<cheap shot> I wonder how long it will take before the first self propagating windows cli fork bomb hits the net. Who will get a license to use this new cli and on which versions of windows? </cheap shot> I think this is a great thing and its about time. That said it will only be great if its well documented on the machine or the internet. And I hope they don't hide most of its features.
On 6/9/05, Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the subject of Microsoft's new CLI, Monad: > > Why should you be worried? Were Microsoft to develop the best CLI ever > conceived, it wouldn't take bash, tcsh or zsh or whatever is your > shell of choice (pick your flavour, I'm not going to start a war here) > away from you (and me and everyone else). > > So best luck to them, and may life be less painful for our fellow > Windows sysadmins! > > http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=152169&cid=12768136 > > Why should you be worried? > > Because there are a surprisingly large contingent of people who define > themselves by the operating system they use, and whose self-esteem is > directly linked to the perceived superiority of this operating system > over Microsoft Windows. During the late nineties, when Windows was > truly a buggy, crashy, piece of shit, these people positively basked > in the glee that came from the vindication of their chosen OS - back > then, Linux truly was light-years ahead of Windows in terms of speed > and stability, and geeks rejoiced in the streets. > > Flash-forward to Windows 2000/ XP, and Microsoft apparently > accomplished a miracle, producing a version of Windows that would > literally run and run, and was still fairly nippy. Meanwhile, the > writers of Linux Desktop Environments were discovering that it's very > easy to be fast and light when you don't do much, or aren't > particularly user-friendly, and that increased functionality almost > always comes at the price of bloat. > > So these people saw two pillars of the superiority of Linux (speed and > stability) snatched away from them. The truly curious thing is what > happened next: instead of being spurred into action by this new > competition and addressing these concerns on the Linux side, these > people instead simply went into a state of denial, and refused to let > go of these cherished (and rapidly shrinking) areas where Linux once > scored over Windows. Read through any anti-MS slashdot article on any > given day and count the number of horribly outdated criticisms of > Microsoft you see (BSOD's; bloat; Clippy(!)) - as a passionate > believer in F/OSS, it really grieves me to see people behaving like > this, rather than aiming to improve Linux to the state where it once > again has many advantages over Windows. > > Flash-forward to now, as one of the other areas in which Linux scores > over Windows (a UNIX command-line is an awesome and enjoyable tool to > use; the Windows command line, by contrast, is a rubber hammer with > nails in the handle :)) may well be snatched away, and we see the same > thing: people are hoping against hope that Microsoft foul it up, > because if they don't another area of Linux superiority disappears, > along with another shred of their self-esteem. This, I think, is why > people care, and why they do not wish Microsoft well in this project, > however helpful it may be to the common good. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050609/ce2c9a22/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 9 19:51:53 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Fruchey) Date: Thu Jun 9 19:51:36 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] DVD authoring Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have a couple of Family Guy episodes in XviD format (gee, I wonder where I got them...) that I would like to burn to DVD. Where do I even begin? Everything I found when searching seemed so convoluted. I'm running Ubuntu. Joey
