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Nice! I just found this site off of reddit: Why Linux is Better.com. Fortunately for me, it reads like a talking point manual for your local neighborhood Linux zealot. I thought we might have a bit of fun with this one.

• Forget about viruses. I think we went over that already.
• Is your system unstable? Who knew. When a system doesn't do anything, it doesn't crash. Oops, there goes NFS. Locked desktop. Oops I changed my IP address. Locked desktop.
• Linux protects your computer. What does that even mean? It sounds the same as the first one.
• Don't pay $300 for your operating system... but spend 10 weekends setting it up.
• Freedom! Yes, free yourselves form the shackles of sanity.
• When the system has installed, why would you still need to install stuff? Because the person that creates my OS can't possibly package everything? Duh?
• Update all your software with a single click... as long as you only want the selection and the versions that your distro provides. Don't you dare visit upstream websites.
• Why copy software illegally if you can get it for free? Why spend hours making free software barely work when you can pay $50 and get on with your life?
• Need new software? Don't bother search the web, Linux gets it for you... only if your distro has packaged it. Need software that's actually useful? Don't bother searching the web. It's not there. If it's even remotely useful, then your distro has probably already included it in a sad attempt to match the functionality of other platforms. Need legal dvd playback? playback of DRM'ed files? FAIL.
• Does your digital life seem fragmented? No? Does anyone care? Is it so hard to click three buttons to defragment?
• Choose what your desktop looks like... to make yourself feel better about it not being able to do anything. At least its pretty. At least your mom's pretty.
• Why does your Windows get slower day after day? Because you install a shit-ton of crap on it? If the same large selection of software could run on Linux, lusers would be having all the same problems.
• Do something for the environment. Seriously? how about making serious power saving work for desktops. Who cares about paper boxes. Tons of software on other platforms are distributed electronically. It's not like distributing linux ISO's saves any CD's either.
• Enjoy free and unlimited support. By that you mean unlimited quantity, but of rather limited quality.
• Use MSN, AIM, ICQ, Jabber, with a single program. Yea, cuz you can't do that on Windows or Mac.
• Too many windows? Use workspaces. Yes. Spaces. Or Virtuawin.
• Don't wait years for bugs to be solved, report and track them down... then wait years for them to actually get fixed.
• Are you tired of restarting your computer all the time? Why yes actually. Ubuntu seems to want to restart when there's a kernel or X update, which seems like every few days.
• Let your old computer have a second life...by using a Windows 2000-era operating system. Turns out Win2000 runs pretty damn well on that computer too.
• Play hundreds of games for free. The world doesn't need more than freecell and spider solitaire (and maybe pinball). Just imagine the decline in office productivity if there were more games.
• Help other countries, and your own. Yes, teach your citizens to program on OS'es which nobody runs, so that when they can locally develop software, there'll be nobody around to buy it. Surely, the rich countries with the cushy jobs are all looking for XO and KOffice experts.
• Get a great music player. Your example is amarok? Wasn't that whole gnome 3.0 tabs thing making fun of amarok? oh it wasn't? my bad... I was so certain that it was.
• Keep an eye on the weather. Because only Linux can display two digits with an optional C or F in a blurry font, and an icon of a sun.

Sorry, that was too easy. This site spreading all these lies can have Google ads but not mine? not cool.
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Source: linuxhaters.blogspot.com

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Ok, here's a new column for you guys. Y'all have been getting better at sending me links to posts and articles of freetards and lusers making asses of themselves. So I'll collect them and list them, and we can all have a laugh.

• 9 File Managers for Linux. Cuz like, 10 is waaay too many.
• FSF's 5 reasons to avoid the iphone 3g. Or rather, 5 reasons why you guys are still off your rockers.
• Sweet! Wireless status LED's on Thinkpad X61's work now. You just have to recompile your kernel.
• Soft core porn that was syndicated on Fedora Planet. That's one classy programmer. And people wonder why there are few luserettes.
• Linux edges one step closer to world domination. (about the OpenMoko). Choice quote:

  What makes Linux far superior to Microsoft's mobile software is that you can have different permutations of Linux smartphones. Historically -- and presently, for many of us -- smartphones are mostly pretty limited in scope. The software on them is abysmal; I can't even SSH into mine.

