Posted on 11/13/2007 11:19:21 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
LOL!
Man calls Wal-Mart:
Hey, I bought a computer from you guys and there are no Windows on it.
Yes, sir, that's correct. It has Linux.
Lin, what?
Linux.
What in the sam hell is that?
It's an open operating system that is free.
So if it's free that must mean it sucks.
No sir, it does everything Windows does only better.
But you said it was Open Windows. Doesn't that allow viruses to come in?
Um, no sir. That means that people all over the world wrote the software to make your computer go.
You mean even them I-ranians and Russkies?
Well, I assume so sir.
Well, hell's bells! Screw that! I want a refund!
A 2G Sandisk Micro drive is going to be $7.99 on Black Friday. I'm hoping to pick up a few for stocking stuffers!
Amazing, considering I remember the old dual floppy PC's.
“Now Wal-Mart is sold out. Has Linux now found a niche?”
LET TELL YOU SOMETHING; IF i can run my music production software on one of those then as far as I am concerned,yes, Linux has found a niche. I would give anything to get the hell away from windows.
Dude, you can't just invent new words.
Or can you? Hmmmm.
I was using dual floppies on a 3.4mhz clone when the guy in the office next to me got an IBM with a 20MB HD. My first comment was “why in the h_ll would you ever need that much storage?”
Or can you? Hmmmm.
You can in Linux....hahaha.
Cyrix lives again!
Know this is late,been splittin firewood,(work but free),,guess I’ve been out of the loop,started in tube theory,,heat caused me more problems than you could count,,heat in electronics was my enemy..reckon I need to ask questions again.. I believe these systems will sell and be accepted as long as it’s “button based”so to speak.
At any rate MS needs some competition..
Ubuntu Studio. A multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.
We provide a suite of the best open-source applications available for multimedia creation. Completely free to use, modify and redistribute. Your only limitation is your imagination.
I bought one of the very first Everex Step-20 386 systems in KC way back when... 20MHz 80386, 4MB RAM, EGA graphics (eventually upgraded to VGA!) 120MB & 65MB RLL hard drives, running SCO Xenix 386. I was also Everex Warranty authorized, including the Everex MP (Multi-processor) Cube, based on the Corollary C-Bus MP system. What a piece of JUNK! But their Step systems were very high quality, and pushed the performance of the the hardware to the point of occasional instability... I really liked their stuff, way back then...
All that’s missing is the defensive preamble about how he’s such a computer expert and has been using these things for years and don’t you try to snow me and on and on.
My first tech job, way back when, was in a retail store. We had legions of these people troop through the place. I put up with it until I had sufficient cred to get a real job, then I fled. :-)
Well, Linux will "put some voltage on pins 2 and 7 and warm your filament".
A warm filament is a happy filament,,those were some days..
Hey, I misspelled it. It is the Foxit Reader. Foxit software. You can get ability to edit and change PDF files as well. I haven’t tried that yet.
My department once bought a RAM expansion box for one of our PDP8's.
Box held two expansion banks of core, 4K 12-bit words each.
The box cost us $8000, so the cost per byte came out to $0.65. That's right--sixty-five cents.
It doesn't NEED to be all that high - it's running Linux, and would likly outperform a Windows box with twice the hardware power for regular mundane tasks like booting and starting applications.
That “Wal-Mart shoppers are so unsophisticated” bit is a tad worrying because I do wonder whether someone who equates case size with capability should be put in charge of a Linux system.
LOL! How true, how true...
This is a far, far more sensible system for the "average" user who just wants e-mail, the web, a couple of simple games, a way to write letters, play and maybe record sound, etc. I've long suspected windows was huge overkill for the home market, having become so unwieldy that its complexity and the associated problems become a net demerit rather than benefit.
1978 AppleII
I had my boss spend $1200 for a 16K ram upgrade and about the same for a 10 MB hardcard so I could write some business apps in Applesoft Basic.
Both of my Apple IIs are still in service - mainly for the kids, but also for “quick and dirty” programming, testing scientific theories, etc. Simple, and they do what they’re told.
Not likely to happen. Any person with at least a brain stem can use Ubuntu. It's VERY user friendly. Most everything in Ubutu just works.
Reading the Burnstien-Appleby catalogue,peanut butter sandwich and a glass of milk before bedtime, and having panic attacks awaiting the first CK722 and 2N35 to arrive in the mail.
We just do not have that kind of excitement going from a Pentium 3 to a Pentium 4.....
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