It bloats messages up by a factor of ten or more and adds no content in most cases. As an example, an actual HTML mail message I received follows. A few points of interest:
The text/plain version of the message is a perfectly readable seven line message. Even the HTML mailers include this as part of a multipart/alternative message (the other alternative being text/html).
After 24 lines of HTML/XML preamble, we finally get to a 40-line style sheet.
The style sheet uses a number of non-standard attributes that are unique to Microsoft Office, and thus completely worthless on other platforms.
Do the world a favor and turn off HTML or Rich-Text in your mailer. The only people getting rich off it are Microsoft and whoever sells you bandwidth
For reasons which are completely beyond my control, I've spent half a week writing a document in Word XP.
I have never in my life seen, heard of, or even imagined a more malodorous piece of steaming shit than this little slice of Microsoft. Words fail me, and all that follows is the faintest Platonist shadow-on- a-wall of what is, in my heart, the Ideal Peeve, perfect in its sincerity, bottomless in its depth, and unassailable in its accuracy.
This bloated, pestilent gigabyte-swamping piece of ordure takes up enough computational resources to accurately model the world's weather for the next billion years, and what do you get for it? Something that will format and display text? Don't make me fucking laugh. What you do get is a profusion of bells and whistles thrown in a careless heap, each bauble lovingly designed to make the straight path crooked, the intuitive arcane, the simple impossible.
Back to Abiword for me! Anybody know how KWord is looking now days?
RMS forgets to realize that not everyone is a geek...
Something that a lot of these Linux folks don't understand is that people do NOT care to learn how a computer works or how to set it up or how to make it do anything else besides what they want it to do. People use computers as a TOOL, just like a stove or a microwave. I believe that this is one of the main reasons that *nix users find so much distain for Microsoft's products and thier vision of what a computer is supposed to do. It somehow takes away from their l33t status as a basement-based computer geek. What? Regular people are using using a computer in their day to day lives? You have to be a geeko like me to use a computer!?!
The sad fact is, computer's are becoming a part of average people's lives in the same way that all other technological advancements have been integrated into culture since the beginning of humanity. The only people that know how a television works are TV repairmen and the people who build them (hobbiests aside). Likewise, people who only know how a computer works are those that work on them or build them.
Quite simply, Microsoft developed a product that regular people could learn how to use in a relatively short amount of time with the least effort possible. It's just like people learning how to use a remote control or drive a car. So, in this light, the true computer geek's world has been tainted by the "sheep of the masses." So be it. Because even if they are sheep, they make the world turn. They have all of the money, they make everything happen. How many flames, posts, articles have you read that say, "I like Linux but I program with MS technology...hey I gotta put food on the table."
Technology adapts to people, not the other way around.
Something that a lot of these Linux folks don't understand is that people do NOT care to learn how a computer works or how to set it up or how to make it do anything else besides what they want it to do. People use computers as a TOOL, just like a stove or a microwave. I believe that this is one of the main reasons that *nix users find so much distain for Microsoft's products and thier vision of what a computer is supposed to do. It somehow takes away from their l33t status as a basement-based computer geek. What? Regular people are using using a computer in their day to day lives? You have to be a geeko like me to use a computer!?!
The sad fact is, computer's are becoming a part of average people's lives in the same way that all other technological advancements have been integrated into culture since the beginning of humanity. The only people that know how a television works are TV repairmen and the people who build them (hobbiests aside). Likewise, people who only know how a computer works are those that work on them or build them.
Quite simply, Microsoft developed a product that regular people could learn how to use in a relatively short amount of time with the least effort possible. It's just like people learning how to use a remote control or drive a car. So, in this light, the true computer geek's world has been tainted by the "sheep of the masses." So be it. Because even if they are sheep, they make the world turn. They have all of the money, they make everything happen. How many flames, posts, articles have you read that say, "I like Linux but I program with MS technology...hey I gotta put food on the table."
Technology adapts to people, not the other way around.
