The real answer is that a couple of the slashdot authors are sick.
Yeah, I know what a strain it is to post someone else's submission to Slashdot and add a "dept." tagline and maybe one or two sentences of my own. My prayers for a quick and complete return to health so that they can concentrate on a job which is obviously extremely mentally-taxing.
Yeah, they should make this for operating systems which don't have trojans and keyloggers for them! Now, if there are any out there that have more than 1000 users, I'd be interested in hearing it.
I didn't mean to be harsh, but you got the additional frustration for all the people who've spammed me to whom I'd never be able to make my complaint known. If you were trying to help me, okay, but I'm sure a lot (not a large percentage, just a lot) of the other people who send me offers think that they're helping me, too. Since you mailed me based on me posting on a certain topic, just put a post in that topic and I'm sure the interested people will come across it or the word-of-mouth will reach 'em. Anyway, I'm still floating from a concert and rambling, so I hope that you know what I'm trying to say. Thanks for answering, though, and with a sense of humor.
Like what? [...] Exploiting young ladies with the promise of "quick easy money" that in no way approaches the level of income that the resulting works will generate?
Well, yeah, if they're hot. Would you rather they expolit some nappy old ladies?
Hey Russ Nelson, is there any way you can change the definition so that you won't collect Slashdot user email addresses to send out more spam email about the Yupi or Yopy or whatever the Hell else you were trying to sell me?
I think any lawyers up against her would have a good chance of keeping that out of court, on the grounds that it's just inflammatory without having sufficient probative value. They'd probably let the "F her" part in just to show the intent, but the rape thing doesn't add anything.
About the rape quote, grep rape from iBLAMEj00.txt. You'll find it easily. Perhaps it wasn't said with any intention to do it, but it still sticks at people's eyes and would be pretty much an open and shot case for this female webmaster's lawyers.
An open and shut case of what, exactly? From the logs:
iBLAMEj00 04/03/20 6:02 am F her.
iBLAMEj00 04/03/20 6:03 am She wants to play hard ball, so give it to her.
sam 04/03/20 6:03 am yeah rape her and spit on her
sam 04/03/20 6:03 am oops
sam 04/03/20 6:03 am err f her
iBLAMEj00 04/03/20 6:03 am heh
Seems pretty obvious that they're just talking trash, not that anybody plans to actually go rape her.
Well, a lot of people in the web biz could learn from pornsites how to make good money. A lot of these companies are thriving, in sharp contrast to "Which one will go bankrupt today?" gloom hanging over Linux companies.
Who cares? They're both just chasing Microsoft's tail lights. Not that Microsoft doesn't appreciate these guys evangelizing.NET for them, I'm sure they do.
I'm always amused how the people posting these daily Linux failures have to take some swipe at Microsoft. C'mon kids, the bitterness is a little obvious. I can't wait to see the ire directed at Microsoft by the editors/submitters here when VA Linux becomes a penny stock and they dump Slashdot.
Napster wasn't just turning a blind eye to piracy. As their own internal documents stated, "[W]e are not just making pirated music available but also pushing demand."
The companies having their IP pirated made a big deal about Napster's involvement. I sure don't remember any similar hue and cry over warez d00ds at AOL. I don't remember anyone showing any proof that AOL's business model rested upon encouraging illegal activities.
This is an apple, and that is an orange. Case dismissed, and I'm holding anyone who modded that up in contempt of court.
Could it possibly be because there just naturally happens to be more newsworthy things going on with larger companies (simply because they have their fingers in more pies), but in your simplistic view of the world, the larger a company is, the more evil you find it? Why don't you go to LetsRiot.com, maybe they'll be thrilled to post the latest adventures of your little three-man anarchist cell.
I got those numbers from IDC, just released last week. Certainly you aren't going to tell me that my IDC numbers are bad, when the statistics that you clung to when you said that Linux was the fastest-growing OS came from that very same IDC, but from last year. You wouldn't really pull something like that, would you?
Oh, and I misspoke in my previous post: HP sales were flat, not down. The problem with that is, flat sales in a growing market (the server market grew 13% from last year), means that you're losing marketshare. This and the other numbers are straight from your favorite source and mine, IDC, from their report which came out around the end of February.
