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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: Mistshadow on 26 October 2005, 03:37

Title: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Mistshadow on 26 October 2005, 03:37

Scroll down past the Red Hat article. (http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20051024&mode=2)

-Misty

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: cymon on 26 October 2005, 03:56

 (http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20051024&mode=2)

link fixed.

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Orethrius on 27 October 2005, 08:55

Yeah, they've since edited that, and apparently it's been redacted (or at least slipped behind a firewall, same difference).  I'd think that somebody e-mailed Don Purdy and he just about shat himself.  ;)

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: adiment on 27 October 2005, 10:26

link fixed...

(it's [url=. not [http= :p also don't forget to close the tags)

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: noob on 27 October 2005, 12:56

Omfg

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Refalm on 27 October 2005, 15:44

[OFFTOPIC]Who else read "Pity the fools of Tompkins County, New York" instead of "Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York" :rolleyes: [/OFFTOPIC]

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Refalm on 27 October 2005, 15:47

Wow. The IT department of Tompkins County are either complete idiots or heavily sponsored by Microsoft.

Oh well, at least they didn't mention that you shouldn't use Opera, Safari or Konqueror ;)

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Jack2000 on 27 October 2005, 15:48

:]:]:]

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Jenda on 27 October 2005, 18:53

Holy crap!!!

Quote

Wow. The IT department of Tompkins County are either complete idiots or heavily sponsored by Microsoft.

It would seem to be the latter. "All other browsers are to be annihilated as well"...

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: noob on 27 October 2005, 19:33

i recon we start our own internet. well, actually a virtual network using the internet. no mad rules, domains are free and NO ONE can say what we can or cant use. oh, and only let microsuck forum users connect :p

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: cymon on 27 October 2005, 20:19

No, only let unix users connect. To sign up, you will have to run a UNIX application, one that all *nix based comps can run.

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: themacuser on 28 October 2005, 12:55

I'll get it to run on OS X, I'm in.

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: themacuser on 28 October 2005, 13:11

Quote from: noob

i recon we start our own internet. well, actually a virtual network using the internet. no mad rules, domains are free and NO ONE can say what we can or cant use. oh, and only let microsuck forum users connect :p

Actually, that's just an alternate DNS server.

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Jack2000 on 28 October 2005, 14:47

why use stupid domains lets...
register our own TDL :)
and give away domains
or why use domains after all aren't ips as good as domains ??

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Refalm on 28 October 2005, 16:48

Quote from: Jack2000

why use stupid domains lets...
register our own TDL :)
and give away domains
or why use domains after all aren't ips as good as domains ??

You can't register your own TLD's, unless you host your own DNS server and make everyone on the globe us it ;)

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: mobrien_12 on 28 October 2005, 18:14

Holy Crap.

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Dark_Me on 28 October 2005, 18:34

Quote

You can't register your own TLD's, unless you host your own DNS server and make everyone on the globe us it

When I control the world i'll make it law and the punishment for not using it will be death. It's a nice form of population control no? So is genocide.
This post has no reason other than to show how fucked up I am does it?

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Jack2000 on 28 October 2005, 20:27

i think ip addresses are free ... no ?
then why are they makeing you pay them money for internet ??

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Dark_Me on 29 October 2005, 07:43

Quote from: Jack2000

i think ip addresses are free ... no ?
then why are they makeing you pay them money for internet ??

Money, simple as that. Greedy bastards. That and most people don't know what an IP address is.

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: JustMe on 30 October 2005, 03:10

As one of those poor fools in Tompkins County, I can assure you that Microsoft heavily subsidises both of the higher ed institutions in town, as well as the city, so Microsoft has a willing legion here.

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: cymon on 30 October 2005, 03:55

Same deal here, microsoft "donates" its shit to our schools. Now we're forced to use windows, even though our comps can't handle anything over 98, so they're unreliable and generally shit. Plus, using 98/95 means we don't get any support.


Installing Linux, which the comps could run, and run well, is out of the question. So we're stuck with shit unsupported software. Yet somehow they have the time to make sure nobody installes something unapproved, like linux, firefox, openoffice.

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: anphanax on 30 October 2005, 05:31

"I'll get it to run on OS X, I'm in."

   I know that BSD (which OS X is based on i've heard) is a
   flavor (right term?) of UNIX, but does Mac OS X really count?
   

  Do Windows users using Cygwin get to connect?

  What if someone is using an emulator such as QEMU, Bochs, or VPC?

  I'm probably taking this way too seriously :|.


Well geeze, I for one am glad they're standing up to all the false accusations that mozilla is more secure than IE. Everyone with a brain knows that every piece of software has bugs and you're not safe unless you buy expensive, bloated anti-virus software... Man, I can't believe the ignorance of some people... Those open source communists can suck it. Open source destroys lives and families, and is taking away jobs from Americans faster than Mexicans are. If it weren't for Microsoft, no one would have even used the Internet.

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Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: cymon on 30 October 2005, 05:47

OSX counts. It's based on Darwin, Apple's open source implementation of BSD.

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: hm_murdock on 30 October 2005, 09:23

I don't see why cygwin wouldn't work. It's a UNIX layer on the NT kernel. What does cygwin report at uname?

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Jenda on 30 October 2005, 20:24

Count me -the fuck- in!
I would just looove the internet to be a UNIX only thing. I hope we would still have Wikipedia and Wiktionary??? They are GNU too!
Otherwise, I won't miss much of the old internet. Let's call it infer-net and our own super-net.

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: dmcfarland on 15 November 2005, 03:15

Those who cant do work for the goverment :fu: Microsoft. Goverment/Efficiency a true oxymoron.

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: Orethrius on 19 November 2005, 00:02

Quote from: dmcfarland

Goverment/Efficiency a true oxymoron.

"Government Organisation" is far more apt. :D

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 19 November 2005, 03:22

Military intelligence :thumbup:

Title: Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
Post by: themacuser on 19 November 2005, 06:35

Anyone want to set up a VPN for us?