just because apt-get dist-ugprade works doesn't mean everything works well after that, especially if you have any customizations, or odd bits of hardware or applications.
If you can tell me exactly what you mean by "customizations", we might find the root of the problem. If by customizations, you mean things like non free software and by "odd" hardware you mean hardware with binary blobs, your experience is no different from mine.
My Debian upgrades have been free of both major and minor annoyances. I've lost only one piece of hardware in the last five years to a Debian upgrade that was the result of free software improvement, dma reworks. I replaced it and it probably works again now. Other than that, transitions from Woody to Sarge and then Sarge to Etch have been flawless. Even where programs change, the user data is preserved without loss and is often usable in place. For an ordinary user, it just works. Source code and compiled executables are also transferable between upgrades and distributions. Things I compile on Debian work just fine with Fedora so that rsync is all I need to keep projects working in more than one place over years of development.
Bravo to the Apple people for pulling things off with nothing more than minor annoyances. They are a reminder that non free software does not have to be as rapacious as others have made it.
At the same time, Apple is a reminder that non free will software always depend on the free software world and will always have problems. Upgrades of Debian are always smooth and lossless.
Most of what you say stopped being true in the late 90s.
If MS came by later and offered free, or heavily discounted copies of Windows, I could see how Nigeria would accept it.
For it to even start to break even, M$ is going to have to pay to have it installed as well as providing all of the required software free of charge. Note that M$ does not own all of the software required, like Adobe Reader, Flash and countless other must have software packages.
[Windows] vastly increases the range of applications that are now available for them to use.
The only thing increased by Windows is the rage of stuff you need to buy. The free software world gives you a choice of quality applications that are cost free and easily modified to suit any particular purpose. Bits in a box will never be as good a match for your needs and they often come with additional and costly restrictions. There are very few upsides left to M$ domination.
Like I said, it may not be popular here, but I can see how this deal could be viewed as good for both parties by both parties.
We can be sure that the deal was great for the parties directly involved but the users have been sold.
Almost a year after introduction, Vista has less than 7% of the desktop market and sales are slowing. Where's the spin in those facts?
The spin is all coming from Redmond. They have claimed "strong" Vista demand, but Vista has not even done as well as XP and may be the worst selling version of Windows ever. They are talking about "boom times" and partying like it's 1999, but it's just not so. Vista and Microsoft have significant and successful competition. Apple has greater marketshare than Vista. GNU/Linux is just starting it's rise and all the major vendors are taking it seriously. Worse, many of those vendors have taken big losses due to Vista's poor sales and are pissed at the high cost of supporting what little they did sell because it's been full of bugs. Microsoft would like you to forget all of that and think that it's 1998 again and everyone is making money on the lockstep transition to the next version of Windows. Fat chance.
It is defective by anti-competitive design and nearly impossible to make compliant or functional. GNU/Linux BIOS should be implemented by every maker and ACPI should be left behind as a costly non free mistake. Vista's failure presents the best chance for PC makers to liberate themselves from M$ domination and shoddy non-standards like ACPI.
Without changes in Canadian law, it will be five years before they can apply for entry.
Thanks for the link, it shows they never should have been on this list which is supposed to be for:
Wanted Persons
Individuals who have been charged with serious and/or significant offenses
Missing Persons
Individuals designated by the U.S. Secret Service as posing a potential danger to the President and/or other authorized protectees.
Members of Violent Criminal Gangs
Members of Terrorist Organizations
Unidentified Persons
"Peace Protester" and "political adversary" don't seem to belong there. Use of this list for anything but it's purposes is a violation of law. The particular violation represents a violation of the victim's right to due process and a challenge to Canada's sovereignty.
If there is a problem with the FBI, focus on that. Do not (under any circumstances) tell my government how to run our border - it is none of your damn business.
I agree, your border patrol people should not subscribe to a US generated list of who may cross your border. I have a feeling that's about to change and you will, once again, be in full control. As it is now:
" The border agents at the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls who barred Medea and Ann said the mere fact that they were listed on the NCIC was sufficient to bar them from entry."
But my point is, the NCIC isn't some secretive blacklist like the infamous no-fly list. The NCIC is detailed, you can view your record and correct it, if it's incorrect.
