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        <title><![CDATA[How are you annoyed?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To put my comments into some context:First, I have used every version of Windows since 98SE (including Vista and 7) on both 32 and 64 bit architectures and I (generally) like them.  Second, I am new to Linux/Unix and have tried switching a number of times in the past.  Last, although I like to get my hands dirty with customizing (i.e. editing the windows registry, altering programs) to learn advanced skills, I always start with learning the basics in a stable environment.  With Linux, I tried only the stable releases of a variety of versions (Debian [etch], Ubuntu [Feisty, Hardy, Jaunty, Natty], Kubuntu [Jaunty, Natty], Fedora [Sulfur, Leonidas], Mandriva One, OpenSUSE, Solaris).So why am I trying yet again? To be blunt - the future: Windows 7/Office 2010/Live.  In my opinion, 7 is a blatant attempt by MS to grab the Mac/Apple user through a Mac-inspired GUI with absolutely no software improvements over Vista.  Office 2010 is a nightmare from a user-upgrade learning curve perspective (most business users are coming from 2003 not 2007).  Live (the new hotmail) doesn't even work in all browsers.  I can list more problems with MS technologies but I'll stop there.  My point, I just don't see myself using MS after Vista or Office 2007 become obsolete.  However, I do feel your points need some balancing from someone in the exact opposite corner from you.  You, a Linux user, dabble in MS, and I, a MS user, dabble in Linux.Here is my feedback on your points numbered to go with yours:1 (Anti-virus). Requiring an anti-virus in Windows is a disappointing result of our society.  I wonder though, if the proliferation of Windows/Linux was flipped wouldn't all efforts to create viruses then have been targeted at Linux resulting in the exact same security situation that Windows has?  PDF's used to be considered safe too remember2 (Networks).  With Vista (under normal conditions), I have never had any problem with my network or internet connections.  However, Windows XP and 7 do have difficulty maintaining network connections (especially wireless) if settings are changed while the connections or hardware are enabled.  Problems due to power outages or unsupported hardware occur regardless of the version.  I found the same problems in Linux.  Trying to install third party Linux-drivers for wireless devices is extremely difficult for the novice.3 (Slowdowns).  On XP and 7, this drives me nuts.  On Vista though, 99% of mine are the result of 3rd party software installed incorrectly by the user.  Usually because the installed software needs elevated (admin) rights and Vista doesn't tell you that; it just cancels the process (assuming you haven't disabled UAC).  7 just follows what you told UAC when you installed the program, and is therefore no safer than XP.4 (Crashes).  Define &quot;crash&quot;.  If you mean just an application (e.g. MediaPlayer), the only crashes I get are--again--the result of improper installation.  I have seen many users grab a 64-bit system and install a 64-bit OS then force an install of 32-bit software or force the use of the &quot;best-choice&quot; driver instead of the right driver.  If you're referring to BSOD's, well, no I've never had one on Linux, but trying to get a Linux version to install has caused grief. 5 (Troubleshooting).  True, it is difficult in Windows, but unless you know how to use the shell or how to read those Linux log files you aren't any better off6 (Exchange).  Outlook and Exchange do everything I need them to do from a user perspective (that the admin policies allow).7 (Printing).  Difficult?  How could it be any easier?  Setting up a printer is UPnP, connecting to a network printer is as easy as: highlight it in the list, right-click, select &quot;connect&quot;.  Once that's done you can set your default printer in ControlPanel &gt; Hardware &gt; Printer.  Now every time you select &quot;Print&quot; the document goes to the same printer.8 (Windows 7).  Agreed, now I need to jump through more hoops to connect two Win7 machines but if my machines are different WinOS's then ... (yikes)9 (Multi-desktop).  What good is multi-desktop when I still cannot see both at the same time?  This seems no different to me then opening multiple windows.  At least with multiple monitors I can have a supplier document open on one and a client doc on another without needing to flip back and forth between desktops or reduce the screen size to fit both on a tiny 17&quot; monitor10 (Resources).  Task Manager let's you set Priority and Affinity for processes and really cuts down the affects of resource hogging.  As for usage on systems without any 3rd party software and with equivalent functionality, I see very little difference (on my machine) in the amount of RAM (+/- 2%) or Page/Swap file size (+/- 4%).  A cold restart into either Vista (53.2 secs) or Ubuntu (52.8 secs) shows practically identical boot times.  Shutdown for both was 18.6 secs.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 08:54:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[depends on the ditro devs Neon]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[at one point, debian devs made any segment of kde depend on all of kde.you want kde network manager, you have to have all of the kde desktop, and kde ADDON APPS installed.and unless you build from sources, the dep chain can be really confusing if you only look at 1 distro.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaqui]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:08:59 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[you know what the Vi(m) zealot said ..]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[to the emacs zealot?&quot;I already HAVE an os on my computer, why would I want another one?&quot;[ This also applies to JAVA you know  you have an os, you don't need another one ]]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaqui]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:00:01 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[sorry Neon, you are off base there.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[They don't include non MS drivers on the cds, but all it took to get the SOURCE CODE from Realtek for a wireless network card [ usb key type ] was 1 email asking where the driver was on their site.They do provide the drivers for other operating systems.somewhere oddly placed on their site, not in the downloads section.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:51:46 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Separation of OS and apps?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is an O.S. without it's apps?  People are mucking with Wine to run Windows based programs.  Many of them are actually Microsoft written and published.  Your argument for the logic of wanting Windows apps to run in Linux not a fault of Linux is like saying:  &quot;I want a PS3, but I want my X360 games to run on it.&quot;  If Linux does not have what you need natively, then it's not the right O.S. for you.  