Anonymouslemming

Well, well, well! It seems that the powers that be don’t like it too much when the abusive powers they’ve put in place are used against one of their own…

“He called on Gordon Brown to “rule out any further use of anti-terrorism powers in cases that have nothing to do with terrorism,” although the Metropolitan Police stressed the arrest was made under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act and not anti-terror legislation.

The Met said some counter-terrorism officers were involved because they were the most “appropriate” to carry out such an operation.”

They just used a bunch of anti-terrorist coppers. That’s understandable – Those bastard MPs are about the most scary thing in this country right now!

The sign is teasing me!

CUPS represents everything that is sick, wrong and evil with Open Source software. Does anyone even remember how many years ago ESR wrote his rant about CUPS? It was 2006. 2 full years ago.

You know what’s got better about CUPS since then? Nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Jack Shit. Fuck all!

Do you know how long it took to setup a Brother MFC-7420 on my Mac? I don’t – I just plugged it in and it worked.

Do you know how long it took to do the same thing on a CentOS 5 box? About 4 hours.

Do you know what I did different to every other attempt the time that it worked? Guess! Nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. Zilch. And I have the bash history to prove that! I did exactly the same thing as I’d done every other try, just to get back to a starting point to debug it, but this time around it worked. Why?

The Open Sores freetards still don’t get it. 2008 isn’t the year of the Linux desktop because it’s never going to be the year of the Linux desktop. Linux is going to remain a niche product to run on servers in big expensive datacentres until such time as a normal person can get a fucking printer working in less than a day.

Many other other people have run into the same problem as me. Some of these went to the drastic lengths of reinstalling their OS. To get printing working. Not to cure cancer, or bring about world peace – to get their printer to work!

OS X uses exactly the same system behind the scenes to handle printing (CUPS), but they paid some evil corporate whore some money. In return, he/she/it built them an interface that allows the dumbest of the dumb to setup a printer in under a minute. And that’s if they even have to set it up at all, if it doesn’t just work from the start!

So there you have it – you get what you pay for in life. And if you pay nothing to a bunch of freetards you get a solution that is missing part of it’s arse. I’d go so far as to say it might be missing an entire 50% of it’s arse. Yep. Half arsed at best.

Me? Bitter? No – just tired and wondering where my evening went. But I can finally print a returns label for a shitty book from Amazon that was missing all of the accompanying material required to make it useful. Let’s save that for another day though, shall we ?

I know that Donovan was from Scotland, but is it just me, or does he really sound like the Oh God in the intro to Atlantis ?

So we now know that 10 men cannot go for a walk in the autumn sunshine in fancy dress without getting arrested – and yet we still lie to ourselves and tell us we live in a free country.

This gentleman seems a little upset about some of the things I find annoying, but he says it so much better than me.