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Re: [News] Vista - Bad, Bad Name

__/ [ High Plains Thumper ] on Friday 08 September 2006 11:13 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Paul Hovnanian P.E. on Thursday
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Latvians clutch sides and cry 'fowl' over Microsoft Vista
>>>> 
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | As global software giant Microsoft proudly previewed its Windows
>>>> | Vista operating system, in the small Baltic nation of Latvia, people
>>>> | were clutching their sides about the system's name -- which means
>>>> | 'fowl' in Latvian.
>>>> |
>>>> | Worse still, it's a slang term for a frumpy woman.
>>>> |
>>>> | "Everybody in my office bursts out laughing whenever I start talking
>>>> | about the new operating system," 26-year-old customer assistance
>>>> | manager Zanis, who works in the Latvian capital, Riga, told AFP.
>>>> `----
>>> 
>>> Well, we burst out laughing whenever we hear about Vista and that has
>>> nothing to do with alternate meanings of the name.
>>> 
>>> ;-)
>> 
>> That's just the comment I was going to append. *smile*
>> 
>> Just imagine. 5+ years. Any other company would have fallen apart after a
>> while, e.g. the scrapring of Longhorn at the end of 2005. Actually, it's
>> not quite that bad. Service Pack II was only released a few years back.
>> Revving up to III in a matter of 3-4 years is considered decent when the
>> code is a sordid mess. I'd be surprised if they even manage to polish the
>> builds (i.e. remove bugs) for an on-schedule release. Never before did it
>> take an army of testers to test a Service Pack, so they must be doing
>> something wrong. And they lose leadership, as well as developers who know
>> "the dog", as one dev called Vista.
>> 
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/ead4z
>>
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060907/tc_afp/usitsoftwarecompanymicrosoftlatvialanguageoffbeat
> 
> Sounds like it is time to dump the Frumpy Woman (XP), wait until a Linux
> Cabal meeting is over and meet Linuxeras:
> 
> http://www.linuxcabal.org/Linuxeras.en.shtml    ;-)
> 
> Seriously, yesterday and last weekend I attempted backups in Nero on my XP
> partition.  After ruining a few blanks, I gave K3b on my Linux 10.1 Open
> SuSE partition a try.
> 
> Burned an ISO to CD-R, then backed up 4.6 GB worth from my XP partition
> using K3b.  It worked without skipping a heartbeat, I didn't even have to
> disable the monitor power down and screen savers.
> 
> K3b software is easy to use.  Anyone who has used Nero or Roxio can use it,
> software is very user friendly.
> 
> This T-Shirt logo expresses my feelings toward Windows:
> 
>
http://www.cafepress.com/buy/penguins/-/pv_design_details/pg_10/id_7669333/opt_/fpt__P___________Dc_PXiP_FD/c_0/
> 
> or http://tinyurl.com/p8mjh

*LOL* Migrate to Linux now as inevitably you will have to. Windows users are
in some sense the 'living dead', much like OS/2 users a decade ago...

And some would say that OS/2 was only crushed due to dirty tactics and
marketing (brainwash), rather than lack of merit. Apple likewise.

Best wishes,

Roy

PS - K3b has excellent reputation. And, amazingly enough, it's a project that
is funded by donation. It comes to show what levels of success can be
reached without a programming hen house (think undermotivates programmers
tapping on keyboards in a brightly-lit cubicle).

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