Some of us predate UID's and only got one to banish John Katz from our homepage.
Yeah! When the log-in system was introduced, there seemed to be no good reason to even want to log in. So...I passed, for a while; I'm confident that others did, too.
However, since this was the place where new users would be called a "troll" and blasted for posting an innocent question or an unpopular remark, and since this was the first place where I ever saw the words "better then" used to compare two things, I knew there was something special, worth holding onto. I had to get that Slashdot log-in.
What race card are you talking about? Do you mean this card that I'm about to use to trump you for your stupid move.
Here it is:
You are an idiot! You suggest non-White people hide and work, as you say, "where people had never seen a picture of me."
Who are you? People shouldn't have to hide, don't want to hide, and will not hide, in order to be accepted.
Unless there is some preconceived bias to the contrary, every unidentified person in the USA is assumed to be White. It is the American way...because White is supposed to be synonymous with "America"...even though the fabric of America has been woven by the hands of people of many races, colors, and nationalities.
Therefore, by hiding behind anonymity, one adopts the default label of, or pretends to be, "White." Who wants to be accepted as White, unless they are?
Who are you instructing to hide?
Imagine a White child going to kindergarten and reading in their textbooks, day-after-day, year-after-year that they came from slaves and that most Black people, the ruling class, the ones who are in the positions of hiring employees and giving job contracts, don't want people who look like them, including their mommies and daddies, in their neighborhoods, don't want them to have the same rights, and just don't like them. Imagine the effect on that child's outlook on life in this country in which they live.
--That may be part of the reason why some people feel reluctant to become too dependent on Slackware. I love it even though I use Apple hardware. I like raw simplicity. I purchased a "PC" just for FreeBSD use and installed Slackware as the secondary, Linux OS. I hope Slackware can survive in the long run.
I use Macs, have managed tens of Macs in a network setting, have seen a lot of things. What I have not seen is a Mac that does not crash under stress (or stress over time).
It's true that a machine acting as a file server rarely crashes, and OS 8.x is a lot better than previous OSes, but you must not be doing very much if your machines never crash.
Write software, use Communicator, open apps: Bugs happen; Communicator happens; memory problems happen.
I have BeOS, but it doesn't run on my machine. And since they've switched to PCs, I know there's no hope for us anymore.:-]
I can't be seen in public with an orange "toilet seat," (or a blue one) however, so I'll be saving for a "normal" PowerBook, or whatever succeeds it--just something good and classy.
You are right, "'Anonymous Coward' Number x,000,000." The Mac's lack of dynamic mem allocation is an annoying fault. One has to guess, beforehand, how much memory to allocate, then run the app and watch. I'm a Mac user, so don't get offended, anyone. But some programs ship with insufficient memory settings which cause problems for novice Mac users.
At my old job, I loaded a math program for kids which wouldn't load because of this. Had I not known (since the OS didn't point out the problem), and been there to help, it would have been a problem since the app was needed.
However, lack of true multitasking and good memory protection are my greatest concerns. (My machine crashes and freezes up too much.)
They still have some OS magic to perform with OS X Final. If they can extend the BSD and Mach foundation with Finder-like magic and some of that new fairy dust they've been sprinkling around the last few months, I'll buy in. Otherwise, I'll just upgrade my LinuxPPC software.:-)
(I'm still using OS 8.0 because 8.6 is bloated and slow. I've got LinuxPPC on a second partition.)
It's refreshing to see another opensource OS get some attention. I initially dowloaded MkLinux for my machine, then moved to LinuxPPC. But I initially wished that my Power Macintosh could run FreeBSD because of all the great things I heard about it. (NO, I don't want your added opinions; I'm in this for the experience, not the politics.):-) I just can't understand why people get so attached to these tools. Ten years ago, most of you would have chewed out Linux, had it existed, in favor of Windows. As for me, I use what works for me, dream about what doesn't, and enjoy the ride. (Perhaps the main problem with Linux is the mouths of *some* it's users.) It's just electricity. Does any one person know two systems so completely that s/he can proclaim, with educated proof, that any of them is undoubtedly better than the other? And can anyone define "better" or "best" to such a degree that no one can dispute it? We all have criteria for what suits us, and nothing suits completely. I'm done...completely.:-o:-) (Now, I just need to find buyer for my left kidney so I can afford to buy Mac OS X Server.)
