Re: Microsoft extends XP Home 2 years—for budget laptops only

[Moshe Goldfarb]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:52:01 -0600, High Plains Thumper wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>> chrisv wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not too surprising. Visduh sure isn't suitable for small devices...
>>>
>>> ... and large devices also.
>>>
>>> http://www.gamespot.com/users/macrules_640/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25371189
>>>
>>>

>>> Another reason to hate Windows Vista

>>
>> Why <SNIP>

>
> Really sad that you have nothing better to say, putting words in people's
> mouths they never said. But then, I would expect nothing less from a
> winboi like you.

Well let's take a look at COLA and see what's going on, shall we?

Why so many anti-Microsoft posts?

Why all the discussion of what Windows /Microsoft cannot, won't, will not
do instead of what Linux CAN do?

Hmmm?

This is supposed to be a Linux advocacy group but by just reading the posts
you would never know it.

So you tell me HPT, what are you Linux freaks so afraid of?

If Linux is as good as you claim, why such a low market share for desktops?

Why can't Walmart sell Linux machines?

Why does it take Munich 7 years to upgrade a couple of thousand Linux
machines?

Why do school districts that moved to Linux decide to move back to Windows?

Why does Asus decide to sell a Windows Eee PC if the Linux one is so great?

Why are people who bought the Linux Eee PC removing Linux and installing
Windows?

Well?


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[Matt]

Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> Why do school districts that moved to Linux decide to move back to Windows?

Please name one that did that.

 

[HeyBub]

Matt wrote:
> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
>> Why do school districts that moved to Linux decide to move back to
>> Windows?
>
> Please name one that did that.

The Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School near Melbourne. And there may be
others!

Are you satisfited?

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16721/1090/

 

[Moshe Goldfarb]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 07:47:07 -0500, HeyBub wrote:

> Matt wrote:
>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>>> Why do school districts that moved to Linux decide to move back to
>>> Windows?
>>
>> Please name one that did that.
>
> The Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School near Melbourne. And there may be
> others!
>
> Are you satisfited?
>
> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16721/1090/

You beat me to it.


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[Matt]

HeyBub wrote:
> Matt wrote:
>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>>> Why do school districts that moved to Linux decide to move back to
>>> Windows?
>> Please name one that did that.
>
> The Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School near Melbourne.

Glad you mentioned it.

That is one school---not a school district. 350 desktops.

As an exercise, compare it to the hundreds of thousands of students
still using Linux in:

Macedonian schools
Indiana schools
Schools in the Extremadura region of Spain
Russian Schools
Philippine High Schools
12,500 high schools in Kerala, India

Go ahead---google.

That doesn't include other hundreds of thousands of students that are
taking up Linux on the XO/OLPC computer.

> And there may be
> others!

May be ...you seem excited!

But you won't find that another _school_, much less even one school
_district_ has switched from Linux back to Windows.

> Are you satisfited?
>

Are you?

> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16721/1090/

I expect they'll be back in a few years ...

 

[Matt]

Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 07:47:07 -0500, HeyBub wrote:
>
>> Matt wrote:
>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why do school districts that moved to Linux decide to move back to
>>>> Windows?
>>> Please name one that did that.
>> The Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School near Melbourne. And there may be
>> others!
>>
>> Are you satisfited?
>>
>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16721/1090/
>
> You beat me to it.

He beat you to being _wrong_.

That is one school---not a school district. 350 desktops.

As an exercise, compare it to the hundreds of thousands of students
still using Linux in:

Macedonian schools
Indiana schools
Schools in the Extremadura region of Spain
Russian Schools
Philippine High Schools
12,500 high schools in Kerala, India

Go ahead---google.

That doesn't include other hundreds of thousands of students that are
taking up Linux on the XO/OLPC computer.

