life after Windows....

Markku Grönroos wrote:

Perhaps you faggot get lost from travel forums.

Perhaps you could learn to speak a bit of English before addressing the
adults when they are talking.

Btw., they are called 'newsgroups', not forums.

Mxsmanic wrote:

White Spirit writes:

He couldn't get it to play WAVs and MP3s? What's the matter with him?

That's the wrong question. The right question is: What's the matter with the
OS? After all, he was able to play all of that under Windows.

It is precisely the right question because the answer was only a quick
search away. An MP3 application is an extra and is not part of the
operating system.

This betrays an attitude common among Linux fans: If something doesn't work,
it's the user's fault, not the operating system's fault. It's not a very
rational or productive attitude.

Since when did MP3 software comprise part of an operating system? It is
a userspace tool.

Frank J. Camper (alias "Ari") wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:07:24 +0000, John Stubbings wrote:

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:57:44 +0000, aracari wrote:

'Mxsmanic' wrote this:

aracari writes:

CP/M cannot be compared with Linux any more than DOS can be.
Why not?
Duh! Because neither are GUI op/systems.

ps-Are you still being sockpuppeted by Ari Silverslime?

Figures. The homo has no balls to do that to my face.

What is it you want him to do to your face with his balls, you faggot?

William Black wrote:
"Lou Ravi" wrote in message
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William Black wrote:

So.

What do you run on your server?

I don't have a server nor do the vast majority of computer users.

So what do you back up to?

An external disk

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:00:46 +0000, aracari wrote:

CP/M cannot be compared with Linux any more than DOS can be.
I speak as a 4DOS lover...but...
Once you create a GUI, you essentially create a new op/sys.

Since when has Linux been a GUI? Get those books out aracari/hummyhomo...

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tim..... wrote:

But only if the geeks accept that the MUST be plug and play for absolutely
everything that a normal domestic user might reasonably want to do.

They don't seem to be so minded.

Microsoft benefits from there being relatively few different versions of
Windows. Microsoft also spends a tremendous amount of money and effort
on enforcing hardware compatibility standards and certifying drivers. It
can be a real PITA for hardware manufacturers, but it ends up benefiting
the end user (usually). At one time when Microsoft was setting minimum
standards for hardware they also tried to forbid certain legacy ports
from being included on future hardware because they didn't want to
support them any more, i.e. PS/2, IEEE 1284, RS-232, but the hardware
vendors stopped this nonsense.

Unless there is a convergence of all the different versions of Linux,
with applications and hardware being as easy to install as in Windows or
OS-X, it will remain an OS mainly for servers.

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:01:46 +0000, aracari wrote:

'Mxsmanic' wrote this:

aracari writes:

That depends on whether developers get their act together and
bring it to prime time.

That will never happen. If it were going to happen, it would have already
done so.

I don't agree. It has taken MS since the halcyon days in mid
1980s to arrive at XP. Too bad they lost the plot after that...

Idiot, in the real world, smart people are using Vista getting ready for
Windows 7, using 64 bit OS's, Linux has been prime time in the server and
embedded markets for years. The BSD's are very important because of their
stability and non restrictive licensing.

Horse's for courses, there is only one OS that competes with Windows on the
Desktop. MAC. It's subsystem is based on............... BSD

Wake up and stop waffling, get your head out of your arse, the future is
already here.


It has the potential to become a serious alternative to Windows.

See above.

see above

see above

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"John Stubbings" kirjoitti
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:01:46 +0000, aracari wrote:

'Mxsmanic' wrote this:

aracari writes:

That depends on whether developers get their act together and
bring it to prime time.

That will never happen. If it were going to happen, it would have
already
done so.

I don't agree. It has taken MS since the halcyon days in mid
1980s to arrive at XP. Too bad they lost the plot after that...

Idiot, in the real world, smart people are using Vista getting ready for
Windows 7, using 64 bit OS's, Linux has been prime time in the server and
embedded markets for years. The BSD's are very important because of their
stability and non restrictive licensing.

Horse's for courses, there is only one OS that competes with Windows on
the
Desktop. MAC. It's subsystem is based on............... BSD

Wake up and stop waffling, get your head out of your arse, the future is
already here.

Perhaps you hymie turd just vanish from rte. This drivel of yours is
nonsensical in every usenet group - particularly so in travel forums.
Neither do you have a grasp on operating systems. Bugger off.

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:28:14 GMT, John Stubbings wrote in
alt.comp.freeware :

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:00:46 +0000, aracari wrote:

CP/M cannot be compared with Linux any more than DOS can be.
I speak as a 4DOS lover...but...
Once you create a GUI, you essentially create a new op/sys.

Since when has Linux been a GUI? Get those books out
aracari/hummyhomo...


Hummingbird/Chris is still studying the lessons I gave him on pixel
dimensions. Your studies for Chris will have to wait.

Even a school child can understand if you multiply width (of pixels)
by height (of pixels) then you get an AREA (occupied by pixels).
However according to Professor Hummingbird of FreeBearScience
University you get a numeric COUNT.

This must be some new theory of dimensionality involving
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Schrodinger's cat: if you
look at pixels to measure them then they burn out but if you don't
look at them then they are the right size. Something like that.

Schrodinger's cat? Maybe he meant Stubbings's cat? Or the Cheshire
cat. :-) --- .


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In message , John Stubbings
writes
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:01:46 +0000, aracari wrote:

'Mxsmanic' wrote this:

aracari writes:

That depends on whether developers get their act together and
bring it to prime time.

That will never happen. If it were going to happen, it would have already
done so.

I don't agree. It has taken MS since the halcyon days in mid
1980s to arrive at XP. Too bad they lost the plot after that...

Idiot, in the real world, smart people are using Vista

In the real world Business ignored Vista. The sales figures for Vista
are appalling without taking into account that the majority of business
users promptly "downgraded" to XP

This is why XP is STILL available and will continue to be so until
Windows7 is released. There are Beta's about now.

I think this is the first time MS has kept the old OS running and
available until the launch of the next OS after the current one.

getting ready for
Windows 7,

That is true.

using 64 bit OS's, Linux has been prime time in the server and
embedded markets for years.

CRAP Linux is NOT big in the embedded market for years. The areas where
it is common it is known for being unreliable.

The BSD's are very important because of their
stability and non restrictive licensing.

Horse's for courses, there is only one OS that competes with Windows on the
Desktop. MAC. It's subsystem is based on............... BSD

I have to agree there. OSX is a proper Unix and is very reliable.


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