This will stop you from building your own box. You mobo won't boot unless you install a preloaded HDD. You HDD of course will be preloaded with M$ and of course you WILL pay for it.
You can be sure that it will be loaded with backdoors and spyware for BIG BROTHER, M$ and RIAA-MPAA.
Welcome to the New World Order. This is one more piece of the Patriot Act Puzzle, aka PAP....
I installed Linux on a few boxes for a few friends. They shit all over the place when it booted up and spewed text all over the screen in 80x25 mode.:-)
I thought it was funny as hell. But I had to go over and sit down with them and explain that this was NORMAL and there was nothing to worry about at all.
They were in a bigger panic than people got in over the duct tape thing..:-)
My first BBS was way, way back when I had my first computer, a Trash-80 COCO, circa 1980. 16k of ram (upgraded from 4k WoW!!!), a SSDD 5.25 floppy disk drive, and a (get this now) 300 buad AUTO ANSWER MODEM ! WOW-O-WOW!! And all these wonderful items were accessable through my Chiclet keyboard and my 25" TV set!
The BBS software was "Colorama BBS" I bought it in I think about 1981 and found I had to upgrade to 32k ram (piggy backed 16k chips) At first it was a private board for me to play with from work and for my friends then when Blade Runner came out in 82 I themed it after the movie that I became enchanted with.
Soon after that I went to work for a computer store and had access to real computers (for that time frame) and began to bring IBM and compaq luggables home. I ended up running the Colorama board for a few years until I built my own IBM from junk parts and discovered PCBoard, I guess around 1985 or so.
I remember getting a Hayes 300 and tricking it into running at 450buad! Wow, that was cool! And then I got a Hayes 1200 and I was THE man in town. With two 10 meg drives and a 300/450/1200 buad modem I ran the biggest and fastest BBS in the county!
Man, what a trip down memory lane!! And to think that led into me hosting my own webservers at my office a few years ago. To me it doesn't seem all that long ago but I guess it is. In a way I miss the old days, those were the pioneering days of computers... Things were simpler back then...
I want to know where anyone thinks this was a "troll"!
I stated what how I feel about the new interactive TV. It's an invasion of privacy. I don't like that. How is that a "troll"??
Whoever set this as a "troll" doesn't need to be modding posts. I hereby proclaim my official complaint against the assignment of "troll" to my post. That was MY opinion of the topic and it is 100% on topic.
I like things the old way. I control my TV and NO ONE knows what I watch. It's MY life and MY privacy.
I would rather sit in a dark cave than surrender my privacy to ANY organization, corporation, or government and live in thier version of bliss (AKA, click and drool)
Finally, some recognition! I'll give it a try, at least it's FREE to download the client and about $14 to try it.
BTW, I found FULL, LEGAL, NEW IN BOX copies of Everquest on Ebay for $4.99 with free shipping. I'm going to try it with the free 30 day trial. If it won't run well under WINE or I don't like it I'm only out of $5 rather than spending $50 to buy a WINDOWS game that may or may not work or that I may not like...
Do you know that there are plenty of copies of the Federalist Papers available all over the Internet but just try to find a copy of the Anti Federalist Papers.
The Anti Federalist Papers are copyrighted and the copyright holders hunt down and procescute anyone publishing copies of them on the Internet.
Seems that someone doesn't want anyone to have access to these historical documents...
I do not live beyond my means nor do I earn beyond my needs. Being self employed gives me that freedom.
I earn enough to take care of my needs. My WANTS are of no real importance. I buy the things that I need to survive and live decently and modestly. I drive a 28 year old Mercedes (official antique now) and take very good care of it. I live in a very average home. I don't live a high life style.
It's not hard, but it is difficult living outside the system. I often barter my skills which are many. I live in the past, at least it's a place I'm familiar with..
His grandpa bought a nice used Buick Roadmaster and gave him his old Dodge for his 16th birthday. Old car but it gets him around.. We are not rich. We get by but are not into materialism.
Yes, I'm an oddball and a ludite, I suffer from double think. (1984) I hate computers but I use them..
