The dribbling idiot DumBya is going to put a cruise missle up the ass of these scumbags that pound my email accounts with penny stock crap and ads for penis pills!
ALL politicians make pie in the sky promises. NONE of them ever make good on them. They talk whatever BS their handlers tell them to, to appeal to as many warm bodies as possible.
Also, WTF is politics doing on/. ? If I want propaganda I'll watch Fox or CNN. I am quite certain that/. is more than large enough to run afoul of some blogging/lobbying rules.
Let's keep propaganda and politics out of/. please.
Nothing. I want absolutely nothing from the US mis-government. I would rather live under a bridge than take any sort of hand out. Matter of fact, I think I would prefer to go live on a deserted island in the Adriatic Sea and live off of fish and berries. I'm bloody well sick of everything. I prefer to do without than to submit.
I've been a Linux fanboy for a long time. Several years ago (Suse 7.3) I got on board with Suse and rode the wave up until 10.0. Currently my #1 work horse is a Suse 10.0 box. I tried 10.1 and hated it so I've stayed with 10.0
Now with the MicroSuse deal, I am compelled to withdraw my support, financial and otherwise for Novell/Suse. The past several months I've considered Ubuntu because of all the noise over it. That and Shuttleworth putting on a dog and pony show (anti MicroSuse pro freedom). Well an opportunity arose to install Ubuntu on a machine for a friend so I didn't have to risk my work machine. Man, I was sadly disappointed. What a LAME distro. If you are a tweak freak power user, forget Ubuntu. BASIC.. And yes, I enabled all the extra repositories. Still, BASIC.. Oh, and the security on Ubuntu? Are you shittin me? The "user is root is user" thing alarmed the shit out of me. Uh uh.
I then understood why everyone loves it so much, because it's so BASIC. I told my friend that he wouldn't be happy with Ubuntu and that he should run something else. I have dabbled with Gentoo and I'm pretty sure that that's where I'm headed and will recommend my friends go too.
Now this thing with Ubuntu and Linspire. I guess this will be the new wet dream system for the folks that love and embrace basic and simple and insecure systems. Hell, why even bother, this will be so much like XP that there really won't be enough difference to make it worth the trouble to convert. I read on Digg a few days back some guy installed Ubuntu for his dad (dad requested son to install Vista) and his dad actually believed he was running windows Vista. Are people really that dumb?
The man didn't show me the receipts for the stuff, I'm just repeating what *he told me* they cost. I do not remember what they were or what the ailment was, it was back in 2000 when he told me that and I had totally forgotten about it as I've moved since then and have had no contact with my former land lord. I was not trolling, I was repeating what was told to me. I had no reason on earth to doubt the man. I do not doubt for a second, then or in retrospect what he told me.
And again, I can't imagine how a single capsule/pill/tablet etc. could cost $1,000 a dose. I think it was worth much less the profiteers were taking advantage of a situation to maximize their profits. F*cking vampires.
Some years back my landlord told me that his dad (who was near 100 years old and living in a nursing home) was on a special medicine that was kept under lock and key and that the he kept the key. The pills were locked up at the nursing home but he took the only key to the cabinet home with him. He had to drive up there each day, unlock the cabinet and administer a single pill to his dad under the supervision of the head nurse. Each pill was $1,000 and his dad had to take one every single day of his life or he would die. I don't remember the name of the medication or what it was for but damn, $1,000 per day to stay alive?!! That's insane! Of course it was being covered by insurance as mere mortals couldn't have afforded that much money, the old man had been a big shot at a refinery in his day and had retired with super great benefits and insurance.
I would bet money on it that the pills were really only worth about $10 each at best but the vampire profiteers were sucking the life blood out of every living thing within 2 miles of that nursing home and the old mans insurance company.
I can't imagine in my wildest dreams what you could ever put into one little capsule that would be worth $1,000. Even gold dust isn't worth that much money. Perhaps some diamonds??
One thing that PISSES me off is profiteering drug company vampires. The greedy things they do should be outlawed.
1. Drop the naked people from the logo and graphics. That has to go. 2. Drop the tribal African bullshit. The vision of Voodoo witch doctors and 419'ers conjuring up a distro don't fill me with confidence. 3. Change the name. See number 2.
No offense to anyone but be realistic. You want to be mainstream in the professional world then be professional and not tribal.
Do they really think that we'll all just slap our foreheads and proclaim "OH, I see!", forgive Novell and embrace this new bastard child?
