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Jorge Lopez is a DeVry graduate with an MCSE certification and is currently working as a Windows LAN Administrator.

Hmmm.....

The intellectual property garbage makes me want to slam a porcupine up his butt.

Linux zealots will try to say that their platform isn't plagued by things like email viruses, but with Windows XP I don't gotta worry about emailing viruses to my friends and family at all. The built-in email client Outlook Express does it automatically, in the background.

Any MCSE who reads PC Magazine knows about the current legal battle raging between the Linux camp (IBM, HP, Novell, Red Hat, SGI) and The SCO Group, who is currently claiming that major portions of the Linux kernel, the Linux filesystem, Linux networking utilities, and portions of the human genome are all illegally copied from Unix System V, of which SCO owns some of the copyrights.

X_~;;

Hilarious. They did an awesome job writing that.

This guy is hillarious. Read the other articles and you'll realize that it's definatealy a spoof.

I am going to steer clear of "total cost of ownership" arguments, because Microsoft has already funded extensive research that has proven Windows is cheaper to own and operate than Linux.

uh hu...and Microsoft Windows is also cheaper that buying an onion when adding up fuel costs for the last year of all aeroplanes in the pacific.

Windows Longhorn will go even further than XP in this regard, as it won't even run any programs or code that hasn't been registered and approved by Microsoft.

What's sad about this is that, even though this article's a parody, this part may actually be true.

LMAO

Thats just golden!

ROTFLMMFDGQQAO!

As Usual, M$ Got PWN3D!

The only advantage Windows has over linux is it is eadier to use.

evilcat4000 wrote:The only advantage Windows has over linux is it is eadier to use.

I might have believed you if you'd said that before I'd spent hours searching for an obscure, undocumented, unlabeled registry option just to do something as simple as being able to put CDs in my drive without their installation programs popping up every time in Win2k.

Also, what do you think is easier? Hunting around the internet for the program you want, then hunting around some more to make sure that it isn't full of spyware, only to install it and find that you're missing some DLL that the program needs to run; or just typing in "emerge <program name>" or "apt-get install <program name>" and have everything taken care of automatically?

Drooling Iguana wrote:

evilcat4000 wrote:The only advantage Windows has over linux is it is eadier to use.

I might have believed you if you'd said that before I'd spent hours searching for an obscure, undocumented, unlabeled registry option just to do something as simple as being able to put CDs in my drive without their installation programs popping up every time in Win2k.

Also, what do you think is easier? Hunting around the internet for the program you want, then hunting around some more to make sure that it isn't full of spyware, only to install it and find that you're missing some DLL that the program needs to run; or just typing in "emerge <program name>" or "apt-get install <program name>" and have everything taken care of automatically?

It is true that Windows can be very unfriendly to use at times. However compared to Linux it is easier to use. Linux is a complex os that requires more knowledge to operate.

Drooling Iguana wrote:

evilcat4000 wrote:The only advantage Windows has over linux is it is eadier to use.

I might have believed you if you'd said that before I'd spent hours searching for an obscure, undocumented, unlabeled registry option just to do something as simple as being able to put CDs in my drive without their installation programs popping up every time in Win2k.

Also, what do you think is easier? Hunting around the internet for the program you want, then hunting around some more to make sure that it isn't full of spyware, only to install it and find that you're missing some DLL that the program needs to run; or just typing in "emerge <program name>" or "apt-get install <program name>" and have everything taken care of automatically?

IIRC in the CD options, you can turn that off ... works for me

the only other thing that Windows is good for is games.

Linux could also play high quality 3d games. There are versions of Quake 3 arena for Linux.

evilcat4000 wrote:Linux could also play high quality 3d games. There are versions of Quake 3 arena for Linux.

You call that a high quality 3d game?! Anyway, ATI drivers suck for linux.

I'm waiting for the linux version of Windows drivers, and far cry for linux. When that happens, i'll dump windows happily

Ace Pace wrote:

evilcat4000 wrote:Linux could also play high quality 3d games. There are versions of Quake 3 arena for Linux.

