I loathe Redhat users
There are few things as offensive as a Redhat users pontificating about how clever they are. For one thing, they already suffer from the stigma of being a linux asshat. Linux users as a whole are fairly loathsome odious little critters, for a variety of reasons.
What I cannot fathom is why anyone reasonably well paid would choose to run linux as a desktop, given free choice in the matter. If you wanted compliance and cohabitation with the rest of the world, you’d use Windows. If you were a busy kinda person and had real work to do, you’d use windows or OSX. If you wanted the power of unix and cohabitation with the rest of the world, you’d use OSX. If you wanted to play games, you’d use Windows.
There really are very, very few reasons to use linux as a desktop environment. Given that harsh reality, one can only assume that it highlights a deep personality flaw with those monkeys who choose to do so. Of course, one doesn’t have to be a genius to figure out that the only people who would indulge in this silliness are those annoying little kids who always wanted to be cool but could never quite figure out how. The kind who got beaten up regularly for being weasely little turds. The kind who would brag about being cool and hip, but deep down inside desperately wonder what they must do in order for others to like them and so much as glance at them with anything other than mockery and derision. Those kids would do anything to try and feel like they’ve won one over those evil cooler kids who kept beating up on them and laughing at them.
Who the fuck cares about how configurable it all is? X is slower than shit through a funnel. Your average theme for it is about as functional as a dildo in a bake-off. The usual cry of ‘but you can CHANGE it and use another theme’ is worthless, since the next theme, in all liklihood, is just as worthless. I’d much rather have design experts spend all those millions researching what a usable UI is and figuring it out. I’d much rather that, than playing with some fuckwit IT kid’d ejaculate who had a violent encounter with photoshop and now feels the urge to inflict the sad pitiful results on an unsuspending world.
Back to redhat users. The reason that these are the most loathsome of all is that there isn’t even anything vaguely geeky or cool about the experience. For example, gentoo users at least will admit that for no explicable reason whatsoever, seeing all those compilation messages fly by arouses them sexually. It’s a normal geeky reaction, so gentoo makes sense for that. On the other hand you have debian (and debian based) distributions, where you can have the coolness of running the latest and greatest without having to mutilate yourself to get it all working.
Redhat really is a house of cards that will eagerly crumble if you so much as look at it crosseyed. Upgrading rpm’s could not possibly be any more painful. It is truly astounding how rare it is to find any two rpm’s that have the same dependencies, and will happily coexist without much whining, pleading, and eventually helpless penis tugging by the end user in a desperate attempt for any sign of life or interest. It somehow manages to bring all those legitimate reasons as to why one might dislike windows into a environment with far worse hardware support and documentation that would make your mother wish she’d have gouged you out of her womb and rammed a pair of scissors into the base of your skull (now illegal, incidentally) to avoid the trauma that this nonsense would cause you.
November 5th, 2003 at 3:33 pm
AMEN!
November 5th, 2003 at 3:48 pm
you go girl – tell ‘em like it is.
Next time be more assertive and tell us how you really feel before the 2nd sentence.
Keep those acidic hand grenades coming.
November 5th, 2003 at 3:50 pm
Oh you fate, you are so judgemental. Are you really the arbitrator of what is right and what is wrong? How un-american of you.
November 5th, 2003 at 3:53 pm
You would probably have greater sucksess with hitting on linux if you took your hands off me for a while!
November 5th, 2003 at 4:16 pm
I guess it depends on how you define “desktop”. Although I use OS X for my “communications” desktop, (translation: email, web browsing) Linux works better for my “developer” desktop. (translation: writing code) I use Redhat, because that’s the best supported Linux platform for Oracle, VMWare and other developer tools.
Redhat definitely isn’t the “cool” distribution. The UI looks like a dumb windows clone and the worst part is that it works like a poor windows clone. It doesn’t feel like Linux anymore. (at least not to me) But, it does work pretty well. OpenOffice and Evolution work very will in a windows world. And Mozilla is just fine as a browser. The samba interface isn’t anywhere as polished as on OS X (as of panther) but it gets the job done pretty well.
November 5th, 2003 at 4:44 pm
Troll.
