I tried your link, and that was impressive. I had no idea how easy it was to take complete control of an OSX system, and thank whatever diety serves your interests that it let me know about the mighty holes in Linux. Now that I know that I will certainly look into switching to something more secure like Win7...too bad though, as it's been almost tens years with Linux. I can't imagine how I got so lucky as to not get botted.

Ok. I just peed myself a bit from laughing so hard. :-)

Google is today's verb for web searching, and Bing just became my verb for blowing smoke up someone's ass.

"Watch and learn, as I Bing this old widow out of her retirement savings"

I have been using Mandriva since the days of Mandrake ... 8.1 specifically ... and frankly each time I have tried switching to any other distro I always find myself coming back. Not that the other distros are bad, but I honestly think Mandriva has the hardware detection down cold, and has been routinely better than any others. When the 'buntu showed up I tried switching, and every iteration had a deal breaker. I stopped trying at the LTS edition. Today the only other distro I use is Zenwalk, not some mainstream hotshot like Suse, fedora or Ubuntu.

I guess I am asking, why is it that such a good, arguably superior, distro seems to have to pull teeth just to get a few scraps of publicity, while some others seem to be living in some sort of reality distortion field?

Ten bucks says josh82 is from Toronto ...

... of course, if he really wants to know what it's like here on the west coast of Canada, just buy everything Michael Moore ever did and imagine everyone you know espousing THAT all day long, and then pour all of your money into the pocket of the nearest political leader. That should give you about the same feeling I get every morning when I wake up ... oh yeah, and don't forget to litter your lawn with junkies and drug dealers for the real west coast experience.

... actually, lacrosse is our national sport ... it's like hockey with more blood and violence.

Canada has some of the most expensive cellular broadband rates in the world ... if not THE most expensive. On top of that, our phones tend towards the antiquated and the under-featured, our networks are old and spotty, and our telcos are masters of creative billing. We are quite lucky in one way though ... we will be getting the G1 sometime this summer. I just hope they don't disable every single feature that makes the Google OS worth having.

In our current backwards situation, it has occured to me many times that RIM was probably created so that the Canadian creator would have a phone that didn't need a spark plug,..

Clearly you do not live in Canada ... now if you will please excuse me, I must get back to winding my cellphone for tomorrow.

So...

Very...

No.

Something grander, eh? Like perhaps they might one day arrive to the functionality of my now obsolete n800, with a marginally functional phone on top. Yeah, that will get my attention.

Openmoko is dead. They had their chance, and due to a lack of leadership they allowed the coders to play games when they should have been making a working software stack. If they had created a reasonably stable phone, with the potential for platform growth after purchase (as they had promised) they would probably be selling their millionth unit sometime this year.

Speaking of a stable phone with the potential for platform growth as the stack matures, does that sound at all familiar to you? Android perhaps? Android essentially IS what Openmoko said they would be.

It's too bad really, because although I like Google they are a huge corporation, and that always get's me a bit nervous. Android will probably be a lot of things in the future, but I hope the next MS it isn't.

First, I was a huge Openmoko booster, so understand this comment comes with a dose of bitterness...

They did not forget Openmoko, they simply didn't bother mentioning a failed project. Has Openemoko actually got the PHONE part of their phone working yet? Or, as has been the problem all along, are they still doing the typical code diva thing of making the most arcane and limited geek functions work flawlessly, to the exclusion of something that might sell a few units to a normal grunt like myself.

For two years I talked of how I would get that phone when it was ready. Now I wait for Android, and screw Openmoko.

If Openmoko wants to get back in the game, call me when the phone works well, and don't forget to sell the 2002 hardware for a fair price ... let's say $75.

I imagine you require a Fine Arts Degree of your house painters? Perhaps you aren't satisfied unless your Big Mac comes with a pedigree? I don't even want to joke about what credentials you might require of a wife ... In other words, if you are such a code snob, what the hell are you doing browsing Slashdot?

Sorry guys, but comments like his are just inane code Diva BS, and the code on this site screws up my n800 something awful. Seemed like a nice fit.

We are Canadians. Our skills consist of talking and bitching ...

If it wasn't for Microsoft, our government would still be keeping our files on clay tablets, and we as common folk would write out our tax returns in pencil every year, to be mailed by Canada Post in just two weeks time.

You can't find skills here because they are as rare as objectivity in the Toronto Star. Our education system makes it impossible to be otherwise.

...or are the Microsoft shills out in full force today?

Earning the BMW payment today, are we boys?

I once tried suggesting to the local LUG the idea of advocating for a Canadian made distro. They were looking for ways to make themselves relevant again after years of waning import. I even gave it a name; Canux.

Never have I seen so many people with so much education work so hard to miss the point.

Remind me again why I should suddenly believe we have the vision and foresight to make this work?