Posted 11/08/2007 at 07:27:03pm

Hey folks...it sounds like Microsoft in Nigeria got to somebody, huh? I think its gonna sound like "thunk" in the midnight when they try to make XP Pro work with 256 Megs of RAM...lol, good try! I tried running XP Pro with 512 Megs one time and found it to be utterly s.l.o.w on a 2 Gig processor with L1 & L2 cache...When I added another 512 Megs of RAM, it was like XP Pro had a "sigh of relief...," there was a noticeable improvement in performance. I think you are right, those kids in Nigeria are gonna go out and play "futball," waiting for their screens to refresh. Hello Microsoft! Did you do a deal with the Nigerians? Hello? Microsoft? Hmmm...not a peep outta them guys! What a deal! Anyway, Microsoft knows there are no EU courts of justice in Africa, and so they can continue doing the kinds of things they tried in Europe down there with absolute autonomy...you know what Alfred E. Neuman always said..."what me worry?"

Posted 11/07/2007 at 06:21:16pm

Maximum PC, you have cought them red handed this time. I read in my local paper about how they have nipped users and exterminated BitTorrent... I have also heard about their retaliatory attacks against rude customers who say something to their customer service people that they don't like. This really irked me the most: "Typical users should never notice the MUL, ensuring that the vast amounts of revenue we exact from them remains intact." I am so offended by the remarks made that I am writing to comcast to DEMAND that they fire Alexis Luthoré. Who is this guy? He is obviously a very rich, arrogant and bombastic swaggard. I agree, we need aggressive Federal Level legistlation to bring this greedy b***ard under control. Right now with regular cable and internet service I amy paying a whopping $133 bucks a month. I think Alexis Luthore probably belongs to the "rich and exclusive" club that George Bush and his pals also do. How many politicians do you think COMCAST has bribed in Washington?????

Posted 07/04/2007 at 02:18:31pm

I say "poo poo" to Microsoft and Balmer. The problem with Balmer is that he is bald and that seems to get to him as Microsoft's iconoclastic and bombastic fuhrer du jour. I am a long time user of Linux (SuSE, Mandrake/Mandriva/RedHat/Fedora). I have had a dual boot Windows/Linux system for years now and I use both O/S's. Microsoft is ranting simply because Balmer feels a tiny pocketbook pinch in his bottom line. So what do they do, they get out the lawyers (who fought off the EU, the Federal Govt and several other Corporations over the years), and decided to bully and intimidate Linux and Linux users. I, for one, don't give a hoot what Balmer or Microsoft says or asserts. It's a lot of huffing and puffing over a non-issue. If Microsoft wants to intimidate, they had better be willing to face 10's of thousands of Linux users, who, as a collective group can sue Microsoft's pants off in a class action suit. Further, Liinux users can rouse the IRE of the EU by forcing Microsoft back into court over non-competitive tactics. Oh yes, there are a lot of legal ways to deal with Microsoft's anti-trust issues which are both chronic and real. I think its time, for Linux users to stand up and say, we've had enough of Windoz, either get back into your own arena Microsoft, or get bulldozed. Just because Microsoft funded the last Republican election, doesn't give Balmer the same rights to ignore the law that George Bush does.

Posted 07/04/2007 at 01:58:33pm

Ya forgot to tell people where and how to get the GIMP for Windows and Linux: For Windows: http://www.wingimp.org/ Also, if you are running Linux, it usually comes as part of the distro, but if it doesn't, you can get the latest Linux version at: http://www.gimp.org/ Notice one is WINGIMP and the other is GIMP.