On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12
1
5 +0200, Alias
<aka@maskedandanymous.org.invalido> wrote:
>John B. Slocomb wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:22:47 +0200, Alias
>> <aka@maskedandanymous.org.invalido> wrote:
>>
>>> Death wrote:
>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Death wrote:
>>>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John B. Slocomb wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:26:08 +0200, Alias
>>>>>>>> <aka@masked&anonymous.net.invalida> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> John B. Slocomb wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:26:55 +0200, Alias
>>>>>>>>>> <aka@maskedandanymous.org.invalido> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> MS and HP want you to buy a new printer. Do yourself a favor and use
>>>>>>>>>>> Ubuntu. It's free and has no problems with HP printers. All you need to
>>>>>>>>>>> do is connect the printer to your computer and Ubuntu will automagically
>>>>>>>>>>> install the drivers. Check it out at http://www.ubuntu.com/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What utter drivel. As I had previously noted Ubuntu doesn't have a
>>>>>>>>>> clue when it comes to the more modern Canon printers.
>>>>>>>>> Wrong. Canon has decided not to supply the drives. That is Canon's
>>>>>>>>> fault, not Ubuntu.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are you saying that Ubuntu, a Linux company and devotee of the
>>>>>>>> open-source philosophy is now willing to including preparatory Canon
>>>>>>>> driver code? sort of a rat leaving a sinking ship sort of philosophy,
>>>>>>>> wouldn't you say? And Canon turned them down, wouldn't giver them the
>>>>>>>> proprietary code either?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That really says something about what Canon thinks of the future of
>>>>>>>> Ubuntu, doesn't it. that one of the larger printer manufacturers
>>>>>>>> doesn't want to be associated with this fast moving, dynamic, software
>>>>>>>> house.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> John B. Slocomb
>>>>>>>> (johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Grasping straws again, eh? It's still Canon's fault, no matter how you
>>>>>>> try to spin it to bolster your ill informed opinion about Ubuntu.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alias' philosophy...everything should be free except for what little I
>>>>>> do
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So, does this mean you want to pay for the air you breath or you'll get
>>>>> a complex that people might think you're Open Source? How about sex? Do
>>>>> you pay for that, whether you do it all by yourself or with others?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Software is not air.
>>>
>>> We were talking about paying vs. free, not software but nice try. You
>>> wrote, and I quote, "Alias' philosophy...everything should be free
>>> except for what little I do". "Everything" includes a few more things
>>> than just software.
>>
>>
>> You were the bloke who said that software will be free.
>
>I didn't say that. Can you prove I did? Didn't think so.
>
>> Of course,
>> like the famous "Windows Directory Kernel" that you also talked about
>
>I talked about the Windows kernel and the Windows registry. You're
>making things up again.
>
>> it is so much hot air, but you said it. we just repeated it.
>>
>> John B. Slocomb
>> (johnbslocomb@gmail.com)
>
>No, you made it up.
Alias you are a liar and below is the message where you exhibited your
ignorance about computers by stating that MS called the kernel a
registry:
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Bill Yanaire wrote:
>
>
> "ray" <ray@zianet.com> wrote in message
> news:8349pqFhp0U45@mid.individual.net...
>> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:27 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
>>
>>> On 19 Apr 2010 22:421 GMT, ray <ray@zianet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I run Ubuntu and Debian and a couple of other Linux distributions and
>>>> I've not had to resort to "cryptic line commands" to get any of them
>>>> running at any point.
>>>
>>> Why do you need to run more than one distribution?
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>> Taylor the distro to the machine. I run Debian on my wife's netbook and
>> on a 'lite' desktop because they are better for those architectures. I
>> run Ubuntu (not the most recent version) on a couple of desktops and a
>> 2ghz laptop. Run Gentoo on a mini-itx.
>
> Wow. Sounds like you have a lot of work to do just to get those INFERIOR
> distros working. So one is better for certain "architectures"? What does
> that mean? They are not compatible with the hardware? Sounds like it. If
> you need to run a few different OS! With Windows, all you need to do is
> install it, the updates will run and load your apps. Simple.
>
> Now go spend another 10 hours looking up what needs to be fixed on each
> distro, look into drivers and see if you can find them and then go spend
> some time watching the spinning cube. LOL!
>
>
>
Lies:
No need to use a command line.
The cube does not spin by itself.
Drivers are not a problem in Ubuntu like they are in Windows 7
******************** stared for emphasis
The architecture is the structure where to access the root kernel, you
need to key in your password or it ain't going there. In Windows, most
programs are intertwined with the registry (MS' stupid name for a
kernel) and are therefore more vulnerable.
--
Alias
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John B. Slocomb
(johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)