It is what it is.

A couple years ago I started planning out an interface for my own social site, using it to learn HTML5. After a month of notes, I decided that I didn't have a lot of spare time to flesh it out and it went on the back burner.

"Why HTML5?" you may be asking. Well, I tend to write my HTML pages by hand. I get curious sometimes to see how a page does certain things, so I look at the source (when possible). My CDO kicks in when I see obfuscated HTML. It's even worse when the source opens with META headers indicating the page was generated by a Microsoft product. :\ At any rate, I figured it's high-time I updated what I know.

I heard rumors that G+ was headed that way, but I haven't seen anything to support it. I haven't used it as much as I thought I would, so I wouldn't be surprised.

Facebook is getting on my nerves-- FB staff seem hell-bent on making it near impossible to keep on top of any security-related issues. Every time I set things the way I want it, they decide that it's time to shake things up and I'm back to figuring out what they changed and what (if anything) I have to do to prevent unwanted eyes from seeing it.

Diaspora... Well... I HOPED it would replace Facebook, but it didn't. Every time I logged-in I was accosted by dozens of images (mobile GIFs or something) from people that have one or more "similar interests", most of whom I couldn't communicate if I wanted to, simply because I don't speak their language. :\ I tried setting up my own node, but that didn't go as well as I had hoped.

So... I'm back here. We'll see how it goes. :)

I don't use SuSE, either. I wasn't happy with the way that Novell bought DR-DOS and basically laid there like a dead fish.

I've been planning to avoid MS Win8 from the beginning. If I wanted a tablet, i'd have one by now. If I have new hardware, I'll put the OS I want on it, and if I can't then I won't buy it. It's that simple.

This whole thing makes me pissed at RH/Fedora because they're effectively letting MS think they can turn this into a "win/win" situation: MS either makes money selling half-assed operating systems that hardware is locked into using or MS makes money by licensing access to that hardware.

Screw them, screw the hardware.

I think it sets a really bad precedence, to be perfectly honest, and I don't like it a bit.

As for the beer, don't lose sleep over it: I don't drink.

I've been a fan of Red Hat/Fedora since... well, just after they started providing a distro on the Intel platform (some of us remember when Red Hat was only available for the DEC Alpha)...

I think it's time to consider a new distro, if this is how they want to work. I've been putting off looking at Mint, but I guess that will change soon.

There. FTFY.

That's mine. This is what i get when I try a new browser and forget to log in before posting. :D

Pretty much, yeah.

I pop over to see what's going on the front page once in a while, but only when I want to see what's going on on FM (FreeCode now?)... Slashdot cross-posting to Facebook pretty-much sealed that vat shut, I think. <shrug>

I was going to comment to this article and say pretty-much what you just did.

It's one thing to be confident in what you do. That's fine. It's quite another thing to be cocky to a fault, and that's where Christoforo is.

If you think about it, we all have "bad days", but we don't have that many. Christoforo still isn't fully convinced that he did anything wrong, and that's where his problem lies. He has to realize that people need to be handled with respect, even if they are in the wrong. There is no justification for berating anyone, no matter what connections either side may have. From what I've read of the email thread, I think Christoforo was in the wrong from early on. Instead of realizing his mistake and addressing the real problem (timing of delivery of a product that was already paid for), he let his ego get in the way and it only made matters worse.

Instead of issuing an apology and learning a lesson, he still seems belligerent over the matter. He has a lot of growing up to do.

OS limitations.

I think the closest we have seen in the 20+ years I've been using and playing with computers is when certain Linux distributions were released to overlay MS Windows. Windows didn't like it much and there was some tinkering to be done to account for that, but it was doable then. Why it hasn't persisted into something more mainstream could be due to Corporate Greed, where companies like Microsoft want their OS to dominate uber alles...

tl;dr: Can it be done? Yes. Has it been done? Yes. Do all OSs like it? No.

I've sent an invite for you. Let me know if you have any problems with it. :)