And you got all this unsubstantiated speculation from where, exactly?
Oh, that's right; you pulled it from out of your ass.
Just read your journal BTW, you seriously think Microsoft is organising Slashdot posters against you? Honestly, if Linus Torvalds, RMS, Bruce Perens, Theo de Raadt and other people with far more, and far more deserved significance in the F/OSS movement can go without all their postings on LKML/Slashdot/whatever being the victims of "M$ astroturfing", what the hell would Microsoft be doing going after some random nobody with nothing to his name except making everyone else who believes in a cause he supports look bad?
he reason is because Lund is a Linux city which has a a Linux server that doesn't like Vista.
This implies that it's Vista refusing to interoperate with Linux, which obviously would play into story submitter twitter's frequently-espoused odd Microsoft conspiracy theories. In actual fact, it's a recognised bug acknowledged by Microsoft as being due to old routers or DHCP servers which do not support the DHCP broadcast flag (a formal part of the DHCP RFC standard).
Solution: upgrade your damn DNS server. This ISP are just acting like petulant teenagers, unwilling to do anything to fix something which is, at the end of the day, their problem (i.e. their non-standard DHCP implementation).
M$ has burnt a lot of what little credibility it had left with Vista. Apologies from editors are not going to do the trick as long as there is real fair and independent review of performance. Windoze users have waited seven years for an upgrade and they can easily afford to wait another to see if Vista has anything that warrents it's cost and restrictions.
Coincidentally, I just sat down and used Windows Vista properly for the first time today. Clean installs, first in Parallels Desktop and then Boot Camp. And I utterly fail to see what it so objectionable about Vista. It's not earth shattering, no, but it's at least better than XP, if not as good as OS X. It's not that much slower than XP was on the same hardware, even with all the Aero stuff enabled. The UAC prompts...I had "one", on installing Apple's Boot Camp drivers (which, on the negative side, crashed the system.)
This is my personal experience only, true, but as far as I'm concerned it's far from the sinking crater that you seem to think it is.
Last time I used a recent Ubuntu the main impression I came away with is "that startup sound is fucking awesome". It sounds like someone remixed a Mac's startup beep.
Nothing is stopping anyone producing a proprietary graphics layer for Linux like Aqua. All that is required is the will and the cash, and at the moment neither appear to be in ready supply.
Which is a shame, because I'm sure there are many talented coders out there that could make something a hundred times better than crappy old X11.
"Industry flack". Of course. Never mind that the main extent of my involvement with the movie industry is buying some DVDs and writing a few shitty scripts for fun. No, no, little Don Twitote, you just carry on talking shite.
Yeah, acting like a total prick and trying to beat confessions of wrongdoing out of the guy will surely make him repent all of his sins, join the EFF and start downloading movies.
Virtually everything that is legally copyable for distribution and is available via bittorrent can be found without the need for a dedicated torrent search engine anyways because a link to a torrent is often available right on the creator's website.
The problem is that most people go to Torrentspy etc for stuff that's not legally copyable for distribution.
You ACs and M$ spammers do this to me all the time. No big deal, it's not like I'd enforce a copyright or anything. Enjoy Twitter's work anyway you like.
Two points:
1) If you don't want people debunking your lies, FUD and idiocy, don't tell lies, use FUD or be an idiot. 2) I "enjoy" your work in the same sense as film buffs enjoy Plan 9 From Outer Space. For all the wrong reasons.
What would a Windoze user like you know about freedom? Why should anyone listen to what you have to say about free software licenses?
What would a zealot like you know about "Windoze"? Why should anyone listen to what you have to say about Microsoft/Apple/your "non-free" enemy du jour?
Do you know anyone outside of Redmond that actually strips copyright notices from their source code?
The BSD software Microsoft uses (or used, not sure but I think they removed a lot of it progressively with XP and Vista) still carries Berkeley/University of California copyright notices (run strings on it if you don't believe me). Try again.
Because, of course, a comparison between Windows and Linux written by you would be entirely unbiased and would take in the merits and demerits of each equally.
Company says things about competitor to sell product; news at 11.
This view shows that he has not thought enough about the issues. Linux views people who have a different view as "pushing". If I were to use the same mindset, I'd say he was pushing a commercial agenda that threatens real software freedom. Because many more people look up to and will listen to Linus, whatever he advocates gets much more "push" than anything I say.
