In the latest NetCraft survey, the Queen of England has switched from Linux to IIS. Two years ago the Queen of England became an unlikely icon for the Linux revolution when her webmaster replaced Solaris as the platform for the Royal Family’s site, with the Dell/Linux platform when the previous incumbent, Sun/Solaris, had reached the end of their life cycle. The open source community celebrated and speculated on when the Apache web server might receive the “By Royal Appointment” moniker. This week the site has changed platforms again, this time to Microsoft-IIS.
Her Majesty Rocks No More With Penguins
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God save the Queen!
…She’s no human being!
…Her fascist regime!
Right now, the tabloids must be recruiting hackers, I have no doubt.
can somebody please tell me why the the so-called Queen is worshipped by so many clueless idiots? Please, I’m obviously missing some superhuman life story here that surely justifies all this interest, worship, the tax breaks, and all this talk about her and her family. Do fill me in on what she’s done.
>can somebody please tell me why the the so-called Queen is worshipped by so >many clueless idiots? Please, I’m obviously missing some superhuman life story >here that surely justifies all this interest, worship, the tax breaks, and all >this talk about her and her family. Do fill me in on what she’s done.
I have the same questions about religion…
> I have the same questions about religion…
hehe
Because we are thankful to the Royal family for sending all convicts, serial killers and what not to the outskirts of the then known world ie Australia and Canada.
So you, the descendants of these aforementioned convicts are greateful for the oppurtunity to be regarded as equals in the 21st Century, in the war against HUMANITY.
dose that sum it up MATE!!!!!
In that case, I’m very thankful to the Royals that I wasn’t born in England.
So the Royal Family supports MS/IIS…Hack, Hack, Err – excuse me while I attempt to cough up some interest.
I never understand why so many people feel the need to have a go at the Queen, what is it exactly about her, that grates people?
She makes more money for the UK than she costs, shes a link with the past and shes a kind person to boot, and people all over the world know about her making the UK that little bit more well known.
Or is it just Americans with their jealousy about a country having ANY history?
And to you Australians, you just voted to keep her as the figurehead head of state!!
>>Or is it just Americans with their jealousy about a country having ANY history?
We have lots of history…..a history of kicking englands ass into submission 🙂 {that was suposed to be making fun of the american cockyness of the Idiots that make up the mass of our population}…..most americans actualy care about the royals in england…..they make good tabloid reading {that is another Joke BTW}
seriousely though we do have a history that has become almost a mythology…..we put just as much emphasis on the office of the president that people in england put on the queen….both are the faces of their respective countries, the only diffrence is that we can choose the face we have, you folks have to live with what you got (that is why the royals are traind from child birth to put on a good show.
Americans like me who have ancestors from England that came here over 400 years ago. So not only do many of us have hundreds of years of history here, but we can go back to where our forefathers came from and totally relate to the history there. Wherever there may be. It’s really quite a rich history.
What I don’t understand is punks who have nothing but shit to say. Comments so worthless that you have to wonder why they’ve bothered to type them. My initial comment was meant as a silly little joke. You know, that thing we call humour. I mean, you want to talk about clueless idiots? Take a look in the mirror.
I am an Englishman and I have to agree with the above two posters.
Lets not turn OSNews into another Slashdot with all the abuse.
I like the Queen and Americans, if only we could dump the muppets in the Royal Family things would be perfect!!
a linux based germany will run rampant once again. England and her coal burning ships will be rocked once again. So much for Europe being a little smarter than north america
No we didn’t. We were given a loaded question at the referendum by our Queen loving Prime Minister. Republicans were split on what model of republican government we would like to have eg. a US style elected President or simply rename Governor-General to President. So our shifty Prime Minister simply asked would you like blah-blah style of president and half the republicans disagreed. If the question, “Do you want an Australian as head of state?” was asked it would have been an outright win for republicans.
Hi Peter:
If you were referring to the second and third posts, then you
probably didn’t realise they’re from the lyrics to ‘God Save
The Queen’ byt the Sex Pistols 8^)
–Jon