they only way to deal with the tyrant of Redmond is a war of attrition...
no quarter, no mercy, just cut em off completely, send msft to the recycle bin of history forever...
msft is not to be trusted under any circumstances...
this has already been done both in my office and at home...
i hate flash, 99% of the time it is used for advertising, i also hate animated graphics too...
if advertisers want to display adds on my puter they will have to use still images...
1.yoper does not compile from sourcecode for the instalation as Gentoo does.
2.the instalation tools are quite dated and lack features, compared to the detail and abilitys of other major distros like Slackware (my fav) redhat/mandrake/ thier installers.
when i tested yoper-2.1 i had to use the parameter of yos nousb because yoper choked on my usb ports and would not finish booting the CD to start install...
one more tidbit, my bragging rights i owe all to Linus Torvalds Patrick Volkerding, and all the many others that made GNU/Linux what it is today...
so i offer my thanks and a Laurel & Harty handshake:^)
mostly a browser window, look at the titlebar and addressbar, besides what do you want? word processor/spreadsheet? menus & widgets? terminal? CLI? they all still look just as great...
me thinks thou protest too much...
slackware-10
my fonts are great! look at my homepage for a screenshot...
not just the fonts but the desktop capabilitys of Linux and the choices of desktops too, even something as light as xfce4 and multiple virtual desktops as many as you want, switching just by sliding the curser to the edge of the screen, IMHO compared to windows linux is light years ahead...
you do make a good & valid point, a few months ago i spent three days with a flatbed scanner, and i scanned over 100 years of family photos and burned em all to CD-r (totalling almost 230 megs) making several copys and gave them to several family members...
since this link(http://www.shift.com/content/web/385/1.html was not accessable i had to base my opinion on Slashdot's short description on the frontpage, from reading the other replys i gather it is refering to real pulp/paper books then i say yes books to have the ability to store data for hundreds of years and guess what= books don't need electricy in order to be used, good ol sunlight or if necessary a candle or kerosine lamp will to to...
Why bother backing anything up from a harddrive, the only thing I have that is worth saving can fit on one floppy disk and that is my mozilla bookmarks, I do have a nice collection of desktop backgrounds burned to CD-r because they all add up to about 20 megs...
since most any OS is on CDrom it is better to inst-stall clean than try to backup a installed OS on tape or CD-r unless you are a sys admin for a large networked company that has LOTS of compooooters to keep running, and have too busy of a schedule to spend 15 to 30 minutes at one desktop installing...
HappyTrails:)
yeah, i agree, the advertising in this world is incredibly bothersome, it has saturated everything, and it can get on ones nerves...
P.S. there is NOT WAY in hell i am going to install any advertising sponcered OS or application, and if this becomes the standard of Linux i will quit buying Linux OSs and quit advocating Linux OSs and find another platform to use, even if it is a old copy of OS2 or BeOS or anything ad hock sponcership...
its about time another Opensource OS came along to give Linux some competition. damn, i beginning to think Linux had a monopoly in OPensource/GPL department (ROFLMAO)...
1. Remove Windoze from your computer...
2. Get the latest Linux distro of your choice, Linux is cheap, try a few, find one you can live with and email borne virus' & worms have no affect...
3. Evolution is an exellent Linux alternative to Outlook...
if the above solutions wont work then that is your tough luck, keep scrubbing that Windoze box...
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it is just that the pendulum is swinging the other way, after the music & entertainment industry has milked their customers for all its worth, now a lot of customers are waking up to the fact and are finding a way to even the score, Happens all the time...
I do have a fairly recent computer that I built myself using a MSI K7T266 -R-U Pro2 mainboard, AMD AthlonSP 1600+, 256 megs RAM, NVIDIA AGP GeForce2 MX200 graphics card, and it will be a few years before I need to build a new one, and by then I am sure there will be some non-Palladium boards & CPUs for sale, and since I am just a end user hobbiest so having compatibility with M$ Office & all that is a non-issue with me, I am keeping a archive of several Linux distros on CDrom that were manufactured before sept 11, 2001...
it does not matter anymore, I have removed Windoze from my computer completely...
for now on i look at the license and if there is not a great big GPL in the top center i wont install it...
with the exception of maybe a BSD license...
and since i run ONLY Linux i doubt there will ever be a Microsoft Corperation EULA in the works...
sorry Billy Borg Gates you lose, the tighter you squeeze the computing industry the more of it you lose...
if you want to correct people spelling & Grammer get youyrself a job as a grammer school teacher in a elementary school because everybody that reads this board could care less...
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they only way to deal with the tyrant of Redmond is a war of attrition...
no quarter, no mercy, just cut em off completely, send msft to the recycle bin of history forever...
msft is not to be trusted under any circumstances...
this has already been done both in my office and at home...
i hate flash, 99% of the time it is used for advertising, i also hate animated graphics too... if advertisers want to display adds on my puter they will have to use still images...
1.yoper does not compile from sourcecode for the instalation as Gentoo does.