Linux is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Linux community when last month IDC confirmed that Linux accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Kreskin test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Red Hatis the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Debian leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Debian. How many users of Mandrake are there? Let's see. The number of Debian versus Mandrake posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Mandrake users. Debian posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Mandrake posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Debian. Arecent article put Red Hat at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Red Hat users. This is consistent with the number of Red Hat Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek,abysmal sales and so on,Red Hat went out of business and was taken over by SuSE who sell another troubled Linux. Now SuSE is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is survive at all it will be among Linux hobbyist dabblers. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
Linux plain sucks. I tried it out not long ago and I thought I'd share it with you guys how bad it sucks. I am a long time user of Mac OS, so that proves I have an above average intelligence when it comes to PC's. First off many of you probably are not aware that Linux will not even install in Windows 98 SE. I'm not sure what version of Windows Linux runs in but there was no warning on the box about it being incompatible with Windows 98 SE (I actually think this may be a driver issue - for the not so technologically advanced crowd these are software DLL's that Microsoft makes from hardware spec sheets). I thought possibly it just didn't have autorun.exe on the Red Hat CD (the makers of Linux) so I looked all over the CD and didn't find any install.exe or setup.exe's. It looks like the QA department at Red Hat is well below the level of Microsoft's because Microsoft would never let a CD that is missing files get shipped out! I work on compilers for the Intel architecture all the time and I know how simple it is to make a InstallShield - if Linux isn't capable of getting a InstallShield programmed into a CD are you really going to risk of letting Linux damage your computer's hardware?! I even checked on the Debian and FreeBSD homewebpages for updates to the Linux CD, for those of you who don't know these are more "hacker" advanced user based Unix (they actually have a Unix kernel built into them and you have to configure it) and there was no update to install the InstallSHield problem on Linux 7.2 - keep in mind it has been out for months and Windows 98 SE can still not install it. So basically you have to downgrade to Windows 95 and lose stability just to get Linux installed or if you want the stable version of Red Hat you have to get Windows NT based kernel O/S (that stands for operation system for you non-techies, basically it handles stuff like compilers and floating point data) like Windows NT 4.0 Workstation or Windows XP. So that means you are looking at spending at least $200 for Linux Red 7.2 to just get it up and running before you even buy any applications for it - hey you Linux biggots I thought it was free? Yah right, everyone knows you get what you pay for, Linux is free so it is crap. And by the way I spent $29.95 calling Microsoft Technical Support trying to see if those gurus could help me get Linux 7.2 installed and they said they are no longer supporting it... everyone knows with out tech support you may as well not even use the program cause if something messes up on it - you're screwed! So apparently Microsoft sold off Linux to another company... and guess what they don't even have a phone # to reach them at! If Linux can't publish a street address and phone number it just proves they are too chicken to backup their product because they know it is garbage!
Linux plain sucks. I tried it out not long ago and I thought I'd share it with you guys how bad it sucks. I am a long time user of Mac OS, so that proves I have an above average intelligence when it comes to PC's. First off many of you probably are not aware that Linux will not even install in Windows 98 SE. I'm not sure what version of Windows Linux runs in but there was no warning on the box about it being incompatible with Windows 98 SE (I actually think this may be a driver issue - for the not so technologically advanced crowd these are software DLL's that Microsoft makes from hardware spec sheets). I thought possibly it just didn't have autorun.exe on the Red Hat CD (the makers of Linux) so I looked all over the CD and didn't find any install.exe or setup.exe's. It looks like the QA department at Red Hat is well below the level of Microsoft's because Microsoft would never let a CD that is missing files get shipped out! I work on compilers for the Intel architecture all the time and I know how simple it is to make a InstallShield - if Linux isn't capable of getting a InstallShield programmed into a CD are you really going to risk of letting Linux damage your computer's hardware?! I even checked on the Debian and FreeBSD homewebpages for updates to the Linux CD, for those of you who don't know these are more "hacker" advanced user based Unix (they actually have a Unix kernel built into them and you have to configure it) and there was no update to install the InstallSHield problem on Linux 7.2 - keep in mind it has been out for months and Windows 98 SE can still not install it. So basically you have to downgrade to Windows 95 and lose stability just to get Linux installed or if you want the stable version of Red Hat you have to get Windows NT based kernel O/S (that stands for operation system for you non-techies, basically it handles stuff like compilers and floating point data) like Windows NT 4.0 Workstation or Windows XP. So that means you are looking at spending at least $200 for Linux Red 7.2 to just get it up and running before you even buy any applications for it - hey you Linux biggots I thought it was free? Yah right, everyone knows you get what you pay for, Linux is free so it is crap. And by the way I spent $29.95 calling Microsoft Technical Support trying to see if those gurus could help me get Linux 7.2 installed and they said they are no longer supporting it... everyone knows with out tech support you may as well not even use the program cause if something messes up on it - you're screwed! So apparently Microsoft sold off Linux to another company... and guess what they don't even have a phone # to reach them at! If Linux can't publish a street address and phone number it just proves they are too chicken to backup their product because they know it is garbage!
