Microsoft just killed somebody

[dg10050]

if that isn't wine or a vm - what is it
also is it just some gui overlay or does it allow for windows program functionality?

I never said it wasn't a VM

: http://www.venturecake.com/10-minutes-to-r...ubuntu-desktop/

 

[HBK]

LOL, just use WinAmp, much better, faster, no lags.

Or use a crack.

 

[pikachucrackpipe]

if that isn't wine or a vm - what is it
also is it just some gui overlay or does it allow for windows program functionality?

I never said it wasn't a VM

: http://www.venturecake.com/10-minutes-to-r...ubuntu-desktop/

wow thats a cleaver way to do it.
i might just run a vm though

the only time i need to run windows is for turbotax and thats like once a year. well with revisions and all its more but you get the point.

 

[deathfisaro]

Genuine Windows Advantage check is coded this way

if (exists(/*hacked serial in registry*/))
{
phail();
}
else
{
pass();
}

forgot to say check =P

 

[iTech]

Genuine Windows Advantage check is coded this way

if (exists(/*hacked serial in registry*/))
{
phail();
}
else
{
pass();
}

forgot to say check =P


Bullshit! I somehow obtained the source to the WGA program (realy, I don't know how I got it, I found it stuffed in my toilet this morning all printed out with a big nasty turd on top. Given the fact that there were several rusty nails in the faeces, I'm suspecting Jesus used the bathroom without my permission.) and it goes like this;

CODE#define WIN32_CRASHING_AND_BLOATED

#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include

#define CRASH_ON_STARTUP TRUE

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
   Âswitch(message)
   Â{
      case WM_KEYDOWN:
          Âreflash_bios(BIOS_ADDRESS,"kekekekekekekekekekekekek",strlen("kekekekekekekekekekekekek"));
      break;
      case WM_MOUSEMOVE:
          Âdelete_old_wmp();
      break;
      case WM_DESTROY:
          Âmessage = (int) 1/0;
      break;
      default:
      {
         collect_intelligence();
         erase_bootsector();
      }
   Â}
}

/* (Uday from R&D) NOTACE!: RAMAYANA BOLYWOOD DALAI LAMA!! Bhanuprasad tajmahal WndProc()! Omar sharrif: hWnd kamasutra? */
/* (Bakul from Q&A) REPLY: Mahatma! Ghandi omar shank 1/0 raspoetin CRASH application! No kuala lumpur mogadishu! Vishnu R&D Dept! */
/* (Jagadhidh Jagmohan, CEO of Microsoft India): Why no speak englash? yuo knew the rooles! Mahatmahatmahatma!!! You very bad men! No cow this month!*/


int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst,HINSTANCE hPrev,LPSTR cmdl,int cmd)
{
HWND wnd;
MSG msg;

wnd = create_window(WndProc,MICROSOFT_STANDARD_NAGBOX);
NaggingBox(NULL,"Microsoft must verify the authenticity of your system. This will not harm your privacy or computer.","Notice",MB_OK);

while(1)
{
 Âdenial_of_service(resolve_host("http://www.prisonplanet.com"),8080);
 Âhandle_messages(wnd,msg);
}

}

 

[iTech]

Ubuntu is the cooliest!!!1!!µ

I'm mainly a Windows programmer (Windows washer on Sundays) so I don't have the luxury of running anything but plain vanilla Windows.
I tried a buttload of Linux distros for home use, and none of them worked. "WTF? How can an OS 'not work'?"
It just can, that's all you need to know. The only Linux LiveCD that actually booted up AND supported my Wifi card (after much exotic tweeking involving numerous terminal commands and reading verses from Anton Levey's "Satanic Operating System Bible" out loud while pointing my genitals in all four wind directions) was PCLinuxOS, and then it exploded.
Which is something I blame on unfinished Linux NVIDIA drivers that possibly set the monitor refresh-rate to 85 Ghz.

I tried Ubuntu and indeed it looked nice, but lemme ask you something - If an OS can't even support a 20-dollar Wifi card and therebye completely disallows for any internet connection that does not require the user to start drilling holes through their house just to download the casual Hamsterporn flic, how do you expect to win over the idiot "Ma! That computer done ate my audiocassette! Bring a fork will ya?" folk that run Windows but barely know WTF a computer does. ("I hear it can rip DVDs, that's very environmentaly friendly! Can it shred paper too? Lets try! .. Ooooh! That's what those loud fans are for! Sucking up the smoke that comes out of the drives when it recycles the paper!! Neat!")

It's like everytime ten guys come together and start a new distro, Microsoft uses the intelligence gathered from their spyware WGA application to learn of it, and sends some crazy-ass peruvian druglord hitman to them screaming "Silver or lead! Silver or lead!", which means; eighter you put extra effort in making the distro inferior to Windows in the eyes of the majority in exchange for a bribe, or El Presidente Billo Gattos cuts off your genitals and shoves them in the mouth of your decapitated head, and then picks it up and uses it on Halloween to scare children that were forced to watch Sleepy Hollow followed by a gay gagsex clip.

I just can't believe no distro can get everything right.
Ubuntu looked the best, but didn't support my wificard (even after using ndiswrapper), Turbolinux didn't even run, Slax was ugly yet flexible but didn't support my wifcard eighter, DSL just plain sucked and PCLinuxOS did support my WiFicard, looked nice, but refused to do anything usefull without having to install to the HD first (and I don't have a free partition big enough).

And lets not get me started on VLC. If you honestly believe VLC is a better media player than WMP, you probably suffer from disorganised schizophrenia. The fucking "graphical interface" is just two grey pixels stuck together horizontally!
All opensource software seems to be designed to be completely unsusable to anyone but S&M fanatics. You ever tried to use Blender? Who designed the interface? That Russian guy that invented Tetris? WTF is up with that? And Jahshaka (I had to check five times to see if I spelled to fucking name of the software right - They probably took "Marketing 0.101" in Highschool to come up with that. "Hey! Lets make the name of our product unpronounceable to anyone! That will help word-of-mouth!") is the same - I kidnapped a local quantum physicist because I figured he might be smart enough to figure out how use the program, and after many calculations on toiletpaper (we use rough stationary to wipe our asses at our home, because our asses itch from some disease or parasitic infection my mom brought back from the corner she works on), he concluded that the program was theoretically incapable of being used - it can only start, show a confusing interface, and shut down.
And The Gimp! Wtf? Floating windows? I was teaching my retarded baby sister to draw elementary shapes so she might get accepted at the kindergarten for the mentally retarded and be out of my hair for a few hours, and she accidentally double-clicked on a video of me violently raping the Roborovski hamster I told her "gently closed his beady eyes for the last time before his sleep" which I had on my desktop. Now she tells her friends (the bums that pay me money to punch her in the flabby gut) that I "sprinkled magic sausage water on Mr. Kiki's head".

I'm telling you - it's a conspiracy! All opensource software has being engineered to be completely unusable by anyone besides the authors and S&M fetishists!

 

[rashef]

@iTech - Did you try Mandriva 2007.1 (also known as spring ? ). They say it's linux for idiots and windows users that don't give a damn and configures most of the things automatically for you.