Go get yourself a real browser and spare us the bitching. It's not our fault that your lame browser can't handle —, which is part of the HTML 4.01 / XHTML 1.0 W3C standard. Yeah, like it's Microsoft's fault that your software sucks. And you think I'd bother brosing the web on Solaris? That's a laugh.
Because she didn't shave her armpits? Oh wait, that was from my high school essay on why so people think Antigone was from France. Sorry, can't help ya.
Unix dropped from 17% server marketshare to 14% over the past year — that's even larger than Novell NetWare's drop from 19% to 17%. Unix is fading. How could you possibly say that Unix is stronger now than it's ever been when it used to dominate the market? Sun's the only Unix company doing well — IBM sales are flat, HP sales are down, and SGI and SCO are sunk. NT/2000 now has a server marketshare equal to that of Unix and Linux combined.
The server I would suggest is the one appropriate to the job. I host some web sites on a Sun ES450 and AOLServer, run a bank's email system on an x86 Debian box and qmail (well, until the filesystem hosed itself after about a year and I ended up moving it to a different Solaris machine), run a few newsletters for people from a Win2K box with MySQL/PHP/IIS, and host an e-commerce site and a weblogging service on Win2K/ASP/IIS machines. That's not a comprehensive list (and I do other things with some other Debian boxes that I have, the bank job just happened to be the most important thing that I've had running on one of the Linux boxes), just letting you know that I have no problems with computing diversity.
Who's been saying that Linux going to die? That's a strawman argument. What some people are saying is that it's not going to end up meeting with any success. On the desktop, it's obviously nowhere right now. On the server, it depends how impressed you are by a free Unix-like system cannibalizing a fading Unix marketshare. Frankly, if I were stuck overpaying for some Unix solution, Linux would look pretty attractive to me too, but FreeBSD would play that role just as easily if Linux wasn't the free Unix getting the attention. around.
Except that "the fastest growing" at a particular time is pretty meaningless when you're starting off with a small number. For example, Microsoft had an 89% desktop marketshare for the year before last. Even if they went to 99%, the rate of growth wouldn't sound that impressive because they started out with such a large chunk. Soon after MacOS X comes out, it will become the fastest growing OS because it's going from practically 0 to however many people get it — a big rate of change.
Maybe that "fastest growing" title gets you all tingly, but I'm much more impressed that Microsoft went from 89% to 92% desktop marketshare (where the real volume is at) while Linux is way down there at 1%.
Well, I'm not trying to be aggressive toward you, which is why I was joking around with you about your tongue hanging out all over the place.
Don't you think that the Eazel guys might be a little biased in their comments toward GNOME? And even if they're right, Apple's latest financial reports are all that one needs to know that consumers want more than a cutesy desktop.
I'm happy to discuss this more, here or in email (I might flame the Hell out of some people around here who I think deserve it, but I'm just as receptive to enlightening/being enlightened within a mutually-respectful discussion), but I think I'm calling it quits for tonight. Gotta sleep sometime. Take care.
Yep, the TPC originally did disqualify the results when Sun (and someone else, I think either Oracle or IBM) complained about them. However, you're incorrect about what happened next. Microsoft didn't pressure the TPC into publishing those numbers, because they were technically invalid. (Yeah, they complained that they were doing no different than all the other companies and that they were being unfairly singled out, but that's neither here nor there because they did accept the disqualification.) They performed the tests with a different setup and blew their old results (as well as IBM's, which took over first place when Microsoft's were disqualified) out of the water.
(The top result more than doubled the non-clustered one for only $400,000 more.)
You're welcome to go look it up if you don't believe me — IDC just came out with the report in the last 10 days. And I just looked at it again to doublecheck myself: Linux had a 1% desktop marketshare for the past year. As for your links, I'm not interested in piracy figures (it just shows what is in demand), I want your numbers backing up your claims that Linux is making these big desktop inroads or that Windows is fading on the desktop or in the server room (they gained in both areas). And don't stick that tongue out at me, I don't know where that thing's been.
Wow, you're a pro at making up statistics. I got my numbers from IDC. Seeing as yours are completely fabricated, I know you won't be able to cite any sources. But since I'm such a nice guy, I'll give you the opportunity to list them now. C'mon, we're waiting — I'm always up for a good laugh.
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The real answer is that a couple of the slashdot authors are sick.