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Source: linuxhaters.blogspot.com

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Newb guide #4. Suck it.

• Pick versions of the kernel, glibc, gcc, that are different from all other distros. So that you too, can "Think Different," or at least claim that you have the newest kernel among all distros for the next 2 weeks.
• Pick a color. Make your distro's default desktop look that color. Beware that blue, green, red, and brown are taken. This is your distro's branding you see? Having a consistent color increases usability, even more so than having usable apps.
• Make sure your distro's name has at least two intuitive pronunciations, so that you as the maintainer can be a dick and correct everyone who says it wrong.
• Take tons of screenshots showing that you can run all the same damn apps as every other distro.
• Don't mention any detailed information about what kind of hardware your distro is known or not known to work on.
• Say that it's "community tested," but mean that you personally haven't tested it all.
• Have a snazzy website with a bunch of gradients. Preferably blending from your color of choice (see above) to white. Copy Apple websites as much as possible.
• Use a different package format from all other distros
• Failing that, use a similar package format, but make sure all your packages are incompatible
• Definitely be sure to have your own package updating mechanism. I mean, if you can't even write that code yourself, how are we to trust you?
• Make sure you have a freetard version. Undo all the useful integration work you did with proprietary binaries that people want to use.
• Release new, barely tested bits every 6 months and claim that it is a sign of progress.
• Make sure you're LSB compliant. Also make sure that that means absolutely nothing.
• Never admit that your distro could be achieved by just reconfiguring another distro.
• Do one thing right that every other distro gets wrong. Make sure that the solution you come up with only works in your distro.
• Have a forum where users of your distro can complain to each other. Make sure this forum allows users to have signatures that tell me about all the hardware they've wasted by running your distro.
• Have a brainstorm site where users can point out the most obvious problems and make you look like an idiot.
• Have a bugzilla, but don't ever fix any of the bugs. Blame them all on upstream, then don't tell upstream about the problems.
• Make sure every upstream package has at least two patches. This differentiates your product, see?
• Have a newsletter. Make sure this newsletter has a column to introduce random users of your distro who are total nerds and haven't made a cent from all the work they put into their configuration.
• Write tons of documentation on complicated procedures to make things work, instead of making things work.

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Source:http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/

Here is a small clip of a Warhammer 40k Necron warrior attacking my cat:

It's nonsense but funny ... :) ... Background: My workplace and the Warhammer 40k Necron army I'm working on.

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We all know product placement in science-fiction television shows can sometimes get out of hand. But today’s episode of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” has left me puzzled over what might have been a placement for Windows Vista. I say “might have been” because it is definitely not the Windows Vista we’ve all seen and some love to hate. It was like if they shot the scene inside Microsoft’s Windows development labs. I didn’t know John Connor was such a beta addict.

Rafael Rivera has put a gallery of high-definition screencaps, here are some of the most interesting ones in order they appear in the episode. For those of you playing at home, it begins at about 15min43sec and lasts about 90 seconds.

Without giving too much away, John Connor (lead character from the Terminator franchise) is walking into a computer store inside a shopping mall, having just time traveled from 1999 to 2007. Fortunately for John, he missed the release of Windows Millennium Edition. Note how Solitaire is clearly the best way to test out a computer before you purchase it. Media Center running on the PC on the top shelf.

John sees Windows Vista for the first time, falls in love. Woman with “1337″ bag in the background.

Having time traveled also means John missed the introduction of the Apple iPod, AppleTV and new MacBooks. But like the loyal Microsoft fanboy he is, he doesn’t pay much attention to them.

John starts playing with Dell laptop, which happens to be connected to the huge LCD TV behind him.

John plays with his first Sidebar gadget, which happens to be a system performance multi-monitor of some sort displaying eight graphs. Note how the Sidebar has a white translucent background with a border (instead of the black fade in Vista RTM). The other gadgets from top to bottom include a hard drive monitor, the default CPU meter, a prototype Windows Media Player gadget from 2005, a chess piece and a quick launch tile.

Next he clicks on the Chess icon and a Chess game application fades in from the right. It looks very different to the one in Windows Vista - darker shadows, more realistic chess pieces and board and it also has a space background with stars and galaxies.