 

[Hadron]

Re: Microsoft extends XP Home 2 years—forbudget laptops only

Matt <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> writes:

> HeyBub wrote:
>> Matt wrote:
>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why do school districts that moved to Linux decide to move back to
>>>> Windows?
>>> Please name one that did that.
>>
>> The Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School near Melbourne.
>
> Glad you mentioned it.
>
> That is one school---not a school district. 350 desktops.
>
> As an exercise, compare it to the hundreds of thousands of students
> still using Linux in:
>
> Macedonian schools
> Indiana schools
> Schools in the Extremadura region of Spain
> Russian Schools
> Philippine High Schools
> 12,500 high schools in Kerala, India
>
> Go ahead---google.
>
> That doesn't include other hundreds of thousands of students that are
> taking up Linux on the XO/OLPC computer.
>
>> And there may be others!
>
> May be ...you seem excited!
>
> But you won't find that another _school_, much less even one school
> _district_ has switched from Linux back to Windows.

You seem very sure.

 

[Matt]

Hadron wrote:
> Matt <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> writes:
>
>> HeyBub wrote:
>>> Matt wrote:
>>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Why do school districts that moved to Linux decide to move back to
>>>>> Windows?
>>>> Please name one that did that.
>>> The Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School near Melbourne.
>> Glad you mentioned it.
>>
>> That is one school---not a school district. 350 desktops.
>>
>> As an exercise, compare it to the hundreds of thousands of students
>> still using Linux in:
>>
>> Macedonian schools
>> Indiana schools
>> Schools in the Extremadura region of Spain
>> Russian Schools
>> Philippine High Schools
>> 12,500 high schools in Kerala, India
>>
>> Go ahead---google.
>>
>> That doesn't include other hundreds of thousands of students that are
>> taking up Linux on the XO/OLPC computer.
>>
>>> And there may be others!
>> May be ...you seem excited!
>>
>> But you won't find that another _school_, much less even one school
>> _district_ has switched from Linux back to Windows.
>
> You seem very sure.

I propose these conditions to ensure significance:

* school or school district
* ran Linux on 80% of its desktops for more than a year
* total desktops at least 100.
* other than the Strathcona Baptist school already counted

The conditions are far weaker than required to support Goldfarb's claim,
but I'm sure we'd all like to know about related phenomena. If you find
anything, though, I'm likely to mention another condition:

* school receives no discount from MS compared to other schools

 

[Dr.Hal0nf1r£$]

Re: Microsoft extends XP Home 2 years¡Xfor budget laptops only

Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:10:53 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>
>> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:17:54 -0700, NoStop wrote:
>>>
>>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:52:01 -0600, High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>>>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>>>>>> chrisv wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Not too surprising. Visduh sure isn't suitable for small
>>>>>>>>> devices...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ... and large devices also.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>> http://www.gamespot.com/users/macrules_640/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25371189
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>> Another reason to hate Windows Vista
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why <SNIP>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Really sad that you have nothing better to say, putting words in
>>>>>> people's mouths they never said. But then, I would expect
>>>>>> nothing less from a winboi like you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well let's take a look at COLA and see what's going on, shall we?
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, let's do that Mr. Soap Dish.
>>>>
>>>>> Why so many anti-Microsoft posts?
>>>>>
>>>> Because most sensible computer users who've been around hate
>>>> Microsoft.

>>
>> NoStop must be one of the most ignorant and hateful posters in the
>> history of COLA. So clueless his rants make me blush with
>> embarrassment
>> for him.

>
> That's probably how he got his nym.
> Throughout his life people kept telling him "No, stop. 'Please stop'.
>

....Which makes me wonder how Had-ron got his nym?

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[Hadron]

Re: Microsoft extends XP Home 2 years¡Xfor budgetlaptops only

"Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> writes:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:10:53 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>>
>>> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:17:54 -0700, NoStop wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:52:01 -0600, High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>>>>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>>>>>>> chrisv wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Not too surprising. Visduh sure isn't suitable for small
>>>>>>>>>> devices...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ... and large devices also.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.gamespot.com/users/macrules_640/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25371189
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>> Another reason to hate Windows Vista
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Why <SNIP>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Really sad that you have nothing better to say, putting words in
>>>>>>> people's mouths they never said. But then, I would expect
>>>>>>> nothing less from a winboi like you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well let's take a look at COLA and see what's going on, shall we?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, let's do that Mr. Soap Dish.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Why so many anti-Microsoft posts?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Because most sensible computer users who've been around hate
>>>>> Microsoft.
>>>
>>> NoStop must be one of the most ignorant and hateful posters in the
>>> history of COLA. So clueless his rants make me blush with
>>> embarrassment
>>> for him.