Leaving aside that a lot of what you say is unfounded crap, and so hardly likely to have any "push", Linus hardly pushes any views. He expresses them, sure, oh boy does he express them, but he doesn't enforce them on anyone or attempt to proselytise. Instead, he's talking about people precisely like you who like to froth at the mouth and produce absolutely nothing except a lot of sound and fury signifying nohing. And hell, he might well agree with you on certain points, but most likely wouldn't take much pride in the "use free software or die in fire and brimstone" nature of most of what you say.
His aversion to politics has cost him - and that's the sign of a real idealog. (sic)
Um, he avoids politics, so he's an ideologue. What are you on about?
Debian is not hard to use, even for a non technical user like myself. I'd say it was easier than Fedora in all things but adding non free software.
Are you joking? Debian is far easier to add non-free software to. I mean, they've only got a whole friggin APT repository for it hosted on the Debian servers.
Mepis and Ubuntu have excellent compatibilty with the rest of the Debian tree, so you don't lose much more than a little stability and trust for the non free inclusions.
Um, the founder of Debian, Ian Murdock, is on record saying that Ubuntu has diverged too far from Debian to remain compatible. And Mepis only recently switched back to using Debian packages from Ubuntu. So... nice try.
The thing that he should realize is that technical excellence happens when you have software freedom.
It can do, but you can't pretend that there's no technical excellence in closed software either. Both sides have merits.
I don't consider Safari for Windows to be usable yet.
TBH that's pretty much my thoughts (I just phrased them slightly less elegantly...) It's a nice idea but it needs a bit of work. On a family Windows box it's even slower than Firefox, whereas here on this Mac the reverse is true.
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And you got all this unsubstantiated speculation from where, exactly?
Oh, that's right; you pulled it from out of your ass.
Just read your journal BTW, you seriously think Microsoft is organising Slashdot posters against you? Honestly, if Linus Torvalds, RMS, Bruce Perens, Theo de Raadt and other people with far more, and far more deserved significance in the F/OSS movement can go without all their postings on LKML/Slashdot/whatever being the victims of "M$ astroturfing", what the hell would Microsoft be doing going after some random nobody with nothing to his name except making everyone else who believes in a cause he supports look bad?
Um...flamebait? Wha?
This implies that it's Vista refusing to interoperate with Linux, which obviously would play into story submitter twitter's frequently-espoused odd Microsoft conspiracy theories. In actual fact, it's a recognised bug acknowledged by Microsoft as being due to old routers or DHCP servers which do not support the DHCP broadcast flag (a formal part of the DHCP RFC standard).
Solution: upgrade your damn DNS server. This ISP are just acting like petulant teenagers, unwilling to do anything to fix something which is, at the end of the day, their problem (i.e. their non-standard DHCP implementation).
VideoLAN Client, my good man. Doesn't even show studio logos, open a DVD and it goes straight to the menu.
(I personally don't care cos I've lovingly ripped all of mine, but YMMV.)
M$ has burnt a lot of what little credibility it had left with Vista. Apologies from editors are not going to do the trick as long as there is real fair and independent review of performance. Windoze users have waited seven years for an upgrade and they can easily afford to wait another to see if Vista has anything that warrents it's cost and restrictions.
Coincidentally, I just sat down and used Windows Vista properly for the first time today. Clean installs, first in Parallels Desktop and then Boot Camp. And I utterly fail to see what it so objectionable about Vista. It's not earth shattering, no, but it's at least better than XP, if not as good as OS X. It's not that much slower than XP was on the same hardware, even with all the Aero stuff enabled. The UAC prompts...I had "one", on installing Apple's Boot Camp drivers (which, on the negative side, crashed the system.)
This is my personal experience only, true, but as far as I'm concerned it's far from the sinking crater that you seem to think it is.
Last time I used a recent Ubuntu the main impression I came away with is "that startup sound is fucking awesome". It sounds like someone remixed a Mac's startup beep.
It just forbids people taking the OS, sticking a GUI/DRM/etc on it, and selling it back to you.
Excepting DRM, isn't that exactly what Red Hat does?
Nothing is stopping anyone producing a proprietary graphics layer for Linux like Aqua. All that is required is the will and the cash, and at the moment neither appear to be in ready supply.
Which is a shame, because I'm sure there are many talented coders out there that could make something a hundred times better than crappy old X11.
Um...yeah. Right.
"Industry flack". Of course. Never mind that the main extent of my involvement with the movie industry is buying some DVDs and writing a few shitty scripts for fun. No, no, little Don Twitote, you just carry on talking shite.
No, but you strike me as one of those cretins who fights with windmills.
Yeah, acting like a total prick and trying to beat confessions of wrongdoing out of the guy will surely make him repent all of his sins, join the EFF and start downloading movies.
