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Name: Gino
Birthday: 6/10/1988
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Interests: I like a lot of stuff, I like to put on plays every once in a while, I like Making friends, I like breaking EvErY rUlE oN CaPitAliZatIOn AnD SpelLinG when i write (In passive voice when it sounds more natural), I love Distracting theme readers with my natural familiar writing style so they don't cringe over my essay as it breaks all of their rules doing it, I like doing anything and everything on the computer, I love watching anything thrilling, though provoking, or freaking hilarious! I LOVE READING!!!!!!!, I read anything that makes my brain boil with thought and/or my heart twist with emotions and realizations. I love a good story, I tell stories all the time. I Love learning complex things. Latin is the ultimate supreme language and everyone should learn it and speak it. AMO LINGUAM LATINAM OPTIME!!!! I love talking to people and interacting with them, I love getting them to open up to me and then open up to them and just.... Build relationship with them. (odd coming from a guy but
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| So I'm about to go to bed... and I got a call on my cell phone... the caller ID said Justin but it was Jared on the phone.... which I knew was probably something to do with not being here for a few weeks... instead he wanted to know if I got a genital peircing.... ? so ya... I'm totally just "WHAT?!?!?! WHO TOLD YOU THAT!!!" and he had me on speaker the whole time.... and he then accused me of lying about it. and he brought up how someone told him that and a bunch of other stuff. So uhhh ya... I have no idea what posessed him to do that but I want to make something clear... not even considering whether I did or didn't, no one has the right to do that to anyone. ever! Does everyone talk about me behind my back like that? like.... seriously... I don't even know what to say about this. whether I did or not is irregardless, it's private. it's not something that anyone should care or speak about. That was incredibly cruel what you did Jared. I hope you know that... and you had no business saying anything about it... or putting me on speaker for the whole thirst retreat to hear while you interrogate me about something that isn't even your business. You should have more respect for people than that.
...... I forgive you... but what you did was very toxic... and I can't be around that. I refuse to put myself in a toxic environment... but don't be confused.... that's not a reason for my unavailability at youth group. instead my reasons are more scheduling than anything else.... I'm sick of my job at kohls.... and I found greener (try ultmately bright green) pastures at Best Buy. I will now be working in the PC sales dept. so ya... that's what's going on everyone. Rumors and gossip shouldn't be going on but it appearantly is and it needs to stop because it's going to destroy this family of God if it continues.
Best Regards
Gino
P.S. on a more positive (and yet bitter) note, I've also been offered the senior position in the PC sales dept at best buy which I've accepted... meaning that coming to youth group and church may be hard if not impossible.... and so the worship team will have to manage without their current bass player. sorry guys :( | | |
| Not that anyone will really read this, but I am sick of your software. Windows Vista is a piece of crap. You make Solaris look good (and that's saying something). Why does your software suck? Let's take a look.
I got Windows Vista with my computer where I was forced to agree to a slavishly restrictive EULA basically saying that Copyright laws are a piece of crap that doesn't protect my rights at all and that I'm completely subject to your whim. I do not own my software, I'm licensing it from your company.
Your operating system's security is a joke. In Linux and Mac, if you want to use an administrative program, you must put in an administrative password to do it... but here's the innovative part... you can still work on everything else until you feel like addressing the dialog box asking for your password. I can respond to IM's, continue surfing the web, writing a paper, etc, and it actually works. For any given action, Vista asks not once, not twice, but up to three times for your permission to initiate an action you told it to do. and forces the user to respond to each request before performing any other action with their computer. Your Operating System is Bloated, slow, and a general pain in the butt to use.
In terms of Vista's security, you have failed again. Any hacker worth their weight in straw can hack your operating system. Furthermore it is designed to oppress it's users and does a fantastic job of doing it. Worse still, It works against it's honest users who pay for their software and then lets the hackers who steal it for free pass through it like it has no walls (not that any hacker worth their weight in straw would want to use your operating system). You've violated the spirit in which the "open letter to hobbyists" was written and it's a disgrace.
After accepting the short interlude with Vista before I sell this laptop and switch to Macintosh, I wanted to muck around with DirectX again and so was required to download an SDK.... that was over 400 MB in size! once this behemoth of bloatware was downloaded on my computer, it refused to load the installer upon execution. After (yet another) overly restrictive license a dialog with a progress bar came up loading up to three notches before restarting the status bar repeatedly never getting anywhere. I attempted to download the SDK from the year before and it performed the same behavior.
Speaking of programming, I sought to learn MFC programming and I swear the archetect was on crack or was a narcissistic jerk-off who hates programmers. MFC is bloated, it's nearly impossible to learn on one's own, even in a classroom setting it is a pain in the butt... and .NET is not much better. I attempted to learn C# and .NET and nothing worked. worse, there was no tutorial or documentation which was of any real assistance to my efforts to learn on my own.
