Get thee hence oh user of the unclean editor! Depart from me oh worker of bloated ascii manipulation! In the name of the Holy:q! I command the, depart!
6. And behold the emacs did vex their souls for the BOFH hateth the coder who is loathe to select and compile an editor unto himself and loveth those who shalt compile for themselves the holy Vi. Yea verily I say unto thee that from that day those coders fell into error such that the BOFH sayeth, "This bringeth joy to my soul as great as the Holy Lager, that these coders might vex themselves with that which is unclean." 7. And the BOFH did laugh much at the pain he hath sent out upon the coders.
Actually I am only 27 but I feel old since my first two computers had chips developed near the time of my birth.
I started out on an Apple IIe. Then went to an 8088. I used Winblows PC's until Mandrake 9, then moved to Slack 10 and now run FC5. Side by side with my Slack 10 box was an OS X eMac which I have to say I loved. Now all this Unbutu Linux talk intrigues me and I might slap a copy on my old beater box and play around with it.
No one said "self serving = bad". I use self serving phrasiology every day to show my boss that Slashdot keeps me on the cutting edge and I deserve a raise for staying so savvy.
I too use 2 space indents but find the nice round wrap of 80 works better for me.
Tabs get strange when you edit in Vi and everything is nice because you set the tabs correctly and you send it to a cow-orker who uses, Lord have mercy on me for the unholiness I am about to utter, Dreamweaver, and decides to tab everything and then send it back after it has been "cleaned up" by Dreamweaver and it looks like a rat's nest. Then you are forced to LART them into next month for both using such an inane program and "cleaning up" your code with it.
"And behold sayeth the Lord, thou shalt edit thine text in Vi and Vi alone, even when thou art forced by the unclean luser to useth the operating system of unholiness. Thou shalt always keep a copy of the Holy editor on thine key of the USB lest thou shalt fall into temptation and edit thine text in the way of the unclean. Any who useth Emacs or the accursed notepad shalt be stricken from the Book of the Holy Sysadmin for all eternity. So sayeth the Lord." -1st Epistle to the Admins of Systems 1:15-16
There it is in black and white. Vi is the way of truth and light. All others are unclean.
The original quote comes from an interview with Wolf Blitzer back in 1999 and is a poorly worded, self serving attempt to show he is helping foster innovation in this country. His exact quote (emphasis added to illustrate where the "I created the internet" came from):
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."
Stevens, and others in Congress, are what the great comedy troup Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie called 12 o'clock flashers. Every electronic device in their house is always flashing 12:00. It is physically impossible, no matter how much you dumb down the terms, to explain the concept of the internet to the feeble brain of a 12 o'clock flasher. You might as well read them the writings of Stephen Hawking in Dutch. No matter how simply you dumb down the concept of email, they are still receiving an "internet", they boot to "Microsoft", Windows are what line the walls of their office, and rebooting involves kicking more than once. These are the same guys who break their "cupholders" and scream at tech support for their incompetence when they don't realize they have the program minimized. I know there are many here in this august body who have greying hair as a result of these lusers and can attest to Mr. Stevens incompetence just by hearing about his reciept of an "internet". He probably asked his secretary to download the "internet" to a floppy so he could read it in his spare time.
Thank you and apology accepted. I know just glancing through some of my writing makes me look like a Nader voter so I can easily understand where the whole brickhead thing comes from.
Touchy today aren't we. I'm actually a Texan who voted for Bush. The current administration then failed miserably to deliver on its promises. The Democrats' plan is to attack their oppontnets plan and both end up blaming each other when nothing gets done. Stupid issues like Gay marriage ammendments and flag burning take the place of real issues that might lighten the grip of those in power on our freedoms. Nader is a whack job which is why he has never made a real difference. I am a moderate who believes instead of being brickheads arguing about non-issues we need to stop government encroachment on our freedoms and wallets. The only brickheads are the morons who vote straight down party lines and think they will make a difference.
Excellent point. I am assuming there would eventually have to be a Government ID program for minors if anything like that would work. Then of course the government would put that data on a laptop and the laptop would be stolen....
Join the Revolution! I find the overall aver IQ to be higher here and if there is going to be a revolution it should come from the most well informed people.
Correction, Republicrats. We are under one party that uses smokescreens to make it look like they are divided. Until we do what you suggest and stand up, we will remain under that ruling class. Join the Revolution!
Had I a mod point to give, I would give it to you. Well thought out and reasoned argument. If only the alarmist parents and media in this country could figure out to teach teens how to avoind these pitfalls through reason and responsibility instead of knee-jerk fear mongering and misinformation and shielding their child from the world.
At the end of the barrel of a musket if I remember correctly...
As to RMS, let the hippie talk. Every once in a while he has a good idea and the rest of the time he is at least as entertaining as the limeys who forget how badly their asses got handed to them in the US Revolutionary War.
Amen and haleluiah! I have spent most of the day on various newsgroups and have seen similar distaste all over the web. I say we revolt! Lets take our countries back from their current regimes and form a new world order! The geek shall inherit the earth!
Since it is impossible to have your IP traffic travel anywhere on the net without hitting AT&T copper somewhere it is time to flood them with a flood of false positive red flags. Everyone on the net should surf the two things the government has shown interest in of late, porn and the middle east. Visit Al-Jazerra at least 20 times a day. Just keep the browser open and refresh. Make sure you visit the Arabic version. Then go straight from there to porn. If your significant other gets on you about it tell them you are defending liberty. Damn the man! Save the empire! Jihad for the destruction of the purple dinosaur!
Nope. Hitler could at least form a sentence without mis pronouncing things to the point where, in the words of Carlos Mencia, "Even [racial remark replaced with Mexican immigrants] were saying, 'Dat's not how you say dat.'"
And to say Cheney is a mole is to imply he is trying to hide it.
And Bush is too busy with Hooked on phonics to listen to phone sex. That is Rumsfeld's job.
A government of the people, by the people, for the people? What kind of whacked out pinko commie rhetoric is that? For the
people...puleeeze... Next what will you want? Votes that actually count? How about free karma points while you are at it?
I guess you will want a government that sticks to that liberal manifesto...what do you call it...The Bill of Rights next? Don't
you know that thing is also called the Presidential toilet paper?
I agree, comparing OS X to 98 and ME is ludicrous. OS X has Unix at its core making it a harder nut to crack. 98 and ME had horrible M$ kernels where security was an afterthought. Come to think of it, so does XP.
I am Microsoft Certified which is why I use Mac and Linux. Things on Mac and Linux just work. Things on Windows you have to work at. The rest of the world may be too un-educated on the matter to choose an OS that doesn't crap its pants every time an idiot in his mom's basement writes a few lines of virus code but by God I am converting them one at a time. Just moved another luser to Fedora Core 5 last week and one to a Mac Mini the week before that. They have never been happier. After I showed the FC 5 newbie how easy it was to add packages with "yum" and how he could finally control what he wanted on his system he swore never to go back. Both love the OpenOffice.org and the ability to remotely connect to their work systems using rdesktop.
Computers aren't accesible because of Microsoft, they are broken because of Microsoft.
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Get thee hence oh user of the unclean editor! Depart from me oh worker of bloated ascii manipulation! In the name of the Holy :q! I command the, depart!
You left out verse six:
Vi came to fulfil the law of Ed as Christ came to fulfil the law of Moses. Come forth into the baptism of the Holy Vi and be saved!
Actually I am only 27 but I feel old since my first two computers had chips developed near the time of my birth. I started out on an Apple IIe. Then went to an 8088. I used Winblows PC's until Mandrake 9, then moved to Slack 10 and now run FC5. Side by side with my Slack 10 box was an OS X eMac which I have to say I loved. Now all this Unbutu Linux talk intrigues me and I might slap a copy on my old beater box and play around with it.
No one said "self serving = bad". I use self serving phrasiology every day to show my boss that Slashdot keeps me on the cutting edge and I deserve a raise for staying so savvy.
I too use 2 space indents but find the nice round wrap of 80 works better for me.
Tabs get strange when you edit in Vi and everything is nice because you set the tabs correctly and you send it to a cow-orker who uses, Lord have mercy on me for the unholiness I am about to utter, Dreamweaver, and decides to tab everything and then send it back after it has been "cleaned up" by Dreamweaver and it looks like a rat's nest. Then you are forced to LART them into next month for both using such an inane program and "cleaning up" your code with it.
Mine says,
"And behold sayeth the Lord, thou shalt edit thine text in Vi and Vi alone, even when thou art forced by the unclean luser to useth the operating system of unholiness. Thou shalt always keep a copy of the Holy editor on thine key of the USB lest thou shalt fall into temptation and edit thine text in the way of the unclean. Any who useth Emacs or the accursed notepad shalt be stricken from the Book of the Holy Sysadmin for all eternity. So sayeth the Lord." -1st Epistle to the Admins of Systems 1:15-16
There it is in black and white. Vi is the way of truth and light. All others are unclean.
The original quote comes from an interview with Wolf Blitzer back in 1999 and is a poorly worded, self serving attempt to show he is helping foster innovation in this country. His exact quote (emphasis added to illustrate where the "I created the internet" came from):
Interpret that as you will.
Stevens, and others in Congress, are what the great comedy troup Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie called 12 o'clock flashers. Every electronic device in their house is always flashing 12:00. It is physically impossible, no matter how much you dumb down the terms, to explain the concept of the internet to the feeble brain of a 12 o'clock flasher. You might as well read them the writings of Stephen Hawking in Dutch. No matter how simply you dumb down the concept of email, they are still receiving an "internet", they boot to "Microsoft", Windows are what line the walls of their office, and rebooting involves kicking more than once. These are the same guys who break their "cupholders" and scream at tech support for their incompetence when they don't realize they have the program minimized. I know there are many here in this august body who have greying hair as a result of these lusers and can attest to Mr. Stevens incompetence just by hearing about his reciept of an "internet". He probably asked his secretary to download the "internet" to a floppy so he could read it in his spare time.
Thank you and apology accepted. I know just glancing through some of my writing makes me look like a Nader voter so I can easily understand where the whole brickhead thing comes from.
Glad I read ahead as I was just about to post the same thing. Now if we could only get an accessibility program for idiots...I mean Senators...
Touchy today aren't we. I'm actually a Texan who voted for Bush. The current administration then failed miserably to deliver on its promises. The Democrats' plan is to attack their oppontnets plan and both end up blaming each other when nothing gets done. Stupid issues like Gay marriage ammendments and flag burning take the place of real issues that might lighten the grip of those in power on our freedoms. Nader is a whack job which is why he has never made a real difference. I am a moderate who believes instead of being brickheads arguing about non-issues we need to stop government encroachment on our freedoms and wallets. The only brickheads are the morons who vote straight down party lines and think they will make a difference.
Excellent point. I am assuming there would eventually have to be a Government ID program for minors if anything like that would work. Then of course the government would put that data on a laptop and the laptop would be stolen....
Join the Revolution! I find the overall aver IQ to be higher here and if there is going to be a revolution it should come from the most well informed people.
Join the Revolution! Sorry, typo in the URL of the parent post.
Join the Revolution! Sorry, Malformed URL
Correction, Republicrats. We are under one party that uses smokescreens to make it look like they are divided. Until we do what you suggest and stand up, we will remain under that ruling class. Join the Revolution!
"appropriate" being all of them. Join the Revolution!
Had I a mod point to give, I would give it to you. Well thought out and reasoned argument. If only the alarmist parents and media in this country could figure out to teach teens how to avoind these pitfalls through reason and responsibility instead of knee-jerk fear mongering and misinformation and shielding their child from the world.
At the end of the barrel of a musket if I remember correctly...
As to RMS, let the hippie talk. Every once in a while he has a good idea and the rest of the time he is at least as entertaining as the limeys who forget how badly their asses got handed to them in the US Revolutionary War.
At least they are good for humor value...
Amen and haleluiah! I have spent most of the day on various newsgroups and have seen similar distaste all over the web. I say we revolt! Lets take our countries back from their current regimes and form a new world order! The geek shall inherit the earth!
Since it is impossible to have your IP traffic travel anywhere on the net without hitting AT&T copper somewhere it is time to flood them with a flood of false positive red flags. Everyone on the net should surf the two things the government has shown interest in of late, porn and the middle east. Visit Al-Jazerra at least 20 times a day. Just keep the browser open and refresh. Make sure you visit the Arabic version. Then go straight from there to porn. If your significant other gets on you about it tell them you are defending liberty. Damn the man! Save the empire! Jihad for the destruction of the purple dinosaur!
Nope. Hitler could at least form a sentence without mis pronouncing things to the point where, in the words of Carlos Mencia, "Even [racial remark replaced with Mexican immigrants] were saying, 'Dat's not how you say dat.'"
And to say Cheney is a mole is to imply he is trying to hide it.
And Bush is too busy with Hooked on phonics to listen to phone sex. That is Rumsfeld's job.
A government of the people, by the people, for the people? What kind of whacked out pinko commie rhetoric is that? For the people...puleeeze... Next what will you want? Votes that actually count? How about free karma points while you are at it? I guess you will want a government that sticks to that liberal manifesto...what do you call it...The Bill of Rights next? Don't you know that thing is also called the Presidential toilet paper?
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I agree, comparing OS X to 98 and ME is ludicrous. OS X has Unix at its core making it a harder nut to crack. 98 and ME had horrible M$ kernels where security was an afterthought. Come to think of it, so does XP.
I am Microsoft Certified which is why I use Mac and Linux. Things on Mac and Linux just work. Things on Windows you have to work at. The rest of the world may be too un-educated on the matter to choose an OS that doesn't crap its pants every time an idiot in his mom's basement writes a few lines of virus code but by God I am converting them one at a time. Just moved another luser to Fedora Core 5 last week and one to a Mac Mini the week before that. They have never been happier. After I showed the FC 5 newbie how easy it was to add packages with "yum" and how he could finally control what he wanted on his system he swore never to go back. Both love the OpenOffice.org and the ability to remotely connect to their work systems using rdesktop.
Computers aren't accesible because of Microsoft, they are broken because of Microsoft.