November 5th, 2003 at 5:02 pm
First pist!
November 5th, 2003 at 6:21 pm
First Pest
November 5th, 2003 at 7:45 pm
Yawn. Hani, Hani, Hani, I have somehow come to expect much more than a cheap “your OS sucks” vein. Sure, blast tools, languages, APIs, etc…OS’s are just too easy, and you’re really lowering yourself and the veracity of your rants by doing so. It’s just too easy and all to easy to find on any message board frequented by those ‘asshats’ you refer to in your own text.
There weren’t even any original points of why RH sucks….given the utter flaccidness of the rest of the information, I’m heartily surprised you even know what Gentoo is…
November 5th, 2003 at 8:03 pm
Well, you neednt worry too much longer.
Redhat Linux is no more…
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/37812.htm
November 5th, 2003 at 8:58 pm
best blog entry ever.
November 5th, 2003 at 10:03 pm
Best post so far. I especially like “The kind who got beaten up regularly for being weasely little turds”. Funny how prevelant those dildos (liked that comment too) are in IT.
November 5th, 2003 at 10:50 pm
FUCKING FINALLY SOMEONE HAS CHANNELED ALL OF THE FUCKING PENT UP HOSTILITY TO THE FUCKING PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH THEIR TIME ON THIS EARTH THAN RECOMPILING THEIR KERNEL JUST BECASUE THEY CAN.
“But I can take out modules I’m not using and make it SMALLER.”
Yeah, and take out enough things, or the wrong thing AND IT DOESN’T FUCKING WORK ANYMORE DOES IT?! AHAHAHAHA!
I agree. Hands down. Leave Linux to the propellerheads, I’ve got enough shit to figure out how to accomplish in the time allotted at work without trying to tweak my keymappings in the 6.02 x 10^23 text editors provided in each distro.
But my therapist says I’m doing much better.
November 6th, 2003 at 3:08 am
At last you’ve had the courage to come out Hani. I kept telling you you would feel better for it. So I’ll be round tonight at the same time shall I ? Its your turn to bend over if I remember correctly, insert my Microsoft probe.
November 6th, 2003 at 3:16 am
So you work on IT Help Desk at fornicate.net ?
What exactly do you use on your desktop ? and what do your users use ?
Is all this bitching due to some feeling of frustration and inadequacy that other people have something better than your desktop (Windows) and you don’t like being in that position ?
You want to tell me about your childhood ?
November 6th, 2003 at 3:52 am
Amen to that, after a few months trying to figure out RHL, I am back to Windows and I will stay here for a while!
November 6th, 2003 at 4:08 am
I think the reason Red Hat is like a house of cards to you is because you choose to have servers running it maintained by people that hate Red Hat for the simple reason that it is not Debian.
You are right that, apart from people developing (non-Java) software for it or those who are sysadmins, Linux desktops suck.
November 6th, 2003 at 5:53 am
There are valid points burried in the complaining and overwrought mess of that article. RedHat’s package manager out of the box is inadaquate compared to other systems. Mandrake has urpmi, Debian has apt, Gentoo has portage.. all work much better, more effeciently, and are much easier for a user to use.
I was on a new RedHat server last night and wanted to drop on Ntp. It’s dependancy was libcap, so I got that. It’s dependancy was a new version of libc, which would be a pain to upgrade. So, I’ll build it from source. Gentoo would have done that automatically though.
Obviously Hani isn’t concerned about choice and the linux-specific applications. I personally find Windows to be too limiting on the desktop. I think OS X is much nicer of the two, but have a preference for KDE right now. I’ve been considering switching my main desk to OS X (I do have one mac already here), but haven’t gotten around to buying a new one yet.
I do think you could have provided actual details on what you don’t like about it. Too complicated? Sure, thats still a valid point for many users. Too annoying with RedHat and RPMs? Sure.. though you could try running apt-rpm (apt4rpm.sourceforge.net) which does solve many of those issues..
November 6th, 2003 at 6:16 am
elemur: so basically what you’re saying is that RedHat are so incompetent they haven’t included this apt-rpm that fixes their problems for free?
