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Re: Rants and Laughs

spider1106 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:16:21 -0000

I don't know if English is a second language for you. If it is you have an excuse. You should have written *FAILURE ON THE DESKTOP*

The point that this whole site is missing is that Linux is not for everybody. The same way not everybody needs a pickup truck or a 4 door car. If you had a secretary at the front desk who only uses the computer to write letters, it would be crazy to drop a Linux kernel on her machine.

I have put Linux on other people's machines in the past, but now I refuse to. I tell them that they only will be calling me in a couple days to remove it. Is it because Linux sux? Not really. Linux sux for them, but not for me.

Like Rodney King said: "Can't we all just get along?"

Re: Rants and Laughs

marco simao — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:32:12 -0000

First, its not really *nix, since LINUX is *UX, its FULLY POSIX Compliant, thing that your fucking beloved windows, JUST EMULATES. Well, ive learned all i know with windows, and dont hate it, but the last versions really sucks, have a HIGHER price with nothing really NEW. Well, u can fight, scream, laugh out loud, but, hey, what is loosing the market?!?!?! What is becoming obsolete, unusuable and very insecure, dont work out of the box??? hahahahaha
well, in the future, use Microsoft Office, the only software that microsoft will still sell. linux haters are a joke, and some day, humm, u will use linux! ha! huahuhauhauhauhuahuhau
despite differences, best regards for all!

ps: im my company, its 100% open source, and we're going very well. Ask for our
ps2: but im still waiting for the new windows, and try, maybe it get better ;]

Re: Rants and Laughs

Diego — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:16:04 -0000

Thank you for that enlightening link about the battle with web standards.

It was truly insightful, evenhanded and a pleasure to read. Thank you.

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ChrisTek — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:42:29 -0000

"Actually fucktard... I spent only a couple hours making everything orgasmic"

:rolleyes:

It's such commentary that tells a fanboi from someone who's still living in reality. Ever run a production server? Ever tried to keep *nix (or even *bsd) up for longer than 12hrs to work on scripting and all? It doesn't stay up, it's as flaccid as the dickless wonders who proclaim *nix and *bsd are God's greatest gift. That's the entire problem with *nix and *bsd, it's not ready for primetime.

Server admins have to do more than just babysit services and reporting to their boss who is freaking ballastic because mail keeps crashing. *nix and *bsd server admins are literal gnomes, they spend their days tweaking the innards, and probably never get out of their cubicle to even take a bath.

Real world folks have to get in, do their work and get off (as there's something more in life than living on Web 2.0), not babysit hackware.

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ChrisTek — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:07:45 -0000

"[My wife]’s been patient learning OpenOffice.org, of which I think she’s actually enjoying. Further, to increase her skill set for her resume, she has asked me to train her in depth with Linux, so she can teach others should she ever go back into education. That’s my girl!"

Ah, don't these *nix and *bsd fanbois understand that not everyone even cares about *nix and *bsd? Sure I use both on servers, but it's such a damn chore that it's more time than not. Either mail or clamav will crash (and having to wait 10 minutes for them to restart - 10 minutes downtime on servers is potential lost sales knuckleheads!); or Apache2 decides to eat up all the available memory, because every damn seat takes 2MB -- woe anyone on a VPS or a 1GB test server (let alone frontend). Windows XP? If it crashes in 2 months (and I'm on the computer 12hrs a day as I'm doing 3D/video/graphic/web design work), it's a miracle. Mail will always be up (and virus free -- been online since 1985, and only got *1* virus that was killed by the AV in transit, and I've been using Windows since 3.11 workgroups!); and IE doesn't try to change the color of my UI, just so FF can have it's splashy color.

Been through the openware, freeware, betaware and simply tired of the run around. Time=money, and I can't waste it tracking down 1001 bugs, then trying to explain a bug to rabid fanbois more interested in saving the Titanic (or rearranging the deck chairs) than trying to fix or improve the software. Have work to do, and it's not working for dogs that need a rabies vaccination.

It's a two way street. *nix and *bsd want respect, but respect comes via userability, not trading insults or trying to pass trash (e.g., Linux doesn't get viruses <-- the real n00b) as the truth. Whatever OS that works without the bugs and arcane work flows (or trying to proclaim users need to be Einstein or Doofus) is the one I'll use, period. Don't care if 100000000000000001 *nix or *bsd lovers get upset. Life is too damn precious to fight over "my dick is larger than your dick". :rolleyes:

Re: Rants and Laughs

Visitor — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:19:15 -0000

It would be interesting to know more about this strange and unusual case because, to be honest, what you relate seems *highly* improbable - a "slew of viruses, malware, trojans and any other form of badware" were able to infect a machine with "MacAfee Antivirus, Lavasoft Adaware, Spybot Search and Destroy and Windows Defender all installed"... ALL by the user clicking on ONE exe? Of course, I could be wrong about that last part because your statement "It was simply looking for a password to a program that lead to a zipped executable" is not exactly clear, unless you are euphemistically saying that she downloaded a crack that was, in fact, malware.

