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John B. Slocomb

Flightless Bird
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:30:06 -0500, DanS
<t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:

>
>> From Full Circle, an on line Ubuntu magazine Q & A column:
>>
>> A few weeks ago, I
>> updated using the
>> Update Manager. I
>> reboot as requested,
>> but I couldn't get back into
>> Ubuntu. I asked for help around
>> the forums, but had internet
>> access problems. Finally I
>> decided to reinstall using the
>> Live CD as suggested (with
>> some kind people's advice).
>> But I lost a lot of time & effort.
>>
>>
>> Poor jerk. Installed Ubuntu and the first time he upgraded
>> it died and he had to re-install.
>>
>> Another one:
>>
>> For the past months I have been getting "your session
>> lasted less then 10 seconds" so I have been unable to log
>> onto Ubuntu.
>>
>> Nice one. Install Ubuntu and it won't let you log in.
>>
>> And yet another:
>>
>> I've tried a few low cost Bluetooth dongles and have
>> discovered that they work with windows but not Ubuntu. It
>> seems I was using dongles that used firmware by CSR which
>> is apparently unsupported by Ubuntu....
>>
>> Great, you install Ubuntu and the economical versions stop
>> working. Windows can but Ubuntu can't.
>>
>> If this kind of stuff is published in a magazine that was
>> started to support Ubuntu imagine what is published in an
>> unbiased magazine.

>
>
>So you are saying Windows has never had an update cause a
>problem ? (Wrong)
>

No, I'm rebutting Alias' assertions that Ubuntu is the end all and be
all of operating systems and can do no wrong. Never fails, etc.

I'm merely pointing out that Ubuntu does have problems, as does any
other O.S.




John B. Slocomb
(johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)
 
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John B. Slocomb

Flightless Bird
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:36:20 +0200, Alias
<aka@masked&anonymous.net.invalida> wrote:

>DanS wrote:
>>> From Full Circle, an on line Ubuntu magazine Q & A column:
>>>
>>> A few weeks ago, I
>>> updated using the
>>> Update Manager. I
>>> reboot as requested,
>>> but I couldn't get back into
>>> Ubuntu. I asked for help around
>>> the forums, but had internet
>>> access problems. Finally I
>>> decided to reinstall using the
>>> Live CD as suggested (with
>>> some kind people's advice).
>>> But I lost a lot of time & effort.
>>>
>>>
>>> Poor jerk. Installed Ubuntu and the first time he upgraded
>>> it died and he had to re-install.
>>>
>>> Another one:
>>>
>>> For the past months I have been getting "your session
>>> lasted less then 10 seconds" so I have been unable to log
>>> onto Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> Nice one. Install Ubuntu and it won't let you log in.
>>>
>>> And yet another:
>>>
>>> I've tried a few low cost Bluetooth dongles and have
>>> discovered that they work with windows but not Ubuntu. It
>>> seems I was using dongles that used firmware by CSR which
>>> is apparently unsupported by Ubuntu....
>>>
>>> Great, you install Ubuntu and the economical versions stop
>>> working. Windows can but Ubuntu can't.
>>>
>>> If this kind of stuff is published in a magazine that was
>>> started to support Ubuntu imagine what is published in an
>>> unbiased magazine.

>>
>>
>> So you are saying Windows has never had an update cause a
>> problem ? (Wrong)
>>
>> And you are also saying that Windows supports devices that
>> Linux doesn't. True. By the same token though, how many times
>> has there been a device that was one or two years old, that
>> was supported and worked in Linux, and it *still* worked in
>> the next version, and the next version, and the next version,
>> etc.....what about the switch from XP to Vista ? How many
>> devices did *that* break ?
>>
>> ......Besides.....if a peripheral doesn't work in Windows,
>> it's the third-party mfgs fault and not a Windows issue, yet
>> if theirs no Linux drivers for it, it's a Linux problem?
>>
>> And to get back to the content of the OP, are you also saying
>> that the 'list' is wrong, and you can't do those things in
>> Linux?
>>
>>
>>
>>

>
>He's desperately looking for *anything* in his lame attempts to
>discredit me and Linux.


