windows 7

apparently Microsoft are gonna do what Apple did 7 years back, for windows 7. They're gonna make everything incompatible, hopefully for the best, like what Apple did when they released OS X. READ THIS for more info.

Open source always has the original ideas

Apple is so, so totally ripping off open source stuff. For instance, compare the new features of Safari 3 with Firefox 2: 1) Rip off tabs. Firefox has had them for a while. 2) Web inspector: Firefox has a very popular extension called Firebug, and the new Safari web inspector is so totally ripped off straight from Firebug, with a nice iTunesy GUI. 3) Restore previous session. I believe Firefox 1 had this, and Firefox 2+ definitely has it. So totally ripped off. In fact I think apple is very into open source, as you can see: 1) The Mac OS X kernel, Darwin, is open source. You can get the source code straight from apple. 2) Mac OS X uses OpenGL graphics software, which is self-explanatarily open source. 3) The apple developing software, XCode, uses GCC C compiler for compiling (which I believe is developed by GNU and is open source). 4) Mac OS X's shell is GNU Bash, and alot of other GNU tools come with OS X, such as: nano; emacs; and a few others. So to a certain extent, Apple is incorporating open source into their own software, and also incorporate features into their proprietary software that were originally in open source projects a long time ago. See what I mean? Open source always has the original ideas. But when you take microsoft into the argument, apple suddenly seem like the open source people. Microsoft, undoubtedly, rips off apple and that doesn't even need any examples, work them out yourself. So you can think of it as a kind of chain: first open source projects such as firefox develop the original ideas; then apple rips them off; then M$ rip off apple. Now that's what I call third rate, literally. Hooray for open source!!! And fuck M$.

Funny MS stuff

MS make a real fool of themselves sometimes. Here, have a look.

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[apologies for lack of recent posts, fela is working on a review]

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Vista is so useless!

My friend's computer runs Vista. Actually, his laptop that has 512MB RAM runs Vista.

Anyway, one day I was at his house, changing his DNS settings for him. I put some information in a text file, which was in the Documents folder. I then cut and pasted the text file to the desktop.

Vista then proceeded to spend a whole 20 seconds "estimating time remaining", then finally copied the file in about 1sec.

Thanks, Microsoft.

Microsoft h@x0rd - the original

It's not as good as srynznfyra's, but it's what caused him to create his.

7he real microsoft (h4x0rd)

IE7

IE7 has now decided it wants to be my default GIF viewer. :(

Vista Test Drive

OK, vista sucks. Pretty much everyone knows, apart from the n00bs...

But have you ever wanted to try it and see if it really does suck?
If you're on Windoze anyway have a look at www.windowsvistatestdrive.com in Internet Exposer. It installs a Microsoft ActiveX control and logs you on to a Vista virtual machine, courtesy of "Windows Live Virtual Labs". Then you can see just how much it sucks.

Fire

I use Mac OS X, and until recently I was forced to use M$ messenger for IM. But just now I switched to Fire, an alternative. Note that if you click that link it will automatically start the download from sourceforge.net. I'll give reviews later on, when I've used it and found bugs. I hope to stop using ANY Micro$oft software in the near future! (only got M$ office and M$ VPC to go!)

Some alternatives

MICROSOFT. Because you have no choice. MUA HA HA HA HA!!!

But is it? NO. If you bought a PC and the windows OS is annoying the sh*t outta you, there are plenty of alternative OSes, most notably linux. Our fave distro (although you get plenty of others) is Ubuntu, who's slogan is "Linux for human beings". This is because Linux used to be an OS that only geeks could use, but now it is very easy to configure/use it even if you have limited technical knowledge, and there's even a forum for getting answers to your problems with ubuntu. The word "Ubuntu" is an ancient african word that means 'Humanity to others'. And linux is free, so no more 30 day free trials, activating, and the like. And its not just free as in beer, its free as in speech, so anyone can get access to the source code and edit it themselves, free of charge. More of this in the GPL general public license. Another point: If you switch to linux, you can safely say that you won't get viruses. This is because for every Linux computer there are 1,000,000 windows computers. A virus maker's not going to make linux viruses if there are 1,000,000 times the amount of windows machines.

So no more of that stupid Operating System, Microsoft Window$!!!

NOTE: Ubuntu, unfortunately, is only an option for people with a reasonable amount of computer knowledge. (mal)