Blake Miller's Blog

As most of you know I am fluent in both Windows and Linux. Yesterday in the #mybb IRC channel, tension was tight between us Linux people and the Windows fan boy Matt (owner of msubuntu who will be sued when the site is launched) A good friend of myn, DrPoodle had had it with Matt. So with the help of MiNT we started to produce a list of all the reasons why Linux was better then windows. For any of you Windows fan boys… eat this…

1) Linux is free.
2) Linux is faster (another IRC user, tmhai, was astounded earlier today at how his laptop booted in under 30 seconds with Ubuntu, compared to the 30 minutes it took Windows to boot on it).
3) Linux is Open Source (which means bugs and security holes are found and fixed quicker).
4) With Linux, you own your Operating System. With Microsoft Windows, you don’t actually “own” the Operating System, you simply have a license that says you can use it. Every installation of Windows is owned by Microsoft.
5) Linux has better support. This is debatable, but there are a lot of community forums out there, and usually errors in Linux are much more readable than Windows errors, which leads to quicker solutions.
6) Linux has package managers. Most distros come with some form of package manager, a utility that installs safe and secure programs, and then updates them automatically.
7) Linux has daily updates. Most distros release daily updates of core files, as well as updates for programs.
Linux has releases every 6 months. Most distros release their next version every 6 months without fail. So instead of waiting an uncertain amount of time for the next Windows release, you know exactly when the next version of your OS will be out.
.. To read all the reasons, click Here.

If any of you Windows people have anything that could possibly have a case against Linux. I ask you to sign up on my forums and post your reasoning.

Sorry it’s so late but I finally got the snow up on the site. Just wanted to wish every one a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday. See you all in the new year.

Well currently a snow storm is about to hit North Bay this Sunday evening. The buzz is that this storm will cause a Snow Day tomorrow which mean no buses which mean I get to sleep in

I was talking in the #mybb IRC channel and few individuals didn’t know what snow was like. So what better then to get some pictures of the white fluffy stuff.

I hate to break it to you guys but snow suck. So I put on my jacket, grabbed the camera and headed out into the snow.

Here are the shots I got.

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Back yard

Snow Blower

Front my house

So there you have it… snow… I will take some more tomorrow after we get lots of it and when it’s bright out.