Comments for My Ruminations on Software http://lispmachine.wordpress.com Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:38:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Copyleft Logo by mfm999 http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/copyleft-logo/#comment-955 mfm999 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:38:31 +0000 http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/copyleft-logo/#comment-955 Brilliant! I've used my fave version on my blog, <a href="http://designkultur.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/film-open-source-cinema/" rel="nofollow"> Thanks! Michael Brilliant! I’ve used my fave version on my blog,

Thanks!

Michael

]]> Comment on High-Tech fraud and Optima Resources by mjose http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/high-tech-fraud-and-optima-resources/#comment-937 mjose Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:29:39 +0000 http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/?p=354#comment-937 I am also a victim of their fraud and they haven't returned a single rupee. I have my relatives in US and exploring all the possible options to go against them. I have identified at least six agencies where I can give a complaint with all the documents that I have with me including the recorded telephone conversations. Let's stop them from cheating any more poor people and spoiling their future. If anybody else out there want to join me, please let me know I am also a victim of their fraud and they haven’t returned a single rupee. I have my relatives in US and exploring all the possible options to go against them. I have identified at least six agencies where I can give a complaint with all the documents that I have with me including the recorded telephone conversations. Let’s stop them from cheating any more poor people and spoiling their future. If anybody else out there want to join me, please let me know

]]> Comment on My friends will kill me by Ectara http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/my-friends-will-kill-me/#comment-886 Ectara Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:34:40 +0000 http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/?p=274#comment-886 I agree with you 100%. I run Debian, and still hand configure files that are made to be automatically generated nowadays, and have to put up with newbies who expect me to read them a manual like a bedtime story. I have a couple friends who are still upset with me because I didn't do it for them, and if they give up, it is their problem. Like my neighbor; he tried to install ATI drivers on x86_64 for his fancy card, and the driver installer double-freed. To this day he has refused to file a bug report, and still refers to it as "Linux not working". The people we have to live with. Don't worry; that "fab" guy is a fool. I agree with you 100%. I run Debian, and still hand configure files that are made to be automatically generated nowadays, and have to put up with newbies who expect me to read them a manual like a bedtime story. I have a couple friends who are still upset with me because I didn’t do it for them, and if they give up, it is their problem. Like my neighbor; he tried to install ATI drivers on x86_64 for his fancy card, and the driver installer double-freed. To this day he has refused to file a bug report, and still refers to it as “Linux not working”. The people we have to live with.

Don’t worry; that “fab” guy is a fool.

]]> Comment on The UNIX Effect ( Blindedfolds Removed ) by arnuld http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/the-unix-effect/#comment-879 arnuld Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:59:02 +0000 http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/the-unix-effect-blindedfolds-removed/#comment-879 @ Karthik One thing Linux teaches you is to look for lots for tools. Earlier I used StumpWM but its not my favorite, my favorite one is wmii, there is a reason behind it. Its not whether you master Linux or WIndows or not. Its whether you can accomplish your daily tasks efficiently and effiectively without wasting your precious time. Thats exactly one of the things Linux is about. Whether you are repairing the electrical wiring of your home, whether you are just looking at your old machine how it works or your car's engine, it takes a technical approach unbiased from any personal point of view to understand the machien better. Why most people know that there is a spark-plug and a carbureter inside a scooter ? Now if something goes you can open it and test your spark-plug for current and check wheteher the carbureter is not blocked. Most people know abotu them (or at least heard about them) because scooters were designed from that approach, open for everyone to see, they were not designed like a closed cabinet. Did that kill any business ? What you call a someone if his scooter just stops in th emiddle of the road ot of no reason and rather than opening it he just hands it to agency and agency men charge him with 1200/- ruppes of bill and then tell him that his scooter stopped because patrol tank is empty with a "Thanks you Sir" attitude. I think you got a Windows user here. @ Karthik

One thing Linux teaches you is to look for lots for tools. Earlier I used StumpWM but its not my favorite, my favorite one is wmii, there is a reason behind it. Its not whether you master Linux or WIndows or not. Its whether you can accomplish your daily tasks efficiently and effiectively without wasting your precious time. Thats exactly one of the things Linux is about.

Whether you are repairing the electrical wiring of your home, whether you are just looking at your old machine how it works or your car’s engine, it takes a technical approach unbiased from any personal point of view to understand the machien better. Why most people know that there is a spark-plug and a carbureter inside a scooter ? Now if something goes you can open it and test your spark-plug for current and check wheteher the carbureter is not blocked. Most people know abotu them (or at least heard about them) because scooters were designed from that approach, open for everyone to see, they were not designed like a closed cabinet. Did that kill any business ?

What you call a someone if his scooter just stops in th emiddle of the road ot of no reason and rather than opening it he just hands it to agency and agency men charge him with 1200/- ruppes of bill and then tell him that his scooter stopped because patrol tank is empty with a “Thanks you Sir” attitude. I think you got a Windows user here.

]]> Comment on The UNIX Effect ( Blindedfolds Removed ) by Karthik http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/the-unix-effect/#comment-877 Karthik Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:58:04 +0000 http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/the-unix-effect-blindedfolds-removed/#comment-877 Hey, nice post. Very honest. Its impressive (and inspiring) that you got that far AFTER you graduated. But I can't relate with you completely though. Now I can understand Linux when I want to, but the trouble is I don't want to. :D Most of the time anyway. I do believe in your theory that if you force yourself to solve your problems with Linux it becomes less painful. I'm actually using StupWM right now but with gnome-panel on. :D I installed StumpWM so that I get less dependent on the GUI and user-friendliness of Ubuntu, but no sir, I just can't get done much. Also I don't understand what exactly I want to customize (I understand that is an advantage you get with StumpWM). Same with Emacs, I use it but I don't customize it. I use somebody else's .emacs at work and use many things in it. But when I come home I use the defaults again. :D I think one needs a special state of mind to do things yourself, to do things efficiently etc. No matter how many tools you give to some people they will only go so far. I guess I'm one of them. :D Hey, nice post. Very honest. Its impressive (and inspiring) that you got that far AFTER you graduated. But I can’t relate with you completely though. Now I can understand Linux when I want to, but the trouble is I don’t want to. :D Most of the time anyway.