Excuse me but I do not use M$.. I have no idea where you get that idea from, I quit using M$ last year.
Mandrake 9.0, KDE 3.1 kernel 2.4.20 P4-2ghz, 512m, 140gigs, GF4-Ti4200/128m
I left M$ because of the utter lack of security and dependability. I refuse to use a broken product. I won't purchase something that will bring trouble to me.
Using M$ would be like ripping the locks off of my doors and putting signs in my front yard inviting bums, hobos and thieves to enter my home for fun and games. Sure, call me a Linux-nazi if you want but at least I'm free of the GRIP of M$ and finally have broken free of the "click and drool" crowd.
Linux forced me to use my mind and got me back in touch with the inside of the box. I like the freedom that Linux has brought to me..
These "tags" will be stripped out the day this hits the wires.
These people seriously underestimate the resolve of teens.
My kid is 17. Here is what he tells me. He won't buy CD's because if a CD has a song that he likes there will be 12-15 songs on there that he thinks SUCK. In other words he's paying ~$15 for ONE SONG. He would rip that one song to HDD and compile his own CD to use in his car with only the songs that he likes.
But, at ~$15 each and being limited by law to only working a max of 20 hours a week at minimum wage he can't afford too many CD's.
Thus enter Kazaa. He can leech all the songs he wants for free and burn his own mixes for his car that suits his taste.
And forget that stuff about buying music online, he can't do that as a kid and I don't have or use any form of banking system. I live strictly by GREEN CASH ALONE and have nothing at all to do with any financial institute in any form. Despite that fact, even if I did have credit cards or bank accounts I would never use them online for any reason, ever. Nor would I permit him to use my accounts.
Kids are smart, far smarter than the people that try to maintain their grip on the music industry. NOTHING that they can devise will stop piracy, ever. If something must be paid for there will always be someone that will find a way to get it for free.
The digital age is Pandora's box. It's been opened and there is no closing it now.
I predict to see a tool to strip the tags on freshmeat the next day..
Why do Linux users so passionatly hate M$ but go head over heels to look, act, feel, smell like M$???
I just installed KDE 3.1 last week and it defaulted to a "look and feel" that SMACKED of Winbloz XP.
If you like XP so damn much USE IT!! Let's keep M$ crap out of Linux world people!!!
I left M$ garbage to be free of the beast! I don't want ANYTHING to do with ANY M$ products, ever, for any reason. I spend all my spare moments praying for the collapse of the Evil Empire and the arrest and conviction of "The Evil One"...
I'm appalled that my/. email updates are CONSTANTLY peppered with ads for M$.NET !!!
SBC is the most inept group of idiots on planet earth. They can't keep a DSL line operating properly to save their lives. I've DOCUMENTED dozens of cases where end users had nothing but months upon months of problems with SBC/ASI.
The line quality is poor, the quality of service is POOR, the support is POOR. You can NOT get anyone on the line that has anything close to a clue and you spend hours and hours each month on hold fighting with them about OVER BILLING issues.
It's common to get charged for additional DSL accounts on your phone bill, then you get charged for installation on the non existant account, then they charge you for repairs to the ghost account, and so on. When you call and spend hours fighting with them over it and getting shuffled all over the place, they finally promise to take care of it but when your next bill comes you find that ANOTHER account got added on.
It's like a dog chasing it's tail, there is no way you can win with these idiots.
I have three customers (I work on PC's) who called SBC when they could not connect. (The problem was the SBC went down, NOT the customer. Had the customer waited a few hours the system would have come back online.) SBC told them to disconnect their NAT routers and install their trashy CD. When these people followed SBC instructions verbatim, their computers were left in an unusable condition.
When they send out some "terbaccy chawin" redneck with his butt crack prominently displayed to repair the damage the phone support people caused, the computers would not even boot up anymore. The end result is that the end user would lose everything on the hard drive because the "tech" would so badly damage the system that he would end up sticking the OEM CD in and wiping everything out.
These people have NO business touching computers or anything else. They can run wires, "Uh, red wire to red terminal, green wire to green terminal..." but that's the limit of it.
