ed wrote:
>
> On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:58:09 +0000
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > __/ [ Jag Chan ] on Sunday 05 November 2006 12:51 \__
> >
> > > Here's is an interesting titbit from alt.comp.freeware
> > >
> > >
> > > 1) Take a PC with a freshly installed XP
> > >
> > > 2) Hack the start button and remove the word "start", so no one will
> > > know where the start button is,
> > > then change the graphic so it looks like a decoration.
> > >
> > > 3) Destroy the start menu so it wont cascade, so you will have to
> > > scroll endless hours to find a simple program
> > >
> > > 4) Install hidden processes that will make your hard disk work
> > > full speed 24/7 for no apparent reason
> > >
> > > 5) Find a horrible theme, that does not work with all aplications
> > > and needs an expensive graphic card to work
> > >
> > > 6) Thow a virus in that will delete all the imporant menus from IE,
> > > WMP and windows explorer
> > >
> > > 7) Empty all your cds onto your hard drive to take up the space a
> > > vista installation would take....
> > >
> > > 8) Go and buy twice as much ram, hard disks, and cpu power
> > > just so you can run the same programs as before
> > >
> > > 9) Take your paycheck and throw it off a bridge into the sea..
> > > because thats how much vista costs.... ~600 ? for ultimate?
> > >
> > > 10) find a program that will simulate random lock ups and blue
> > > screens....
> > >
> > > 11) Throw in another virus that will rearrange where things was, for
> > > no apparent reason, just for the heck of it!
> > >
> > > 12) From your applications remove random files so they wont work
> > > correctly
> > >
> > > I know it was 12, but here is one more for free
> > >
> > > 13 ) Open all ports to microsoft so they can check everything you
> > > do, give
> > > them your passwords and credit card number...
> > > and say goodbye to your audio collection because drm will refuse to
> > > play it
> > > more than once!
> > >
> > >
> > > There you have it! Complete XP to Vista transformation!
> > >
> > > Go do it now and live the vista experience before its on the
> > > shelves!!!
> >
> > Wonder Linux advocacy. Proof that what Microsoft achieved in over just
> > 5 years can be achieved by the user in just over 5 minutes.
> >
> > A look back at where Linux stood 5 years ago:
> >
> > http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/KDE%202-x/kde_jp_2.jpg
> > (1)
> >
> > And today:
> >
> > http://youtube.com/watch?v=lawkc3jH3ws (2)
> >
> > Now try to convert (1) into (2) in 12 easy steps. Function-wise too...
>
> newbies are in danger of rating the os on the ui alone. which is
> something i don't like about xgl, much the same way that i dont like
> wine, because people are rating linux on it's ability to be like
> windows, or run windows things, or provide a ui... none of those things
> are what linux is about for me. it's about freedom of choice and freedom
> to distribute and freedom to port and freedom of protocols.
Some good points. Linux (and commercial Unixes) have capabilities to
build distributed, multi-tiered client-server architectures that the
average user (Windows or Linux) doesn't think about. And Microsoft
doesn't either. Back in the old days, when I used to build quite a few
systems like this, the Microsoft people would come in and try to
convince us that we should use their systems. But most of their efforts
involved taking our system requirements and trying to convince us that
we didn't need certain features (which they didn't support). Like
security, modular design, etc.
Back then, I ran fvwm for my desktop. I still run it today.
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Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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