Here's what I find when I look further, unvarnished outrage:
The NCIC may not be as bad as no-fly lists but that makes it's abuse more shocking. The three arrests were for protesting and it is clear than the activists are not the violent felons the laws were designed to keep out of Canada. This is an evil political abuse that will keep these protesters legally out of Canada for five years.
These people were labled and punished for being dangerous criminals without due process. They wanted to go to Canada but were not able to do so without being "criminally rehabilitated."
The Canadian government was tricked. They agreed to use a US database of dangerous criminals and were told that it contained lists of people who had committed or were facing charges for eight violent crimes. The FBI added these people to the list for something else.
If I were a Canadian, I'd say the list was no longer dependable and demand my government quit using it.
Vista is no longer "new", so obviously there is less demand.
So what does that do for all those OEMs and Vendors with a shop full of new PCs and Vista? Customers don't want Vista and already have XP, oh no! What can you do to get your customer wow that works and move those computers out the door?
if Vista sales had continued to increase right when people are saving up for the holidays, that would be extremely impressive, and quite unexpected.
I suppose you have never heard of "back to school" sales.
The reason Novell et the GNOME foundation are so involved is for simple compatibility reasons. What better way to lure Windows users away than to provide support for the formats their existing documents are probably already in?
That sounds nice but it falls down when M$ sends in a clown car full of patent lawyers. That's one of the big reasons OOXML needs to be shot down by ISO. The others are a lack of completeness and 998 other technical problems. OOXML is not doing well in the marketplace and probably never will. If ever there was a case of wasted effort, OOXML is it. Resources are better spent making better ODF applications.
As for a better way to lure Windows users, have you seen Vista?
If Bush were censoring anything on the internet, you retards wouldn't be posting this now. Pull your head out of your ass.
That's good advice for individuals but bad for society, and you are woefully unaware of your fading rights. There are 750,000 proscribed people in the US who have been labled "terrorist" without trial. They will be kept from traveling, employment and other things vital to their well being. Economic assassination is almost as effective as the other kind. Mass roundups that follow the next "Perl Harbor" will find an economically devastated opposition. Yes, you too can be labled a criminal for saying the wrong things. To avoid the end game, we must point it out loudly and convince people to stand up for themselves and others. Tyranny melts in the face of unified opposition, which is how the Soviet Union died.
If we do not defend the rights of others, we will soon have none ourselves. People without freedom can be expended at will by their leaders to remove your own freedom. It is good to condem oppression wherever you see it. Trade, laws, war and peace must follow morals. If you can change your morals to accommodate other things, you have no morals.
In this instance, it was a decision about a specific set of facts which are non-generalizable.
That would be true if the RIAA show trials were different from each other in any way. None of them ever present "sufficient evidence" of damage. If other judges look at this decision and follow, the game is over as it should be. This judge has come close to understanding that the charges themselves are unsupportable.
The sad fact of life for the broadcast and recording companies is that they have nothing special to offer. Anyone can now make good quality recordings and everyone has access to the same, dirt cheap promotion platform. Their position as the sole promoter of music can only be maintained by eliminating everyone else's rights.
The nature of publishing has changed and the laws need to move with it. If the goal of copyright it to maximize culture and the state of the art, copyright law needs to become more accepting of new publication methods not less accepting. Terms of exclusivity and punishment for violation of that exclusivity need to more closely match the lower costs of recording and publishing. 100 year copyrights and $200,000 judgements are absurd. You will never see anyone prove actual damages like that because it never happens.
The default behavior is to index user files in "doc and settings" and then your outlook files after you open that program.
Gee, thanks. I'll rest assured that it will be efficient at indexing people's 2GB binary Outlook file and personal life. It's so much less evil than indexing calc.exe. Give it time, though, the next update might demand an full index to come into compliance with the Windoze EULA.
For business users, it's one more unacceptable risk. Now that M$ has a means to carry out the more obnoxious clauses in their EULA, you can no longer ignore those clauses as ineffective. Even if you do trust M$ to respect your secrets, others can and will take advantage of this mechanism to root them out. Universal indexing is more than a business risk to Mozilla and friends, it's a business risk to everyone. Business users should be headed for the exits.
People who value their privacy should have left long ago.