November 6th, 2003 at 6:25 am
The most anoying part of linux is its users. They’re a bunch of hypocrits ranting about how they can configure this or that, how you have the possibility to build from source etc etc. And STILL morons use crap like a default Redhat install?
One particularily dumb one pointed out to me that, since I forgot to include support in the kernel for every possible little thing I might ever want and had to recompile the kernel, I’m a moron. I’m a moron for not knowing ahead of time that the kernel has to have everything fucking INCLUDING the kitchen sink in it to actually do anything. And that I am at fault for not understanding which items that needed to go in the kernel ahead of time. … You use fucking Redhat!! Who tf are you to point out about knowing wtf you shove up your computers arse?
And then there are the usual tidbits of the worthless pos people like to slap a ThisIsAnOs label to. Copy-Paste works half the time and only between some applications. NO Linux faggots: that is not ok. Learn to understand that you actually CAN expect it to work completely and consistently.
Browsers? The only fast browser on linux is Konqueror, but it is too caught up with making your life miserable by crashing every too often in a while.
And no linux faggots, it does not depend on how you define Desktop.
November 6th, 2003 at 6:26 am
You’re an amazing author, you know that don’t you? :-)
In many ways you are correct. I certainly would love to run MacOSX and I intend to buy a Mac. However, right now I can’t afford it. I have this powerful PC though, but I still want a powerful development environment. At this point in time there are two choices: Windows or Linux
At work I write Java code on a Windows box. I have IDEA, cygwin and all the other tools that are absolutely necessary in order to be productive. This works. Pretty well actually. Most of the time I’m still wishing I could run Linux on the machine instead. There are some real technical reasons for this and it’s certainly not caused by some childhood trauma that you seem to imply.
At home I’m running RedHat 9, doing Java development on it. I’d say I spend more time developing on the Windows box at work than at home. I still prefer the Linux environment. Again, it’s not because I was laughed at when I was young.
I’m perfectly well aware of the fact that there are reasons why people might want to run Windows. Or MacOSX, or FreeBSD, or even BeOS (although I can’t think of any for that last one). The beauty of Java is that we can all use whatever desktop we want and we can still work together. I think this bile was misdirected since it has nothing to do with Java, unless you intend to follow this up with a statement of love for Java since it more or less eliminates silly arguments like this one.
November 6th, 2003 at 6:46 am
Bugger off, you stupid cunt! Do me a favor: stick to Windows, adopt .NET, pay whatever amount of money Microsoft ask you for, forget about portability, become a Microsoft slave, and, most important, stop breaking my balls! Sod off, you arrogant pick!
November 6th, 2003 at 6:51 am
alpha-omega: you arrogant cock smoker. Fate is an OS X user. See, there are more OS:es than linux, linux, linux and windows. OS X is the OS that came out of nothing and took over linuxes’ supposed place as the next unix-like desktop os. tough luck.
November 6th, 2003 at 7:04 am
jwzrd said: “you arrogant cock smoker”
I definitely am (even tough I’m a man). Actually I’m bisexual. You see, even in sex I like to have more than an option!
jwzrd said: ” Fate is an OS X user”
I’m glad for him. Do you think that I will have to stop using MAC OS X when Fate will get bored of it?
November 6th, 2003 at 7:31 am
I use Linux because of penis enlargement.
November 6th, 2003 at 7:48 am
“Fate is an OS X user”. He’s just a IT Help Desk idiot. Don’t really need to say anything more :-)
November 6th, 2003 at 8:01 am
I wonder how he can manage the help desk while simultaneously flying an airplane and scratching his bald jordanian head?!
November 6th, 2003 at 8:27 am
Thank you Hani for pointing out the errors of my ways! I only wish you posted this oh so enlightened blog before I made this grievous mistake. Here I thought that learning Linux would improve my marketability since most major companies are seriously evaluating the OS (if not using it).
I should just be happy laying out a wad of cash for the overpriced OSX, Looking back now, I really did enjoy the fact that it had a limited amount of hardware configurations, and lets not forget the one size fits all pricy software.
