At least we wouldn't get viruses! What if the power ran out? :-)
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, James Morris wrote: > And what about if all the openness of the internet was lost? If the > powers that be decided all this access to knowledge dangerous for us > little people and giving us too many ideas. What if the powers that be > decided to close down all our access to this stuff? > > You'd be left with your Ubuntu Linux system. I'd be left with my Arch > Linux system. Neither of us would be able to update our systems or get > more software for it (and pretend for a minute that the internet is > the only network where you'd be able to get software). But because we > both use Linux and not Windows, we'd both be able to write new > software for it if so inclined. Though the Arch user is more likely to > be able to do this than the Ubuntu user. > > It was just an exercise. > > James Morris. > > > > > On 17 March 2011 23:50, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> The good thing about Ubuntu of course is that updating is simple, even to >> another release. I _don't want_ to play with the system - I want to use >> it, and Ubuntu's amazingly functional. >> >> - Alan >> >> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, James Morris wrote: >> >>> With Linux you are free to NOT UPDATE your system. RESIST. >>> >>> I would like to decide to do this. Freeze my system. All the software >>> on it, all the documentation on it. That's it, that's all that's >>> available to me. No other resources. No internet. It's all just here. >>> If I need new features I will code them. I will break and mend my >>> system. No single part of it over a period of forty years would remain >>> untouched from my prying. I would lock it away from the outside world. >>> It would evolve to my evolving specifications and idiosyncrasies - >>> especially the latter. >>> >>> I would like to do this but I don't have the time. So I will update my >>> system in a timely manner - especially as an internet user. >>> >>> Semaj Sirrom >>> >>> -- >>> _ >>> : http://jwm-art.net/ >>> -audio/image/text/code/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >> >> >> == >> email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> webpage http://www.alansondheim.org >> music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qx.txt >> == >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > > -- > _ > : http://jwm-art.net/ > -audio/image/text/code/ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qx.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