Terrorist watch lists punish people without trial. They are deeply unAmerican and are a direct violation of your right to due process. It is time to end this madness and call those who support it what they are, traitors.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
These proscriptions deprive people of their liberty and property. Those on the lists are unable to use air transport, may be discriminated against when they seek employment and are harassed generally when they conduct business. In short, they are treated as a kind of felon. Needless to say, there's no jury involved before the conviction of "terrorist" is applied.
You learned the difference between valid and invalid arguments, the classical logical fallacies, etc. In that sense, it can certainly be taught.
Like I said, you can teach logic but it may not be applied. People can be taught all the patterns, but application still comes from within. It's one thing to recognize a fallacy in a test full of them and another to pick out a fallacy from a stream of otherwise honest material.
It's something you have to learn but can not be taught. Logic, history, facts, and opinions may be taught, but thought comes from experience and reflection. The more someone tells you they are going to teach you "critical thinking skills" the more you know they are going to try to indoctrinate you. The majority of people who think they can teach you critical thinking, lack the skill themselves.
Shouldn't we clear this up first, before going after software that can not be used by people to kill people quite as directly as guns?
No, the software is more important. You may recall the 1994 Rwandan Genocide where the primary weapon was machetes, an intentionally cruel method of murder. What's being demonstrated in Burma is that a non free network can be used to target and eliminate unarmed dissidents. The guns are secondary.
It's not a surprise, but a light should shine on the the whole situation so that we can know the consequences of a non free internet. If people know how bad internet filtering really is, it will be denounced and eliminated. People in the US are more likely to demand network neutrality if the opposite is associated with a backwater where monks are murdered in cold blood.
It is also shocking that US companies would continue to do business with Burma. The market is tiny, so there's not even a good economic explanation for it. The backlash from that business is going to cost them much more than they could ever earn. Even GWB is repulsed by Burma.
Major vendors would have to offer choices for that to be true. They don't, as the US Government once observed, because of the M$ monopoly. Quit pretending people have choices and get a chance to make comparisons.
Short of actually installing and using an OS, you have YouTube and opinion pieces from trade magazines. With M$'s advertising budget, the trade mags are just a little slanted in their coverage. Not even Slashdot cares about people's software freedom.
Everybody should use the system they like and stop preaching and advocating.
If you don't like Ubuntu or comparison articles and opinions one way or the other, you should go find an article you like and comment there. You might actually know something about the subject and look less like a hypocrite who's trying to preach atheism in a church. Freedom is worth advocating and I'm going to continue to tell people who read comparison articles that Windows will never do what users want because it's not free.
You'll not be getting year long uptimes in Ubuntu...
The author of the fine article claims to have gotten 150 days out of his Frankenstein "server". I admit to being impressed and sometimes you can learn things by reading.
Isn't it funny how you keep linking to twitter's journal?
I read Twitter's journal because it's informative. I also liked to read Twitter's comments before you M$ loving assholes bombed his account back to the stone age. You might also note that I link to the "Vista Failure Log" as my home page with everything I write. Twitter often breaks stories before Slashdot does, especially since you paranoid asshats targeted the account.
As for my identity, both Twitter and I also link to The Register, BBC, FSF, and other sources of news including Slashdot. Twitter must be everywhere! If not, the opinions expressed by Twitter certainly are everywhere.
I wish that you would take your little pissing match somewhere else because it's distracting from the present conversation where I've linked to several YouTube videos showing off the best Vista and Beryl have to offer. After you have pissed off, I hope that this happens to you and your silly little botnet.
How long does it take to save up the modpoints required to both bomb me and mod up your own off topic, flamebait that no one cares about? Does M$ pay you for this or are you some kind of hopelessly obsessed loser?
Why read when you can see for yourself? Cool, eh? The maker was sure to show you the best of each. What they did not show is that you can run a copy of XP or Vista in a virtual machine on one of those faces, if you absolutely must have M$. Yes, there's more to an OS than a snazzy interface, but you have to admit that M$ is beat and you are going to see more of these articles not less because that last piece of the puzzle is being solved. Other stuff, like year long uptime and file systems that just work have been around for a decade. The list of M$ defectors is already large and impressive.
I'll bet the only thing that annoys you more than the success of free software is the failure of Vista. Here's about a dozen movies on that, just in case there's anyone out there who is still willing to bother with Vista.