Jesus wept.
Virtually everything that is legally copyable for distribution and is available via bittorrent can be found without the need for a dedicated torrent search engine anyways because a link to a torrent is often available right on the creator's website.
The problem is that most people go to Torrentspy etc for stuff that's not legally copyable for distribution.
You ACs and M$ spammers do this to me all the time. No big deal, it's not like I'd enforce a copyright or anything. Enjoy Twitter's work anyway you like.
Two points:
1) If you don't want people debunking your lies, FUD and idiocy, don't tell lies, use FUD or be an idiot.
2) I "enjoy" your work in the same sense as film buffs enjoy Plan 9 From Outer Space. For all the wrong reasons.
Wow... similar artist selection... no DRM... massive selection. How innovative. Sounds exactly like... buying CDs from Amazon.com.
Altho I suppose allofmp3 is good if you just want to be cheap.
They're the three M$ dwarves.
Although that would make twitter Snow White. Scratch that...
What would a Windoze user like you know about freedom? Why should anyone listen to what you have to say about free software licenses?
What would a zealot like you know about "Windoze"? Why should anyone listen to what you have to say about Microsoft/Apple/your "non-free" enemy du jour?
This feature was added because XP did not replace previous versions fast enough.
Um...yeah. XP has, as I recall, over 80% market share, in the world. If that's not "fast enough" I don't know what is.
(note: I think WGA is a pain in the arse. I think people talking shite on Slashdot, however, is even more of a pain in the arse.)
Your article is from 2001. Try something more recent than win98 for yourself.
Considering that you haven't used anything from "M$" for years, that's kinda throwing rocks in a glass house from you, twitty my dear, but just to humour you: strings run on a copy of ftp.exe taken directly from Windows XP Professional SP2 and then grepped.
Now shut up.
Do you know anyone outside of Redmond that actually strips copyright notices from their source code?
The BSD software Microsoft uses (or used, not sure but I think they removed a lot of it progressively with XP and Vista) still carries Berkeley/University of California copyright notices (run strings on it if you don't believe me). Try again.
Because as I've known since I was at least 3, two wrongs don't make a right.
Because, of course, a comparison between Windows and Linux written by you would be entirely unbiased and would take in the merits and demerits of each equally.
Company says things about competitor to sell product; news at 11.
This view shows that he has not thought enough about the issues. Linux views people who have a different view as "pushing". If I were to use the same mindset, I'd say he was pushing a commercial agenda that threatens real software freedom. Because many more people look up to and will listen to Linus, whatever he advocates gets much more "push" than anything I say.
Leaving aside that a lot of what you say is unfounded crap, and so hardly likely to have any "push", Linus hardly pushes any views. He expresses them, sure, oh boy does he express them, but he doesn't enforce them on anyone or attempt to proselytise. Instead, he's talking about people precisely like you who like to froth at the mouth and produce absolutely nothing except a lot of sound and fury signifying nohing. And hell, he might well agree with you on certain points, but most likely wouldn't take much pride in the "use free software or die in fire and brimstone" nature of most of what you say.
His aversion to politics has cost him - and that's the sign of a real idealog. (sic)
Um, he avoids politics, so he's an ideologue. What are you on about?
Debian is not hard to use, even for a non technical user like myself. I'd say it was easier than Fedora in all things but adding non free software.
Are you joking? Debian is far easier to add non-free software to. I mean, they've only got a whole friggin APT repository for it hosted on the Debian servers.
Mepis and Ubuntu have excellent compatibilty with the rest of the Debian tree, so you don't lose much more than a little stability and trust for the non free inclusions.
Um, the founder of Debian, Ian Murdock, is on record saying that Ubuntu has diverged too far from Debian to remain compatible. And Mepis only recently switched back to using Debian packages from Ubuntu. So... nice try.
The thing that he should realize is that technical excellence happens when you have software freedom.
It can do, but you can't pretend that there's no technical excellence in closed software either. Both sides have merits.
I don't consider Safari for Windows to be usable yet.
TBH that's pretty much my thoughts (I just phrased them slightly less elegantly...) It's a nice idea but it needs a bit of work. On a family Windows box it's even slower than Firefox, whereas here on this Mac the reverse is true.
You can have the system ignore karma bonuses, if you're worried about them. Check your user preferences.
Firefox is slower and bloatier, IE6 isn't all that secure, IE7 isn't all that pretty, Safari for Windows is a piece of shit.
:P
Opera all the way on Windows, frankly.