And people wonder why businesses use Microsoft when the very people who keep banging on about how secure Linux is and how it's better than Windows can't get their house in order first.
Doesn't look good when the distro can't even support the hardware it recommends. Ho hum.
but suffice it to say that MS stands to lose a hefty chunk of change if Vista dies on the vine. You've obviously not thought this through much. It'd make absolutely zero difference to their bank balance today as they've already paid the bill for Vista. All they've got to do is recoup the money but as Microsoft doesn't appear to have gone bust, if they recoup $0 from Vista and continue selling XP, they're still still making money.
Yeah Right. Microsoft has sold so many copies of XP that they've run out of CD Keys which takes some doing when you consider how many they could generate. And the Linux Zealots still think that Linux will prevail over Windows. I don't think that'll be any time soon. XP has still got a couple of years where you'll be able to buy it. They may need to issue another patch.
To the Linux Zealots, a simple suggestion:
If You want to learn how to do an OS and make it popular, look at XP.
Things are changing - Dell's recent foray into Linux systems demonstrates that -
That'll be the same Dell that sells Linux boxes for £50 more than the same spec Windows boxes so people buy the Windows boxes, which adds another to the Windows sales tally, and then shove Linux on. Way to go Dell.
And i cant think of ONE single puny nice little thing that Microsoft has done for Linux. Then you're fucking stupid. Without 98 and definitely XP, PC use in the home wouldn't be as widespread as it is now and you'd have sod all chance of getting Linux on the desktop because, as with IBM back in the 80's, nobody ever got fired for installing Windows.
You lot going on about the reverse engineering bleat on about it like it's something new. IT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES, possibly millenia.
It was certainly going on in the 70's and 80's where video arcade game manufacturers used to resort to wiping IC numbers off chips to try and prevent it.
So if the Apache team makes a GUI option for configurations then it would probably start gaining the lost market share back?
Only as long as they don't get the same GUI team that The GIMP project uses. People wouldn't just be crawling away from Apache, they'd be running.
Seriously, some FOSS projects need to get more serious about the front ends. Editing config files by hand is so 1990's. Maybe that's why FOSS doesn't get taken as seriously as it should, because it looks like it harps back to DOS days.
If you support the English way of spelling English, then you're a terrorist.
Go smoke a fag. It's interesting to note that the USA only really has American English spellings for slightly complicated words. Laziness or stupidity? Both are equally applicable.
I was given an old P-233 Sony, one of the little ones with a 1024 x 480 screen. A drive refresh from the CD produced an unstable Win98 system with an old version of IE that choked on any modern website. A couple of evenings later, it runs Puppy quickly and smoothly from a CF card instead of a HDD, greatly increasing battery life while reducing heat and noise. Runs in ramdisk, only dumping to flash when a session is ending. Even Wifi was quick to set up. So, you see, in some cases, the OS it is running DOES make a 'rat's arse' of a difference, in this case the difference is 'unstable POS' verses 'very usable and improved web browsing experience". I had to care what OS it ran. And I even tried to make the original OS work.
See what I mean? This is exactly the bullshit posted by the Linux Zealot brigade. NOBODY BELIEVES YOU BECAUSE A LOT OF US HAVE BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME AND HAD PERFECTLY DECENT STABLE WIN98 PCS. Here's a clue: Windows 98 was first running on PCs far earlier than the P233 Sony and would have been the OS installed on that laptop.
I think the people who APPEAR pro-MS are actually people who are simply anti-Linux-fanboy.
Exactly. I for one am sick to death of hearing shite such as "We've managed to get Linux running on this condom. Can't do that with Windows." Who gives a shit? Does the computer do what I want? Does my hardware work? Yes. So I, like 99.99% of the PC using world, couldn't give a rats arse what the OS is that's running as long as it's doing what I paid for.
Yawn yawn yawn. Yet more bullshit. Any decent company won't let you have sufficient access to be able to install Linux. And as for "'When I first started my experiment I was trying to keep it a secret out of fear of attacks from angry Microsoft worshipers", WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT.
Has Slashdot really stooped so low to the point where any story with the word Linux in gets an airing?
And haven't the Linux Zealots got the message that all these types of story do is SMACK OF A SENSE OF DESPERATION???