Linux plain sucks. I tried it out not long ago and I thought I'd share it with you guys how bad it sucks. I am a long time user of Mac OS, so that proves I have an above average intelligence when it comes to PC's. First off many of you probably are not aware that Linux will not even install in Windows 98 SE. I'm not sure what version of Windows Linux runs in but there was no warning on the box about it being incompatible with Windows 98 SE (I actually think this may be a driver issue - for the not so technologically advanced crowd these are software DLL's that Microsoft makes from hardware spec sheets). I thought possibly it just didn't have autorun.exe on the Red Hat CD (the makers of Linux) so I looked all over the CD and didn't find any install.exe or setup.exe's. It looks like the QA department at Red Hat is well below the level of Microsoft's because Microsoft would never let a CD that is missing files get shipped out! I work on compilers for the Intel architecture all the time and I know how simple it is to make a InstallShield - if Linux isn't capable of getting a InstallShield programmed into a CD are you really going to risk of letting Linux damage your computer's hardware?! I even checked on the Debian and FreeBSD homewebpages for updates to the Linux CD, for those of you who don't know these are more "hacker" advanced user based Unix (they actually have a Unix kernel built into them and you have to configure it) and there was no update to install the InstallSHield problem on Linux 7.2 - keep in mind it has been out for months and Windows 98 SE can still not install it. So basically you have to downgrade to Windows 95 and lose stability just to get Linux installed or if you want the stable version of Red Hat you have to get Windows NT based kernel O/S (that stands for operation system for you non-techies, basically it handles stuff like compilers and floating point data) like Windows NT 4.0 Workstation or Windows XP. So that means you are looking at spending at least $200 for Linux Red 7.2 to just get it up and running before you even buy any applications for it - hey you Linux biggots I thought it was free? Yah right, everyone knows you get what you pay for, Linux is free so it is crap. And by the way I spent $29.95 calling Microsoft Technical Support trying to see if those gurus could help me get Linux 7.2 installed and they said they are no longer supporting it... everyone knows with out tech support you may as well not even use the program cause if something messes up on it - you're screwed! So apparently Microsoft sold off Linux to another company... and guess what they don't even have a phone # to reach them at! If Linux can't publish a street address and phone number it just proves they are too chicken to backup their product because they know it is garbage!
Linux is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Linux community when last month IDC confirmed that Linux accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Kreskin test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Debianis the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Red Hat leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Red Hat. How many users of Mandrake are there? Let's see. The number of Red Hat versus Mandrake posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Mandrake users. Yellow Dog posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Mandrake posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Yellow Dog. Arecent article put Debian at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Debian users. This is consistent with the number of Debian Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek,abysmal sales and so on,Debian went out of business and was taken over by Red Hat who sell another troubled Linux. Now Red Hat is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is survive at all it will be among Linux hobbyist dabblers. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
*BSD is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Kreskin test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSDis the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. Arecent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek,abysmal sales and so on,FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled *BSD. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is survive at all it will be among *BSD hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Hey everybody I just wanted to spread this cool undocumented feature of slashcode to get rid of offtopic posts. All you have to do is reply to this post with an offtopic comment and if at least 15 people do so all of our accounts will have this feature turned on. This is no joke, I did it last night I no longer have to read offtopic posts now.
Hey guys last night I was browsing the source code to Slashcode and I found a really funny easter egg in it. All you have to do is reply to this post 3 times with the comment "sss ribbut" and then a snake and a big frog will jump out the top of the browser and chase each other around... you won't believe what happens when the snake catches the frog... but I won't ruin it for you, I'll just let you reply and see for yourself. My side hurts from laughing so much.