Think again. Linux users have long, deep memories, like elephants, we never forget, never forgive. Why do they think we switched to Linux in the first place? To get FAR away from M$. Don't try to force back in bed with our blood enemy.
there was a watch repair booth at the grocery store and an old man (as I remember him) sat there all day with his loupe repairing watches. My mom would drop me at his booth and I would just stand there, fascinated. I thought that was so freaking cool, to work on such tiny things like watches. I had a Mickey Mouse watch that broke and I got to watch him repair it.
I was inspired by him (and other repairmen) to take stuff apart and see "what makes it tick".. Another thing that was common when I was a kid, there were handymen repair shops where you took just about anything that was broken and the nice man would fix it. Toasters, vacuum cleaners, TV's, radios, whatever.
That's what I wanted to do when I grew up, be a handyman, to just fix broken stuff. Now I'm older, have arthritis in my hands, my eyes aren't so good anymore, there's just no way I could do this sort of work anymore. That sucks because that's what I love to do more than anything, fix things, work on stuff..
A customer of mine called and said she was having hell with hotmail using IE6 on W2k.. I went out there and found that they've changed the online Hotmail interface. It informs you that there is some "new & improved look" to the Hotmail interface. It hangs up indefinitely but displays a message telling you to click a link if you are having trouble with the new look. She must click the link for anything at all to happen, it then gives her a Hotmail screen but informs her that she is now in "reduced functionality mode" and that not all features will be available.
"But it works on my home computer!" and I query her, "Ah, but I'll bet it's running Windows XP, right?" "Yes" she tells me.
So I then go to the microsoft site and check for any win2k updates that may help with this. I find none are available. So then I attempt to track down IE7 for win2k. Nope. According to the M$ website IE7 is available for windows XP and up. A few minutes more of research and I find that IE7 will not now nor ever be available for Windows 2000.
Another machine in that office (set to do automatic M$ updates) is running Office 2003. Over the past several months M$ Word has become almost unusable. The woman at that machine opens online email from Yahoo then uses copy & paste, she copies the text from an online message in an IE6 window then tries to paste it into a M$ Word blank document. Word just hangs up for very long periods, sometimes 15 minutes, sometimes Word crashes. Most of the time she just brings up task manager and kills Word then re-tries it over and over until it works. It always worked fine until about 6 months ago. The copy of Office was pre-installed by Dell. How much you wanna bet they sabotaged it during an "update" to cause frustration and make the customer seek a solution which of course will be a shiny, brand new package of Office 2007 ?? Eh?? No way to PROVE it, but...
Cha-ching for M$!! There are several win2k machines in that office and they all use Hotmail. I will guarantee you that over the next 12 months that they will strangle everything else off, slowly. Win2k and below will be choked off at an insane pace, XP will be choked off a little slower but it will still happen none the less.
I want to also note that the Linux developers are following suit. I use Suse 10.0 on my primary work horse. I've noticed support and focus has wanned. Everyone is all gung-ho on 10.2 (which I have no intentions of using) and developers are putting all their effort on the current release. 10.0 has been moved to the back of the bus. I find that many of the apt repositories have been abandoned or moved and I'm having trouble with dependencies thus making upgrading a nightmare. Because of this and the MicroSu$e merger it appears that it's time for me to jump ship and move to one of the latest ubuntu distros.
M$ isn't the only one pulling this crap off. The Linux folks do it yearly, M$ does it about every 5 years. God strike me dead for saying in defense of M$..
Who remembers the Heathkit HERO robots of the early 80's?? It was a little pricey but it was WAY under the $40k M$ wants.. Man, I wanted one sooooo bad. Those were really cool. Shame that Heathkit went under, they had some great stuff. I guess people don't care about building projects anymore, look at Rat Smack, they went from a hobbyist supply center to a bling-bling store.
Anyway, I would be afraid to let a machine that can move about, grasp objects and runs M$ to roam my house while I'm sleeping. I can just imagine waking up to a "sick" robot wielding a hockey mask and a butcher knife standing over me..
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I laughed at first when I read that then I wanted to cry a second later when I realized how very likely that exact scenario is.
When we do begin to explore and colonize Mars we need to keep the profiteering parasitical corporations out of it.
Please god, let us have a world without greed and advertising.
You're whining about 30 seconds? My god, get a life. When I get up in the morning I go into my office and power up everything then hit the bathroom, start the coffee, walk the dogs then back in to grab a cup of now brewed coffee on my way to my desk. By then everything is not only booted up but it's warmed up and happy.