If my Windows 7 box can do what I need out of the box, why would I be spending months on end trying to get MS Office 2000 to run on my Linux box?  I wouldn't.  I'd load 2010 on my W7 machine and realize Linux is not the right O.S. for me.  What many in the Linux community want is Windows for free.  This really has nothing to do with Linux being superior for their needs.  Yes, yes, the whole &quot;no viruses because we are a statistical margin of error in the O.S. realm&quot; is great, but let's get to the REAL meat and potatoes of the argument in favor of Linux.Like I've said many times before, the O.S. has it's place, but it doesn't belong on any friend's machine, family's machine, or my machine as it's not the right tool for the job.  To date, I haven't been able to utilize it for one single person I know, and it isn't for a lack of trying.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[thoiness]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:20:23 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I was going to write an article like that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... aimed specifically at PR folks. Some of them seem to be absolutely delusional in the way they reach out to me.I like Jack's &quot;how to&quot; content a lot too, except for when it *seems to* try to make some sort of subtle pro-FOSS point. Like he'll have a Windows tip, and it will show the absolutely most difficult way to do something. Normally, I'd just think, &quot;well, this is one way to do it, but the author simply doesn't know of the easier way&quot; (which is always possible, Jack seems to not be well versed in Windows), but due to his obvious hatred of Microsoft and Windows, and the vitriol he writes with, I sometimes suspect that he does it on purpose.J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:48:49 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Probably came out better with my accent]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[, to clarify I was sayingOutlook isn't part of an OS, it's part of a distro, which is what you said without mumbling.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Hopkinson]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:58:11 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I do see he pop up on a few other sites]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've at least two other sites I regularly see Jack pop up on and his howto type articles tend to be great reads. It's just this type of article falling much closer to troll-bating where interaction could be of a lot more value.I do understand the workload also though. I think someone actually did a &quot;how to work with journalists&quot; article a few months ago which pointed out that one shouldn't expect immediate responses to email and such as the writer may be busy with deadlines or another topic and will get back to the email related one when applicable.It's just the pidgining of some of these articles; toss out a bunch of inflammatory points then stand back and watch without supporting or clarifying them. It detracts from the FOSS topic and reads as yet another &quot;FOSS is perfect always&quot; claim rather than helping inform others about possible alternative solutions.Cheers to you for taking the time to call him out and question with these articles though.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:43:10 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[no defense needed]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I read it as a first foray into the software center or at least a user taking the time to look through what is available.Figuring out my preferred package list probably took about as long; I simply benefit now from having a list of preferred Debian packages. Switching to another distribution would involve a long first build again as I figured out my preferred package list for it. The trick is figuring out the minimum packages one needs to name while allowing the package manager to manage related dependencies. an example would be selecting Konsole, networkmanager-kde and a KDE theme instead of the &quot;kde-all&quot; package; you end up with just the parts you want and the minimum KDE needed behind them.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:26:37 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'd love for him to participate...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... but I doubt it will ever happen. I know he's not dodging me, he responds only rarely to *any* responders, regardless of the quality of their posts. I know he's really busy, if you look around, he writes for a zillion publications, and he's writing 3 - 5 TR articles a week. Personally, I write 1 - 2 TR articles a week, and keeping up with the conversation on those articles plus a couple of other author's articles takes up a significant portion of my time. If I were writing 3 - 5 articles a week, plus other publications, there's no way I'd be able to respond to anything.J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:39:32 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In my own defense]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I didn't go into the Software Center with a definitive list of desired apps.  This being my first serious experience with the it, much of my time was spent just browsing the contents and reacting.  &quot;Oh, neat!&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:01:49 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[File manager was last seen in NT4]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[it was removed from NT5 (win2K) &amp; up however, the NT4 SP6 &amp; SP6a version of the file manager works with win2K, XP, XP-64 and Server2003 32 &amp; 64]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Who Am I Really]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:43:17 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[They don't want &amp;quot;Windows&amp;quot;, they want applications]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I wouldn't say people are mucking with Wine to turn a Linux based distribution into Windows.. it's because they want to run a specific Windows only application the orginal developer has abandon or never will release a non-Windows version of.Maybe you can point at the Linspire folks who are trying to make an OSS implementation of the Windows software platform but that doesn't include everyone who chooses to use Wine/Cedega or similar. In the end, you can't blame OS because a third party to it didn't provide a native software version any more than you can blame the OS for hardware vendors not providing drivers or minimum specs to write hardware support. (in the second case, especially with FOSS hardware driver developers openly asking for the minimum to implement support)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:14:56 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[hey, you wanted to exagerate things]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I just took you at your word of meaning &quot;all software written&quot; when you said &quot;all software written&quot;.. silly me.Now, if you mean only in the desktop space and specifically proprietary retail software, sure, the majority is written for Windows. You can have that one once we find ways to disregard software that falls outside that narrow definition.From my view though, I'm really only seeing a minority of popular software titles not a majority of desktop software.