Re: Rants and Laughs

Rythmisian — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:48:01 -0000

"
I'm trying to play videos using mplayer for my wife, but she farts in my face everytime I have to look at the man page to remember the options.
"

Mplayer has an excellent QT GUI named smplayer. It utilizes all the feetures of mplayer and is very easy to use.

There are some other GUIS (gnome-mplayer and gmplayer) but yes, the truth is, they are very bad.

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John — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:02:46 -0000

Windows free family? That's child abuse, I know Portal and Bioshock won't run on Linux still in 3008.

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Snaury — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:24:28 -0000

Blocking IE is pretty dumb. I might not like IE, but in my company there's a policy that employees can use IE only. In fact our proxy just BLOCKS Firefox and Opera user agents. So even though I'd like to install Firefox, not with my job.

Re: Rants and Laughs

lon nol — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:53:48 -0000

Actually, I'd say it's the BLOG part that's useless.

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Lol Lolovici — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:00:51 -0000

You sure know a hell lot more than me about vaseline purchasing from your local market. I can only wonder what you use it for.

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Jerry — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:31:40 -0000

Indeed... all OSes require maintenance. I do routine junk file, gconf, and symbolic link cleanings with a Cleansweep-like programs called fslint and gconf-cleaner.

In other words, you were lying.

A. You DO have maintenance issues.

B. If your computer illiterate father didn't have you administering his box for him, it would get just as fucked up as a box running any other OS.

Simple... the diameter of his shit hole is 38 microns; whereas his cock is 32 microns in diameter. That is 3 microns of side cushion for a perfect fit.

You're gay to even think that up. Face it: You smoke pole. Get therapy.

Oh yea... and calling me "maroon" is pretty intelligent as well. I'm a white caucasian FYI.

You must be an adolescent; otherwise, you'd recognize the obvious reference to one of Bugs Bunny's more famous quotes...

http://filmguide.wikia.com/...

Re: Rants and Laughs

Timbo — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:23:30 -0000

The transparency issue pales in comparison to the error messages I see on Windows Flashplugin on Firefox.

Rrrrrrrright. AS IF Flash on Linux isn't UTTER CRAP. Crashes, no audio, poor performance, yadda, yadda. And, somehow, this is supposed to be a WINDOWS problem, right douchebag?

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

No... I've had exactly that one issue so far with Fedora 9.

And a zillion other issues on previous installations that you'd rather not talk about...

I use both operating systems at will.

What an utter and complete waste of time. Apparently, your time isn't worth anything.

Re: Rants and Laughs

.net jerkface — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:48:52 -0000

Both BSD and Solaris x86 could replace Linux on the server with the right improvements. Though I prefer freeBSD over Solaris I see Sun as having the most potential to disrupt Linux on the x86 server space. Windows Server continues to take share from Linux but sadly there will be demand for a free Unix for years to come.

But at the end of the day I really don't care since I think Unix itself is overrated. I also really like asp/.net so I could care less if Windows were to dominate every computing sphere.

Re: Rants and Laughs

Someone — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:39:25 -0000

Right... as if you know anything about these vastly improved OOo derivatives and the features they provide. These are real alternatives to Office and are superior to stock OOo. Just because it doesn't have the ribbon interface doesn't mean jack shit--I don't even like the ribbon interface in Office 2007.

But shit son... I could easily install Office 2003 and 2007 with Wine, Crossover, and Bordeaux too. Fact is my choice is exactly the same as you dipshit.

Its no wonder you have no credibility.

Re: Rants and Laughs

NotMoreLinuxZealotry — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:03:44 -0000

I dont know everything, just a hell of a lot more than you, as evidence by someone else seeing about blatantly I owned the shit out of you.

Now run along and get busy! its not long before Ubuntu's next release and the local market is running a sale on kleenex and vaseline.

Re: Rants and Laughs

NotMoreLinuxZealotry — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:00:37 -0000

OxygenOffice and Go-OO bringing OOo in much closer proximity to Microsoft Office is tantamount to saying a turbo kit on a 95 civic DX brings it in much closer proximity to a top fuel dragster.

you fail.

