rebel-base:~$./elflbl
child 1 VMAs 0
[+] moved stack bfffe000, task_size=0xc0000000, map_base=0xbf800000
[+] vmalloc area 0xff400000 - 0xffffd000
[-] FAILED: try again (Cannot allocate memory)
In the end a did a quick script and kept it running for 10 minutes. Always FAILED.
Of course. Its fine. People are *used* to Microsoft products failing totally. Hey, its even expected. Anyway, if HMS Windows did do the whole NMOD (Nuclear Missile Of Death) or GPF (General Pacification Failure) no-one would be alive to complain. Another smart move my Microsoft. Hopefully that can take some communists out at the same time. Heck, the stock price would probably go up.
Interestingly Microsoft have made this sort of comment before.
Anyway, don't monopolies cause a fundamental breakdown in the capitalist system...?
I'm just waiting for the report that will come out in a few years time. Perhaps it would be something like this?
"The average Holovision user in the United States spends two hours a day mindlessly watching moving images.
The survey found that use of the Holovision has displaced Internet usage and a range of other activities. Holovision watchers use the Internet for 42 minutes a day, compared with the national average of two hours, said Norbert Tivilds, director of the Chipping Sudbury Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society, a research group that has been exploring the social consequences of not using the Internet.
"People don't understand that time is hydraulic," he said, meaning that time spent watching the Holovision is time taken away from the time spent on the Internet.
A 2010 study by the researchers that reported increasing physical isolation among Holovision users created a controversy and drew angry complaints from some watchers who insisted that the time they spent like mindless zombies did not detract from their social relationships."
Its money back for having purchased a Microsoft product that was sold for more than it was worth. Anyone "bright" enough to buy anything from Microsoft in the first place is hardly going to
a) Know about the rebate b) Know what a rebate is c) Be able to fill out any sort of form...
Or... maybe it is more sinister?
"Hey! It looks like you're trying to write a letter to get a rebate from Microsoft...." Strange. Clippy never used to have such an evil grin.... did he?
"I wanted to download Microsoft's Internet Explorer, so using Firefox I popped across to Google and searched for:
'Microsoft Internet Explorer'
The 3rd link told me:
Internet Explorer Home https://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default .htm
Ok. I'll go there!
Up pops the message:
'Unable to verify www.microsoft.com as a trusted site'
Ok. I'll examine this certificate. Lets see who it is signed by... ah. Microsoft. Fine. As I'm testing this off a Knoppix-style CD and USB memory stick I'll accept this self-signed certificate. Seems all a bit snakeoil to me.
Once I do accept this this I immediately get redirected to another page - something ending with "mspx". Thats not where I clicked! I guess I have to trust it for now though and just carry on.
Over on the left is a "downloads" link, so I go there. I'm presented with a downloads page, where I have to go to another page of languages. I don't see my native Israeli, so I opt for "English". I'm taken to another downloads page (yes, I'm getting board of downloads pages already too). From here I am told that I must go to the 'downloads centre'. Great. Another downloads page. Here I get to select my language again. Um. Still no Israeli, so I go for English again. But Wait! There - no kidding - are only versions for Microsoft Operating Systems!"
I usually work at the office 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. CST However, I rarely get to spend much time doing technical things while I'm at work.
PHB? Hehe. Sounds just like my job. At work I play "scrapheap challenge" in the server room, and label boxes with "rubbish" for the cleaners to take out. At home I code PHP and test loads of Linux build.
But its great that in such a growth area a VoIP we've got a great OpenSource product like Asterisk.
as long as my mom, who can be called a computer idiot but still manages to do her work with MS Office, tells me "what's that K icon where START should be", I call bullcrap on any point-and-click Linux.
I have experienced the very same sort of problems. But then this is simply what happens when one reaches a certain age. Guess that means you can "call bullcrap" on point-and-click Windows too.
The problem that is described here is nothing to do with Linux, but is instead to do with the lack of ability in an older human. How many times do you tell her that you don't like peas, and yet there they are on your plate? Are technical sounding words spoken very slowly? Even the word technical comes out tech-ni-cal.
Things "power users" take for granted
Such as being able to remember what the day is, where they put their keys, that sort of thing.
Oooh. Its ever so cold out, isn't it Ethel? Don't you think its cold? Better put a coat on to keep out the chill. I do hope they haven't moved the bananas again, don't you? Oooh, its ever so hard when they move the bananas. etc, etc, etc
This said however Rosco, I commend your effort to promote FUD about Linux, but sadly I doubt it'll be believed any more than any previous such attempts.
Indeed.I pity the home user who has no idea. Mom, pop, uncle, grandma and ever lil sis.
Sure, corporate users can have their IT guy stick in a Linux web-proxy server to help protect the useless Microsoft Windows system from yet another attack. They can rack it next to the Linux box used to filter the spam, the Linux box used to strip all the Microsoft Windows viruses out of e-mail and file shares, and the Linux based firewalls protecting the whole army of Microsoft Windows flawed desktops.
