Ubuntu ate my dog, . .

Straightened all my Slinkies, wrinkled all my Permanent
Press, Ran up a tab on my JIB card, and peed in my
bird fountain. Should I get a Mac?

 

I've been fooling around with Linux for maybe 7 years now
and was not terrribly impressed with Ubuntu...
I've got a machine setup with PCLinuxOS that works great.

A while back someone gave me a MAC G3 with a dead HD and no CD to reload the
OS...
so I replaced the HD and loaded it with Ubuntu...
have to admit that it did work Ok there

 

I've installed ubuntu on a VMWARE emulator to play around with it in that
and I guess I haven't been all that impressed with it.

also installed vista RC1 on VMWARE but from the moment I saw it even on
there I knew I was going to hate it, I cant be bothered to steal the finial
release of vista because its just junkware and I wouldn't want to waste my
time downloading it then pissing about with reg files and patching dll's etc
just to bypass the WGA/Activation crap.

also on the ms topic what's with the sudden "make free IE7" to all users
including illegal copies of windows, ms excuse is : bring all users unto a
level of standards , if its anything like vista standards the net will grind
to a halt within a week , but best guess is IE is loosening ground on the
market and is now desperate to keep a strangle hold on users.

finally MS has had a strangle hold on Pc users now for years , dictating
what hardware we should buy and how software functions etc etc , after so
much evolution and development we will not be contained or controlled in
this manor anymore(life/users will find a way heh). users are choosing to go
to other systems such as Linux etc which are less evolved for the home users
and there is less compatibility for programs/games so in a sense its sort of
knocking our evolution back years.

Anyways that's all I can be bothered to rant about tonight , I think im off
to bed

Steve
ps. and yes for smart asses im aware im posting using outlook express but at
least im on XP :-D

 

You'd rather install ubuntu native and take the benefit from it's good
hardware recognition, and let windows run in a vmware/virtualbox cage.

You may run it up to 30 days but supposedly you'll be fed up long before it
expires. Save the time for cracking, do something better.

Ya know, IE7 together with XP cuts deep security breaches due to URI
vulnerability? It is just the combination of XP/IE7 which is vulnerable, so
far.

 

Not by continually top-posting.

 

I guess im lucky I haven't installed IE7 despite auto update hanging it in
front of my face like a carrot , I ent biting ,mainly because when it popped
up I assumed it was a MS trick to get in and mark your pc illegal and
various other annoyances.but the other reason being IE7 has a crappy GUI
design.


Steve

 

It doesn't have to, mine doesn't....