On 9 Nov, 14:32, DFS wrote:
> dapunka wrote:
> > I'm not the kind of **** to decide someone's a murderer just cos a TV
> > programme presents him as a wacko.
>
> I didn't see the 20/20 program.
>
> > Any idiot knows that creative
> > editing and selective choice of footage can make anyone look however
> > you want them too.
>
> > But anyway, as for the "Linux/OSS is very relevant" crap: there have
> > been plenty of cases where wealthy, "successful" types have bumped off
> > their other halves. There have been rich folk who've done it just to
> > become richer...
>
> And there are a *lot* more cases where poor people have committed such
> crimes.

So what?

> > I don't know if Reiser did ****. Don't much care either - people die
> > all the time. It rains. Wear a ****ing hat. Point is, Linux-haters
> > jumping on an anti-Reiser bandwagon cos the guy's an OSS developer is
> > weak. Grow the **** up.
>
> You ignore years of similar behavior by cola nutcases? Good cola dog,
> dapunka! Good dog!

Dunno about "years of similar behaviour by cola nutcases" - I haven't
been reading this ng for years, and the only cola nutcases I've
noticed jumping on the anti-Reiser bandwagon are you and Hadron.

Seriously though: you're an idiot.

Tim Smith wrote:

> Would ..

After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom:

> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>
>> Well, in a way Linux will make you do crazy things.
>
> Like pretend it will *ever* supplant commercial code.

Like this one?

http://www.computerworlduk.com/techn...fm?newsid=6085

Cray shows off new Linux supercomputers
What would you do with 768 CPU cores?

By Tom Jowitt

Cray has introduced a family of supercomputers based on the Linux
operating system.

Windows in Cray systems?

Furgeddaboutit! Would they still give this break on 768 cores?

http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/h...multicore.mspx

> Seems to me the Linux users here on cola are mostly broke, and that's why
> they use Linux in the first place. Where's their bank? Where's yours?





Here's a quarter, DFS. Go buy yourself a better computer.



--
Tux rox!

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:04:58 GMT, Linonut wrote:

>Windows in Cray systems?

>Furgeddaboutit! Would they still give this break on 768 cores?

> http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/h...multicore.mspx

Windows would still crawl and have frequent 10-40 second lockups on the
desktop. It would need a full terabyte of ram and still spend most of
it's time thrashing.

Daeron seems to be annoyed that I called him Daeron instead of Doug Mentohl.

If you didn't want people to know that Doug Mentohl is Daeron, maybe you
should not have used your doug.mentohl@gmail.com or doug_mentohl@yahoo.co.uk
email addresses when posting as Daeron:

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp....15dcac3f809b38
?dmode=source>

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp....87d335548df82c
?dmode=source>

It would have also helped if you had not replied with one name to posts that
were in response to posts you did under the other name.

BTW, I'm not the only person here who still calls you Daeron (it is easier
to type than Doug Mentohl). In perhaps the only time Mark Kent and I have
been in agreement, he too calls you Daeron:

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp....cc84260810060b
?dmode=source>

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:12:18 -0000, Tim Smith wrote:

> Daeron seems to be annoyed that I called him Daeron instead of Doug Mentohl.

He is a nymshifter, though. Besides that. Honestly, I don't even think
Doug Mentohl is his real name. A long time ago, when he was posting from
his internet cafe joe job in London, I did some basic searches of UK voting
and tax records and couldn't even come up with anyone named Mentohl as a
real name living in the UK.

He might, however, have been living in london on a visa or illegally. Soon
after that he started posting from open proxies, so people wouldn't know
where he's posting from.

In any event, recently he was posting as "gary stweart's vagina", which was
obvious because he was using a similar proxy, posting style (such as using
"--->>>") and attacking people he normally attacks.

Kier espoused:
>
> Personally, I believe Hans Reiser probably did kill his wife. That still
> doesn't give DFS the right to
>

Stop trolling Kier, particularly on a subject as sad as this one is.
You really should know better. Where were you when the morals were
handed out?

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On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:58:42 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:

> Kier espoused:
>>
>> Personally, I believe Hans Reiser probably did kill his wife. That still
>> doesn't give DFS the right to
>>
>
> Stop trolling Kier, particularly on a subject as sad as this one is.

What the ****? Are you ****ing mad? I protest DFS's vile posts about Hans
Reiser, and you call *me* a troll?

