I'm sure that will sound witty when you tell it at
your group meeting
I can install anything on my mac, and if for whatever reason I couldn't,PerfectReign said:That's because you can't install software on your Mac unless The Cult (tm)
approves it.
I was trying to do this on my FIL's mac a few months back and ran into all
sorts of dependency crap.
Remember, your Mac an my laptops are only a kernel (and a Cult following)
apart.
Good one Pee Wee.Shenan said:It's good you admit to what you did.
<SLURP>Sorry. I couldn't remember.
At least it's caused light-heartedness since then.
/BAH
You don't???
It was a few years back and we had gotten into a huge argument
about something...what ever that was I've long forgotten...however:
You were the one who accused me of *pretending* to be stupid.
I had to assure you that if I made a post that was stupid...
it was for real. <G>
I can install anything on my mac, and if for whatever reason I couldn't,
I can use vmware.
It's best not to backpedal when you say something stupid.
actually he has eloquently described why every major o/s has the same
fundamental flaw: feature creep and bug-fix/ patches.....in other words,
bloatware.
I can only hope that his follow- up post will be an announcement of a
new o/s he and/or some friends built from the ground up.
Windows is a piece of shit. ;( :O
I don't advise that at all,
you can do more harm than good by using registry utilities.
The OP, if he's ruined his OS did so simply because he was clueless
and did not pay attention.
I know there are some apps that can put a Google search bar into your
browser (just as an example)
but if it's done, it's because the user was *not* paying attention.
I've never seen an application *not* give one a choice...
but most people just start clicking buttons without even watching
what the hell they are doing...
That is one way to destroy your system fast.
You are certainly entitled to that view, if that's what you believe.
But as far as I'm concerned, you're dead wrong.
You're living in a fantasy world. Everybody knows that Windows slowly
accumulates bugs. They've known almost from day one, when people
started griping about what a POS it was.
Idiot is right. I've never seen the Google tool bar installed withoutBluuuue Rajah wrote:
[snip]
[snip rest]When I had to uninstall the Google toolbar because Google installed an
update tht I didn't ask for, which overrode IE5's ctrl-f command,
1) Firefox
2) idiot
being asked for permission before hand.
99% of people screw up their own system by not reading everything when
they click on shit.
[...]
The problem with windows is
[1] Management - constantly making wrong decisions, deliberately
breaking bridges in software/APIs for their "commercial advantage" and
the rest of the typical corporate idiocy. Microsoft Management is
filled with people who have
- never self-funded and run a profitable business on their own
- never produced a profitable consumerable in the free market
Features, functionality and robustness always come after marketing and
politics and this is a sign that the company is on its way out.
[2] User interface design needs to accomodate the entire spectrum of
computer users from idiots to experts, old to young, culture, race,
etc. As a result, the UI designed to fit everybody in reality fits
nobody. It is inefficient, etc.
[3] Backwards compatibility - rather than dismiss the old and start
new, windows always carries the bad design principles through into new
version to support older software. They could've taken a
virtualization path as Apple have done in their OS, but idiot
management led by idiot Balmer decided that would be too easy,
profitable and make too much sense for them, so they support the
archaic APIs and software concepts in newer versions XP/Vista, etc
(and it looks like Windows 7 will still carry the same design).
That being said, Linux is worse (much worse).
Wondoes is not bad at all if you appreciate what it was made for. The
main purposes are "make big business bigger" and "allow the US
government to eavesdrop on everyone in the whole wide world" So from a
technical perspective it truly is revolutionary. Every non US
government gave their cyberspace to Microsoft! I mentioned how
upsetting this was in 1995 The response talked mostly about a nice
green start button. And how I should support the mainstream consensus
of ubertruth.
You know the theorem: If you are 10 steps ahead of the crowd you are a
lunatic. I must say it took very long for people to figure it out.
Even today most minions love using M$ and I'm using it to! Because
there is no good alternative left alive. Honestly, Commodore was godly
compared to this crap.
Take for example the Chinese with the black screen. I thought it was
hilarious! Even the Chinese are to stupid to write their own operating
system. Would much rather use the US military application. Of course
long before that lots and lots of smaller businesses went bankrupt
thanx to micro$oft. You just got to give them credit for that.
A 10 cent CD that costs hundreds of Euro's !! What to do with the
money? Lets go and use it to kill kids in Africa and call it a fax-
ination program.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4204425.stm
"The foundation run by Microsoft magnate Bill Gates has announced it
is dedicating $750m (£400m) to a worldwide infant vaccination
programme. Mr Gates said the donation would help save millions of
children's lives."
Ohh I thought people around the world needed drinking water and food
stuffs?
You ever try to eat a vaccine? "ohh, I'm hungry please give my
shots!"; who believes that? But of course, the windoes crowd loves all
Billo rhetorics universally!
Here, this is the real work.
http://www.ryanswell.ca/
Put your hands on the screen!
Onideus said:No, actually he missed a rather large and very important issue and the
fundamental reason as to *WHY* so many people have trouble with their
software.
Can't guess what it is?
Let me ask you this...what is your SOFTware running on?
Yeah, that's right, HARDware. If you're running your software with
shit grade, factory seconds, refurbished garbage that you bought off
eBay or pulled out of some ****in Dell shit box...yeah...yer gonna be
having all ~sorts~ of trouble gettin that bitch stay up for longer
than five minutes without some kind of system crash. I've found that
a good 9 out of 10 times whatever "problem" a user is having is either
because they're a ****in idiot with a short between the keyboard and
chair, or they're running their system on shit grade hardware.
Onideus Mad Hatter said:Of course for extreme needs I utilize a system I came up with called
the "Hydra Cluster" which is a collection of CD bootable Linux CDs
running Cluster Knoppix. The CDs are comprised of one base or "body"
CD which is reconfigured with all the software I need and is setup to
act as the primary hub. The rest of the CDs are "heads" which are
reconfigured to automatically search the network they're on for the
"body" and to connect to it. Once they do their processing
power/memory is then directly tied into the "body" setup. And even if
one of the heads is shut off the body will still continue to function
in whatever task it's performing...hence the "hydra" name.
Onideus said:You'll have to forgive Doofy, he needs to have constant hand holding
or he just gets all flustered and starts shitting his pants in
frustration.
I remember being very impressed with Amiga. A buddy of mine in Germany moved
up to an Amiga 500 back in'89. It was an awesome computer doing things that
neither Mac nor DOS/Win were doing yet.
Of course, that was almost twenty years ago.
Onideus said:Yeah Amiga used to be the *ONLY* real option for graphics, 3D
rendering, video editing and other multimedia forms, but then they
just sorta lost it and in the 90s everything went down hill for them.
Kind of sad really, it used to really mean something to say you had an
Amiga, it was liak saying you had an SGI machine.
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