I use VIM now but my first PC was a dual disk (360k) 8088. I had a lot of fun making.bat files in edlin. My menu.bat was 270 lines created with edlin. Another favorite: debug. Opening DOS 3.3 in hex and changing the error messages--those were the days.
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Yep. The Bell Labs article was fascinating history but it didn't say anything about the decision to charge thousand$ for UNIX and the attempt to destroy BSD.
Indeed. I was a Win95 power user and I found the move to KDE 1.1 painless. All the hot keys, shortcuts, menus,... that I learned to use in Win95 were right there, no relearning required. Then I looked around and found lotsa added functionality like middle click for paste that I soon began using without thinking about it. The purists may gripe but I think the KDE team has taken a good GUI and made it great. Note: I distinguish the Win95 GUI--good; and the Win95 OS--sucks big time.
If that short TUCOWS article had been posted to/. it would have been marked troll. Not having the/. moderation system to guide him SJVN swallowed hook, line, and sinker.
Sneaky Bill Gates has put Windows in our public libraries. (12 Gateways in our town library, thanks, Bill.) I bet most would welcome volunteer workers.
There's a StaffMart Training Center in town that guarantess a $30,000+/yr to all graduates of their 8 month MSCE program. I know of a couple of HS grads that did it and had a choice of jobs. It may be a good time for MSCEs now but for how much longer?
We realize we're the 800 pound gorilla here, so our manners have to be impeccable. IBM exec (John Patrick ?) at a meeting with Linux developers about a year ago. And they have been. Amazing, just amazing.
Indeed, indeed. Ain't it great. Thanks/. crew. Thanks Andover. In your eye MF. Whada you gonna do? Scott McNealy, Larry Ellison, doncha wish you had balls like that?
"Frankly, if there's anybody on earth that I TRUST to hold the copyright and make sure that the GPL is enforced,it's Stallman and the FSF." Amen. Obdurate RMS may amuse--but his word is on par with the laws of physics.
I just read the link in the parent. Sure wish all the "Taco sells out", "Downhill since...", "Old news", "Doesn't belong on/.", etc. etc. posters could read this. Oh, well.
"The holes in Outlook have been widely known since the Melissa panic. In any other industry, a product like Outlook would long ago have been subject to a massive recall. Anyone using Outlook today should be warned: This software is subject to stupid virus infections -- use another e-mail program if that worries you. No software is totally secure, but using Outlook is like hanging a sign on your back that reads "PLEASE MESS WITH MY COMPUTER.""
An ealier (4/7) article about Melissa http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/04/07/mel issa/index.html
"The appalling aspect of the Melissa macro-virus is not that it got loose, but that it was possible at all. Why is it that a word processing document can grab a copy of your address book and send out copies of itself under your name without you even knowing about it? Who decided that swoopy new features and powerful inter-application commands should be added to a system without any thought of security? We should be grateful that the Melissa author chose only to be annoying, and not truly malicious."
A very interesting article that equates "Windows everwhere" to monoculture in biology.
New posters to/. may get: "It's a joke." as a reply to a post, I did. Then they learn not to take things at face value around here. I've also seen the reply: "You have just been trolled."
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I use VIM now but my first PC was a dual disk (360k) 8088. I had a lot of fun making .bat files in edlin. My menu.bat was 270 lines created with edlin. Another favorite: debug. Opening DOS 3.3 in hex and changing the error messages--those were the days.
Yep. The Bell Labs article was fascinating history but it didn't say anything about the decision to charge thousand$ for UNIX and the attempt to destroy BSD.
Indeed. I was a Win95 power user and I found the move to KDE 1.1 painless. All the hot keys, shortcuts, menus, ... that I learned to use in Win95 were right there, no relearning required. Then I looked around and found lotsa added functionality like middle click for paste that I soon began using without thinking about it. The purists may gripe but I think the KDE team has taken a good GUI and made it great. Note: I distinguish the Win95 GUI--good; and the Win95 OS--sucks big time.
