Hey, as a friendly and helpful Gentoo advocate, let me say this: from the bottom of my heart, and with all due respect, and warmest heartfelt wishes, go fuck yourself.
Was that rude? I am *so* sorry! Please! Moderators! When you think back on this post, and you will, be kind!
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I don't moderate, but if I did, I would be torn between "Funny" and "Interesting". Boy, I like your style!
Excellent points. Even with the screwed up italics! I especially enjoyed the Linux-Fine-Arts majors part, since I just noticed the Masters in Fine Arts in Software Engineering program. Look it up on Google yourself, I'm self-medicating for a crippling injury I sustained today, and I'm drunk and hurting:)
I'll say the same thing to you, that I say to my Mac friends when they say, "It Just Works!". My response: "Yeah. UNTIL IT DOESN'T!!" Can you fix it then? With Mac, probably not (been there). With *BSD, probably yes (Haven't been there yet). But still, that's a really goddamned annoying thing to say. It really marks you as a newbie. *NOTHING* "Just Works" all the time, no matter how the developers try to make it so. Please don't say that to people who know better.
I've been using Linux since 1994, just so you know which camp I'm in.:)
Last few months or so, I've been using FreeBSD more and more. Why? No reason. Just for experience points.
IMHE (E for experience), the only substantive difference is, FreeBSD feels like Linux did about 7 years ago. You have to be *really picky* about what hardware you buy, and you have to acquire a certain elistist attitude to use on nonbelievers who scrunch up their faces at you. Other that that? Same.
On a snarky note, the author seems to make a big deal about chaos (Linux) v order (FreeBSD). My first thought was, "Wow, his toilet training must have been *intensive*!!!". But that's rude. Both of them have stable/development (STABLE/CURRENT) tracks, and they operate similarly. In one, Linus calls you an idiot; in the other, the Core Team ignores you. No big difference.
I will say, to other Linux lovers, check FreeBSD out. You'll be pleased by the massive similarities, and enlightened by the differences. Oh, and if you used Linux seven years ago, you can dust off and reuse your hardware-buying and heathen-dissing skills!
So, how did the Linux developers get the Windows SMP code? Or are you saying that any functional SMP implementation comes from Windows?
Wait... isn't SMP what SCO is freaking about?! Now I get it! You're in the wrong thread! This is a Microsoft astroturfing thread, not an SCO astroturfing thread. Wait a few minutes, and you'll have an SCO thread to work with, okay?
Oh, man, I could swear I read something by Vinge asserting the artificiality of the Zones of Thought... But really, it's implied strongly in Fire anyhow. Obviously, the Countermeasure can alter the Zones. I wonder what the Zonographic Eidolon thought of that?
The RIAA should give away copies of this book. I mean, WOW! The Straumli Realm, the most transcendent of human societies, rendered unto shit thanks to indiscriminate file sharing....
Appropriately enough, I had a bitch of a time getting the original Half-Life to work on Windows. Obviously, they must have eventually issued a patch (or many patches) that fixed the problems, but I had already given the CD away by then.
Slashdot Mirror
In my world, you have been modded (+5, Funny).
For all the good it does you here.
Hell, I never figured out what Marimba did, despite being related (by marriage) to one of their VPs. Classic bullshit artism, I'm guessing....
Why is this offtopic? I don't see it....
Hey, as a friendly and helpful Gentoo advocate, let me say this: from the bottom of my heart, and with all due respect, and warmest heartfelt wishes, go fuck yourself.
Was that rude? I am *so* sorry! Please! Moderators! When you think back on this post, and you will, be kind!
I don't moderate, but if I did, I would be torn between "Funny" and "Interesting". Boy, I like your style!
Excellent points. Even with the screwed up italics! I especially enjoyed the Linux-Fine-Arts majors part, since I just noticed the Masters in Fine Arts in Software Engineering program. Look it up on Google yourself, I'm self-medicating for a crippling injury I sustained today, and I'm drunk and hurting :)
Loyal users! Attend to my words! Stone the heretic!!!!
I'll tell you what Jesus did!
I'll say the same thing to you, that I say to my Mac friends when they say, "It Just Works!". My response: "Yeah. UNTIL IT DOESN'T!!" Can you fix it then? With Mac, probably not (been there). With *BSD, probably yes (Haven't been there yet). But still, that's a really goddamned annoying thing to say. It really marks you as a newbie. *NOTHING* "Just Works" all the time, no matter how the developers try to make it so. Please don't say that to people who know better.
I've been using Linux since 1994, just so you know which camp I'm in. :)
Last few months or so, I've been using FreeBSD more and more. Why? No reason. Just for experience points.
IMHE (E for experience), the only substantive difference is, FreeBSD feels like Linux did about 7 years ago. You have to be *really picky* about what hardware you buy, and you have to acquire a certain elistist attitude to use on nonbelievers who scrunch up their faces at you. Other that that? Same.
On a snarky note, the author seems to make a big deal about chaos (Linux) v order (FreeBSD). My first thought was, "Wow, his toilet training must have been *intensive*!!!". But that's rude. Both of them have stable/development (STABLE/CURRENT) tracks, and they operate similarly. In one, Linus calls you an idiot; in the other, the Core Team ignores you. No big difference.
I will say, to other Linux lovers, check FreeBSD out. You'll be pleased by the massive similarities, and enlightened by the differences. Oh, and if you used Linux seven years ago, you can dust off and reuse your hardware-buying and heathen-dissing skills!
*chuckle* Almost right....
L00king f0r Qu@rk-G1u0n Pl@sm@?
Wouldn't want to trigger any antisubnucleonic spam filters, don't ya know....
It's for the network that's big enough to need distributed backup, yet too small to have an administrator.
Have a nice niche!
Ron Popiel? Is that you? Love the infomercials!
Yeah! Weren't those cool?! I told them I wanted to pass them out, and they sent me, like, a CASE of them! Sweet!
I hope you're having your dissertation edited professionally.
2.A, you decimal supremisist
So, how did the Linux developers get the Windows SMP code? Or are you saying that any functional SMP implementation comes from Windows?
Wait... isn't SMP what SCO is freaking about?! Now I get it! You're in the wrong thread! This is a Microsoft astroturfing thread, not an SCO astroturfing thread. Wait a few minutes, and you'll have an SCO thread to work with, okay?
Mismoderation really damages your faith in slashdot? You deserve a +5, Funny for that one!
But I agree, I don't see what the poster's point is. Maybe you're right on the KDE thing....
Such as?
Well, *my* NT4 disc had builds for i386, Alpha, MIPS, and PPC. Maybe you got a bad one.
I could only get my C64 to dial into school at *110* baud. I remind myself of this every time I want to justify the cost of always-on broadband....
shiny installation druids
Now that evokes an interesting image....
Oh, man, I could swear I read something by Vinge asserting the artificiality of the Zones of Thought... But really, it's implied strongly in Fire anyhow. Obviously, the Countermeasure can alter the Zones. I wonder what the Zonographic Eidolon thought of that?
The RIAA should give away copies of this book. I mean, WOW! The Straumli Realm, the most transcendent of human societies, rendered unto shit thanks to indiscriminate file sharing....
Appropriately enough, I had a bitch of a time getting the original Half-Life to work on Windows. Obviously, they must have eventually issued a patch (or many patches) that fixed the problems, but I had already given the CD away by then.