Sounds like he should have cut the supervisors nuts off and shoved them in his mouth as payback.

Just sayin'....

I'm still waiting for linux developers to unify their GUI and various other apps. Development is crippled by people splintering off to develop the same applications with slightly different/competing feature sets that never really accomplish 100% of what needs to be done. I've been a linux user for years and will continue to use it in critical and non-critical positions, but it is absolutely frustrating when I try to do something as simple as provide music over the network to handheld devices or my stereo and it proves difficult - switching from one media application to another and back and forth. Don't get me wrong, I love the open source community and I try my best to contribute when I can. But the splintered development effort always leaves Ubuntu/Fedora/SuSE/et al feeling a bit under/broken-featured. I'm not saying OSX or WinX is any better, because they aren't - but I can say in all certainty that Windows has a lot more solid apps around for it. Take two examples - EAC & DVDShrink. Both very basic applications with no functional equivalents in any linux distro (don't even kid yourself - the current k9copy is totally broken when it comes to saving DVDs straight to ISO - won't even touch it) and the GUI frontends for ripping CDs (ruby ripper) fall short of EAC functionality, when in reality it really should be the other way around considering it's linux. Thankfully, there is wine.

Please quote the test where I stated linux was 'broken'. You can't, because I didn't and you know your response was complete bullshit. I've only been playing with linux for 5 years or so, so no, I'm not an expert. But I don't use a GUI, either (unless I'm using an Ubuntu install or SuSE)

My point being I was able to find a solution to my windows problem far, far easier than I was able to find a solution (which I never found, BTW) to my Linux problem. If I have to *dig* to find my Windows solution, I can guarantee that grandma won't be able to do it. And if I can't find a solution to my linux issue, then that same user won't be able to get far with linux. Am I saying linux is broken? Nope. I'm saying that it is not as user friendly as Windows. At least with Windows, you can do simple Google searches to find resolutions to *most* problems. And they work. For example, try to find a reasonable solution to getting Atheros wireless cards to work properly with WPA or WPA2 support in Ubuntu 6.10 (Desktop) or 7.04. Never could do it, and I wasn't about to try the ndiswrapper runaround.

And using a copy of an OS which is almost 7 years old now is probably a bad idea. Best to install with XP SP2 if you're not installing with Vista.