It is likely that thousands of home users are now infected, and have no idea. Install SP2? They wouldn't even know was an "SP2" is. And yet still people use Microsoft Windows. Some people even think it is good! Time to wake up and smell the coffee people!
And if you want "shops" that sell Linux systems:
Try here
Obviously a quick google will find even more!
The problem is that people think a "pc" is "windows". They simply don't know any better. Sure, the thing becomes trashed by spyware and viruses within hours and thats when the go and see "the guy who knows about computers". By then of course, they have already spent their money and may or may not take Microsoft Windows back to the shop as "not fit for purpose".
They can't see that the TCO for a Microsoft Windows system is a lot higher than the alternatives.
Personally I don't even expect Microsoft to produce code of even half-decent quality. I've already seen a decade of poop.
Wait a moment...
Microsoft ...
McDonalds
Same out-of-the-factory quality, same style of customer base. Sure, sometimes the filliet-o-fish has maggots in, but hey.
I'll have an OS that fries please.
I'm trying to think of something similar... hmm...
James reiterated that a feature like having a handle on both sides of the door is simply not important to someone who is only on their way out
Actually its a great statement. It covers most classes of Microsoft software users:
1.) The stupid ones
They couldn't use tabbed browsing even if they tried. No. Its true. I tried it with my mum (bless her) and she simply couldn't understand the concept. Sure, opening loads of browser windows everywhere was also confusing and cluttered the desktop, but hey.
2.) The ignorant ones
Is there any other browser than IE?
3.) The Microsoft zealots
If IE doesn't have it, then it isn't worth having.
4.) The wannabes
They just discovered computers and don't want to look different by using a browser that isn't pre-installed... until someone else does and tells them its cool.
5.) Those who just don't care
They have a browser installed. Why have another one? Heck, the whole OS stinks, so why try to polish a turd?
Slashdot Mirror
I, for one, welcome our... zzzz...
OMG! WTF!
Nice. The only trouble being that with Microsoft's track record you'll end up getting infected by a feature in their "trusted computing".
While you're at it, what are the odds on a virus / spyware that spreads via "features" in the Microsoft anti-virus / anti-spyware products?
rebel-base:~$ ./elflbl
child 1 VMAs 0
[+] moved stack bfffe000, task_size=0xc0000000, map_base=0xbf800000
[+] vmalloc area 0xff400000 - 0xffffd000
[-] FAILED: try again (Cannot allocate memory)
In the end a did a quick script and kept it running for 10 minutes. Always FAILED.
Of course. Its fine. People are *used* to Microsoft products failing totally. Hey, its even expected. Anyway, if HMS Windows did do the whole NMOD (Nuclear Missile Of Death) or GPF (General Pacification Failure) no-one would be alive to complain. Another smart move my Microsoft. Hopefully that can take some communists out at the same time. Heck, the stock price would probably go up.
Interestingly Microsoft have made this sort of comment before.
Anyway, don't monopolies cause a fundamental breakdown in the capitalist system...?
I'm just waiting for the report that will come out in a few years time. Perhaps it would be something like this?
"The average Holovision user in the United States spends two hours a day mindlessly watching moving images.
The survey found that use of the Holovision has displaced Internet usage and a range of other activities. Holovision watchers use the Internet for 42 minutes a day, compared with the national average of two hours, said Norbert Tivilds, director of the Chipping Sudbury Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society, a research group that has been exploring the social consequences of not using the Internet.
"People don't understand that time is hydraulic," he said, meaning that time spent watching the Holovision is time taken away from the time spent on the Internet.
A 2010 study by the researchers that reported increasing physical isolation among Holovision users created a controversy and drew angry complaints from some watchers who insisted that the time they spent like mindless zombies did not detract from their social relationships."
And its too expensive.
Its money back for having purchased a Microsoft product that was sold for more than it was worth. Anyone "bright" enough to buy anything from Microsoft in the first place is hardly going to
a) Know about the rebate
b) Know what a rebate is
c) Be able to fill out any sort of form...
Or... maybe it is more sinister?
"Hey! It looks like you're trying to write a letter to get a rebate from Microsoft...." Strange. Clippy never used to have such an evil grin.... did he?
try drawing with the fat brush
Why does that sound like a euphemism that I should be afraid to know the real meaning of?
They'd never find my collection of pr0n. I keep it hidden under the matress.
(I know they don't read Slashdot so I'm safe to give away the hiding place on here).
Here. Let me start my own flamewar.
t .htm
"I wanted to download Microsoft's Internet Explorer, so using Firefox I popped across to Google and searched for:
'Microsoft Internet Explorer'
The 3rd link told me:
Internet Explorer Home
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/defaul
Ok. I'll go there!
Up pops the message:
'Unable to verify www.microsoft.com as a trusted site'
Ok. I'll examine this certificate. Lets see who it is signed by... ah. Microsoft. Fine. As I'm testing this off a Knoppix-style CD and USB memory stick I'll accept this self-signed certificate. Seems all a bit snakeoil to me.
