Sounds like he's confusing Linux with linux applications. He doesn't get it that just like in windoze land, every developer is responsible for his/her own apps, same goes for in Linux. I guess the confusion comes from the linux distribution being called just "Linux" and not "Linux and misc. software".
Linux is only the kernel, and like you said that's controlled by Linus. Unlike in MSWin where that 60MB of crap in its entirety is considered Windows and not "Windows software." At least Win95 was something like 60MB, I hear '98 is alot more.
Looks like K-Jofol. iirc it's a winblowz player that uses the mpg123 engine. I don't think it's been ported to Linux yet so it's probably running through Wine or just a skin for some other player, like eMusic or something. Email the guy and ask him.
So how does Linux *really* stack up against the Evil Empire's wanna-be-server VMS ripoff.
"The answer: Linux with Apache beats NT 4.0 with IIS, hands down. SuSE, the least effective Linux, is 16 percent faster than IIS, and Caldera, the leader, is 50 percent faster."
Laugh with me, unless of course you're a M$ FUDster, then we'll be laughing at YOU!
Now, how about those file server stats. ZD sums it up by saying "...Linux kicks NT's butt."
Now, I'd like to see some other alternative OSs put against Linux. Maybe BSD?
Anyway, it's great that this has finally come out. We all knew Linux was superior, even the M$ marketdroids. It's been a long time in the coming. Ironic, we have ZDNet to thank =].
I thought everybody knew about octree by now. They have binary packages for alot of Unix flavors, including Linux. It looks like it uses Mesa too. I downloaded it but haven't done anything with it yet. It's in beta right now, and they say they update it every 3 months.
Wow, he must have never installed any new software. This windows box I'm on right now has been up... 2hrs (just got back from lunch...). Yesterday, due to spool32 errors this box rebooted more times than my Linux box has in a year.
They probably just formatted the hard drive and did a sys on it so they could run scandisk to make sure you weren't getting a hard drive full of bad blocks. You probably weren't charged anything for it. Sounds like they just used a dos system disk made off a win95 box. I do the same thing with new hard drives to get a visual of the bad blocks. The last drive I bought was riddled with 'em.
I know when installing Linux you can have it check for bad blocks, but I have no idea how to tell if there are any found.
If they did charge you for the dos 7.0, you shouldn't have to pay since dos 7 is AFAIK part of win95. Since you didn't get the full product, you could probably get back whatever they charged you, since you could argue that they gave you an incomplete product, unfit for use. except maybe for scandisking and running msd.exe.
When it comes to computers, I've developed such a proficiency that when I need something done, I do it myself. I started out with a 486/25 when I was 14 (I'm 21 now), and since then I've been hooked. Whether it's hardware, software, or troubleshooting, I can take it no problem. A year and a half ago I learned about Linux and all the great GNU tools and since then I've spent most of my computing time with them.
The only things that I haven't mastered when it comes to computers is networking and programming. Heh, when it comes down to it I'm just a power luser.
I graduated high school in '95, and since then I've had a couple decent jobs, and now I'm considering two options.
1) I can work for myself and make $50-100/hour as a PC repair tech, which I could do with my eyes closed.
2) I can go to college and get an associates in programming locally and later xfer that to a bachelors of business administration at the same school for fairly cheap, or I can go to a big U and lose my ass in debt.
I think as long as I learn the theory and logic behind coding, and get the academic introduction, and basically learn how to learn, that's what's important. As far as I've seen that's what going to school for CS is about, and all the languages you learn basically becomes self-taught.
Anyway, the school programs I was looking at are here: baker college. they're local, they're cheap. I've still gotta talk to the counselor and find out about some stuff before I decide,
So what do ya think? should I stick w/ the pc tech skills I have, or go on to CS and IT stuff? If you think CS and IT is worth it, would a good Associates be good or is a bachelors a requisite? I'm not getting any younger, so it's about time I do soemthing. I'd really love to be a "real" geek =)
the 300MHz G3's open a can of whupass on the 400MHz Intel's. I imagine the 400Mhz G3's will be top of the line PC hardware until Sharptooth and K7 come. The guys running 400MHz G3 LinuxPPC boxes are going to be my envy till I can setup a SMP K7 system.
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Back Orifice and Netbus, heh-heh.
