I bet you are right. I cam forsee one or more Windows Flags "tastefully" deployed somewhere, possibly your nation's flag if they can tell where you are connecting from? Maybe a portrait of Bill at the top. "Get the Facts" boxes, ads for MSN, Hotmail, X-BOX, Office, Disney, MPAA, RIAA, BSA, "Trusted Computing", Lamehorn... et tedious cetera. The possibilities are endless.
Nothing shows up but "start" at the upper left and a lower, centered search box on Konqueror. Then I think that Safari is a Konqueror derivative. Why is MS hiding who they are? Ashamed?... Unlikely.
And what did any of that have to do with Muslim agression against Spain (conquered by Muslims) or the Balkans (conquered ny Muslims) or India (conquered and brutally, brutally oppressed by Muslims for about a thousand years). How about, what is going on in the Phillipines, and southern Sudan now? Conquest and enslavement of all non-Muslims seems to have always been the goal.
Since when does being conservative-or for that matter liberal-make one wrong on the facts? Statements are either facts or not. Facts have no politics. As near as I can tell, Pipes' opinions are clearly identified as such. Nor have I seen any racist statements. Frankly, Pipes gives more credit to the idea that there is a significant number of "moderate" Muslims than I do. (My definition of "moderate" is one who doesn't want to kill or enslave those of us who refuse to convert.)
As far as plans for exterminating others and ruling the world goes, and having taken concrete steps towards accomplishing that goal no one, no group, NOTHING, has anything on Islam. The wanton extermination of tens of millions of Hindus in India between Islam's first incursions in the 700s and and the establishment of the British Raj is beyond mind-boggling.
Before 9-11 a Brit reporter interviewed a Muslim holy man in Afghanistan (IIRC) asking him what they wanted of the West. His reply could not have been clearer, "We don't want your women, we don't want to convert you, we want you dead-all of you." What part of "we want you all dead" is unclear?
Even if their goal isn't mass elimination of all non-Muslims (Jews, Hindus, pagans, Buddhists, atheists, and Christians not necessarily in that order), it certainly includes the extermination of all non-Muslim, thought, culture, art, music, poetry,... in short, everything which makes my life worth living. "We are the Umma, resitance is futile, you will be assimilated." Screw that. Your mileage may vary.
Easier install, yes. However, the old sysinstall installer was not that difficult, although I have found the 5.x series trickier than the 4.x series. This is being composed from PC-BSD 0.7.8. The Michael and Mary site has some good lessons on installing stuff & securing things. The main drawback to PC-BSD as of now, is the limited range of ready to go apps. One has to install the ports and compile..., it seems. The standard BSD installation with two disks includes pre-compiled binaries for a lot od apps on disk 2.
There are only TWO ways to stop terrorism:
1) Find them and kill them BEFORE they act (only works for small, geographically concentrated groups.)
2) Remove the social and political reasons for their acts.
Given that their motive is to conquer all non-Muslims and impose Sharia law world-wide-and what other goal has Islam ever had?-(see the amusements of the Taliban in Afganistan for a peachy example), I hope your set of solutions is incomplete. Fortunately, people other than you have been thinking about it, see, for example, this blog for one, or Daniel Pipes, for another, and even some really moderate and/or ex-Muslims over here.
Installed with the net-install disk, Debian has both Gnome and KDE installed. Gnome is the default, if one doesn't intervene at the gdm, but KDE is there.
I have beeen trying Ubuntu the last month with it's Gnome default. However, next month I'm probably going back to Debian, and stay there, with KDE as my default. While Gnome is much better than I had realised, KDE rules.
i can replace and upgrade what I want, when i want and not have to goto a shop or anything to do it
You may not have to go to a shop, but you may have to go to MS & beg them to re-activate Windows after replacing hardware. "All your computer are belong to MS."
Let me rephrase that: Why should MS or anyone else be immune from being held liable for crappy products? By immune, I mean as in absolved of all responsibility. John W. Campbell, made that point in an essay/editorial in the 1960s that power does not corrupt, if it did, God would be the ultimate in corruption. Immunity does corrupt, and absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.
Unless, MS software is made legally mandatory-and at that point they will be absolutely immune-people will eventually "vote with their feet" and move to something else, as I have done. Nor am I alone, big corporations on Wall Street are already voting with their feet for crucial systems. If MS intends to stay around, which I suspect they do, they will have to get with it, no doubt whining and snivelling all the way. Poor things may have to see their profit margin slip from 80-85% down to something more reasonable. My heart bleeds for 'em. Please note that I don't necessarily hate MS or Windows(yet), they have simply proven untrustworthy. If people want to use MS products, that's their business. I don't.
