Re: lost install CD while playing freesbee

Hm,,

I guess you don't like vi then, .. ?

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Regards, Ron AF Greve

http://moonlit.xs4all.nl

"Pedro" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> For your killfile's pleasure, here is edition two of "how much I
> love my computer and its operating system". Enjoy!
>
> Everything goes smooth. It's all well-thought, mature, and welcoming.
> It takes but a few mouse clicks to accomplish what other so-called
> operating systems would have required hours (if not days) of MANPAGEing,
> web searching, or begging to IRC l0rdly gurus, to carry out. No wonder
> it is b¡ll g4te$, not linus torwald, who is the richest man.
>
> Yes, that's right, in the W¡nd0w$® world nobody is going to call you a
> noob or a lamer just because you're not acquainted with some arcane
> computer stuff. The majority of sofware developers will gladly lower
> themselves to your non-geek level and provide you with easy to use,
> hassle-free applications, so you can forget about the technical
> knowledge behind the tools presented to you. You want to use a USB
> ADSL modem? Install the driver (that is, choose the directory to which
> needed files will be copied), plug it in, and there you are! No need
> to edit any configuration file by hand. No need to start VI, thank
> goodness.
>
> VI... that fascinating, infamous piece of junk. Surely it has to be
> the very pathetic emblem of the Linux crusade.
>
> VI starts with an empty screen. It retains all of its alleged power
> and offers you no hint, no help, and shows no apparent willingness
> to communicate in any way. It is so pitiful that it makes D3BUG.C0M®
> look like a masterpiece of user-friendliness. Perhaps it may have
> looked tight to couple a regExp engine with a blank screen a few
> decades ago. But that same unfunctional user-interface is still around
> today, worshipped in its prehistorical form by every Linux fanatic.
>
> Mind you, if I found myself stranded on a *nix machine, I would rather
> use a PERL script than start VI. After all, PERL is committed to
> communicating.
>
> Of course there are other, less archaic tools available on the (countless)
> linux platforms, but not one comes close to the seriousness and the ease
> of use that characterise most M¡cr0$oft products, dispite the fact
> that a significant number of those tools trie hard to imitate their
> W¡nd0w$® counterpart. That's because Linux is loser-friendly : it was
> designed for n3rds, for people who spend their day (and possibly part
> of their night time) behind a computer screen. W¡nd0w$® is different,
> you can have a social life and still be able to make the most of your
> computer.
>
> Naturally everything is not perfect ; there are flaws and weaknesses
> in W¡nd0w$®, partly because it is the product of a team working in a
> highly pressurised commercial environment, and partly because of the
> malevolent acting of a tight-knit hateful community, operating
> backstage in an envious effort to sabotage M¡cr0$oft's successful line
> of products, and steal market shares. They put considerable energy
> into breaking popular applications (read : W¡nd0w$®-based software),
> taking it through torture testing and reverse-engineering in order
> to spot a weak point and then exploit it in the making of virii,
> trojans or other malware which they heartily spread and see to it
> that it harms the largest possible number of family and business
> users around the world. Surely it is those angry *nix fanatics, bent
> on destroying M¡cr0$oft's reputation, who are the first responsible
> for the security issues everybody is talking about.
>
> But whatever the nuisance, there is nothing a software patch cannot fix,
> and M¡cr0$oft make them available readily, so no worries.
>
> - Adam BROSSE -
>
> P.S. W¡nd0w$ is the registered trademark of M¡cr0$oft Corporation
>
>
>


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