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Re: Challenged

bic — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:52:12 -0000

(The "network boot a complete workstation" thing. For some reason the comment's not showing up where it belongs...)

Re: Challenged

bic — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:50:27 -0000

And how does that help the average Joe desktop user with his home PC?

Re: Challenged

bic — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:20:03 -0000

About 3.2 people.

Either someone's dual-booting, or they're a quadruple amputee.

Re: Challenged

bic — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:54:25 -0000

"Today, I found myself featured on the Linux Haters Blog. [...] So, this post is challenge the author to produce something intellectual that will actually show some logic behind his posts (and maybe the commentators behind their comments)."

So how exactly is this blog different from any pro-Linux zealot's blog? It's just on the opposite side of the coin.

Apparently, lusers can dish it out, but they can't take it.

Re: Challenged

bic — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:43:59 -0000

Obviously this guy's never heard of Norton Ghost... Make an install up once and clone it a hundred times over. If he really is an administrator for any company worth a damn, they buy fleets of identical (pr at least similar) computers, where drive cloning is an option. With a ragtag collection of random machines, it's a different matter.

Re: Rants and Laughs

bic — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:54:17 -0000

Agreed. There's no reason anyone with half a brain should get more than a couple viruses per decade, at the most. Don't open email attachments from people you don't know, don't download everything you see, avoid shady back-alley websites, and set up IE so it doesn't run unsigned scripts (or better yet, use a decent browser like Opera or Firefox).

It's not that hard to understand.

Re: One bug report to rule them all

bic — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:11:57 -0000

You're forgetting that John Q. Enduser doesn't want to learn to be a developer, he just wants his programs to work. The developers demand tons of information from tools that don't come with their distros, or aren't installed by default, that John doesn't know how to use. Therefore, he gives up and boots back into Windows, where he can go about his business perfectly fine without arrogant developers yelling at him for doing the best he can in reporting a bug in their code.

If developers want detailed reports AND mainstream Linux use, why don't they write ONE central bug reporting system, AND a working, automatic utility that gathers the crash information and sends it to the server with no end-user interaction, save for a simple dialog box. (Said box would let them submit the report, cancel, or view the information it contains.)

Re: Rants heard 'round the community ver. 10

bic — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:19:58 -0000

Free as in Freedumb.

Re: Rants heard 'round the community ver. 10

bic — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:22:28 -0000

Of course it's a simple enough task, but that's not the point. The point is it's the developers' fault for creating the mess in the first place, not that of any OS. It's another example of open source developers caring more about their desires and laziness than usability.

That should never have been put there in the first place.

Re: Rants heard 'round the community ver. 10

bic — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:41:02 -0000

But it ISN'T their fault. ANYone, on ANY OS with that kind of menu system, can make such a deeply nested folder hierarchy. Just look at Knoppix and its chaotic menu.

If you want to "FIX THE DAMN PROBLEM" (as you so maturely out it), talk to the people who made the installer. They're the ones to blame.

Re: Rants heard 'round the community ver. 10

bic — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:47:17 -0000

You can equally f--- up the menu structure in just about ANY OS with tons of nested folders. That "retardedness" stems from the program's installer, the user, or both. It has nothing to do with Windows.

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

bic — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:39:02 -0000

Nobody remembers that VLC can also stream media to any computer on the network. (Or maybe they just can't figure that feature out?)

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

bic — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:24:31 -0000

Dual monitors is far more time saving than virtual desktops. If you've ever had a dual-head setup (if by some miracle X decided it would let you), this would be extremely obvious.

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

bic — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:18:30 -0000

Oh boy, namecalling!

Yeah that's a great way to make us take you seriously.