This is one of the coolest articles I have read on Slashdot in a long time.
In such a few paragraphs this O'Reilly author was able to express how I have felt about Unix for so long. Trying to explain why the command promt and editing text-based config files has been the confusion of so many of my friends up until oh-so-resently.
I don't love you Unix, but I do love your [step] sisters! (eg: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD)
Thank you god that their replacing that logo. Jeeze that pengiun that they have up there looks too damn business like. Feel like I'm using Caledra Linux when I view their webpage.
Or even better yet, Apple Linux.. I'd buy it if the administration tools were good. Even for a $150.. It'd be worth it. And with all those special web tools, I'd bet huge droves would pay $550.
One thing that the author constantly assumes is that Linux has made it's peak. I disagree on the bounds that many companies that have vowed support/products for linux have yet to come out with these products. Once these products have been released and a fair ammount of time has been given then we can really tell where linux is headed.
As of yet Linux is somewhat in the same boat as Apple, our hands are somewhat tied. You may say that open source applications are fine and dandy, however people want a name on their products. They want to see the name "IBM" or "Compaq", etc written on the side.
Linux as of yet has no real marketting power / advertising power something that Apple has lots of, (e.g iMac). Right now we have Red Hat (which is too busy makeing deals with IBM, etc) and a highly loyal fan base. We have been extreemly lucky to have a lot of journalists publish good articles about this operating system. However, this still dosen't beat the good ole' commercials on tv.
My predection for when Linux will peak? Probably in 1 1/2 to 2 years. It'll take about one year for big name companies to release serious products for linux and then another six months for windows developers (and posssibly others) to start picking up toolkits. After linux? I'd like to see OpenBSD go on the rise... but chances of that happening? When the install dosen't make your hair turn white.:-)
Hey hey hey... Virtual Desktops have gotta be one of the most useful things people. As a Web Developer I like to have 5 or 6 apps open at once. In win95/98 You gotta minimize them then maximize them.. etc. In Window Maker I just hit alt-2, and I'm good. When I do programming I tend to do the same thing. Often I'll have a tutorial or something open in Netscape, a term, emacs and the app all open at once. Not everyone has a 21' monitor at 1600x1200.
Now that Window Maker is now GNU they should be receiving more programming support. Which is great. A new distrobution once every other week isn't good enough for you? How about once a day! (We'll.. don't do that..:-) Anyways I'm happy to see that my favorite Window Maker will now recieve the support beyond my expectations.
Do you pay attention to the world around you! Jeeze this world up until recently was and is dominated by Microsoft! The most easily accessable stuff anywhere is by Microsoft. Don't flame Katz for being a Microsoft user, hell I bet you were at one point in your life. Also he's trying to get out of using proprietary software by switching to linux. So use a little sympathy.
I bet YOU haven't even tried GNOME and/or KDE lately... Go away troll!
Replys like this are the reason why/. has become so bad lately. I wish that people could learn to control their mouths (fingers) a little better sometimes. It would make the world a better place.
Wait a second... Just because you are a nerd and don't like Jon Katz's articles dosen't mean that every nerd hates Katz's articles. This is flawed logic.
Even if Jon Katz is not a 'true nerd' himself, can he not appeal to nerds? Of course he has, he has proven that. If you don't like his articles, don't read them. Its easy to skip right over articles on/. I personally am a proud supporter of Rob and/. but yet I don't necessarly read _every_ article, not all are appealing to me. Nor do I complain (that much) about the borring ones (hey we can't be good all the time). If you don't want to do that or can't do that then you aren't _required_ to read/.
One of the important lessons of life is to deal with things you don't like. Theres lots of things I don't like (like Win95 @ work), but yet I'm able to deal with them.
x86 is a standard that _needs_ to be killed. Look at the snivling piece of garbage, its been around since 1977 or something and has its roots in the 8088. The only thing keeping us from moving on to faster processors with better instruction sets and a smoother design is Microsoft! I know the linux development wizzes will port the kernel to these new processors in a week!
The standards that we should be supporting right now are not made by intel! SGI letting go is a step in the _wrong_ direction!
Part of economic theory is adjustment. When people get laid off work because some new industry removes it, this is adjustment, a completely natural part of econimcs. Sure it hurts that 30 malls close, but I guarantee you that a bunch of new jobs in this new medium, the internet will open up or needs filling... We see a lot of that look at this something like we could do with a 80% increase in computer employees...
There are only a few companies where I truely respect their hardware. SGI is one, Digital is the other. This is such a sad day for SGI, cause in my opinion Mips made them who they are today.
