Re: Linux stifles innovation...
On 15 Feb 2001, at 9:49, fsnchzjr wrote: > Watch Microsoft's Jim Allchin go Linux-bashing!!! > Nice little article on how we're all going to die of herpes from our > repeated exposition to Linux... > http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?ta > g=ltnc That's about as self-serving a statement as I've ever seen. If this 'Jim Alchin' actually believes what he's saying, he's got to be one of the worlds biggest fools, and if he doesn't believe what he's saying, well there aren't too many words that would accurately describe what he is. It's pretty funny in some ways, e.g. "We can build a better product than Linux...", which begs the question, "Well, why don't you?". Perhaps it costs too much? --Mailed via Pegasus 3.12c & Mercury 1.48--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax (617)373-2942 Andrew Scott Tel (617)373-5278 _ Northeastern University--138 Meserve Hall / \ / College of Arts & Sciences-Deans Office / \ \ / Boston, Ma. 02115 / \_/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Linux stifles innovation...
On 15 Feb 2001, at 9:49, fsnchzjr wrote: Watch Microsoft's Jim Allchin go Linux-bashing!!! Nice little article on how we're all going to die of herpes from our repeated exposition to Linux... http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?ta g=ltnc That's about as self-serving a statement as I've ever seen. If this 'Jim Alchin' actually believes what he's saying, he's got to be one of the worlds biggest fools, and if he doesn't believe what he's saying, well there aren't too many words that would accurately describe what he is. It's pretty funny in some ways, e.g. "We can build a better product than Linux...", which begs the question, "Well, why don't you?". Perhaps it costs too much? --Mailed via Pegasus 3.12c Mercury 1.48--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax (617)373-2942 Andrew Scott Tel (617)373-5278 _ Northeastern University--138 Meserve Hall / \ / College of Arts Sciences-Deans Office / \ \ / Boston, Ma. 02115 / \_/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1
On 10 Jan 2001, at 15:32, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Latin 101. Literally "about taste no argument".
Or "about taste no argument there is" if you add the 'est', which
still makes sense in english, in a twisted (convoluted as apposed to
'bad' or 'sick') way.
Q.E.D.
> I suspect that it _should_ be "De gustibus non disputandum est", but
> it's been too many years. That adds the required verb ("is") to make it
> a full sentence.
>
> In English: "There is no arguing taste".
>
> Linus
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Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1
On 10 Jan 2001, at 15:32, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Latin 101. Literally "about taste no argument".
Or "about taste no argument there is" if you add the 'est', which
still makes sense in english, in a twisted (convoluted as apposed to
'bad' or 'sick') way.
Q.E.D.
I suspect that it _should_ be "De gustibus non disputandum est", but
it's been too many years. That adds the required verb ("is") to make it
a full sentence.
In English: "There is no arguing taste".
Linus
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Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)
On 12 Sep 2000, at 18:08, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > Hi, > > I made the comment because I remember back when the discussion was current > on linux kernel. I thought Jeff Merkey's, message was to the point. Para- > phrasing from memory, it was something to the effect that novell had > tried many elevators. All had problems with some loads. The best they > had found was the 'close the door' idea. I do not remember if the door > was based on requests or time. Another point to remember is that the > netware people came up with a what they considered a good solution. I believe that the Netware elevator is based on outstanding requests. This is a tunable parameter which may be increased for fast disk subsystems. I think that you could consider the number of requests to be loosely related to time. That is, the time to service 50 requests should be fairly predictable for a given disk/controller. I don't think you need to time stamp every request to get good results. --Mailed via Pegasus 3.12 & Mercury 1.44--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax (617)373-2942 Andrew Scott Tel (617)373-5278 _ Northeastern University--138 Meserve Hall / \ / College of Arts & Sciences-Deans Office / \ \ / Boston, Ma. 02115 / \_/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Availability of kdb
On 6 Sep 2000, at 14:03, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Think of rabbits. And think of how the wolf helps them in the end. Not > by being nice, no. But the rabbits breed, and they are better for having > to worry a bit. No matter how much they think about it, or how smart they are, they'll alway be food for wolves unless they develop the ability to use tools. It isn't smarts and thinking, though they certainly help, it's the ability to make and use tools that does it. There are all kinds of tools. In many cases you don't need to use them. War and Peace was written with a pen. There are people today that refuse to use computers for writeing, and they have good arguments, but if Tolstoy was born today, he'd probably use a Word processor, and he'd probably have written a sequel! It probably wouldn't have been the same book, though, and this is not to say it would be any better or worse. At least one writer that I'm aware of, output slowed considerably when he switched to a word processor because it became so easy to edit, that he spent much more time tweaking his work. Most of the people who write and don't use a word processing 'tool' are people who didn't grow up with them. Linux is really just a hobby for a few people. The sort of people who insist on climbing cliffs without safety gear. This is ok. It's your hobby, but I think that people should understand that it _is_ a hobby. --Mailed via Pegasus 3.12 & Mercury 1.44--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax (617)373-2942 Andrew Scott Tel (617)373-5278 _ Northeastern University--138 Meserve Hall / \ / College of Arts & Sciences-Deans Office / \ \ / Boston, Ma. 02115 / \_/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