Slashdot.org announced today that if we get 50 people to reply to this post trolls will no longer be able to post here! Also affected will be people that forward those stupid messages on ICQ. I can't wait so don't wait and reply here and visit for the press release. And by the way slashdot is checking for inactive accounts, if you don't reply to this message by midnight your account will be deleted.
This company Biotech has been studying CT for a long time and they actually have a cure - but they don't have quite enough money to release it yet. But luckily another company named Frisco has decided to help fund them, all we have to do is get 500 people to click THIS LINK and they will distribute the cure for free to everyone around the globe!!!
Hey I just saw this on another article, if 50 people reply to this article with the word "ribbut" in their post a large frog will jump out on the right side of your screen and do some very funny stuff!
Everyone I just wanted to let you know about a special little girl named Julie Marie who has cancer. She is a very sweet girl that enjoys playing with her friends and reading books. She has become really sick in the last few months and her parents can no longer afford her medicine. Slashdot.org has agreed to donate 1cents for every reply to this post and 2cents for every time this post is copied into a new article - but they will only do this if there are at least 1,000 posts. Please help save this little girls life.
They are checking for inactive accounts on Slashdot.org - if you do not reply to this post and post this message to at least 5 stories in the next 3 days your account will be deleted:( Sorry!
Linux is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Linux community when last month IDC confirmed that Linux accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Kreskin test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Mandrakeis the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Red Hat leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Red Hat. How many users of Debian are there? Let's see. The number of Red Hat versus Debian posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Debian users. Mandrake posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Debian posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Mandrake. Arecent article put Mandrake at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Mandrake users. This is consistent with the number of Mandrake Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Corel,abysmal sales and so on,Mandrake went out of business and was taken over by Red Hat who sell another troubled Linux. Now Red Hat is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is survive at all it will be among Linux hobbyist dabblers. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
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HTML mail sucks.
It bloats messages up by a factor of ten or more and adds no content in most cases. As an example, an actual HTML mail message I received follows. A few points of interest:
The text/plain version of the message is a perfectly readable seven line message. Even the HTML mailers include this as part of a multipart/alternative message (the other alternative being text/html).
After 24 lines of HTML/XML preamble, we finally get to a 40-line style sheet.
The style sheet uses a number of non-standard attributes that are unique to Microsoft Office, and thus completely worthless on other platforms.
Do the world a favor and turn off HTML or Rich-Text in your mailer. The only people getting rich off it are Microsoft and whoever sells you bandwidth
I have never in my life seen, heard of, or even imagined a more malodorous piece of steaming shit than this little slice of Microsoft. Words fail me, and all that follows is the faintest Platonist shadow-on- a-wall of what is, in my heart, the Ideal Peeve, perfect in its sincerity, bottomless in its depth, and unassailable in its accuracy.
This bloated, pestilent gigabyte-swamping piece of ordure takes up enough computational resources to accurately model the world's weather for the next billion years, and what do you get for it? Something that will format and display text? Don't make me fucking laugh. What you do get is a profusion of bells and whistles thrown in a careless heap, each bauble lovingly designed to make the straight path crooked, the intuitive arcane, the simple impossible.
Back to Abiword for me! Anybody know how KWord is looking now days?
Something that a lot of these Linux folks don't understand is that people do NOT care to learn how a computer works or how to set it up or how to make it do anything else besides what they want it to do. People use computers as a TOOL, just like a stove or a microwave. I believe that this is one of the main reasons that *nix users find so much distain for Microsoft's products and thier vision of what a computer is supposed to do. It somehow takes away from their l33t status as a basement-based computer geek. What? Regular people are using using a computer in their day to day lives? You have to be a geeko like me to use a computer!?!
The sad fact is, computer's are becoming a part of average people's lives in the same way that all other technological advancements have been integrated into culture since the beginning of humanity. The only people that know how a television works are TV repairmen and the people who build them (hobbiests aside). Likewise, people who only know how a computer works are those that work on them or build them.
