95% of the people who hate Microsoft hate it because it's successful. And of course, paradoxically they also hate Microsoft because it's unsuccessful (it's products are 'unsuccessful' because they don't run properly 100% of the time on 100,000 different hardware combinations). It's one of those paradoxes of American culture.
Actually, Webster's isn't considered definitive. I think the OED gets a lot more respect. Actually, a whole lot of different dictionaries call themselves "Websters" these days and some of them are pretty crappy.
If you believe in a higher power of some sort (have a religion) you know it.
If you like certain forms of music, just because you like the way it sounds, you know it.
Countless other examples could be made.
And I know, countless examples can be picked apart, and it can all be wound down to a cold mechanistic worldview in which you may as well just save us the trouble and kill yourself right now.
The BSD networking code is used by Linux, Microsoft, and others.
Actually, the BSD TCP/IP stack is used as the reference for almost every OS out there. Linux is one of the few exceptions, and as a consequence Linux has a non-standard stack with bugs not present in almost any other implementation.
And even though no one's bothered to pony up the bucks to certify Linux, you can't deny that Linux has impacted Unix.
Yes, that can be said. A lot of the "embrace and extend" GNU projects use Linux as a battering ram to attack the standardization process, though. I guess the term "impacted" doesn't always have to carry a positive meaning...
Oh, but those of us who've grown weary of all the Linux hype are glad for the Cult-of-Linus.
It makes things more clear, and it'll eventually take down some of the Linux Hype. And those are things to be grateful for, when you grow weary of the "Linux will save the world" bullshit. If we're REALLY lucky the "Cult of the Personality" stuff will take down a whole load of the "Open Source(tm)" hype with it also.
The myth that a few great charismatic individuals can make the whole world better is wrong. As is the myth that Open Source grows up naturally out of the soil. It's something in between, where individual effort counts, and makes things happen, but where adopters pick things up and projects snowball.
Hey, didn't you read the Linux Journal "Help" column a few months ago. Somebody wrote in with an NFS question regarding Linux.
The column maintainer answered by strongly discouraging the questioner from running NFS on Linux. NFS is one of the Achilles heels of Linux, and from what I've been able to gather up, it's not anything that's being worked on.
Get this- the column maintainer recommended the user instead install Samba on both systems and use SMB to communicate to filesystems between the machines.
Isn't that ludicrous? A writer in Linux Journal willing to badmouth NFS and talk up and promote a Microsoft Proprietary (and now reverse-engineered) network protocol.
The Windows 98 SE Shutdown Bug only happened on inferior hardware like AMD systems. I had a K6-2 system where it happened. I got rid of the K6-2 and the problem went away.
And there's a service patch available on the Windows Update website for this now, in any case.
I installed and ran NT Workstation 3.51 on a 386DX-25 with 12 MB of RAM once. Just to prove it could be done. It booted and ran fine. I didn't dare install any apps on it, though.
I started with Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux (aka LGX) back in the Fall of 1993. It booted right off the CD-ROM and even played music at the login prompt. I was impressed, and had NO idea what I was getting myself in for.
Then I found Slackware on the early InfoMagic disk sets. It was nice, had a clean menu-based installation, and Slack is never in your way when you want to get something done.
I tried RedHat for a time, and Suse and even Debian ('mired in the dselect swamp' is how I now put it).
After a little RedHat experience, I was ready to go back to Slack.
Now I'd rather get my Unix fix running NetBSD, not installing ANY binary packages except for the base distribution. Voila! Everything works!
NetBSD - main focus being platform proliferation (they support everything, though I don't know about laptops)
NetBSD works quite well on laptops, in my (limited) experience. NetBSD was the first time I had ever downloaded an entire OS off the 'net and gotten it working (lots of Linux CDs before that point, granted). I put NetBSD on my ageing Toshiba 2105 with greater ease than any of the Linux distributions. The PCMCIA Ethernet support is right in the bare kernel, so no need to futz around with modules or bolted-on kludges.
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I like NetBSD. For one, there's one, count-it, one HomePage on the whole 'net for the NetBSD Foundation. (mirrored, of course, all over the world). Not 10,000 places all claiming authority, as is the case with certain other Free OSes.
I shy away from Free Software efforts where there's too much talk of "community" too. It starts to sound like an.advocacy Usenet group shortly after that word wanders into a conversation.
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95% of the people who hate Microsoft hate it because it's successful. And of course, paradoxically they also hate Microsoft because it's unsuccessful (it's products are 'unsuccessful' because they don't run properly 100% of the time on 100,000 different hardware combinations). It's one of those paradoxes of American culture.
Actually, Webster's isn't considered definitive. I think the OED gets a lot more respect. Actually, a whole lot of different dictionaries call themselves "Websters" these days and some of them are pretty crappy.
Nope.
Not everything can be reduced to economics.
If you've ever been in love you know it.
If you believe in a higher power of some sort (have a religion) you know it.
If you like certain forms of music, just because you like the way it sounds, you know it.
Countless other examples could be made.
And I know, countless examples can be picked apart, and it can all be wound down to a cold mechanistic worldview in which you may as well just save us the trouble and kill yourself right now.
The BSD networking code is used by Linux, Microsoft, and others.
Actually, the BSD TCP/IP stack is used as the reference for almost every OS out there. Linux is one of the few exceptions, and as a consequence Linux has a non-standard stack with bugs not present in almost any other implementation.
