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Zephyrus

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« on: April 22, 2004, 08:12:27 pm »
Microshaft (-soft to some) just screwed me out of an internet connection for 2 days... me - very annoyed.

I downloaded the new security patch, little did it tell me that it would stop my router from authenticating with my isp. Anyway I got my friend to download and give me the new firmware that patched microshaft\'s blunder(obviously I couldn\'t get it being internetless and all).

So I have my internet back, Bill Gates is slightly richer and everyone lived happily ever after (despite slight to major annoyance  X( )

And don\'t tell me to run linux or switch to mac, as much as I hate windows I hate the others even more. The last time i tried linux with my router... psch (probably more to do with my own ignorance and apathy more than linux\'s shortcomings). And macs just sit there looking pretty.
« Last Edit: April 22, 2004, 08:13:00 pm by Zephyrus »

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« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2004, 09:36:18 pm »
Shock! ?Macs just sit there looking pretty? Not being able to use an interface doesn?t make it crap the same for the Linux complaint.
On another note Bill Gates is no longer the Prez. of Microsoft. I just heard that somewhere?I think yesterday. As for the patch. It didn?t break my computer.
Hmmm.
Oh that?s right. Complaining about Microsoft. Why can?t they make anything that actually works out of the box? Stinking greedy b*&t^%ds. Spend some time testing something before you release it. Jeez!
There now I?m cool. I can play the antagonist and the protagonist :)

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« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2004, 02:44:46 am »
Ive always heard that macs and linux are more reliable than PCs, but I never had any major problems with microsoft... and I have never tried mac or linux, so I can\'t really say anything

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« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2004, 05:08:30 am »
I use Windoze because I haven\'t bothered to make the switch yet, but I\'ve been slowly replacing all of my Microsoft crap for better stuff, so I guess Windoze will go eventually.

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« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2004, 05:20:37 am »
XpYtZ - Gates hasn\'t been the president of microsoft since 1998.  He is chief executive and chairman, but Steve Ballmer has been the president for some time now.

Everyone else - I still use windows for simple compatability.  I do realize that support for microsoft-compatable programs is getting better and better for linux (wine x-tools, etc.), but the simple fact of the matter is that almost everything works for windows, albeit ineffeciently, while things are rather more hit and miss with linux.  And I can\'t stand macs.


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« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2004, 08:41:46 am »
well imo linux is the best for workstations in a company, since you don\'t have to buy loads of software cuz it\'s integrated in the system, although most of the software i use isn\'t in the system and it\'s hard to get.

MacOsX is a great system also, becoming more complatible with loads of things now, but the system well i don\'t like it that much, i can work on it ( have to ) and i can do whatever i want to but it doesn\'t support all the software i use.

now Windows is a system which is compatible with almost every software you need, which would make it ideal, but the system has loads of bugs and holes which would make it a bad system.

and i\'ve been testing CodeName: Longhorn for a while now and it works good on my pc, it is stable, pretty fast for a beta and most of the security problems have been resolved.

so you can finally say that microsoft is going the right way, more towards the client and less towards the cash.

for myself on my workstation i have Windows 2000 that\'s the best microsoft system released, not compatible with everything, but it works great and i have no problems with the software i use.

and yes i do have an entire network at home where i can check al those things :P.

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« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2004, 07:54:34 am »
I might be wrong....but I remember reading where microsoft is going to be making windoze subscription based......a little more towards cash I\'d say......and I really wouldn\'t run windows 2k with the source code having been leaked and all

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« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2004, 07:14:29 pm »
I hate windows, unstable, countless of security holes, etc. But it does have it\'s pros. As stated here, most of the stuff on the market are compatible with it.

Macs, macs are annoying, and useless, atleast for the home user. Sure, it\'s stable, and it\'s the best thing for artists and people that got too much money and think that if it costs more, it must be better... But what can I do with it? Nothing. I\'m a gamer, not an artist.

As for linux... I\'m more or less semi-pro-linux. But it does have compatibility problems. I tried Debian once, but I had this one problem: I got a crappy PPP ADSL modem (ALE 130, driver geeks might know it), and apperantly it\'s not compatible with anything but windows. I\'ve searched everywhere on the net for drivers that were programmed by people for something that can save me, but nothing. I\'ve seen it\'s name on many sites, all stating that there are no drivers for it, and no one had made one yet.
What could I do with linux without a modem? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Maybe when I\'ll have the new computer I\'m waiting for, and get a router, I\'ll check Debian again. But even then, I won\'t be able to do much with it, unless I use stuff like Wine.
But then, why not simply use windows?


I read a bit about Longhorn. The new folder system sounds like a real pain. And the thing that scans your computer for \'malicious files\' and deletes them without a notice? They can make it delete anything they want to, like Open Office, and the other things that compete against their products. I can\'t belive anyone is willing to put such a thing on his computer! Come on!
September 23rd, 2004 19:52:38 UTC
<+Grakrim> I have a legal copy of Windows XP Pro.

October 19th, 2004 24:43:02 UTC
I have copies of [Windows] 3.1, 3.11, 95, and 98, too. Not to mention various versions of MS-DOS

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« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2004, 07:32:10 pm »
My Windows Xp 64 runz amazing. Itnever crashes, has almost 0 bugs in it. :D

Windows xp 64 comes without all the extra crap that normal windows has... so there, problem solved, install windows with as little extras as possible, and it\'ll run great. :)

Or get Fedora.... (Linux for u non linux lovers ;))