Automatix has been referred to by many as a tool to "enhance" Ubuntu by lazy users who do not care about system security or stability since Breezy Badger. Or in other words, people who quite rightly find installing things like codecs and then having to modify countless config files so the media player and the browser can use them either difficult or, quite rightly, a bloody ridiculous thing to have to do.
When Linux distros finally sort out the farce that is installing vendor provided graphics card drivers, software and codecs etc, then tools like Automatix won't be needed.
In the rush to be all inclusive and the "everyman" distribution Ubuntu's community has dinged it's technical image in the eyes of some users. That was the ENTIRE POINT OF UBUNTU - to make a distro easy for everyone to use. If you want technical, go somewhere else. As Loonix zealots keep bleating, the reason there's 50 million distros is so you can choose one you like.
And the reason Automatix exists? Because Linux is fucking hard to work with as a newbie, especially installing CODECS and making sure everything can find them, so someone came up with a GUI point'n'clicky tool.
The people I think who are trying to de-rail Automatix are the very same Loonix nutjobs who say everything should be done by CLI and if you can't do that, stick to Windows.
Still not pointless.
I just canceled my phone two days ago because I use it so little that I ended up paying an average of $2.00+/minute.
The current plan is a pre-paid phone, to be purchased when I next need a phone. If this ad supported phone comes out first then I'll get it.
-nB Sorry, I don't follow. When you cancel a phone contract in the UK, you keep your phone. It's yours. Surely, all you need to get is a PAYG SIM card? Sure as hell beats having to listen to "Got itching problems in those sensitive areas? Buy Thrushaway - it sooths and cures, all in one application." whenever you make a call.
I'm sorry but the article must be a lie. The Apple fanboys assure me that there's no risk of vulnerabilities. Therefore, the article is wrong - it does not exist.
Completely pointless in the UK and most of Europe where mobile phone networks will give you the latest phones for free to sign up or renew a contract.
Even signing up to a £15/month contract, I can get any of the popular phones for free.
The UN condemning something is hardly evidence of anything, but I don't think what you're talking about actually happened. So the CIA rendition flights that stopped over in the UK on their way to backwater countries where torture is legal didn't happen even though the British Govt finally admitted they did?
As it stands, the US is far gentler on our prisoners than most countries. Certainly gentler than freaking Britain. Riight. We have no Guantanamo Bay. Not to mention Iraq which allowed the US Forces to flood Youtube with masses of videos of war crimes being committed on Iraqi civilians.
Have you heard of Irish Terrorists? The USA hasn't because apparently, the USA is the only country in the Western world to have experienced terrorism on it's own soil. Fuck sake, the whining you did over the World Trade Center was unreal. We had decades of it.
Do you brits even have any rights anymore? Yes thanks. We don't have such wonderful legislation such as The Patriot Act.
XP may have had more holes in it but it just WORKED. I can't say the same for Vista at all. Oh how short a memory you have. For a start SLOW NETWORK SHARES BROWSING which is still a major issue on XP. XP when it first came out had a whole slew of issues and SP1 did a massive job of clearing them up. In fact, it can only really be argued that XP fully matured with SP2. Drivers were less of a problem because XP was based on Win2k, so you could always try Win2k drivers, but for those of us who've been around a while, we can remember the problems with Win2k driver model caused in the early stages.
The same is happening with Vista. Remember that like Win2k, Vista uses a different driver model from what came before. Drivers will improve, service packs will address the issues. 3 years from now, you'll have forgotten about the problems existing.
10 sata ports are fantastic, i have 6 hard drives iv accumulated for storing media on, What the hell for? Unless you're unemployed, you'll never have enough time to watch/listen to it all.
And I'd rather pop a DVD in a player and watch it on a fullsized TV with a proper surround sound system than on my PC even though it has a 24" widescreen monitor.
But Linux is not "fragmented". Really? How many package managers? Some use apt-get, others RPM whatever. How many desktops? How many X Windows servers? Sorry but Linux is a good example of fragmentation. You wanted choice, you got it. What that means though, is that it's fragmented and for Corporate World, that's not good.
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Doesn't look good when the distro can't even support the hardware it recommends. Ho hum.
