In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:17:51 +0100
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> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 23 June 2008 21:43 : \____
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Clogwog
>> <BWAHAHAHAAA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:28:08 +0200
>> <g3otgh$cnt$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> "The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in
>>> bericht news:tfhti5-oo9.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Clogwog
>>>> <BWAHAHAHAAA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote
>>>> on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:48:49 +0200
>>>> <g3gu2l$d2n$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>> "The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in
>>>>> bericht news:fo9ri5-6pq.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>>>>>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote
>>>>>> on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:25:15 +0100
>>>>>> <9490176.S0pIxlGL3E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>>> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 19 June 2008 23:27 : \____
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>>>>>>>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>> wrote
>>>>>>>> on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:24:47 +0100
>>>>>>>> <1556439.UUNQSIjRla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>> <Snipped the usual Schestowitz drivel>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Heh....OK, how does one "entertain DRM"? Is one supposed
>>>>>> to find a good restaurant, bake a sheet of cookies, or
>>>>>> simply set up a slide projector and show DRM one's last
>>>>>> vacation to Tahiti? ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (Or the nearest city park in lieu thereof?)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But you're probably right; I suspect that many of the
>>>>>> problems with Vista is with existing applications running
>>>>>> into little roadblocks. If the app is lucky one just gets
>>>>>> a UAC dialog that is annoying. If not, the app stops dead.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not at all if you run the app with admin privileges
>>>>
>>>> A disaster waiting to happen if someone gets cute.
>>>>
>>>>> (ri. click) or put UAC
>>>>> to "quiet mode".
>>>>> I just wonder: did you ever run Vista?
>>>>
>>>> I'd just as soon not. :-P
>>>
>>> Mmmm, I thought so and still you have an opinion about Vista,
>>> based on gossip and retard opinions in COLA.
>>
>> Plus K-man's website (which has since vanished) and
>> various blogs.
>
> [H]omer got it:
Nice catch. ;-) I'll admit to some curiosity as to how
many of the specific concerns pointed out in K-Man's
diatribe were fixed by SP1.
>
> ___
> [quote]
> [Photo of Windows Vista]
>
> These pages are best viewed with Mozilla Firefox.
>
> Windows Vista - A dog's breakfast
>
> Opinion. It sucks. It's a complete mess; a dog's breakfast. It's
> bug-riddled; it contains legacy features that hark back to Windows 3.1,
> and, worst of all, it can't be trusted with your valuable data. The user
> interface only looks slick; underneath it's a slapped-together
> hotchpotch of brain-dead, dysfunctional and downright buggy features.
> Windows Vista was surely designed and built by the same well-meaning but
> thoroughly misguided committee of morons who were responsible for the
> three-legged Bactrian camel named Humphrey.
>
> [photo of Humphrey the three-legged Bactrian camel]
> [/quote]
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070122221400/http://kadaitcha.cx/vista/index.html
[crunch]
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