>>2883935
they should rename it lolix

>>2883942
>lolix
>loli x

I'd buy it

I lol'ed

Are they real mug shots?

I really can't say I'm surprised here. I work for a certain company who supplies linux desktops to public sector areas and every. single. day. I speak to people just like this teacher./

>putting linux on these machines is holding our kids back.
>This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer, and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all.

>Mr. Starks, I along with many others tried Linux during college
oh lol

>>2884000

haha. If I didn't teach myself linux, I'd probably still be doing security system contracts.

>>2883984
it's real

>>2883984
1977 Speeding ticket from some town in New Mexico

>>2884002

I lol'd at that as well.

Dare I say.... Yes. I dare.

She got SERVED.

lmao

When I was in England, I experimented with linux a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't compile and never tried it again.

This happened in Austin of all places?

Austin is a highly technological and liberal city.

>>2884096
Yes, but...

...it's in Texas. TEXAS.

>>2884096

No. Texas is full of idiots like this.

http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our-kids-back.html

The reply is equally hilarious.

>e receive the newest and the best of the system when it is tested to be usable and stable. Karen, you have no idea the slavery you work under...but you don't know any better. The shame of it is, you are trapped with millions of other teachers in obeying the NEA and preaching the goodness of Windows and Microsoft. A superior, free and absolutely entertaining method of operating your computer is within reach and you are unable to grasp it.

He calls Windows "bindware".

>>2884102
>>2884104

I know.. I am just sad because I live in Texas. :(

Holy dog shit. Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas

Way to butcher a summary OP.

Here's the non-retarded version.

"...observed one of my students with a group of other children gathered around his laptop. Upon looking at his computer, I saw he was giving a demonstration of some sort. The student was showing the ability of the laptop and handing out Linux disks. After confiscating the disks I called a confrence with the student and that is how I came to discover you and your organization. Mr. Starks, I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom. At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows. Mr. Starks, I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you make are grossly over-stated and hinge on falsehoods. I admire your attempts in getting computers in the hands of disadvantaged people but putting linux on these machines is holding our kids back.

This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all. I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them..."

>>2884115
If theres something I cant stand, its people claiming their OS is better because of some shit like "freedom" or "revolution" or "mindlessness"

you dumbasses got trolled. guy made it up to get hits on his blog. hes a know trolling faggot. gg /g/

>>2884132

...but it is.

Texas should be given back to the mexicans.

Was I the only one who read "AIDS Teacher" in the title?

After I graduated from college, I didn't know what to do. I was unemployed and couldn't afford my apartment anymore, so on a whim my friend Dan and I joined the peace corps.

We were stationed in South America, in this little village in the middle of nowhere. When we got there, we couldn't believe our eyes. Everywhere, there was linux, just occurring naturally. The tribe, primitive as they were, used linux for a lot of every day things, like browsing and keeping track of finances, and ceremonial shit like making slideshows. Well, Dan and I, we had only tried linux in college at a party, but we both had some pretty good memories of it. So a couple of times a day, we go out and we'd use linux.

It started out slowly at first, just to relax and check some websites, but soon it was basically all we did, all day. I mean, this was some really good linux, not the shit that people hand out at parties here, but hard core, balls to the wall straight up linux. It blew our freaking minds, that these people live out here with linux every day and actually accomplish anything.

I guess my point is, we've all tried linux at some point, and sometimes we go overboard, but you can't base your life round linux. Yeah, it was fun in college, but if we all used linux we'd be no better than those poor uncivilized South Americans. That's something we just can't afford to expose our children to.

So I ask you, talk with your children about linux, and tell them to just say no. Tell them that real computer users can get by without linux, and while it may seem nice at first, in the long term they'll regret ever using it. Make sure they learn the facts from you, or they'll end up learning for themselves. Teach them to just say no to linux.

>>2884063
I compiled frequently. That was the point.

I guess this so called "teacher" hasn't heard of Firefox or Openoffice either.

