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BSD User's Review Of OS X
Lally Singh writes: "Getting bored with the latest distribution? Or getting tired of searching for drivers for your 8 bit soundblaster (in)compatible? Then listen to one BSD user's opinion of Mac OS X. And stop complaining about the hardware. Give a Powermac or one of the portables a chance before knocking on it."
crazily enough, the desktop picture control you're looking for is in Finder's preferences. Man, Apple logic is SO WEIRD.
have you seen how much is in office these days?
Hi,
I am ignorant, and had trouble setting up ________ on __________, so I'm going to trash it, especially since saying that I wouldn't have trouble doing the same thing on _________ would make me seem 1337.
a man, a plan, a canal, panama
This early post for Ida!
Horror/fiction writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine house this morning. I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you didn't read his books you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. Truly an American icon.
Let's face the facts, the best computers are simple to use.
And here is the simplest computer around, and the interface is perfect because we are all born with it - the interface is human DRIVE. The computer works like this: I stick my pee sprout in your mom's poop chute for 1, and I stick it in her pee hole for 0.
poop chute = 1
pee hole = 0
Sometimes I stick it in her mouth, but that is for parity.
Sometimes complex operations can take a long time to complete, but that's okay! We're looking for simplicity here, not speed. And waiting for this interface isn't that bad.
This simple computer is very susceptable to visuses. In fact, it comes pre-loaded with several.
For review:
poop chute = 1
pee hole = 0
This computer also fits into Microsoft's
poop chute = 1
pee hole = 0
My favorite interface? The C.U.M.
You know, the cum in-her-face?
Yet nother crippling bombshell hit the eleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *SD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on top of of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick nd its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For ll practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
*BS is dying
pjbass is gay
for your earlier troll, Hemos? I wish I could moderate the editors--then my frontpage would be more (+2 Insightful) and less (-1 Troll).
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Much like BSD is. These fucking stupid BSD users just can't seem to get out of the early 90's, eh? Even the article's author doesn't know how to use meta tags and puts all the bullshit keywords in plain text. Lame. If I had a gun, and a bullet for every BSD user (along with point-blank range to said BSD users skulls), the world would be a better place. :-)
Not everyone had access to an OC-2048, and most servers where 800 mhz, so we would have to wait 4 hours before we could reach a site due to the slashdot effect. You kids are spoiled, your connection are so quick, it gets there before you needed it ... damn wipper snappers.
Don't ask ... :)
until (succeed) try { again(); }
A link to gay porn gets an "Informative" mod up... huh? Could you please at least check the link before doing that?
it's NOT a cached copy of the article, it's pr0n.
mod up now jackass moderators!!
Please grow up, Dr. Fred. You are obviously trying to troll, and not doing a very good job at it, at that. Please find better ways to spend you time. I hovered over the link, and it's obvious to me that the link is legitimate, unless you are insinuating that google is unsavory in some way.
thanks AC!
Your comment is silly and off-topic. You obviously have multiple accounts and a lot of time on your hands.
Perhaps. But this should not, and does not, negate my argument that BSD users are mostly inept faggots living in the early 90's.
- Do a google search for something.
- Click on the "Cached" link to see the cached version of the page.
- The URL for this page will be something like http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ABCDEFGH:url
. com/path.html
where "ABCDEFGH" is a random-looking mixture of upper- and lowercase letters, which look like a hash key of some sort.
- You can change the URL appearing after this hash key, but it will lead to the same site as the original link. This allows trolls like the above upmodded person to hide a link to goatse.cx or comp-u-geek.net or adequacy.org as an innocent looking cache link.
Of course, all you mods are too busy shooting heroin to even check the links before you hand out the informative mods. Morons.You are wrong man. They don't use standard DIMMs, they use Funky D RAM or something. You can't pop a standard DIMM into a G3 box.
Please mod down.
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$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
Who ever moderated this up to +2 Insightful should lose moderator access for life.
Why? Those guys were SEXY!!!!
Maybe this guy (like many Slashdot readers) needs to get a (sex) life.
"search engine theory" oh please, heh. Everythings "something theory". I study "make mundane shit sound important by adding theory to the end of everything theory".
So you're saying he has taste and intelligence? That he's neat and polite?
Well, I'm sure a FEW of us learned a few things from it... so yeah, I guess it was informative :-)
Thanks, the slashdot effect was really beginning to annoy me.
Why is everyone saying this link is a troll? It linked to the Mac OS X story for me... what gives?
As a result of jchristopher and his other personas, a perfectly good, +2 informative post has been modded to -1 where it will have less of an effect. It is unfortunate that moderators fell for jchristopher's trolling effort.
This Google cache hack is becoming a common target for trolls; moderators and users alike need to be informed before they end up hitting goatse.cx on accident.
Phroggy appears to be the mastermind behind the scheme to discredit this post. Since his account has the lowest user id, I would guess that the other accounts are owned by him as well. He obviously has too much time on his hands. It's unfortunate that the moderation system got abused like this. Please give Phroggy's accounts the karma slap they deserve.
I encourage CmdrTaco and the rest of the Slashdot crew to look into limiting multiple accounts, so that individuals like jchristopher won't be able to stage trolls like this in the future.
As a result of phroggy and his other personas, a perfectly good, +2 informative post has been modded to -1 where it will have less of an effect. It is unfortunate that moderators fell for phroggy's trolling effort.
Yup, being gay makes you all of the above.
No, wait, you're gay and obviously stupid. Oh well.
Ida, sweet as apple cider
Sweeter than all I know
Come on out in the silvery moonlight
Oh we'll whisper so sweet and low
Seems as though I can't live without you
Listen, oh honey, do
Ida, I'd idolize you
Oh baby, I love you, Ida, 'deed I do
by Eddie Leonard and Eddie Munson, 1903
Lyrics as recorded by Glenn Miller