As far as discrediting you, it is difficult to discredit a liar, as I
have demonstrated you to be.

As far as Ubuintu goes it is simply another flavor of Linux. Perhaps
more financially (goodness, they even market tee-shirts) inclined then
other versions that feel the open-source standards are to be adhered
to, and in the final analysis very much designed for Newbees, which
given you demonstrated knowledge of computer systems is the most
likely reason you extol its charms.

John B. Slocomb
(johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)
 
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John B. Slocomb

Flightless Bird
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:51:16 +0200, Martin L <mlan76@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 04/25/2010 01:03 PM, Alias wrote:
>> On April 29th, the Long Term Support version of Ubuntu will be released,
>> a release that Mark Shuttleworth devoted all his time to so that Ubuntu
>> will finally shoot Windows out of the proverbial window. Get it at
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/ You'll be glad you did.
>>

>
>Use a decent Linux distro instead. Like Acrchlinux



That's not "archlinux" by any chance :-?
John B. Slocomb
(johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)
 
M

Martin L

Flightless Bird
On 04/26/2010 08:07 AM, John B. Slocomb wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:51:16 +0200, Martin L<mlan76@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 04/25/2010 01:03 PM, Alias wrote:
>>> On April 29th, the Long Term Support version of Ubuntu will be released,
>>> a release that Mark Shuttleworth devoted all his time to so that Ubuntu
>>> will finally shoot Windows out of the proverbial window. Get it at
>>> http://www.ubuntu.com/ You'll be glad you did.
>>>

>>
>> Use a decent Linux distro instead. Like Acrchlinux

>
>
> That's not "archlinux" by any chance :-?
> John B. Slocomb
> (johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)


Yes, a little typo there.
 
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DanS

Flightless Bird
Death <death@rottingcorpses.x-x> wrote in
news:4bd473bd$1@news.x-privat.org:

> DanS wrote:
>
>> Death <death@rottingcorpses.x-x> wrote in
>> news:4bd468db@news.x-privat.org:
>>
>>> Alias wrote:
>>>
>>>> Death wrote:
>>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Death wrote:
>>>>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On April 29th, the Long Term Support version of
>>>>>>>> Ubuntu will be released, a release that Mark
>>>>>>>> Shuttleworth devoted all his time to so that Ubuntu
>>>>>>>> will finally shoot Windows out of the proverbial
>>>>>>>> window. Get it at http://www.ubuntu.com/ You'll be
>>>>>>>> glad you did.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What can be done with Ubuntu:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Use it to wipe Windows off your PC...tinker with it,
>>>>>>> play with the cube,marvel at the low quality.
>>>>>>> Then comes the moment when you think "What have I
>>>>>>> done?" "Why in the hell did I listen to that idiot".
>>>>>>> "Now I've got to re-install Windows all over again".
>>>>>>> "I'll never drink that much again"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not sure you want to switch from Windows to Ubuntu?
>>>>>> Buy a new hard drive and install it on that. Gosh, are
>>>>>> you really that challenged that you couldn't figure
>>>>>> that out?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, I'm that challenged, dumbass.
>>>>
>>>> I know.
>>>>
>>>>> Read my fuckin headers,dumbass.
>>>>
>>>> No thanks.
>>>>
>>>>> It ain't ubuntushitsthebed, tho.
>>>>
>>>> We know.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We?
>>> You mean your girlfriend Danni (I'm sure it's spelled
>>> with an i...probably dots it with a heart)
>>>
>>>>> Your opening statement mentions "shooting Windows out
>>>>> the window"...whatever the hell that means.
>>>>
>>>> We understand how challenged you are.

