A theory on why microsoft makes such crappy stuff after all
these years
KAYVEN RIESE
kayve at sfsu.edu
Sun Dec 13 23:40:37 UTC 2009
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 at kayve-gentoo ~/murphy/CSc720/project/c_barrier $ ^C calc_pi
calc_pi.c
kayve at kayve-gentoo ~/murphy/CSc720/project/c_barrier $ ./calc_pi
second resolution: 1260745242nanosecond resolution:
954428309kayve at 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
>
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Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics)
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