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You must be from Texas?

http://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html

http://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html

as AC, $CAPCHA="distort"

For comparison and reference, here is the oft-mentioned original (1997) Carmack's position on D3D vs OGL.

How can you say that after all SGI have done for Linux, and open standards in general?

SGI:

- Gave Linux XFS, arguably its fastest and most robust filesystem to date. Far, far more robust than reiser, and quicker than anything else except reiser4 (and then only sometimes), except on deletes where it is slow by design - SGI realised earlier than most that if you need a simple rule, it's pretty safe to assume that people just don't delete files often (excluding short-lived temporary files, which XFS handles _incredibly_ efficiently.) Just check out the low rate at which XFS volumes become fragmented to see how you can take advantage of putting a little thought into deleting files.

- Scaled Linux beyond 32 CPUs for the first time ever. And years later they still hold the record: 1,024 CPUs in the one computer with a single memory space. Nobody else comes close, and I do mean nobody. And this isn't just SGI lab stuff any more - NASA bought 20 of these computers to build the fastest computer on the planet that uses commercial microprocessors.

- Invented OpenGL (hint: what do you think the "Open" in "OpenGL" refers to? bonus marks: compare and contrast OpenGL and DirectX) together with the surrounding (open) glue like GLX. This is pretty much the only reason Linux boxes and Macs have decent 3D, and the only reason you can actually have a decent game of quake even if you're using a dumb terminal. Try playing Quake when connected to a Citrix box. Fun? Didn't think so.

- a bunch of other things I don't know about personally, but here you go anyway.

Anyway, since SGI's main role these days is selling IA64-based supercomputers and workstations, I hope Intel just buy SGI but let them continue to run independently so they can just keep on with all their good work. They provide a useful service to the Linux community, even if you never pay them a cent - this probably has something to do with their current share price (sadly). You might not use OpenGL, Itanium, massive shared memory systems or XFS but the odds are good that at least one of these is helping you, or at least some bugs SGI fixed while getting one of these working.

Try a BSD daemon.

please support the project if you can by buying CDs and t-shirts, ...

I would love to, except Puffy the logo fish is horribly disfigured.

Linux shirts are out, too: Tux is overweight. No, I can't buy a FreeBSD T-shirt either: I live in Texas.

This is not entirely the case. Sure, there are incidents where the daemon is attributed to the devil, but the general idea is to get a logo that is better for a business environment. By this, I mean something a bit more professional. The other goal is to kick up advocacy levels and generate media awareness of FreeBSD. One big goal of the new FreeBSD Core Team is to help promote FreeBSD, and this is one of those steps.

Some misguided individuals have taken offense to the daemon character.

The point I'm making here is that all this stuff is OpenGL and none of my video cards have ever cost me more than $160. (That was my latest, a Sapphire Radeon 9700 XT 256MB.) Some of them have pretty sketchy Linux support, and probably all of them would require binary drivers to work on Linux, but they all support OpenGL so the moment a useful card with open source drivers shows up in my hands (which will be shortly after one is available for $100 or less, shipped or locally) I'll be able to get the same results, perhaps at a lower speed, from a card with open source drivers. There's no lock-in involved. Our collective stubborn insistence on OpenGL over the years (thanks, Carmack!) as geeks has born the desired fruit. Everyone should remember this when it comes time to support open or closed APIs, and their patent status.

But while we are on the subject a funny story about it :-)

Read this and this.

In short, to BSD users your argument is laughably silly and makes you look like an ignoramus.

I may be wrong, but I honestly think that most reasonable people will not interpret a cartoonish picture of a devil-like creature wearing sneakers as any indication of satan worship

I myself have walked into my church (I'm Catholic) wearing a FreeBSD daemon shirt.

SVG replaces PDF (Acrobat format). SVG plus SMIL replaces SWF (Flash format), as replacing SWF for use in animated presentations such as this or this needs audio and animation.

He could have, but he likes the OpenGL API more, as he documented in his plan file in 1996. This also addresses your question later in the thread as to how DirectX is a kludgey hack; in 1996 at least, the interface was really nasty. It has probably improved since.

There's also the portability issue. If he coded it using DirectX, that locks the code to Microsoft platforms. No easy Mac, Linux, or console ports aside from the xbox.

saw my t-shirt and immediately pulled the other cop aside. He walked over to me and said, "So, are you a programmer or do you just run Linux for fun?"

Be gald you weren't wearing a BSD T-shirt

One of my clients got offended when I installed an OS whose logo was a Daemon.