Yeah Right. Microsoft has sold so many copies of XP that they've run out of CD Keys which takes some doing when you consider how many they could generate. And the Linux Zealots still think that Linux will prevail over Windows. I don't think that'll be any time soon. XP has still got a couple of years where you'll be able to buy it. They may need to issue another patch.
To the Linux Zealots, a simple suggestion:
If You want to learn how to do an OS and make it popular, look at XP.
That'll be the same Dell that sells Linux boxes for £50 more than the same spec Windows boxes so people buy the Windows boxes, which adds another to the Windows sales tally, and then shove Linux on. Way to go Dell.
It was certainly going on in the 70's and 80's where video arcade game manufacturers used to resort to wiping IC numbers off chips to try and prevent it.
They already are
Only as long as they don't get the same GUI team that The GIMP project uses. People wouldn't just be crawling away from Apache, they'd be running.
Seriously, some FOSS projects need to get more serious about the front ends. Editing config files by hand is so 1990's. Maybe that's why FOSS doesn't get taken as seriously as it should, because it looks like it harps back to DOS days.
Go smoke a fag.
It's interesting to note that the USA only really has American English spellings for slightly complicated words. Laziness or stupidity? Both are equally applicable.
I was given an old P-233 Sony, one of the little ones with a 1024 x 480 screen. A drive refresh from the CD produced an unstable Win98 system with an old version of IE that choked on any modern website. A couple of evenings later, it runs Puppy quickly and smoothly from a CF card instead of a HDD, greatly increasing battery life while reducing heat and noise. Runs in ramdisk, only dumping to flash when a session is ending. Even Wifi was quick to set up. So, you see, in some cases, the OS it is running DOES make a 'rat's arse' of a difference, in this case the difference is 'unstable POS' verses 'very usable and improved web browsing experience". I had to care what OS it ran. And I even tried to make the original OS work.
See what I mean? This is exactly the bullshit posted by the Linux Zealot brigade. NOBODY BELIEVES YOU BECAUSE A LOT OF US HAVE BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME AND HAD PERFECTLY DECENT STABLE WIN98 PCS. Here's a clue: Windows 98 was first running on PCs far earlier than the P233 Sony and would have been the OS installed on that laptop.Exactly. I for one am sick to death of hearing shite such as "We've managed to get Linux running on this condom. Can't do that with Windows." Who gives a shit? Does the computer do what I want? Does my hardware work? Yes. So I, like 99.99% of the PC using world, couldn't give a rats arse what the OS is that's running as long as it's doing what I paid for.
Has Slashdot really stooped so low to the point where any story with the word Linux in gets an airing?
And haven't the Linux Zealots got the message that all these types of story do is SMACK OF A SENSE OF DESPERATION???
If it were all about illegal CODECS and packages, then Brahma would insist on them not being available through Add/Remove in 7.04 but here they are.
The bloke is as two faced as hell.
When Linux distros finally sort out the farce that is installing vendor provided graphics card drivers, software and codecs etc, then tools like Automatix won't be needed.
The people I think who are trying to de-rail Automatix are the very same Loonix nutjobs who say everything should be done by CLI and if you can't do that, stick to Windows.
I just canceled my phone two days ago because I use it so little that I ended up paying an average of $2.00+/minute.
The current plan is a pre-paid phone, to be purchased when I next need a phone. If this ad supported phone comes out first then I'll get it.
-nB Sorry, I don't follow. When you cancel a phone contract in the UK, you keep your phone. It's yours. Surely, all you need to get is a PAYG SIM card? Sure as hell beats having to listen to "Got itching problems in those sensitive areas? Buy Thrushaway - it sooths and cures, all in one application." whenever you make a call.
I'm sorry but the article must be a lie. The Apple fanboys assure me that there's no risk of vulnerabilities. Therefore, the article is wrong - it does not exist.
Completely pointless in the UK and most of Europe where mobile phone networks will give you the latest phones for free to sign up or renew a contract. Even signing up to a £15/month contract, I can get any of the popular phones for free.
The same is happening with Vista. Remember that like Win2k, Vista uses a different driver model from what came before. Drivers will improve, service packs will address the issues. 3 years from now, you'll have forgotten about the problems existing.
And it was hardly comparable.