I have a feeling I know your type, if you were in the Marines you were enlisted, weren't with us at OCS that's for sure.
How did mother Teresa give her life? She lived quite comfortably. Yes I think that 20 billion dollars over ten years is very impressive. Actually I think 20 billion dollars over a lifetime would be pretty impressive.
Your quoting a different parent when you say He's now the most generous philanthropist too. I didn't say that, look carefully at the name at the top of what your reading.
He did start the company from scratch, having money does not make a company, I have seen a wireless ISP fold that started with 700 Million dollars of backing. So I think that your argument about his meager millions making his business what it is now, is rediculous.
He doesn't have to donate anything at all. He isn't running for political office or anything. He chooses to donate 1/3 of his net worth. Do you donate 1/3 of your net worth?
You've been in the Marines? I don't believe you and you may have just made a serious error. First of all if you were in the marines, I want to know a couple of things. What unit? What is the silver rectal rocket? What was your PFT score? How often did you have to PFT? What's your 7th general order? What's the birthdate of the Marine corps. You'll be able to look most of this up, but if your a marine you'll know it off the top of your head. Also what are blood wings? What is an 8 count body builder? How many counts in a marine corps push up? What happens if your in a collumn left and your in the second collumn?
I didn't say dont' buy pizza, I said carry a reasonable amount of cash around with you. I hate people that use their credit cards to buy a stupid pack of gum and such.
My whole point is that there is never just cause. Breaking and entering doesn't mean you literally broke something to come in. Walking into a home even if the door is unlocked, is B&E.
I believe your wrong and your making statements like there facts and they simply aren't. A good business man is always in the right place at the right time. Their are thousands of industries to be in, and thousands more to come that haven't been thought of, which alots millions of right places at right times. You fail to connect the dots. You sacrifice for a woman. I have no pitty for the weak that whine about fate and luck.
Ummm...have you considered the hours of work the IT staff at a few hundred different locations are going to have to do to repair the damage, plus the IT staff can't be sure what the hackers left behind or what they changed, which may cause a rebuild of all systems. This is mental harm. Just as breaking into someones home, even if you don't rob them, can mentally scar them and scare them horribly.
Whatever you say it's against the law. They shouldnt' have done it. If they didn't like those companies security. Don't shop there.
There are lots of ways to use a system but leave it broken. I won't name them, because you sound like your one to use them. I bet your a hacker, I hope you end up in federal pound me in the ass prison.
Or if you feel so strongly about this, hack the FBI to show their security is bad, please please try. Then we'll be rid of you.
I read it, I was just stating that that was just one of many donations.
I am saying that you being poor isn't an excuse. that's exactly what I am saying.
That if you worked harder, dedicated yourself to it, you could be worth millions and then be able to donate much much more. A dollar is worth a dollar, whether it is donated by a rich man or a poor man.
so if he give 40 million and you give 40, his donation is worth a million times as much to the cause he is donating to. Maybe if you had worked harder, you could donate more without affecting your pocket book.
So go work harder. And stop whining that he has a billion dollar house. He earned it.
Umm..at my private school, if you were a minority, never mind that your parents were rich, you could get a full ride, same with my college. So if he was paying anything for his education, he didn't score to well in comparison to the other kids at his school. Which shouldn't have been hard at a public school, but try going to my high school and being in the top 5% competing against the smartest students in the region.
I have to think about the bottom line, so do a lot of my friends, don't compare me to you. I have to make money, my father helped me till I was 18 then your cut off, sink or swim, I bought my own car, pay my own insurance, take care of my own debt. Pull yourself up by your fucking boot straps, if your strapped for cash but your smart, join the millitary, score well on the asvab. They'll pay your way and give you lots of options.
I don't need to hear anymore crying from the lower class, my parents both work about 60 hours a week, and were not rich nor that well off, better than some I imagine, but that's because my parents worked their asses off. All these people that blame their situation on their upbringing is bull. My dads family was on wellfare, and my mom was raised by a single mom who was a welder who lost her job when the millitary men came back from Vietnam. And then her mom developed MS and could no longer work, before my mother was even out of high school.
My parents don't stand for weakness, or loss, me and my brothers no that, if your dealt a bad hand, play it out. Don't bitch about it.
So what i am saying is you may be lucky, I don't believe in luck, I believe in having an IT job when I was 16, staying home and studying while other kids were out playing basketball, and learning everything I could from the books at the library and any older person I could attach myself to at work. I cut my hair short and presentable, I wore a tie, all the time, always looking presentable and professional, in and out of the office.