2.the instalation tools are quite dated and lack features, compared to the detail and abilitys of other major distros like Slackware (my fav) redhat/mandrake/ thier installers.
when i tested yoper-2.1 i had to use the parameter of yos nousb because yoper choked on my usb ports and would not finish booting the CD to start install...
one more tidbit, my bragging rights i owe all to Linus Torvalds Patrick Volkerding, and all the many others that made GNU/Linux what it is today... so i offer my thanks and a Laurel & Harty handshake :^)
mostly a browser window, look at the titlebar and addressbar, besides what do you want? word processor/spreadsheet? menus & widgets? terminal? CLI? they all still look just as great... me thinks thou protest too much...
slackware-10 my fonts are great! look at my homepage for a screenshot... not just the fonts but the desktop capabilitys of Linux and the choices of desktops too, even something as light as xfce4 and multiple virtual desktops as many as you want, switching just by sliding the curser to the edge of the screen, IMHO compared to windows linux is light years ahead...
from the screenshots it looks like gnome http://www.userlinux.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Screensho ts
one 15gig drive and i still have GOBs of free space, and i multiboot with Win98se, Redhat7.3 & Slackware8.1
i would be a lost puppy with that big of a drive, what would i do with all that space???
Kewl, Thanks for the desktop wallpaper!!! :) :) :)
where is a link to a page where it is available to download, for both Windoze and Linux versions...
Thanks:)
you do make a good & valid point, a few months ago i spent three days with a flatbed scanner, and i scanned over 100 years of family photos and burned em all to CD-r (totalling almost 230 megs) making several copys and gave them to several family members...
since this link(http://www.shift.com/content/web/385/1.html was not accessable i had to base my opinion on Slashdot's short description on the frontpage, from reading the other replys i gather it is refering to real pulp/paper books then i say yes books to have the ability to store data for hundreds of years and guess what= books don't need electricy in order to be used, good ol sunlight or if necessary a candle or kerosine lamp will to to...
Why bother backing anything up from a harddrive, the only thing I have that is worth saving can fit on one floppy disk and that is my mozilla bookmarks, I do have a nice collection of desktop backgrounds burned to CD-r because they all add up to about 20 megs... since most any OS is on CDrom it is better to inst-stall clean than try to backup a installed OS on tape or CD-r unless you are a sys admin for a large networked company that has LOTS of compooooters to keep running, and have too busy of a schedule to spend 15 to 30 minutes at one desktop installing... HappyTrails :)
yeah, i agree, the advertising in this world is incredibly bothersome, it has saturated everything, and it can get on ones nerves... P.S. there is NOT WAY in hell i am going to install any advertising sponcered OS or application, and if this becomes the standard of Linux i will quit buying Linux OSs and quit advocating Linux OSs and find another platform to use, even if it is a old copy of OS2 or BeOS or anything ad hock sponcership...
its about time another Opensource OS came along to give Linux some competition. damn, i beginning to think Linux had a monopoly in OPensource/GPL department (ROFLMAO)...
and all these Windoze users never tale Linux serously... never underestimate the power of the Penguin...
there goes the neighbothood, looks like i will not be buying anthing online anymore, from now on its either brick & morter or nothing...
OH, Horse feathers...
> Knowing that your Outlook worm will be the final >one to ever swamp the globe: Priceless. ROFLMAO, yeah that will do it...
1. Remove Windoze from your computer... 2. Get the latest Linux distro of your choice, Linux is cheap, try a few, find one you can live with and email borne virus' & worms have no affect... 3. Evolution is an exellent Linux alternative to Outlook... if the above solutions wont work then that is your tough luck, keep scrubbing that Windoze box...
it is just that the pendulum is swinging the other way, after the music & entertainment industry has milked their customers for all its worth, now a lot of customers are waking up to the fact and are finding a way to even the score, Happens all the time...
Sorry Alsee, I am NOT buying it, no matter how M$FT trys to sweeten the sound of it...
I do have a fairly recent computer that I built myself using a MSI K7T266 -R-U Pro2 mainboard, AMD AthlonSP 1600+, 256 megs RAM, NVIDIA AGP GeForce2 MX200 graphics card, and it will be a few years before I need to build a new one, and by then I am sure there will be some non-Palladium boards & CPUs for sale, and since I am just a end user hobbiest so having compatibility with M$ Office & all that is a non-issue with me, I am keeping a archive of several Linux distros on CDrom that were manufactured before sept 11, 2001...
it does not matter anymore, I have removed Windoze from my computer completely... for now on i look at the license and if there is not a great big GPL in the top center i wont install it... with the exception of maybe a BSD license... and since i run ONLY Linux i doubt there will ever be a Microsoft Corperation EULA in the works... sorry Billy Borg Gates you lose, the tighter you squeeze the computing industry the more of it you lose...
if you want to correct people spelling & Grammer get youyrself a job as a grammer school teacher in a elementary school because everybody that reads this board could care less...