Pro-Linux != Anti-Microsoft. Don't make me get out the clue stick. (Although I must say that this karma burn has been quite theraputic.)
Actually, I thought it was quite considerate of the editors to shove all the MS stuff today into one article. They oughta do a daily MS-quickies or something so people can jump right in or just ignore the whole thing.
Hmm, your post got me thinking. By race I was referring to the main branches of the human race, ie caucasoid, mongoloid, negroid, australoid. I read now that even these terms may be considered offensive and/or misleading. And, I concede that one could be racist by insulting a particular ethnic group (for instance, "chink" might be insulting to those who more properly share both mongoloid and caucasoid characteristics.).. in other words, my race comment was correct but beside the point.
Still, this person was making a generalization about a nation, not an ethnic group. China is made up of
many different ethnic groups; so your comment is a generalization and, *according to your interpretation*, potentially racist:|
(I'll always wonder how Gates could hate the 286 so much but still allow OS/2 to be written in Intel 286 Assembler when he knew for a fact C would be better).
Well, according to my (crummy) memory, MS was already working on windows 1.0, and (honestly) if IBM came up to me and said, "that's great that you *own* DOS, now why don't you help us write a competing product and then give it to *us*", well I would probably make sure that said competing product was a buggy, unmaintainable (that's where the assembly part comes in) POS.
I'd say they pretty much succeeded. IBM had to rewrite most of that code as I recall.
Linux threads are implemented as processes which share memory, filehandles, etc.
Unless people start to integrate the new
Next Generation Posix Threading Project and, unless they hacked around *all* the blocking system calls.. well at least the slow ones that can return EINTR.. the entire process will block.
Reading the manual from the 1.0.0 src rpm, it looks like they wrapped read(2)/write(2) among others, but send*(2)/recv*(2) (off the top of my head) aren't wrapped yet. It is on their TODO list to get this integrated with glibc at some future point. Hopefully those issues will be worked out by then.
I also question why the Slashdot comment doesn't mention about the practice of RedFlat, that source is coming with the binaries. What a balanced comment!
RedFlat? Are you implying RedHat is gonna buy out Red Flag Linux?;) Good strategy! Talking trash about them will drive their stock prices down..
And profit? We, uh... only made twenty bucks. I swear.
Honestly speaking, that's probably an overestimate.
The demands besides the signing of the cease/desist are impossible to meet on the university's part, and if the litigators don't already know that they will be whacked with the cluestick soon enough.
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Just like those american independentist wackos. (...) What a crazy bunch of idiots they were!
Yes, they were a bunch of idiots. Not sure why they bothered dressing up like indians either. I'm flippantly guessing didn't want to get caught and held responsible for their actions, and that it was probably a sort of "screw the man" kind of tactic. Now we think it's patriotic, which is ok; most patriotic things don't make much sense.
In case you didn't notice, their american spawn by and large don't have too much in their heads either. (Not that we're worse than anybody else.) Yes I am an american. Please commence the insulting jokes.
MANIAC: Writes script that kills all the daemons, clears all the print queues, and maybe restarts the daemons. Runs it once a hour from cron.
The lpd daemons on the rh linux 6 boxen we had would mysteriously stop talking to the sun print server after awhile. Rather than figure out the problem like a good sysadm I wrote an hourly cronjob that restarted the daemons. I think they're still using it.
Someone please tell me how the fsck you have a "hint" to remind you the password you selected is "24885sfjsfsjf82's"
Ok: 2->4->8 is doubling 1 3 times, and 8-5 = 3. followed by s. followed by a 7 letter palindrome. Now think of the B52's, but add that magic number 3 back to the first digit.
See? Shouldn't be hard to think up a compressed hint for that;)
I cannot and will not deny that. I thought I'd go over the top for variety. It's not excusable, but it was my motive. I stand by the comment's content.
I thought of the Slashdot population as a very open-minded community
Well.. nope
not the one that best suited their politics
That's what the licensing/desktop/editor flamewars are all about
However, my faith has been shaken today.
(bhicks)May I be the first to... *pop* that little f*ckin bubble of yours(/bhicks)
Why hasn't anyone mentioned Windows Update yet?
You mean like when somebody is talking about koffice vs staroffice and you bring up msoffice. Or we're talking about linux vs bsd and you bring up win2k. Or konq vs mozilla and you bring up IE. I suppose it's inevitable.
without sending that information to a third party
Like that's supposed to be impressive
it is very handy for patching all those security holes that invariably pop up in MS software,
That's too easy, I'll pass
Think about it, if an update tool is easy enough for the average user to utilize,
MandrakeUpdate. And if Debian was focused on more end-user types (clue: they're not), they'd have an equivalent. In fact I may be missing one.
should we take the selfless route and donate through Paypal, or do we take the mildly selfish route and buy a few shares of it?
Or option 3) spend 40 bucks for the cd set at compusa (like I did). Sure buying at a MegaStore(tm) is sometimes a sucky experience but demonstrating 'consumer demand' for linux can't be all that bad.
a lack of punctuation, capitalization (...) is so distracting that the meager excuse for content is totally lost on the recipient.
mostly for pedants such as yourself. you are making the assumption that poorly capitalized messages lack content. obviously you've never read alan cox's posts to the kernel mailing list
What bother me are the legions of engineering students and former engineering students who think that as technical people they don't need to be able to speak and write intelligently.
I am especially annoyed by people who write like that in email.
oh plz... iF tH3Y can understand what's being said between themselves then wtf cares.. Now, are we perhaps writing technical documentation or standards? Well, in that case there is certainly a need for precise language.
I don't feel email about snacks down the hall qualifies though. In fact I prefer the shorthand, it's quicker to read through. Your intolerance is also unlikely to make you friends among non-native english speakers.
There is a very real and unavoidable tendency for people to form their first impressions on others based on presentation as opposed to content. So stick with what the grammar nazis taught you if you're attempting to establish your credibility with a third party (even when you have none). Once that reputation is established, there is no reason to appease someone who gets flustered just because you don't dot your i's.
If you add 43 to a register, you can subtract 43 from that register and get your energy back.
bit shifting is inherently irreversible.
Well I guess that means multiplying and dividing by powers of two is out as well, since it turns out to be the same operation. But.. wait.. mult and div is really just a finite number of additions and subtractions.. *hmmm*
Does it have something to do with the way the cpu handles overflow for certain instructions? Or did I just convert an irreversiable algorithm?..remember you heard it here first!.. or are you just talking out of your butt?:)
Then teach them to do some general tasks like launching programs, deleting files, etc.
Uhm, yeah, but make sure that they understand that they shouldn't go around deleting *random* files.. I showed my college-age friend gmc/linux and the first thing he tried to do was delete the dynamic linker... sheesh
Microsoft themselves thought so highly of the project that they too decided to buy MS-DOS from another company and rebadge it rather then waste their time building it.
I thought their decision to buy QDOS was due more to time constraints. I'm also pretty sure there was a porting effort somewhere in there (new hardware and all) that you missed. And considering how hardwired all that crap was I imagine it wasn't quite as easy as a netbsd port..
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Actually, I thought it was quite considerate of the editors to shove all the MS stuff today into one article. They oughta do a daily MS-quickies or something so people can jump right in or just ignore the whole thing.
And I burnt all my karma last week :)
Good going /. editors.
Still, this person was making a generalization about a nation, not an ethnic group. China is made up of many different ethnic groups; so your comment is a generalization and, *according to your interpretation*, potentially racist :|
Well, according to my (crummy) memory, MS was already working on windows 1.0, and (honestly) if IBM came up to me and said, "that's great that you *own* DOS, now why don't you help us write a competing product and then give it to *us*", well I would probably make sure that said competing product was a buggy, unmaintainable (that's where the assembly part comes in) POS.
I'd say they pretty much succeeded. IBM had to rewrite most of that code as I recall.
Unless people start to integrate the new Next Generation Posix Threading Project and, unless they hacked around *all* the blocking system calls .. well at least the slow ones that can return EINTR.. the entire process will block.
Reading the manual from the 1.0.0 src rpm, it looks like they wrapped read(2)/write(2) among others, but send*(2)/recv*(2) (off the top of my head) aren't wrapped yet. It is on their TODO list to get this integrated with glibc at some future point. Hopefully those issues will be worked out by then.
Racist? Pah! 'nationalist' maybe. Last I checked, the Chinese didn't constitute their own race. Be careful with those accusations.
RedFlat? Are you implying RedHat is gonna buy out Red Flag Linux? ;) Good strategy! Talking trash about them will drive their stock prices down..
Seriously, I didn't grok that paragraph at all.
Honestly speaking, that's probably an overestimate.
The demands besides the signing of the cease/desist are impossible to meet on the university's part, and if the litigators don't already know that they will be whacked with the cluestick soon enough.
Yes, they were a bunch of idiots. Not sure why they bothered dressing up like indians either. I'm flippantly guessing didn't want to get caught and held responsible for their actions, and that it was probably a sort of "screw the man" kind of tactic. Now we think it's patriotic, which is ok; most patriotic things don't make much sense.
In case you didn't notice, their american spawn by and large don't have too much in their heads either. (Not that we're worse than anybody else.) Yes I am an american. Please commence the insulting jokes.
I laughed at the entry that read:
MANIAC: Writes script that kills all the daemons, clears all the print queues, and maybe restarts the daemons. Runs it once a hour from cron.
The lpd daemons on the rh linux 6 boxen we had would mysteriously stop talking to the sun print server after awhile. Rather than figure out the problem like a good sysadm I wrote an hourly cronjob that restarted the daemons. I think they're still using it.
Ok: 2->4->8 is doubling 1 3 times, and 8-5 = 3. followed by s. followed by a 7 letter palindrome. Now think of the B52's, but add that magic number 3 back to the first digit.
See? Shouldn't be hard to think up a compressed hint for that ;)
I cannot and will not deny that. I thought I'd go over the top for variety. It's not excusable, but it was my motive. I stand by the comment's content.
They didn't remove it. They disabled it. That code did ship with win3.1.
Yes it was part flamebait but that comes with the territory. The netscape comment was the most insightful thing I've read in the last 1/2 hour though.
Well.. nope
not the one that best suited their politics
That's what the licensing/desktop/editor flamewars are all about
However, my faith has been shaken today.
(bhicks)May I be the first to... *pop* that little f*ckin bubble of yours(/bhicks)
Why hasn't anyone mentioned Windows Update yet?
You mean like when somebody is talking about koffice vs staroffice and you bring up msoffice. Or we're talking about linux vs bsd and you bring up win2k. Or konq vs mozilla and you bring up IE. I suppose it's inevitable.
without sending that information to a third party
Like that's supposed to be impressive
it is very handy for patching all those security holes that invariably pop up in MS software,
That's too easy, I'll pass
Think about it, if an update tool is easy enough for the average user to utilize,
MandrakeUpdate. And if Debian was focused on more end-user types (clue: they're not), they'd have an equivalent. In fact I may be missing one.
.. oh wait that's just iridium flash.
Or option 3) spend 40 bucks for the cd set at compusa (like I did). Sure buying at a MegaStore(tm) is sometimes a sucky experience but demonstrating 'consumer demand' for linux can't be all that bad.
mostly for pedants such as yourself. you are making the assumption that poorly capitalized messages lack content. obviously you've never read alan cox's posts to the kernel mailing list
What bother me are the legions of engineering students and former engineering students who think that as technical people they don't need to be able to speak and write intelligently.
I am especially annoyed by people who write like that in email.
oh plz... iF tH3Y can understand what's being said between themselves then wtf cares .. Now, are we perhaps writing technical documentation or standards? Well, in that case there is certainly a need for precise language.
I don't feel email about snacks down the hall qualifies though. In fact I prefer the shorthand, it's quicker to read through. Your intolerance is also unlikely to make you friends among non-native english speakers.
There is a very real and unavoidable tendency for people to form their first impressions on others based on presentation as opposed to content. So stick with what the grammar nazis taught you if you're attempting to establish your credibility with a third party (even when you have none). Once that reputation is established, there is no reason to appease someone who gets flustered just because you don't dot your i's.
So, I'm fishing around in my patented /. Flippant Response Generator, and I'm seeing a 'windows 2005' comment and some obscure '640k' reference.
(look of disbelief) The canucks must be pretty hard up. I've missed every episode of Survivor, ever, and I'm perfectly norm.. uhhh nevermind
irreversiable gah, spelcheck
bit shifting is inherently irreversible.
Well I guess that means multiplying and dividing by powers of two is out as well, since it turns out to be the same operation. But.. wait.. mult and div is really just a finite number of additions and subtractions.. *hmmm*
Does it have something to do with the way the cpu handles overflow for certain instructions? Or did I just convert an irreversiable algorithm? ..remember you heard it here first!.. or are you just talking out of your butt? :)
They don't run linux in hell. They run DOS 4. (plus a little AIX for their e-business solutions)
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heh, that was the aerialbots, and I collected all five :)
Uhm, yeah, but make sure that they understand that they shouldn't go around deleting *random* files.. I showed my college-age friend gmc/linux and the first thing he tried to do was delete the dynamic linker... sheesh
I thought their decision to buy QDOS was due more to time constraints. I'm also pretty sure there was a porting effort somewhere in there (new hardware and all) that you missed. And considering how hardwired all that crap was I imagine it wasn't quite as easy as a netbsd port..