linux is dying, this is just further proof. Perhaps linus wanted to make some money and jumped ship to help develope for microsoft. Maybe he could also start working for a REAL processor company, like intel or cyrix.
My name is Charles Kessler a lawyer for microsoft. Please remove this post at once. We have contacted the fbi and they will be doing full rectal exams on the people who own this site as well as yourself.
yes and thus by creating software that does malitious things to one's computer he can be charged with the new ANTI-TERRORISM bill and put into jail for many years.
this is offtopic.. maybe cmdrtaco will bitchslap the whole thread and you will lose lots of mod points. Oh well, thats how it works on this piece of shit site.
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Hello, as an experienced MCSE, I have worked with many systems before for different corporations, and although I find linux to be a suitable server OS, there are many problems that have to be addressed before it will be able to compete with windows in the desktop world. Here are some suggestions I have come up with that will help linux become more competitive.
1) Remove the bloat. Most linux distro's ship with way to many useless programs. Desktop users do not need 10 different text editors. Give them one or two good ones and that will be enough.
2) Dump the command line. Desktop users do not use command lines. Windows is light-years ahead in this regard. Even their server OS has a great gui, and it is not necessary to use the command line. Linux needs to follow Microsoft's lead and get rid of the command line. You could maybe include an option for advanced users, like how windowsXP has an ms-dos prompt, if you really want to use it.
3) Dump open-source. Normal desktop users do not care about source code, they care about good programs. They do not want to compile anything. Linux needs real companies that actually know how to make good interfaces. Right now they are few and far between.
4) A universal gui system. Linux needs ONE gui. Perhaps people should focus on developing KDE into a competitive platform. Forget about gnome and everything else.
5) Make upgrading the software easier. Desktop users need an easy way to upgrade the kernel.
6) Get a good web browser. Linux has no good web browsers right now. Netscape is old and bloated. Opera cost extra and lacks some features. Mozilla is still beta and isn't even up to version 1.0 yet, so it doesn't count. Linux needs a browser that is competitive with IE, and right now IE is light-years ahead of anything for linux.
7) Proper office programs. If you want Linux to be used in offices, you need decent applications. These programs should be able to import all MS formats, past and present. Microsoft is still light years ahead when it comes to their office programs.
8) Backward compatibility. WindowsXP can run dos programs, windows 3.11 programs, windows9x programs, windowsNT programs, ect... Linux is barely backward compatible.
Right now I would recommend windowsXP for any sensible desktop user. Linux is still too complicated and fragmented to appeal to the typical user. Perhaps in a few years time they will be on par with windows, and a few people may try it.
see, real companies (not open source 'pseudo-companies' that don't ever make a cent.. eg. VA Linux) care about their public image. Therefore it makes sense that ms would do this, which is just fine and legal. Is this really news? nope.
since symantec is owned by a scientologist, it is unlikely they will release their software as open source. I doubt they would want anyone to see the secret logging software included in it to stamp out anti-scientologist speach.
Actually we know exactly how ad-aware works. It removes the entries for the programs from the registry and deletes the programs. What it's doing is not hidden, it is quite obvious.
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I can pay 10 bucks to go to a movie and be entertained for 2 hours, or I can pay 10 bucks for unlimited entertainment in a month's time. Screw the movie theater.
Yeah but you can take a girl to a movie and possibly get laid after, but you ain't gonna get no poon-tang if you plan on playing ultima online all night and your girlfriend has to watch.
It's not MS's fault that people don't keep up with the IE standards. When you have 90% marketshare you can do whatever you want, I know people who work for web design firms and they have a policy of only targeting IE because that is what most people use. These days if you don't create pages with IE in mind then you are asking for alot of problems.
If you're so dumb that you post off-topic comments and think it's horrible, evil censorship when they get moderated off-topic, then great, please leave Slashdot. Go away. I'm serious. You're an idiot and you won't contribute anything of value anyway.
I don't care if the post is moderated offtopic, but how come all the responses were? That is just plain rediculous. Oh, and anyone who doesn't agree with you is an idiot? thank you mr. hitler.
Everyone who's still here: please note that Slashdot lets you create a discussion about anything you want. If you're logged in you can write a journal entry about anything you want. Pick the topic, go nuts and start posting to it. Hundreds of people have done this.
Nobody reads the journals, they do however read stories.
Join them! Write journals! Write lots of journal entries and comments to other people's journal entries, and start your own anonymous discussions. And if you want, make them all about those evil programmers who wrote the code to let you post journals and start discussions, and how we're not actually enabling you to speak, we're censoring you. It's postmodern, ironic fun for all! Whee!
again most people don't give a shit about the journals, unless you have the new ones posted on the front page such as how the (far superior) scoop system does it.
That's not enough for you? Fine -- we even sometimes run front-page stories about Slashdot's code and moderation system, like the one we did earlier this month. If you want to gripe about moderation, go for it, there's an on-topic place to do it.
so we have to wait every few months to comment on how bad the system on this site is?
But if editors (who of course have unlimited mod points, we've said this before) happen to notice off-topic threads taking over stories, we moderate them as such. Duh.
Fine mod the post down, but don't bitchslap the entire thread down to -1 like a nazi fascist. I love how you didn't even mention this once. The fact that the editors have unlimited karma means the system is completely broken. Goodbye slashdot, you WON'T be missed!
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you are not even a real troll.
I claim this first post in the name of all slashdot trolls!
linux is dying, this is just further proof. Perhaps linus wanted to make some money and jumped ship to help develope for microsoft. Maybe he could also start working for a REAL processor company, like intel or cyrix.
they took a great OS like AtheOS and handicapped it by running it on the linux kernal. So much for a real time graphical OS that doesn't suck.
why is this rated offtopic
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guesse what, it's opensource..
want a linux version? code one!
