"Should we really wait for a month to go by before attacking again? That gives them a chance to regroup and launch another September 11th."
1) What difference does it make? Bombing civilians and Red-cross buildings has no effect on the terrorists, apart from possibly gaining them more support.
2) Have you ever considered that the people behind the WTC destruction weren't actually in Afghanistan when they plotted/carries out the attacks?
Great, so first you've got to launch up a whole new program, complete with irritating window getting in the way, then, after you've typed it in, you've got to wait for it to bring up the list, then go a manually select them all, before you're even allowed to touch the "delete" function.
And don't forget the "Are you sure?" confirmation boxes, and the irritating attempt to move files to the recycle bin instead of deleting them, unless you remember to irritatingly hold down the "shift" key.
All well and good, as long as you've got 10 minutes to spare waiting for the giant directory of all those thousands of files to display, one by one, all along with their little colourful icons. With a command line, you don't even have to LOOK at the files.
mean, how hard is it to use your handy-dandy virtual terminal switcher (CTRL-ALT-RIGHT_ARROW), and start up another X display?
And how hard is it for the new user to ctrl+alt+left_arrow back to your display, and mess about with all your programs? Face it, Linux just can't compete with a feature like this.
/etc is a monstrocity? If having all the config files in one place, all logically set out and well documented, what would the Windows registry be? A complete fuckup? At least with Linux all the config files are in the same place, not scattered about all over the disk like Windows.
2) GUI is brain-dead. There is nothing wrong with having multiple WMs and desktops, but couldn't they have the courtesy to use the same API so I would only have to have the one I want on my machine?
Sorry, but I have yet to see a GUI better than the Linux GUI. With the range of window managers, customisability and functionality, nothing comes close. With Windows or BeOS etc, you're limited to what they want to give you. With Linux, you can do whatever you want.
3) FHS is brain-dead. The UNIX filesystem hierarchy is so 1970's. Real OSs put all applications in seperate directories along with their necessary libraries. OS-X's app bundle along with its XML config files is the greatest thing ever.
How can you take seriously a hierarchy where every single program has its own directory? Imagine the $PATH for that one! Real OSes have each type of file (config file, binary, user files) in seperate directories, or even partitions if necessary. With Linux, to back up the setting, I merely have to back up/etc. And for user settings, I merely back up/home/$USER
On Windows, if I wanted to do that, I'd be there all day, hunting down things in the registry, in c:\windows and various subdirectories, in various c:\Progra~1 directories etc. So illogical, so disorganised, such a mess. And to think they charge so much money for that!
the average bloke doesn't give a fuck about multiple logons
I have feeling that when this "average bloke" logs on to find his work has been deleted by his 5 year old son, he might start to consider multiple logons.
Also, he might get a bit concerned when a virus completely mangles his system, along with his work, and everyone else's work to boot.
Or more likely, the root-run backup-daemon would periodically backup the $HOME directory to somewhere else where the user didn't have permission. Then when the virus/trojan etc ran rm -rf $HOME, or even/, the files would be safe.
With BeOS on the other hand, the virus/trojan would be able to wipe out everything on the system, including the backups.
Hmmm...looks like he made quite a decent comment to me. But then again he had the audacity to criticise the hallowed Slashdot, and so he had to be moderated down as a troll.
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British advertising does lead the way....in being completely crap. The adverts you see on TV are absolutely awful. Not to mention irritating. With most of them you're never actually made aware of what they're advertising. You'll see an advert 30 times, and have it completely memorised, and then think "what the fuck is it actually advertising?"
I take it then that when you're watching the telly, and the adverts come on, instead of going to make a cup of tea or for a piss, you sit there staring at them intently?
Would you rather get your car fixed by someone whose passion is fixing cars, and enjoys doing it for free, or by someone who is only in it for the money, and will probably do a half-arse job because he can't be fucked?
Most hacked OS? Yes, you could say many people enjoy hacking Linux. It's one of the most hackable OSes there is. Hacking Linux is extremely enjoyable.
"Yep apt-get. Great idea, like some half-arsed program that could be replaced by a little Perl script is going to resolve a distribution with so many dependency issues?"
As for apt-get, I see you didn't actually mention anything that's wrong with it. And yes, it does resolve dependency issues. All of them. All dependency issues solved by this so-called "half-arsed program". Much better than messing about with VBRUN dll's and booting into dos to mangle with mfc43-whatever.
"to me a distribution that cares more about politics than technical soundness, reliability or useability, isn't worth the price of the CDs it comes on."
Yep, that's Debian alright. Technically sound, reliable and useable. Worth ten times more than the dirty amateurish mess you get on the Windows CD, and yet is completely free! Oh the irony!
Sorry, but if you're going to use other people's code ('basic system routines'), then you can follow the writer's rules. Don't like it? Then write your own code.
"What do you earn your money with?"
Not by using other people's code and selling it off.
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Unfortuanetly, it's hard to find out if they're a terrorist until they've flown a plane into a skyscraper.
"Should we really wait for a month to go by before attacking again? That gives them a chance to regroup and launch another September 11th."
1) What difference does it make? Bombing civilians and Red-cross buildings has no effect on the terrorists, apart from possibly gaining them more support.
2) Have you ever considered that the people behind the WTC destruction weren't actually in Afghanistan when they plotted/carries out the attacks?