You call that a high quality 3d game?! Anyway, ATI drivers suck for linux.

I'm waiting for the linux version of Windows drivers, and far cry for linux. When that happens, i'll dump windows happily

Also there are far less games for Linux.

Drooling Iguana wrote:

evilcat4000 wrote:The only advantage Windows has over linux is it is eadier to use.

I might have believed you if you'd said that before I'd spent hours searching for an obscure, undocumented, unlabeled registry option just to do something as simple as being able to put CDs in my drive without their installation programs popping up every time in Win2k.

MS Powertoys (Powertools? can't remember the exact name) is the answer. It comes with Tweak UI which has an option to disable CD autoload for programs and/or music CDs. Also has a ton of other fun stuff.

Better example of quality 3d game for Linux is UT or America's Army (too bad my computer can run neither).

Also remember powertoys is unsupported by Microsoft, and the fact is that you have to get it, or hunt down an obscure registry key. Turning off [something] notification in the hardware settings only kills autorun as a side effect, but also f*cks up the icons in my computer from updating.

Besides, the crime is autorun is enabled by default.

What I find irritating about Linux is that packet-writing for Linux is alpha-quality. Then again, the CD-RW is obsolete with the USB keydrive anyway. But I don't have one. Also, supermount isn't enabled in vanilla kernels, necessitating using a distro kernel or patching (Mandrake users need not care), since I tend to eject floppies without unmounting.

And so what if ATI drivers suck? Don't you need to have an Nvidia card to use the better Linux games anyway, because of the OpenGL extensions? I've also heard ATI is getting better.

Ace Pace wrote:IIRC in the CD options, you can turn that off ... works for me :roll:

In Win98 it was. I couldn't find it anywhere in Win2k.

Spend more than 5seconds trying to figure autoplay out:

R-click on the Drive / Propities / Autoplay / Click take no action and the checkbox “Select an action to perform”.

When bitching about windows please pick something worth bitching about.

Windows is a far better choice for computer-illiterate/challenged people. Some versions of Linux (ie Knoppix) have basically no security from being fucked up by the user. Knoppix might as well have a big button on the desktop that says FORMAT HD, whereas trying to format C in Windows can be tricky.

Faram wrote:Spend more than 5seconds trying to figure autoplay out:

R-click on the Drive / Propities / Autoplay / Click take no action and the checkbox “Select an action to perform”.

When bitching about windows please pick something worth bitching about.

As I said before, that may work in some versions of Windows, but not Win2k.

YT300000 wrote:Windows is a far better choice for computer-illiterate/challenged people. Some versions of Linux (ie Knoppix) have basically no security from being fucked up by the user. Knoppix might as well have a big button on the desktop that says FORMAT HD, whereas trying to format C in Windows can be tricky.

Formating C under windows XP is actually fairly difficult todo accidently.

Since the hhd is always in use, you get promoted to scheduel the format next reboot since the format utiltiy cant gain exclusive access to C while its in use.

Ace Pace wrote:

evilcat4000 wrote:Linux could also play high quality 3d games. There are versions of Quake 3 arena for Linux.

You call that a high quality 3d game?! Anyway, ATI drivers suck for linux.

I'm waiting for the linux version of Windows drivers, and far cry for linux. When that happens, i'll dump windows happily

UT2003 looks great on Linux, but Linux right now is only good for gaming if you have an Nvidia card. And the larger problem, of course, is that very few software developers bother with Linux. Even most Linux users have a pirated copy of Windows so they can play games.

Darth Wong wrote: UT2003 looks great on Linux, but Linux right now is only good for gaming if you have an Nvidia card. And the larger problem, of course, is that very few software developers bother with Linux. Even most Linux users have a pirated copy of Windows so they can play games.

Nvidia card? thats my main problem, also, most games I play, don't have a linux version, since AFAIK, Morrowind dosn't have a linux version and etc.