Re: Rants and Laughs

Jean Azzopardi — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:38:35 -0000

The problem with LH’s blog isn’t the blog itself. While the guy is a bit inflammatory, he does point out the problems in Linux. However, some of the commentors are obvious trolls, I usually ignore them.

Personally, I use Linux a lot, I like the OS, but you must admit, it does have serious problems blocking it from the Desktop. Some are not entirely of its own design - drivers not released by manufacturers, but others are.

It’s good if Linux users stop looking at Linux if it was the OS to end all OSes, take a look at the other OSes, see what they do well (instead of denigrating them for using different licenses or for just being what they are), and try to beat them. Not copy them. Beat them. Impossible? Hardly. And try to standardise a little. That’s another major problem. Stop re-inventing the wheel, do some compromises and join efforts. Zealotry must stop, now.

Re: Rants and Laughs

luser — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:50:31 -0000

I don't believe you. I've seen win2k servers become infected with the blaster worm after some hours connected to the Net without a firewall (test machine) by a certified Cisco network administrator(!). Later he kept asking who installed an IRC server on the machine (!) via the floppy drive(!) in an effort to avoid the blame for this (2 people had access to the machine only, he and I, I never touched the machine, I realised it was infected by looking at the blinking switch LED, it had 200 connections to every part of the world). Even with a firewall, I doubt that you never had infected windows machines (laptops) connect to the network. I've just seen so many I consider your claim impossible.

Re: Rants and Laughs

bodhibuilder — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:15:48 -0000

Well, in case you haven't noticed it isn't me who jumps to conclusions after reading first two sentences of the post responds to it violently without reading it fully and has trouble admitting it. But what do I know? I'm a shitcock, freetard without a clue, right?

Re: Rants and Laughs

bodhibuilder — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:06:01 -0000

Funny you should mention that. Stallman is a Harvard graduate too. So is G.W. Bush.

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Someone — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:58:16 -0000

Actually yes... porn sites.

The errors appear quite often of video porn sites like Tube8 and YouPorn.

I don't want gay porn, however. I correlate gay porn and sex in general with AIDS transmission.

Re: Rants and Laughs

Someone — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:47:18 -0000

>> And yet, amazingly, you can't seem to be able to keep Flash running...

The transparency issue pales in comparison to the error messages I see on Windows Flashplugin on Firefox.

>> Ah, so you were lying earlier. Knew it. Fact is, if you were to keep a log of the problems you've had so far in getting to the point you're at, there are far more issues than you're admitting. I say that as someone who has used Linux for a decade and knows when someone is full of unrealistic shit, or has somehow deluded himself.

No... I've had exactly that one issue so far with Fedora 9.

I've ran into other software bugs with other distros and earlier Fedora releases but most were solved in an acceptable period of time. All software has bugs and commercial Windows software has no shortage of them.

I've had hardware issues with FreeBSD but that isn't even a related OS.

>>If your productivity is essentially the same as Windows, then you're a dumbfuck for switching in the first place. Sorry, reality bites. ROI, anyone?

I use both operating systems at will. I could easily switch solely to Linux but I own multiple machines and decided that I wanted Windows on one of them. I have a copy of Windows so why not use it... eh?

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Lol Lolovici — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:36:45 -0000

I don't know if he was talking about the corporate domain. He is only doing that in the last reply. He seems to be changing the focus of what he says depending on the situation, that's why I said he is a troll.

For example he starts with something about how he recommends companies to change their "careers" page to make fun of linux users which of course a good company would never do because they need people with various skillsets on their jobs.

Then he starts saying in the next reply that it doesn't matter what you use as long as you do what you are paid for but somehow using windows is the only thing you can get paid for. I agree with the part abount not mattering what you use and I give him a counter-example (my company is not the only one and it is not small) and he comes back with something weird about the corporate user that uses windows. I am sorry but the corporate user who uses windows is paid for something that has nothing to do with operating system or software in general. He can be paid for marketing ideas, for sales, for business development, whatever. I don't have anything against these things, they are very useful but have nothing to do with the topic or the replies.

When I said I do not care much about the problems of the corporate user I didn't mean it in the way you interpreted (worksforme). I meant that it is not the point of what I said before and this guy was trying to shift the focus so he can keep things in his alley.

I was also ticked by the way he insults people and talks like he knows everything.

Re: Rants and Laughs

Timbo — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:33:38 -0000

The whole comment part of this blog is pretty useless, don't you think?

Rrrrrright, so "useless" that you couldn't resist posting, huh dipshit?