Yeah, I know what a strain it is to post someone else's submission to Slashdot and add a "dept." tagline and maybe one or two sentences of my own. My prayers for a quick and complete return to health so that they can concentrate on a job which is obviously extremely mentally-taxing.
Cheers,
Yeah, they should make this for operating systems which don't have trojans and keyloggers for them! Now, if there are any out there that have more than 1000 users, I'd be interested in hearing it.
Cheers,
I didn't mean to be harsh, but you got the additional frustration for all the people who've spammed me to whom I'd never be able to make my complaint known. If you were trying to help me, okay, but I'm sure a lot (not a large percentage, just a lot) of the other people who send me offers think that they're helping me, too. Since you mailed me based on me posting on a certain topic, just put a post in that topic and I'm sure the interested people will come across it or the word-of-mouth will reach 'em. Anyway, I'm still floating from a concert and rambling, so I hope that you know what I'm trying to say. Thanks for answering, though, and with a sense of humor.
Cheers,
Like what? [...] Exploiting young ladies with the promise of "quick easy money" that in no way approaches the level of income that the resulting works will generate?
Well, yeah, if they're hot. Would you rather they expolit some nappy old ladies?
Cheers,
Hey Russ Nelson, is there any way you can change the definition so that you won't collect Slashdot user email addresses to send out more spam email about the Yupi or Yopy or whatever the Hell else you were trying to sell me?
Cheers,
How 'bout we give 'em a Slashdot Cruiser?
(On a side note, including the NSA with such a vague reason was lame.)
Cheers,
Apple came up with SOAP?
Cheers,
I think any lawyers up against her would have a good chance of keeping that out of court, on the grounds that it's just inflammatory without having sufficient probative value. They'd probably let the "F her" part in just to show the intent, but the rape thing doesn't add anything.
Cheers,
You sure? I thought they were thriving because their women are powered by silicone. ;)
Cheers,
About the rape quote, grep rape from iBLAMEj00.txt. You'll find it easily. Perhaps it wasn't said with any intention to do it, but it still sticks at people's eyes and would be pretty much an open and shot case for this female webmaster's lawyers.
An open and shut case of what, exactly? From the logs:
Seems pretty obvious that they're just talking trash, not that anybody plans to actually go rape her.
Cheers,
Well, a lot of people in the web biz could learn from pornsites how to make good money. A lot of these companies are thriving, in sharp contrast to "Which one will go bankrupt today?" gloom hanging over Linux companies.
Cheers,
Who cares? They're both just chasing Microsoft's tail lights. Not that Microsoft doesn't appreciate these guys evangelizing .NET for them, I'm sure they do.
Cheers,
I'm always amused how the people posting these daily Linux failures have to take some swipe at Microsoft. C'mon kids, the bitterness is a little obvious. I can't wait to see the ire directed at Microsoft by the editors/submitters here when VA Linux becomes a penny stock and they dump Slashdot.
Cheers,
Napster wasn't just turning a blind eye to piracy. As their own internal documents stated, "[W]e are not just making pirated music available but also pushing demand."
The companies having their IP pirated made a big deal about Napster's involvement. I sure don't remember any similar hue and cry over warez d00ds at AOL. I don't remember anyone showing any proof that AOL's business model rested upon encouraging illegal activities.
This is an apple, and that is an orange. Case dismissed, and I'm holding anyone who modded that up in contempt of court.
Cheers,
Could it possibly be because there just naturally happens to be more newsworthy things going on with larger companies (simply because they have their fingers in more pies), but in your simplistic view of the world, the larger a company is, the more evil you find it? Why don't you go to LetsRiot.com, maybe they'll be thrilled to post the latest adventures of your little three-man anarchist cell.
Cheers,
I got those numbers from IDC, just released last week. Certainly you aren't going to tell me that my IDC numbers are bad, when the statistics that you clung to when you said that Linux was the fastest-growing OS came from that very same IDC, but from last year. You wouldn't really pull something like that, would you?
Oh, and I misspoke in my previous post: HP sales were flat, not down. The problem with that is, flat sales in a growing market (the server market grew 13% from last year), means that you're losing marketshare. This and the other numbers are straight from your favorite source and mine, IDC, from their report which came out around the end of February.
