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The Pros and Cons of Mainframe Linux
magellan writes "There is a good article on LinuxWorld.com that goes over some of the pros and cons of Linux on the mainframe. The author, Paul Murphy is an old mainframer and current UNIX user, as well as a frequent contributor to LinuxWorld.com, so he has some good insights.
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There once was a coder named Linus
Who let RMS touch his penis
They'd jerk and they'd play
And Linus would say,
'We're outside, someone could have seen us'
Pro: It's free.
Con: It's Linux.
Like explaining how the Civil Rights movement completed many of the objectives that the Reconstruction set out to accomplish?
It's open source, if you don't like it fix it.
That's some fucked up repugnant shit. IBM paid to research this? Sick fuckers.
The "No Score +1 Bonus" check box is there for a reason. Just thought you'd like to know. You're a clever one, apparently.
What's that? You say you smell plot cliches? If cliches smell like rancid cow shit, then you may be on to something:
The renegade Holograms have disabled Voyager and escaped to warp, but not before abducting Lt. Torres in hopes of benefiting from her expertise with holo-technology.
The Doctor, who voluntarily joined the renegades, is furious with the group's leader, Iden, but Iden promises to let Torres go once she has a chance to decide for herself whether to help the Holograms. Meanwhile, the Voyager crew struggles to repair the ship in Torres' absence, and Janeway learns that the Doctor betrayed and abandoned the ship, and wonders if his matrix may have been altered by the other Holograms.
Jesus Christ. When they're not having a "holodeck" episode, or an episode with the borg + time travel, they're having an episode about holograms. Not only is this "photonic lifeform" bullshit completely ridiculous, they drape it in this extra layer of faggoty political correctness. They talk about "photonic lifeform rights" and all this other bleeding-heart-liberal pseudo-philosophy that's just plot filler because the special effects department ran out of money for explosions.
I don't want to feel like I'm watching a fucking civil rights movement. I want to see naked bitches getting fucked. I want to see huge fucking explosions. I want to see giant tits. I want to see Seven of Nine get raped in the ass by a giant biomechanical tentacle monster, Urotsukidoji style.
And when was the last fucking time we even saw a skirt on this show? Uhura used to trollop around in little go-go outfits all the time. The best we can hope for these days is that maybe Seven will bend over to pick up an errant phaser, and we'll get a half-second shot of her spandex-clad ass.
Fuck that. They had actual porn stars like Angelique Pettyjohn (ever see Stalag 69?) in the original Star Trek series. But I guess we live in the age of mediocre bullshit.
I fucking give up.
Why was this modded up? It's a fucking cut-and-paste karma whore. Gimme a break.
Who was the dimwit that moderated this interesting? Given the large number of "close but no cigar" inaccurate claims, I'd think this was egg troll (C: A Dead Language, etc) in disguise.
Of course, make bogus pro linux claims, get modded up.
Linux cons........CONS!
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I don't like it. What are my options?
1) Fix it. Requires a large investment of time and effort.
2) Use something better.
If I lived in my parents basement and didn't have anything to do all day (and night), #1 might be a viable option.
i have not much experience on linux. the fact that it is still a spare-time project ruled completely at the whim of Linus himself i find very annoying. if he knew what would be best for the community he would assemble a trusted team tat could control the kernel. at home i have recently switched to BeOS. okay i know it is dead but i'm following the open BeOS project. look good. linux is just not up to par with BeOS. man that system rocks. Interfacer. P.S. the biggest threat to linux are the zealots.
Hmm, usually you like when I clean it off before he sticks it inside you. Oh well.
Actually your mom is going to want me to come home to work inside of her. You had the words right, just in the wrong order. It's okay, I was hitting the sauce pretty hard when I spermed you my son.