I sacrificed a social life with my piers for fixing business peoples computers and helping with home networks or anything else I could to help get noticed, make friends in high places, get favors to cash in later.
I didn't have a nintendo and only recently started to enjoy video games.
and I am one of many, rich kids don't have it easy, when your poor, people expect nothing of you, when you get an A, the teacher all but jumps for joy, when your a good student going to a private school and you get a B, your grounded for a month and your teachers are all pissed at you.
Everyone has it rough as a kid, no we didn't worry about starving, but there were worries, lots of them. And there are commitments, after getting my five year engineering degree, I decided to serve my country and now am a Marine, working towards officer, and working towards contacts to start my own business when I get out.
I envy Bill Gates, I am a man of business, and I would like to pick Gate's brain on just how he thought through all the obsticals he did.
and as usual the anonymous coward has added something rediculous and invaluable. Would this little girl be sneaking into my house at 2 am? if so, so sorry, she's probably going to get shot.
actually there is undeletable folders. You see raw FTP commands can create folders that windows can't see or understand. look up google on folders named lpt, or even worse folders beginning and ending with space.
Actually you'll find if you ask, a lot of stores will cut you a deal for using cash, even some computer stores in my area. Also, I was just saying if you don't want everyone in the world having your credit card number don't use it for 20$ pizzas
Also, They don't want you using credit cards. Ask them, it's a hassle.
Your a liar. I can buy a damn dell with no OS, with no problem and some computers ship with Linux, maybe not a dual boot, but with Linux.
No I haven't seen an OEM bundled with quick time or real one, and thank god. Real One steals control over everything I try to open, and sometimes quick time tries to get my image files to open in quick time.
IF microsoft allowed WMP to download divx, and xvid codecs automatically they'd probably get sued like when they packaged a java machine with their OS.
They would probably love to package divx, they are in the streaming marcket with WMP not the compression market.
WMA, well they had to make it because MP3 couldn't provide security to the file. Or wouldn't, however you want to look at it.
You mean a distibutor tried to leverage it's market power to make sure the retailers were only installing it's product, umm that is a damn good idea, it's called sales and marketing, we do it in the damn ceramics industry, so I'd expect every other industry to do it too. Tires, oil, transmissions, electronics, car audio. No one bitches about that shit.
Can I PROVE that MS intentionally made Windows crash more if it saw Netscape running?
Have you seen Netscape 6 I am sure MS didn't need to do anything to help screw up that program. Netscape programming went down hill because they tried to over integrate, hell I don't want Netscape handling my news groups or mail. But it tried and the browser went downhill.
Looking for something other than media player? Try BSplayer. But media player works well, and comes with the OS, why would i want to go to something else, I replace the stereo in my car, but I don't replace the seats if the car is brand new.
By your statement, Carnegie wasn't generous, the kennedy family is not generous, Mother Teresa is not generous.
Did you ever consider that some people are generous, but that it's also nice to be remembered. Also look closer, he has donated over 20 Billion dollars to charity throughout his life. Not 20 million.
He has contributed over 20 billion dollars. He stated the reason he doesn't just give it all to some great charity because there are no great charities. Look it up. Salvation army, and all the big charities blow over 50% of every dollar on overhead administration. So he is careful about how he gives away his money. And I wouldn't call 20 Billion, pocket change, even to Bill Gates.
Starting out rich isn't a free pass to doing well in business. Lets look, Paris Hilton, more wealthy than Billy boy, Certainly hasn't done her business any good.
George Bush, our president, couldn't hack it in business, hence the faltering of his oil company and every business he touches.
All the children of the wallmart fortune. Most of them are worthless, business is ruthless and to have done as well as Gates has, you have to be extremely intelligent. And I garantee you he is. Have a conversation with him someday. He's a very intelligent guy, despite what slashdot would have you believe.
Do you want him to apologize for starting out with money? I always hear this. I went to a prep school, I go to a private college. What's your point. I do have loans, but if my family was rich they would pay for it, and i would be greatful to not have loans to pay off. Wouldn't you? So what's your point, having money doesn't make you smart. It doesn't mean that you'll start a billion dollar business. Look at Paris Hilton, she is worth way more than Bill started out with and all she'll end up being is a really old slut.