You Generation M (microwave oven) kids need to quit demanding everything on demand. "I want it and I want it NOW!"
Jeezuz! Damn, I'm 46 and that is BAD stuff.. I have hearing damage from guns and heavy machinery, I have trouble understanding conversation so it's my midrange hearing that's damaged. But I can damn sure hear that and it's extremely nasty.
The OS itself is priced way out of line but then when you factor in all new hardware, it's insane. I've talked to several customers of mine and many of them just bought new machines in the last 18 months. They have no intentions of replacing them all over again just to run this new OS that's not all that revolutionary. I'll bet that's the general consensus. In general of course.
Up your ass Novell. You betrayed us. I hope you crash and burn in hell for your SINS.
You're going to pay a heavy price for your transgressions. Better dust off those resumes, you're all about to be out on your asses looking for work once Novell goes tits up..
I wouldn't want my kids in a classroom with a dangerous moron like him. Zealots like him are dangerous and need psychological help, like strap him into a chair and prop open his eyes (ala Clockwork Orange) and make him watch Richard Dawkins videos 24/7 for a month.
Yeah, the movie is ALWAYS different than the book. Big news flash eh?
If it were not for the MOVIES I (and many more) would have never considered reading the book or taken an interest in the stories in the first place.
I for one am grateful to see a movie on European FOLKLORE and MYTHOLOGY. It was fun. It was a RELIEF from the usual FILTH that Hollyweird churns out in such great and never ending quantities. I for one would like to see MORE movies like the LOTR movies, The Fountain, Tristan & Isolde,
Ring of the Nibelungs, etc...
Bring it on! I want MORE! And all the whiney purist bitches need to get a life and be happy that something like this ever hit the screen in the first place. Be grateful or shut up and go watch some bullshit perverted hollyweird movie in your mama's basement.
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And is backed up by two German Shepherds.
No problems here.
The dribbling idiot DumBya is going to put a cruise missle up the ass of these scumbags that pound my email accounts with penny stock crap and ads for penis pills!
Yay! About time!
ALL politicians make pie in the sky promises. NONE of them ever make good on them.
/. ? /. is more than large enough to run afoul of some blogging/lobbying rules.
/. please.
They talk whatever BS their handlers tell them to, to appeal to as many warm bodies as possible.
Also, WTF is politics doing on
If I want propaganda I'll watch Fox or CNN.
I am quite certain that
Let's keep propaganda and politics out of
Nothing. I want absolutely nothing from the US mis-government.
I would rather live under a bridge than take any sort of hand out.
Matter of fact, I think I would prefer to go live on a deserted island
in the Adriatic Sea and live off of fish and berries.
I'm bloody well sick of everything. I prefer to do without than to submit.
FTW...
I've been a Linux fanboy for a long time. Several years ago (Suse 7.3) I got on board with Suse and rode the wave up until 10.0. Currently my #1 work horse is a Suse 10.0 box. I tried 10.1 and hated it so I've stayed with 10.0
Now with the MicroSuse deal, I am compelled to withdraw my support, financial and otherwise for Novell/Suse.
The past several months I've considered Ubuntu because of all the noise over it.
That and Shuttleworth putting on a dog and pony show (anti MicroSuse pro freedom).
Well an opportunity arose to install Ubuntu on a machine for a friend so I didn't have to risk my work machine. Man, I was sadly disappointed. What a LAME distro. If you are a tweak freak power user, forget Ubuntu. BASIC.. And yes, I enabled all the extra repositories. Still, BASIC.. Oh, and the security on Ubuntu? Are you shittin me? The "user is root is user" thing alarmed the shit out of me. Uh uh.
I then understood why everyone loves it so much, because it's so BASIC.
I told my friend that he wouldn't be happy with Ubuntu and that he should run something else.
I have dabbled with Gentoo and I'm pretty sure that that's where I'm headed and will recommend my friends go too.
Now this thing with Ubuntu and Linspire. I guess this will be the new wet dream system for the folks that love and embrace basic and simple and insecure systems. Hell, why even bother, this will be so much like XP that there really won't be enough difference to make it worth the trouble to convert. I read on Digg a few days back some guy installed Ubuntu for his dad (dad requested son to install Vista) and his dad actually believed he was running windows Vista. Are people really that dumb?
I have a problem with the concept of a "regime"...
"Does Income Inequality Matter?"
To the people at the bottom of the food chain, yes, it does.
To the carnivorous top feeders, no, it doesn't matter at all.
