__/ [ Linonut ] on Monday 07 May 2007 12:20 \__
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
> wisdom:
>
>>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070422083715451
>>
>> Microsoft: a device for converting public ignorance into cash
>
> I like this one:
>
> Next up: how to take screen shots. Now in Mandriva, it's simply a
> matter of pressing the Prt Scr key, after which KSnapshot, an
> application for taking, naming and saving screen shots, automatically
> pops up. It even features automatic image file numbering, to make
> taking several successive screen shots easier. Not so in Vista. After
> pressing Prt Scr, or any combination of this key with any other key,
> nothing seems to happen. How, then, to take a Windows screenshot?
>
> An interface so clean you can't even tell what it does. A button that
> says "Print Screen" doesn't!
>
> And, no matter how much our resident dazed follower of softie carps,
> Richard's article definitely indicates that Vista is currently a
> fragile, difficult system. How many burn dialogs are buried within
> Vista? Does anyone at Microsoft actually /know/?
>
> This one is funny, too:
>
> After waiting for a dozen or so minutes and contemplating a hard
> reset, I try pressing the DVD burner button. Out comes the DVD -- and
> lo and behold, the desktop pops up again! With the same System Tray
> message as in Figure 14...
>
> Of course, all of this /must/ be the user's fault, mustn't it? It must!
> It simply must! It cannot be otherwise!
He's got the right attitude. Critical.
--
~~ Best regards
Roy S. Schestowitz | One, Two, Free Open Source Software (FOSS)
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