>>
>> Maybe he does mean we as in me too, I don't know, but why
>> does that add some crazy homosexual connotation to the
>> fact that two people in one place don't agree with you ?
>> We know everyone wants to be liked, but face it, you can't
>> be liked by everyone.
>>
>> Is that so hard to believe as you come off as so
>> egotistical as you do, with 'I know everything' and 'I'm
>> never wrong' and being elitist in every thing you say and
>> all of your ideals. If someone doesn't 'like' you, it's
>> because there's something wrong with them ? Maybe there's
>> something wrong with you.
>>
>> How narcissistic can you be ?
>>

>
> You're a friggen moron.
> I think your gay because you have a fascination with
> inserting oblects up my rear.


No, that was you bringing up inserting things. And it was you
that brought up homosexual conotations here.
 
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DanS

Flightless Bird
John B. Slocomb <johnbslocomb@invalid.com> wrote in
news:3k9at5pe7uaqst6l95460fcphnnen1m75f@4ax.com:

> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:30:06 -0500, DanS
> <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
>
>>
>>> From Full Circle, an on line Ubuntu magazine Q & A
>>> column:
>>>
>>> A few weeks ago, I
>>> updated using the
>>> Update Manager. I
>>> reboot as requested,
>>> but I couldn't get back into
>>> Ubuntu. I asked for help around
>>> the forums, but had internet
>>> access problems. Finally I
>>> decided to reinstall using the
>>> Live CD as suggested (with
>>> some kind people's advice).
>>> But I lost a lot of time & effort.
>>>
>>>
>>> Poor jerk. Installed Ubuntu and the first time he
>>> upgraded it died and he had to re-install.
>>>
>>> Another one:
>>>
>>> For the past months I have been getting "your session
>>> lasted less then 10 seconds" so I have been unable to log
>>> onto Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> Nice one. Install Ubuntu and it won't let you log in.
>>>
>>> And yet another:
>>>
>>> I've tried a few low cost Bluetooth dongles and have
>>> discovered that they work with windows but not Ubuntu. It
>>> seems I was using dongles that used firmware by CSR which
>>> is apparently unsupported by Ubuntu....
>>>
>>> Great, you install Ubuntu and the economical versions
>>> stop working. Windows can but Ubuntu can't.
>>>
>>> If this kind of stuff is published in a magazine that was
>>> started to support Ubuntu imagine what is published in an
>>> unbiased magazine.

>>
>>
>>So you are saying Windows has never had an update cause a
>>problem ? (Wrong)
>>

> No, I'm rebutting Alias' assertions that Ubuntu is the end
> all and be all of operating systems and can do no wrong.
> Never fails, etc.


We all know that will never happen with Windows being the OEMs
choice for pre-installedd OSs. Now, if PCs suddenly came with
no OS, and you absolutely had to select, purchase, and then
install, the OS, maybe then...........
 
J

John B. Slocomb

Flightless Bird
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:36:31 -0500, DanS
<t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:

>John B. Slocomb <johnbslocomb@invalid.com> wrote in
>news:3k9at5pe7uaqst6l95460fcphnnen1m75f@4ax.com:
>
>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:30:06 -0500, DanS
>> <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> From Full Circle, an on line Ubuntu magazine Q & A
>>>> column:
>>>>
>>>> A few weeks ago, I
>>>> updated using the
>>>> Update Manager. I
>>>> reboot as requested,
>>>> but I couldn't get back into
>>>> Ubuntu. I asked for help around
>>>> the forums, but had internet
>>>> access problems. Finally I
>>>> decided to reinstall using the
>>>> Live CD as suggested (with
>>>> some kind people's advice).
>>>> But I lost a lot of time & effort.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Poor jerk. Installed Ubuntu and the first time he
>>>> upgraded it died and he had to re-install.
>>>>
>>>> Another one:
>>>>
>>>> For the past months I have been getting "your session
>>>> lasted less then 10 seconds" so I have been unable to log
>>>> onto Ubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> Nice one. Install Ubuntu and it won't let you log in.
>>>>
>>>> And yet another:
>>>>
>>>> I've tried a few low cost Bluetooth dongles and have
>>>> discovered that they work with windows but not Ubuntu. It
>>>> seems I was using dongles that used firmware by CSR which
>>>> is apparently unsupported by Ubuntu....
>>>>
>>>> Great, you install Ubuntu and the economical versions
>>>> stop working. Windows can but Ubuntu can't.
>>>>
>>>> If this kind of stuff is published in a magazine that was
>>>> started to support Ubuntu imagine what is published in an
>>>> unbiased magazine.
>>>
>>>
>>>So you are saying Windows has never had an update cause a
>>>problem ? (Wrong)
>>>