The Register today reported that Larry asked Ray Lane to leave. Big mistake.
Mike, I think you can save Corel by giving Mr. Lane the keys to the store and then going on a long vacation.
If that short TUCOWS article had been posted to /. it would have been marked troll. Not having the /. moderation system to guide him SJVN swallowed hook, line, and sinker.
Sneaky Bill Gates has put Windows in our public libraries. (12 Gateways in our town library, thanks, Bill.) I bet most would welcome volunteer workers.
There's a StaffMart Training Center in town that guarantess a $30,000+/yr to all graduates of their 8 month MSCE program. I know of a couple of HS grads that did it and had a choice of jobs. It may be a good time for MSCEs now but for how much longer?
Not the original developers? Yeah, I'm gonna trust my 5 nines environment to someone who says they can do the support a little cheaper?
"It's easier to shoot yourself in the foot with C; but when you do it with C++ you take off your whole leg." -- ??
We realize we're the 800 pound gorilla here, so our manners have to be impeccable. IBM exec (John Patrick ?) at a meeting with Linux developers about a year ago. And they have been. Amazing, just amazing.
Please get this post to +5 (Informative) ASP.
BTW the parent is not (Redundant). It is an insightful comment that restates some previous comments.
My first 386 in 1992 was a VTech Laser.And--GEOS. Wow what a great GUI. Codied in machine language. Alas,dead and forgotten.
No. She fakes it.
>"I'm assuming Linux WILL take the desktop"
>I still can't figure out why you assume this. Linux is a hobbiest's OS. Always was, probably always will be too.
Yeah, Linux will be for hobbiests. But a certain German engineering firm KDE will be taking over the desktop within 2 years.
You make some good points but Transmeta hired Linus for his programming skills and knowledge of the x86 architecture.
Great analogy. I hope a moderator bumps you up +1 so your post is more visible.
A two step program to end the drug problem:
1. Make drugs legal.
2. Put IBM in charge of marketing.
Indeed, indeed. /. crew. Thanks Andover.
Ain't it great. Thanks
In your eye MF. Whada you gonna do?
Scott McNealy, Larry Ellison, doncha wish you had balls like that?
Please consider logging in to get that automatic
+1 so your future posts will be more visible.
"Frankly, if there's anybody on earth that I TRUST to hold the copyright and make sure that the GPL is enforced,it's Stallman and the FSF."
Amen.
Obdurate RMS may amuse--but his word is on par with the laws of physics.
I just read the link in the parent. Sure wish all ...", "Old news", /.", etc. etc. posters
the "Taco sells out", "Downhill since
"Doesn't belong on
could read this. Oh, well.
How bout this from Salon:
i rus/index.html
l issa/index.html
http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/05/04/love_v
"The holes in Outlook have been widely known
since the Melissa panic. In any other industry, a product like Outlook would long ago have been subject to a massive recall. Anyone using Outlook today should be warned: This software is subject to stupid virus infections -- use another e-mail program if that worries you. No software is totally secure, but using Outlook is like hanging a sign on your back that reads "PLEASE MESS WITH MY COMPUTER.""
An ealier (4/7) article about Melissa
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/04/07/me
"The appalling aspect of the Melissa macro-virus is not that it got loose, but that it was possible at all. Why is it that a word processing document can grab a copy of your address book and send out copies of itself under your name without you even knowing about it? Who decided that swoopy new features and powerful inter-application commands should be added to a system without any thought of
security? We should be grateful that the Melissa author chose only to be annoying, and not truly malicious."
A very interesting article that equates "Windows
everwhere" to monoculture in biology.
New posters to /. may get: "It's a joke." as a reply to a post, I did. Then they learn not to take things at face value around here.
I've also seen the reply: "You have just been trolled."
This Insightful (hint to moderators) AC post is
an excellent example of why we should continue
to put up with kiddie ACs.