I am very dissatisfied with your software, with your business practices, and with you as a company.. and I'm not the only one. may it be known that I will be boycotting your software and spending warily on mac software (wouldn't want you to get some money from me through secondary sources). I will encourage friends and family to abandon your software as well as to use free open source software or Macintosh software in it's stead. Linux is 100 times better than your Operating System. It even has cool 3D effects that put vista to shame! You are obsolete and our seller/customer relationship as of this moment is over!
Regards
Gino Francis Vincenzini | | |
| This article is in response to another article on Linux Today: http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-11-30-020-26-OP-CY-SW
He's right in a lot of ways. He's right about bashing distros like Red hat for having a crappy package manager, or using gnome, or ubuntu for using gnome and borking the debian packages so that ubuntu debs won't install on debian, or ubuntu including with the distro non-free drivers... Or debian even, My favorite distro ever for being not for the faint at heart, having a severe lack of admin tools, or for sometimes screwing up the packages a bit (only happens when you try to mix releases like unstable and testing or testing and stable... I could go on forever about the things that distros and the various programs in them "get wrong" but in the end, any distro can theoretically be made to look like another. Still, I believe that some things need to change before Linux will beat out windows and it's far more than just "creating gui admin tools" I'm a Qt Developer so I'm biased but personally, this is my humble opinion on what should happen to Linux and it’s various distros to overtake Windows:
Vendor Preloading: Linux is better than windows in a lot of ways... but Linux will never become more popular if more people don't use it. People use windows for the opposite reason they use mac... because they don't know that anything better and comparable exists. they don't know this because no matter where they Go to buy a new computer what do people see? " Recommends Microsoft Windows Vista " no one sees "for the tasks you wish to do, recommends Linux based on Kernel ".
Availability of Software: whether we like it or not, People don't want to write free (as in beer) software if they're a company like Adobe, or Apple, or Cyan, or any number of PC game manufacturers. maybe they can be convinced to write "Free" software (as in freedom) but no company is gonna write a game for free and post it in the Debian package repo, or the latest version of "Mandrake Linux" (garsh darnit, "Bioshock" was fun too!). All kidding aside, We need to create a system for Linux so that vendors can create software CD's and we load them onto our linux systems, and bang, up pops the install screen. For any given distro, we need a way to make this cooperate with the package manager and we need it included with every distro regardless of package manager, whether source, rpm, or deb, or even the rare gentoo packages. which speaking of outside vendor software...
Consistent SDK's: ok, I'm not gonna bash any of the competing tool kits out there. MS has one toolkit for every purpose. We have two tool kits out there for creating Gui apps (GTK and Qt). SDL is a very promising API for Games but it's no where near as mature and useful as DirectX 10 (I am not a windows fan, but I've seen DX10, and it's very well put together and well thought out) and then there's also OpenGL and a bunch of other tool kits for a myriad of purposes... this is great to have all the diversity, but this diversity forces the developer to make a choice... Qt? or GTK?... OpenGL? or SDL?... ALSA? or OSS? or Jack?... do you see the problem? and then the big problem is when you want to do one thing in one library that only the other can do, and so you wind up using both Alsa and Oss, or both gtk and opengl.. can't catagorically say I've had to resort to GTK for anything in Qt... and no GTK dev will admit the converse if they even had to. but the point is that we need one library for each purpose to rule them all. which library should rule is not my place. and no one library can satisfy all requirements so perhaps merging would be a better idea?
GUI Expert Tools: Gnome has a real problem with this... historically, I don't really care if you're a GNOME lover or not, GNOME is a pain in the butt to configure and unless you have the tools to configure the admin stuff, both Desktops suffer. for example, I have to edit config files to configure the X server, change the details of KDE, or a myriad of other programs among other admin tasks (editing lilo or grub, etc) despite the fact that I use the more admin friendly KDE for these tasks. this is kinda silly considering that I can compile the Kernel in a gui, but I can't configure x server or grub in a gui. if you're a KDE Developer and you read this, your programming skills would be great for creating more KControlCenter Modules that handle these issues. I'd advise GNOME devs to follow the idea in GNOME but it's kind of moot when the whole point of GNOME is to "Treat the User Like an Idiot" (I'm biased though so don't take my opinions out on me, last thing I came here to do was start a flame war).
Graphics systems: When was the last time you saw a decent video editor for Linux? Lives, Cinnerella and a bunch of others exist... but as a Linux user, these are less than stellar. The problem isn't the programs themselves, it's that, of no fault to the Linux kernel or it's developers, more to the fault of hardware vendors not releasing the drivers, the graphics system for Linux and the API's that surround it... suck! SDL is promising, but it's still a long way from mature enough to compete with DirectX 10, or Cocao (either it's Cocao or Carbon, I don't remember which one is the High performance Graphics system for Mac OS X). Thankfully ATI has just opened it's Graphics Drivers which opens all sorts of wonderful doors to create a full featured graphics system for the Kernel (Imagine buying a computer and installing Linux and boom, your comuputer is prettier than any of the competitors). If we can write a great system with those drivers, maybe NVIDIA will open their drivers to compete with ATI? The the kernel would be able to do things that it historically was unable to do without proprietary drivers. In the end, We still need a Good well written and easy to program with API for High speed and High performance Graphics.
