On 29 October 2011 10:35, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote:
This whole discussion is missing an important fact, where Windows
is losing for years now: It's porn.
Just imagine the average porn user, which now shifted its usage
to the web. Well, in average it needs three months to get such
condolences on your shitty university
Makes me appreciate mine a bit more, where the windows section of the
main undergrad lab is a dank little corner mainly populated by
students from other departments who were forced into taking a CS
course.
Well, I use Linux because I couldn't customize my task bar.
i beg to differ
beamer is a total crap!
total pain, light years away from the modern world
i would rather do it in html..
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Peter John Hartman
peterjohnhart...@gmail.com wrote:
I beg to differ.
beamer for my slideshows.
ledpar/ledmac for critical editions.
On 29/10/11 hiro said:
Well, I use Linux because I couldn't customize my task bar.
When I bought my netbook it came with win7 starter. Micro$oft doesn't let you
set your own wallpaper in starter. I couldn't get Debian on it fast enough.
Mike
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oh im sorry, didn't know you were all so smart and get so much things
done.
carry on then..
sincerely
Basement geek
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote:
This thread is demented.
On 29/10/2011, Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote:
of course for all
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote:
oh im sorry, didn't know you were all so smart and get so much things
done.
carry on then..
sincerely
Basement geek
Anselm,
Now that this guy has demonstrated he's the sort of asshole who
conflates windows with the
We could also just ignore the shit out of him. Or mock him a
new asshole.
On 29 October 2011 14:29, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote:
Anselm,
Now that this guy has demonstrated he's the sort of asshole who
conflates windows with the modern world and attaches decade-old
meme images to mailing list posts, can we go ahead and block him from
the list, or are we
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:33:18 +0100
Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote:
latex is cool, vim, dwm, but no one out of the professional
field of computer sience have the time or patience to learn this unix
philosophy..
are you trolling or what?
nobody will ever need more then 64k of memory..
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:54:12 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be
wrote:
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:33:18 +0100
Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote:
latex is cool, vim, dwm, but no one out of the professional
field of computer sience have the time or patience to learn this unix
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:25:48 +0200
Pieter Praet pie...@praet.org wrote:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:54:12 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck
die...@plaetinck.be wrote:
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:33:18 +0100
Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote:
latex is cool, vim, dwm, but no one out of the
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:33:18 +0100
Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote:
yeah but the true is that a linux desktop is almost useless for a
normal person
i remember first time i used ubuntu. i started a openoffice
presentation on the 4th slide the system was already unusable. And
wet
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 07:58, Pieter Praet pie...@praet.org wrote:
That's because Ubuntu sucks only marginally less than Windows
Huh? Ubuntu sucks a lot more.
On 27/10/11 Guilherme Lino said:
yeah but the true is that a linux desktop is almost useless for a normal
person
Dunno, my Mother is pretty normal. My 9-year-old son is rather special, but
he's had no computer education at all. They both manage.
At least openoffice allows opening of those
On 10/28/11 at 01:35pm, hiro wrote:
That's because Ubuntu sucks only marginally less than Windows
Huh? Ubuntu sucks a lot more.
I'm just a user of some suckless software, but anyway: if suck in this thread
is used with the semi-technical sense of not abiding by the suckless
philosophy,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Troels Henriksen at...@sigkill.dk wrote:
from the purview of the average computer user.
this is the biggest part of why he's an asshole. if you're not
willing to learn how to use a computer don't buy a computer. if your
biggest complaint about a piece of
On 28 October 2011 12:46, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote:
this is the biggest part of why he's an asshole. if you're not
willing to learn how to use a computer don't buy a computer. if your
biggest complaint about a piece of software is I can't immediately
use it then you are an
Ubuntu [...] encourages the occasional foray into the terminal emulator
It's sadly not what Ubuntu is about. And they discourage compiling
your own stuff IIRC.
I agree with some people here who say Lunix is not Lunix. Of course
it's what you make out of it.