I personally had nothing but total hell with these people with a DSL account at my office, it took me a year to get them to stop billing me for it AFTER they disconnected it. They were charging me for FOUR (4) DSL accounts at my office at the rate of $600 a month when I only had ONE (1) account at the $79 a month rate.
They did the same thing to me at my house, I had DSL there and they were charging me $300 a month for TWO (2) DSL accounts that I did NOT have, I only had ONE (1) account at $49 a month. It took a year to get them to stop billing me. I've never gotten my money back either. They would cut my phone off when I would refuse to pay the over charges, so they robbed me.
They did the same exact thing to another man that I know. Over billed the hell out of him and never gave him his money back.
These people are criminals, they are the Al Capones of the communications industry. They are common thieves, thugs, criminals.
It's no wonder they have all their offices out of state and in big brick buildings with high security. I personally would strangle a few of them if I could get my hands on them. They have to hide like that because they know that MOST people would strangle them (or worse) if they could get to them. I remember about 25 years ago they had open offices with human beings, you could go in and sit across a desk from a real person and talk nicely with your bill(s) in hand and get things straightend out like civilized people. Their hiding in brick buildings is akin to a mugger wearing a ski mask when he robs you..
God forbid these idiots consider operating a satellite system, they can't keep a simple DSL system operating properly or provide any manner of support for it.
If SBC takes control of DTV you can expect satellites to rain down from the skies. They could fsck up a wrecking ball with a rubber mallet.
And as it stands, DTV security is an absolute joke, they are hacked 6 ways to Sunday, pretty much free satellite TV for anyone that wants it. Let SBC have a whack at it and the entire planet will be watching DTV for free!!
SBC/ASI/DTV ??? Get your hard hats out and some satellite crash insurance...
I had people screwing around downloading crap, playing games, warez, pr0n, chatting and everything else except working.
TOO F-ING BAD.... I cut off all access to those types of sevices, filter email and delete non company related email, removed floppies and CD drives and generally forbid anyone from doing anything at work except work.
If people want to play they can do it at home. I don't hire people to play while I pay them.
Yes, I am Mr. hardass but I don't care, if they don't like it they can go work somewhere else. I also do not hire smokers or drinkers. Smokers STINK and are sick all the time and waste time smoking, and drinkers are always drunk and are always late for work, forget things, and are untrustworthy in general.
Work is for work. I can't believe people have the balls to show up and demand to be paid for screwing around!!
Just imagine for a moment this bogus scenario if you will (I don't really own a restaurant!)
I own a restaurant. I don't like people coming into my restaurant that wear green shirts. I tell anyone trying to enter my restaurant wearing a green shirt that they are not welcome and that they must leave and that if they want to eat in my restaurant they must wear a different color shirt.
*Or*, say I don't like black people and I don't want them to eat in my restaurant. I tell any black people that try to enter my restaurant that they are not welcome in my restaurant and that they can not enter.
How long would THIS sort of thing last??? Not long I tell you. The green shirt thing would end up in court, the discrimination against the blacks would end up in violence and bodily harm within hours of the first event.
The point is, this is discrimination. They have NO right to FORCE people to use their shitty product. Not that anyone would want to visit their shitty website, except to laugh at the minute by minute bug reports.
I think they should have the ever loving shit sued out of them for e-discrimination.
I recycle discarded computers into FULLY OPERATIONAL firewalls and sell them to medium sized companies for a substantial savings when compared to a wildly overpriced and easily hacked Cisco router.
Not to mention the fact that the PC will not go into the dump generating more usless pollution.
AND, if the router becomes obsolete in that attackers penetrate it, it's a simple matter to upgrade by slipping a new floppy in and hitting the reset button.
The floppy is FLAKEY technology but it's still very useful..
What about the apps where you DO NOT BOOT WINBLOZ ?!!! I sell firewall systems that boot from 1.44m floppy. I can name NUMEROUS applications where you need to boot from a floppy disk.
You can NOT boot from the retarded thumb drive on older mobo's. I suspect that SOME newer mobo's might be able to but I'm not aware of any, a google search shows everyone asking about booting from thumb but no one reporting that they can.