>> No, I'm rebutting Alias' assertions that Ubuntu is the end
>> all and be all of operating systems and can do no wrong.
>> Never fails, etc.

>
>We all know that will never happen with Windows being the OEMs
>choice for pre-installedd OSs. Now, if PCs suddenly came with
>no OS, and you absolutely had to select, purchase, and then
>install, the OS, maybe then...........



I'm not so sure.

Quite a few years ago I was somewhat of an OS-2 advocate. Even wrote a
newspaper column about it. I remember talking with a good friend in
Singapore one day and he was saying that it would be nice if someone
made a multi-tasking system for a PC. I replied, "what about OS2", and
he'd never heard of it. If you remember, IBM did quite a bit of
advertising about OS2, spots on TV, road shows, seminars, the whole 9
yards. and my mate never heard of it...

I suspect it would be no different today.

John B. Slocomb
(johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)
 
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DanS

Flightless Bird
John B. Slocomb <johnbslocomb@invalid.com> wrote in
news:a65bt511ot85f2noj5pdloj4ep9judl77g@4ax.com:

> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:36:31 -0500, DanS
> <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
>
>>John B. Slocomb <johnbslocomb@invalid.com> wrote in
>>news:3k9at5pe7uaqst6l95460fcphnnen1m75f@4ax.com:
>>
>>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:30:06 -0500, DanS
>>> <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> From Full Circle, an on line Ubuntu magazine Q & A
>>>>> column:
>>>>>
>>>>> A few weeks ago, I
>>>>> updated using the
>>>>> Update Manager. I
>>>>> reboot as requested,
>>>>> but I couldn't get back into
>>>>> Ubuntu. I asked for help around
>>>>> the forums, but had internet
>>>>> access problems. Finally I
>>>>> decided to reinstall using the
>>>>> Live CD as suggested (with
>>>>> some kind people's advice).
>>>>> But I lost a lot of time & effort.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Poor jerk. Installed Ubuntu and the first time he
>>>>> upgraded it died and he had to re-install.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another one:
>>>>>
>>>>> For the past months I have been getting "your session
>>>>> lasted less then 10 seconds" so I have been unable to
>>>>> log onto Ubuntu.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nice one. Install Ubuntu and it won't let you log in.
>>>>>
>>>>> And yet another:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tried a few low cost Bluetooth dongles and have
>>>>> discovered that they work with windows but not Ubuntu.
>>>>> It seems I was using dongles that used firmware by CSR
>>>>> which is apparently unsupported by Ubuntu....
>>>>>
>>>>> Great, you install Ubuntu and the economical versions
>>>>> stop working. Windows can but Ubuntu can't.
>>>>>
>>>>> If this kind of stuff is published in a magazine that
>>>>> was started to support Ubuntu imagine what is published
>>>>> in an unbiased magazine.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>So you are saying Windows has never had an update cause a
>>>>problem ? (Wrong)
>>>>
>>> No, I'm rebutting Alias' assertions that Ubuntu is the
>>> end all and be all of operating systems and can do no
>>> wrong. Never fails, etc.

