Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:40:34 -0800 From: KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> To: Jayton Garnett <jayton.garnett@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Frank Mitchell <mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> Subject: Re: A theory on why microsoft makes such crappy stuff after all these years Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0912131525260.6609@libra.sfsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <a534c7c30912131443q7e3b7addl9b81e8d05947bbd2@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B2381BF.3000209@gmail.com> <1260639296.11462.4.camel@debianbox.medion.org.medion.org> <bef9a7920912121157y15d2524ci69d8072b9b20ec9d@mail.gmail.com> <200912131416.56501.mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> <a534c7c30912131240p12f97412gc98ffde82351d462@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.SOC.4.64.0912131256330.6609@libra.sfsu.edu> <a534c7c30912131443q7e3b7addl9b81e8d05947bbd2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 13 Dec 2009, Jayton Garnett wrote: >>> THAT's no way to sell computers! Come on man, how's that *Nix Store going >> to survive with a sale line like that??? >> > > Fortunately I'm no salesman so I need not worry about that, I leave that to > my boss :p > > I can't even *sell* FreeBSD to my wife as our main OS, let alone strangers > :( > Like chess.. it's a bit of a fringe market.. but I got this guy, I try to call him my buddy, but he has Asperger's Syndrome so he gets hung up on stuff. He keeps saying "You're not a UNIX guy." That's what you might call a self-fulfilling prophecy, if it weren't for the fact that I learned the vi editor in 1985, never had much hardware over the years. Crashed class at Berzerkeley in molecular biology (MCB--the hardcores not IB).. got a MS, they keep wanting me to do this stuff.. they tell me I'm good with command lines, but I have only been trying to build systems for a couple of years now. I have never touched c# did a foray because I thought "Windows Programming" sounded intriguing.. at this point.. mind you I have no clue about holy wars, well.. I guess I can be RTFM deficient.. so I dropped out of my PhD (that was how I got the MS).. but anyway.. they made me retake data structures in c++ so I did and I did MFC that was fun.. did other things.. I am building a hate for java.. I met this Asperger guy.. and gradually I am trying to "descend" (is that REALLY the right word??? I know it's called "low level," but.. come on.. is this really hell? it is if you believe it!!) into the kernel today I am trying to figure out how to get atomic_dec_and_test working.. I just scored with gcc -lrt -o calc_pi calc_pi.c calc_pi.c: In function 'main': calc_pi.c:21: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments kayve@kayve-gentoo ~/murphy/CSc720/project/c_barrier $ ^C calc_pi calc_pi.c kayve@kayve-gentoo ~/murphy/CSc720/project/c_barrier $ ./calc_pi second resolution: 1260745242nanosecond resolution: 954428309kayve@kayve-gentoo ~/murphy/CSc720/project/c_barrier $ gcc -lrt -o calc_pi calc_pi.c (never mind forgotten '\n's) but I'm sorry you guys. I thought I had an inkling what "hacker" meant but instead of bearing with me.. well.. whatever.. d00d.. I made a proclamation "PC-BSD is dead to me" http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/bsdend/index.vhtml black screen man! wtf?? oh mwwaan!!! now I dun blowed up mah ubuntu: http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/ubuntu_fix/index.vhtml but gentoo gives me purdy flowers: http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/gentoo/index.vhtml tst bin etc lib nexbak sbin tmp vmlinuz.old boot home lost+found opt selinux usr cdrom initrd.img media proc srv var dev initrd.img.old mnt root sys vmlinuz kayve-gentoo ~ # ls /mnt/tst/home kayve scott kayve-gentoo ~ # umount /mnt/tst kayve-gentoo ~ # mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/tst mount: you must specify the filesystem type kayve-gentoo ~ # mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/tst /dev/sdb5 looks like swapspace - not mounted mount: you must specify the filesystem type kayve-gentoo ~ # swapon /dev/sdb5 kayve-gentoo ~ # ls /dev/sdb* /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb5 kayve-gentoo ~ # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ubuntu kayve-gentoo ~ # pwd /root kayve-gentoo ~ # cd emerges kayve-gentoo emerges # ls aisleriot_makesplat.log ntfs3g_makesplat.log astrolog_makesplat.log ntfs_makesplat.log dataplot_makesplat.log oo-ximian_makesplat.log depclean_makesplat.log ooffice-bin-appen_makesplat.log eclipse2_makesplat.log ooffice-bin_makesplat.log eclipse_makesplat.log ooffice2_makesplat.log epix_makesplat.log ooffice_makesplat.log extrema_makesplat.log pgplot_makesplat.log fuse_failed.log plplot_makesplat.log fuse_makesplat.log python_makesplat.log gempak_makesplat.log pyxplot_makesplat.log gftp_makesplat.log qtiplot_makesplat.log ggames_makesplat.log quickplot_makesplat.log gnupg_makesplat.log scidavis_makesplat.log gnuplot_makesplat.log scipy_makesplat.log grace_makesplat.log telnet_makesplat.log graphviz_makesplat.log texlive_makesplat.log labplot_makesplat.log update_revdep.log latex_makesplat.log veusz_makesplat.log loqui_makesplat.log xchat_makesplat.log matplotlib_makesplat.log xd3d_makesplat.log ntfs2_makesplat.log xgraph_makesplat.log kayve-gentoo emerges # tail xgraph_makesplat.log * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. * IMPORTANT: 14 config files in '/etc' need updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge * man page to learn how to update config files. kayve-gentoo emerges # exit exit Script done on Wed Dec 9 23:28:20 2009 kayve-gentoo emerges # I is a bad toad. BUT AN EPIC TROLL!!! YAAAY! > Cheers, > Jay > *----------------------------------------------------------* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *----------------------------------------------------------*
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