How marvelous.
We have people who don't know the difference between Forth and Fortran in the discussion now.
This really is Slashdot, isn't it!?!
"Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain! I Am The Great And Powerful Linux!"
And even though no one's bothered to pony up the bucks to certify Linux, you can't deny that Linux has impacted Unix.
Yes, that can be said. A lot of the "embrace and extend" GNU projects use Linux as a battering ram to attack the standardization process, though. I guess the term "impacted" doesn't always have to carry a positive meaning...
Well, uh those were probably things that some of the old timers who dislike Linux (people like Ken Thompson, and Bill Joy, and the BSD folks) did.
This is the new era when everything good about Unix has to do with Open Source(tm) and the FSF.
Mozilla will be released about a month after the first service pack for Windows 2000. In other words real soon now.
Does anybody know if the original RSA paper is worth much as a collector's item yet? I still have mine, from 1977.
In any war, the point is to kill person x because s/he believes y enough to fight for it, and the reason you do this killing is because you believe z.
So we can now move on beyond "killing is bad" to more particular issues, if "talking about the ethics of war" even has any place on Slashdot.
I liked "Blake Stone" a lot, too. It was as good a game as Wolfenstein 3-D.
Okay, I will admit it. I'm not the world's greatest vi expert.
How do I read email with vi, then?
Please don't tell me I can use vi as the editor and the mail command. That's not reading email with vi.
Oh, but those of us who've grown weary of all the Linux hype are glad for the Cult-of-Linus.
It makes things more clear, and it'll eventually take down some of the Linux Hype. And those are things to be grateful for, when you grow weary of the "Linux will save the world" bullshit. If we're REALLY lucky the "Cult of the Personality" stuff will take down a whole load of the "Open Source(tm)" hype with it also.
The myth that a few great charismatic individuals can make the whole world better is wrong. As is the myth that Open Source grows up naturally out of the soil. It's something in between, where individual effort counts, and makes things happen, but where adopters pick things up and projects snowball.
Hey, didn't you read the Linux Journal "Help" column a few months ago. Somebody wrote in with an NFS question regarding Linux.
The column maintainer answered by strongly discouraging the questioner from running NFS on Linux. NFS is one of the Achilles heels of Linux, and from what I've been able to gather up, it's not anything that's being worked on.
Get this- the column maintainer recommended the user instead install Samba on both systems and use SMB to communicate to filesystems between the machines.
Isn't that ludicrous? A writer in Linux Journal willing to badmouth NFS and talk up and promote a Microsoft Proprietary (and now reverse-engineered) network protocol.
Just bring up your Linux system, then yank the power cord while it's doing a disk write.
Do that two or three times.
Get out the stopwatch and have some fun.
Windows does have an X server. You can run Hummingbird's eXceed. You can also install Interix and run X11R6.
The key fact, though, is that almost nobody runs an X server on NT, because it has a better GUI built into the kernel.
The Windows 98 SE Shutdown Bug only happened on inferior hardware like AMD systems. I had a K6-2 system where it happened. I got rid of the K6-2 and the problem went away.
And there's a service patch available on the Windows Update website for this now, in any case.
I installed and ran NT Workstation 3.51 on a 386DX-25 with 12 MB of RAM once. Just to prove it could be done. It booted and ran fine. I didn't dare install any apps on it, though.
The t-shirt probably reads:
"I am the NT Admin whose machine booted the slowest in the big contest. Hire me, I am an expert"
It's to be worn at job interviews. And when applying for food stamps.
I think his point was that Slashdot participants bleat "Bill Gates Evil Linus Good" like a herd of sheep, not that the reverse is true.
Oh it will give you change for your twenty, alright.
In nickels, dimes, and quarters.
The vending machine next to the Coke machine sells little cloth coin purses. It only takes dollar bills (no coins)
I started with Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux (aka LGX) back in the Fall of 1993. It booted right off the CD-ROM and even played music at the login prompt. I was impressed, and had NO idea what I was getting myself in for.
Then I found Slackware on the early InfoMagic disk sets. It was nice, had a clean menu-based installation, and Slack is never in your way when you want to get something done.
I tried RedHat for a time, and Suse and even Debian ('mired in the dselect swamp' is how I now put it).
After a little RedHat experience, I was ready to go back to Slack.
Now I'd rather get my Unix fix running NetBSD, not installing ANY binary packages except for the base distribution. Voila! Everything works!
NetBSD - main focus being platform proliferation (they support everything, though I don't know about laptops)
NetBSD works quite well on laptops, in my (limited) experience. NetBSD was the first time I had ever downloaded an entire OS off the 'net and gotten it working (lots of Linux CDs before that point, granted). I put NetBSD on my ageing Toshiba 2105 with greater ease than any of the Linux distributions. The PCMCIA Ethernet support is right in the bare kernel, so no need to futz around with modules or bolted-on kludges.
I like NetBSD. For one, there's one, count-it, one HomePage on the whole 'net for the NetBSD Foundation. (mirrored, of course, all over the world). Not 10,000 places all claiming authority, as is the case with certain other Free OSes.
.advocacy Usenet group shortly after that word wanders into a conversation.
I shy away from Free Software efforts where there's too much talk of "community" too. It starts to sound like an