Once I do accept this this I immediately get redirected to another page - something ending with "mspx". Thats not where I clicked! I guess I have to trust it for now though and just carry on.
Over on the left is a "downloads" link, so I go there. I'm presented with a downloads page, where I have to go to another page of languages. I don't see my native Israeli, so I opt for "English". I'm taken to another downloads page (yes, I'm getting board of downloads pages already too). From here I am told that I must go to the 'downloads centre'. Great. Another downloads page. Here I get to select my language again. Um. Still no Israeli, so I go for English again. But Wait! There - no kidding - are only versions for Microsoft Operating Systems!"
I close my browser and grin.
Just wait for the spam to come through. You can sign up there. Get your m0d@f1n1l here...
But no-one can get Windows anymore following the recent shutdown of SuprNova and the like... :p
Woot! Go Pat! And just in time for Christmas (awww, bless).
Indeed. Friends don't let friends use Microsoft. Ah wait. Maybe he hates his wife...? ;)
At least we can rely on Microsoft for one thing.
A nicer alternative is GIFY.
Nicer. Yes. Of course. GIYF:
"Google is your friend" or
"Google it you fuckwit".
I'm curious. How come it took 4 minutes? Was it a really slow internet connection?
running media center 2005
Can anyone spot the deliberate mistake here?
I usually work at the office 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. CST However, I rarely get to spend much time doing technical things while I'm at work.
PHB? Hehe. Sounds just like my job. At work I play "scrapheap challenge" in the server room, and label boxes with "rubbish" for the cleaners to take out. At home I code PHP and test loads of Linux build.
But its great that in such a growth area a VoIP we've got a great OpenSource product like Asterisk.
as long as my mom, who can be called a computer idiot but still manages to do her work with MS Office, tells me "what's that K icon where START should be", I call bullcrap on any point-and-click Linux.
I have experienced the very same sort of problems. But then this is simply what happens when one reaches a certain age. Guess that means you can "call bullcrap" on point-and-click Windows too.
The problem that is described here is nothing to do with Linux, but is instead to do with the lack of ability in an older human. How many times do you tell her that you don't like peas, and yet there they are on your plate? Are technical sounding words spoken very slowly? Even the word technical comes out tech-ni-cal.
Things "power users" take for granted
Such as being able to remember what the day is, where they put their keys, that sort of thing.
Oooh. Its ever so cold out, isn't it Ethel? Don't you think its cold? Better put a coat on to keep out the chill. I do hope they haven't moved the bananas again, don't you? Oooh, its ever so hard when they move the bananas. etc, etc, etc
This said however Rosco, I commend your effort to promote FUD about Linux, but sadly I doubt it'll be believed any more than any previous such attempts.
Indeed.I pity the home user who has no idea. Mom, pop, uncle, grandma and ever lil sis.
Sure, corporate users can have their IT guy stick in a Linux web-proxy server to help protect the useless Microsoft Windows system from yet another attack. They can rack it next to the Linux box used to filter the spam, the Linux box used to strip all the Microsoft Windows viruses out of e-mail and file shares, and the Linux based firewalls protecting the whole army of Microsoft Windows flawed desktops.
It is likely that thousands of home users are now infected, and have no idea. Install SP2? They wouldn't even know was an "SP2" is. And yet still people use Microsoft Windows. Some people even think it is good! Time to wake up and smell the coffee people!
Ok.
1. Dell and Dell
2. HP
And if you want "shops" that sell Linux systems: Try here
Obviously a quick google will find even more!
The problem is that people think a "pc" is "windows". They simply don't know any better. Sure, the thing becomes trashed by spyware and viruses within hours and thats when the go and see "the guy who knows about computers". By then of course, they have already spent their money and may or may not take Microsoft Windows back to the shop as "not fit for purpose". They can't see that the TCO for a Microsoft Windows system is a lot higher than the alternatives.
Microsoft
...
McDonalds
Same out-of-the-factory quality, same style of customer base. Sure, sometimes the filliet-o-fish has maggots in, but hey. I'll have an OS that fries please.
I'm trying to think of something similar... hmm...
James reiterated that a feature like having a handle on both sides of the door is simply not important to someone who is only on their way out
Actually its a great statement. It covers most classes of Microsoft software users:
1.) The stupid ones
They couldn't use tabbed browsing even if they tried. No. Its true. I tried it with my mum (bless her) and she simply couldn't understand the concept. Sure, opening loads of browser windows everywhere was also confusing and cluttered the desktop, but hey.
2.) The ignorant ones
Is there any other browser than IE?
3.) The Microsoft zealots
If IE doesn't have it, then it isn't worth having.
4.) The wannabes
They just discovered computers and don't want to look different by using a browser that isn't pre-installed... until someone else does and tells them its cool.
5.) Those who just don't care
They have a browser installed. Why have another one? Heck, the whole OS stinks, so why try to polish a turd?