... have seen my share of pretty dumb Mac users. Like the guy that lived in the same dorm as a friend of mine. He had an ancient milk carton in his room, and went to throw it away. But he couldn't work the lock on his dorm-room and had to climb out of the window. Then he proceeded to pour the sourmilk down the first stormdrain he saw.
Oh, and he was dressed in an old bathrobe, white shorts with red hearts on them, and had green flipflops on his feet. He looked VERY smart!
Brand new Powerbook on his desk.
Or the sysadmin (!) at a firm I once visited. He didn't know that harddrives could be emptied. When his harddrive got full, he bashed it with a hammer and bought a new one. Saw about five G4's in his office.
(note: this is NOT anti-mac. I love mac's. This is just my $0.02)
I had a heart-attack when I first saw this back in January or whenever...
it turned out to be fake though. The guy _didn't_ kill a Mac, he just bought an empty G5 housing and faked the article to scare the crap out of people. He later confessed to his alleged sins, and it turned out everything was a hoax.
Unless they're Microsofts own "applications" such as internetexploder or explorer.exe, because they're MORE equal than the others and are exempt to this rule.
Windows XP is the designated OS for my Workstation. So, not including the billion or so security patches that has to be installed, this is the list that I install the first (in order of installation):
1. Norton Internet Security Professional 2. Norton Antivirus 3. PuTTY 4. Miranda 5. Winamp 6. FireFox 7. Media Player Classic 8. PowerArchiver 9. Nero Burning Rom 19. oDC
Yeah it reminds me a lot about that. The problem with Apple is that Steve Jobs has all these crazy ideas, but he never really follows up on them. I'd LOOOVE OSx on my PC, I mean LOVE it big-time, but I would still be booting between Winblows and Linux as well, so it probably wouldn't be that big a deal anyways.
The Linux industry seems more and more akin to become what they loathe. I'm seeing more and more that it is becoming like George Orwells famous book, Animal Farm, where the animals end up behaving like the humans that treated them so bad. In the case of the Linux movement, it seems that more and more Linux companies are becoming like the bad guys, and taking credit for stuff that they didn't invent (or start). Admittedly I have to say that the quote here seems to be taken out of context, but on the other hand RedHat is becoming more and more predatory.
I'm expecting soon to hear Linux people shouting "Opensource good! Closed source bad!" just like in the book *grin*
I've read "Hackers" a number of times over the last 4 years or so. It came to me by accident, my mother found, thought I'd like it and bought it.
It's true what is said in the review. It's about people and not the machines themselves. It's about a way of life that most people think doesn't exist. And it shows that Hackers are not the evil things that media makes them into.
If you're the least interested in the subject, read it. It's great!
Hi.
I live in a small town in northern Sweden. We have an unusual concentration of geeks here. Most of the geeks have amassed in various Apartment complexes (as I have too). In the complex that I live there is maybe 4 or 5 geeks living in separate apartments. We have pulled Cat 5 cabling between our apartments (mine is a studio, the others are 1 bedroom). We have a Netware server, Win2000 Server, various Linux machines, shared DSL connection and internal ICQ (as well as external now). Almost every weekend we have marathon gaming sessions.
This is actually quite nice, as everyone has their own apartment and can do whatever they want, but are still hooked up in a LAN.
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... have seen my share of pretty dumb Mac users. Like the guy that lived in the same dorm as a friend of mine. He had an ancient milk carton in his room, and went to throw it away. But he couldn't work the lock on his dorm-room and had to climb out of the window. Then he proceeded to pour the sourmilk down the first stormdrain he saw.
Oh, and he was dressed in an old bathrobe, white shorts with red hearts on them, and had green flipflops on his feet. He looked VERY smart!
Brand new Powerbook on his desk.
Or the sysadmin (!) at a firm I once visited. He didn't know that harddrives could be emptied. When his harddrive got full, he bashed it with a hammer and bought a new one. Saw about five G4's in his office.
(note: this is NOT anti-mac. I love mac's. This is just my $0.02)
FX's aren't SMP, you dork.
Maybe next time you should try to lie about a computer that actually exists?
I had a heart-attack when I first saw this back in January or whenever...
:)
it turned out to be fake though. The guy _didn't_ kill a Mac, he just bought an empty G5 housing and faked the article to scare the crap out of people. He later confessed to his alleged sins, and it turned out everything was a hoax.
Apparently he got a lot of hatemail
and obviously you don't know what QOS is or how it works.
Yes, it reserves bandwidth.
No, it doesn't do it all the time. Only whan a QOS-aware app is running (and believe me, hens have more teeth than there is QOS-apps around).
In XP applications generally can't and don't.
Unless they're Microsofts own "applications" such as internetexploder or explorer.exe, because they're MORE equal than the others and are exempt to this rule.
OMG!
I just laughed my ass off at this!
Windows XP is the designated OS for my Workstation. So, not including the billion or so security patches that has to be installed, this is the list that I install the first (in order of installation):
1. Norton Internet Security Professional
2. Norton Antivirus
3. PuTTY
4. Miranda
5. Winamp
6. FireFox
7. Media Player Classic
8. PowerArchiver
9. Nero Burning Rom
19. oDC
but I read that as in Simon & Garfunkel (the musical duo)
the Catster?
my cat fetches too, she loves doing it, can do it for hours. She's done it since she was a little kitten.
Yeah it reminds me a lot about that. The problem with Apple is that Steve Jobs has all these crazy ideas, but he never really follows up on them. I'd LOOOVE OSx on my PC, I mean LOVE it big-time, but I would still be booting between Winblows and Linux as well, so it probably wouldn't be that big a deal anyways.
I'm expecting soon to hear Linux people shouting "Opensource good! Closed source bad!" just like in the book *grin*
If not, I could think up a lot of things :)
I've read "Hackers" a number of times over the last 4 years or so. It came to me by accident, my mother found, thought I'd like it and bought it.
It's true what is said in the review. It's about people and not the machines themselves. It's about a way of life that most people think doesn't exist. And it shows that Hackers are not the evil things that media makes them into.
If you're the least interested in the subject, read it. It's great!
Hi. I live in a small town in northern Sweden. We have an unusual concentration of geeks here. Most of the geeks have amassed in various Apartment complexes (as I have too). In the complex that I live there is maybe 4 or 5 geeks living in separate apartments. We have pulled Cat 5 cabling between our apartments (mine is a studio, the others are 1 bedroom). We have a Netware server, Win2000 Server, various Linux machines, shared DSL connection and internal ICQ (as well as external now). Almost every weekend we have marathon gaming sessions. This is actually quite nice, as everyone has their own apartment and can do whatever they want, but are still hooked up in a LAN.