Re: Vexille


"Bobbie Sellers" <bliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.08.20.03.51.28@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
SpaceGirl <nothespacegirlspam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> scribbled.

Rob Kelk wrote:

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:13:05 +0100, SpaceGirl
<nothespacegirlspam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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As demonstrated by the stability and security of open source software?
OS is a nice idea, but it doesn't work. OS software tends to be LARGE,
lacks actual features that are needed and rarely innovative. Is that
the kind of response you were fishing for?

That's the kind of response that shows you have no idea what open
source software is really like...

Then tell me what it's really like. Tell me how Linux is a far easier
platform for home users to use. Tell me how FireFox never needs fixing
and has some of the most innovative browsing features. Tell me how the
most widely used server side programming language (PHP) is super secure,
not to mention fast.

OS is great at generating copies of commercial software, but rarely for
creating anything new.

Have you seen the stuff MS are doing with their new web platform? It's
incredible stuff... if it works it'll change the WWW forever. So,
where are the OS versions of these things?

Microsoft has a bad history if ignoring what everyone else is doing and
trying to force their opinions on everyone else. Everyone else tends
to resent this. To date, MS' success rate on changing the Internet is
very low. (There are far more Apache servers than IIS servers, almost
nobody outside of Microsoft uses the IE-specific markup tags, and
Passport went over like a lead balloon, to give three examples.)
Things may change, but in my opinion AJAX has more chance of changing
the web than anything MS is doing.

This is very true!

If you neglect the fact that each new Microsoft release
provides countless hours of downloading security updates, that
each release to date has provided virus writers with many open
opportunities to not only raise havoc with your files but to
seduce your machine into serving as a DOS robot attacking any
site that has merit their venom. They sold XP to millions of
users, amateur and professionals, setup to run whatever scripts
they were e-mailed by script kiddies.

The only thing wrong with MS OSes is that despite being
excrement they cannot be recycled as manure.

The same might be true of Linux if it was more popular
but the price is more in line with reality.

Oh yes for the curious I am running Mandrive 2007.1
with several browsers that come with the release and reading
this thru PAN 0.125, on a dual-boot with XP Home on the
other side. Use it for a few tiny things, but when they sent
me IE & the changes cut off net access. Would rather
be on my Amiga but it is sick right now and I cannot bear to
stay away from you children even if it means setting up several
new(to me)programs. Not too shabby for a 70 year old ex-nurse
if I say so myself.


Do you give lessons? I could probably use some. What Amiga do you have? I
have an onld 500 that I love to use for games but myGVP hard drive interface
quit. I bought a 200 with hard drive, VGA output, and an IOmega drive, but
it is really flaky and won't run most of my games unless I drop it down to
68000 mode which kills almost every thing but the graphics. I'm way off
topic here of course. ^__^; I seem to remember finding a site in California
of a guy who fixes Amigas, (I seem to remember finding him with Google).

Inu-Yasha
Feh!! ^_^

later
bliss
--
bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco

Ningen banji Human beings do
Samazama no Every single kind
Baka a suru Of stupid thing
--- 117th edition of Haifu Yanagidaru published in 1832


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