IMHO, the thumb is a doo-dad fad. Nice for MP3 pirates, you can put a whole CD on a 128m thumb drive. Kids will love this..
But us tech types know this device is a just a toy and a fad. It serves no useful purpose from a PRACTICAL viewpoint..
My friend is on winbloz 2k and he is NOT very adept at computing. He only knows about downloading pr0n in vast quanities and frequently. I've warned him over and over of the dangers of this. His PC is constantly riddled with virii, trojans, BOs, you name it.
If you use winbloz you would have more privacy standing buck naked in the middle of the highway waving at cars.
Now, to add insult to injury, a "friend" of his went to his house and installed that friggin purple monkey crap on there so now he's REALLY getting a raw screwing.
I've lost count of the number of times that his machine had to be low level formated due to extreme infections. He's had hundreds upon hundreds of infections and he just won't learn.
Well, I've had enough of seeing my friend being st00pid so I told him that it's time for him to switch over to Linux. This weekend I'm wiping his drive clean and loading Mandrake.
Install Linux, end of problem(s). If he want's his pr0n that's his problem but at least he won't get virused up every five seconds and I won't get constant "help me!" calls...
God how I hate M$!!!
What I plan to do about gaming on Linux..
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I will run the few Linux games I have, on the rare occassion that the urge strikes me. And after watching my son play some seriously cool looking games on his PS2 that when he moves away this summer for college, his PS2 STAYS WITH ME...
I'll take good care of it for him..
(I still refuse to use M$ but I do want an X-Box *JUST* to hack it and run Linux on it. I'll have it spam M$ with anti M$ hate mail on a cron job. Dear Bill, you still suck but I really am enjoying my Linux on YOUR Xbox!! Thanks for a CHEAP computer!)
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This will stop you from building your own box.
You mobo won't boot unless you install a preloaded HDD. You HDD of course will be preloaded with M$ and of course you WILL pay for it.
You can be sure that it will be loaded with backdoors and spyware for BIG BROTHER, M$ and RIAA-MPAA.
Welcome to the New World Order.
This is one more piece of the Patriot Act Puzzle, aka PAP....
I installed Linux on a few boxes for a few friends. :-)
:-)
They shit all over the place when it booted up and spewed text all over the screen in 80x25 mode.
I thought it was funny as hell. But I had to go over and sit down with them and explain that this was NORMAL and there was nothing to worry about at all.
They were in a bigger panic than people got in over the duct tape thing..
My first BBS was way, way back when I had my first computer, a Trash-80 COCO, circa 1980.
16k of ram (upgraded from 4k WoW!!!),
a SSDD 5.25 floppy disk drive,
and a (get this now) 300 buad AUTO ANSWER MODEM ! WOW-O-WOW!!
And all these wonderful items were accessable through my Chiclet keyboard and my 25" TV set!
The BBS software was "Colorama BBS"
I bought it in I think about 1981 and found I had to upgrade to 32k ram (piggy backed 16k chips)
At first it was a private board for me to play with from work and for my friends then when Blade Runner came out in 82 I themed it after the movie that I became enchanted with.
Soon after that I went to work for a computer store and had access to real computers (for that time frame) and began to bring IBM and compaq luggables home. I ended up running the Colorama board for a few years until I built my own IBM from junk parts and discovered PCBoard, I guess around 1985 or so.
I remember getting a Hayes 300 and tricking it into running at 450buad! Wow, that was cool! And then I got a Hayes 1200 and I was THE man in town. With two 10 meg drives and a 300/450/1200 buad modem I ran the biggest and fastest BBS in the county!
Man, what a trip down memory lane!!
And to think that led into me hosting my own webservers at my office a few years ago.
To me it doesn't seem all that long ago but I guess it is. In a way I miss the old days, those were the pioneering days of computers...
Things were simpler back then...
I want to know where anyone thinks this was a "troll"!
I stated what how I feel about the new interactive TV. It's an invasion of privacy. I don't like that. How is that a "troll"??
Whoever set this as a "troll" doesn't need to be modding posts.
I hereby proclaim my official complaint against the assignment of "troll" to my post.