I do believe in your theory that if you force yourself to solve your problems with Linux it becomes less painful. I’m actually using StupWM right now but with gnome-panel on. :D I installed StumpWM so that I get less dependent on the GUI and user-friendliness of Ubuntu, but no sir, I just can’t get done much. Also I don’t understand what exactly I want to customize (I understand that is an advantage you get with StumpWM). Same with Emacs, I use it but I don’t customize it. I use somebody else’s .emacs at work and use many things in it. But when I come home I use the defaults again. :D

I think one needs a special state of mind to do things yourself, to do things efficiently etc. No matter how many tools you give to some people they will only go so far. I guess I’m one of them. :D

]]> Comment on A message for Warez d00dz Culture by Warezko http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/a-message-for-warez-d00dz/#comment-809 Warezko Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:36:33 +0000 http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/?p=146#comment-809 Great article, mate. I like your writing. Great article, mate. I like your writing.

]]> Comment on My friends will kill me by GoblinX Project » GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 189 (03/01/2009) http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/my-friends-will-kill-me/#comment-797 GoblinX Project » GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 189 (03/01/2009) Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:55:14 +0000 http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/?p=274#comment-797 [...] http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/my-friends-will-kill-me/ [...] [...] http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/my-friends-will-kill-me/ [...]

]]> Comment on My friends will kill me by arnuld http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/my-friends-will-kill-me/#comment-793 arnuld Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:23:48 +0000 http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/?p=274#comment-793 @ L4Linux > I think that Linux should be used by > everyone, I find it way easier than > windows in many ways. It is just different. It is the *most* accurate expression I have heared over the years. And you are the first man I have ever met who understands this. @ L4Linux
> I think that Linux should be used by
> everyone, I find it way easier than
> windows in many ways. It is just different.

It is the *most* accurate expression I have heared over the years. And you are the first man I have ever met who understands this.

]]> Comment on My friends will kill me by fab http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/my-friends-will-kill-me/#comment-792 fab Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:48:04 +0000 http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/?p=274#comment-792 you don't get it. i read the conversations with your friends and did not finish the entire post. so basically just because your friends don't care about apt-get or lspci doesn't mean they're stupid or don't get it. instead of playing geek, just tell them: "alright, i'll fix it for you" they do NOT bother investigating and do not expect them to do so. they have other priorities and are interested in other things that you don't care. period. this entire windows vs linux and stupid vs intelligent crap is annoying. you don’t get it. i read the conversations with your friends and did not finish the entire post. so basically just because your friends don’t care about apt-get or lspci doesn’t mean they’re stupid or don’t get it. instead of playing geek, just tell them: “alright, i’ll fix it for you”

they do NOT bother investigating and do not expect them to do so. they have other priorities and are interested in other things that you don’t care. period. this entire windows vs linux and stupid vs intelligent crap is annoying.

]]> Comment on My friends will kill me by L4Linux http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/my-friends-will-kill-me/#comment-791 L4Linux Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:13:37 +0000 http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/?p=274#comment-791 In a famous Greek movie, the leading actor (plays a very poor man who barely has enough money to feed himself. In the following scene (after he finally manages to get a good job) he is trying to order a dessert which he loves eating and starts describing it, while drooling in the notion that he will eat it once again. The waiter tells him that this is dessert "x". And he answers <b>"I don't want to learn it, I want to eat it!!"</b> Does this example make things more clear? Most users don't care how their PC works, they just want to send an email, surf the web or see a movie. Everything else sounds Greek to them. If the only thing they want is something like virus-free windows, then they are not target group for Arch Linux. They are the target group for Ubuntu or another "user friendly" distro, as I call it or "for idiot beings" as you would call it. Ubuntu is around for 5 years, maybe some of them will get curious in another 5, who knows...They did try Ubuntu after 10+ years of using windows after all, didn't they?? So do we want users that don't care about "free as in speech software" or not? Only power users should use Linux? I think that Linux should be used by everyone, I find it way easier than windows in many ways. It is just different. <i>Point taken about GUI based configuration/GUI apps. My misunderstanding there.<i> In a famous Greek movie, the leading actor (plays a very poor man who barely has enough money to feed himself. In the following scene (after he finally manages to get a good job) he is trying to order a dessert which he loves eating and starts describing it, while drooling in the notion that he will eat it once again. The waiter tells him that this is dessert “x”. And he answers “I don’t want to learn it, I want to eat it!!”
Does this example make things more clear? Most users don’t care how their PC works, they just want to send an email, surf the web or see a movie. Everything else sounds Greek to them.

If the only thing they want is something like virus-free windows, then they are not target group for Arch Linux. They are the target group for Ubuntu or another “user friendly” distro, as I call it or “for idiot beings” as you would call it.
Ubuntu is around for 5 years, maybe some of them will get curious in another 5, who knows…They did try Ubuntu after 10+ years of using windows after all, didn’t they??
So do we want users that don’t care about “free as in speech software” or not? Only power users should use Linux? I think that Linux should be used by everyone, I find it way easier than windows in many ways. It is just different.

Point taken about GUI based configuration/GUI apps. My misunderstanding there.

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