The man didn't show me the receipts for the stuff, I'm just repeating what *he told me* they cost.
I do not remember what they were or what the ailment was, it was back in 2000 when he told me that and I had totally forgotten about it as I've moved since then and have had no contact with my former land lord.
I was not trolling, I was repeating what was told to me. I had no reason on earth to doubt the man.
I do not doubt for a second, then or in retrospect what he told me.
And again, I can't imagine how a single capsule/pill/tablet etc. could cost $1,000 a dose.
I think it was worth much less the profiteers were taking advantage of a situation to maximize their profits.
F*cking vampires.
Some years back my landlord told me that his dad (who was near 100 years old and living in a nursing home) was on a special medicine that was kept under lock and key and that the he kept the key.
The pills were locked up at the nursing home but he took the only key to the cabinet home with him.
He had to drive up there each day, unlock the cabinet and administer a single pill to his dad under the supervision of the head nurse. Each pill was $1,000 and his dad had to take one every single day of his life or he would die. I don't remember the name of the medication or what it was for but damn, $1,000 per day to stay alive?!! That's insane! Of course it was being covered by insurance as mere mortals couldn't have afforded that much money, the old man had been a big shot at a refinery in his day and had retired with super great benefits and insurance.
I would bet money on it that the pills were really only worth about $10 each at best but the vampire profiteers were sucking the life blood out of every living thing within 2 miles of that nursing home and the old mans insurance company.
I can't imagine in my wildest dreams what you could ever put into one little capsule that would be worth $1,000. Even gold dust isn't worth that much money. Perhaps some diamonds??
One thing that PISSES me off is profiteering drug company vampires.
The greedy things they do should be outlawed.
1. Drop the naked people from the logo and graphics. That has to go.
2. Drop the tribal African bullshit. The vision of Voodoo witch doctors and 419'ers conjuring up a distro don't fill me with confidence.
3. Change the name. See number 2.
No offense to anyone but be realistic.
You want to be mainstream in the professional world then be professional and not tribal.
Do they really think that we'll all just slap our foreheads and proclaim "OH, I see!", forgive Novell and embrace this new bastard child?
Think again. Linux users have long, deep memories, like elephants, we never forget, never forgive.
Why do they think we switched to Linux in the first place? To get FAR away from M$.
Don't try to force back in bed with our blood enemy.
there was a watch repair booth at the grocery store and an old man (as I remember him) sat there all day with his loupe repairing watches. My mom would drop me at his booth and I would just stand there, fascinated.
I thought that was so freaking cool, to work on such tiny things like watches.
I had a Mickey Mouse watch that broke and I got to watch him repair it.
I was inspired by him (and other repairmen) to take stuff apart and see "what makes it tick"..
Another thing that was common when I was a kid, there were handymen repair shops where you took just about anything that was broken and the nice man would fix it. Toasters, vacuum cleaners, TV's, radios, whatever.
That's what I wanted to do when I grew up, be a handyman, to just fix broken stuff.
Now I'm older, have arthritis in my hands, my eyes aren't so good anymore, there's just no way I could do this sort of work anymore. That sucks because that's what I love to do more than anything, fix things, work on stuff..
My favorite TV show is "How it's Made"
Thank you. Someone please mod parent +5 insightful
A customer of mine called and said she was having hell with hotmail using IE6 on W2k..
I went out there and found that they've changed the online Hotmail interface.
It informs you that there is some "new & improved look" to the Hotmail interface.
It hangs up indefinitely but displays a message telling you to click a link if you are
having trouble with the new look. She must click the link for anything at all to happen,
it then gives her a Hotmail screen but informs her that she is now in "reduced functionality mode"
and that not all features will be available.
"But it works on my home computer!" and I query her, "Ah, but I'll bet it's running Windows XP, right?"
"Yes" she tells me.
So I then go to the microsoft site and check for any win2k updates that may help with this.
I find none are available. So then I attempt to track down IE7 for win2k.
Nope. According to the M$ website IE7 is available for windows XP and up.
A few minutes more of research and I find that IE7 will not now nor ever be available for Windows 2000.
Another machine in that office (set to do automatic M$ updates) is running Office 2003. Over the past several months M$ Word has become almost unusable. The woman at that machine opens online email from Yahoo then uses copy & paste, she copies the text from an online message in an IE6 window then tries to paste it into a M$ Word blank document.
Word just hangs up for very long periods, sometimes 15 minutes, sometimes Word crashes. Most of the time she just brings up task manager and kills Word then re-tries it over and over until it works.
