"Mos" <Not@YourHouse> wrote in message

"Liberalsareliars"
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Mos wrote:
|| "Liberalsareliars"
|| <l$#"''.,?,..,XXX=@liberalzarelwankers.com> wrote in
||| Mel wrote:
||||| i've found a way to circumvent it. don't upgrade to
||||| XP. simple.
||| Yeah, right. Stay in the fucking Stone Age. *****.
|| What ?! And give up his 386 ?
More likely one of those 8088's, whatever.

They got advanced technology last year.
386s, flush toilets, and McDonald's.

Thats why I like my 357 cause it beats a four of a kind. ;o)

"Liberalsareliars"
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Mel wrote:
|| i've found a way to circumvent it. don't upgrade to
|| XP. simple.
Yeah, right. Stay in the fucking Stone Age. *****.

What ?! And give up his 386 ?

Mel wrote:
|| On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:24:30 -0800, Larry Krzewinski
|| <Feerless_Freep@madmagazine.com> wrote in message
|| <p1hov0lenslsvd8gkbiofvdbav5uu27ec7@4ax.com>:
||| On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:08:00 -0900, "Vanilla Gorilla (Monkey Boy)"
||| <vgorilla@pobox.alaska.net> wrote:
||||||| I suspect that you are STILL in your emotional adolesence as
||||||| Microsloth, I mean MicroSOFT, to you, represents "the man", as
||||||| in any form of authority. Once you get out of your James Dean
||||||| stage, you'll realize that the GREAT majority of us have been
||||||| using MS for years (I've worked with MS stuff since back in the
||||||| 80's) with few problems. Anytime we've spend making adjustments
||||||| is dwarfed by the thousands of hours a year you penguin types
||||||| spend tweaking the innerworkings of your Linux kernels. There
||||||| is NO NEED for 99% of users to HAVE to know the details. Hint:
||||||| one can enjoy a TV or a phone call WITHOUT having the slightest
||||||| ability to tweak either device.
|||||| One can use Linux that way, as well.
||||| Let 'em keep shelling out hundreds of dollars for software.. Bill
||||| needs a few more billion so he can buy a continent.
|||| I'm just waiting for him to buy his own carrier battle group to
|||| sail around the world enforcing his copyrights.
||| He's begun the enforcement. If you need a specific little piece of
||| software Microsoft supplies for free they are now asking for
||| verification of your operating system's license. You either have to
||| download an authentication checker and run it or supply your Product
||| Key or both. It won't be long until everyone running Microsoft
||| products needs to verify all their licenses for updates and patches
||| and where Microsoft leads others will follow. Sooner or later folks
||| will find a way to circumvent this but until they do it should be
||| interesting to watch.
|| i've found a way to circumvent it. don't upgrade to XP. simple.
Yeah, right. Stay in the fucking Stone Age. *****.

I suspect that you are STILL in your emotional adolesence as
Microsloth, I mean MicroSOFT, to you, represents "the man", as in any
form of authority. Once you get out of your James Dean stage, you'll
realize that the GREAT majority of us have been using MS for years
(I've worked with MS stuff since back in the 80's) with few problems.
Anytime we've spend making adjustments is dwarfed by the thousands of
hours a year you penguin types spend tweaking the innerworkings of
your Linux kernels. There is NO NEED for 99% of users to HAVE to know
the details. Hint: one can enjoy a TV or a phone call WITHOUT having
the slightest ability to tweak either device.

One can use Linux that way, as well.

Let 'em keep shelling out hundreds of dollars for software.. Bill
needs a few more billion so he can buy a continent.

I'm just waiting for him to buy his own carrier battle group to sail
around the world enforcing his copyrights.

He's begun the enforcement. If you need a specific little piece of
software Microsoft supplies for free they are now asking for
verification of your operating system's license. You either have to
download an authentication checker and run it or supply your Product
Key or both. It won't be long until everyone running Microsoft
products needs to verify all their licenses for updates and patches
and where Microsoft leads others will follow. Sooner or later folks
will find a way to circumvent this but until they do it should be
interesting to watch.

i've found a way to circumvent it. don't upgrade to XP. simple.