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Weren't the Geocities accounts numbered, with icons? Didn't you need to find an empty account from amongst the "neighborhood" of sites?
Some of us predate UID's and only got one to banish John Katz from our homepage.
Yeah! When the log-in system was introduced, there seemed to be no good reason to even want to log in. So...I passed, for a while; I'm confident that others did, too.
However, since this was the place where new users would be called a "troll" and blasted for posting an innocent question or an unpopular remark, and since this was the first place where I ever saw the words "better then" used to compare two things, I knew there was something special, worth holding onto. I had to get that Slashdot log-in.
What race card are you talking about? Do you mean this card that I'm about to use to trump you for your stupid move.
Here it is:
You are an idiot! You suggest non-White people hide and work, as you say, "where people had never seen a picture of me."
Who are you? People shouldn't have to hide, don't want to hide, and will not hide, in order to be accepted.
Unless there is some preconceived bias to the contrary, every unidentified person in the USA is assumed to be White. It is the American way...because White is supposed to be synonymous with "America"...even though the fabric of America has been woven by the hands of people of many races, colors, and nationalities.
Therefore, by hiding behind anonymity, one adopts the default label of, or pretends to be, "White."
Who wants to be accepted as White, unless they are?
Who are you instructing to hide?
Imagine a White child going to kindergarten and reading in their textbooks, day-after-day, year-after-year that they came from slaves and that most Black people, the ruling class, the ones who are in the positions of hiring employees and giving job contracts, don't want people who look like them, including their mommies and daddies, in their neighborhoods, don't want them to have the same rights, and just don't like them. Imagine the effect on that child's outlook on life in this country in which they live.
We don't need to imagine.
--That may be part of the reason why some people feel reluctant to become too dependent on Slackware. I love it even though I use Apple hardware. I like raw simplicity. I purchased a "PC" just for FreeBSD use and installed Slackware as the secondary, Linux OS. I hope Slackware can survive in the long run.
Really nice!
It's true that a machine acting as a file server rarely crashes, and OS 8.x is a lot better than previous OSes, but you must not be doing very much if your machines never crash.
Write software, use Communicator, open apps: Bugs happen; Communicator happens; memory problems happen.
I have BeOS, but it doesn't run on my machine. And since they've switched to PCs, I know there's no hope for us anymore. :-]
I can't be seen in public with an orange "toilet seat," (or a blue one) however, so I'll be saving for a "normal" PowerBook, or whatever succeeds it--just something good and classy.
At my old job, I loaded a math program for kids which wouldn't load because of this. Had I not known (since the OS didn't point out the problem), and been there to help, it would have been a problem since the app was needed.
However, lack of true multitasking and good memory protection are my greatest concerns. (My machine crashes and freezes up too much.)
They still have some OS magic to perform with OS X Final. If they can extend the BSD and Mach foundation with Finder-like magic and some of that new fairy dust they've been sprinkling around the last few months, I'll buy in. Otherwise, I'll just upgrade my LinuxPPC software. :-)
(I'm still using OS 8.0 because 8.6 is bloated and slow. I've got LinuxPPC on a second partition.)
It's refreshing to see another opensource OS get some attention. I initially dowloaded MkLinux for my machine, then moved to LinuxPPC. But I initially wished that my Power Macintosh could run FreeBSD because of all the great things I heard about it. (NO, I don't want your added opinions; I'm in this for the experience, not the politics.) :-) I just can't understand why people get so attached to these tools. Ten years ago, most of you would have chewed out Linux, had it existed, in favor of Windows. As for me, I use what works for me, dream about what doesn't, and enjoy the ride. (Perhaps the main problem with Linux is the mouths of *some* it's users.) It's just electricity. Does any one person know two systems so completely that s/he can proclaim, with educated proof, that any of them is undoubtedly better than the other? And can anyone define "better" or "best" to such a degree that no one can dispute it? We all have criteria for what suits us, and nothing suits completely. I'm done...completely. :-o :-) (Now, I just need to find buyer for my left kidney so I can afford to buy Mac OS X Server.)