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.
the closet thing ms has to that is .net, and that's terrible to port if
its been anywhere near visual studio.
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Regards, Ed :: http://www.s5h.net
proud unix hacker
Chuck Norris' sidekick on Walker Texas Ranger isn't black, he's
bruised.
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