>>
>>We all know that will never happen with Windows being the
>>OEMs choice for pre-installedd OSs. Now, if PCs suddenly
>>came with no OS, and you absolutely had to select,
>>purchase, and then install, the OS, maybe then...........

>
>
> I'm not so sure.
>
> Quite a few years ago I was somewhat of an OS-2 advocate.
> Even wrote a newspaper column about it. I remember talking
> with a good friend in Singapore one day and he was saying
> that it would be nice if someone made a multi-tasking
> system for a PC. I replied, "what about OS2", and he'd
> never heard of it. If you remember, IBM did quite a bit of
> advertising about OS2, spots on TV, road shows, seminars,
> the whole 9 yards. and my mate never heard of it...
>
> I suspect it would be no different today.


Well, quite a few years ago....talking OS/2, you're talking 20
+ years ago. A LOT has changed in 20 years.

You friend was in Singapore, possibly the advertising was
mostly US? It's hard to say what would happen now, with the
advent of advanced mobile technology and the explosion of the
internet, who knows. We can watch a war on TV half way across
the world as it happens, and news travels instantly, as does a
lot of information, so it's quite difficult to predict what
would happen, now.
 
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Death

Flightless Bird
"DanS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote in message
news:Xns9D664C6673E92thisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131...
> Death <death@rottingcorpses.x-x> wrote in
> news:4bd473bd$1@news.x-privat.org:
>
>> DanS wrote:
>>
>>> Death <death@rottingcorpses.x-x> wrote in
>>> news:4bd468db@news.x-privat.org:
>>>
>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Death wrote:
>>>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Death wrote:
>>>>>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On April 29th, the Long Term Support version of
>>>>>>>>> Ubuntu will be released, a release that Mark
>>>>>>>>> Shuttleworth devoted all his time to so that Ubuntu
>>>>>>>>> will finally shoot Windows out of the proverbial
>>>>>>>>> window. Get it at http://www.ubuntu.com/ You'll be
>>>>>>>>> glad you did.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What can be done with Ubuntu:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Use it to wipe Windows off your PC...tinker with it,
>>>>>>>> play with the cube,marvel at the low quality.
>>>>>>>> Then comes the moment when you think "What have I
>>>>>>>> done?" "Why in the hell did I listen to that idiot".
>>>>>>>> "Now I've got to re-install Windows all over again".
>>>>>>>> "I'll never drink that much again"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not sure you want to switch from Windows to Ubuntu?
>>>>>>> Buy a new hard drive and install it on that. Gosh, are
>>>>>>> you really that challenged that you couldn't figure
>>>>>>> that out?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah, I'm that challenged, dumbass.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Read my fuckin headers,dumbass.
>>>>>
>>>>> No thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>> It ain't ubuntushitsthebed, tho.
>>>>>
>>>>> We know.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We?
>>>> You mean your girlfriend Danni (I'm sure it's spelled
>>>> with an i...probably dots it with a heart)
>>>>
>>>>>> Your opening statement mentions "shooting Windows out
>>>>>> the window"...whatever the hell that means.
>>>>>
>>>>> We understand how challenged you are.
>>>
>>> Maybe he does mean we as in me too, I don't know, but why
>>> does that add some crazy homosexual connotation to the
>>> fact that two people in one place don't agree with you ?
>>> We know everyone wants to be liked, but face it, you can't
>>> be liked by everyone.
>>>
>>> Is that so hard to believe as you come off as so
>>> egotistical as you do, with 'I know everything' and 'I'm
>>> never wrong' and being elitist in every thing you say and
>>> all of your ideals. If someone doesn't 'like' you, it's
>>> because there's something wrong with them ? Maybe there's
>>> something wrong with you.
>>>
>>> How narcissistic can you be ?
>>>

>>
>> You're a friggen moron.
>> I think your gay because you have a fascination with
>> inserting oblects up my rear.