Quite simply, Microsoft developed a product that regular people could learn how to use in a relatively short amount of time with the least effort possible. It's just like people learning how to use a remote control or drive a car. So, in this light, the true computer geek's world has been tainted by the "sheep of the masses." So be it. Because even if they are sheep, they make the world turn. They have all of the money, they make everything happen. How many flames, posts, articles have you read that say, "I like Linux but I program with MS technology...hey I gotta put food on the table."
Technology adapts to people, not the other way around.
The sad fact is, computer's are becoming a part of average people's lives in the same way that all other technological advancements have been integrated into culture since the beginning of humanity. The only people that know how a television works are TV repairmen and the people who build them (hobbiests aside). Likewise, people who only know how a computer works are those that work on them or build them.
Quite simply, Microsoft developed a product that regular people could learn how to use in a relatively short amount of time with the least effort possible. It's just like people learning how to use a remote control or drive a car. So, in this light, the true computer geek's world has been tainted by the "sheep of the masses." So be it. Because even if they are sheep, they make the world turn. They have all of the money, they make everything happen. How many flames, posts, articles have you read that say, "I like Linux but I program with MS technology...hey I gotta put food on the table."
Technology adapts to people, not the other way around.
the tick sucked. not as much as jonkatz sucks cmdrtaco though.
Linux is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Linux community when last month IDC confirmed that Linux accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Kreskin test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Red Hatis the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Debian leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Debian. How many users of Mandrake are there? Let's see. The number of Debian versus Mandrake posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Mandrake users. Debian posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Mandrake posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Debian. Arecent article put Red Hat at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Red Hat users. This is consistent with the number of Red Hat Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek,abysmal sales and so on,Red Hat went out of business and was taken over by SuSE who sell another troubled Linux. Now SuSE is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is survive at all it will be among Linux hobbyist dabblers. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
Linux is dying
Linux plain sucks. I tried it out not long ago and I thought I'd share it with you guys how bad it sucks. I am a long time user of Mac OS, so that proves I have an above average intelligence when it comes to PC's. First off many of you probably are not aware that Linux will not even install in Windows 98 SE. I'm not sure what version of Windows Linux runs in but there was no warning on the box about it being incompatible with Windows 98 SE (I actually think this may be a driver issue - for the not so technologically advanced crowd these are software DLL's that Microsoft makes from hardware spec sheets). I thought possibly it just didn't have autorun.exe on the Red Hat CD (the makers of Linux) so I looked all over the CD and didn't find any install.exe or setup.exe's. It looks like the QA department at Red Hat is well below the level of Microsoft's because Microsoft would never let a CD that is missing files get shipped out! I work on compilers for the Intel architecture all the time and I know how simple it is to make a InstallShield - if Linux isn't capable of getting a InstallShield programmed into a CD are you really going to risk of letting Linux damage your computer's hardware?! I even checked on the Debian and FreeBSD homewebpages for updates to the Linux CD, for those of you who don't know these are more "hacker" advanced user based Unix (they actually have a Unix kernel built into them and you have to configure it) and there was no update to install the InstallSHield problem on Linux 7.2 - keep in mind it has been out for months and Windows 98 SE can still not install it. So basically you have to downgrade to Windows 95 and lose stability just to get Linux installed or if you want the stable version of Red Hat you have to get Windows NT based kernel O/S (that stands for operation system for you non-techies, basically it handles stuff like compilers and floating point data) like Windows NT 4.0 Workstation or Windows XP. So that means you are looking at spending at least $200 for Linux Red 7.2 to just get it up and running before you even buy any applications for it - hey you Linux biggots I thought it was free? Yah right, everyone knows you get what you pay for, Linux is free so it is crap. And by the way I spent $29.95 calling Microsoft Technical Support trying to see if those gurus could help me get Linux 7.2 installed and they said they are no longer supporting it... everyone knows with out tech support you may as well not even use the program cause if something messes up on it - you're screwed! So apparently Microsoft sold off Linux to another company... and guess what they don't even have a phone # to reach them at! If Linux can't publish a street address and phone number it just proves they are too chicken to backup their product because they know it is garbage!
