Re: Opera Browser

From: Gladys Pump (noway.jose_at_jose.noway.zap)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:35:51 +0000

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 04:03:19 GMT, Rowdy Yates
<rowdy.yates@no-spam.lycos.com>, whilst in the alt.computer.security
newsfroup, articulated the following sentiments :

>you better read up on linux a bit more before you start switching all your
>friends & family over, big guy. you gonna be on the phone supporting these
>people 24 hours a day.

Somehow, I don't think the phone will be ringing long after the initial
frenzy has died down.
 
More likely he'll find his circle of friends considerably smaller, and an
uncomfortable 'finger-just-gone-through-the-toilet-paper' kind of look on
the face of family members when the subject of computers crops up.

>btw, i am an mcse, i also love linux & GNU concept, i also know what i am
>talking about.

Yes, I've noticed.

>the world at large is not ready for linux yet. don't listen to ubergeeks.
>an ubergeek will always try to force a square peg into a circular hole
>just because he refuses to use a circular peg.

I wouldn't even call them geeks, let alone ubergeeks. The way I see it is
that real programmers and computer fanatics, who live to code and love
everything 'computy', see the benefits in every operating system and would
never be seen to be blindly following one over the other. Aside from being
childish and naive, it's ultimately self-defeating.

The people who become bourne-again Linux fans overnight, and then jump
straight on the MS-trashing-bandwagon make me sick. You know the ones ...
all of a sudden there's 'Registered Linux User <insert random number>' as
part of their sig.

And as for security, you don't need to be an MCSE to realise that if the
world's desktop users switched wholly over to Linux tomorrow, there'd be any
less trouble with viruses or misconfiguration of systems. Unless at the same
time all these users starting changing the habits of a lifetime, and began
devouring HOWTO's and the myriad of *nix technical documentation at a
blinding rate, combined with the virus writers having a collective attack of
conscience and taking up needlework instead.

If people want to play around with *nix derivatives, fine, have fun, but
don't start trashing MS/MS users just because you've learnt a new command
and/or done your first source compile.

>p.s., good luck playing the latest 3dfx and 3d sound games on you linux
>box.

Some will play reasonably well, but they'll invariably be poor cousins to
those running on an MS platform. This may change in the future, but it
doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon.

Regs, Pete.

"Oh, so operator error is not in your lexicon?"

"I don't have a lexicon yu moosehead."

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