Today - after a long time without running any proprietary software - I decided to go and install Windows once more. Why? I just wanted to see our own web pages in Internet Explorer.
So I went and fired up qemu and loaded its accelerator kqemu (which is easy in Debian; maybe I’ll explain that in thedebianuser.org later), and installed a MSDN version of Windows XP, which I still had in the bookshelf somewhere.
After everything was set up, XP came up fine. Then I started IE, which automatically connected me to the Microsoft Network page, a site for “News, Entertainment, Money & Finances, Car and more…” (translated from the German de.msn.com by me).
And what did that (family-) friendly page show me? Nothing less than Heidi Klum naked!
I am by no means a prude guy, and I think that Heidi Klum looks beautiful, with or without clothes. Still I didn’t expect something like that. And I thought:
“So this is what we Linux & Free Software people are missing! No wonder that so many people stick with closed source software and operating systems!”
Or did I think:
“Hmmm - there’s something else beside computers?”
Forgot.
“Ha!”, I thought, “They don’t have much to show except half-naked supermodels. That only proves that their code must be crap!”
So sex sells and Microsofts wins?
But wait - all is not lost. We Tuxedos and Penguinistas also have cute and sexy ladies, like the Tux Sioux Squaw shown here. Of course we would never pose naked, would we? (Larry Ewing’s original Tux is an exception of course)
Please note that this image is copyrighted 2007 by Santang and the Tux Factory. You wouldn’t find Heidi Klum there - until now. But maybe someday someone will turn her into a penguin as well?
Oh, and by the way: our web pages look much better in Iceweasel and Epiphany under Linux than they do with IE on Windows.
haha, you just made my day! XD
I doubt that this is OS specific, more of an Internet artifact. But I wouldn’t know, I haven’t used MS Windows on my own machines. Is it free and reasonably secure?
Remember ubuntu does have something similar:
apt-get install ubuntu-calendar
Millions of people are desperately browsing the web for pictures of the aforementioned kind, so don’t complain, once their passionate wishes are met.
And don’t post links to a wikipedia-page, when there could have been a link to the a.m. picture.
Btw: Heidi seems to be a quick dresser, since it took her only four paragraphs to turn from naked into half-naked…
Cheers
Peter
> and install Windows once more. Why? I just wanted to see our own web pages in Internet Explorer.
IEs4linux ??
Richard> I haven’t used MS Windows on my own machines. Is it free and reasonably secure?
If you set it all up like I did, as a 4400MB virtual machine which you can copy over to a single-layer DVD, yes, then it should be reasonably secure. At least you can copy it back after you got the first viruses (that means: after some 15 minutes or so)
dns> Remember ubuntu does have something similar: apt-get install ubuntu-calendar
Aaahh, so THIS is what makes Ubuntu so popular?
Peter> And don’t post links to a wikipedia-page, when there could have been a link to the a.m. picture.
The Wikipedia link to Heidi ist just there for people who may not have heard about her. You can enlarge the small screenshot thumbnail just on my page.
anyone?> IEs4linux ??
What is that? An IE which runs on Linux, with the help of WINE? Sorry, but I’d rather have a virtual machine which I can throw away (or restore), and which doesn’t poison the rest of my environment…
Oh my God.
Jeremy> Oh my God.
Hehe - you mean the 1,15 million search results? At least *we* are not within the top ten hm?
I’m not absolutely sure if you are right about that. But it may be a good reason.
And I think you can throw away IEs4linux as easy as a new extra virtual machine. You just have to remove your wine directories.
Have a lot of fun!