What the fuck does it matter what his reasoning behind giving the money is. He still has. Nearly 33% percent of his net worth. Which isn't exactly a tax break. Also, so what if he could give away 99% and still be rich, ever consider he holds onto money incase his company ever flags and he wants to save it. Or maybe he might personally want to invest in another company some day. Get of your high horse. Maybe if you were as smart as Bill Gates you could make more money to give to charity.
How do you know there was no damage? Can you not look beyond the murder part of what he said, and see that he was implying that you have no right to break a law to prove a point like this. And what point did he prove? No public system is unhackable. Just like any house can be broken into and any bank vault can be cracked. He had no right to do what he did. No right whatsoever. Come break into my house to prove how easy it is, don't steal anything, just break into my house and call my cell from my home phone, and I'll prove how happy I am you showed me my security hole by putting two.45 caliber holes in your chest.
There isn't enough rope in the world to show hackers how much we love them
For instance I had to put up an anonymous FTP for one day. It is dumb I know, but the user needed to upload something from home, didn't know their home IP off hand and didn't understand log ons and that stuff from the FTP end. SO I did it, I allowed anonymous upload to my FTP, and guess what i got, undeletable folders in my ftp folder, so that some guy could use me as a mirror for files on his warez site. your right they showed me the error of my ways, but truth is I knew the error, I just hoped no one would be such a jerk as to have no respect for other peoples property. Hackers are vandals, I can piss in your mailbox, throw shit at your door, there are lots of things I can do, and probably not get caught to prove I can do them, but I don't, because I don't want to screw with other peoples shit. I have respect for other peoples property.
Hackers probably read their sisters Diaries and say she shouldn't have left it somewhere where I could find it. It's oppurtunism at it's worst, and they make me sick.
OK better analogy. I break into a bank at night and throw all of their money into the street and then tell someone I was just proving their securety didn't work. This caused real harm. Do you think he got into their systems in some nice way that left them unharmed? He broke the law. It's easy to break into my house and steal all my stuff but I don't want to have to build a twenty foot concrete wall around my yard just so some jack ass doesn't do it.
That may be the case in your country. But in our country we take care of business. Look up Kevin Mitnick, he is trying to sell his stuff on ebay to make enough money to survive, hell he can't even keep a ham radio license.
Do you personally have any troubles with it? About 4 years ago I had a charge on there that I didn't make. I called VISA and said, hey guys, I didn't make this charge. They said, ok, took the charge off the bill and didn't pay the company. So if the company lets my card information get out that's their problem. Also I don't buy pizza with a credit card. Jesus man, don't you have an ATM near by.
Here goes my karma. But your implying this idiot hacked a bunch of ecommerce sites, because of Microsoft?
After all MS continues to abuse its Windows monopoly
Ummm what does this refer to. I hear this crap a lot, but there is ussually no hard findings to back it up. All I normally get is IE vs. Netscape, or some reference to "The Pirates of Silicon Valley". Hard facts from a made for TV movie. lol.
Because it isn't about defending Microsoft, it's about this air of superiority in this country that says if something has been marketed well, and a company has done well. They are evil, sell a shitty product, and cheated to get there. Indian motorcycle guys say it about Harley, American car companies say it about Japanese car companies, linux and Mac say it about Microsoft.
It's not that Microsoft is my favorite company it's just that there are so few facts to support most peoples arguments. Like this crap about Microsoft hurting competition and doing illegal things to crush competition. So I asked for links that tell me about this. As apposed to links to viable web sites, I get people bitching about my grammar or spouting off about netscape vs. IE and telling me I should find my own links. Everyone wants to make these generalizations like their facts.
For instance windows crashes more than Linux, no one has any good studies to show this, of an unbiased test of the two OS's, instead everyone just accepts it as fact, because they hear about a lot of windows problem stories, but of course you hear about a lot of windows problem stories vs. hearing about MAC or Linux problem stories.
Two major reasons, windows is 95% of the desktops, so naturally, your going to hear more about it.
and secondly I would argue that the majority of Linux users are more sure of their computing abilities than the majority of windows users, mostly because ma and pa don't go out and get a box with a linux distro on it, they get windows, so if you have Linux on your box, your probably pretty comfortable with a computer and don't click yes everytime something on the internet pops up and asks you to install it.
