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Reginald P. Smithers III December 5th 07 05:27 PM

Vista "turns" off kill switch
 
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=204700436

I love the comments at the end of the article:

1 What the article misses is the real reason that piracy is down
50% from Windows XP levels, which is that NOBODY WANTS VISTA..
How ironic that by writing code that nobody wants, they have less
people stealing it. Perhaps they should concentrate on development
in other areas....

I'm pretty sure the "Yugo" automobile had a pretty low theft rate as
well...


2 I moved to Linux when 30 gig was not enough to run Windows XP.
What took 26 gig within Windows now takes less than 4. I am 100%
MS free and loving every minute of it.



JoeSpareBedroom December 5th 07 05:33 PM

Vista "turns" off kill switch
 
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
. ..
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=204700436

I love the comments at the end of the article:

1 What the article misses is the real reason that piracy is down 50% from
Windows XP levels, which is that NOBODY WANTS VISTA.. How ironic that by
writing code that nobody wants, they have less people stealing it. Perhaps
they should concentrate on development in other areas....

I'm pretty sure the "Yugo" automobile had a pretty low theft rate as
well...


2 I moved to Linux when 30 gig was not enough to run Windows XP. What
took 26 gig within Windows now takes less than 4. I am 100% MS free and
loving every minute of it.




30 gig wasn't enough??? One of my machines is running XP Pro, Office 2000
Pro and plenty of other software with a 20gb HD. It's extremely fast and
trouble free.

If 30 gb wasn't enough for you, there must have been other issues with the
machine.



HK December 5th 07 05:34 PM

Vista "turns" off kill switch
 
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=204700436

I love the comments at the end of the article:

1 What the article misses is the real reason that piracy is down
50% from Windows XP levels, which is that NOBODY WANTS
VISTA.. How ironic that by writing code that nobody wants,
they have less people stealing it. Perhaps they should
concentrate on development in other areas....

I'm pretty sure the "Yugo" automobile had a pretty low theft rate as
well...


2 I moved to Linux when 30 gig was not enough to run Windows XP.
What took 26 gig within Windows now takes less than 4. I am 100%
MS free and loving every minute of it.




What I love is your comments on any computer OS, when it is obviously
apparent you know nothing about any of them.


Reginald P. Smithers III December 5th 07 06:00 PM

Vista "turns" off kill switch
 
HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=204700436

I love the comments at the end of the article:

1 What the article misses is the real reason that piracy is down
50% from Windows XP levels, which is that NOBODY WANTS
VISTA.. How ironic that by writing code that nobody wants,
they have less people stealing it. Perhaps they should
concentrate on development in other areas....

I'm pretty sure the "Yugo" automobile had a pretty low theft rate as
well...


2 I moved to Linux when 30 gig was not enough to run Windows XP.
What took 26 gig within Windows now takes less than 4. I am
100% MS free and loving every minute of it.




What I love is your comments on any computer OS, when it is obviously
apparent you know nothing about any of them.


OK.


Reginald P. Smithers III December 5th 07 06:08 PM

Vista "turns" off kill switch
 
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=204700436


I love the comments at the end of the article:

1 What the article misses is the real reason that piracy is down
50% from Windows XP levels, which is that NOBODY WANTS
VISTA.. How ironic that by writing code that nobody
wants, they have less people stealing it. Perhaps they
should concentrate on development in other areas....

I'm pretty sure the "Yugo" automobile had a pretty low theft rate as
well...


2 I moved to Linux when 30 gig was not enough to run Windows XP.
What took 26 gig within Windows now takes less than 4. I am
100% MS free and loving every minute of it.




What I love is your comments on any computer OS, when it is obviously
apparent you know nothing about any of them.


OK.

PS - I knew enough to stay with Windows XP. ;)


BAR December 5th 07 06:36 PM

Vista "turns" off kill switch
 
HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=204700436

I love the comments at the end of the article:

1 What the article misses is the real reason that piracy is down
50% from Windows XP levels, which is that NOBODY WANTS
VISTA.. How ironic that by writing code that nobody wants,
they have less people stealing it. Perhaps they should
concentrate on development in other areas....

I'm pretty sure the "Yugo" automobile had a pretty low theft rate as
well...