Somehow then John opens the control panel, or if you can still call it that. The window is filled with all the icons from the Vista classic control panel but without text labels. The background is translucent with a black overlay. Norton LiveUpdate icon also makes a cameo appearance.

John then discovers a search box with an Explorer style back and forward button. The default search engine is LeSearch.com. Watch out Google, the French are coming.

Naturally John starts searching about his past and finds articles about his “death”. What appears to be a browser window appears in the background. It shows only a back and forward button, an address bar and a standard toolbar.

Shortly after a sales person disturb John and tells him that he was showing everyone what he was looking at on the big screen. Offers to help him clear the browser history. Somehow she opens a menu for Internet Explorer in the taskbar, which seems to have some of the options you would find inside the application’s toolbar.

In the dialog that opens, she clicks on “Clear History”. Note how the buttons are styled like Windows XP buttons, even though this is inside Windows Vista with the glass frame and Aurora background. Scene ends.

Whilst it is true custom operating systems in TV shows and movies are nothing more than just optimizing what appears on screen so viewers can follow along more easily, but this seems a little more elaborate than most. I mean that Windows Media Player gadget was never released to the public, so how did that get there? I can’t help thinking Microsoft knew about this production either through licensing or a product placement deal, in which case, what is this?
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Found on: http://www.istartedsomething.com/

A really funny Star Wars Parody from Adult Swim.

Adult Swim, usually stylized [adult swim], is an adult-oriented television network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network in the United States.^[1] It features many animated shows, including original programming, syndicated shows, and Japanese anime, generally with minimal or no editing for content. The shows are geared toward an older adult audience over 18, in contrast to the child and pre-teen oriented daytime programming on Cartoon Network. [from Wikipedia]

If you've gone through Halo 3, you may have stumbled upon a comical exchange during level 3 ("Crow's Nest") featuring some familiar voices. Well, familiar if you're a Red Vs. Blue fan. Roosterteeth, the team behind the wildly popular machinima series, bid $9000 at last year's Child's Play event to get their voices included in Halo 3 (naturally, Bungie later told them they could've pitched in even if they hadn't won the auction).

GameDaily caught up with some of the crew last week to get their feedback on the experience and their thoughts on Halo 3 in general. Jason Saldana (voice of Tucker) said, "What's pretty cool about it is that six of us provided audio for it, so you end up hearing different voices depending on what difficulty level you play." Take a peek at all four of the different easter eggs involving RvB characters after the break.

Also, RvB fans may want to check out last week's Xbox 360 Fancast featuring Red Vs. Blue's Geoff Ramsey for some more Halo 3 chatter.

Psychiatric Hotline:

• If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly.
• If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2.
• If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
• If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on the line so we can trace the call.
• If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
• If you are manic-depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press. No one will answer.

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Don't you hate when your debugging code accidentally makes its way into production? Like that CurrentUser.IsAdministrator() that always returns "true" because you forgot to take that line of code out? Well, here's your opportunity to laugh at others that forgot to fix things before deployment.

Konstantin R. didn't know what he should expect after changing settings on his router:

Steve H. was enjoying IncompleteSoft's TODO 0.8 Beta, when he was greeted with the following crash:

It's all Greek to Rob T.!*

A little known fact about WorseThanFailure.com's editorial process is that we have a word count target, and we fill in the rest with greeking text. Sometimes we forget to come back and actually fill in the rest of the article sed felis id nulla pharetra ultrices. Donec vestibulum quam et nulla.

Leigh C. was more than happy to oblige:

"THE FORUM RULES ARE THAT LEIGH C. IS AWESOME AND COOL AND AWESOMER THAN EVERYONE ELSE ON THIS FORUM. I AGREE."

*I promise never to do that again.
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Found on: www.worsethanfailure.com

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I spend a lot of time focused on trying to get people—especially people just starting their careers—to think about their career over long term and to identify ways that they can do something meaningful with their time. It's fun, but I realize I'm leaving out a small but important part of the workplace: those who don't want to get anything done and would rather be just left alone. So for the three of you that I've neglected so far I present 5 ways to kill your career.

These tips build in complexity, so we'll start off easy.