Slashdot Mirror
just because apt-get dist-ugprade works doesn't mean everything works well after that, especially if you have any customizations, or odd bits of hardware or applications.
If you can tell me exactly what you mean by "customizations", we might find the root of the problem. If by customizations, you mean things like non free software and by "odd" hardware you mean hardware with binary blobs, your experience is no different from mine.
My Debian upgrades have been free of both major and minor annoyances. I've lost only one piece of hardware in the last five years to a Debian upgrade that was the result of free software improvement, dma reworks. I replaced it and it probably works again now. Other than that, transitions from Woody to Sarge and then Sarge to Etch have been flawless. Even where programs change, the user data is preserved without loss and is often usable in place. For an ordinary user, it just works. Source code and compiled executables are also transferable between upgrades and distributions. Things I compile on Debian work just fine with Fedora so that rsync is all I need to keep projects working in more than one place over years of development.
Bravo to the Apple people for pulling things off with nothing more than minor annoyances. They are a reminder that non free software does not have to be as rapacious as others have made it.
At the same time, Apple is a reminder that non free will software always depend on the free software world and will always have problems. Upgrades of Debian are always smooth and lossless.
Most of what you say stopped being true in the late 90s.
If MS came by later and offered free, or heavily discounted copies of Windows, I could see how Nigeria would accept it.
For it to even start to break even, M$ is going to have to pay to have it installed as well as providing all of the required software free of charge. Note that M$ does not own all of the software required, like Adobe Reader, Flash and countless other must have software packages.
[Windows] vastly increases the range of applications that are now available for them to use.
The only thing increased by Windows is the rage of stuff you need to buy. The free software world gives you a choice of quality applications that are cost free and easily modified to suit any particular purpose. Bits in a box will never be as good a match for your needs and they often come with additional and costly restrictions. There are very few upsides left to M$ domination.
Like I said, it may not be popular here, but I can see how this deal could be viewed as good for both parties by both parties.
We can be sure that the deal was great for the parties directly involved but the users have been sold.
Almost a year after introduction, Vista has less than 7% of the desktop market and sales are slowing. Where's the spin in those facts?
The spin is all coming from Redmond. They have claimed "strong" Vista demand, but Vista has not even done as well as XP and may be the worst selling version of Windows ever. They are talking about "boom times" and partying like it's 1999, but it's just not so. Vista and Microsoft have significant and successful competition. Apple has greater marketshare than Vista. GNU/Linux is just starting it's rise and all the major vendors are taking it seriously. Worse, many of those vendors have taken big losses due to Vista's poor sales and are pissed at the high cost of supporting what little they did sell because it's been full of bugs. Microsoft would like you to forget all of that and think that it's 1998 again and everyone is making money on the lockstep transition to the next version of Windows. Fat chance.
It is defective by anti-competitive design and nearly impossible to make compliant or functional. GNU/Linux BIOS should be implemented by every maker and ACPI should be left behind as a costly non free mistake. Vista's failure presents the best chance for PC makers to liberate themselves from M$ domination and shoddy non-standards like ACPI.
Without changes in Canadian law, it will be five years before they can apply for entry.
Thanks for the link, it shows they never should have been on this list which is supposed to be for:
"Peace Protester" and "political adversary" don't seem to belong there. Use of this list for anything but it's purposes is a violation of law. The particular violation represents a violation of the victim's right to due process and a challenge to Canada's sovereignty.
If there is a problem with the FBI, focus on that. Do not (under any circumstances) tell my government how to run our border - it is none of your damn business.
I agree, your border patrol people should not subscribe to a US generated list of who may cross your border. I have a feeling that's about to change and you will, once again, be in full control. As it is now:
" The border agents at the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls who barred Medea and Ann said the mere fact that they were listed on the NCIC was sufficient to bar them from entry."But my point is, the NCIC isn't some secretive blacklist like the infamous no-fly list. The NCIC is detailed, you can view your record and correct it, if it's incorrect.
Here's what I find when I look further, unvarnished outrage:
The NCIC may not be as bad as no-fly lists but that makes it's abuse more shocking. The three arrests were for protesting and it is clear than the activists are not the violent felons the laws were designed to keep out of Canada. This is an evil political abuse that will keep these protesters legally out of Canada for five years.