> You really should know better. Where were you when the morals were
> handed out?

Where were you?

--
Kier

Tim Smith wrote:

> Daeron seems to be annoyed that I called him Daeron instead of Doug
> Mentohl.
>
> If you didn't want people to know that Doug Mentohl is Daeron, maybe
> you should not have used your doug.ment...@gmail.com or
> doug_ment...@yahoo.co.uk email addresses when posting as Daeron:

Who in the freakin' goodness of COLA cares what you think of an
advocate?

--
HPT

On 2007-11-11, owl claimed:
> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:12:18 -0000, Tim Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Daeron seems to be annoyed that I called him Daeron instead of Doug Mentohl.
>>
>> He is a nymshifter, though. Besides that. Honestly, I don't even think
>> Doug Mentohl is his real name. A long time ago, when he was posting from
>> his internet cafe joe job in London, I did some basic searches of UK voting
>> and tax records and couldn't even come up with anyone named Mentohl as a
>> real name living in the UK.
>>
>
> That sort of stalking is what makes people hide their identities in the
> first place. Why do you feel a need to know anything at all about a
> usenet poster's real life?

Presumably that's why he wanted my real name awhile back, too. I
expected he'd do some searching. I also expected he wouldn't find a
lot.

No doubt he uses his masters' database to store everything. MS has a
huge quantity of information on everybody* almost as big as Echelon,
run by the NSA. The difference is, they have semi-competent people
going over things gathered by Echelon. MS just widens the black hole to
suck in more and more stuff that they can't ever hope to sift through.

Just look at all of the crash reports (are they *really* not sent just
because you click the "Don't Send" button?) that have gone to them for
several yeras. Is there _any_ evidence that MS've acted to repair
anything? No, the reports just get sucked in and lost in a bottomless
pit, where no human will ever come into contact with them again.

Unless they're trying to extract some personal tidbits about somebody.
Some things that truly evil people or companies might use for such
things as, oh, I don't know, maybe blackmail. Or personal destruction.

Anyway, Erik is a worthless POS. No, I take that back. Erik is _not_ a
worthless POS. He's far worse than that. He has no morals or scruples
when it comes to pleasing Blammer & Co.

* Google (or otherwise search on another engine) for information
contained in edited documents and files created by MS products.
Information that was supposedly deleted but can be retrieved.
Information that can, and has been, extracted from files to reveal
bargaining secrets and personal information. Information that is also
contained in the mountainous crash reports that have been sent to MS
over the years when applications crashed.

--
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

On 10 Nov, 22:21, Erik Funkenbusch
wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:12:18 -0000, Tim Smith wrote:
> > Daeron seems to be annoyed that I called him Daeron instead of Doug Mentohl.
>
> He is a nymshifter, though. Besides that. Honestly, I don't even think
> Doug Mentohl is his real name. A long time ago, when he was posting from
> his internet cafe joe job in London, I did some basic searches of UK voting
> and tax records and couldn't even come up with anyone named Mentohl as a
> real name living in the UK.

Guess what... dapunka isn't my real name. Is Erik Funkenbusch your
real name?

On Nov 11, 6:55 am, dapunka wrote:
> On 10 Nov, 22:21, Erik Funkenbusch
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:12:18 -0000, Tim Smith wrote:
> > > Daeron seems to be annoyed that I called him Daeron instead of Doug Mentohl.
>
> > He is a nymshifter, though. Besides that. Honestly, I don't even think
> > Doug Mentohl is his real name. A long time ago, when he was posting from
> > his internet cafe joe job in London, I did some basic searches of UK voting
> > and tax records and couldn't even come up with anyone named Mentohl as a
> > real name living in the UK.
>
> Guess what... dapunka isn't my real name. Is Erik Funkenbusch your
> real name?

cc is my real name. Raise your fist and resist!

[snips]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:04:58 +0000, Linonut wrote:

>>> Well, in a way Linux will make you do crazy things.
>>
>> Like pretend it will *ever* supplant commercial code.
>
> Like this one?
>
> http://www.computerworlduk.com/techn...fm?newsid=6085
>
> Cray shows off new Linux supercomputers
> What would you do with 768 CPU cores?

Watch 766 of them sit idle because your Home Basic Edition license doesn't
support 'em?

