On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Kenneth Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > oh cool, so you weren't attacking me! haha and the joke wasn't bad. do you > watch star trek?
I watched the older series. I haven't seen the new movie yet, and I'm uncertain whether I want to. Star Trek used to be sci-fi, and now they're turning it into just another action thriller... not quite my style. > and are you saying that you support linux as well? Absolutely. My webserver runs Linux. Linux got me through high school. I learned most of my Java-fu on Linux with Eclipse. > cool man. haha sheesh. i feel a little sheepish. I'd like to be your little > buddie over the internet if you like. sounds like we would get along great, > i'm a dork too. haha. a's in calc ap bc class all the way. but that doesn't > mean i'm a wimp. or that i'm not cool. haha. i'll be cool with you. and > maybe one day things will develop... can you imagine a business partner > willing to help you a lot that you met years ago ovet the internet with > google? > i plan to go to a full 8 years of college for computer science. i want to > get into something serious and sophisticated whatever it is. being devoted > to something like that is my entire aim. i want to be able to write my > entire programs on my own some day. The sheer scale and scope of an entire program makes it almost requisite that you are part of a team. Going solo as long as I have, this is what I have learned. The biggest project I ever pulled off solo was my very own wiki engine: http://www.fsdev.net/projects/show/firewiki http://s422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/theDigitalProphet/FireWiki/?albumview=grid Well, I kind of also wrote my own wiki markup language, too... http://www.fsdev.net/projects/show/fscode > and i like your idea of using the mac for programming rather than fight with > linux all the time. seems i do a little of that every time they release and > upgrade or something... idk. i'm managing to get around it more and more If I stuck with Linux all the time I'm positive I'd be able to replace all my experience and know-how with a series of shell scripts stuck in cron. Well, that's what happened to my webserver! MySQL, Apache, Ruby on Rails, all glued together with bash and cron. Every day it runs is a gift from God, mark my words! Some apps were never designed to fit into a 326mb RAM postage stamp of a server, but by gosh I've done it! > anyway, yea there actually an illegal release of mac that can be attained no > charge. dubbed hackintosh. they wacked it to make it possible.... but i > don't think that they implanted vulnerabilities within it to gain control > though... they have their own website dedicated to it, or at least all the > legal parts that they can keep posted haha > > and I love what you said about windows, too... if only there were some way > to pin microsucks for everything they've done... but the world that doesn't > include serious computer users that an operating system shouldn't be as > horrible as microsoft. they've grown accustomed to it... you're statements > do certainly explain how microsoft managed to cram their junk in the face of > like... the entire world. This would never have happened if these machines > didn't come preloaded with their crap. and forget what i said about every os > getting their fair share, mac and linux are worth a damn and windows isn't. > windows is a must today simply because of all the software that has been > funded hugely and has... muscle i guess. it's the software on it that makes > it a must. like games, corporate applications... junk other people built > thinking they had to put it on windows. Yes, it has everything to do with inertia. There's just so much mass behind the Windows train that it's going to take a lot to stop it. > you know what i was saying to my future professor, it would really suck if > in 20 years we were contracdicted by a surge of viruses and newfound > vulnerabilities for mac and linux. I wonder if they are as really secure as > we say they are or if they just miss the spotlight because windows has the > popularity... but then again, i wonder if windows purposely has people > paying for security software by simply punching holes in their system. see, > i have thoughts like this going on in my head too. Windows didn't have file permissions until the NT kernel. Windows didn't have a multi-user environment until they bolted it on to Windows 2000 Professional. Windows didn't have file access restriction checking until Windows XP, but then they turned it off because it caused all these security popups! \o/ Then Windows got completely raped by zounds of viruses. The Russian mob invented whole new ways of exploiting Microsoft Windows XP. They created adware, spyware, malware, rootkits, and finally and most insidious they created little bots that grid together to send out masses of spam and relay spyware info to command and control servers. Oopsie. Nevermind the tens-of-billion dollars in damages to private individuals getting their identity stolen and large corporations. We'll just create a new vision of the future! Let's call it Vista! Vista is slow and annoys users with access restrictions, cancel or allow? Vista is more resistant to most forms of attack, however... it has full file-based access restriction. Gee whiz, UNIX has had this since 1978! They had to separate the user accounts, creating one account for the system and one account for the users. Gee whiz, UNIX has done this since its invention! Vista has support to run on "two, maybe four" processors according to the Vista product manager. UNIX has been multithreading across multiple chips (Symmetric Multiprocessing, or SMP) since long before I was born. When Cray supercomputers needs to put an OS on a cluster with 20,000+ chips, what do they use? Red Hat Linux (yes, they have poor choice in distros, but I suppose that even RH would run well on a Cray). Windows is only recently 64-bit. UNIX has been switching around the number of bits it works with for an incredibly long time. Heck, Windows itself is a 32-bit hack on a 16-bit GUI, written for an 8-bit OS that originally ran on a PC with a 4-bit system bus, made by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. Window's task scheduler (the logic that decides which processes get to run on the CPU and when) runs like a Government agency. Linux has a zero-tick, interrupting scheduler (CFS) which quite frankly alone makes Windows look like it doesn't have much of a right to live. The NTFS filesystem fragments. In an age when I don't have to defragment HFS+ (Mac) or ext3/ext4 (Linux). What gives? The Windows XP defragmenter sucks. The Windows Vista defragmenter sucks worse by several orders of magnitude. Can you hot-swap CPUs in Windows? Nope. Linux? Sure. 3D hardware 3d-discreet graphics acceleration for the desktop. Apple had it since Mac OS X 10.0. Linux had it before Vista went beta. Linux is technologically superior to Windows in every category. 'Nuff said. -- Registered Linux Addict #431495 http://profile.xfire.com/mrstalinman | John 3:16! http://www.fsdev.net/ | http://www.fsdev.net/~cmiller --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