Out of Ubuntu you can only try to make
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:18:18 +0200, Troels Henriksen at...@sigkill.dk wrote:
Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote:
yeah but the true is that a linux desktop is almost useless for a normal
person
who the
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:47:34 +0200, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com
wrote:
On 10/28/11 at 01:35pm, hiro wrote:
That's because Ubuntu sucks only marginally less than Windows
Huh? Ubuntu sucks a lot more.
I'm just a user of some suckless software, but anyway: if suck in this
On 28/10/11 Pieter Praet said:
When acquiring *any* type of technology (in the very broad sense of the
word), you should either make an effort to educate yourself regarding
available options, usage and maintenance, or reimburse someone to do it
all for you.
If you refuse to do either of
On 28/10/11 Connor Lane Smith said:
(The only truly intuitive interface is a nipple.)
I have two kids. Trust me, it's not.
Mike
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:16:33 +0100
Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote:
On 28 October 2011 12:46, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote:
this is the biggest part of why he's an asshole. if you're not
willing to learn how to use a computer don't buy a computer. if
your biggest
Dnia 28 października 2011 14:17 hiro
23h...@googlemail.com napisał(a):
And they discourage compiling
your own stuff IIRC.
Watching shit scroll by for hours makes
me a Linux expert overnight!
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote:
So knowing this, I would classify the expectations that arise as a
consequence of being indoctrinated by years of windows usage,
under the category of intuition :)
your grasp of genetics is breathtaking
--
# Kurt
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:41:52 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be
wrote:
[...] I think that if generations of people use windows,
this acclimatization also slowly grows in their DNA,
So, only a matter of time before this becomes reality:
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
[...]
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:41:21 -0400, Michael P. Soulier
msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote:
On 28/10/11 Pieter Praet said:
When acquiring *any* type of technology (in the very broad sense of the
word), you should either make an effort to educate yourself regarding
available options, usage
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Pieter Praet pie...@praet.org wrote:
And I absolutely agree that for most FOSS projects, grokking the source
is rather unlikely to have a positive ROI re time and effort, so
And that's why suckless.org is important.
--
# Kurt H Maier
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:29:24 -0400, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Pieter Praet pie...@praet.org wrote:
And I absolutely agree that for most FOSS projects, grokking the source
is rather unlikely to have a positive ROI re time and effort, so
And
On 28/10/11 Kurt H Maier said:
And I absolutely agree that for most FOSS projects, grokking the source
is rather unlikely to have a positive ROI re time and effort, so
And that's why suckless.org is important.
Is that to say that suckless.org code is simple enough to be its own
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com
wrote:
yeah but the true is that a linux desktop is almost useless for a normal
person
who the fuck cares about normal people?
--
# Kurt H
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com
wrote:
yeah but the true is that a linux desktop is almost useless for a normal
person
who the fuck cares about normal people?
--
# Kurt H
maybe they are, just like you, a special boy! but lets not talk about that..
in my university we have 700 computer science students
if 30 like linux its already to much, if really understand really linux
again to much
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Michael P. Soulier
On 29/10/11 Guilherme Lino said:
maybe they are, just like you, a special boy! but lets not talk about that..
in my university we have 700 computer science students
if 30 like linux its already to much, if really understand really linux
again to much
Sorry, I don't know what you're
people are relieved that the linux class is over and they don't have to use
it again
if in 700 computer science students the great majority says windows is so
cool, C# is so cool, visual studio 2010 is the best and linux is
crap... thats because at first sight it looks crap!
i just asked my
what you think about this
http://acko.net/ (Termkit)
something like this better implemented on linux will bring 21 century people
into linux basics
--
Guilherme Lino
On 29/10/11 Guilherme Lino said:
people are relieved that the linux class is over and they don't have to use
it again
if in 700 computer science students the great majority says windows is so
cool, C# is so cool, visual studio 2010 is the best and linux is
crap... thats because at first
This thread is demented.