I also do so miss my Windows. Who could forget the every couple hour reboots, blue screen of death, bi-weekly patches and the fix all command. Good Times! Good times indeed.
Conformity how could I have missed that, what and obvious moron I am. Im going to put my dick back in my pants, stop pretending Im cool and step back in line. Now excuse my ignorance I have been Out of the Loop for awhile. What version of conformity would you be using Jaguar, Panther, Cougar or maybe XP Home, XP Pro, 2000 Pro, 2003 Pro, 2003.5 SP1.2. ?
November 6th, 2003 at 8:27 am
Oh and don’t forget the fact that random folks can try and commit hacks to compromise the OS:
November 6th, 2003 at 9:03 am
It’s scary that people still talk about Ctrl+alt+del in windows. Seriously, are you still living in the 90s? Wake up and smell the win2k.
November 6th, 2003 at 10:00 am
Hani, bow, I come from the back!
November 6th, 2003 at 10:11 am
boxed, is still a legitimate command. “Seriously” even in win2k (and win2003) it still is the most direct route to locking the computer, task manager, log out, change password and the highly used DO OVER (shut down).
No, what is scary is
“90′s” … “Wake Up” … “Smell the win2K” … indeed!
November 6th, 2003 at 10:18 am
To the first “Anonymous”
“Although I use OS X for my “communications” desktop, (translation: email, web browsing) Linux works better for my “developer” desktop. (translation: writing code) I use Redhat, because that’s the best supported Linux platform for Oracle, VMWare and other developer tools. ”
Uh, you seem to have that back-ass-wards.
Linux is only suitable for email and web-browsing.
OS X is suitable for development. In fact, I don’t think you have ever even used OS X….if you did, you would throw rocks at your linux box.
November 6th, 2003 at 10:47 am
I actually find Mandrake linux to be a decent desktop OS. I don’t need sophisticated office suites, OpenOffice is just fine for me (and I actually use it very rarely). I dont play video games. It supported all my hardware out of the box, and installation was very very easy. I don’t miss anything when I switch to my linux machine from a windows machine.
If you are a microsoft power user, and you play a lot of computer games, then yes, you should stick to windows, or mac OSX.
November 6th, 2003 at 1:18 pm
I’ve been using Windows at home for years, Linux at work (and at home) for about a year, and recently came back into the Mac fold (after a 7-year absence) by buying a new G5 for home.
Windows is certainly a good mainstream OS for X86, but for those of us who believe that Bill G. has enough money ($51 billion in retained earnings, probably another $100 billion in personal wealth for Bill, Steve, Jim et al), Linux may seem like a good alternative. But it’s an alternative with as asterisk — and if you’ve got a laptop, it’s a nightmare.
Frankly, I am getting very tired of paying an obligatory half-day “Linux tax” whenever I want to do things that are taken for granted on Windows or Mac. Want to use that USB drive? That’s a half day of research and testing to figure out how to get the USB drivers to load, get the device to mount, etc. Want an encrypted data partition? Another half day shot. Want anti-aliased Mozilla so that browsing doesn’t suck ass? Another half day to recompile and build a binary. I could go on: configuring the wireless card, getting sleep/hibernate to work, Mozilla JVM issues, video driver flakiness, temperature/drive monitoring, etc.
So, why pay the Linux Tax when things Just Work on other platforms? I’m not a moron or otherwise incapable of ‘RTFM’ing, but frankly I’d rather spend my time doing other things, like having a life.
In contrast, I could not be happier with OS X. The user experience is sublime, with a beautiful GUI and all of the Unix power I could ask for. All this, and Bill doesn’t get any more of my money.
November 6th, 2003 at 1:34 pm
Gentoo here (amf dual boot system Gentoo+W2K, but using win only for games). XP on my Toshiba laptop. I am doing Java development (Eclipse) and using Openoffice+Firebird+Thunderbird+Gaim on al OS-es (only differences being textpad vs kwrite and sharpreader vs straw). While I think that the speed improvement is REAL on Linux (excepting Eclipse with GTK), yeah XP is a lot more hassle-free. Cannot really comment on sexual arousing during compilation because my updates are cron-ed during the nights and weekends (yeah sometimes I have to fix a little thing or two but I’m more pi**ed than aroused because of it).