That was MY opinion of the topic and it is 100% on topic.
I like things the old way.
I control my TV and NO ONE knows what I watch. It's MY life and MY privacy.
I would rather sit in a dark cave than surrender my privacy to ANY organization, corporation, or government and live in thier version of bliss (AKA, click and drool)
Finally, some recognition!
I'll give it a try, at least it's FREE to download the client and about $14 to try it.
BTW, I found FULL, LEGAL, NEW IN BOX copies of Everquest on Ebay for $4.99 with free shipping.
I'm going to try it with the free 30 day trial.
If it won't run well under WINE or I don't like it I'm only out of $5 rather than spending $50 to buy a WINDOWS game that may or may not work or that I may not like...
Do you know that there are plenty of copies of the Federalist Papers available all over the Internet but just try to find a copy of the Anti Federalist Papers.
The Anti Federalist Papers are copyrighted and the copyright holders hunt down and procescute anyone publishing copies of them on the Internet.
Seems that someone doesn't want anyone to have access to these historical documents...
I didn't teach my kid such thing. He learned it on his own. I use Linux and I don't pirate software or music. I don't even listen to music.
I do not live beyond my means nor do I earn beyond my needs. Being self employed gives me that freedom.
I earn enough to take care of my needs. My WANTS are of no real importance. I buy the things that I need to survive and live decently and modestly.
I drive a 28 year old Mercedes (official antique now) and take very good care of it. I live in a very average home. I don't live a high life style.
It's not hard, but it is difficult living outside the system. I often barter my skills which are many.
I live in the past, at least it's a place I'm familiar with..
Federal child labor laws.
He works at the local library and they strictly adhere to federal laws. Very strictly..
His grandpa bought a nice used Buick Roadmaster and gave him his old Dodge for his 16th birthday. Old car but it gets him around..
We are not rich. We get by but are not into materialism.
Yes, I'm an oddball and a ludite, I suffer from double think. (1984) I hate computers but I use them..
I walk into the local Road Runner office and pay them with green cash. Works fine...
Excuse me but I do not use M$..
I have no idea where you get that idea from, I quit using M$ last year.
Mandrake 9.0, KDE 3.1 kernel 2.4.20
P4-2ghz, 512m, 140gigs, GF4-Ti4200/128m
I left M$ because of the utter lack of security and dependability. I refuse to use a broken product. I won't purchase something that will bring trouble to me.
Using M$ would be like ripping the locks off of my doors and putting signs in my front yard inviting bums, hobos and thieves to enter my home for fun and games. Sure, call me a Linux-nazi if you want but at least I'm free of the GRIP of M$ and finally have broken free of the "click and drool" crowd.
Linux forced me to use my mind and got me back in touch with the inside of the box.
I like the freedom that Linux has brought to me..
These "tags" will be stripped out the day this hits the wires.
These people seriously underestimate the resolve of teens.
My kid is 17. Here is what he tells me. He won't buy CD's because if a CD has a song that he likes there will be 12-15 songs on there that he thinks SUCK. In other words he's paying ~$15 for ONE SONG. He would rip that one song to HDD and compile his own CD to use in his car with only the songs that he likes.
But, at ~$15 each and being limited by law to only working a max of 20 hours a week at minimum wage he can't afford too many CD's.
Thus enter Kazaa. He can leech all the songs he wants for free and burn his own mixes for his car that suits his taste.
And forget that stuff about buying music online, he can't do that as a kid and I don't have or use any form of banking system. I live strictly by GREEN CASH ALONE and have nothing at all to do with any financial institute in any form. Despite that fact, even if I did have credit cards or bank accounts I would never use them online for any reason, ever. Nor would I permit him to use my accounts.
Kids are smart, far smarter than the people that try to maintain their grip on the music industry.
NOTHING that they can devise will stop piracy, ever. If something must be paid for there will always be someone that will find a way to get it for free.
The digital age is Pandora's box. It's been opened and there is no closing it now.
I predict to see a tool to strip the tags on freshmeat the next day..
I went to the site and saw no mention of Linux and the D/L is a 20meg .exe file. I can only assume it's NOT for consumption by alternative crowd.
