Whenever he is putting together a system for the first time, he doesn't bother with a case. It will be just the motherboard sitting on a counter with a power supply and peripherals attached. He has dubbed this type of system architecture the Frankenputer. He will have pieces of styrofoam stuck between different things to act as insulators. Other things precariously balanced where at any second something can fall onto the MB. I wish I had a picture.
When I first saw this I said, "What the hell is that?" and he simply said "Frankenputer".
I know why he has trouble getting people to finish or even attempt to read his articles. People are just to stunned by his ignorance. You can sum up his article as "I'm right, you're wrong and if you disagree your a terrorist". When an article starts out by pigeon-wholing people you know that is going to be the high-light of the article.
The article is just wrong in so many ways and unfortunately as soon as you try to tell him so, you become a terrorist.
You can get the same effect using Smart Pointers and not give up the control that using a garbage collection system entails. See Boost and Alexandrescu, Andrei. Modern C++ Design. There is also a nice article on CUJ.
The systems are from my company. If they're no longer useful to the company, I just ask if I can have it to give to someone needy and usually they go for it.
So we should compromise our freedoms to get a bunch of ignorant users? What would make Linux any different than windows then? We don't need new users at that cost. All the community would get out of that deal is a tech support nightmare. If the users don't understand the trade offs then they should stay where they are. People get to focused on attracting new users and become willing to sacrifice everyone elses rights for them instead of trying to educate the people on what the trade offs are.
I fix up old computers for people who can't afford to buy a new one. I won't put Windows on any of those and am willing to sit down with people and explain why. They get a little education and a free computer.
Compromising our values and reducing the freedom of existing users is not worth getting a bunch of non-contributing, ignorant users. If they would like to join the community, that's great but sacrificing the values that are the foundation of free software is not acceptable.
I am unable to mention to my boss that I accomplished a certain task using Python instead of C++. The good thing is he doesn't check on non-production code much.
Being a Windows developer I have to keep at least on machine at home running Windows. I do have a Gentoo Linux laptop that I do most of my hobby type stuff and read email and write articles. If I were not a Windows developer I would have dumped Windows at home Long ago. And of course I am using Windows at work to write this message.;)
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Whenever he is putting together a system for the first time, he doesn't bother with a case. It will be just the motherboard sitting on a counter with a power supply and peripherals attached. He has dubbed this type of system architecture the Frankenputer. He will have pieces of styrofoam stuck between different things to act as insulators. Other things precariously balanced where at any second something can fall onto the MB. I wish I had a picture.
When I first saw this I said, "What the hell is that?" and he simply said "Frankenputer".
I know why he has trouble getting people to finish or even attempt to read his articles. People are just to stunned by his ignorance. You can sum up his article as "I'm right, you're wrong and if you disagree your a terrorist". When an article starts out by pigeon-wholing people you know that is going to be the high-light of the article.
The article is just wrong in so many ways and unfortunately as soon as you try to tell him so, you become a terrorist.
You can get the same effect using Smart Pointers and not give up the control that using a garbage collection system entails. See Boost and Alexandrescu, Andrei. Modern C++ Design. There is also a nice article on CUJ.
And then they woke up.
Don't forget the Gentoo live-CD's. There are a bunch including some that boot directly in to games like Return to Castle Wolenstein: Enemy Territory.
How about Gentoo Enemy Territory CD
Should do what you want.
It should be interesting bizarro statement SCO comes up with to counter this?
He'll pretty much take anything at this point.
Also known as the RIAA IQ test.
Maybe we should offer them amnesty. Then again...
The systems are from my company. If they're no longer useful to the company, I just ask if I can have it to give to someone needy and usually they go for it.
So we should compromise our freedoms to get a bunch of ignorant users? What would make Linux any different than windows then? We don't need new users at that cost. All the community would get out of that deal is a tech support nightmare. If the users don't understand the trade offs then they should stay where they are. People get to focused on attracting new users and become willing to sacrifice everyone elses rights for them instead of trying to educate the people on what the trade offs are. I fix up old computers for people who can't afford to buy a new one. I won't put Windows on any of those and am willing to sit down with people and explain why. They get a little education and a free computer.
Compromising our values and reducing the freedom of existing users is not worth getting a bunch of non-contributing, ignorant users. If they would like to join the community, that's great but sacrificing the values that are the foundation of free software is not acceptable.
I am unable to mention to my boss that I accomplished a certain task using Python instead of C++. The good thing is he doesn't check on non-production code much.
Being a Windows developer I have to keep at least on machine at home running Windows. I do have a Gentoo Linux laptop that I do most of my hobby type stuff and read email and write articles. If I were not a Windows developer I would have dumped Windows at home Long ago. And of course I am using Windows at work to write this message. ;)
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