November 6th, 2003 at 2:31 pm
Use linux if you can’t get anyone to buy you a Mac. A PC is way cheaper, hardware-wise. It amazes me that developesr, of all people, use Windows. Windows is the biggest piece of shit. the UI is crap. The browser is crap. The file manager is crap. The shell is crap. The start menu is crap. Windows is for children. Windows is a toy. It is Fisher Price. It is complete crap. All who use it have a high tolerance for annoyance. Linux doesn’t annoy if you dont’ fuck with it. If all you do is run a browser, a shell and an editor/IDE, it is far superior to Windows.
Why anyone would tolerate an OS that changes your internet connection settings when you install a mouse, or requires you to click “Next” 5 times when you put your usb device in a different usb slot than when you installed the drivers is beyond me. Stop playing with Toys and get in the real fucking world. Windows is a piece of poo. MS-Office is the only reason to use it, and no serious developer should be spending much time using Excel to justify using Windows as a development platform. It is a complete fucking joke.
November 6th, 2003 at 3:24 pm
“Why anyone would tolerate an OS that changes your internet connection settings when you install a mouse, or requires you to click “Next” 5 times when you put your usb device in a different usb slot than when you installed the drivers is beyond me.”
I would never tolerate that. I’m sure that was the case with Windows a few revs back, but under XP, internet connections, wireless card, and my usb trackball Just Work. I didn’t even need to download drivers or provide disks. That’s why after 5 years of paying that Linux Tax, I am sticking with Windows for now.
November 6th, 2003 at 4:08 pm
To xod,
“under XP, internet connections, wireless card, and my usb trackball Just Work.”
You’re lucky. I can’t get windows XP to use my Orinoco WaveLan Gold card to save my life.
Now OS X…..All I have to do is click the little AirPort icon…and voila….all the SIDs are listed, along with an “other” for those who don’t broadcast the SID. Now that
“just works”.
November 6th, 2003 at 5:43 pm
Reminds me of the old addage:
“Linux is only free if your time is worthless.”
November 6th, 2003 at 10:04 pm
“I definitely am (even tough I’m a man). Actually I’m bisexual.”
Let me guess, alpha-omega, Linux using is hereditary???
November 7th, 2003 at 2:58 am
When people don’t understand something they attack it.
Obviously, this *luser* does not have the capacity to use it and understand it.
What can you do about it…
November 7th, 2003 at 3:12 am
“When people don’t understand something they attack it”
Hehehe, Hani attacks everything :-) if it moves, he attacks it, that must put him in the village idiot category using this theory.
November 7th, 2003 at 3:20 am
Jason Harrel said: “Let me guess, alpha-omega, Linux using is hereditary???”
Darling, you don’t see my point. I like to be able to choose. Currently, I’m a Windows XP user and I’m very happy with it. I deploy a lot on Linux because it’s free, even in clustered environments.
Although Hani wasn’t attacking Linux but RedHat, I think he should appreciate more the work done by RedHat to make (or help making) Linux a mainstream operating system.
Cheer.
November 7th, 2003 at 6:09 am
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November 7th, 2003 at 9:21 am
The Real Dave said: ” Windows is the biggest piece of shit. the UI is crap. The browser is crap. The file manager is crap. The shell is crap. The start menu is crap. ”
So if the UI, file manager, and start menu are crap THEN WHY DID ALL OF THE LINUX DESKTOPS COPY IT VERBATIM?
Linux is the biggest manifestation of the “not invented here syndrome” I’ve ever seen. We complain and whine about the windows UI, but when we build our own it’s exactly the same. That’s progress to me!
November 7th, 2003 at 9:59 am
“Linux is the biggest manifestation of the “not invented here syndrome” I’ve ever seen. We complain and whine about the windows UI, but when we build our own it’s exactly the same. That’s progress to me!”
The file manager on Redhat 8+ is not crap and it’s not like Windows. The shell is obviously not crap and still far ahead of the DOS prompt. The mozilla browser is not crap and not like IE. The only thing emulated from Windows is the start menu, but you don’t have to use it and it’s not part of “linux”, it’s part of Gnome or KDE.
NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT THE OS AND THE WINDOWING SYSTEM ARE SEPERATE.
I would charge every windows idiot out there to spend one month programming on Linux and using OS X as your main computer. When you go back to Windows you wonder why the fuck you deal with any of its bullshit.
My favorite feature of XP: Double-click a file whose type is unknown to XP. It’s default choice for what to do is to FIND A WEB SERVICE to handle it! Ha! You’ve got to be kidding me! Oh, and when you do a search for files with certain contents, it doesn’t search all files (especially .java files). Yeah! It’s just amazing that it STILL cannot seem to have functionalitiy that was in UNIX 30 years ago (grep and find).
November 7th, 2003 at 1:26 pm
RD: “The only thing emulated from Windows is the start menu, but you don’t have to use it and it’s not part of “linux”, it’s part of Gnome or KDE.”
I never said it was part of linux. I know they are separate projects. Which leads me to the next point:
“NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT THE OS AND THE WINDOWING SYSTEM ARE SEPERATE.”
Whee. Call the neighbors. I’m so excited I can hardly stand it. More stuff to tweak.
Is windows my perfect OS? No. Does it do/support everything I need with a minimum of fuss? Yes. That’s the bottom line for me.
A computer is a means to an end (writing software that meets my client’s requirements) and not an end in itself. The less time I have to spend tweaking and twonking the OS is more time I can spend productively serving my clients, which is more time I can spend with my family and other things that really matter (like, having discussions in blog comments).
What it boils down to is if a tool will allow me to meet the functional and non-functional requirements of my clients and allow me to do it in less time, with less maintenance, with fewer bugs, for a smaller amount of money I’m all for it. Java, .NET, PHP, Linux, Windows, whatever. I don’t give a damn about politics or religious disputes. I just want to provide the best solution with the least amount of time, money and effort.
November 7th, 2003 at 2:14 pm
I found Linux on the desktop to be a better development environment than Windows for remote development. Disagree or not, I found the many packages for secure networking (such as ssh) and databases made Linux a more convenient system than Windows. (I actually have a Windows and a Linux box side by side.)
There was far less work to do to get Linux set up than Windows.
November 8th, 2003 at 1:42 pm
One more, couldn’t resist:
“Yes, I concede that Linux is “more secure,” but not when I’m the one pushing the buttons. Last time a flaw was discovered in Windows, it took me two clicks to patch it. Last time a flaw was discovered in SSH, it took me four hours of compiling and messing around to patch it. ”
You go Joel! http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2003/11/06.html
November 8th, 2003 at 4:51 pm
“I found the many packages for secure networking (such as ssh) and databases made Linux a more convenient system than Windows. ”
News flash, you can run ssh, sshd, and even databases on Windows. Quite easily in fact.
November 10th, 2003 at 3:56 am
Linucs iz da bomb!!! Linucs iz great and c33l and you r a moron and a luser and a Micro$oft’s ass licker and a modafocka !!
November 16th, 2003 at 7:09 pm
You all suck, Amiga all the way baby.
November 20th, 2003 at 2:59 pm
Perhaps I should set everything straight.
A) OS X is shit. I don’t care what you say, or why you think so, just live to accept the fact that it is utter shit. Slow, bloated, with a “snazzy” user interface that looks like see-through playdough raped a piece of plastic, and about 4 programs available to run on it. Not only that, it wasn’t, at the base, even written by Apple — although that’s probably it’s only redeeming feature.
B) Windows is shit. Wake up and and smell the Win2k burning your house down. Ctrl-Alt-Del is by far the most common key combination in XP & 2k, and there are no indications that that will change in Longhorn. Who the hell would base their filesystem off of their fucking SQL server?! What a bunch of idiots. Windows is, essentially, a “toy.” The only reason anybody would ever use it is to play games, because it’s not stable enough or useful enough to do anything else with. Software? Yeah, it’s got a lot of software, practically all of it bug-riddled, although nothing is as bad as the OS itself: bi-weekly patches, the majority of which are CRITICAL security patches (e.g. before the patch, you are bending over with your pants down screaming “Come and get some!”…after the patch you are bending over with your pants down screaming “I’ve got AIDS now, ya still want some?!”)
