____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Wednesday 26 September 2007 00:35 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:16:28 +0100
> <8165936.lm8zQlpK5L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Tuesday 25 September 2007 21:58 : \____
>>
>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote
>>> on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:30:29 +0100
>>> <4568605.onuEIfVgFJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> How to Quit Windows and cope with Windows Withdrawal Syndrome
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Now that you have decided to quit Windows for good and
>>>> | to switch over to a Desktop Linux Distribution, following
>>>> | these basic steps will help you a lot. Initially, a basic
>>>> | knowledge about GNU/Linux is important. What is it really
>>>> | and how does it differ from Windows?
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=307
>>>
>>> Heh. A few notes.
>>>
>>> [1] Intel, if I'm not totally mistaken, is on record as
>>> supporting Linux. Admittedly, a quick Google coughed
>>> up only a video and a wireless driver or two, and this
>>> three-year-old article:
>>>
>>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5161041.html
>>>
>>> A search on Intel's website also coughed up their C++ compiler,
>>> a performance analyzer (VTune(tm)), a math kernel library
>>> (not sure if that's kernel as in Linux, kernel as in core,
>>> or kernel as in kerning transformations), a Fortran compiler,
>>> a threading library, and a whole lot of other stuff -- 12900
>>> in all, if the count's accurate.
>>>
>>> Kudos to Intel.
>>>
>>> [2] Drafts aren't hard on Linux, even if one is using gedit.
>>> CUPS is also very capable, if one wants to print them later.
>>>
>>> [3] I'm not sure I like the notion of destroying Windows
>>> install CDs (I'm a pack rat; I admit it :-) )...the
>>> temptation is there, admittedly, but they'll also grow
>>> stale anyway. I have some Win95 stuff flying about, and
>>> even older Win3.1 installation packs. Do I use them? No.
>>> Still, for those of a certain mindset, it's probably best
>>> to put them out of reach, and if that involves destroying
>>> them, so be it.
>>
>> I suppose the following is out of the question then:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOuwXTOHy4
>
> That was absolutely pathetic. All it did was tip over. :-)
> Proof once again that Linux is very robust, even when
> hit with a shotgun. (Or a lawsuit.)
Watch Xandrosoft GNU/Linux:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8TjLIYxP1A
The shooting begins a few minutes after the stuff. Well overboard.
> This one might be more interesting.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbf9tOGwno
>
> Easy installation guaranteed! Too bad the media doesn't
> survive the installation process.
>
>>
>> Or one of these assorted BSD 'rituals' for SCO...
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unix+sco&search=Search
>>
>> Skip the first (although it's funny too and I mentioned it in BN.com last
>> year).
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ytEUWz4EQQ
>
> is ... interesting. :-)
>
> The next three apparently are various attempts to exorcise SCO:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhtjCWwSqmU
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLDLdl4ytoY
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ3bpCh4kTk
>
> The second one is the longest. Dunno if they worked or not;
> the courts are arguably more effective. :-)
Haha. I couldn't manage to find Judge Kimball among those in this group.
>>> [4] "Back up and format" is an interesting requirement,
>>> but how does one restore later on? The article could be
>>> clearer on this. The good news: anyone familiar with DVD
>>> or CD burning software should be able to burn a DVD or CD
>>> that Linux can read, and I would be surprised if Linux
>>> can't read the Microsoft extensions (Joliet is the only
>>> one I'm somewhat familiar with). Or one can use ancient
>>> 1.44 MB floppies, or even tape drives, in a pinch.
>>>
>>> [5] As usual, the author(s) confuse Linux, the kernel, with
>>> an arbitrary Linux-based distribution. *shrug*
>>>
>>> [6] There is no mention of how to avoid Windows in
>>> new equipment, but that's probably beyond the scope of
>>> the article anyway. One of Microsoft's more insidious
>>> "innovations", after all, is the bundling of Windows
>>> on prepackaged PCs. Even if one later wipes Windows,
>>> Microsoft still gets paid.
>>>
>>> (lucky bastards :-) )
>>
>> Bell used to have similar schemes going on. That's how you
>> build a monopolistic framework and a cash machine. If the
>> government does not intervene, something
>> is rotten (or someone is paid).
>>
>
> Microsoft "innovation" at its best.
Innovative strategies. Buy our your competition, hire companies to sue your
competitors, deploy lobbyists in Washington, start smear campaigns, change the
US patent system, change DRM circumvention laws around the world, sign deals
with opponents in order to have them implement your technology, bribe votes to
get support, have PR agents send out letters on behalf of dead people...
--
~~ Best of wishes
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