Oh well.. the only thing that can make me regain favor is for them to port linux to their new workstations.
These cases are kind of cool, I like that 411 model one... But I'd like to see a company that makes some really wacked out cases (made of metal, cyberpunk-esque, etc), or even some SGI box look-alikes. Some of these boxes have a strange akin to some Compaq boxes.
I do beleive that companies should strike back. If some kid is giving you a DoS attack then, striking back will slap him in the face and make him realize that he is being an idiot. Not necessarly just adding his IP to the firewall, cause he'll just dial back in and start again.. You have to hit the stupid bugger so he'll learn.
On the other hand I think that you have to be really careful with this sort of stuff. Say I'm trying to connect to some corprate web site and the info isn't getting through, so I keep on hitting the reload button. Hopefully the software is set up in such a way that it will only 'strike back' in the most dire of needs.
dude, yer too young to be a bitter old fart!
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=) I'm just tired of seeing the old school hacker ethics going to waste. Thats all.
/when I was your age, we acted like irresponsible little vermin, dammit! straighten out and fly right! let's see some carelessness and immaturity here, chop chop!\ Heheh.. Is getting wasted good enough for you?
You guys call this a hack? I call this non-sense. I don't remember crackers in the early 90s and late 80s being this dumb.
If you want to get your friends names distributed around town, here is my advice. Get a big sign spray paint your friends names on this big sign. Place sign in yard.
I can understand the teenage rush of cracking sites. --I'm a teenager myself (almost out of my teens but o well). But defacing sites? Lame. What does this prove? You prove to the whole world how big your ego is and how lame you are. Wanna prove how big your nuts are? Start optimizing your code.
Anyways, I hope sys. admins of the world start getting clues. I know the sysadmin @ Lucas Arts was good, but the other 35k websites out there... And these kids should all get prosicuted for breaking and entering as well as vandalism. A couple of weeks in juvinial hall would do these kids some good.
Now if those "linux howto / faq" guys could take lessons from Paul Dunne in writting / explanation this would save me some trouble. But hard to read documentation is better than no documentation at all.
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This is one of the coolest articles I have read on Slashdot in a long time.
In such a few paragraphs this O'Reilly author was able to express how I have felt about Unix for so long. Trying to explain why the command promt and editing text-based config files has been the confusion of so many of my friends up until oh-so-resently.
I don't love you Unix, but I do love your [step] sisters! (eg: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD)
There's nothing like a grep in the morning.
Anyone have a copy in HTML or something... I hate PDF.
Thank you god that their replacing that logo. Jeeze that pengiun that they have up there looks too damn business like. Feel like I'm using Caledra Linux when I view their webpage.
The sad thing is that this is true.. jeeze i didn't realize how close a burrito is to this model....
that's why I add jolepenios!
Or even better yet, Apple Linux.. I'd buy it if the administration tools were good. Even for a $150.. It'd be worth it. And with all those special web tools, I'd bet huge droves would pay $550.
One thing that the author constantly assumes is that Linux has made it's peak. I disagree on the bounds that many companies that have vowed support /products for linux have yet to come out with these products. Once these products have been released and a fair ammount of time has been given then we can really tell where linux is headed.
:-)
As of yet Linux is somewhat in the same boat as Apple, our hands are somewhat tied. You may say that open source applications are fine and dandy, however people want a name on their products. They want to see the name "IBM" or "Compaq", etc written on the side.
Linux as of yet has no real marketting power / advertising power something that Apple has lots of, (e.g iMac). Right now we have Red Hat (which is too busy makeing deals with IBM, etc) and a highly loyal fan base. We have been extreemly lucky to have a lot of journalists publish good articles about this operating system. However, this still dosen't beat the good ole' commercials on tv.
My predection for when Linux will peak? Probably in 1 1/2 to 2 years. It'll take about one year for big name companies to release serious products for linux and then another six months for windows developers (and posssibly others) to start picking up toolkits. After linux? I'd like to see OpenBSD go on the rise... but chances of that happening? When the install dosen't make your hair turn white.
Its the karate dude doing that high heel kick that does it for me. Wheee... I'm gonna buy one now! :-)
This may have unwanted consiquences as well. It could push other organs to the side and for pregnant woment this could cause serious problems.
Hey hey hey... Virtual Desktops have gotta be one of the most useful things people. As a Web Developer I like to have 5 or 6 apps open at once. In win95/98 You gotta minimize them then maximize them.. etc. In Window Maker I just hit alt-2, and I'm good. When I do programming I tend to do the same thing. Often I'll have a tutorial or something open in Netscape, a term, emacs and the app all open at once. Not everyone has a 21' monitor at 1600x1200.