Wildcards.
Great, so first you've got to launch up a whole new program, complete with irritating window getting in the way, then, after you've typed it in, you've got to wait for it to bring up the list, then go a manually select them all, before you're even allowed to touch the "delete" function.
And don't forget the "Are you sure?" confirmation boxes, and the irritating attempt to move files to the recycle bin instead of deleting them, unless you remember to irritatingly hold down the "shift" key.
I'm glad Linux has such a decent CLI.
All well and good, as long as you've got 10 minutes to spare waiting for the giant directory of all those thousands of files to display, one by one, all along with their little colourful icons. With a command line, you don't even have to LOOK at the files.
But he wanted orange, the site you linked to only showed how to do it with the 16 standard colours.
Well that's good isn't it. Having to contact the administrator every time you want to change something.
Maybe, because of Windows' monopoly, they have a winmodem?
mean, how hard is it to use your handy-dandy virtual terminal switcher (CTRL-ALT-RIGHT_ARROW), and start up another X display?
And how hard is it for the new user to ctrl+alt+left_arrow back to your display, and mess about with all your programs? Face it, Linux just can't compete with a feature like this.
/etc is a monstrocity? If having all the config files in one place, all logically set out and well documented, what would the Windows registry be? A complete fuckup? At least with Linux all the config files are in the same place, not scattered about all over the disk like Windows.
Then don't use KDE or Gnome. I have never come accross anything slicker and easier to use than icewm.
What's the fun of running Windows apps in Linux?
I think the idea is that you can run Windows apps without the pain and misery of using the worthless, crippled OS known as Windows.
Unfortuanetly, Linux has consistently left Windows in the ashes with respect to functionality and customisability.
It just goes to show the state of Slashdot moderation when "me too!" posts get modded up instead of down.
Sorry, but I have yet to see a GUI better than the Linux GUI. With the range of window managers, customisability and functionality, nothing comes close. With Windows or BeOS etc, you're limited to what they want to give you. With Linux, you can do whatever you want.
3) FHS is brain-dead. The UNIX filesystem hierarchy is so 1970's. Real OSs put all applications in seperate directories along with their necessary libraries. OS-X's app bundle along with its XML config files is the greatest thing ever.
How can you take seriously a hierarchy where every single program has its own directory? Imagine the $PATH for that one! Real OSes have each type of file (config file, binary, user files) in seperate directories, or even partitions if necessary. With Linux, to back up the setting, I merely have to back up /etc. And for user settings, I merely back up /home/$USER
On Windows, if I wanted to do that, I'd be there all day, hunting down things in the registry, in c:\windows and various subdirectories, in various c:\Progra~1 directories etc. So illogical, so disorganised, such a mess. And to think they charge so much money for that!
the average bloke doesn't give a fuck about multiple logons
I have feeling that when this "average bloke" logs on to find his work has been deleted by his 5 year old son, he might start to consider multiple logons.
Also, he might get a bit concerned when a virus completely mangles his system, along with his work, and everyone else's work to boot.
Or more likely, the root-run backup-daemon would periodically backup the $HOME directory to somewhere else where the user didn't have permission. Then when the virus/trojan etc ran rm -rf $HOME, or even /, the files would be safe.
With BeOS on the other hand, the virus/trojan would be able to wipe out everything on the system, including the backups.
Hmmm...looks like he made quite a decent comment to me. But then again he had the audacity to criticise the hallowed Slashdot, and so he had to be moderated down as a troll.
British advertising does lead the way....in being completely crap. The adverts you see on TV are absolutely awful. Not to mention irritating. With most of them you're never actually made aware of what they're advertising. You'll see an advert 30 times, and have it completely memorised, and then think "what the fuck is it actually advertising?"
I take it then that when you're watching the telly, and the adverts come on, instead of going to make a cup of tea or for a piss, you sit there staring at them intently?
Would you rather get your car fixed by someone whose passion is fixing cars, and enjoys doing it for free, or by someone who is only in it for the money, and will probably do a half-arse job because he can't be fucked?
Most hacked OS? Yes, you could say many people enjoy hacking Linux. It's one of the most hackable OSes there is. Hacking Linux is extremely enjoyable.
"Yep apt-get. Great idea, like some half-arsed program that could be replaced by a little Perl script is going to resolve a distribution with so many dependency issues?"
As for apt-get, I see you didn't actually mention anything that's wrong with it. And yes, it does resolve dependency issues. All of them. All dependency issues solved by this so-called "half-arsed program". Much better than messing about with VBRUN dll's and booting into dos to mangle with mfc43-whatever.
"to me a distribution that cares more about politics than technical soundness, reliability or useability, isn't worth the price of the CDs it comes on."
Yep, that's Debian alright. Technically sound, reliable and useable. Worth ten times more than the dirty amateurish mess you get on the Windows CD, and yet is completely free! Oh the irony!
So, first you make a complete assumption, and then you call him a hypocrite based on that complete assumption? That doesn't make any sense at all.
Sorry, but if you're going to use other people's code ('basic system routines'), then you can follow the writer's rules. Don't like it? Then write your own code.
"What do you earn your money with?"
Not by using other people's code and selling it off.
I think he was being sarcastic. Unless you were as well. Or maybe you're the same person, who knows?