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Ubuntu rewards a patient user
Recently I installed Ubuntu and Windows XP on a new computer. My video card is a very recent model and causes some hiccups along the way for both OS installations, but the problems were solved after a few tweaks and reboots. I installed Firefox on both OS's. The Windows version of FF loads much more slowly. Same exact hardware, same exact ...
Posted to Technology by infoaddicted on October 24, 2008
the Lost Campaign...
Guess what? Jerry Seinfeld couldn't cut it. You'll have to give him another 300 million to prove Windows isn't lame. But it is! Yes Google! Yes.
Posted to Technology by david wayne osedach on October 3, 2008
Giving Apple Ads Credence
Here's how I felt about these Microsoft ads: So, Apple makes these commercials where they equate ''being a PC'' to being lame, not-with-it, and etc. In response, Microsoft creates counter commercials to tell Windows users they're cool too. Is this really the best you can do, Microsoft? The fact that Microsoft is directly replying to the ...
Posted to Technology by Loltastic on September 29, 2008
Other than tweaking Apple, not memorable
Aside from the John Hodgman lookalike at the beginning, these ads remind me not so much of Apple's ads, but rather an earlier Microsoft ad campaign from several years ago, also very P.C., showing ordinary middle-class people from all over Europe and North America (and maybe South America, too) getting up in the morning, bathing, eating breakfast, ...
Posted to Technology by Mr. Serious on September 29, 2008
OMG, Windows is the GOP
**Disclaimer: I use Windows. I love Mac, but they're too damn expensive.** Isn't this the exact same angle that the GOP campaign is trying on voters? ''Democrats are snooty and elitist and want to make you feel bad for loving God or living on a farm. Here's Sarah Palin: she doesn't believe in evolution or know Putin from pootin', but she's ...
Posted to Technology by nericksx on September 29, 2008
Without Walls, Who Needs Windows?
What cracks me up about the new Windows campaign is the tag line: ''Life without walls''. So if you have no walls, you obviously don't need Windows. Duh.
Posted to Technology by strive on September 29, 2008
Some decent advice, but outdated analysis
Interesting that this four-year old advice is still mostly valid to me, but the detailed steps are actually outdated due to the default security options in modern operating systems: 1. I find it hard to believe that in 2004 (when the article was originally published) most users did not have Windows XP which comes with a firewall. Anyone who ...
Posted to Webhead by BlackHelicopter on June 21, 2008
What the article doesn't mention...
And is the most important thing to express is that every single computer on every botnet in the world is running Microsoft Windows. No Linux. No Unix. No Mac OS X. Nothing but good old Windows. But very few stories about botnets seem to mention this. Not sure if it because it is so obvious, or because no one wants to really offend Bill. But ...
Posted to Explainer by jeveler on May 1, 2008
Brass Windows
Brass Windows a parody of modern marketing Even though you're in a cabin, do you feel like you're on a raft? Every time the wind blows,Do you get an annoying draft? Do you still have windows made of brass?The newest sensation is windows made of brass! Windows made of brass: a miracle by chance.Windows ...
Posted to Bad Poetry Contest by tech42er on August 12, 2007