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Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works
bonch writes "Fortune has a story about Microsoft's new philosophy--'It just works.' Jim Allchin details various planned Longhorn features to meet this goal, such as auto-defragmenting in the background, the ability to have files in more than one folder simultaneously, and the new ad campaign Microsoft is running to get people excited about Windows. Mentions are also made of the competition from Linux, OS X Tiger, and Google."
OT, but interesting, considering the subject matter.
.. see above :() { :|: & } ; :.
1. What is l33t?
l33t means elite, the "best of the best". For some people, the n00bs, l33t and n00b means nothing. If you do not understand n00b and l33t, you are a n00b. n00bs are not allowed to read this page, go away!
2. Being l33t
l33t is all about pretending to be superior even though the obvious truth is that you are a geek who will probably never get a date. l33t people are not easy to spot, because they are never outside. Night after night they sit in front of their b0xen doing hacking and phreaking and most importantly coding, and this is the reason they sleep all day.
3. How to be l33t
* Learn what eggdrop is and how to use it. You need lots of eggdrops.
* The more shells you have, legal or not, the more l33t you become. All those shells should be used for running lots and lots of eggdrops. Also, shells can be used to hide your IP and identity when hacking the pentagon and d dosing RIAAs web server, both popular l33t activities.
* Why do you need eggdrops? Don't ask.
* You should be connected to four irc servers at all times. On irc, you should
o Say "heh" a lot
o Leet peope don't say lawl, roffle, roffluhmao or guh guh
o Additionally they don't say stoofoo thux or kuhpluhz
* x86 is not enough. You need to use more than an x86 processor. dse
4. l33t food
What you eat when no one is looking is totally unimportant. What is very important, is that your workspace, wherever it may be, is filled with empty pizza boxes and empty bottles that previously contained something with lots and lots of caffeine.
that is not my work station btw
5. l33t terms
To really become l33t, you need to learn and understand the l33t language.
* box: Every computer is a box. Your computer is not a "Pentium" or a "Dell" or anything like that. It's simply a box. Like the eggdrops, you need lots and lots of b0xen. Why, when you are the only one who will be using them and you only got two arms and eyes? It's obvious. The more boxen, the more l33t.
* OS: Your favorite OS is Free BSD, even if you are using some Linux flavor. Saying things like "I prefer Gentoo Linux on my desktop but use Free BSD on my server" is good. Saying "I only use Windows to play games but I'm really a Linux fan" is very stupid and bad and will make everyone call you a n00b forever.
* pr0n: what you watch on your 21 inch display while you jerk your 2.1 inch pecker, for the most l33t this is the most exercise you will get all day
* 0wned:
1. what happens to n00bs, RSA, DOD and the RIAA's "b0xen", for the l33t the physical equivalent of this is being anally assaulted with pine combs
2. what you do to windows and lindows b0xen
3. what is bound to happen sooner rather than later if you are using Internet Explorer
* b0xen: plural of box
* fork bomb: code or commands you should be aware of but never ever execute because they will totally lock your system. Tempt n00bs (but never recommend) to run things like
* whore:
o foo> anyone have ebooks on php with mysql?
o bar> Sams.Teach.Yourself.PHP.MySQL.And.Apache.In.24Hour s.eBook-LiB, Premier.Press.PHP.Fast.And.Easy.Web.Development.2n d.Edition.eBook-LiB, MASTERING.PHP.5-JGTiSO
o foo> bar: could i whore it?
o bar> sure
o walmart> whore it
o walmart> hahahhah
* r00ted (badly mis-spelled rewted), refer to 0wned.
6. Your Internet Connection
All the boxen you administrate use IPv6 only, but are still able to access the old Internet through a IPv6 to IPv4 proxy running on your firewall(s). This is done by using Trick Or Treat Daemon (DNS proxy for 6to4) and P
SCO want a hearing with Judge Judy.
Does anyone else find it funny that the Fortune.com web site has a Netscape favicon installed? Did someone forget to change the default favicon.ico file from Netscape Enterprise Server 4.1?
Will I be able to run Tigger on an IBM PPC box?
X-86?
How many would pay $500 for an X-86 version of Apple's OS?
If it were available for X-86, would MS let it run on their VM?
Personally, I'm still PO'ed over the Mac XL. Apple royally SCREWED their Mac XL customers. It was a lot of money too. Mac XL wouldn't run Lisa or Mac apps reliably, if at all! This is the main reason my only Apple purchase since has been the 1 meg shuffle for daughters B'day gift.