Posts by CyberSword

US customs: Yes, we can seize your laptop, iPod

War on terror

This was on terror sounds more and more like a war of terror.

I'm happy to stick to my plan never to go to the states again after visiting the place a few years back. I don't like to be treated like a criminal.

Cash'n'Carrion: A lean, mean, fighting machine

BOFH mugs

Can't agree more, we need the BOFH mugs back as well.

Brits terrified of online fraud, but want magic cars, says BT

Crime increase

Actually, it's a little known fact that on-line crime has increased exponentially since the seventies.

Mines the one with the 'Dept of Bleedin' Obvious' badge.

US court sides with Janet Jackson's breast

Breast feeding

I think a fine like that proofs once and for all that not breastfeeding harms your child in more ways then you can imagine

French handbag eBay over fakes

Licence agreement

Am I smelling a 'We didn't sell you the product, we licenced you to use the product' licence argeement here?

Cyber B52 strikes mooted as response to Chinese infowar

Closing the gap

I'm sure we can close the tunnel and cyber gap by hacking in there precious bodily fluids before they do it to us!

Note to self: Watch Dr. Strange Love again.

Red Hat scurries away from consumer desktop market

Missing the point

It seems that many people are missing the point here, Windows installations are in general a nightmare because none of the devices work out of the box at all, you need to download drivers from the manufacturer to get anything work.

I'm sure that if manufacturers would give as much effort to make Ms drivers as they do making Linux drivers you would end up with worse problems for Ms then Linux. (Can anyone imagine Ms reverse engineering drivers from Linux?)

If you want to make valid comments in an argument about whether Linux is desktop ready you should compare OEM installations for both platforms and then complain that for example Open Office is not as fully featured as Ms Office (bring on the flames)

My self I use Ubuntu on a Thinkpad without any issues (everything worked straight out of the box, compared to installing loads of drivers on Windows) and I'm pretty damned pleased with it, although I still use Ms Office through Wine.