Comments on: Happiness is a warm cache http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/ where we're going, we don't need roads... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:58:05 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jdub http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/#comment-2733 jdub Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:26:13 +0000 http://perkypants.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/#comment-2733 @dbmoodb: Replace "windows vista" with "vista" and "novell" with "firefox" for a closer approximation and perception of reality. :-) @dbmoodb: Replace “windows vista” with “vista” and “novell” with “firefox” for a closer approximation and perception of reality. :-)

]]> By: dbmoodb http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/#comment-2732 dbmoodb Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:13:02 +0000 http://perkypants.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/#comment-2732 oh and http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+debian%2C+linux%2C+windows+vista%2C+novell&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=4 oh and
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+debian%2C+linux%2C+windows+vista%2C+novell&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=4

]]> By: dbmoodb http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/#comment-2731 dbmoodb Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:10:00 +0000 http://perkypants.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/#comment-2731 :) good show. Pity about the symbol. :( :) 2008 :) ---> :) good show. Pity about the symbol. :(
:) 2008 :) — ->

]]> By: MC http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/#comment-2726 MC Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:18:18 +0000 http://perkypants.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/#comment-2726 Your Linux on the desktop comment has poked an old question (open wound?) for me. I'm one of those for whom the sight of a rudimentary Linux desktop in the Windows 95 days was revelatory. My immediate reaction was, "If the free stuff can do this, why would anyone buy the paid one?" And that was way before I understood free as in 'freedom' and way, way before I really understood what a linux desktop represents in technological layers. Ever since then I have wondered about people who attack a linux desktop. I have never understood the whining about something free that doesn't do exactly what their non-free thing did - no matter how silly or useless that thing was. People who will gripe about a new interface seem to forget that they weren't born knowing a particular way of doing something. My biggest difficulty in promoting FOSS is in understanding why people miss the self-evident benefits. Seriously, I feel for people who want to communicate a religious revelation. As a non-religious person, I want to say 'Get away from me, you freak.' As a FOSS person, I want to spread the gospel and share the love. Of FOSS that is. :-) Should have seen me at SFD - out evangelising Chris Smart. Almost. Oooh, I've rambled. -- MC Your Linux on the desktop comment has poked an old question (open wound?) for me.

I’m one of those for whom the sight of a rudimentary Linux desktop in the Windows 95 days was revelatory. My immediate reaction was, “If the free stuff can do this, why would anyone buy the paid one?” And that was way before I understood free as in ‘freedom’ and way, way before I really understood what a linux desktop represents in technological layers.

Ever since then I have wondered about people who attack a linux desktop. I have never understood the whining about something free that doesn’t do exactly what their non-free thing did - no matter how silly or useless that thing was. People who will gripe about a new interface seem to forget that they weren’t born knowing a particular way of doing something.

My biggest difficulty in promoting FOSS is in understanding why people miss the self-evident benefits. Seriously, I feel for people who want to communicate a religious revelation. As a non-religious person, I want to say ‘Get away from me, you freak.’ As a FOSS person, I want to spread the gospel and share the love. Of FOSS that is. :-)

Should have seen me at SFD - out evangelising Chris Smart. Almost.

Oooh, I’ve rambled.

 — 
MC

]]> By: Jamie http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/#comment-2725 Jamie Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:32:23 +0000 http://perkypants.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/#comment-2725 Mary, that's unaustralian. Mary, that’s unaustralian.

]]> By: Mary http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/#comment-2720 Mary Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:17:59 +0000 http://perkypants.org/blog/2008/01/01/happiness-is-a-warm-cache/#comment-2720 Lucy Turnbull noted a few years back that if one was tired of fireworks one was tired of life. We had a harbour view at the time, and were getting tired of life. Lucy Turnbull noted a few years back that if one was tired of fireworks one was tired of life. We had a harbour view at the time, and were getting tired of life.

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