2 I moved to Linux when 30 gig was not enough to run Windows XP.
What took 26 gig within Windows now takes less than 4. I am
100% MS free and loving every minute of it.




What I love is your comments on any computer OS, when it is obviously
apparent you know nothing about any of them.


Harry you are a laugh a minute. Are you going to claim that you are a
systems programmer and you have specific and exact knowledge about
operating system design, implementation and maintenance?

Even though I have been in the computer field for 25 years working in
operating system maintenance and applications design, implementation and
maintenance I would never claim to know all of the intricacies of
operating systems.





Larry December 5th 07 06:38 PM

Vista "turns" off kill switch
 
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in
:

2 I moved to Linux when 30 gig was not enough to run Windows

XP.
What took 26 gig within Windows now takes less than

4. I am
100% MS free and loving every minute of it.




I have 47 programs, and their supporting libraries installed on
my Nokia N800 Maemo Linux internet tablet, including the Garnet
Palm OS virtual machine (3.9M) and its Palm OS programs. They
all occupy 25.6MB leaving 68MB of free internal memory for more.
This doesn't count anything on the two 8GB SD cards I installed.

Maemo Linux (Debian) memory usage is tiny!


Larry
--
Isn't it ironic that the same ISPs that are telling you
you're downloads threaten their networks......
.....are testing 100Gbps TV to sell on the SAME systems?
http://tinyurl.com/27qx3v

HK December 5th 07 07:58 PM

Vista "turns" off kill switch
 
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=204700436


I love the comments at the end of the article:

1 What the article misses is the real reason that piracy is down
50% from Windows XP levels, which is that NOBODY WANTS
VISTA.. How ironic that by writing code that nobody
wants, they have less people stealing it. Perhaps they
should concentrate on development in other areas....

I'm pretty sure the "Yugo" automobile had a pretty low theft rate as
well...


2 I moved to Linux when 30 gig was not enough to run Windows XP.
What took 26 gig within Windows now takes less than 4. I am
100% MS free and loving every minute of it.




What I love is your comments on any computer OS, when it is obviously
apparent you know nothing about any of them.


OK.

PS - I knew enough to stay with Windows XP. ;)



More probably, you don't know enough to change from one OS to another.

HK December 5th 07 08:00 PM

Vista "turns" off kill switch
 
BAR wrote:
HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=204700436


I love the comments at the end of the article:

1 What the article misses is the real reason that piracy is down
50% from Windows XP levels, which is that NOBODY WANTS
VISTA.. How ironic that by writing code that nobody
wants, they have less people stealing it. Perhaps they
should concentrate on development in other areas....

I'm pretty sure the "Yugo" automobile had a pretty low theft rate as
well...


2 I moved to Linux when 30 gig was not enough to run Windows XP.
What took 26 gig within Windows now takes less than 4. I am
100% MS free and loving every minute of it.




What I love is your comments on any computer OS, when it is obviously
apparent you know nothing about any of them.


Harry you are a laugh a minute. Are you going to claim that you are a
systems programmer and you have specific and exact knowledge about
operating system design, implementation and maintenance?

Even though I have been in the computer field for 25 years working in
operating system maintenance and applications design, implementation and
maintenance I would never claim to know all of the intricacies of
operating systems.






Well, Bertie, I never did say I knew "all the intricacies of an OS," did I?

You should enroll in Montgomery County College and take a course in
reading for content.

Reginald P. Smithers III December 5th 07 09:04 PM

Vista "turns" off kill switch
 
HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=204700436


I love the comments at the end of the article:

1 What the article misses is the real reason that piracy is down
50% from Windows XP levels, which is that NOBODY WANTS
VISTA.. How ironic that by writing code that nobody
wants, they have less people stealing it. Perhaps they
should concentrate on development in other areas....

I'm pretty sure the "Yugo" automobile had a pretty low theft rate
as well...


2 I moved to Linux when 30 gig was not enough to run Windows XP.
What took 26 gig within Windows now takes less than 4. I am
100% MS free and loving every minute of it.




What I love is your comments on any computer OS, when it is
obviously apparent you know nothing about any of them.


OK.

PS - I knew enough to stay with Windows XP. ;)



More probably, you don't know enough to change from one OS to another.


LOL, no it is very easy to do, but if I was going to update a computer,
I would do a clean install, which can be a pain, just saving all the
files i want to keep.


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