Mel wrote:
|| On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:40:01 GMT, MÐ <mÃÐMÁ×¹@ÅsSrEmOvEr.çøm> wrote
|| in message <R2GJd.48135$ju.8116@news.easynews.com>:
||| Greg Evans wrote:
|||| MÐ wrote:
||||| I don't see Microsoft falling any
||||| time soon as Mel predicts, but having used Linux for a relatively
||||| short time now, I can say without a doubt I'll never use Microsoft
||||| anything again, pending any forthcoming lawsuits.
|||| You'd think that, people being what they are, "getting something
|||| for nothing" would have enormous appeal...yet Linux still has only
|||| a sliver-thin share of the desktop pie. I suppose it's hard to
|||| effectively market something that doesn't "belong" to any one
|||| corporation. Apple and MS can spend buttloads of money
|||| advertising their OSs, and it shows. I will say I'm very
|||| impressed with OS X (which is, of course, based on BSD Unix). I
|||| started setting up a Linux system a 2-3 years ago - Suse, I
|||| believe - but didn't really have the time to devote to the
|||| required incessant tinkering. Maybe it's time to try again. It'll
|||| be interesting to see what apps are available, and whether the
|||| file formats are compatible with mainstream programs like Word,
|||| Excel, Photoshop, Quark, InDesign, etc.
||| It isn't marketed because very few can make a profit off open
||| source.
|| yeah. that's the whole idea. free software so that all mankind can
|| benefit. no proprietary closed source programs, which are doing god
|| knows what behind the scenes. software IS source code. if you can
|| read the source, you can know for sure exactly what it is and what
|| it is not doing.
||| Red Hat took the Linux kernel, perfected it, and then spun off Red
||| Hat Enterprise (their version of XP Professional). To keep the Red
||| Hat 'spirit' of open source alive, they used the Fedora project as
||| a guinea pig for new development in the open source community,
||| effectively 'hiring' thousands of developers the world over, for
||| free. They take the proven, stable aspects of Fedora and
||| incorporate it into
||| their Enterprise software ..and Fedora remains the cutting edge of
||| everything Linux. As for compatibility, there's CodeWeaver, which
||| effectively allows Word, Excel... to be fully compatible with
||| OpenWriter, OpenCalc, Impress (Powerpoint), and ODBC (Access). Even
||| without CodeWeaver, most files are already recognized between the
||| two environments. These versions have only recently caught up with
||| the complexity and usefulness of their XP counterparts, so anything
||| you saw/used on Suse 2-3 years ago is way outdated.
||| www.google.linux.com (a blurb on the new Suse)
|| yeah, with Novell's recent acquisition of SuSe and Ximian, Linux is
|| going mainstream fast now. Linux servers already power the Internet
|| and have done so for years. Those Windows servers (and Windows
|| desktops) out there just power the worms, viruses, trojans, spam
|| networks etc.
|| when i was young, i wanted to be a Microsoft Systems Engineer. I'm
|| all better now.
|| i'm thinking maybe someone will start MA (Microsoft Anonymous) for
|| all those people wanting to kick the Microsoft habit.
|| Step 1: We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction to
|| Microsoft software, that Microsoft had made our lives unmanageable.
|| Step 2: We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could
|| destroy Microsoft.
|| Step 3: We made a decision to turn our lives over to the goal of
|| bringing Microsoft down.
|| Step 4: We were searching and fearless. We destroyed all our
|| Microsoft inventory.
|| Step 5: We disclosed to all, all the Microsoft software we had ever
|| used (to our shame).
|| Step 6: We became entirely ready to uninstall all this Microsoft
|| software.
|| Step 7: We humbly asked our computers to forgive us and entered in
|| the commands to uninstall Windows.
|| Step 8: We made a list of all the computers we have ever harmed with
|| Microsoft software and became willing to make amends to them all.
|| Step 9: We made direct amends to all these computers, wherever
|| possible, except where they were too obsolete or burnt out for it to
|| make a difference anymore.
|| Step 10: We continued to scour all our computers, PDAs, cellphones
|| and other electronic devices for traces of Microsoft software. When
|| we found them, we erased them.
|| Step 11: We sought through the Internet and the wider community of
|| open source software supporters to continue to upgrade all our
|| software, seeking only the best for our computers and the processing
|| power to run it all.
|| Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these
|| steps, we told everyone we knew and then kicked back with an
|| enormous fat joint and blew our minds.
|| [ see, Greg, even the most mundane of subjects lends itself to
|| humour. that's the atj Way! ]
I suspect that you are STILL in your emotional adolesence as Microsloth, I
mean MicroSOFT, to you, represents "the man", as in any form of authority.
Once you get out of your James Dean stage, you'll realize that the GREAT
majority of us have been using MS for years (I've worked with MS stuff since
back in the 80's) with few problems. Anytime we've spend making adjustments
is dwarfed by the thousands of hours a year you penguin types spend tweaking
the innerworkings of your Linux kernels. There is NO NEED for 99% of users
to HAVE to know the details. Hint: one can enjoy a TV or a phone call
WITHOUT having the slightest ability to tweak either device.