Ok, I HAVE to get out to one of these meetings .. I'm sure I'd fit right in now <G>
Andrew
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com>
Reply-To: slug@nks.net
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:09:09 -0400
>Andrew Wyatt wrote:
>>
>> Linux's weaknesses ..
>>
>> 1: Telekinesis .. no matter how I cron echo 1>/proc/coffee it flat
>> refuses to push the button on the coffee maker
>
>My /proc/coffee works just fine. Check your cable connections. Do you
>have the proper driver loaded? Note that the USB driver in the 2.4
>kernels is still kind of buggy with some manufacturer's coffee pots. (I
>use the Brawn Coffeemaster 5000, which has an ethernet port, so I just
>have to run coffeed for it to work.)
>
>> 2: The /dev/remote driver sucks too, still need to reach AFK to change channels
>
>In another month or so Kremotecontrol will support the new Kgesture
>interface and you won't have to do anything but swirl your mouse around
>to change channels. (Just make sure you remember the difference between
>"half-circle anticlockwise" which is "channel up" and "half-circle
>clockwise" which is "rm -rf".)
>
>> 3: kill -9 `ps -x | grep netscape | awk '{print $1}'` -- no no, the kernel should know netscape will crash, and kill it before it opens
>
>Again, you probably just don't have the package installed. Look for the
>killnetscaped package and install it if you're still having this
>problem. Alternately, install Mozilla, Opera or Konqueror.
>
>Of course, you'll still be missing the ActiveX functionality we all know
>and love from IE so to get as close as possible to the security
>implications, you'll have to run your web browser as the "root" user,
>make sure there's no password set for the root user, and you'll want to
>do this: "chmod -R guo+rw /" to be as close as you can to Windows'
>security standards.
>
>> 4: code red .. I like single sentence webpages, it would help me greatly by defacing my own sites for me ..
>
>If you take some time to learn perl, you can write your own script in
>about three lines that will search out every .html file on your system
>and replace the contents with "hacked by chinese" without waiting for
>someone else to do it for you. You just have to take the time to learn
>these things sometimes. Remember, Open Source is about being able to
>change things on your own if you need to!
>
>> 5: It's too inexpensive, I LOVE to spend money on software that has features such as the ability to seemlessly repeat #4 ..
>
>Heck, nobody says you CAN'T spend money on Windows licenses and still
>run Linux. In fact, if the industry keeps going the way it is, you'll
>be paying for Windows licenses with every piece of hardware you buy,
>regardless of what you're running with it.
>
>Or just start collecting versions of Windows. See if you can collect
>'em all: Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups (3.1? 3.0?),
>Windows NT 3.0, Windows NT 3.1, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4.0
>Workstation, Windows NT 4.0 Server, Windows 95, Windows 95 OSR2, Windows
>98, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows CE 1.0, Windows CE
>2.0, Windows CE 3.0 (or Pocket PC), Windows 2000 Advanced Server,
>Windows 2000 Datacenter, Windows 2000 Professional...
>
>Did I miss any? You can spend LOTS of money just keeping your
>collection up-to-date!
>
>> 6: Blue screens, "nuff said"
>
>Install the latest xscreensaver package and set "bsod" as your
>screensaver. (Yes it really exists:
>http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots.html - it's near the
>bottom.)
>
>Granted, they're not *real* blue screens, but if you hack up a little
>script to randomly start the screensaver process in the middle of your
>work, it's almost the same. If you're not happy with *almost* the same,
>just make the script also randomly delete files and kill random
>processes when it starts the screensaver.
>
>> I can come up with many more Linux "weaknesses" if you still don't see a reason to switch to windows
>
>So far you still haven't convinced me.
>
>
>
>:)
>
>--
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> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
>
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