It seems slashdotters are content to bitch to no end about windows and then tell me how magical linux is, and whenever I bring up problems i had with redhat 7.2 and 7.3 I always get the oh well, redhat has problems, use SuSe, and then I use that, and everyone ignores the problem and says I should have used mandrake.
Problems for instance, I have seen drives unmount on my linux file server, I have seen it pause at random intervals, I have seen it crash. the pause was a DNS issue, i fixed it after much work, and the crash required a kernel update, but the point is, I found the problems and solved them. Most people find a windows problem,(probably do to their own setup and failure to RTFM) and then its the OSs fault, not in any way their fault.
I don't like blind hatred of anything, it leads to bad things, holocaust, terrifs on foriegn steel, inability of me to get a really good Cuban cigar...
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How did mother Teresa give her life? She lived quite comfortably. Yes I think that 20 billion dollars over ten years is very impressive. Actually I think 20 billion dollars over a lifetime would be pretty impressive.
Your quoting a different parent when you say He's now the most generous philanthropist too. I didn't say that, look carefully at the name at the top of what your reading.
He did start the company from scratch, having money does not make a company, I have seen a wireless ISP fold that started with 700 Million dollars of backing. So I think that your argument about his meager millions making his business what it is now, is rediculous.
He doesn't have to donate anything at all. He isn't running for political office or anything. He chooses to donate 1/3 of his net worth. Do you donate 1/3 of your net worth?
You've been in the Marines? I don't believe you and you may have just made a serious error. First of all if you were in the marines, I want to know a couple of things. What unit? What is the silver rectal rocket? What was your PFT score? How often did you have to PFT? What's your 7th general order? What's the birthdate of the Marine corps. You'll be able to look most of this up, but if your a marine you'll know it off the top of your head. Also what are blood wings? What is an 8 count body builder? How many counts in a marine corps push up? What happens if your in a collumn left and your in the second collumn?
I didn't say dont' buy pizza, I said carry a reasonable amount of cash around with you. I hate people that use their credit cards to buy a stupid pack of gum and such.
My whole point is that there is never just cause. Breaking and entering doesn't mean you literally broke something to come in. Walking into a home even if the door is unlocked, is B&E.
I believe your wrong and your making statements like there facts and they simply aren't. A good business man is always in the right place at the right time. Their are thousands of industries to be in, and thousands more to come that haven't been thought of, which alots millions of right places at right times. You fail to connect the dots. You sacrifice for a woman. I have no pitty for the weak that whine about fate and luck.
Whatever you say it's against the law. They shouldnt' have done it. If they didn't like those companies security. Don't shop there.
There are lots of ways to use a system but leave it broken. I won't name them, because you sound like your one to use them. I bet your a hacker, I hope you end up in federal pound me in the ass prison.
Or if you feel so strongly about this, hack the FBI to show their security is bad, please please try. Then we'll be rid of you.
I am saying that you being poor isn't an excuse. that's exactly what I am saying.
That if you worked harder, dedicated yourself to it, you could be worth millions and then be able to donate much much more. A dollar is worth a dollar, whether it is donated by a rich man or a poor man.
so if he give 40 million and you give 40, his donation is worth a million times as much to the cause he is donating to. Maybe if you had worked harder, you could donate more without affecting your pocket book.
So go work harder. And stop whining that he has a billion dollar house. He earned it.
I have to think about the bottom line, so do a lot of my friends, don't compare me to you. I have to make money, my father helped me till I was 18 then your cut off, sink or swim, I bought my own car, pay my own insurance, take care of my own debt. Pull yourself up by your fucking boot straps, if your strapped for cash but your smart, join the millitary, score well on the asvab. They'll pay your way and give you lots of options.
I don't need to hear anymore crying from the lower class, my parents both work about 60 hours a week, and were not rich nor that well off, better than some I imagine, but that's because my parents worked their asses off. All these people that blame their situation on their upbringing is bull. My dads family was on wellfare, and my mom was raised by a single mom who was a welder who lost her job when the millitary men came back from Vietnam. And then her mom developed MS and could no longer work, before my mother was even out of high school.
My parents don't stand for weakness, or loss, me and my brothers no that, if your dealt a bad hand, play it out. Don't bitch about it.
So what i am saying is you may be lucky, I don't believe in luck, I believe in having an IT job when I was 16, staying home and studying while other kids were out playing basketball, and learning everything I could from the books at the library and any older person I could attach myself to at work. I cut my hair short and presentable, I wore a tie, all the time, always looking presentable and professional, in and out of the office.
