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Comprehensive Win2k/Linux Comparison
paxdiablo writes "Nice to see journalistic integrity in the never-ending Windows2000/Linux battle. Check out the article over at BBSpot for the final word." Heh - definitely one of the more amusing compare and contrasts. Mebbe Mindcraft should talk to them? *grin*
www.trsdos.com is a pretty crappy site, all it says is "get internet explorer 5.5". No possibility to try the site with any other browser. Configuring junkbuster to return an IE user agent gives a page about some class completely unrelated to TRSDOS. However, i award negative points to Microsoft products because the site was created by and is served off of those products. Also, negative points to the Harvard Extension school for whoever there created the page. There is no www.trsdossucks.com.
No mascot that i can recall... maybe some BUAF spelling "TRSDOS"?
The search engine test returns 0 results for both phrases. Does that beat 66,700 for W2K?
The Magic 8-Ball test was inconclusive... it answered "Yes" no matter how i phrased it (although it did have some trouble deciding, it told me to try again 5 times in a row)
"Fuck TRSDOS"... ummm, yeah. Takes too long to say.
There we have it! A post about an ancient OS that few know anything about. Now excuse me as i go peruse my crate of TRS-80 related magazines for cool BASIC programs. Old-style BASIC, with required line numbers and all that goodness, not this new "Visual Basic" Microsoft pushes. And no fancy GUI, not even lower-case letters on my old Model I without that special chip someone hacked in!
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I like BBspot, but this isn't one of their better efforts. (A nice bit of Slashdot-link-whoring, though.) My picks are Hour Lost Explaining Computer Terms To Mom and Linux Developer Gets Laid.
Well, since these sorts of comparisons seem to be in, lets take it to the news media:
Comparison of ZDNet and Slashdot
Names:
Well, this one is a no brainer. With a name like Slashdot, it has to be good. Besides sounding like something you would hear in a 1st grade class ("Now to finish the letter, just slashdot."), it also make a cool sword sound effect. Just saying ZDNet out loud, one must cringe. It sounds like something that should be served in a Italian restaurant. "Come to the Olive Garden to sample our new ZDNet." See?
Advantage: Slashdot
Content:
Hmmm, this one is a tough one. On the one side, you have Slashdot, where you can't go twenty four hours without hearing either a Linux story, anti-Windows story, a technology story that will not be affordable by mere mortals for another ten years, or some lame attempt to be funny article like my post wants to be. Then, you have ZDNet. Just have one word, Berst. Need I say more? Okay, how about Dvorak? Oh yeah, that's the sugar.
Advantage: ZDNet
Mascot:
This one is tough, but we will try and break it down. To start off Slashdot, you have one of the founder's name CmdrTaco. You think taco, you think south of the border. You think south of the border, you think Taco Bell. You think Taco Bell, you think little chuaua. That's right, the once fired Taco Bell mascot. How can you go wrong? "Yo geuro Slashdot." Sorry to butch that word, but the exact spelling escapes me. ZDNet, you think C|Net, you think big red sign with the C|Net logo, which makes you think stop, don't cross, or any other liberty robbing rule. Sorry, that makes me cry just thinking about it.
Advantage: Slashdot
There you have it. An indepth look at these two media power houses. To save you the money, definately check out Slashdot, where in our scientific research one 2 to 1!
Bryan R.
Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
A search for "Linux Sucks" yields 114,000 results, and a search for "Windows 2000 Sucks" gets 66,700.
And thanks to the power of Open Source propaganda, where you can rely on everyone to be an advocate, as opposed to the old style Closed Source propaganda, where the majority of suckage has to come from the vendor, this problem will be fixed by Linux 2.4!
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