The problem is MS current ad campiagn that pushes windows everywhere. This does not help the hardware bods, they can get stuff free (android) rather than paying MS. This does not help MS with an OS that sucks on anything other than a touch machine. MS is ignoring it;s corp customers, It thinks it can get off with it, and it will for now (one release of the OS) but is now on trial with the corps who are now concered about ms's comitment to them. I work in a SME (the core market for MS) and we are likely to nuke our last MS server and machine when XP support ends. Apple in some places and linux everywhere else. They play well with each other.

Erm, sorry to bust your bubble but MS wants apps they control. MS doesn't want to be open anymore if they can help it.

Erm...ever herd of apt,yum,etc?

What version of linux were you using...LVS or slackware, really you must be one of the few people on the planet that has a problem with linux due to packet management ever herd of a package manager.

Even base debian, hell gentoo, looks after the system intergration side if you use the package manager rather than tar balls.

Work: fedora/centos, totally open source other than the inhouse apps/scripts...That is what drops my percentage the most.

Home: debian and me android phone (used to have a n900 until some git broke in and nicked it, best geek phone ever) which does a few rarely used close source apps.

Not counting inhouse apps I would be about 98% open source.

But I am almost zero on ms except for the one MS server I have to maintain that gets looked at when it falls over at work.

The ISPs don't want to implement this as it will cost them money to run so what they are doing is stymieing it by putting everything that could possibley be non-child friendly on the filtered list. Thus making the net largly usless to the majority of adults, thus getting everyone to opt out and then they can say to the gov, "look we implemented it, infact we went beyond what you asked". As almost everyone opted out they can put most of the kit they had tied up running this to more profitable use.

Do you really think any advanced civ out there hasn't picked up that we are about? We have been broadcasting our existence for a about a century (or more). Anyone looking knows we are here for about 100 light years about. Should we broadcast....we have been for decades. That genie is well and truly out the bottle. Tis too late to worry about it.

Well my English friend, I know your English as no one from any of the other nations of the UK would think the way you are, England as well as Scotland ceased to exist as a state when the act of union was signed. A new state called the United Kingdom was formed, not an enlarged England. Just to make this clear England != United Kingdom. Anyway if your going to take the oldest nation that formed the UK Scotland was the elder nation.

That explains why me and my fellow tramps keep being kicked out of apple stores when we ask them for white lighting or frosty jack.

Fixed!

Where is shrill -1 when you need it.

Intelligent life on earth?!?! Where?

It would have been so much better if the judge had specified comic sans 24 pt.

Funny, in that situation my first though would be to get as wasted as possible (the odds are your dead anyway before long so why in gods name would you not get wasted?)

Meanwhile debian will be on 6.0.6 (though they might still be on 6.0.5).

The head of IT acquisition and the tech head of the civil service quit no long back. Thhe tories have got there mates in. (would provide links but...well hibs lost so am in no state to do so...see el-reg)