Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Culley spake thusly:
> begin risky.vbs
> <2169759.PgW1nfurGq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Windows Is A Concubine, Linux Is A Soul Mate
>>
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>> | If all you want from an operating system is that it should be
>> | simple and do what it's told, then Windows is for you. If you want
>> | to have a genuine, loving give-and-take relationship with your
>> | computer, then Linux is the best choice.
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> Windows do as its told? Well that's true I suppose but the problem is
> it is often someone else telling it what to do and not the PC owner.
> Hence all the spam, DoS, etc attacks that plague the Internet.
Equally prohibitive are the instructions coming from the so-called good
guys (i.e. the vendor whom one is supposed to implicitly trust). Haven't
"validated" this month? Enter "reduced functionality mode". Playing
protected content? Downgrade the playback quality and disable S/PDIF.
Given the extent of the Vista EULA, who knows what Microsoft will
disable in *your* computer? Who needs that nonsense?
And this isn't new to Windows either. Years ago I had a perfectly good
graphics card disabled by Microsoft and nVidia (via a Windows and driver
update), so that it could no longer play DVD content ... at all, simply
because "The BT868 and Conexant CX25870 TV encoders do not support
Macrovision."
Of course I didn't know about the disabling "feature" until *after* I'd
already installed the driver. Nice going nVidia, thanks for the
"update". Funny thing is, neither nVidia nor Microsoft ever offered me a
refund on my legitimately purchased hardware that *they* broke.
Oh well, nothing a WipeNReinstall won't fix, eh?
Yeah, I *wiped* alright. Good riddance.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| 'Also, no one calls it PCI-X even though that's the "official "
| shortening of the much more commonly used "PCI Express".'
| - Hardon Quirk, COLA's resident "genius".
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00:51:26 up 32 days, 22:23, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.20, 0.34
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