>
> No, that was you bringing up inserting things. And it was you
> that brought up homosexual conotations here.
>
>


No, creep, that was your girlfriend Alias.
He told someone to shove the CD up his "sanctimonious ass" , so I replied
that ubuntu was good for that.
For some reason, although he said it first, you choose to respond to me.
Seems you just wanna stick up for your little girlfriend.

He probably does need your help, as he is clueless in all aspects of life,
Oses, and history apparently.
 
J

John B. Slocomb

Flightless Bird
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:00:17 -0500, DanS
<t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:

>John B. Slocomb <johnbslocomb@invalid.com> wrote in
>news:a65bt511ot85f2noj5pdloj4ep9judl77g@4ax.com:
>
>> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:36:31 -0500, DanS
>> <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
>>
>>>John B. Slocomb <johnbslocomb@invalid.com> wrote in
>>>news:3k9at5pe7uaqst6l95460fcphnnen1m75f@4ax.com:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:30:06 -0500, DanS
>>>> <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> From Full Circle, an on line Ubuntu magazine Q & A
>>>>>> column:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A few weeks ago, I
>>>>>> updated using the
>>>>>> Update Manager. I
>>>>>> reboot as requested,
>>>>>> but I couldn't get back into
>>>>>> Ubuntu. I asked for help around
>>>>>> the forums, but had internet
>>>>>> access problems. Finally I
>>>>>> decided to reinstall using the
>>>>>> Live CD as suggested (with
>>>>>> some kind people's advice).
>>>>>> But I lost a lot of time & effort.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Poor jerk. Installed Ubuntu and the first time he
>>>>>> upgraded it died and he had to re-install.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Another one:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For the past months I have been getting "your session
>>>>>> lasted less then 10 seconds" so I have been unable to
>>>>>> log onto Ubuntu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nice one. Install Ubuntu and it won't let you log in.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And yet another:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've tried a few low cost Bluetooth dongles and have
>>>>>> discovered that they work with windows but not Ubuntu.
>>>>>> It seems I was using dongles that used firmware by CSR
>>>>>> which is apparently unsupported by Ubuntu....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Great, you install Ubuntu and the economical versions
>>>>>> stop working. Windows can but Ubuntu can't.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If this kind of stuff is published in a magazine that
>>>>>> was started to support Ubuntu imagine what is published
>>>>>> in an unbiased magazine.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>So you are saying Windows has never had an update cause a
>>>>>problem ? (Wrong)
>>>>>
>>>> No, I'm rebutting Alias' assertions that Ubuntu is the
>>>> end all and be all of operating systems and can do no
>>>> wrong. Never fails, etc.
>>>
>>>We all know that will never happen with Windows being the
>>>OEMs choice for pre-installedd OSs. Now, if PCs suddenly
>>>came with no OS, and you absolutely had to select,
>>>purchase, and then install, the OS, maybe then...........

>>
>>
>> I'm not so sure.
>>
>> Quite a few years ago I was somewhat of an OS-2 advocate.
>> Even wrote a newspaper column about it. I remember talking
>> with a good friend in Singapore one day and he was saying
>> that it would be nice if someone made a multi-tasking
>> system for a PC. I replied, "what about OS2", and he'd
>> never heard of it. If you remember, IBM did quite a bit of
>> advertising about OS2, spots on TV, road shows, seminars,
>> the whole 9 yards. and my mate never heard of it...
>>
>> I suspect it would be no different today.

>
>Well, quite a few years ago....talking OS/2, you're talking 20
>+ years ago. A LOT has changed in 20 years.


But I'm not sure that the "average user" has become any more
knowledgeable then they were then.

>You friend was in Singapore, possibly the advertising was
>mostly US? It's hard to say what would happen now, with the
>advent of advanced mobile technology and the explosion of the
>internet, who knows. We can watch a war on TV half way across
>the world as it happens, and news travels instantly, as does a
>lot of information, so it's quite difficult to predict what
>would happen, now.
>

No, IBM was very active in Singapore. Seminars and TV adverts. In
fact, at the time, the terminals in the Singapore Airport were running
OS2.

