ever conceived by the mind of geek is the BSD installer. I have installed FreeBSD on scores of machines over the years, and I can say without reservation that it totally stinks. On my machine, a Dell 4100 Dimension, 1GHz, 40GB, I had to do at least 25 red-button shutdowns and reboots to get the friggin' thing to continue its task, from the beginning, of course. This installer NEVER writes the XFree config correctly, and more often than not, it takes no account of accounts, which meand a first boot into a passwordless and useless interface. I believe that FreeBSD is the best OS out there, but the installer is by far the worst. Many times, I have thought just how lovely it would be to stuff the 1st CD up the developers ass sideways......
I have had similar probs with Debian, however I must say that they were user errors concerning XFree*^ and not the installer's fault. But in FreeBSD..... it is definately the installer that suX that causes ALL the probs.
They are using a "redirect" in Frogland...., much as they do here in Quebec, Canada. I can't get to google.com. I am always redirected to google.ca no matter what I do.
It IS in a way Microsoft too because all this would be to their advantage and eventually lead to MS-specific hardware and protocols everywhere. This is why MS is pushing this. There will be two WWW's, one for Americans who have given up their fundamental liberties and the entire rest of the world. This will complete American isolationism by sealing its fate in the eyes of the world.
::one cannot accept "Trusted Computing" from a company that has proven it cannot be trusted time and time again over a period of fifteen years any more than one can believe that the People's "Democratic" Republic of China is democratic..... In the same vein, I would not believe a Microsoft user is intelligent if he were to take the "nick" of Einstein.
No, not in "other" words, but in YOUR words as a devotee of slime.
Microsoftheads: explain how you can ignore a decade of news articles, court records, and outrageous lies to such a degree that you are incapable of not feeding from the hand of your enemy?
This is more than simple pandering, that is, if one takes the time to reflect on Microsoft's history of lies and its practice of exclusion. This is simply a way to insure that they will continue to be a monopoly, a dictator of standards that will COST the user, and part of their obvious plan to totally control, with the help of the US gov., all IT communication in the world. Well it won't work, because since Sept 11, when Americans decided, out of shocked numbness, to give back the freedoms they so dearly earned several hundred years before, most democratic countries in the world are more free in freedom of expression and respect for privacy than the US.
You prove my point wimp. You don't know what freedom means, and you are welcome to your playtime OS tellytubby prison. Now, go play a game in which you can do all the things virtually that you will never have the courage to do in life.