Cheers,
Go get yourself a real browser and spare us the bitching. It's not our fault that your lame browser can't handle —, which is part of the HTML 4.01 / XHTML 1.0 W3C standard. Yeah, like it's Microsoft's fault that your software sucks. And you think I'd bother brosing the web on Solaris? That's a laugh.
Cheers,
Because she didn't shave her armpits? Oh wait, that was from my high school essay on why so people think Antigone was from France. Sorry, can't help ya.
Cheers,
Unix dropped from 17% server marketshare to 14% over the past year — that's even larger than Novell NetWare's drop from 19% to 17%. Unix is fading. How could you possibly say that Unix is stronger now than it's ever been when it used to dominate the market? Sun's the only Unix company doing well — IBM sales are flat, HP sales are down, and SGI and SCO are sunk. NT/2000 now has a server marketshare equal to that of Unix and Linux combined.
The server I would suggest is the one appropriate to the job. I host some web sites on a Sun ES450 and AOLServer, run a bank's email system on an x86 Debian box and qmail (well, until the filesystem hosed itself after about a year and I ended up moving it to a different Solaris machine), run a few newsletters for people from a Win2K box with MySQL/PHP/IIS, and host an e-commerce site and a weblogging service on Win2K/ASP/IIS machines. That's not a comprehensive list (and I do other things with some other Debian boxes that I have, the bank job just happened to be the most important thing that I've had running on one of the Linux boxes), just letting you know that I have no problems with computing diversity.
Cheers,
Who's been saying that Linux going to die? That's a strawman argument. What some people are saying is that it's not going to end up meeting with any success. On the desktop, it's obviously nowhere right now. On the server, it depends how impressed you are by a free Unix-like system cannibalizing a fading Unix marketshare. Frankly, if I were stuck overpaying for some Unix solution, Linux would look pretty attractive to me too, but FreeBSD would play that role just as easily if Linux wasn't the free Unix getting the attention. around.
Cheers,
Except that "the fastest growing" at a particular time is pretty meaningless when you're starting off with a small number. For example, Microsoft had an 89% desktop marketshare for the year before last. Even if they went to 99%, the rate of growth wouldn't sound that impressive because they started out with such a large chunk. Soon after MacOS X comes out, it will become the fastest growing OS because it's going from practically 0 to however many people get it — a big rate of change.
Maybe that "fastest growing" title gets you all tingly, but I'm much more impressed that Microsoft went from 89% to 92% desktop marketshare (where the real volume is at) while Linux is way down there at 1%.
Cheers,
Well, I'm not trying to be aggressive toward you, which is why I was joking around with you about your tongue hanging out all over the place.
Don't you think that the Eazel guys might be a little biased in their comments toward GNOME? And even if they're right, Apple's latest financial reports are all that one needs to know that consumers want more than a cutesy desktop.
I'm happy to discuss this more, here or in email (I might flame the Hell out of some people around here who I think deserve it, but I'm just as receptive to enlightening/being enlightened within a mutually-respectful discussion), but I think I'm calling it quits for tonight. Gotta sleep sometime. Take care.
Cheers,
Yep, the TPC originally did disqualify the results when Sun (and someone else, I think either Oracle or IBM) complained about them. However, you're incorrect about what happened next. Microsoft didn't pressure the TPC into publishing those numbers, because they were technically invalid. (Yeah, they complained that they were doing no different than all the other companies and that they were being unfairly singled out, but that's neither here nor there because they did accept the disqualification.) They performed the tests with a different setup and blew their old results (as well as IBM's, which took over first place when Microsoft's were disqualified) out of the water.
(The top result more than doubled the non-clustered one for only $400,000 more.)
Cheers,
You're welcome to go look it up if you don't believe me — IDC just came out with the report in the last 10 days. And I just looked at it again to doublecheck myself: Linux had a 1% desktop marketshare for the past year. As for your links, I'm not interested in piracy figures (it just shows what is in demand), I want your numbers backing up your claims that Linux is making these big desktop inroads or that Windows is fading on the desktop or in the server room (they gained in both areas). And don't stick that tongue out at me, I don't know where that thing's been.
Cheers,
Wow, you're a pro at making up statistics. I got my numbers from IDC. Seeing as yours are completely fabricated, I know you won't be able to cite any sources. But since I'm such a nice guy, I'll give you the opportunity to list them now. C'mon, we're waiting — I'm always up for a good laugh.
Cheers,