Re: Evolutionary Humour

In article <1ixqu73.l4p5ex1m3hu8pN%john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John S. Wilkins) wrote:

*Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 4, 10:38 pm, j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John S. Wilkins) wrote:
*Hemidactylus* <ecpho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 4, 1:50 am, j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John S. Wilkins) wrote:
*Hemidactylus* <ecpho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 3, 11:43 pm, "Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
*Hemidactylus* wrote:

>>>> No irony involved. M$ is a software house,
Apple is (primarily) a hardware manufacturer.
There superior OS is basically a by-product,
needed for the sale of superior hardware,

The first Apple was part of a contest to see who could build
the least expensive computer. They maintained this concept
through the entire Apple line. Apple floppy drives had a lot of
plastic in them and was missing a lot of electronics. While
development costs are about the same formatting in software
saves money over a hard ware solution. It is also much slower.
The only thing superior about the Apple drives in teh early days
was the price. About $300.00 for the plastic version that
formatted in software and close to $100.00 for any other brand
that had soft sectoring hardware.

Of course you could use both sides of the apple floppy

Apple sells sizzle.

Windows and Apple users don't know how to live life on the edge
with their safe, user-friendly formats. I'm presently watching
gparted resize my ubuntu partition so I can make room for Fedora
(with KDE). Tomorrow, when it finally finishes this process, I
will realize I have no Ubuntu or wireless access and will scream
at the top of my lungs as I try to salvage the pieces and start
from scratch. If successful, I will have two pain in the ass to
configure distros to toy with.

Keep it up - I'm nearly sold...

Not going well. Need to edit grub bootloader to recognize ubuntu after
fedora installed. Arggggg!!!!

Maybe I should invest in vm software.

Did I mention I use VMWare to run linux, XP and various other things
natively on my MacBook you so rightly despise?

I don't despise MacBooks. I respect Apple and MacOSX, I'm just
prodding at Macheads because it's fun and it's nice to take some of
the emphasis off Microsoft's evil plans for world domination. I would
like the option of going to my local tech store and buying Mac OS to
install on a PC. That's my main point. But I'd never build a
Hackintosh regardless.

VMWare is cool, but in my opinion defeats the purpose of installing a
Linux distro, which is getting as far away from Microsoft as possible.
I'd try to avoid Wine for the same reason. If you have Linux, why
emulate to run Windows app's, especially if this is a hobby machine to
mess around with and have Windows (or MacOS) on separate machines?

Only in case someone ever rushes breathlessly into my office and says to
me "Quick! I need to run this Windows program on a Mac because I can't
find a Windows machine in this university!" Um... let me get back to you
on that. There *are* one or two proprietary tax apps that I may one day
use.

All very easy to do - I
don't even have partitions.

Neither do I now. Gparted works great, but grub became too much of a
painful chore to bother anymore...see below. I even went so far as
manually editing the configuration file, but that didn't help either.

Also I have CrossOver to run the Windows
apps as Mac interface apps. All quite cheap and fast. Who would want
that?

I would rather stress myself out for hours on end trying to set up a
viable partition scheme for dual booting Ubuntu and Fedora only to
begrudgingly realize Fedora is too sophisticated to recognize a lowly
Debian pretender on its grubby bootloader thingy. Snob! Oh well at
least I got KDE and a bunch of over the top software development
packages I'll never use on Fedora. I can jump between GNOME and KDE
for the best of both worlds.

Still not selling me.

At least I didn't pay for Ubuntu before losing it for now, unlike
wiping Windows off a hard drive. One good thing about Fedora is that,
unlike Ubuntu, it recognized my wireless NIC right off the bat without
any messy and stressful work-arounds trying to connect to the WAP.

The first time I installed Ubuntu on my son's Dell, it worked
flawlessly. The second time nothing, not even the threat of percussive
maintenance, would get it to work.

I might look into some sort of Linux friendly vm package to run Ubuntu
and/or Knoppix on my machine. Knoppix seems kinda nifty. I bought a
Linux book with a DVD that has a bunch of different distros to try
out.

Why is it that Linux hasn't pulled much market share from Windows yet?
Stress and grief perhaps? I've now attended the funerals of two OS's
that died young as a result of my dual-boot ventures.

I think most lusers are a little overawed by the command line. Remember,
Windows was designed for lusers, not users.

Ah, but everybody is somebody's luser. What kind of bird are you if you
can't fly? What kind of bird are you if you can't swim. And so it goes.
Meanwhile the Republicans . . ..

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