Tip 1: Ignore deadlines

If you want to be sure that you have very little promotion opportunity and that no one wants you on their team—both key to killing your career—you'll need to start ignoring deadlines. You need to build this one slowly, missing deadlines by a few days at first. Eventually you'll want to step up to blowing off assignments completely. People need to know that they cannot count on you to deliver and to stop asking.

The skill here comes in knowing when you can safely start totally ignoring a deadline. If you open with that, or move to it too early, your boss will still have enough drive and energy to try and rehabilitate you. You've got to slowly burn him out by repeated delays of increasing length so that by the time you get to the full productivity blockade he doesn't have the will to fix you.

Tip 2: Sloppy work

When you do turn in work, make sure it isn't up to par.

Again, this is one that takes some skill to apply. You can't really start going to town on this one until you've burned out your boss and your team mates to the point that they aren't willing to try and “help you get better.” Start by leaving a few bugs in your code. If you have to, add a few extra spelling errors to your report. Then work in a segmentation fault, sentence fragment (hopefully using slang!), or “feature” that will actually injure your customers if used as designed.

You can really be creative here, and it's best if your particular failings are slightly different than the ones you've seen at your work before. If your boss hasn't had to deal with a problem like yours already, he's more likely to ignore it over the long haul.

Tip 3: You're right

You've had at least four years of school, and longer if you count grades 1-12. Hey, that's more than, like, 10 years of school!

You can't possibly be wrong with all that training. And anyone who thinks you are is either too entrenched in the old way of doing things that she can't see your brilliance (reserve this feeling for bosses) or just plain stupid (you can spread this around among co-workers and bosses).

The only way to help these people is to mentor them through their failings. When they disagree with you, you need to push back, explain why you are right and, most helpfully, identify this as yet another in a pattern of stupidity on their part. This technique is only really effective when exercised around a lot of other people, so pick staff meetings, customer briefings, and large gatherings as locations for your mentoring sessions.

Tip 4: Tune up your communication

Look, you're smarter than everyone around you (see Tip 3!), but except for the new co-op student no one seems to appreciate that. You need to really emphasize the value of your training and intellectual gifts. Fortunately, you have an effective channel for this campaign.

As you are writing reports and doing presentations you've probably been getting questions, right? Mostly from co-workers and bosses who just don't see the value of your contribution and who want to challenge your solutions. Well, this is your fault! Your communication is still too focused on getting your message to your audience. You need to refocus all of your communications to send out one message: “I am smart, don't ask questions.”

This is going to mean really smarting up your presentations, written reports, and even email. There is no reason that these dolts should even be pretending to understand your designs, and they wouldn't try if they knew how talented you really are.

Use bigger words. Use more advanced (other will see this as unclear) sentence structure and document organization. You can even kick this technique up a notch by applying your gifts to the English language itself. You've always found the rules of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary restrictive, right? Why “consider” a design when you can “peripherate” on it? Why “analyze the problem domain” when you can “realm” it?

Tip 5: There is no “team” in “me”

Let's face it, everyone else is just hanging on your coat tails. Isn't is time that things were a little more focused on you? What are your needs? What are your accomplishments? In what ways did you succeed despite the failings of your team/boss/division/company/or major religion? In what ways do our future development plans and meetings interfere with your life?

If you aren't happy you aren't productive, right? Share these things with the hangers-on so that they can at least structure an environment that will maximize your productivity. Ungrateful losers.

Happy sailing

I'm positive that if you apply these tips along with a “can do” attitude and a strong commitment to success you can bring your career to an abrupt halt. With skill, you might even push in over the balance and into decline.

But don't be frustrated if you don't get fired. In truth it's hard to find a corporate environment that can create managers with the will and skills to manage and prune a workforce into good health. You might have to be satisfied with simply being shunted into a windowless closet in the basement next to the mailroom.
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Posted by John West on weblog.Infoworld.com

In this interesting Mad TV segment, Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone and its magical capabilities that he didn’t quite get to.

Yeah, that's life of a cat:

yeah life is hard ... need a break

ohaaa ... sleepy

don't disturb the sleep ... it's dangerous ... I'll eat you!

from the view of a mouse!

Someone has forgotten something :)

If you search after "failure" with Google you get :-] :

I tried to burn a DVD ISO on Vista RC2 ... yeah, check this beautiful german translation of the error message: