Yeah, between that picture and this one, and not to mention this guy, I can't imagine why anyone would ever think the GNU/Source crowd is anything but a bunch of megastuds! Such fine examples of the modern GQ man!
Interesting how Intel is the one breaking backwards compatibility, and AMD is keeping it in their chips. Intel, who historically have favored compatibility over moving forward with radical new technology. And AMD, who recently have been the underdogs with more innovative, higher-performing chips.
I'll bet everyone here is going to be singing the praises of AMD for making their 64-bit chip backwards compatible with x86. The very same people who have been spending the past several years decrying the evil of Intel for maintaining compatibility to such an outdated architecture.
Actually, ya know... I just noticed last night during the season finale of "24"... the bad girl traitor character used a Mac powerbook. And not only that, but it looked like she was running Linux on it! I distinctly saw a GNOME-ish window manager and desktop on her screen. With the glowing apple prominently showing on the back of the screen.
So... I don't think this rule is really a general rule. I suspect that Apples are common in TV/Movies because the people who create those shows are creative-types that probably prefer Apples.
Dang. I am a CSci grad from the U of M, and they didn't have that when I went there! They didn't even have ethernet in the dorms yet! Why, back in my day, we had to play DOOM on the networked SGI workstations in the computer lab. Boy, those were the days..:)
Also its assumed you are using a professional level web server (Apache, Iplanet, NES, or even
IIS)
Nintendo Entertainment System is a web server now?? You mean, all these years I've been just playing Super Mario Bros. I could've been serving web pages from my living room?? Boy, I feel out of touch!
Hey, speaking of Microsoft trying to discredit Unix on the desktop, I was reminded of the first time I tried IE4 for Solaris.
This was a couple years back, I heard that Microsoft had released IE4 for Unix. I was very curious to see what kind of application Microsoft could make for Unix (and surprised that they'd even try!) so I went to the Unix lab at my university, downloaded it, and tried it out. I ended up running it on a remote machine and displaying on the one I was sitting at (running on ultrasparc, displaying on an old sparc).
Anyway, to sum up, IE4 actually crashed the sparcstation I was sitting at! Not even the one it was running on! It crashed the machine is was merely displaying on! I could not believe it. Prior to that, a crash in Solaris was utterly unheard of to me, but somehow Microsoft managed to find a way to crash it. Froze the machine solid and I had to cycle the power.
Well, it doesn't matter how much you like IE over Netscape on Windows. He is saying the Unix versions of IE that have been out really suck. And he's right. I have also tried the Solaris port, out of curiosity, and it really does blow chunks. Painfully slow, and even flakier than Netscape. So no matter how nice IE is for Windows, the Unix versions they've released thus far are really pathetic.
Except of course with "good, quick, cheap, soon, choose three" you could choose "good, quick, and cheap" which you obviously could not do with "good, quick, cheap, choose two."
I also emailed them a couple of weeks ago offering to help out with a Linux port.
Hopefully if they get enough people offering to help with a port, they will realize that not only is there a demand, but they will not have to spend much development money to do it!
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Why can't more Linux users look like this???
Interesting how Intel is the one breaking backwards compatibility, and AMD is keeping it in their chips. Intel, who historically have favored compatibility over moving forward with radical new technology. And AMD, who recently have been the underdogs with more innovative, higher-performing chips.
I'll bet everyone here is going to be singing the praises of AMD for making their 64-bit chip backwards compatible with x86. The very same people who have been spending the past several years decrying the evil of Intel for maintaining compatibility to such an outdated architecture.
Interesting eh?
I agree! We at Globex Corp. have never been, and never will be a customer of such a third-rate villany "store."
-Hank
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Actually, ya know ... I just noticed last night during the season finale of "24" ... the bad girl traitor character used a Mac powerbook. And not only that, but it looked like she was running Linux on it! I distinctly saw a GNOME-ish window manager and desktop on her screen. With the glowing apple prominently showing on the back of the screen.
So... I don't think this rule is really a general rule. I suspect that Apples are common in TV/Movies because the people who create those shows are creative-types that probably prefer Apples.
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Dang. I am a CSci grad from the U of M, and they didn't have that when I went there! They didn't even have ethernet in the dorms yet! Why, back in my day, we had to play DOOM on the networked SGI workstations in the computer lab. Boy, those were the days.. :)
:)
OK, so I was just a few years too early.
Idiocracy? Is that, like, a society run by idiots?
Hey, you quoted me in your .sig! How thoughtful! :)
Don't forget The Crying Game.
Nintendo Entertainment System is a web server now?? You mean, all these years I've been just playing Super Mario Bros. I could've been serving web pages from my living room?? Boy, I feel out of touch!
Sure you have... Anytime you've heard someone read a URL on the radio, or in a TV ad, it's been embedded in audio!
Heh, sorry, I just couldn't resist...
This was a couple years back, I heard that Microsoft had released IE4 for Unix. I was very curious to see what kind of application Microsoft could make for Unix (and surprised that they'd even try!) so I went to the Unix lab at my university, downloaded it, and tried it out. I ended up running it on a remote machine and displaying on the one I was sitting at (running on ultrasparc, displaying on an old sparc).
Anyway, to sum up, IE4 actually crashed the sparcstation I was sitting at! Not even the one it was running on! It crashed the machine is was merely displaying on! I could not believe it. Prior to that, a crash in Solaris was utterly unheard of to me, but somehow Microsoft managed to find a way to crash it. Froze the machine solid and I had to cycle the power.
Microsoft never ceases to amaze me.
Well, it doesn't matter how much you like IE over Netscape on Windows. He is saying the Unix versions of IE that have been out really suck. And he's right. I have also tried the Solaris port, out of curiosity, and it really does blow chunks. Painfully slow, and even flakier than Netscape. So no matter how nice IE is for Windows, the Unix versions they've released thus far are really pathetic.
I also emailed them a couple of weeks ago offering to help out with a Linux port.
Hopefully if they get enough people offering to help with a port, they will realize that not only is there a demand, but they will not have to spend much development money to do it!