Now that Window Maker is now GNU they should be receiving more programming support. Which is great. A new distrobution once every other week isn't good enough for you? How about once a day! (We'll.. don't do that.. :-) Anyways I'm happy to see that my favorite Window Maker will now recieve the support beyond my expectations.
What is "rtt"?! (on the right side)
Do you pay attention to the world around you! Jeeze this world up until recently was and is dominated by Microsoft! The most easily accessable stuff anywhere is by Microsoft. Don't flame Katz for being a Microsoft user, hell I bet you were at one point in your life. Also he's trying to get out of using proprietary software by switching to linux. So use a little sympathy.
I bet YOU haven't even tried GNOME and/or KDE lately... Go away troll!
/. has become so bad lately. I wish that people could learn to control their mouths (fingers) a little better sometimes. It would make the world a better place.
Replys like this are the reason why
Wait a second... Just because you are a nerd and don't like Jon Katz's articles dosen't mean that every nerd hates Katz's articles. This is flawed logic.
/. I personally am a proud supporter of Rob and /. but yet I don't necessarly read _every_ article, not all are appealing to me. Nor do I complain (that much) about the borring ones (hey we can't be good all the time). If you don't want to do that or can't do that then you aren't _required_ to read /.
Even if Jon Katz is not a 'true nerd' himself, can he not appeal to nerds? Of course he has, he has proven that. If you don't like his articles, don't read them. Its easy to skip right over articles on
One of the important lessons of life is to deal with things you don't like. Theres lots of things I don't like (like Win95 @ work), but yet I'm able to deal with them.
Just a thought not a flame.
x86 is a standard that _needs_ to be killed. Look at the snivling piece of garbage, its been around since 1977 or something and has its roots in the 8088. The only thing keeping us from moving on to faster processors with better instruction sets and a smoother design is Microsoft! I know the linux development wizzes will port the kernel to these new processors in a week!
The standards that we should be supporting right now are not made by intel! SGI letting go is a step in the _wrong_ direction!
Part of economic theory is adjustment. When people get laid off work because some new industry removes it, this is adjustment, a completely natural part of econimcs. Sure it hurts that 30 malls close, but I guarantee you that a bunch of new jobs in this new medium, the internet will open up or needs filling... We see a lot of that look at this something like we could do with a 80% increase in computer employees...
Deal with it. --> good article though.
There are only a few companies where I truely respect their hardware. SGI is one, Digital is the other. This is such a sad day for SGI, cause in my opinion Mips made them who they are today.
Oh well.. the only thing that can make me regain favor is for them to port linux to their new workstations.
These cases are kind of cool, I like that 411 model one... But I'd like to see a company that makes some really wacked out cases (made of metal, cyberpunk-esque, etc), or even some SGI box look-alikes. Some of these boxes have a strange akin to some Compaq boxes.
I do beleive that companies should strike back. If some kid is giving you a DoS attack then, striking back will slap him in the face and make him realize that he is being an idiot. Not necessarly just adding his IP to the firewall, cause he'll just dial back in and start again.. You have to hit the stupid bugger so he'll learn.
On the other hand I think that you have to be really careful with this sort of stuff. Say I'm trying to connect to some corprate web site and the info isn't getting through, so I keep on hitting the reload button. Hopefully the software is set up in such a way that it will only 'strike back' in the most dire of needs.
Heheh.. Is getting wasted good enough for you?
You guys call this a hack? I call this non-sense. I don't remember crackers in the early 90s and late 80s being this dumb.
If you want to get your friends names distributed around town, here is my advice. Get a big sign spray paint your friends names on this big sign. Place sign in yard.
I can understand the teenage rush of cracking sites. --I'm a teenager myself (almost out of my teens but o well). But defacing sites? Lame. What does this prove? You prove to the whole world how big your ego is and how lame you are. Wanna prove how big your nuts are? Start optimizing your code.
Anyways, I hope sys. admins of the world start getting clues. I know the sysadmin @ Lucas Arts was good, but the other 35k websites out there... And these kids should all get prosicuted for breaking and entering as well as vandalism. A couple of weeks in juvinial hall would do these kids some good.
Wake up world.
This was a very well written article.
Now if those "linux howto / faq" guys could take lessons from Paul Dunne in writting / explanation this would save me some trouble. But hard to read documentation is better than no documentation at all.