oh my god, a satire story without "The Onion" stamp of approval? I could write funnier stuff if I just kept slamming my penis against the keyboard for 5 minutes! The writers for the Onion totally crap out better ideas every morning after breakfast!

/half the comments you'll see on this thread ;)

S8t1r3 i5 teh 5uX0R5.

/Wanted to play along in the "I hate non-Onion satire Fark game"

Yeah, after finding out that there's a market for a fat biatch shiatting on herself in a bathtub, I wouldn't be surprised if this idea is gold!

I want to know where my free rocket keyboard is.

/checking mailbox again

Didn't Al Gore invent Hotmail?

/got nothing

I still have my rocketmail address. :-)

i remember Hotmail, before the internet. It was really hot back then, well warmish.

drevil

The Onion invented satire. Don't you know that? Nothing had every been satirized before the Onion's existence. Therefore, all satire is a rip-off of the Onion.

Great premise, horrible writing...

The Onion invented satire. Ah man, Jonathan Swift is going to be pissed.

/not serious

broken newz has a broken link

farked already

J.Garcia'sRightMiddleFinger

Of course I know that! Wasn't "A Modest Proposal" back in The Onion Vol 1, Issue 4? Or is it 5?

bah nevermind its just slow as molasses loading

i too still have my rocketmail email address. just to be 31337 like that

/.

Microsoft has been bugging the hell out of me lately. I'm seriously considering dumping windows, and going for linux (I won't even consider switching to mac). Any reccomendations as to which distribution to use, preferably, something that would be good for a total n00b?

/end threadjack

The onion does satire!?!?! When ever I go there I'll I see are advertisements...oh wait...there it is. Ha ha, sorry. Four pop-ups and a ad for show time where in the way. Got it now. Hmmm, I like Broken Newz better.

crossbuster

I have no idea

You're welcome

crossbuster

Somebody in a different thread said SuSE once for transitioning from Windows to Linux. But IMO they're all the same.

crossbuster

You can try one of those linuxlive cds. You burn it on a cd, and you can boot the entire linux os without installing anything on your system, reboot without the cd and windows loads fine. It's a great way to try linux without making changes, and all it costs is a cdr. Try knoppix at http://www.knoppix.net/ and mandrakemove at www.mandrake-linux.com

Crossbuster

I found SuSe fairly easy to set up and play around with while transitioning...

www.linuxquestions.org is a great place for helpful forums...

crossbuster

I've used Windows for years and Linux (Debian) for years. I bought a Powerbook a year and a half ago. OS X is the best desktop operating system I've ever used. My wife soon switched to an iBook. I strongly urge you to go to an Apple store and just play around with the Macs. Ease of use, easy software install, no virus, no worms.

There is really not a good desktop Linux distro for n00bs. Unless you really want to work hard at it and reinstall several times.

Trying to get everything that you would need for a desktop system to work together seemlessly can be a real pain in the arse with any linux distro. Not that it can't be done, it just takes a lot of reading and manual configuring.

Really, overall one OS is not better than the other. They are just better at specific things and what you want as a user. For a server I would not run anything other than Linux.

For me OS X combined the best of Unix with a great inerface and support for the software I want, without the virus/worm/trojan/spyware.

Oh yea and Hotmail has been a joke since MS bought it.

crossbuster
"Microsoft has been bugging the hell out of me lately. I'm seriously considering dumping windows, and going for linux (I won't even consider switching to mac). Any reccomendations as to which distribution to use, preferably, something that would be good for a total n00b?"

Use Amiga.

I'm so old school, I color coordinate my pocket pen protectors.

The onion may have forged the path for online Journalistic satire, but come on, it hasn't been funny in a LONG time. It's been on a major downhill slide and shows no signs of letting up.

It had a good run and like most things it has an ending

You can set it up so you can do both at the same time with a dual boot system. So if you try linux and hate it or can't figure it out then you always have microsoft to fall back on. I did that for a while but I eventually came back to the Darkside. I used Red Hat linux it was easy enough. Don't know much about the newer releases though.

Hey: J.Garcia'sRightMiddleFinger

I also wrote, "It looks like you don't even exist". But it disappeared from my post.

bullshi+. the onion, on a bad day, is funnier than any of these onion knockoffs on a good day.

Such a funny concept. I actually got a chuckle out of the headline.

...and then I read the article.

It's all in the follow-through you idiots!

The related article about Billl Gates not being richer than god made me snicker though.

Nice headline ... but i thought the joke was Windows Millennium


~got nuttin

2004-04-02 04:15:36 PM
crossbuster


Microsoft has been bugging the hell out of me lately. I'm seriously considering dumping windows, and going for linux (I won't even consider switching to mac). Any reccomendations as to which distribution to use, preferably, something that would be good for a total n00b?

/end threadjack


OS X baby, dont fight it.

crossbuster

I've tried several distros, and I'm a huge fan of Gentoo Linux. I started off using Red Hat for a couple of years, but when my boyfriend switched to Gentoo in 2002, I was quick to follow.

With Gentoo, you compile everything for your computer's specific setup, so programs are amazingly fast. Gentoo is also based around "Portage," which is a system for downloading and compiling individual programs. So instead of having to use RPM's (as in Red Hat), I just type "emerge gimp" and gimp with all its dependencies is compilled with little to no hassle.

The documentation has gotten a lot better in the past two years, btw. I am the least technical person ever, and even I was able to compile my kernel and get X to work in my latest install.

/thus spoke the Linux chick

Oh, and Hotmail makes my friends hate my computer because you cannot check your hotmail from a linux box running Moz. It can sense the lack of root exploits, I'm sure.

crossbuster:
I'd reccomend Knoppix to begin with, since it boots from the CD and allows you to toy around with it without actually having to install anything. If you're going the whole way, I'd probably suggest an RPM build (Makdrake or Red Hat).
Alternatively, you could just decide by how much hair you have on your ass.
No hair: Red Hat
Some hair: Mandrake
A lot of hair: Debian
Butt 'fro: Slackware.

And MacOSX is extremely nice, even if Apple's machines are horribly overpriced.

I've been using Gentoo for a couple years, and used Debian since '97.
Best desktop OS ever, at least for me. Don't believe the bullshiat.
There are a lot of good newbie distros out.

Problem with OSX is the fact that then you're bound to proprietary hardware AND software. Screw that.

I have no problem with hotmail. I hardly get spam, I can work with my mail in an email client, and I can get my mail on my phone. No complaints here.

Yeah, hotmail isn't that bad actually.. And it's free... So People who biatch and moan about it should eat some arse.


/enjoys microsoft kickbacks

robbie_star

LOL, I agree, typing that made me feel like the gum company guy in "Clerks." But Hotmail actually does meet my needs pretty well.

Microsoft wants you to use and trust their Passport thingy. But their Passport thingy is basically just a Hotmail account. Who the hell trusts Hotmail with their personal details?

-- the only email service where I started getting spam to my new email address before signing up

The article said that MS bought Hotmail. Maybe you should read the story before your comment you tool!

I have ran linux since .93 infomagic distro on a 386sx .
I personally like Debian, but the RedHat Distros (mandrake included) are good. Recently did Gentoo but I messed with the STD distro which is not the normal Gentoo and probably not as nice. Linux is good. Linux is fun. I still prefer OSX on the desktop though. I like Linux for running squid and routing and doing intrusion detection and all that BS.

But for normal desktop cruising it's all about OSX for me. People all haggle at me about it while they futz with viruses and spyware. So if you get it you will love it but just don't tell anyone because they all freak out about macs. The plus side is that you can play more games on a mac than a PC running linux...

What is this Internet you all speak of?