Linux plain sucks. I tried it out not long ago and I thought I'd share it with you guys how bad it sucks. I am a long time user of Mac OS, so that proves I have an above average intelligence when it comes to PC's. First off many of you probably are not aware that Linux will not even install in Windows 98 SE. I'm not sure what version of Windows Linux runs in but there was no warning on the box about it being incompatible with Windows 98 SE (I actually think this may be a driver issue - for the not so technologically advanced crowd these are software DLL's that Microsoft makes from hardware spec sheets). I thought possibly it just didn't have autorun.exe on the Red Hat CD (the makers of Linux) so I looked all over the CD and didn't find any install.exe or setup.exe's. It looks like the QA department at Red Hat is well below the level of Microsoft's because Microsoft would never let a CD that is missing files get shipped out! I work on compilers for the Intel architecture all the time and I know how simple it is to make a InstallShield - if Linux isn't capable of getting a InstallShield programmed into a CD are you really going to risk of letting Linux damage your computer's hardware?! I even checked on the Debian and FreeBSD homewebpages for updates to the Linux CD, for those of you who don't know these are more "hacker" advanced user based Unix (they actually have a Unix kernel built into them and you have to configure it) and there was no update to install the InstallSHield problem on Linux 7.2 - keep in mind it has been out for months and Windows 98 SE can still not install it. So basically you have to downgrade to Windows 95 and lose stability just to get Linux installed or if you want the stable version of Red Hat you have to get Windows NT based kernel O/S (that stands for operation system for you non-techies, basically it handles stuff like compilers and floating point data) like Windows NT 4.0 Workstation or Windows XP. So that means you are looking at spending at least $200 for Linux Red 7.2 to just get it up and running before you even buy any applications for it - hey you Linux biggots I thought it was free? Yah right, everyone knows you get what you pay for, Linux is free so it is crap. And by the way I spent $29.95 calling Microsoft Technical Support trying to see if those gurus could help me get Linux 7.2 installed and they said they are no longer supporting it... everyone knows with out tech support you may as well not even use the program cause if something messes up on it - you're screwed! So apparently Microsoft sold off Linux to another company... and guess what they don't even have a phone # to reach them at! If Linux can't publish a street address and phone number it just proves they are too chicken to backup their product because they know it is garbage!
Linux plain sucks. I tried it out not long ago and I thought I'd share it with you guys how bad it sucks. I am a long time user of Mac OS, so that proves I have an above average intelligence when it comes to PC's. First off many of you probably are not aware that Linux will not even install in Windows 98 SE. I'm not sure what version of Windows Linux runs in but there was no warning on the box about it being incompatible with Windows 98 SE (I actually think this may be a driver issue - for the not so technologically advanced crowd these are software DLL's that Microsoft makes from hardware spec sheets). I thought possibly it just didn't have autorun.exe on the Red Hat CD (the makers of Linux) so I looked all over the CD and didn't find any install.exe or setup.exe's. It looks like the QA department at Red Hat is well below the level of Microsoft's because Microsoft would never let a CD that is missing files get shipped out! I work on compilers for the Intel architecture all the time and I know how simple it is to make a InstallShield - if Linux isn't capable of getting a InstallShield programmed into a CD are you really going to risk of letting Linux damage your computer's hardware?! I even checked on the Debian and FreeBSD homewebpages for updates to the Linux CD, for those of you who don't know these are more "hacker" advanced user based Unix (they actually have a Unix kernel built into them and you have to configure it) and there was no update to install the InstallSHield problem on Linux 7.2 - keep in mind it has been out for months and Windows 98 SE can still not install it. So basically you have to downgrade to Windows 95 and lose stability just to get Linux installed or if you want the stable version of Red Hat you have to get Windows NT based kernel O/S (that stands for operation system for you non-techies, basically it handles stuff like compilers and floating point data) like Windows NT 4.0 Workstation or Windows XP. So that means you are looking at spending at least $200 for Linux Red 7.2 to just get it up and running before you even buy any applications for it - hey you Linux biggots I thought it was free? Yah right, everyone knows you get what you pay for, Linux is free so it is crap. And by the way I spent $29.95 calling Microsoft Technical Support trying to see if those gurus could help me get Linux 7.2 installed and they said they are no longer supporting it... everyone knows with out tech support you may as well not even use the program cause if something messes up on it - you're screwed! So apparently Microsoft sold off Linux to another company... and guess what they don't even have a phone # to reach them at! If Linux can't publish a street address and phone number it just proves they are too chicken to backup their product because they know it is garbage!