I sacrificed a social life with my piers for fixing business peoples computers and helping with home networks or anything else I could to help get noticed, make friends in high places, get favors to cash in later.
I didn't have a nintendo and only recently started to enjoy video games.
and I am one of many, rich kids don't have it easy, when your poor, people expect nothing of you, when you get an A, the teacher all but jumps for joy, when your a good student going to a private school and you get a B, your grounded for a month and your teachers are all pissed at you.
Everyone has it rough as a kid, no we didn't worry about starving, but there were worries, lots of them. And there are commitments, after getting my five year engineering degree, I decided to serve my country and now am a Marine, working towards officer, and working towards contacts to start my own business when I get out.
I envy Bill Gates, I am a man of business, and I would like to pick Gate's brain on just how he thought through all the obsticals he did.
and as usual the anonymous coward has added something rediculous and invaluable. Would this little girl be sneaking into my house at 2 am? if so, so sorry, she's probably going to get shot.
actually there is undeletable folders. You see raw FTP commands can create folders that windows can't see or understand. look up google on folders named lpt, or even worse folders beginning and ending with space.
No, they just simply don't pay the company most of the time. Or issue a reclaim from that company.
Also, They don't want you using credit cards. Ask them, it's a hassle.
No I haven't seen an OEM bundled with quick time or real one, and thank god. Real One steals control over everything I try to open, and sometimes quick time tries to get my image files to open in quick time.
IF microsoft allowed WMP to download divx, and xvid codecs automatically they'd probably get sued like when they packaged a java machine with their OS. They would probably love to package divx, they are in the streaming marcket with WMP not the compression market.
WMA, well they had to make it because MP3 couldn't provide security to the file. Or wouldn't, however you want to look at it.
You mean a distibutor tried to leverage it's market power to make sure the retailers were only installing it's product, umm that is a damn good idea, it's called sales and marketing, we do it in the damn ceramics industry, so I'd expect every other industry to do it too. Tires, oil, transmissions, electronics, car audio. No one bitches about that shit.
Have you seen Netscape 6 I am sure MS didn't need to do anything to help screw up that program. Netscape programming went down hill because they tried to over integrate, hell I don't want Netscape handling my news groups or mail. But it tried and the browser went downhill.Looking for something other than media player? Try BSplayer. But media player works well, and comes with the OS, why would i want to go to something else, I replace the stereo in my car, but I don't replace the seats if the car is brand new.
By your statement, Carnegie wasn't generous, the kennedy family is not generous, Mother Teresa is not generous.
Did you ever consider that some people are generous, but that it's also nice to be remembered. Also look closer, he has donated over 20 Billion dollars to charity throughout his life. Not 20 million.
He has contributed over 20 billion dollars. He stated the reason he doesn't just give it all to some great charity because there are no great charities. Look it up. Salvation army, and all the big charities blow over 50% of every dollar on overhead administration. So he is careful about how he gives away his money. And I wouldn't call 20 Billion, pocket change, even to Bill Gates.
Starting out rich isn't a free pass to doing well in business. Lets look, Paris Hilton, more wealthy than Billy boy, Certainly hasn't done her business any good.
George Bush, our president, couldn't hack it in business, hence the faltering of his oil company and every business he touches.
All the children of the wallmart fortune. Most of them are worthless, business is ruthless and to have done as well as Gates has, you have to be extremely intelligent. And I garantee you he is. Have a conversation with him someday. He's a very intelligent guy, despite what slashdot would have you believe.
Do you want him to apologize for starting out with money? I always hear this. I went to a prep school, I go to a private college. What's your point. I do have loans, but if my family was rich they would pay for it, and i would be greatful to not have loans to pay off. Wouldn't you? So what's your point, having money doesn't make you smart. It doesn't mean that you'll start a billion dollar business. Look at Paris Hilton, she is worth way more than Bill started out with and all she'll end up being is a really old slut.
What the fuck does it matter what his reasoning behind giving the money is. He still has. Nearly 33% percent of his net worth. Which isn't exactly a tax break.
Also, so what if he could give away 99% and still be rich, ever consider he holds onto money incase his company ever flags and he wants to save it.
Or maybe he might personally want to invest in another company some day. Get of your high horse. Maybe if you were as smart as Bill Gates you could make more money to give to charity.
