DarkLordoftheMonkeys

I now have exactly 255 forum posts. This is a very special number as it's the maximum value of a string of 8 bits, which is very important in computer terms. I'm planning to stop using this account so it stays at that number, and I will be creating a new account soon.

Neither does Chinese Google. Just try searching "hentai" on either baidu.com or google.cn. I found a whole lot of not-legal-in-China material. And they can't do anything to me because I'm in the US.

I've said a lot of nasty stuff about Micro$oft, mainly because their business practices are immoral, sleazy, and often downright illegal. However, I'm not blinded by hate; I can appreciate some of the people who work for M$, as people, not as employees. My uncle actually works for them, and I respect him.

I actually like Bill Gates, believe it or not. I don't like the company he started, but I like the person who he is. He is generous with his money; a while back he said that if ...

There is a fund called One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) that delivers laptops to children in developing countries. OLPC is funded by several technology companies, including Google, AMD, Intel, and Red Hat. Since the start of the project, OLPC computers have shipped with Linux installed.

Now Micro$oft is "teaming up with" OLPC to "provide a Windows platform for the children" (paraphrase). Now, there are two possibilities for Micro$oft's motives for doing this:
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I don't know why people say Linux is unfriendly and hard to use. I have been using Debian for nine days now and I haven't had any difficulties with it. Want to install software? Just download an RPM file, click on it, and let the package management program do all the work. Want to hook up to a network? Just click on the icon in the top right corner and select the network to connect to (in the GNOME desktop). Everything is intuitive, point-and-drool.

The only time I ever had to ...

I've noticed that whenever I search Ubuntu on Google Images I get pictures of boobies, and whenever I search FreeBSD I get pictures of hot girls in red underwear. I can't help but think these OS's must not have much to show in terms of quality so they feel a need to compensate by making them sexy. Perhaps that's just my Debianist elitism starting to develop.

I just found that I could boot into different desktop environments on Knoppix. All I have to do is hit F2 when Knoppix is loading, which brings up a screen full of options, or "cheat codes", that control how the OS is loaded. One of the options is for the desktop environment. The default desktop for Knoppix is KDE, which is very similar to the Windows interface and pretty crappy. I told it to load GNOME, and now I can change my desktop wallpaper and my screensaver. The interface is ...