Sounds like he's confusing Linux with linux applications. He doesn't get it that just like in windoze land, every developer is responsible for his/her own apps, same goes for in Linux. I guess the confusion comes from the linux distribution being called just "Linux" and not "Linux and misc. software".
Linux is only the kernel, and like you said that's controlled by Linus. Unlike in MSWin where that 60MB of crap in its entirety is considered Windows and not "Windows software." At least Win95 was something like 60MB, I hear '98 is alot more.
Looks like K-Jofol. iirc it's a winblowz player that uses the mpg123 engine. I don't think it's been ported to Linux yet so it's probably running through Wine or just a skin for some other player, like eMusic or something. Email the guy and ask him.
"The answer: Linux with Apache beats NT 4.0 with IIS, hands down. SuSE, the least effective Linux, is 16 percent faster than IIS, and Caldera, the leader, is 50 percent faster."
Laugh with me, unless of course you're a M$ FUDster, then we'll be laughing at YOU!
Now, how about those file server stats. ZD sums it up by saying "...Linux kicks NT's butt."
Now, I'd like to see some other alternative OSs put against Linux. Maybe BSD?
Anyway, it's great that this has finally come out. We all knew Linux was superior, even the M$ marketdroids. It's been a long time in the coming. Ironic, we have ZDNet to thank =].
I thought everybody knew about octree by now. They have binary packages for alot of Unix flavors, including Linux. It looks like it uses Mesa too. I downloaded it but haven't done anything with it yet. It's in beta right now, and they say they update it every 3 months.
Anyway, it's at www.octree.de
Wow, he must have never installed any new software. This windows box I'm on right now has been up... 2hrs (just got back from lunch...). Yesterday, due to spool32 errors this box rebooted more times than my Linux box has in a year.
They probably just formatted the hard drive and did a sys on it so they could run scandisk to make sure you weren't getting a hard drive full of bad blocks. You probably weren't charged anything for it. Sounds like they just used a dos system disk made off a win95 box. I do the same thing with new hard drives to get a visual of the bad blocks. The last drive I bought was riddled with 'em.
I know when installing Linux you can have it check for bad blocks, but I have no idea how to tell if there are any found.
If they did charge you for the dos 7.0, you shouldn't have to pay since dos 7 is AFAIK part of win95. Since you didn't get the full product, you could probably get back whatever they charged you, since you could argue that they gave you an incomplete product, unfit for use. except maybe for scandisking and running msd.exe.
if you look at his web page about section, I think he says he's a shapeshifter... and since he goes by strredwolf, guess he's a shapeshifting wolf...
.sig a few months ago.
That puzzled me too at first when I read that
When it comes to computers, I've developed such a proficiency that when I need something done, I do it myself. I started out with a 486/25 when I was 14 (I'm 21 now), and since then I've been hooked. Whether it's hardware, software, or troubleshooting, I can take it no problem. A year and a half ago I learned about Linux and all the great GNU tools and since then I've spent most of my computing time with them.
The only things that I haven't mastered when it comes to computers is networking and programming. Heh, when it comes down to it I'm just a power luser.
I graduated high school in '95, and since then I've had a couple decent jobs, and now I'm considering two options.
1) I can work for myself and make $50-100/hour as a PC repair tech, which I could do with my eyes closed.
2) I can go to college and get an associates in programming locally and later xfer that to a bachelors of business administration at the same school for fairly cheap, or I can go to a big U and lose my ass in debt.
I think as long as I learn the theory and logic behind coding, and get the academic introduction, and basically learn how to learn, that's what's important. As far as I've seen that's what going to school for CS is about, and all the languages you learn basically becomes self-taught.
Anyway, the school programs I was looking at are here: baker college. they're local, they're cheap. I've still gotta talk to the counselor and find out about some stuff before I decide,
So what do ya think? should I stick w/ the pc tech skills I have, or go on to CS and IT stuff? If you think CS and IT is worth it, would a good Associates be good or is a bachelors a requisite? I'm not getting any younger, so it's about time I do soemthing. I'd really love to be a "real" geek =)
the 300MHz G3's open a can of whupass on the 400MHz Intel's. I imagine the 400Mhz G3's will be top of the line PC hardware until Sharptooth and K7 come. The guys running 400MHz G3 LinuxPPC boxes are going to be my envy till I can setup a SMP K7 system.