Why do Linux users so passionatly hate M$ but go head over heels to look, act, feel, smell like M$???
/. email updates are CONSTANTLY peppered with ads for M$ .NET !!!
I just installed KDE 3.1 last week and it defaulted to a "look and feel" that SMACKED of Winbloz XP.
If you like XP so damn much USE IT!! Let's keep M$ crap out of Linux world people!!!
I left M$ garbage to be free of the beast! I don't want ANYTHING to do with ANY M$ products, ever, for any reason. I spend all my spare moments praying for the collapse of the Evil Empire and the arrest and conviction of "The Evil One"...
I'm appalled that my
Jeez people!
SBC is the most inept group of idiots on planet earth. They can't keep a DSL line operating properly to save their lives. I've DOCUMENTED dozens of cases where end users had nothing but months upon months of problems with SBC/ASI.
The line quality is poor, the quality of service is POOR, the support is POOR. You can NOT get anyone on the line that has anything close to a clue and you spend hours and hours each month on hold fighting with them about OVER BILLING issues.
It's common to get charged for additional DSL accounts on your phone bill, then you get charged for installation on the non existant account, then they charge you for repairs to the ghost account, and so on. When you call and spend hours fighting with them over it and getting shuffled all over the place, they finally promise to take care of it but when your next bill comes you find that ANOTHER account got added on.
It's like a dog chasing it's tail, there is no way you can win with these idiots.
I have three customers (I work on PC's) who called SBC when they could not connect.
(The problem was the SBC went down, NOT the customer. Had the customer waited a few hours the system would have come back online.)
SBC told them to disconnect their NAT routers and install their trashy CD. When these people followed SBC instructions verbatim, their computers were left in an unusable condition.
When they send out some "terbaccy chawin" redneck with his butt crack prominently displayed to repair the damage the phone support people caused, the computers would not even boot up anymore. The end result is that the end user would lose everything on the hard drive because the "tech" would so badly damage the system that he would end up sticking the OEM CD in and wiping everything out.
These people have NO business touching computers or anything else.
They can run wires, "Uh, red wire to red terminal, green wire to green terminal..." but that's the limit of it.
I personally had nothing but total hell with these people with a DSL account at my office, it took me a year to get them to stop billing me for it AFTER they disconnected it. They were charging me for FOUR (4) DSL accounts at my office at the rate of $600 a month when I only had ONE (1) account at the $79 a month rate.
They did the same thing to me at my house, I had DSL there and they were charging me $300 a month for TWO (2) DSL accounts that I did NOT have, I only had ONE (1) account at $49 a month. It took a year to get them to stop billing me. I've never gotten my money back either. They would cut my phone off when I would refuse to pay the over charges, so they robbed me.
They did the same exact thing to another man that I know. Over billed the hell out of him and never gave him his money back.
These people are criminals, they are the Al Capones of the communications industry. They are common thieves, thugs, criminals.
It's no wonder they have all their offices out of state and in big brick buildings with high security.
I personally would strangle a few of them if I could get my hands on them. They have to hide like that because they know that MOST people would strangle them (or worse) if they could get to them. I remember about 25 years ago they had open offices with human beings, you could go in and sit across a desk from a real person and talk nicely with your bill(s) in hand and get things straightend out like civilized people.
Their hiding in brick buildings is akin to a mugger wearing a ski mask when he robs you..
God forbid these idiots consider operating a satellite system, they can't keep a simple DSL system operating properly or provide any manner of support for it.
If SBC takes control of DTV you can expect satellites to rain down from the skies. They could fsck up a wrecking ball with a rubber mallet.
And as it stands, DTV security is an absolute joke, they are hacked 6 ways to Sunday, pretty much free satellite TV for anyone that wants it. Let SBC have a whack at it and the entire planet will be watching DTV for free!!
SBC/ASI/DTV ??? Get your hard hats out and some satellite crash insurance...
I had people screwing around downloading crap, playing games, warez, pr0n, chatting and everything else except working.
TOO F-ING BAD.... I cut off all access to those types of sevices, filter email and delete non company related email, removed floppies and CD drives and generally forbid anyone from doing anything at work except work.