These people were labled and punished for being dangerous criminals without due process. They wanted to go to Canada but were not able to do so without being "criminally rehabilitated."
The Canadian government was tricked. They agreed to use a US database of dangerous criminals and were told that it contained lists of people who had committed or were facing charges for eight violent crimes. The FBI added these people to the list for something else.
If I were a Canadian, I'd say the list was no longer dependable and demand my government quit using it.
Vista is no longer "new", so obviously there is less demand.
So what does that do for all those OEMs and Vendors with a shop full of new PCs and Vista? Customers don't want Vista and already have XP, oh no! What can you do to get your customer wow that works and move those computers out the door?
if Vista sales had continued to increase right when people are saving up for the holidays, that would be extremely impressive, and quite unexpected.
I suppose you have never heard of "back to school" sales.
The reason Novell et the GNOME foundation are so involved is for simple compatibility reasons. What better way to lure Windows users away than to provide support for the formats their existing documents are probably already in?
That sounds nice but it falls down when M$ sends in a clown car full of patent lawyers. That's one of the big reasons OOXML needs to be shot down by ISO. The others are a lack of completeness and 998 other technical problems. OOXML is not doing well in the marketplace and probably never will. If ever there was a case of wasted effort, OOXML is it. Resources are better spent making better ODF applications.
As for a better way to lure Windows users, have you seen Vista?
If Bush were censoring anything on the internet, you retards wouldn't be posting this now. Pull your head out of your ass.
That's good advice for individuals but bad for society, and you are woefully unaware of your fading rights. There are 750,000 proscribed people in the US who have been labled "terrorist" without trial. They will be kept from traveling, employment and other things vital to their well being. Economic assassination is almost as effective as the other kind. Mass roundups that follow the next "Perl Harbor" will find an economically devastated opposition. Yes, you too can be labled a criminal for saying the wrong things. To avoid the end game, we must point it out loudly and convince people to stand up for themselves and others. Tyranny melts in the face of unified opposition, which is how the Soviet Union died.
Of people's attempts to silence others.
If we do not defend the rights of others, we will soon have none ourselves. People without freedom can be expended at will by their leaders to remove your own freedom. It is good to condem oppression wherever you see it. Trade, laws, war and peace must follow morals. If you can change your morals to accommodate other things, you have no morals.
In this instance, it was a decision about a specific set of facts which are non-generalizable.
That would be true if the RIAA show trials were different from each other in any way. None of them ever present "sufficient evidence" of damage. If other judges look at this decision and follow, the game is over as it should be. This judge has come close to understanding that the charges themselves are unsupportable.
The sad fact of life for the broadcast and recording companies is that they have nothing special to offer. Anyone can now make good quality recordings and everyone has access to the same, dirt cheap promotion platform. Their position as the sole promoter of music can only be maintained by eliminating everyone else's rights.
The nature of publishing has changed and the laws need to move with it. If the goal of copyright it to maximize culture and the state of the art, copyright law needs to become more accepting of new publication methods not less accepting. Terms of exclusivity and punishment for violation of that exclusivity need to more closely match the lower costs of recording and publishing. 100 year copyrights and $200,000 judgements are absurd. You will never see anyone prove actual damages like that because it never happens.
The default behavior is to index user files in "doc and settings" and then your outlook files after you open that program.
Gee, thanks. I'll rest assured that it will be efficient at indexing people's 2GB binary Outlook file and personal life. It's so much less evil than indexing calc.exe. Give it time, though, the next update might demand an full index to come into compliance with the Windoze EULA.
What is important is that it is there forcefully
For business users, it's one more unacceptable risk. Now that M$ has a means to carry out the more obnoxious clauses in their EULA, you can no longer ignore those clauses as ineffective. Even if you do trust M$ to respect your secrets, others can and will take advantage of this mechanism to root them out. Universal indexing is more than a business risk to Mozilla and friends, it's a business risk to everyone. Business users should be headed for the exits.
People who value their privacy should have left long ago.
Terrorist watch lists punish people without trial. They are deeply unAmerican and are a direct violation of your right to due process. It is time to end this madness and call those who support it what they are, traitors.