So FreeBSD and Texas STILL don't mix?

But still, what does it all matter as long as userfriendly.org is still online?

To: Illiad

We respectfully ask you to delete all content hosted at userfriendly.org at your earliest convenience.

What's currently hosted there is, by its astonishing amateurism and outright offensive unfunniness, diluting the "User Friendly" concept currently used by parodies of boring and badly drawn web comics based on the incessant repetition of ancient tech support jokes and stereotypical anti-Microsoft zealotry.

These parodies are facing a bleak future, when there are sites like yours that are honestly intended to be "entertaining" by using even more tired clichés and even worse artwork than the parodies. How are parody authors supposed to survive if the objects of parody suddenly start to express the parodied traits even more extremely than the parodies?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-04 -07
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-08 -20&res=l
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-04 -17
http://www.somethingawful.com/features/usarfreindl ey/
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/computarfunnys /comic-11.htm
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/computarfunnys /comic-20.htm
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/computarfunnys /comic-27.htm
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/computarfunnys /comic-32.htm
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/computarfunnys /comic-39.htm
http://somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/phot oshop/variety3/Eegah_comic.jpg
http://www.themushroom.com/mush0122/unfriendlyuser .html

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=user%20fr iendly
http://internettrash.com/users/theepisodes/keenshi t.htm
http://rmitz.org/comics.html
http://www.amk.ca/books/h/User_Friendly.html
http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Rant s/ComicStrips.html

Enough already. Stop it.

why is userfriendly.org still on-line?

To: Illiad

We respectfully ask you to delete all content hosted at userfriendly.org at your earliest convenience.

What's currently hosted there is, by its astonishing amateurism and outright offensive unfunniness, diluting the "User Friendly" concept currently used by parodies of boring and badly drawn web comics based on the incessant repetition of ancient tech support jokes and stereotypical anti-Microsoft zealotry.

These parodies are facing a bleak future, when there are sites like yours that are honestly intended to be "entertaining" by using even more tired clichés and even worse artwork than the parodies. How are parody authors supposed to survive if the objects of parody suddenly start to express the parodied traits even more extremely than the parodies?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-04 -07
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-08 -20&res=l
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-04 -17
http://www.somethingawful.com/features/usarfreindl ey/
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/computarfunnys /comic-11.htm
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/computarfunnys /comic-20.htm
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/computarfunnys /comic-27.htm
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/computarfunnys /comic-32.htm
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/computarfunnys /comic-39.htm
http://somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/phot oshop/variety3/Eegah_comic.jpg
http://www.themushroom.com/mush0122/unfriendlyuser .html

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=user%20fr iendly
http://internettrash.com/users/theepisodes/keenshi t.htm
http://rmitz.org/comics.html
http://www.amk.ca/books/h/User_Friendly.html
http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Rant s/ComicStrips.html

Enough already. Stop it.

You're not from Texas are you?

I think folks have to remember that the mascot comes from the UNIX daemon, which is a headless process. Someone got cute, and didn't mean anything by it.

Daemons and Texans don't mix

You were doing so well for a second there.

You have no right to purchase devices that facilitate stealing.

I disagree. The problem with making ROM'ing illegal is that it makes illegal more than simply the piracy itself, because lawmakers are working on the same flawed assumption you are. There are aspects of ROM'ing that are both legitimate and legal. One of my friends is really into playing import games. Nothing wrong with that. He pays for the games and then he plays them. I guess he gets a kick out of bad translations. Anyway, to do this, from what I understand, he has to modify his playstation. I don't know technically if he needs to use a ROM chip. Either way, he needs to make modifications to his playstation that aren't going to hold up in court under this law, as I understand it. And that's what the problem is.

Take napster for example. I think that for the most part, anyone with a reasonably convincing/plausible theory about the wrongs of banning napster isn't trying to argue that piracy isn't illegal and shouldn't be prosecuted as such. They're arguing that the means that napster uses to propogate pirated information is also used as a way to propogate legitimate information, and therefore cannot be shut down just to stop piracy. The same goes for ROMs.

Or you could stick with that old comp and keep watching This Thing over and over.

It seems that it's a joke based on a bad Japanse to English translation. This should help you out a bit. It's damn funny.

http://rmitz.org/AYB3.swf

It comes from the really bad translations in the game Zero Wing for genesis. What the flash animation here has to do with anything is beyond me. I don't care about karma. Save your mod points for someone who does.