It always worked fine until about 6 months ago. The copy of Office was pre-installed by Dell.
How much you wanna bet they sabotaged it during an "update" to cause frustration and make the customer seek a solution which of course will be a shiny, brand new package of Office 2007 ?? Eh?? No way to PROVE it, but...
Cha-ching for M$!! There are several win2k machines in that office and they all use Hotmail.
I will guarantee you that over the next 12 months that they will strangle everything else off, slowly.
Win2k and below will be choked off at an insane pace, XP will be choked off a little slower but it will still happen none the less.
I want to also note that the Linux developers are following suit.
I use Suse 10.0 on my primary work horse. I've noticed support and focus has wanned.
Everyone is all gung-ho on 10.2 (which I have no intentions of using) and developers are putting all their effort on the current release. 10.0 has been moved to the back of the bus.
I find that many of the apt repositories have been abandoned or moved and I'm having trouble
with dependencies thus making upgrading a nightmare.
Because of this and the MicroSu$e merger it appears that it's time for me to jump ship and move to
one of the latest ubuntu distros.
M$ isn't the only one pulling this crap off.
The Linux folks do it yearly, M$ does it about every 5 years.
God strike me dead for saying in defense of M$..
Who remembers the Heathkit HERO robots of the early 80's?? It was a little pricey but it was WAY under the $40k M$ wants.. Man, I wanted one sooooo bad. Those were really cool. Shame that Heathkit went under, they had some great stuff. I guess people don't care about building projects anymore, look at Rat Smack, they went from a hobbyist supply center to a bling-bling store.
Anyway, I would be afraid to let a machine that can move about, grasp objects and runs M$
to roam my house while I'm sleeping. I can just imagine waking up to a "sick" robot wielding a hockey mask and a butcher knife standing over me..
I laughed at first when I read that then I wanted to cry a second later when I realized how very likely that exact scenario is.
When we do begin to explore and colonize Mars we need to keep the profiteering parasitical corporations out of it.
Please god, let us have a world without greed and advertising.
You're whining about 30 seconds? My god, get a life.
When I get up in the morning I go into my office and power up everything then hit the bathroom, start the coffee, walk the dogs then back in to grab a cup of now brewed coffee on my way to my desk.
By then everything is not only booted up but it's warmed up and happy.
You Generation M (microwave oven) kids need to quit demanding everything on demand.
"I want it and I want it NOW!"
Jeezuz! Damn, I'm 46 and that is BAD stuff..
I have hearing damage from guns and heavy machinery, I have trouble understanding conversation so it's my midrange hearing that's damaged. But I can damn sure hear that and it's extremely nasty.
Plump When You Cook HIM!®
The OS itself is priced way out of line but then when you factor in all new hardware, it's insane.
I've talked to several customers of mine and many of them just bought new machines in the last 18 months.
They have no intentions of replacing them all over again just to run this new OS that's not all that revolutionary.
I'll bet that's the general consensus. In general of course.
Up your ass Novell.
You betrayed us. I hope you crash and burn in hell for your SINS.
You're going to pay a heavy price for your transgressions. Better dust off those resumes, you're all about to be out on your asses looking for work once Novell goes tits up..
Traitors..
And we all know that our mail contents will be kept 100% private.
Snail mail is the ONLY private form of communications we have left.
I wouldn't want my kids in a classroom with a dangerous moron like him.
Zealots like him are dangerous and need psychological help, like strap him into a chair and prop open his eyes (ala Clockwork Orange) and make him watch Richard Dawkins videos 24/7 for a month.
Fucking whiney bitches.
Yeah, the movie is ALWAYS different than the book. Big news flash eh?
If it were not for the MOVIES I (and many more) would have never considered reading the book or taken an interest in the stories in the first place.
I for one am grateful to see a movie on European FOLKLORE and MYTHOLOGY.
It was fun. It was a RELIEF from the usual FILTH that Hollyweird churns out in such great and never ending quantities. I for one would like to see MORE movies like the LOTR movies, The Fountain, Tristan & Isolde,
Ring of the Nibelungs, etc...
Bring it on! I want MORE! And all the whiney purist bitches need to get a life and be happy that something like this ever hit the screen in the first place. Be grateful or shut up and go watch some bullshit perverted hollyweird movie in your mama's basement.
Sounds like SuSE may have shot themselves in the foot.
That's a start. Now they should do the honorable thing and shoot themselves in the head..