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The Sad Parable of OS/2
Still-in-Mourning writes "IBM's first 32-bit version of its advanced PC operating system was released 10 years ago this month. It was better than anything around, yet it failed. Its hopes were pinned on many of the same things we hope today will bring Linux to the forefront. What lessons are to be learned? Will we learn them? A glimpse of a sorry chapter in computing history."
fp!y!
Excellent first post! It was almost informative enough to not be ranked as a cheap first post troll! For a one-line post, truly excellent!
Tell your professor to go fuck himself. :)
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Date: 2002-03-14 21:48
.dot file lists is sheer idiocy. How often does someone post unix .dotfiles? How easy is it for someone who must post said files to workaround the lameness filter (fuck, everyone else seems to have to)? Now compare that to having every story scribbled on by Klerck... who is not just annoying some readers, but making you look like the bunch of
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This is a perfect example of how little the slashdot editors care about the site. Remember the other page widening bugs... you could have temporarily disabled BLOCKQUOTE and list tags while you worked on a fix - but no. We had weeks
of page widening (and not just on IE), while you sat on your fat asses thinking up a fucking regexp.
It's really not acceptable guys. I work as a coder, and if I worked in such a shoddy way I'd be out the door. You are not even taking this perfectly valid patch to fix a bug which affects a large percentage of your readership. The work has
been done for you - and the excuse that it stops people from posting unix
incompetant web monkeys you are.
Frankly, the entire system is a joke, and it looks more and more like you are sabotaging things to piss off your employers.
Date: 2002-03-14 16:17
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Its clear that the so-called "editors" and
"coders" at Sla$hdot are so deluded and confused, that they think by NOT fixing this bug, millions of IE/Windows users will suddenly flock to Linux/Mozilla. Or they think they are revealing some "bug" in IE (guess what, it happens
with Netscape under Win 98 also).
Just for fun I tried page-widening on some other comment pages. IT DOES NOT WORK. For example try www.shacknews.com. The comment I post is wide, but THE OTHER COMMENTS ARE FINE.
So, whats broken? Your stupid open sorez code is broken.
You guys really are starting to be your own worst enemy. Your readership and hitcounts are down, aren't they? Its because you are OUT OF TOUCH! If you do not fix the bug, people, ALOT OF PEOPLE, alot more than your Mozilla readership, will be *ANNOYED*.
ANNOYING YOUR USERBASE IS NOT A GOOD BUSINESS MODEL. GET A FUCKING CLUE.
You guys suck. Goodbye.
Date: 2002-03-09 19:04
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jamie - don't be such a fucking incompetant. any *real* web programmer worth their salt would test against all popular web browsing configurations (linux, mac os, windows running IE, netscape, mozilla, opera, konqueror).
i know that VA is going down the tubes, but i'm certain they can at least buy one windows box w/ IE for testing. in the *real* world, your ass would be canned in a heartbeat for blatantly ignoring 90% of your potential customers. ha! what are you going to tell your paying
customers:
"if you want to view slashdot, please download netscape and install on your machine"
the saddest part of this whole thing is that somebody has already given you the patch. i know "cut-and-paste" is a difficult thing to do, but calm down, jamie, even 11 year old Sandy in the Special Ed courses can do it on her iMac.
here's a hint: In Xemacs, you can paste text from the clipboard buffer using Shift-Insert.
And the wonderful thing about Perl is that you don't have to learn how to do really *hard* stuff, like compiling and linking. or using the makefile. or the debugger.
You can just rerun the script, and, VOILA! You're ready to test!
so why don't you get off your slug ass and fix this fucking shit. if not for us, the potential customers, then at least do it so you don't look like a total retard in front of 250,000 users a day.
like i said before - in the real world, your ass wouldn't survive...
Date: 2002-03-06 00:42
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slashdot is my toilet and the comments are my diposed toilet paper
thanks!
-klerck
More like typical humorless f**k who can't take a joke.
Frankly, I wouldn't trust an OS that was cobbled-together by an ad-hoc committee of hackers (read "LINUX") as far as I could spit.
Funny, I notice you've managed to post this. What do you use, a steam-powered computer with a steam-whistle calliope(sp) acting as an analog modem? Eh? Point me toward a marginally-accepted non-hacked-together OS. If you point me toward an Apple or Microsoft product, it'll be proof that their marketing departments have done their jobs.
Don't know what I'm talking about? Remember the hype about Win95 being a total rewrite? Remember the lack of fanfare when it was discovered that wasn't true?
As for your "humorous" LINUX acronym, I can only suppose you're a BSD zealot if you're bashing cobbled-together OSes and Linux in particular. As such you have no room to talk about xenophobia. ;-D
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.