On 29/10/2011, Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote:
of course for all geeks its great and super cool.. but so many ppl dont know
what it is. And if they know they will not spend time to go from a normal
responsive with all they need system to some unresponsive
On 2011-10-29 01:44, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
This thread is demented... *very* irritating.
Trolls have to perform some socially useful function or else we'd all
have learned by now.
Patrick
* yeah, I know it's only October. ;)
And here are the super fancy slides in OpenOffice format.
Stopped here. This guy is not qualified to rant.
that guy is wrong in so many ways I won't even bother to mention any specifics.
Sure, the stuff he mentions is somewhat correlated to the real problems with
spare time open source software, but his interpretations and solutions, oh
my. He doesn't really know what he's talking about.
Dieter
I watched this last night and raged pretty hard for 45 minutes. The
guy has somevalid points, but proposes absolutely no viable solution
for it. His pointregarding video editors requiring significant
dedicated development time andtheir non-existance for Linux, for
instance, is valid. Asking that
this video is not available sucks
You guys are so stupid if you think ./configure is great
On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 16:04 +0200, hiro wrote:
You guys are so stupid if you think ./configure is great
beat me to it
I don't think anyone here actually feels that the monolith that most configure
scripts become is a good thing. However, that's not within the scope of what's
going on here - the idea being that ./configure is a necessary part of compiling
a sizable portion of software. Saying that we need a
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:02:46 +0200, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote:
this video is not available sucks
Don't worry, you're not missing out on anything, besides the guy
making a total fool of himself in front of a totally oblivious
audience (which is just annoying; no comical value
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:04:21 +0200, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote:
You guys are so stupid if you think ./configure is great
Nobody said anything of the like.
Are you projecting or something? ;)
Peace
--
Pieter
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Bryan Bennett bbenn...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think anyone here actually feels that the monolith that most configure
scripts become is a good thing. However, that's not within the scope of what's
going on here - the idea being that ./configure is a necessary
Greetings.
On 27.10.2011 02:04, Guilherme Lino wrote:
yo
fund this.. it kind of old, but it rise some questions
http://lunduke.com/?p=429
how do you feel about this?
At least he is able to setup a website.
Sincerely,
Christoph Lohmann
Am 27.10.2011 17:57, schrieb Christoph Lohmann:
Greetings.
On 27.10.2011 02:04, Guilherme Lino wrote:
yo
fund this.. it kind of old, but it rise some questions
http://lunduke.com/?p=429
how do you feel about this?
At least he is able to setup a website.
Sincerely,
Christoph Lohmann
yeah but the true is that a linux desktop is almost useless for a normal
person
i remember first time i used ubuntu. i started a openoffice presentation on
the 4th slide the system was already unusable. And wet back to windows, even
google docs was better for the job.
of course latex is cool,
I beg to differ.
beamer for my slideshows.
ledpar/ledmac for critical editions. (http://www.djdekker.net/)
latex for publications.
perl for searches (stanford encyclopedia of philosophy)
git for collaboration (buridanica.net)
antiword to read student papers
and i work in the HUMANITIES, baby.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote:
yeah but the true is that a linux desktop is almost useless for a normal
person
i remember first time i used ubuntu. i started a openoffice presentation on
the 4th slide the system was already unusable. And wet back to
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote:
yeah but the true is that a linux desktop is almost useless for a normal
person
who the fuck cares about normal people?
--
# Kurt H Maier
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:33:18 +0100, Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote:
yeah but the true is that a linux desktop is almost useless for a normal
person
s/normal/uninformed
Also, see Kurt Maier's response [1].
i remember first time i used ubuntu. i started a openoffice presentation on
yo
fund this.. it kind of old, but it rise some questions
http://lunduke.com/?p=429
how do you feel about this?
--
Guilherme Lino
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:04:42 +0100, Guilherme Lino guih.l...@gmail.com wrote:
yo
fund this.. it kind of old, but it rise some questions
You're absolutely right, it does raise some questions:
So, not only did you take this guy's useless drivel seriously, but you
actually thought the
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