Do I think those products/companies are the anti-christ? No.

Why do I not like OpenSUSE? Mainly because on tests I have conducted FOR ME, I find it far more sluggish than any of the other distro’s Ive looked at.

Why do I not like Microsoft products? Because Ive found FOR ME FOSS products are faster, more stable and as an ADDED BONUS free.

Finally why do I not like .net/mono? MONO (Microsoft owned or not) is Linux’s implementation of a Microsoft framework. I am pleased I no longer have to rely on Microsoft products/theories/ethos and I do not intend to go back. After XP Microsoft had some good times, one can argue that led to the product that is Vista and all the other issues users who rely on MS products have had.

Quote you “implementation of a standard that Microsoft pioneered” – and we have all seen where Microsoft standards end up havent we? THAT IS THE ISSUE FOR ME, NOT PATENT TRAPS OR CIVIL CASES.

Why does Microsoft tolerate MONO? who knows, but just maybe (like the donation of code to the Kernel) they see it as a benefit to them afterall they are here to make money not some crusade to benefit mankind.

The religious implications about detractors of Microsoft products is common amongst the MS faithful and Microsoft (IMO) its silly, its childish and its wrong.

I personally want Microsoft to be around, I think diversity in computing is good for the end user. Let Microsoft have their Windows platform and their schemes ,I am pleased they do. I simply don’t want it involved in my Linux world. Thats not being paranoid, that not seeing a conspiracy theory thats simply “Once bitten twice shy”

Great plugin. it works fantastic. Was wondering if there was a way to invoke or bind keyboard shortcuts to display the songtitles and what not? so instead of typing /media you could hit ctrl+9 or something?

I asked around different python rooms on freenode, but they said it was an xchat question, so i guess… here i am.

http://forum.xchat.org/viewtopic.php?t=3338

also, xchat prints a “Unknown command” in the server tab (even if the command worked)

(1..100).each do |i|
divs = [3,5].find_all{|d| (i%d).zero? }
puts “#{i} is divisible by #{divs.join(‘ and ‘)}” unless divs.empty?
end

This way the domain (1..100) and the factors (3 and 5) are given in one place only. There is no magic 15, and the code is much more concise (and poetic?).