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:02:31 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[booo... odd that it would give grief but booo on it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[My LG IDE internal was rock solid and the Blueray SATA that replaced it hasn't even hickuped. That does suck that an external read/writer had issue if it wasn't a result of a failing motherboard. Ubuntu is not the best for hardware support either though. If the issue was caused by the firmware in the writer or the LG's provided driver then you really gotta take that up with them or buy from a more user friendly company.Did you try K3B at all and if so, what where it's short comings in your usage? I tried it first and really haven't looked at any other burning software since. the only need I have currently that K3B doesn't seem to provide is creating a video DVD which also has data file content on it. That would be nice to have but doing a seporate video DVD and data DVD isn't a deal breaker either.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:56:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[let's add context back to this claim]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While the winky at the end clarifies the sarcasm. Both Apotheon and I explained how anyone else could do the same and also stated that 20min was the starting minimum for a minimal Debian install from which we each build out our own setups. You'll remember my stating that bare metal to full apps/config/updats was in the hour and a half to two hours with a fair broadband connection in my own case. Please keep these types of suggestive disparagements targetted at those who deserve it. At least between the two of us, let's try and keep the discussion moving forward rather than falling back to old falicies.I was actually going to suggest Nick look into aptitude or apt-get to completely take away that time spent finding apps in the GUI package manager. This isn't magic or any more complex than a .bat file which I assume both you and Nick would have no issue working with.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:48:20 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Windows market share]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Windows has the market share because Microsoft is very good at business strategy and exploited the market early to achieve dominance. With the amount of moment and savings it's got saved up now, it can put out something like Vista and still recover relatively quickly in the desktop space.Being pre-installed by factories also has a great deal to do with it and is a result of that early market monopolization. If one gets a pre-installed *nix, they don't twiddle with it either; it's pre-configured with the computer it's sold on just like Windows is preconfigred with the computer it's sold on. Sadly, Windows pre-installs rarely means no twiddling either given the amount of crapware OEMs stuff the hard drive with in addition to an OS and, if lucky, usable software. Consider that an entire parasyticaly huge industry has grown up around Windows because it does require technical manuals but that reality is hidden from the consumer to their detrement. Both the AV and tech support (through repeat customer issues) demonstrates this.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:36:06 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[you might like virtualbox]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[No need for spare machines, just create a VM with Virtualbox, VMware Server or whatever and install any Linux based distributions of interest into it.You can also browse /var/log with a GUI text editor and file explorer; no need to involve the command line if you don't want to. The log messages can be informative and do become familiar just as navigating the Even Viewer tree and understanding the messages became familiar to some degree.In terms fo &quot;intuitive&quot;, start from the point of view that Windows and Unix like OS are different. You had to start from scratch and learn the Windows way of doing things in the beginning also. If you do so, in the end you'll start to mix good habbits from both rather than constantly defaulting to &quot;gah.. but it doesn't work like that on XYZ OS&quot;.Hope it help even if the non-Windows os only ever become hobby VMs for you.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:30:03 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Even Viewer needs more detail]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It needs more detail on each even and I'd also like to see more software make use of it. Ideally, I'd like to see it text file based so one doesn't need specialized utilities to read the event log of a non-booted Windows box. As text files, one could also search them easier along with filtering and consolidating entries as needed with common software tools; I've a specific script that cosolidates filtered entries out of a few different logs to generate an IP blacklist. Powershell helps a little with it's more robust scripting and ability to dump event logs to text so that may help with an IP blacklist type process but not in trouble shooting unless you have the logs dumped to text before having issue with Windows booting.I've also not found an adequate multi-desktop utility for Windows. Nothing like having it done properly in the actual DE. They all seem to almost work but have some flaw or another that sends me back to a single desktop; usually issue managing explorer windows and such.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:20:28 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[autorun]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;Autorun - Again, don't you know what you're sticking in the drive? Having a CD play on insert is very convenient. What's the issue?&quot;Given how fast Conficker spread through autorun.inf files; I'd say most users don't know what they are sticking in there drive or believe it to be something safe. Given Microsoft finally disabling it outright through the latest patch tuesday; I'd say that even they finally accepted how stupid this default setting was. (now if we can just get &quot;display file extensions by default&quot; rather than the current default).&quot;Renaming - This works in Explorer and has for years.&quot;You can do a search/replace to mass-rename all or some files in a directory through Iexplore.exe? Cool.. how do you do that? I can only seem to rename one file at a time.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:12:29 -0800</pubDate>
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