>>2884164
god damn fucking pot smoking nigger president i still cant believe it

>>2884165
She most likely only knows "Office" and "the blue Internet thingie".

>>2884170
Love it or leave it you terrorist.

I tried Linux back when I was in high school. I lost my girlfriend, disappointed my parents, got fired from my job. and ended up distancing myself from my friends. All I did all day was sit around, listen to music, used Linux, and constantly thought about killing myself.. Don't even try Linux-It will fuck up your life.

brb going to texas to kill teachers

:HURF;
:
:DURF

>>2884151
*applause*

You are kidding arent you ?Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.

Microsoftie ignorance is truly an amazing thing.

>>2884230
Can't believe that hasn't been posted yet.

>>2884230
This pasta is delicious, yet stale. I'm gonna use it to troll over at Macrumors.

>>2884230
The only thing I never understood about this pasta is how a person stupid enough to say those things would know about OS/2. Nobody I know who doesn't know about computers has any idea what OS/2 is, but they know what windows is.

You can't kill the linux
The linux will live on
macfags tried to kill the linux
But they failed, as they were smite to the ground
wintards tried to kill the linux
But they failed, as they were stricken down to the ground

Loonix attention stunt

>>2884230

Fell Troll, level 20 elite brute

He will destroy you

Has this been submitted to /. yet? Pure lulz once it's /.ted

looks like lexi belle to me.
just save this picture as 645.bat and you'll see.

>>2884309
Was on this morning.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/10/001236

>>2884273
I think it's a carefully crafted troll, and was never said in ernest.

>I had a Networking teacher confiscate my laptop, which was running ubuntu, cause he thought I was running some hacked version of XP. A friggin computer teacher. Had to explain to the dean of students what linux was, provided several wiki pages, and pleaded my case before two department heads. Two weeks later, I get my laptop back and the teacher still thinks I'm doing illegal stuff on there. Classic quote from my interrogation.... "What is this Gimp? Is it some hacked Photoshop?"

>>2884230
A long time ago, I read that pasta, or an adaptation of it. And I believed it. I think it was combined with Microsoft's warnings about Linux violating their patents. I thought that a working Linux system necessarily had Windows code running 'underneath' somewhere.

>>2883935

I'm not surprised in the least. The world is overflowing with retarded ignoramuses like this woman (no pun intended).

>>2884291
rofl

>>2884151
Has anyone told this fag about Dell and Ubuntu?

ಠಎಠ

>>2884230
This is too good to be a troll, there are plenty of semi computer literate fucktards who believe every word they spout to be infallible, because everyone on the internet knows what they're doing.

I've had the displeasure of working with a few people like this and I could imagine one of them believing this.

>>2884588
No, it's a troll. It's very old pasta. Seriously, there are mountains younger than it.

>Linux is used to free people from Microsoft.

Ahahahah oh man.

Linux zealots are stupider than the woman in this article.

>>2884588
http://jerryleecooper.com/2008/01/21/why-linux-will-not-displace-windows/

>>2884230
There's moar

Linux looks very interesting, even if some of the screen colours and menu options appear to be a little out of the ordinary.

But you are missing a vital point, a point which takes some experience and depth of knowledge in the field of computers. You see, when a computer boots up, it needs to load various drivers and then load various services. This happens long before the operating system and other applications are available.

Linux is a marvellous operating system in its own right, and even comes in several different flavours. However, as good as these flavours are, they first need Microsoft Windows to load the services prior to use.

In Linux, the open office might be the default for editing your wordfiles, and you might prefer ubuntu brown over the grassy knoll of the windows desktop, but mark my words young man - without the windows drivers sitting below the visible surface, allowing the linus to talk to the hardware, it is without worth.

And so, by choosing your linux as an alternative to windows on the desktop, you still need a windows licence to run this operating system through the windows drivers to talk to the hardware. Linux is only a code, it cannot perform the low level function.