With that in mind, I would hope that outcomes #s 1 and 2 would obtain, I suspect that #2 already exits to some degree. Sooner or later someone will die due a software failure & the lawsuits will begin if they haven't already. (You want to fly on an air carrier that carries no liability?) We humans are human, and eventually make mistakes... companies should count on it. I carry liability on my home in case you trip on your own shoelaces on my driveway, smash your nose and sue me. I'd be crazy not to. I'm not sure that #s 5 and 6 are bad. Better solid software than instant bells & whistles. Your mileage may vary.
Because Linux and the BSDs are transparent, auditing would be easy compared to essentially impossible for MS software. proprietary [largely] Windows applications and some proprietary unix variants, although that code is, as I undestand it, available to some degree, if not completely. Hence #7 seems unlikely.
As for #4, although I use Linux and FreeBSD, I also either buy official disks, donate or both, on the theory that developers write no software after they starve to death. The important part of free is free as in free speech, free will, and freedom of association. Free pizza (I don't drink) is trivial.
Finally, if #3 was a realistic option, big automakers and chemical/pharmaceutical corporations would have taken that exit already. They are hardly unfamiliar with liability and lawsuits.
Once again, why should MS or anyone else be immune from being held liable for crappy products? Now, I'm off to fill a couple of holes in my front yard, so I don't need to invoke the liability clause in my homeowners policy (I hope). Have a nice day.
Do you really believe that MS is proposing somepie-in-the-sky identity blessing without a concrete and ruthless plan for implementing it? They didn't get that wealthy on sweet utopian dreams. Believe what you want to believe, but in my opinion, their hearts are cold and dead: only money counts, and anything that yields money is good to them.
Philosobabble? Great term! The elephant in the living room that isn't being mentioned is who, in his/her right mind would trust Microsoft or anything that MS had any control over!? It is a company that has no moral issue with lies, deceit and treachery. Holy crap. They backstabbed IBM on O/S2. IBM has plenty of resources to make MS pay... far, far more than any of us. But MS did without blinking an eye.
Read a MS EULA lately? They ain't responsible for jack no matter what. If their software posts your credit card # all over the Internet. Tough. You have the right to go to Washington State to sue them. Good luck, there!
I'm afraid you are right. How long before it becomes illegal for us to delete cookies or even clear our browser caches?
Mandatory digital fingerprinting may be next. No doubt the technology which XP uses for activation & monitoring for re-activation, perhaps conjoined to processor serial numbers could be employed for that.
Set it one way, or the other and then... LEAVE IT ALONE!?" My astronomy professor had it right: daylight Savings time is like cutting a foot off of the bottom of your blanket and sewing it back on the top to make it longer. If anything lots of time is "lost" or wasted at each transition. Only a Congressmoron could fail to see that.
Here in the U.S. we have this Constitution thing that restricts slavery. Hope that doesn't make you feel too suicidal. Of course, it just figures that someone with a blog called "I Hate Linux" would be anti-freedom and pro-Microsoft.
Maybe it works better. I tried XP on my 1400MHz Athlon, 512MB DDR ram; 64MB videocard, yadda, yadda... XP failed after about 5 weeks. It never lasted even a month after that. Eventually gave up on XP & went back to ME-no problems. Eventually I shitcanned Win-blows altogether in favor of Linux and/or FreeBSD and gave the XP "upgrade" [puke!] disc to a friend-at least he used to be a friend, maybe not now. XP? Worst $99 I ever spent.
One needs to look long and hard to find quality of life improvements that didn't start in or become affordable through corporations.
Oh, really? How about... agriculture,...metallurgy, the compass [not quality of life? Try navigating by the sun/stars in a strange area on overcast days. Do it in mid-ocean. Do it more than once.] Plumbing?--very, very old. Or don't you benefit from or use any of those of those quality of life improvements?
Shareholders who didn't sell and finalize a bigger loss still are continuing to eat it.
So what? Since when has owning stock been supposed to be a guaranteee of profit. I have a significant amout of my retirement in the market. Some holdings do well, some don't-the latter I get rid of. I won't buy or hold stock in a company seem intent on suicide by a thousand cuts. A company's two most valuable assets are 1) customers and 2) employees. A company without either is dead-no matter how many stockholder-suckers it has. I'm not saying that companies should never cut employees. Sometimes they should. What they never cut is upper level management and directors-who are the authors of the "plans" [debacles] that lead to mass pink-slip mailings. Queen Carly is gone, laughing all the way to the bank. Shame she was so well-rewarded for trashing HP, and than more of her flunkies did't follow her.