How do you know there was no damage? Can you not look beyond the murder part of what he said, and see that he was implying that you have no right to break a law to prove a point like this. And what point did he prove? No public system is unhackable. Just like any house can be broken into and any bank vault can be cracked. .45 caliber holes in your chest.
He had no right to do what he did. No right whatsoever. Come break into my house to prove how easy it is, don't steal anything, just break into my house and call my cell from my home phone, and I'll prove how happy I am you showed me my security hole by putting two
There isn't enough rope in the world to show hackers how much we love them
For instance I had to put up an anonymous FTP for one day. It is dumb I know, but the user needed to upload something from home, didn't know their home IP off hand and didn't understand log ons and that stuff from the FTP end. SO I did it, I allowed anonymous upload to my FTP, and guess what i got, undeletable folders in my ftp folder, so that some guy could use me as a mirror for files on his warez site.
your right they showed me the error of my ways, but truth is I knew the error, I just hoped no one would be such a jerk as to have no respect for other peoples property. Hackers are vandals, I can piss in your mailbox, throw shit at your door, there are lots of things I can do, and probably not get caught to prove I can do them, but I don't, because I don't want to screw with other peoples shit. I have respect for other peoples property.
Hackers probably read their sisters Diaries and say she shouldn't have left it somewhere where I could find it.
It's oppurtunism at it's worst, and they make me sick.
OK better analogy. I break into a bank at night and throw all of their money into the street and then tell someone I was just proving their securety didn't work.
This caused real harm. Do you think he got into their systems in some nice way that left them unharmed? He broke the law. It's easy to break into my house and steal all my stuff but I don't want to have to build a twenty foot concrete wall around my yard just so some jack ass doesn't do it.
That may be the case in your country. But in our country we take care of business. Look up Kevin Mitnick, he is trying to sell his stuff on ebay to make enough money to survive, hell he can't even keep a ham radio license.
Do you personally have any troubles with it? About 4 years ago I had a charge on there that I didn't make. I called VISA and said, hey guys, I didn't make this charge. They said, ok, took the charge off the bill and didn't pay the company. So if the company lets my card information get out that's their problem. Also I don't buy pizza with a credit card. Jesus man, don't you have an ATM near by.
Ummm what does this refer to. I hear this crap a lot, but there is ussually no hard findings to back it up. All I normally get is IE vs. Netscape, or some reference to "The Pirates of Silicon Valley". Hard facts from a made for TV movie. lol.
I clean my gun after every time I fire it, and nightly no matter what, is that flawed?
What do you run on your Linux system? Is it attached to a broadband connection? Are you worried about the newest root security hack?
there is an active virus scanner, that scans files in use, and it uses your updated virus signatures.
It's not that Microsoft is my favorite company it's just that there are so few facts to support most peoples arguments. Like this crap about Microsoft hurting competition and doing illegal things to crush competition. So I asked for links that tell me about this. As apposed to links to viable web sites, I get people bitching about my grammar or spouting off about netscape vs. IE and telling me I should find my own links. Everyone wants to make these generalizations like their facts.
For instance windows crashes more than Linux, no one has any good studies to show this, of an unbiased test of the two OS's, instead everyone just accepts it as fact, because they hear about a lot of windows problem stories, but of course you hear about a lot of windows problem stories vs. hearing about MAC or Linux problem stories.
Two major reasons, windows is 95% of the desktops, so naturally, your going to hear more about it.
and secondly I would argue that the majority of Linux users are more sure of their computing abilities than the majority of windows users, mostly because ma and pa don't go out and get a box with a linux distro on it, they get windows, so if you have Linux on your box, your probably pretty comfortable with a computer and don't click yes everytime something on the internet pops up and asks you to install it.
It seems slashdotters are content to bitch to no end about windows and then tell me how magical linux is, and whenever I bring up problems i had with redhat 7.2 and 7.3 I always get the oh well, redhat has problems, use SuSe, and then I use that, and everyone ignores the problem and says I should have used mandrake.
Problems for instance, I have seen drives unmount on my linux file server, I have seen it pause at random intervals, I have seen it crash. the pause was a DNS issue, i fixed it after much work, and the crash required a kernel update, but the point is, I found the problems and solved them. Most people find a windows problem,(probably do to their own setup and failure to RTFM) and then its the OSs fault, not in any way their fault.
I don't like blind hatred of anything, it leads to bad things, holocaust, terrifs on foriegn steel, inability of me to get a really good Cuban cigar...