There might be an explosion of news but all one has to do is read this
news group and it is easy to see that many do not comprehend, or
prefer to accept only a biased viewpoint.

John B. Slocomb
(johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)
 
D

DanS

Flightless Bird
"Death" <death@rottingcorpses.x-x> wrote in
news:4bd61033$1@news.x-privat.org:

>
> "DanS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote
> in message
> news:Xns9D664C6673E92thisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131...
>> Death <death@rottingcorpses.x-x> wrote in
>> news:4bd473bd$1@news.x-privat.org:
>>
>>> DanS wrote:
>>>
>>>> Death <death@rottingcorpses.x-x> wrote in
>>>> news:4bd468db@news.x-privat.org:
>>>>
>>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Death wrote:
>>>>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Death wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On April 29th, the Long Term Support version of
>>>>>>>>>> Ubuntu will be released, a release that Mark
>>>>>>>>>> Shuttleworth devoted all his time to so that
>>>>>>>>>> Ubuntu will finally shoot Windows out of the
>>>>>>>>>> proverbial window. Get it at
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.ubuntu.com/ You'll be glad you did.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What can be done with Ubuntu:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Use it to wipe Windows off your PC...tinker with
>>>>>>>>> it, play with the cube,marvel at the low quality.
>>>>>>>>> Then comes the moment when you think "What have I
>>>>>>>>> done?" "Why in the hell did I listen to that
>>>>>>>>> idiot". "Now I've got to re-install Windows all
>>>>>>>>> over again". "I'll never drink that much again"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Not sure you want to switch from Windows to Ubuntu?
>>>>>>>> Buy a new hard drive and install it on that. Gosh,
>>>>>>>> are you really that challenged that you couldn't
>>>>>>>> figure that out?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah, I'm that challenged, dumbass.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Read my fuckin headers,dumbass.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It ain't ubuntushitsthebed, tho.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We?
>>>>> You mean your girlfriend Danni (I'm sure it's spelled
>>>>> with an i...probably dots it with a heart)
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Your opening statement mentions "shooting Windows out
>>>>>>> the window"...whatever the hell that means.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We understand how challenged you are.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe he does mean we as in me too, I don't know, but
>>>> why does that add some crazy homosexual connotation to
>>>> the fact that two people in one place don't agree with
>>>> you ? We know everyone wants to be liked, but face it,
>>>> you can't be liked by everyone.
>>>>
>>>> Is that so hard to believe as you come off as so
>>>> egotistical as you do, with 'I know everything' and 'I'm
>>>> never wrong' and being elitist in every thing you say
>>>> and all of your ideals. If someone doesn't 'like' you,
>>>> it's because there's something wrong with them ? Maybe
>>>> there's something wrong with you.
>>>>
>>>> How narcissistic can you be ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You're a friggen moron.
>>> I think your gay because you have a fascination with
>>> inserting oblects up my rear.

>>
>> No, that was you bringing up inserting things. And it was
>> you that brought up homosexual conotations here.
>>
>>

>
> No, creep, that was your girlfriend Alias.
> He told someone to shove the CD up his "sanctimonious ass"
> , so I replied that ubuntu was good for that.


What I saw was Alias' 'Only Six More Days to Go' thread
started on Fri the 23rd.

You were the first reply, and you deleted the list and
said,'It can be shoved up ones sanctimonious ass '.

*That*, is what I was referencing.

> For some reason, although he said it first, you choose to
> respond to me.


See above. I don't read many Alias posts that are more than a
level or two deep in a thread because by that time it's down
to two 'people' just calling each other liars.

> Seems you just wanna stick up for your
> little girlfriend.


Correcting misinformation about Linux, and calling you an
egotistical narcissist isn't sticking up for any person.
 
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