If people want to play they can do it at home. I don't hire people to play while I pay them.
Yes, I am Mr. hardass but I don't care, if they don't like it they can go work somewhere else. I also do not hire smokers or drinkers. Smokers STINK and are sick all the time and waste time smoking, and drinkers are always drunk and are always late for work, forget things, and are untrustworthy in general.
Work is for work. I can't believe people have the balls to show up and demand to be paid for screwing around!!
I would have to email them and invite them to stuff MSIE up their butts along with say about 250,000 VB viruses...
Just imagine for a moment this bogus scenario if you will (I don't really own a restaurant!)
I own a restaurant. I don't like people coming into my restaurant that wear green shirts. I tell anyone trying to enter my restaurant wearing a green shirt that they are not welcome and that they must leave and that if they want to eat in my restaurant they must wear a different color shirt.
*Or*, say I don't like black people and I don't want them to eat in my restaurant. I tell any black people that try to enter my restaurant that they are not welcome in my restaurant and that they can not enter.
How long would THIS sort of thing last???
Not long I tell you. The green shirt thing would end up in court, the discrimination against the blacks would end up in violence and bodily harm within hours of the first event.
The point is, this is discrimination. They have NO right to FORCE people to use their shitty product. Not that anyone would want to visit their shitty website, except to laugh at the minute by minute bug reports.
I think they should have the ever loving shit sued out of them for e-discrimination.
I recycle discarded computers into FULLY OPERATIONAL firewalls and sell them to medium sized companies for a substantial savings when compared to a wildly overpriced and easily hacked Cisco router.
Not to mention the fact that the PC will not go into the dump generating more usless pollution.
AND, if the router becomes obsolete in that attackers penetrate it, it's a simple matter to upgrade by slipping a new floppy in and hitting the reset button.
The floppy is FLAKEY technology but it's still very useful..
What about the apps where you DO NOT BOOT WINBLOZ ?!!!
I sell firewall systems that boot from 1.44m floppy. I can name NUMEROUS applications where you need to boot from a floppy disk.
You can NOT boot from the retarded thumb drive on older mobo's. I suspect that SOME newer mobo's might be able to but I'm not aware of any, a google search shows everyone asking about booting from thumb but no one reporting that they can.
IMHO, the thumb is a doo-dad fad. Nice for MP3 pirates, you can put a whole CD on a 128m thumb drive. Kids will love this..
But us tech types know this device is a just a toy and a fad. It serves no useful purpose from a PRACTICAL viewpoint..
I've heard of it. Don't think I need it though with this Linux thingy I use..
Use winbloz, pay the price.
My friend is on winbloz 2k and he is NOT very adept at computing. He only knows about downloading pr0n in vast quanities and frequently. I've warned him over and over of the dangers of this. His PC is constantly riddled with virii, trojans, BOs, you name it.
If you use winbloz you would have more privacy standing buck naked in the middle of the highway waving at cars.
Now, to add insult to injury, a "friend" of his went to his house and installed that friggin purple monkey crap on there so now he's REALLY getting a raw screwing.
I've lost count of the number of times that his machine had to be low level formated due to extreme infections. He's had hundreds upon hundreds of infections and he just won't learn.
Well, I've had enough of seeing my friend being st00pid so I told him that it's time for him to switch over to Linux. This weekend I'm wiping his drive clean and loading Mandrake.
Install Linux, end of problem(s).
If he want's his pr0n that's his problem but at least he won't get virused up every five seconds and I won't get constant "help me!" calls...
God how I hate M$!!!
I will run the few Linux games I have, on the rare occassion that the urge strikes me. And after watching my son play some seriously cool looking games on his PS2 that when he moves away this summer for college, his PS2 STAYS WITH ME...
I'll take good care of it for him..
(I still refuse to use M$ but I do want an X-Box *JUST* to hack it and run Linux on it. I'll have it spam M$ with anti M$ hate mail on a cron job.
Dear Bill, you still suck but I really am enjoying my Linux on YOUR Xbox!! Thanks for a CHEAP computer!)