C) Linux is shit. However, it is less shit. There is such a thing as a user-interface that does not consist of a “Start menu” (which can be translated to Dock, Apple Menu, etc. etc.), and icons, and windows, and a desktop metaphor. One can actually find documentation that doesn’t suck (try that with OS X). It’s not hopelessly over-priced. It doesn’t have a gay interface. It has a command line worth using (and no, Terminal.app does NOT qualify as a command line worth using.) Yes, it’s a little bit harder to install. But at this point, if you cannot manage to install a GNU/Linux distro, the problem lies with you and not the OS. The fact that I can do my programming, recompile my kernel to add some REAL fat memory support (proper O(1) shit, none of this crappy “I Mac, therefore I sloth”), have a few browsers running, merge (I use Gentoo) my updates in cron and play Unreal Tournament 2003 at 70fps all at the same time is ridiculously cool.
And yes, watching compilation messages fly by is a turn-on … But compare that to the alternative — the Macintosh, whose users find that spinning pinwheel to be hotter than their own mothers, and Windows users who can just watch that blue screen for hours, while they clap and drool mindlessly into their own laps.
Also, have you ever noticed how Mac users tend to trip on things, run into walls, etc ? You might also ask them to try to read something … they tend to have issues with that, as well as bladder control.
November 30th, 2003 at 11:30 pm
Fuck you
December 4th, 2003 at 1:16 pm
“Best post so far. I especially like “The kind who got beaten up regularly for being weasely little turds”. Funny how prevelant those dildos (liked that comment too) are in IT. ”
Even funnier is that it seems to be in every one of Banzai Hani’s posts. The next time you read ‘bileblog’ just remember to frame it correctly, and that overall, he speaks merely from complete experience in these matters. Above all, taking out your ugly-angst/lack of companionship/utter-misery-about-life concerning everything from open source projects to language poop is pretty laughable when it’s all considered, eh?
December 10th, 2003 at 7:21 pm
Amazing how OS rants can still get all sorts of weird little worms out of whatever holes they hide in and enlighten the world with small passages from their capable, intelligent and generally cool take on this whole computer thing..
Instead of all the yadda-yadda, flaming, whining and generally being a prissy little turd, I suggest you simply use whatever OS fits into your company’s framework when you’re there, and whatever makes you tick at home – because most everybody else in the world don’t really give a fuck about your preferences.
Have a nice day.
December 10th, 2003 at 7:21 pm
Amazing how OS rants can still get all sorts of weird little worms out of whatever holes they hide in and enlighten the world with small passages from their capable, intelligent and generally cool take on this whole computer thing..
Instead of all the yadda-yadda, flaming, whining and generally being a prissy little turd, I suggest you simply use whatever OS fits into your company’s framework when you’re there, and whatever makes you tick at home – because most everybody else in the world don’t really give a fuck about your preferences.
Have a nice day.
December 10th, 2003 at 7:21 pm
Amazing how OS rants can still get all sorts of weird little worms out of whatever holes they hide in and enlighten the world with small passages from their capable, intelligent and generally cool take on this whole computer thing..
Instead of all the yadda-yadda, flaming, whining and generally being a prissy little turd, I suggest you simply use whatever OS fits into your company’s framework when you’re there, and whatever makes you tick at home – because most everybody else in the world don’t really give a fuck about your preferences.
Have a nice day.
March 25th, 2004 at 5:19 am
People have made some good points in favour of linux here and i just want to add a little story of my experiance.
I needed to connect a digital camera to my computer using windows xp i searched the internet for 2 hours found 4 different driers not one of them worked. i was about to give up when i thought to give linux a chance i loaded up mandrake linux and gphoto2(i think thats what it was callled clicked add camera and there it was my camera plus about a thousand more. Why cant microsoft include this kind of connectivity my theorys are
a)they cant be bothered
b)they are more intersted in selling fancy programs that dont work at extortionate prices.
how can something be called an operating system if it cant be used to operate the most basic devices?