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What's Wrong with Unix?
aaron240 asks: "When Google published the GLAT (Google Labs Aptitude Test) the Unix question was intriguing. They asked an open-ended question about what is wrong with Unix and how you might fix it. Rob Pike touched on the question in his Slashdot interview from October. What insightful answers did the rest of Slashdot give when they applied to work at Google? To repeat the actual question, 'What's broken with Unix? How would you fix it?'"
I'm used to reading my system text as a white font on a blue background.
Q. What's wrong with Unix?
A. All those slashes and dots.
Q. How you would fix it?
A. um, slashdot
Of course!
http://tinyurl.com/4ny52
"The fact that I have yet to receive significant monetary compensation for working with it. I would fix it by having someone at Google to hire me with a starting offer of $100,000 per year salary and a signing bonus of options for 50,000 shares of pre-IPO Google stock."
Why are you looking at me like that? I figured all the good jobs were gone, so I was trying for a marketing position.
I would suggest to the KSpaceDuel team that they meet with the KAsteroids team to discuss usability issues. There should also be a cap on how fast you can go, since it is possible to speed up so fast that your spacecraft appears to be moving very slowly (sort of like a tire in motion).
Not everyone's running it.
Laugh.
It's a joke.
Somebody find this man a package manager.
No comment.
SOLUTION: 2 MT airburst over Lindon, UT
Oh, with UNIX, not for UNIX. Never mind.
As you were.
My good man, all these and more are already fixed in The Hurd!!! Free4Life, baby, yeah!
-- RMS
Lots of people agree that OS X is the best Unix going. So now us Linux fans has something to copy. Lets get started.
I can't count the number of times I've dragged a file to the "Overwrite With Nuls" icon on the desktop. This wouldn't help at all!
Nothing.
I applied to work at Microsoft. The interviewer asked me: "What's not broken with Windows?" "How would you break it?"
Yes! OS X is a true miracle given to us by his Steveness in all his wisdom and might. Bow down all you heathen Windows and Linux users; he shall cleanse the world in fire and apples; choose well which side of the fence ye dwell on!
It's actually WORSE in the linux community than it is in, say, the IRIX, Solaris or HP/UX camps. Then there's the OS X and Classic MacOS camps, which take the "being an elitist prick" mentality to a whole new level.
Oh, and there's LISP users and HURD developers. Dear fucking gods, they set the standard.
No Balls
Thank you! I'm here all week! Try the Chicken Kiev!
Elitist? Just because we're better than you? If we were elitist, we would be justified. But we're not.
So shut it, you snivelling, GUI-loving dweeb. You're not good enough for UNIX.
That reminds me of my favorite Windows error message:
Windows - Application Error
The instruction at "0x00403759" referenced memory at "0x202c7971". The memory could not be "read".
Click OK to terminate the program.
The quotes around "read" are what really cracks me up. What can I say, I'm easily amused. Bring on the guru meditation, baby! ;)
> -grafics system and font handling
Spell checker needs standardising.
How is this not better than the current Unix way of doing things?
umm, you have to use a mouse?
"Would you like it if an artist made fun of your pens and call you and your friends BIC people?"
Spoken like a true Papermate dork.
I've worked with a couple of MCSEs who weren't morons. Of course, they were Solaris sysadmins who'd got the MCSE as a requirement for some job or other they'd been involved in, but still ...
One of them said he'd had _enormous_ trouble with the MCSE tests, until he figured out the "correct" answers to the questions wasn't the right answer that'd actually solve the problem, it was the answer you'd been taught on the MCSE course.
What a long, strange trip it's been.
"OS X takes the bullshit out of getting Work Done" -- but I'm a Linux Gentoo fanboy. I don't want to take the Bullshit out of getting work done. In fact, I don't want to get any real work done at all.
"The business community" finds file systems confusing, so they stick everything into one giant directory with nearly worthless filenames. When they want to share a file with someone else they stumble around until they figure out how to turn on sharing and disable any sort of security.
ACLs are great, but most users, including most businesses, wouldn't know what to do with them. Clueful users are the exception, not the rule. Furthermore, anyone with enough of a clue to 1. seriously consider Linux and 2. understand and desire ACLs certainly has enough of a clue to discover that Linux has ACLs.
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