Let's see - since sanity vs. insanity is defined by the majority of the people (people "thinking" or "seeing" in a similar fashion will tend to define as "insane" people who think or see in an obviously different fashion), then I guess the 90% or so people who use Windows would beg to differ with you. They probably believe they are in their right minds, and hence could possibly have cause to believe that maybe you are not.
The best definition of insanity I've ever heard: "Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results."
Keep applying those patches, rebooting, reformatting, and reinstalling. Maybe someday you'll get a different result. Maybe Lamehorn will bring pie from the sky.
Best antidote for insane behavior: "Son, if you want your life to be different, start doing things differently."
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I bet you are right. I cam forsee one or more Windows Flags "tastefully" deployed somewhere, possibly your nation's flag if they can tell where you are connecting from? Maybe a portrait of Bill at the top. "Get the Facts" boxes, ads for MSN, Hotmail, X-BOX, Office, Disney, MPAA, RIAA, BSA, "Trusted Computing", Lamehorn... et tedious cetera. The possibilities are endless.
Nothing shows up but "start" at the upper left and a lower, centered search box on Konqueror. Then I think that Safari is a Konqueror derivative. Why is MS hiding who they are? Ashamed? ... Unlikely.
And what did any of that have to do with Muslim agression against Spain (conquered by Muslims) or the Balkans (conquered ny Muslims) or India (conquered and brutally, brutally oppressed by Muslims for about a thousand years). How about, what is going on in the Phillipines, and southern Sudan now? Conquest and enslavement of all non-Muslims seems to have always been the goal.
Went to Coles' blog & saw no comment(s) on Pipes
... in short, everything which makes my life worth living. "We are the Umma, resitance is futile, you will be assimilated." Screw that. Your mileage may vary.
Since when does being conservative-or for that matter liberal-make one wrong on the facts? Statements are either facts or not. Facts have no politics. As near as I can tell, Pipes' opinions are clearly identified as such. Nor have I seen any racist statements. Frankly, Pipes gives more credit to the idea that there is a significant number of "moderate" Muslims than I do. (My definition of "moderate" is one who doesn't want to kill or enslave those of us who refuse to convert.)
As far as plans for exterminating others and ruling the world goes, and having taken concrete steps towards accomplishing that goal no one, no group, NOTHING, has anything on Islam. The wanton extermination of tens of millions of Hindus in India between Islam's first incursions in the 700s and and the establishment of the British Raj is beyond mind-boggling.
Before 9-11 a Brit reporter interviewed a Muslim holy man in Afghanistan (IIRC) asking him what they wanted of the West. His reply could not have been clearer, "We don't want your women, we don't want to convert you, we want you dead-all of you." What part of "we want you all dead" is unclear?
Even if their goal isn't mass elimination of all non-Muslims (Jews, Hindus, pagans, Buddhists, atheists, and Christians not necessarily in that order), it certainly includes the extermination of all non-Muslim, thought, culture, art, music, poetry,
Easier install, yes. However, the old sysinstall installer was not that difficult, although I have found the 5.x series trickier than the 4.x series. This is being composed from PC-BSD 0.7.8. The Michael and Mary site has some good lessons on installing stuff & securing things. The main drawback to PC-BSD as of now, is the limited range of ready to go apps. One has to install the ports and compile..., it seems. The standard BSD installation with two disks includes pre-compiled binaries for a lot od apps on disk 2.
OK, that's nice. Where are the games? Did I miss a link? The only thing I miss about Windows is the games. Not enough to go back, but some.
Installed with the net-install disk, Debian has both Gnome and KDE installed. Gnome is the default, if one doesn't intervene at the gdm, but KDE is there.
I have beeen trying Ubuntu the last month with it's Gnome default. However, next month I'm probably going back to Debian, and stay there, with KDE as my default. While Gnome is much better than I had realised, KDE rules.
If MS's dirty fingers have been in a pie, I don't want any of it.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever." -George Orwell.
Interesting, out of date but not too far-off topic link at The Guardian
It's like mod points on /. Use it or lose it! Yes?
Nice bug zapping.
Let me rephrase that: Why should MS or anyone else be immune from being held liable for crappy products? By immune, I mean as in absolved of all responsibility. John W. Campbell, made that point in an essay/editorial in the 1960s that power does not corrupt, if it did, God would be the ultimate in corruption. Immunity does corrupt, and absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.
