Step 1: After you get your PC home and set it up on your broadband connection, ignore Windows Update. Trash your virus scanner.
Step 2: Wait a few hours/days/weeks and Windows is so helpful it installs lots of grrreat software without taking away any of your precious time! Some of the great shareware/freeware titles you can expect are: CodeRed, Nimda, SoBig.F, Slammer, Gator Advertising, Xupiter and more!
I had the chance to preview Panther on a friend's PowerBook (1Ghz Ti/w SuperDrive) recently. I was very impressed to see the speed improvements Panther brings to "older" machines. Imagine that, and operating system that removes bloat and performs better after subsiquent releases! While 10.2 was what I finally considered a 1.0 release of Mac OS X, Panther is a huge leap in usability.
Expose is so amazing, expect Microsoft to "borrow" it in their next OS release.
"He makes a colorful splash with his colorful consoles, which end up meaningless in the tech world (the candy-colored iMac look had more influence on staplers and George Foreman grills than computers)."
I'm not sure the above is just a troll, but Jobs' influence has dramtically changed the landscape of computing as we know it. Those fruity iMacs you mention not only changed the way we "look" at computers, but also consumables as well. After the iMac's debut, you couldn't swing a dead cat around your head without hitting something with translucent, colored plastic (sorry cat lovers).
What about OS X? How many web sites not only outright copy the look of Apple's own site? Or products that mimic the Aqua goodness? Maybe sites like Macromedia or desktop environments like KDE.
Big deal, right? What else has he done?
His Macintosh gave us a GUI, mouse and pointers. His NeXT machine gave us the World Wide Web. His iMac gave us a simple network appliance. His OS X now gives us a UNIX environment grandparents, moms and teenagers can use.
"Government using linux, good. Government forcing the use of linux and ignoring sound procurement procedures, bad."
I work as a civilian for the government, but moving to Linux is a BAD idea in our office.
When a virus/worm hits our LAN, my productivity sky-rockets. I have close to 468 FreeCell games completed on this computer; This is something I can not easily part with. I'm at the 98% percentile regarding this winning streak, a reboot and reinstall would destroy my statistics. Linux is not an option.
"How long before a bunch of open source revolutionaries are seen dumping Windows CD's into the bay?"
Totally recycled, but... (I live in Massachusetts too, btw)
I, for one, welcome our over-taxed, open source, big coifed, alchoholic,...losing every damned season to those freakin Yankees... overlords with open arms.
"In college, I was the ideal Slackware user.... I fondly remember Slackware as I remember my first girlfriend. "
That's so ironic, because when I was in college during the same timeframe and I felt the same way about Slackware!
I loved to recompile binaries and...
Who the fuck am I kidding? I drank my ass off and chased after every skirt I could. Which is the reason you're a UN*X admin and I'm stuck "slaving" every day working a civil service job for the government. I wish I would've studied harder while I was in college.. Oh wait, damn... Nevermind. Back to my FreeCell game.
"I've been a Windows user for a long, long time and I don't think I've ever received an email containing a virus."
Good Day,
You may be suprise to receive this reply since you do not know me. I am the son of the Sobig.B virus. I presume you are aware there is an RPC/Internet Explorer exploit between Windows 98/ME/2k/XP.
This is based on what they believe as bad and corrupt programming on my late father's part. May his soul rest in perfect peace.
As you might have heard, a lot of my creator's bank account in Switzerland and North America has been frozen. Following the above named reasons, I am soliciting for your humble and confidential assistance to take custody of THIRTY Million United States Dollars (US$30,000,000.00 ), also to front for me in the areas of business you desire profitable.
"StarOffice is based on OpenOffice.org, which is based on StarOffice."
Close...
StarOffice is based on OpenOffice which is based on StarOffice which copies many functions from Microsoft Office, which debuted first on the Macintosh, who purchased ClarisWorks only to produce AppleWorks and later created Mac OS X that copies many *BSD features. Does this mean Microsoft Office is dying, StarOffice is dying or OpenOffice is dying? I'm confused.
"Everytime Apple scratches their butt, slashdot.org approves someones ravenously excited submission regarding the fact."
I saw this posted by an AC somewhere around/. and I think it sums it up fairly well..
Yes, Apple does get a better response these days... and why shouldn't it? They've clearly got a clue since OS9, and while not everything is open source, much of it is. They also seem committed to standards and interoperability. While Microsoft is busy mangling standards so that customers are compelled to buy other Microsoft products to assure everything works, Apple has become a vendor that actually cares about playing well with others.
If you think Slashdot is an Apple love-in without merit, go back and find praise predating recent versions of OS X. Slim pickings, I'd say.
"Windows is better than most operating systems at easing the drudgery of staying on top of patches and bug fixes"
emerge -u world
how _hard_ is that?"
First off, I'm a Mac user but fairly experienced using Unix/Linux....
The Mac is better than most opertaing systems at easing the drugery of staying on top of patches and bug fixes...
*clicks software update*
Do you really expect newbie users of Linux to understand "emerge -u world" by chance? If so, there is MUCH work to be done to Linux's software update model. Sure the emerge command may seem trivial to most advanced Linux users, but what can be done to expand this simplicity towards the consumer market?
Slashdot Mirror
SECURITY, SECURITY, SECURITY, SECURITY!
