Awesome Yaro

Take a look at this shot I got from a lively discussion I had with a Microsoft shill on the Ubuntu forums:

Note: I was not the one who used "Micro$oft" and set the shill off, but I sure enjoyed egging this idiot on.

Lets go over this. It is only a few points. But it is rather telling.

Well, I just found a bunch of sites toting the features of Windows 7, even saw some screenshots and only one thought can really come to me. Two, actually.

1. This is, like Vista, just another glorified version of the previous windows. Like how Vista was just a shinier, more bloated XP, well, Windows 7 is a slightly shinier, superficially less-bloated Vista.

2. Whereas Vista's looks and features were an almost obvious rip-off of Mac OS X, Windows 7 appears to be ripping off Linux this time around.

Has Microsoft no shame? Do they not really learn from their history?

This is a work in progress. These are not all of them by any means.

Maulisho wasn't sure where Kasim had gone--probably to meet with someone else. But not knowing how long her mate would be before returning, she's already asleep, back inside the birthing den. It wasn't long after falling asleep before she began to dream, not surprisingly, about her mate, and about the wonderful time together that they've planned for this week. And before long, the cougaress has a small smile on her muzzle, occasionally rolling over in her sleep with a pleased murr.

Huzzah, Intrepid Ibex is here! Be sure to download it. I intend to upload to ISO so that you won't have to put up with downloading from the main servers or update through apt... or, Programmer help us, a torrent.

My impressions of it are initially strong. I haven't finished configuring it, yet. As of this writing I'm spending about two hours downloading gstreamer and things merely because the repositories are absolutely choked right now.

This is typical of a distribution upgrade. Be patient and you'll be well rewarded.

Page is here.

From the page: "Despite its enhanced security, improved CPU scheduler and excellent stability, itâ€s still the flawed gem in many critics†eyes"

I actually used Vista and it's NOT like that at all: Slow as hell, insecure as fuck, and crashed just as readily as Windows ME.

Yes, life always throws me for a loop.

And I was really looking forward to using that 500 GiB hard disk. Ah well, at least NewEgg has a reall good RMA policy that, unless fate has other plans, will allow me to have a replacement disk in only about a week.

(WORK IN PROGRESS)

Bill Gates - The former Dark Lord of the Microshit. Less a programmer and more a charismatic thief of source code and technology. He is the primary reason Microshit became the Evil Empire. Retired from his place as Dark Lord, though he still pulls the strings. Has a charitable foundation that donates money on the condition that charities and projects use Windows exclusively.

It's old, but it is a lulu: Microsoft trying to market Windows Vista as something revolutionary, rather than the horrible piece of bloated garbage it really is.

No, I'm not talking about the Mojave Experiment, wherein Microsoft showed lied about Vista being a brand new concept operating system by Microsoft to find that no one was really impressed, so they lied and said everyone was. (Microsoft is not above lying.)

Well, life always throws you for a loop. Things go really well for you and them BAM! You're trying to fix something bad that happened.

Luckily, though, I fixed my problem: A dead DVD-RAM drive that was a little too close to the next Ubuntu release to my liking. A couple weeks and $35 later I have a nice, new drive.