These proscriptions deprive people of their liberty and property. Those on the lists are unable to use air transport, may be discriminated against when they seek employment and are harassed generally when they conduct business. In short, they are treated as a kind of felon. Needless to say, there's no jury involved before the conviction of "terrorist" is applied.
You learned the difference between valid and invalid arguments, the classical logical fallacies, etc. In that sense, it can certainly be taught.
Like I said, you can teach logic but it may not be applied. People can be taught all the patterns, but application still comes from within. It's one thing to recognize a fallacy in a test full of them and another to pick out a fallacy from a stream of otherwise honest material.
Critical thinking Is plainly not taught anymore.
It's something you have to learn but can not be taught. Logic, history, facts, and opinions may be taught, but thought comes from experience and reflection. The more someone tells you they are going to teach you "critical thinking skills" the more you know they are going to try to indoctrinate you. The majority of people who think they can teach you critical thinking, lack the skill themselves.
Shouldn't we clear this up first, before going after software that can not be used by people to kill people quite as directly as guns?
No, the software is more important. You may recall the 1994 Rwandan Genocide where the primary weapon was machetes, an intentionally cruel method of murder. What's being demonstrated in Burma is that a non free network can be used to target and eliminate unarmed dissidents. The guns are secondary.
Seriously, why would this surprise anyone?
It's not a surprise, but a light should shine on the the whole situation so that we can know the consequences of a non free internet. If people know how bad internet filtering really is, it will be denounced and eliminated. People in the US are more likely to demand network neutrality if the opposite is associated with a backwater where monks are murdered in cold blood.
It is also shocking that US companies would continue to do business with Burma. The market is tiny, so there's not even a good economic explanation for it. The backlash from that business is going to cost them much more than they could ever earn. Even GWB is repulsed by Burma.
You see what you want to see.
Major vendors would have to offer choices for that to be true. They don't, as the US Government once observed, because of the M$ monopoly. Quit pretending people have choices and get a chance to make comparisons.
Short of actually installing and using an OS, you have YouTube and opinion pieces from trade magazines. With M$'s advertising budget, the trade mags are just a little slanted in their coverage. Not even Slashdot cares about people's software freedom.
Everybody should use the system they like and stop preaching and advocating.
If you don't like Ubuntu or comparison articles and opinions one way or the other, you should go find an article you like and comment there. You might actually know something about the subject and look less like a hypocrite who's trying to preach atheism in a church. Freedom is worth advocating and I'm going to continue to tell people who read comparison articles that Windows will never do what users want because it's not free.
You'll not be getting year long uptimes in Ubuntu...
The author of the fine article claims to have gotten 150 days out of his Frankenstein "server". I admit to being impressed and sometimes you can learn things by reading.
Isn't it funny how you keep linking to twitter's journal?
I read Twitter's journal because it's informative. I also liked to read Twitter's comments before you M$ loving assholes bombed his account back to the stone age. You might also note that I link to the "Vista Failure Log" as my home page with everything I write. Twitter often breaks stories before Slashdot does, especially since you paranoid asshats targeted the account.
As for my identity, both Twitter and I also link to The Register, BBC, FSF, and other sources of news including Slashdot. Twitter must be everywhere! If not, the opinions expressed by Twitter certainly are everywhere.
I wish that you would take your little pissing match somewhere else because it's distracting from the present conversation where I've linked to several YouTube videos showing off the best Vista and Beryl have to offer. After you have pissed off, I hope that this happens to you and your silly little botnet.
How long does it take to save up the modpoints required to both bomb me and mod up your own off topic, flamebait that no one cares about? Does M$ pay you for this or are you some kind of hopelessly obsessed loser?
Why read when you can see for yourself? Cool, eh? The maker was sure to show you the best of each. What they did not show is that you can run a copy of XP or Vista in a virtual machine on one of those faces, if you absolutely must have M$. Yes, there's more to an OS than a snazzy interface, but you have to admit that M$ is beat and you are going to see more of these articles not less because that last piece of the puzzle is being solved. Other stuff, like year long uptime and file systems that just work have been around for a decade. The list of M$ defectors is already large and impressive.
I'll bet the only thing that annoys you more than the success of free software is the failure of Vista. Here's about a dozen movies on that, just in case there's anyone out there who is still willing to bother with Vista.