I hate Microsoft Office!

[RebeccaFog]

The Linux Seat

The sort of seat you would want in a plane crash. Strong, sturdy, reliable, and potentially very comfortable after some adjustment. A truly unique and rewarding experience.

You arrive on the plane and find a box of parts, spanners, and a piece of paper saying "Some Self Assembly Required"

I worked on aircraft, you don't want Joe the Plumber fixing your plane. 

I'm not sure I want Joe the Plumber fixing my plumbing.   

[Ellieka]

The Pinkone RULZ!

[lizbeth]

wait a second here, there is a linux thread and I wasn't invited!?!

I'm running kubuntu at home and manage 2 mandriva boxes and a red hat box at work. I'm not a fangirl when it comes to operating systems, but in my environment at work, linux has been a dream especially when it comes to using it with our oracle dbs and jboss.

at home I have 2 windows boxes (vista and XP). I love mac, but I haven't had one in years, and I can't afford a new one right now. I was thinking of buying a macbook with my tax return and writing it off next years taxes since it's been 2 years since my last computer purchase =)

[Ellieka]

LOL! actually it kinda started out as a "I hate Microsoft" thread and kinda got hijacked.

[lizbeth]

most linux threads do! 

[Ellieka]

And the GEEK shall inherit the earth! 

[lizbeth]

yea, but we'll have to fix all the mistakes the n00bs made, LOL

[Kaitlyn]

There's no place for n00bs in a world of geeks.  They'd be like the "untouchables" in India.

[tekla]

Problem is that the world runs more or less on social skills

[Kaitlyn]

Problem is that the world runs more or less on social skills

Bull->-bleeped-<- & fakery run on social skills - the world runs on technology.
Being a geek, I know lots about the one, and nothing about the other. 

[Vexing]

LOL! actually it kinda started out as a "I hate Microsoft" thread and kinda got hijacked.

More to the point; where are all the MAC users telling us how awesome MAC's are?

[lizbeth]

macs ARE awesome!

[Vexing]

macs ARE awesome!

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant

[Kaitlyn]

Macs only got awesome when Apple threw out their crappy OS and PowerPC hardware, and started over.

[tekla]

Maybe I'm just a silly old beast.  Hell, I remember when I bought my dad a calculator for Xmas and though it was the coolest thing in the world.  And, as it turns out, that year, it was.  I started with a trash 80, went to a 286, to a 386, to a 486, to a Pent III, to, well, an Apple Ibook.  Not even a real advanced deal, and I love it.  Of course, I don't wank off playing some fantasy games, but I do get high on how well it runs basic calcs (that, in fact, I only run AFTER, i come up with the solution on paper -- or, on chalk on a stage, I'm just that damn enamored with being right all on my own) and can word process, and surf the web.  After that, you need a life, not a better computer.

[Kaitlyn]

After that, you need a life, not a better computer.

But it's a lot easier to upgrade your computer than to upgrade your life  .

[tekla]

True that, but a lot less fun in the end.   A whole lot less real too.

[MarySue]

Problem is that the world runs more or less on social skills

But this is a web forum! Social skills? We're hackers! We don't need no stinking social skills! 

LOL! actually it kinda started out as a "I hate Microsoft" thread and kinda got hijacked.

More to the point; where are all the MAC users telling us how awesome MAC's are?

I made a few posts to that effect. But I don't feel the need to shout it from the rooftops, or pound it into people's skulls. The smart people realize it. The others ... well, hopefully they will learn from their mistakes.

* Ducks razor-edged Windows system discs thrown by Linux zealots .... *

Macs only got awesome when Apple threw out their crappy OS and PowerPC hardware, and started over.

I don't think the PowerPC was all that bad. However, it proved to be a dead end, so the intel switch was a good thing.

But I agree about the old OS9. I've used Macs since OS 7 (maybe earlier -- a lot of gray cells have hit the bug zapper since then). I was getting kind of disgusted with Apple. If they hadn't switched to a unix-based OS -- and done a decent job of marrying it with a GUI! -- I would have switched to Linux.

Also, another contributing factor to Apple's getting awesome is they finally started using industry standards, and dropped their proprietary crud like ADB, Apple's video interface, resource forks, whatever protocol they used instead of TCP/IP, and so on. Now my mac laptop runs very nicely in my work network -- in some ways, better than my company-issued Win/XP box. My mac can talk to the corporate network printers, which is more than I can say for my PC. These days, the only thing I use my PC for is netmeeting. And then only when I don't want VMWare to hog up my mac's screen with a virtual Windows desktop.

[RebeccaFog]

Problem is that the world runs more or less on social skills

Not my world, Baby!         

[tekla]

Sure it does, and that's what makes it suck so bad.