>>
>> That's probably how he got his nym.
>> Throughout his life people kept telling him "No, stop. 'Please stop'.
>>

>
> ...Which makes me wonder how Had-ron got his nym?

"Hardon" is better. But don't tell Marti or Lipstick Vampire.

It rhymes with my first and last names actually. That and the fact that
I was a serious physics student at one time.

 

[caver1]

Re: Microsoft extends XP Home 2 years¡Xfor budget laptops only

Hadron wrote:
> "Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> writes:
>
>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:10:53 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>>>
>>>> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:17:54 -0700, NoStop wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:52:01 -0600, High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>>>>>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> chrisv wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Not too surprising. Visduh sure isn't suitable for small
>>>>>>>>>>> devices...
>>>>>>>>>> ... and large devices also.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.gamespot.com/users/macrules_640/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25371189
>>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>> Another reason to hate Windows Vista
>>>>>>>>> Why <SNIP>
>>>>>>>> Really sad that you have nothing better to say, putting words in
>>>>>>>> people's mouths they never said. But then, I would expect
>>>>>>>> nothing less from a winboi like you.
>>>>>>> Well let's take a look at COLA and see what's going on, shall we?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, let's do that Mr. Soap Dish.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why so many anti-Microsoft posts?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Because most sensible computer users who've been around hate
>>>>>> Microsoft.
>>>> NoStop must be one of the most ignorant and hateful posters in the
>>>> history of COLA. So clueless his rants make me blush with
>>>> embarrassment
>>>> for him.
>>> That's probably how he got his nym.
>>> Throughout his life people kept telling him "No, stop. 'Please stop'.
>>>

>> ...Which makes me wonder how Had-ron got his nym?

>
> "Hardon" is better. But don't tell Marti or Lipstick Vampire.
>
> It rhymes with my first and last names actually. That and the fact that
> I was a serious physics student at one time.

I was wondering if you took it from the collider.
caver1

 

[Dr.Hal0nf1r£$]

Re: Microsoft extends XP Home 2 years¡Xfor budget laptops only

Hadron wrote:
> "Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> writes:
>
>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:10:53 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>>>
>>>> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:17:54 -0700, NoStop wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:52:01 -0600, High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>>>>>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> chrisv wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Not too surprising. Visduh sure isn't suitable for small
>>>>>>>>>>> devices...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> ... and large devices also.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.gamespot.com/users/macrules_640/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25371189
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>> Another reason to hate Windows Vista
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Why <SNIP>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Really sad that you have nothing better to say, putting words
>>>>>>>> in people's mouths they never said. But then, I would expect
>>>>>>>> nothing less from a winboi like you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well let's take a look at COLA and see what's going on, shall
>>>>>>> we?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, let's do that Mr. Soap Dish.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why so many anti-Microsoft posts?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Because most sensible computer users who've been around hate
>>>>>> Microsoft.
>>>>
>>>> NoStop must be one of the most ignorant and hateful posters in the
>>>> history of COLA. So clueless his rants make me blush with
>>>> embarrassment
>>>> for him.
>>>
>>> That's probably how he got his nym.
>>> Throughout his life people kept telling him "No, stop. 'Please
>>> stop'.
>>>

>>
>> ...Which makes me wonder how Had-ron got his nym?

>
> "Hardon" is better. But don't tell Marti or Lipstick Vampire.
>
> It rhymes with my first and last names actually.

Tardon Pardon?

Garden Warden?

> That and the fact
> that I was a serious physics student at one time.

'Just working out something to rhyme with massive vector bosun.

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