Os/2 was written by microsoft, no wounder it was the best os at the time.
why the fuck would you need a program like that for a dying server-os like freebsd.
run a real os moron
My name is Charles Kessler a lawyer for microsoft. Please remove this post at once. We have contacted the fbi and they will be doing full rectal exams on the people who own this site as well as yourself.
yes and thus by creating software that does malitious things to one's computer he can be charged with the new ANTI-TERRORISM bill and put into jail for many years.
Because it was good enough to sell, unlike most other crappy open-source software.
YHBT
this is offtopic.. maybe cmdrtaco will bitchslap the whole thread and you will lose lots of mod points. Oh well, thats how it works on this piece of shit site.
yeah, the reason they can practically give away those monitors is pretty simple.
Apple is actually a front for coke importing.
This also explains their wacky designs.
I was on the toilet and I made a big blog and when it hit the water it went 'blog'
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1)Loki decided to sell linux software
2)Nobody bought it
3)Loki went out of business
GOOD JOB!
How linux is still an inferior desktop OS
Hello, as an experienced MCSE, I have worked with many systems before for different corporations, and although I find linux to be a suitable server OS, there are many problems that have to be addressed before it will be able to compete with windows in the desktop world. Here are some suggestions I have come up with that will help linux become more competitive.
1) Remove the bloat. Most linux distro's ship with way to many useless programs. Desktop users do not need 10 different text editors. Give them one or two good ones and that will be enough.
2) Dump the command line. Desktop users do not use command lines. Windows is light-years ahead in this regard. Even their server OS has a great gui, and it is not necessary to use the command line. Linux needs to follow Microsoft's lead and get rid of the command line. You could maybe include an option for advanced users, like how windowsXP has an ms-dos prompt, if you really want to use it.
3) Dump open-source. Normal desktop users do not care about source code, they care about good programs. They do not want to compile anything. Linux needs real companies that actually know how to make good interfaces. Right now they are few and far between.
4) A universal gui system. Linux needs ONE gui. Perhaps people should focus on developing KDE into a competitive platform. Forget about gnome and everything else.
5) Make upgrading the software easier. Desktop users need an easy way to upgrade the kernel.
6) Get a good web browser. Linux has no good web browsers right now. Netscape is old and bloated. Opera cost extra and lacks some features. Mozilla is still beta and isn't even up to version 1.0 yet, so it doesn't count. Linux needs a browser that is competitive with IE, and right now IE is light-years ahead of anything for linux.
7) Proper office programs. If you want Linux to be used in offices, you need decent applications. These programs should be able to import all MS formats, past and present. Microsoft is still light years ahead when it comes to their office programs.
8) Backward compatibility. WindowsXP can run dos programs, windows 3.11 programs, windows9x programs, windowsNT programs, ect... Linux is barely backward compatible.
Right now I would recommend windowsXP for any sensible desktop user. Linux is still too complicated and fragmented to appeal to the typical user. Perhaps in a few years time they will be on par with windows, and a few people may try it.
why hasn't that fat faggot CmdrTaco fixed this bug yet!
see, real companies (not open source 'pseudo-companies' that don't ever make a cent.. eg. VA Linux) care about their public image. Therefore it makes sense that ms would do this, which is just fine and legal. Is this really news? nope.
since symantec is owned by a scientologist, it is unlikely they will release their software as open source. I doubt they would want anyone to see the secret logging software included in it to stamp out anti-scientologist speach.
Actually we know exactly how ad-aware works. It removes the entries for the programs from the registry and deletes the programs. What it's doing is not hidden, it is quite obvious.
Yeah but you can take a girl to a movie and possibly get laid after, but you ain't gonna get no poon-tang if you plan on playing ultima online all night and your girlfriend has to watch.
It's not MS's fault that people don't keep up with the IE standards. When you have 90% marketshare you can do whatever you want, I know people who work for web design firms and they have a policy of only targeting IE because that is what most people use. These days if you don't create pages with IE in mind then you are asking for alot of problems.
I don't care if the post is moderated offtopic, but how come all the responses were? That is just plain rediculous. Oh, and anyone who doesn't agree with you is an idiot? thank you mr. hitler.
Everyone who's still here: please note that Slashdot lets you create a discussion about anything you want. If you're logged in you can write a journal entry about anything you want. Pick the topic, go nuts and start posting to it. Hundreds of people have done this.
Nobody reads the journals, they do however read stories.
Join them! Write journals! Write lots of journal entries and comments to other people's journal entries, and start your own anonymous discussions. And if you want, make them all about those evil programmers who wrote the code to let you post journals and start discussions, and how we're not actually enabling you to speak, we're censoring you. It's postmodern, ironic fun for all! Whee!
again most people don't give a shit about the journals, unless you have the new ones posted on the front page such as how the (far superior) scoop system does it.
That's not enough for you? Fine -- we even sometimes run front-page stories about Slashdot's code and moderation system, like the one we did earlier this month. If you want to gripe about moderation, go for it, there's an on-topic place to do it.
so we have to wait every few months to comment on how bad the system on this site is?
But if editors (who of course have unlimited mod points, we've said this before) happen to notice off-topic threads taking over stories, we moderate them as such. Duh.
Fine mod the post down, but don't bitchslap the entire thread down to -1 like a nazi fascist. I love how you didn't even mention this once. The fact that the editors have unlimited karma means the system is completely broken. Goodbye slashdot, you WON'T be missed!
most anime fans are pedophiles, at least the ones I know. They just get off on imported tentacle porn