My point being, young man, that unless you intend to pirate and steal the Windows drivers and services, how is using the linux going to save money ? Well ? It seems that no linux fan can ever provide a straight answer to that question !

May as well just stay legal, run the Windows drivers, and run Office on the desktop instead of the linus.

>>2884798
Moar from the same dude


Its clearly evident that vista is the future.

One only has to watch TV for a short period of time and see the advertising.

WOW !!

I personally love the part where the young man is taking a stroll in the delightful snow covered streets, and sees firsthand a young deer with a gleefull glint in its eye. It sends a shiver down my spine. WOW is all I can say.

Vista is clearly the future of enterprise computing.

>>2884837


I dont see how this will happen at all.

Vista is far more powerful than windows XP, and runs twice as fast. It is also much harder to pirate, and this point more than anything else has the Linux crowd in a panic.

It wont be long until Windows XP is no longer supported, and when that happens, what is Linux going to do ?

Linux will have to find a way to work under Vista from here on, since it wont be able to rely on XP being readily available anymore.

Linux may seem like a good alternative to Office, but all that is happening in linux is that the windows interface is cleverly hidden away. It still needs the drivers and software services in order to run, and in most cases - that happens WITHOUT a valid windows licence.

This is just plain piracy.

Vista will finally put an end to this blatant abuse of intellectual property, and linux should decline, taking the pirates with it.

Anyone that supports the continuation of Windows XP in place of Vista surely has a hidden agenda .. and you will surely be caught out.

9001/10

Yah but what happens when you have no keyboard fag?

install gentoo

Sudo is the new salvia guys.

IT FUCKS YO SHIT UP, GET IT NOW WHILE ITS LEGAL

wow o i feel sorry for her


{1st 4chan post}
[test test test]

>>2884878

I love the people who actually believe this stuff.

The first time I found someone like that was back in '93 or '94, and they got their ass handed to them because Windows doesn't run on a Classic Mac.

Since then, this trick has involved a PowerPC Mac, a Sun SPARC machine, an IBM RS/6000 workstation, an Amiga, and an AS/400.

They're gullible, and they're clueless. Once of the machines I noted above was a multi-proc machine, back in the day when a multiproc Windows machine was rarer then hen's teeth. The guy I was talking to called the tower the CPU, and would not budge from that belief.

YOU DON'T HAVE TWO CPUS. I CAN ONLY SEE ONE CPU RIGHT THERE ON YOUR DESK. YOU CAN'T HAVE TWO CPUS UNLESS YOU HAVE TWO CPUS ON YOUR DESK!

All these years later, and he's an MS software consultant.

>>2885104
>The guy I was talking to called the tower the CPU,
In elementary school we had a poster pointing out different computer parts, and it called the case the CPU.

I used to call the monitor the computer. I was 4. By 5 I was no longer making that mistake.

>>2885154

What was funnier was opening up the case and showing him the two big heatsinked processors.

ONE. TWO. CAN YOU COUNT WITH ME YOU RETARDED CLICKMONKEY? JUST LIKE SESAME FUCKING STREET & THE COUNT. ONE. TWO.

Kevin Starks is a shameless self promoter. Its obvious he made that shit up. The teacher says that she used lunix during college, but doesn't know about all that bullshit about it being free she probably heard from the faggot giving it to her? Also, he replys in such a retarded way that only a macfag could possibly match. sage cause you are all gullible niggers.

>>2885197
One CPU ha ha ha.
Two CPU ha ha ha.

>>2885215
Oh god, why did I lol

I live in austin and yes we are much further down the curb than the rest of texas. But we do get a lot of redneck techers who don't know the difference between jack and shit

>>2885168
I was doing tech support with a woman, and she was making the same mistake. She was in her forties. I think there should be a certain intelligence threshold, where if you're below that threshold you're not allowed to own a computer.

Having gone through tech support hell for the past two years, I get people all the time who call the tower/case a "CPU."