... companies should count on it. I carry liability on my home in case you trip on your own shoelaces on my driveway, smash your nose and sue me. I'd be crazy not to. I'm not sure that #s 5 and 6 are bad. Better solid software than instant bells & whistles. Your mileage may vary.
Unless, MS software is made legally mandatory-and at that point they will be absolutely immune-people will eventually "vote with their feet" and move to something else, as I have done. Nor am I alone, big corporations on Wall Street are already voting with their feet for crucial systems. If MS intends to stay around, which I suspect they do, they will have to get with it, no doubt whining and snivelling all the way. Poor things may have to see their profit margin slip from 80-85% down to something more reasonable. My heart bleeds for 'em. Please note that I don't necessarily hate MS or Windows(yet), they have simply proven untrustworthy. If people want to use MS products, that's their business. I don't.
With that in mind, I would hope that outcomes #s 1 and 2 would obtain, I suspect that #2 already exits to some degree. Sooner or later someone will die due a software failure & the lawsuits will begin if they haven't already. (You want to fly on an air carrier that carries no liability?) We humans are human, and eventually make mistakes
Because Linux and the BSDs are transparent, auditing would be easy compared to essentially impossible for MS software. proprietary [largely] Windows applications and some proprietary unix variants, although that code is, as I undestand it, available to some degree, if not completely. Hence #7 seems unlikely.
As for #4, although I use Linux and FreeBSD, I also either buy official disks, donate or both, on the theory that developers write no software after they starve to death. The important part of free is free as in free speech, free will, and freedom of association. Free pizza (I don't drink) is trivial.
Finally, if #3 was a realistic option, big automakers and chemical/pharmaceutical corporations would have taken that exit already. They are hardly unfamiliar with liability and lawsuits.
Once again, why should MS or anyone else be immune from being held liable for crappy products? Now, I'm off to fill a couple of holes in my front yard, so I don't need to invoke the liability clause in my homeowners policy (I hope). Have a nice day.
Do you really believe that MS is proposing somepie-in-the-sky identity blessing without a concrete and ruthless plan for implementing it? They didn't get that wealthy on sweet utopian dreams. Believe what you want to believe, but in my opinion, their hearts are cold and dead: only money counts, and anything that yields money is good to them.
So why shouldn't MS be held liable for their crappy spooftware ... I mean software?
Philosobabble? Great term! The elephant in the living room that isn't being mentioned is who, in his/her right mind would trust Microsoft or anything that MS had any control over!? It is a company that has no moral issue with lies, deceit and treachery. Holy crap. They backstabbed IBM on O/S2. IBM has plenty of resources to make MS pay ... far, far more than any of us. But MS did without blinking an eye.
Read a MS EULA lately? They ain't responsible for jack no matter what. If their software posts your credit card # all over the Internet. Tough. You have the right to go to Washington State to sue them. Good luck, there!
I'm afraid you are right. How long before it becomes illegal for us to delete cookies or even clear our browser caches?
Mandatory digital fingerprinting may be next. No doubt the technology which XP uses for activation & monitoring for re-activation, perhaps conjoined to processor serial numbers could be employed for that.
KPDF works well for me, on Linux.
Set it one way, or the other and then ... LEAVE IT ALONE!?" My astronomy professor had it right: daylight Savings time is like cutting a foot off of the bottom of your blanket and sewing it back on the top to make it longer. If anything lots of time is "lost" or wasted at each transition. Only a Congressmoron could fail to see that.
Here in the U.S. we have this Constitution thing that restricts slavery. Hope that doesn't make you feel too suicidal. Of course, it just figures that someone with a blog called "I Hate Linux" would be anti-freedom and pro-Microsoft.
Maybe it works better. I tried XP on my 1400MHz Athlon, 512MB DDR ram; 64MB videocard, yadda, yadda... XP failed after about 5 weeks. It never lasted even a month after that. Eventually gave up on XP & went back to ME-no problems. Eventually I shitcanned Win-blows altogether in favor of Linux and/or FreeBSD and gave the XP "upgrade" [puke!] disc to a friend-at least he used to be a friend, maybe not now. XP? Worst $99 I ever spent.
I LOVE Claudia Black. What's his name is okay, too.
Je t'aime, Claudia.
The best definition of insanity I've ever heard:
"Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results."
Keep applying those patches, rebooting, reformatting, and reinstalling. Maybe someday you'll get a different result. Maybe Lamehorn will bring pie from the sky.
Best antidote for insane behavior: "Son, if you want your life to be different, start doing things differently."