> I am not convinced that truly cool things are happening any
> longer, because I am not seeing barriers being broken through at
> least in the area of software. Indeed, nor in hardware. Everyone
> involved in Linux seems to be using a hot-rod system that offers
> no barriers. Wher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Everyone involved in Linux seems to be using
> a hot-rod system that offers no barriers.
Um, the majority of my 100+ desktop Linux users have old hardware: between
500 MHz and 1 GHz CPU's, and between 128 and 512 MB of RAM. But I guess for
Linux, that counts as
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David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hadron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
Robin T Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
> So how many geeks does it take to change a light bulb?
>
> [...]
>
>> In a real
Hadron wrote:
> So the people who write the modern games, or the engineering simulation
> cad/cam sw, the .net stuff etc,etc,etc,etc don't know about computers
> because they use Windows eh? You're seriously in need of some fresh air
> old chap.
>
You don't need to know anything about computers
Verily I say unto thee, that Terry Porter spake thusly:
> ml2mst wrote:
>> "The cool" in GNU/Linux is, that it *actually* is cool and froody and
>> that (until recently) it was pretty hostile to non geeks.
>
> fruit·y /ˈfruti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation
You never read th
ml2mst wrote:
>
> "The cool" in GNU/Linux is, that if you screw up, you are the only one
> to blame and thus have to educate yourself even more.
>
> "The cool" in GNU/Linux is, that it *actually* is cool and froody and
> that (until recently) it was pretty hostile to non geeks.
>
fruit·y
Hadron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Robin T Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> > So how many geeks does it take to change a light bulb?
[...]
> In a real geek's house, his mother does it when she pops down to comb
> his beard and remove the pizza boxes.
I can't remember the last time I ha
On Jan 16, 9:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Robin T Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So how many geeks does it take to change a light bulb?
> None. In a real geek's house, the house changes its own lightbulbs.
None, in a real geeks house, the lightbulbs will only need changing
every 30 yea
Robin T Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So how many geeks does it take to change a light bulb?
None. In a real geek's house, the house changes its own lightbulbs.
Thad
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Yeah, I drank the Open Source cool-aid... Unlike the other brand, it had
all the ingredients on the label.
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On Jan 15, 12:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One thing that drew me to computers from the start
> was going to computer clubs and seeing the cool hacks
> that people had managed to get working using their
> computers. For instance, I once saw a VIC-20 with
> a "real" 80x25 video card, for instan
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on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:15:41 -0800 (PST)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> One thing that drew me to computers from the start
> was going to computer clubs and seeing the cool hacks
On Jan 15, 5:05 pm, Robin T Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:31:13 -0600, thad05 wrote:
> > Of course we could both be wrong. I've also heard it said that a geek
> > is someone who eats lightbulbs.
Geek was originally a term in Circus and Carnival shows, for someone
who did
On 2008-01-15, Hadron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ml2mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz schreef:
>>> / [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday 15 January 2008 17:15 : \
>>>
I am not convinced that truly cool things
are happening any longer, because I am not
seeing ba
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:31:13 -0600, thad05 wrote:
> Of course we could both be wrong. I've also heard it said that a geek
> is someone who eats lightbulbs.
So how many geeks does it take to change a light bulb?
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:15:41 -0800, plenty900 wrote:
>
> One thing that drew me to computers from the start
> was going to computer clubs and seeing the cool hacks
> that people had managed to get working using their
> computers. For instance, I once saw a VIC-20 with
> a "real" 80x25 video card,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
> Hadron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> In my point of view "geeks" are people who *love* computers and simply
>>> know how stuff works, ether by official education or self education. The
>>> latter by reading loads of documentation (RTFM) and buying books and
>>> furth
Hadron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> In my point of view "geeks" are people who *love* computers and simply
>> know how stuff works, ether by official education or self education. The
>> latter by reading loads of documentation (RTFM) and buying books and
>> further more on a trial and error bas
Roy Schestowitz schreef:
> / [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday 15 January 2008 17:15 : \
>
>> I am not convinced that truly cool things
>> are happening any longer, because I am not
>> seeing barriers being broken through at least
>> in the area of software. Indeed, nor in hardware.
>> Everyone
One thing that drew me to computers from the start
was going to computer clubs and seeing the cool hacks
that people had managed to get working using their
computers. For instance, I once saw a VIC-20 with
a "real" 80x25 video card, for instance, and a guy
who created his own OS.
As time went by,
/ Terry Porter on Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:21 : \
> Kind
*plonk*
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~~ Best of wishes
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Rex Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Jan 16, 9:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Robin T Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> > So how many geeks does it take to change a light bulb?
>
>> None. In a real geek's house, the house changes its own lightbulbs.
>
> None, in a real geeks house,
* Robin T Cox peremptorily fired off this memo:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:31:13 -0600, thad05 wrote:
>
>> Of course we could both be wrong. I've also heard it said that a geek
>> is someone who eats lightbulbs.
>
> So how many geeks does it take to change a light bulb?
Zero. The person complaini
ml2mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Roy Schestowitz schreef:
>> / [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday 15 January 2008 17:15 : \
>>
>>> I am not convinced that truly cool things
>>> are happening any longer, because I am not
>>> seeing barriers being broken through at least
>>> in the area of so
/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday 15 January 2008 17:15 : \
> I am not convinced that truly cool things
> are happening any longer, because I am not
> seeing barriers being broken through at least
> in the area of software. Indeed, nor in hardware.
> Everyone involved in Linux seems to be usi
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