{"id":9,"date":"2005-01-17T20:47:14","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T19:47:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-08-08T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T18:37:07","slug":"oh-ha-ha-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Ha Ha Ha."},"content":{"rendered":"

So Scoble linked to some guy’s website which contains a hilarious (oh,
\nmy aching sides) flash animation entitled How to Turn Your Windows
\nDesktop into Linux<\/a>. Besides the obvious point of why anyone would use
\nflash to put up a page that’s mostly text with a couple of pictures,
\nbandwidth anyone?; this irritated the hell out of me because it
\nillustrates a trait all too common amongst computer users of all
\nstripes. Because they don’t understand another platform that platform
\nis Bad.<\/p>\n


\nI feel I’m in a prety good position to hold forth on this subject as a
\nregular user of Windows, Linux, OS\/X and Solaris. So I’m going to
\ngo through this idiot list and tell you what I think about it.<\/p>\n

1) Remove all file extensions<\/strong><\/p>\n

I already want to kill this guy because of the fucking audio on
\nthis flash animation. Websites with sound are right up
\nthere with the <BLINK> tag as things which should be capital
\ncrimes. Anyway I digress. The main point here is that many versions of
\nwindows are so retarded that they can’t work out what a file contains
\nif that information isn’t encoded into the filename. At his point
\nyou have a situation where you have forced your users to remeber a
\nuseles set of extensions like .doc,.txt,.htm, which noone in there
\nright mind would expect normal people to do. To get around this the
\ndefault behaviour of explorer is to drop the file extensions. So
\nyou now have the situation where users can be presented with either “My
\nLetter” or “My Letter.doc” in different situations. This can lead to
\nunderstandable confusion. Needless to say, sensible operating systems
\ndon’t behave this way.<\/p>\n

2) Export the Registry into 56,000 text files<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether to centralise all your configs or to have a file per
\napllication approach is a question with merits to both
\napproaches. Centralising the linux configs is something that comes up
\non development mailing lists from time to time , but so far no-one has
\ncome up with a design that everyone likes. However, if you
\nare going to go with the centralised approach don’t use a honking great
\nbinary file. Why?, you ask. Well if you’ve got to repair a hosed system
\nwould you prefer the vital system configurations to be installed in
\ntext files that are easy to repair with command-line tools or in a
\nwhacking great binary file whose inner workings are only understood by
\ntwo guys at microsoft?<\/p>\n

3-4) Scatter files around the hardrive and give them short meaningless names. Make sure some begin with . and end in d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, grow up. Read the File Heirarchy Standard<\/a>.
\nThat’s right there are standard places to put things on a linux box.
\nAnd the great thing is once you’ve understood how it works on a linux
\nbox you are in pretty good shape when you move to any other UNIX. Plus
\nthe whole thing with short commands, e.g. cp not copy, is when you
\nspend your whole day typing stuff into consoles the fewer letters the
\nbetter. Just because you don’t know what it means doesn’t make it
\nmeaningless.<\/p>\n

5) Downgrade to Windows 3.11 for those boxy windows<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m at a loss for what to say to that. I can only assume that this
\nguy hasn’t actually used a linux box in in the last five years. GNOME<\/a>, KDE<\/a>, ’nuff said.<\/p>\n

6) Type all in lower case, pretending that your filesystem is case sensitive<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is he actually claiming that a case insensitive file system is a
\ngood thing? The mind boggles. At this point I’m beggining to wonder if
\nthis is actually a brilliant caricature of a foaming at the mouth
\nwindows fanboy. Other evidence<\/a> leads me to believe that this is not the case.<\/p>\n

8) Uninstall all your printer drivers. Use only “Generic Printer”<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK, this approaches being reasonable. Printing can be a bit of a
\npain under linux. If you are lucky it’ll just work, but if not you are
\nin for some pain. In defense of linux this is mostly due to
\nmanufacturers not releasing linux drivers or enough information for
\nother people to write them.<\/p>\n

9-11) Random digs at Linux users<\/strong><\/p>\n

I shall not dignify any of this with commentary. If you are wondering where 7 went I covered it in 3-4.<\/p>\n

12) Don’t forget the $ in Micro$oft<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah this annoys anyone with more than two brain-cells to rub together.
\nUnfortunatley for our flash-boy he’s just as much a retarded zealot as
\nthey are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Scoble linked to some guy’s website which contains a hilarious (oh, my aching sides) flash animation entitled How to Turn Your Windows Desktop into Linux. Besides the obvious point of why anyone would use flash to put up a page that’s mostly text with a couple of pictures, bandwidth anyone?; this irritated the hell … Continue reading Oh, Ha Ha Ha.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}