Kernel Based Boot and Shutdown Splash Screens: Personally I think the Linux kernel needs a built in, but customizable splash screen system... It's a pain in the butt to configure this in debian, a lot of the other distros just come with it, personally I think however that the Kernel should come with it built in. This isn't really a necessity but I'm really sick and tired of telling my friends how great debian linux is or a custom distro which I'm still working on based on a built kernel and the first thing that comes up after the ncurses bootloader is a myriad of kernel messages, it's just ugly! and the current methods for adding splash support to the kernel is to hack it up (patch the kernel? Why isn’t it built in?). but I digress, my point is made, every distro except debian and gentoo natively uses a splash screen, so why doesn’t the kernel just include it?
panic(char *message): This wonderful function causes the computer to freeze and output whatever’s in “message” to the dmesg. What if you’re using KDE? Or GNOME? How do you find out the error…. Someone wrote a crash dump system but it’s not currently included in the kernel to my knowledge. In OS X, when the kernel panics (yes, I’ve seen it happen) a nice somewhat pretty screen comes up with a semi-transparent message box saying that the Kernel has panicked and needs to restart while the dmesg is in the background on a pretty graphical screen. Linux if you freeze from the gui… you’re screwed! Which means that a person has to go into the vterminal 1 and either it will do it automatically or running the command “cat /proc/kmsg” they have to watch dmesg waiting for the kernel to panic…. As a normal user, I don’t have time for this! I need to know now why my kernel panicked and what to do about it! And better yet would be a logfile that could write a message to the file. The kernel needs to be smart enough to function enough to at least leave some reason for dying… it needs to breathe it’s last breath not just abruptly die. Perhaps I’m wrong about the circumstances and people will be saying “Uh, it’s not that simple….” But really, if the computer can function enough to “panic” then why is it too malfunctional to display the message manually or placing the data in a file? Why does it have to mysteriously panic and can’t give a reason except by the vterminal?
Peripheral support and Laptop support: When I was given my laptop by my parents, the first thing I did to the unconfirmed copy of Windows Vista Home Premium was Overwrite it with Kubuntu. (Debian didn’t work at first for a reason I don’t understand). Once I installed Kubuntu, I noticed that my wireless didn’t work, my Bluetooth didn’t work, all the special keys on the keyboard except the brightness and a few accessory keys didn’t work. I still don’t know if the SD card slot works, etc. on my desktop, I added a keyboard, USB, which had a few special keys… they didn’t work. A few of the keys on my laptop are working now thanks to Key touch… but still, why are some of the keys indetectable, even by that event viewer for X.
One format to rule them All!: ODF…. RIP… ok, ODF was the brainchild of the open source movement in terms of office document formats. ODF was a Holy Grail of sorts and we let it die…. Why? It was one of our biggest assets, OpenOffice.org used the ODF to create documents but now this ISO Standard format is dead. Linux might as well not have an office program anymore! One of the things we promised to people in convincing them to adopt this format is that their documents would always be readable with an open format, but now that the format is dead, those documents have to be converted! We’ve failed in delivering on our promise. That needs to change, and ODF needs to be resurrected!
This is a long list but still it’s too short. I’m not a mac fan or a windows fan… but these operating systems, don’t have the problems listed above (mac has historically been terrible to administrate, and windows has historically been terrible period) but Linux just fails where these other OS’s Succeed, to win out, Linux needs to be better than the other two in areas they’re weak and just as good if not better than the others in areas where they do well. I know I kind of trailed off on the distro question, but really this concerns every distro, and these things need to be the focus on our distro question. Not which distro is better, but which distro is better at implementing X feature, Mandriva and Red hat are wonderful at implementing the GUI admin tools, but their package manager sucks and Red Hat is GNOME Based. Mandriva and SuSE are KDE based and have a well put together Admin and package system, but SuSE is surrounded by the Novell controversy, and it’s costly unless you get openSuSE, same for Mandriva and they both use non-free software. Ubuntu’s idea is great but it emphasizes and promotes GNOME for general users… KDE seems to be a better fit for General users but people barely know that there exists a KDE for Ubuntu (Kubuntu), and moreover the Kubuntu desktop seems as though it were designed to make KDE look tacky/unusable compared to GNOME. Debian is more neutral but still, on the netinstall you have to put in tasks=”kde-desktop, standard” to get KDE. Both of the above distros however have wonderful package managers which work like magic! Debian however has the ugly boot up and shutdown screens of Dmesg’s. Gentoo is very stable and fast but it’s a pain in the butt to install software or use it, it’s definitely not for the faint of heart or ordinary users… it’s more a hacker’s linux. All the distros have strengths and weaknesses, but when push comes to shove the user wants a compelling reason to switch to Linux, if we focus on the above problems I think we can give it to him.
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