Why Windows?

[Alex Snow]

I'm a little wary of that .net crap.  I don't think that apps should share
so much information over the internet.  This can help promote spyware.  Has
anyone looked at kazaa lately? That's about 99.9% spyware.  There's a lot of
spyware on winblows systems, and I think winblows is spyware itself!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc at MIT.EDU>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 4:05 AM
Subject: Why Windows?


> OK, I think windows exists for sighted people. I think that blind people
> need to use windows if they are doing sys-admin or other tasks which
require
> them to interact with windows, or dare I say, help a sighted person use
> their friendly little crash-prone boxes! <smile> I often think that the
> reason windows is so unstable is to keep us sys-admins employed!
> Hehehehehahahahe!
>
> Actually, I heard an interesting windblows tidbit the other day. In
windows
> 3.1, there was a concept called Object Linking and Embeding (OLE). It
allows
> one to put, say, a sound file within a spreadsheet, and embed all that
> within something else. In fact, this is what XML does for you, but those
> were the days long before XML. Anyhow, they were also the days before the
> internet became widely popular. The problem was that OLE was not at all
> secure. When the internet became more widely used, and malware began to
> spread, people realized that this stuff was very insecure. So Microsoft
> began building layer on top of layer to try and address these issues. By
the
> time the security problems were becomign more widely exployted, Microsoft
> had traveled too far down the OLE path, and could not give it up. I forget
> what all the crap on top of OLE was called, but the dot net stuff is
merely
> another layer on top of the broken OLE, so Microsoft security issues will
> forever be rearing their ugly heads, and Microslop will have to patch
every
> single one of them!! Hahahahehehehehehaha!
>
>                     Rich
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deedra Waters" <curi0315 at tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: 19 May, 2002 1:24 AM
> Subject: Re: interesting experiment.
>
>
> I think honestly that if beginners have an easy start it may help some in
> the long run. I honestly think that there are some people who want to
> learn but are having a hard time in which case, helping them can be
> useful.
>
> I'm bad at sitting and reading manpage after manpage trying to find
> things, and I was even worse at the beginning. I had a great deal of help
> in the beginning, and there was a lot I  didn't understand.
>
> I'm not really sure where I'm going with this accept to say that there are
> people who have a real hard time by just reading, and helping them, or
> trying to walk them threw some things  doesn't always mean that they need
> to be spoonfead
>
>
> On Sun, 19 May 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 19 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, thank you.
> > > No, I don't like Windows. I don't use to play games because I don't
have
> the
> > > time.
> >
> > Oh now you don't know what you're missing, I can recommend GMA Games for
> > one, for a bit of light relief.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > But I also don't like to see a lot of people from this list, nor
> > from any
> > > list, thinking that Linux is better than Windows.
> >
> > Actually, if you look carefully at most of what you view to be
> > anti-Windows comments, they are, in the main, aimed at the company that
> > spawned it.
> >
> > > Windows is better than Linux for multimedia development but Macintosh
is
> > > even better than Windows  for this thing.
> > >
> > > Some Unix graphic stations are better probably than Macintosh for
their
> > > purpose.
> >
> > Yes, but until very recently Macintosh had a problem with expensive
> > hardware, for example, on some power macs there was only 1 make of modem
> > you could use because of the connection it required; guess what, they're
> > not made any more so my friend is going to have to buy a new computer,
> > this is, imho, a potential problem which can arise when hardware and
> > software are made by the same company, as used to happen back in the big
> > mainframe days.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > I like the Linux users to be a kind of helpful community, because
> > they are
> > > not very many, especially blind, but all the experimented people in
> linux
> > > give the beginners criptical commands without explaining too much,
RTFM,
> > > etc.
> >
> > I believe that there are reasons for this.
> >
> > First, what that person may want is a means to get up and running as
> > hasle-free as possible.  Second, explanation of the command may, and
note
> > I use the word may, cause confusion, until the person has read some
docs,
> > which they may be unable to do due to whatever problem it is that has
> > caused them to write to the list.
> >
> > Third, it does not help anyone, least of all the beginner, if they are
> > spoon-fed, as they may then be unable to help themselves if they are
ever
> > stuck without an internet connection, or otherwise unable to call on
> > required assistance.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > --
> > Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk
> > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239
> > ICQ: #61744808
> >    Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> >    See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> >
> >
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