I... Love... This... Company, YEAH!
Step 2: Wait a few hours/days/weeks and Windows is so helpful it installs lots of grrreat software without taking away any of your precious time! Some of the great shareware/freeware titles you can expect are: CodeRed, Nimda, SoBig.F, Slammer, Gator Advertising, Xupiter and more!
Step 3: There is no step three!
Expose In Action
1.8MB, someone mirror please...
Expose is so amazing, expect Microsoft to "borrow" it in their next OS release.
I'm not sure the above is just a troll, but Jobs' influence has dramtically changed the landscape of computing as we know it. Those fruity iMacs you mention not only changed the way we "look" at computers, but also consumables as well. After the iMac's debut, you couldn't swing a dead cat around your head without hitting something with translucent, colored plastic (sorry cat lovers).
What about OS X? How many web sites not only outright copy the look of Apple's own site? Or products that mimic the Aqua goodness? Maybe sites like Macromedia or desktop environments like KDE.
Big deal, right? What else has he done?
His Macintosh gave us a GUI, mouse and pointers. His NeXT machine gave us the World Wide Web. His iMac gave us a simple network appliance. His OS X now gives us a UNIX environment grandparents, moms and teenagers can use.
Quite a set of lifetime achievements.
One sec, I gotta reboot... *smack*
Whoa... For a second there I thought I was running Windows. What a nightmare!
Bro, I feel your pain...
The closest most SUV owners come to off-roading is running over a fucking skunk on their way to a parent/teacher conference.
I work as a civilian for the government, but moving to Linux is a BAD idea in our office.
When a virus/worm hits our LAN, my productivity sky-rockets. I have close to 468 FreeCell games completed on this computer; This is something I can not easily part with. I'm at the 98% percentile regarding this winning streak, a reboot and reinstall would destroy my statistics. Linux is not an option.
Does Krecipes support canine weight in kilograms?
I'm so ashamed... Hello SlashFark
Wait!
Someone set us up the bomb!
Gentlemen!
Mark your time...
Totally recycled, but... (I live in Massachusetts too, btw)
I, for one, welcome our over-taxed, open source, big coifed, alchoholic, ...losing every damned season to those freakin Yankees... overlords with open arms.
That's so ironic, because when I was in college during the same timeframe and I felt the same way about Slackware!
I loved to recompile binaries and ...
Who the fuck am I kidding? I drank my ass off and chased after every skirt I could. Which is the reason you're a UN*X admin and I'm stuck "slaving" every day working a civil service job for the government. I wish I would've studied harder while I was in college.. Oh wait, damn... Nevermind. Back to my FreeCell game.
Anthon~1.mp3
Or don't even run fucking Windows. Problem solved. :)
Good Day,
You may be suprise to receive this reply since you do not know me. I am the son of the Sobig.B virus. I presume you are aware there is an RPC/Internet Explorer exploit between Windows 98/ME/2k/XP.
This is based on what they believe as bad and corrupt programming on my late father's part. May his soul rest in perfect peace.
As you might have heard, a lot of my creator's bank account in Switzerland and North America has been frozen. Following the above named reasons, I am soliciting for your humble and confidential assistance to take custody of THIRTY Million United States Dollars (US$30,000,000.00 ), also to front for me in the areas of business you desire profitable.
Sorry, I couldn't resist...
I hear it only affects computers with one mouse button.
*ducks*
I'll only perform if you change that to "Who shot JBoss."
Sorry, that's my contract, and it's GPL'ed :)
Close...
StarOffice is based on OpenOffice which is based on StarOffice which copies many functions from Microsoft Office, which debuted first on the Macintosh, who purchased ClarisWorks only to produce AppleWorks and later created Mac OS X that copies many *BSD features. Does this mean Microsoft Office is dying, StarOffice is dying or OpenOffice is dying? I'm confused.
What the hell is happening to America?
Back in the good old days you'd just beat the living shit out of him.
I saw this posted by an AC somewhere around /. and I think it sums it up fairly well..
Yes, Apple does get a better response these days... and why shouldn't it? They've clearly got a clue since OS9, and while not everything is open source, much of it is. They also seem committed to standards and interoperability. While Microsoft is busy mangling standards so that customers are compelled to buy other Microsoft products to assure everything works, Apple has become a vendor that actually cares about playing well with others.
If you think Slashdot is an Apple love-in without merit, go back and find praise predating recent versions of OS X. Slim pickings, I'd say.
If the word "cool" didn't exist in the human language, Steve would have a fairly sucky presentation also. :)
The Steve Ballmer School of Motivational Screaming
Right on, man!
*scratches beard*
*toke*
"Hey man, is that freedom rock?"
"Yeah man!"
"Well turn it up!"
Oh, wait...
Someone needs to inform THESE guys of those statistics...
emerge -u world how _hard_ is that?"
First off, I'm a Mac user but fairly experienced using Unix/Linux....
The Mac is better than most opertaing systems at easing the drugery of staying on top of patches and bug fixes...
*clicks software update*
Do you really expect newbie users of Linux to understand "emerge -u world" by chance? If so, there is MUCH work to be done to Linux's software update model. Sure the emerge command may seem trivial to most advanced Linux users, but what can be done to expand this simplicity towards the consumer market?