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Yes, this is linked off of slashdot, and I know we were just Vista-bashing last week, but you must read this, for it is utterly horrifying. Having just loaded Mythdora 3.1 the other night on a spare collection of junk parts I slapped together (and man, is MythTV kool BTW) I feel sorry for the regular joe consumer out there that’ll know no better than to buy into the monstrosity that M$ is trying to create, and a little sickened by the prison-bitch ease with which Microshaft has bent over for the content industry.
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I don’t feel fine.

Just.   Say.   NO.

This is where I’d normally put a “Merry Christmas” because the political correctness of “Happy Holidays” rubs me the wrong way, however, the rudepundit has convinced me otherwise. Since the rednecks have laid exclusive claim to “Merry Christmas,” I’m afraid I’m going to have to go with “Ecstatic Yuletide to the planetary constituency, and to that self same assemblage, my sincerest wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasurable period between sunset and dawn.”

Propz to nicfit

If you live along the Front Range and like Linux and/or Libertarianism and have never heard of Denver Post columnist Ed Quillen, then I am here to set things right. As a fan of more than just those two L-words, I’m thinking the whole flat earth needs to know that Ed has sublimely enlightened us yet again.

I’m talking about his column for 11/24/06, We’re in the MyDecade, and here’s a quote to get you to read it:

I know, the modern computer interface has you pointing at icons, rather than typing commands. This is not progress.

Historians say the alphabet was a great improvement on hieroglyphics as a way to communicate, and here we are going backwards.

What I want to know about Vista is, will one of Redmond’s products finally know when a directory is empty when you try to delete it? Why would I not want to move the directory “and all of its contents” to the recycle bin, when I know it’s empty? Are you saying it’s not empty? But I just deleted everything, it should be good to go…?!?! Bad OS, playing dumb about something as important as directory contents, bad bad bad!!