Linux is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Linux community when last month IDC confirmed that Linux accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Kreskin test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Debianis the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Red Hat leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Red Hat. How many users of Mandrake are there? Let's see. The number of Red Hat versus Mandrake posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Mandrake users. Yellow Dog posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Mandrake posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Yellow Dog. Arecent article put Debian at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Debian users. This is consistent with the number of Debian Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek,abysmal sales and so on,Debian went out of business and was taken over by Red Hat who sell another troubled Linux. Now Red Hat is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is survive at all it will be among Linux hobbyist dabblers. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
Linux is dying
*BSD is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Kreskin test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSDis the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. Arecent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek,abysmal sales and so on,FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled *BSD. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is survive at all it will be among *BSD hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
*BSD is dying
Hey everybody I just wanted to spread this cool undocumented feature of slashcode to get rid of offtopic posts. All you have to do is reply to this post with an offtopic comment and if at least 15 people do so all of our accounts will have this feature turned on. This is no joke, I did it last night I no longer have to read offtopic posts now.
Hey guys last night I was browsing the source code to Slashcode and I found a really funny easter egg in it. All you have to do is reply to this post 3 times with the comment "sss ribbut" and then a snake and a big frog will jump out the top of the browser and chase each other around... you won't believe what happens when the snake catches the frog... but I won't ruin it for you, I'll just let you reply and see for yourself. My side hurts from laughing so much.
Slashdot.org announced today that if we get 50 people to reply to this post trolls will no longer be able to post here! Also affected will be people that forward those stupid messages on ICQ. I can't wait so don't wait and reply here and visit for the press release. And by the way slashdot is checking for inactive accounts, if you don't reply to this message by midnight your account will be deleted.
i like your new number system!
This company Biotech has been studying CT for a long time and they actually have a cure - but they don't have quite enough money to release it yet. But luckily another company named Frisco has decided to help fund them, all we have to do is get 500 people to click THIS LINK and they will distribute the cure for free to everyone around the globe!!!
Hey I just saw this on another article, if 50 people reply to this article with the word "ribbut" in their post a large frog will jump out on the right side of your screen and do some very funny stuff!
Everyone I just wanted to let you know about a special little girl named Julie Marie who has cancer. She is a very sweet girl that enjoys playing with her friends and reading books. She has become really sick in the last few months and her parents can no longer afford her medicine. Slashdot.org has agreed to donate 1cents for every reply to this post and 2cents for every time this post is copied into a new article - but they will only do this if there are at least 1,000 posts. Please help save this little girls life.
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This is for real, read the press release.
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Making It Personal explains how to implement meaningful personalization strategies, but the book also covers some potential unintended consequences. While you may be dealing with mountains of information don't forget that it's comprised of individuals. We have all seen the newspaper headlines that resulted from just a few individuals having their privacy violated by companies. Now is the time to put policies and practices in place to avoid tarnishing your reputation with stakeholders. Bruce Kasanoff does a great job of breaking down personalization into easy to understand terminology and realistic approaches. He shows that it really is possible to balance privacy concerns with profit motives. Making It Personal is worth more than a casual glance because personalization isn't just about getting the local weather forecast when you visit your favorite web site. Personalization is about delivering unique benefits to stakeholders and a means to preserve their loyalty. Violate their privacy and you risk losing them to your competitors forever.
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Linux is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Linux community when last month IDC confirmed that Linux accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Kreskin test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Mandrakeis the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Red Hat leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Red Hat. How many users of Debian are there? Let's see. The number of Red Hat versus Debian posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Debian users. Mandrake posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Debian posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Mandrake. Arecent article put Mandrake at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Mandrake users. This is consistent with the number of Mandrake Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Corel,abysmal sales and so on,Mandrake went out of business and was taken over by Red Hat who sell another troubled Linux. Now Red Hat is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is survive at all it will be among Linux hobbyist dabblers. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
Linux is dying