Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? 553
stm2 writes "Thanks to an agreement between Lindows and Seagate, from October you will be able to choose a hard drive with or without Lindows. Michael Robertson, in his usual marketing speak, compares this to adding "Fluoride in the water", because now you get for free something you used to need to go after (people used to go to dentist to get their Fluoride). According to the PR, the OS can autodetect and configure itself on the host machine."
What? (Score:3, Funny)
What?
Formatting (Score:5, Funny)
PBF (Score:5, Funny)
Great, so not only do they make a crappy OS, their also after my precious bodily fluids.
for free (Score:5, Funny)
that's how i tried explaining it to my girlfriend, but just like these hard drives, she didn't buy it either
Fluoride... (Score:3, Funny)
Wow... (Score:3, Funny)
The Usual Suspects (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new pre-installed overlords!
1. Have your OS pre-installed on HD's
2. ???
3. Profit!
Actually, click-n-run is probably their step 2. I wonder if it will work for them?
And yes, I know you can just add the debian sources and do an apt-get install packagename.
Yea, um - what? (Score:1, Funny)
What the fuck is this post trying to say?
Ha ha (Score:5, Funny)
Michael Robertson, in his usual marketing speak, compares this to adding "Fluoride in the water"
This is very funny. There is a long history of wackos equating floridation of drinking water with government mind control. Here is an example [geocities.com], which is very tame by the standards of the alternate-science crowd.
Gotta go, my alien gray masters are calling me by mind control satellite to their sub-antarctic base again!
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
Reality Distortion Field growing... (Score:5, Funny)
And to make matters worse... (Score:5, Funny)
I've just got one question... (Score:4, Funny)
They could do like NetZero does and advertise it as Internet SuperDuperDownload Accelerator. Download music and movies instantly! It's just a form of caching right? Right?
-JoeShmoe
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New hard drive installation procedure: (Score:5, Funny)
(2) Install hard drive, connect power and IDE cables.
(3) Turn computer back on and make sure it autodetects the drive.
(4) Tear your hair out as the computer proceeds to boot Lindows instead of (FreeBSD/Windows/Linux/Plan9).
(5) Uninstall the hard drive, and sigh in relief as your old set-up proceeds to boot normally.
(6) Return the hard drive to the store, yelling and screaming until they agree not to charge you a restocking fee.
Re:New hard drive installation procedure: (Score:0, Funny)
Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)
Side note (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Side note (Score:2, Funny)
Isn't it odd how it's always the conspiracy theorists who seem to be doing
the conspiring?
Re:What? (Score:2, Funny)
LCD Screen turn on
Michael Robertson: "How are you gentlemen"
Michael Robertson: "All your hard drive are belong to us"
Michael Robertson: "You have no chance to install WinXP"
Michael Robertson: "Billy G make your time"
Ha ha ha ha
HUH? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Unanswered question... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, so it's *that* kind of OS... Now I understand why taking it to dinner and a movie didn't get me anywhere.
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
I for one... (Score:4, Funny)
Lindows - the Stealth Version (Score:5, Funny)
Hi. I see that you're having some trouble
using your Windows operating system. Would
you like me to install Lindows so that all
your problems will disappear?
[OK] [Not yet] [Tell me more]
Re:What? (Score:4, Funny)
bsd is dying
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Lindows and Flouride (Score:2, Funny)
In fact, this site is a wellspring of health information. According to the Vegan Children site, meat is nothing but child poison and milk is not only child poison, but also contains "bovine leukima viruses"! After reading this, I've also come upon the shocking truth that I died at least seventeen years ago and that you are actually reading the typed words of a long decayed child zombie! I would now begin moaning "Braaaaaaains!!! BRAAAAAAAAINS!!!" at you while stumbling menacingly in your direction, but brains are poisonous and evil meat, so instead of I must politely ask for whatever leftover celery or tomatoes you have sitting in your fridge. Preferably evil celery and tomatoes, Tomatoes Of The Dead you might say, but I'll take what I can get.
Re:Fluoride... (Score:1, Funny)
Look, Jehovah's Witnesses bug me because they waste my time, but this [davidicke.net] is a wee bit over the top:
"Subliminal Mind Control & Manipulation Archive Features -- Jehovah Witnesses' Subliminal Covert Mind Control
And, just do let David Icke know, for future bullshit sessions, there is no CIA in Canada. We have CSIS [csis-scrs.gc.ca] instead. Therefore this [davidicke.net] little rant is a little pointless (and funny!) to us in Canada.
I do have to read more there, I haven't seen such a good wacko site in a LONG time.
Re:Fluoride... (Score:2, Funny)
Convincing people it's good for them is a clever trick.
Or is it?
Got to love that disclaimer! (Score:5, Funny)
Lindows.com is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft Corporation in any way - in fact, we don't even really like them because they are suing us.
James
Re:PBF (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Formatting (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Fluoride... (Score:1, Funny)
I didn't believe him at the time, thought he was winding me up (as usual). But then, as a result of a trip to eastern europe, I switched to drinking bottled water. After 3 weeks or so, my mind was very much clearer. Yes, I became more agressive and generally nastier, but definitely quicker on the uptake and less prone to unthinking action.
I don't think it's an accident that MBAs and other business-management types seem to always drink bottled water - flouridation makes people docile and controllable. The controllers, on the other hand, try to avoid it...
Re:Fluoride... (Score:1, Funny)
I'm with Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper [imdb.com] on this:
"Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?"
Re:What? (Score:4, Funny)
And they all sank into the swamp!
Re:Might have hit the right market... (Score:1, Funny)
You misspelled round tits.
Re:Formatting (Score:1, Funny)
I thought he meant "grandfather."
Re:Fluoride... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Formatting (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe Apple should pay someone to pre-format with OSX 10.x and try to sell hardware that way.
And this one... (Score:3, Funny)
The six-previous-floridas comment isn't as silly as it sounds, some of the swamps have several generations of ruins under them.
However... I do wonder if LindowsOS will make the hard drive go brittle and blotchy.
Re:PBF (Score:3, Funny)