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:20:38 -0600, Sinister Midget wrote:

> On 2007-11-11, owl claimed:
>> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:12:18 -0000, Tim Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> Daeron seems to be annoyed that I called him Daeron instead of Doug Mentohl.
>>>
>>> He is a nymshifter, though. Besides that. Honestly, I don't even think
>>> Doug Mentohl is his real name. A long time ago, when he was posting from
>>> his internet cafe joe job in London, I did some basic searches of UK voting
>>> and tax records and couldn't even come up with anyone named Mentohl as a
>>> real name living in the UK.
>>>
>>
>> That sort of stalking is what makes people hide their identities in the
>> first place. Why do you feel a need to know anything at all about a
>> usenet poster's real life?

This message hasn't made it to my news server.

The reason, at the time, was clear. He was being abusive and stalking
Simon Cooke, calling and emailing his employer in an attempt to get him
fired, and being a real douche bag. He was trying to use anonyminity to
prevent legal consequences for his actions.

> Presumably that's why he wanted my real name awhile back, too. I
> expected he'd do some searching. I also expected he wouldn't find a
> lot.

No, "presumably" I don't take people that use pseudonyms seriously. You
have no consequences to your words or actions, and you can say whatever you
like without fear of it ever coming back to haunt you. That's why you,
like Daeron, are such a prick all the time.

At least people like Peter K, Jim Richardson, etc.. have the balls to use
their real names. And as such, they don't say things they wouldn't say in
real life. You'll also note that nobody has ever tried to "stalk" them.
Because, even if people don't agree with them, at least they're posting
honestly, and they act responsibly, unlike you and daeron.

On 2007-11-11, Erik Funkenbusch claimed:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:20:38 -0600, Sinister Midget wrote:
>
>> On 2007-11-11, owl claimed:
>>> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:12:18 -0000, Tim Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Daeron seems to be annoyed that I called him Daeron instead of Doug Mentohl.
>>>>
>>>> He is a nymshifter, though. Besides that. Honestly, I don't even think
>>>> Doug Mentohl is his real name. A long time ago, when he was posting from
>>>> his internet cafe joe job in London, I did some basic searches of UK voting
>>>> and tax records and couldn't even come up with anyone named Mentohl as a
>>>> real name living in the UK.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That sort of stalking is what makes people hide their identities in the
>>> first place. Why do you feel a need to know anything at all about a
>>> usenet poster's real life?
>
> This message hasn't made it to my news server.
>
> The reason, at the time, was clear. He was being abusive and stalking
> Simon Cooke, calling and emailing his employer in an attempt to get him
> fired, and being a real douche bag. He was trying to use anonyminity to
> prevent legal consequences for his actions.
>
>> Presumably that's why he wanted my real name awhile back, too. I
>> expected he'd do some searching. I also expected he wouldn't find a
>> lot.
>
> No, "presumably" I don't take people that use pseudonyms seriously. You
> have no consequences to your words or actions, and you can say whatever you
> like without fear of it ever coming back to haunt you. That's why you,
> like Daeron, are such a prick all the time.
>
> At least people like Peter K, Jim Richardson, etc.. have the balls to use
> their real names. And as such, they don't say things they wouldn't say in
> real life. You'll also note that nobody has ever tried to "stalk" them.
> Because, even if people don't agree with them, at least they're posting
> honestly, and they act responsibly, unlike you and daeron.

And I used my initials. And I announced my name. More than once. And
I've been called by my name, as though it was going to do me great harm
to have my name used, by the aforementioned Simeon Kooke, as well as by
others.

I just took SM back whenever a troll thought he could pick it up and
run with it.

That is neither here nor there. I'm an asshole because I'm an asshole,
not because I think I'm hiding. I'm an asshole in real life, too, in
most situations. I'm selective about being an asshole *to* someone, not
*when* I'm going to be one.

Why do names bother you so, Erik? That really _is_ your name, isn't it?
How do I know that it is? Because a website says so? I've had several
that said I was various names, including my real one. How can I know
you aren't doing the same thing?

Is all of this concern about real names because it makes it harder for
you to search out trash on people? Or maybe because you think "they"
really /are/ out to get you?

--
When you get there, there's no there there.

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:22:10 -0600, Sinister Midget wrote:

> That is neither here nor there. I'm an asshole because I'm an asshole,
> not because I think I'm hiding. I'm an asshole in real life, too, in
> most situations. I'm selective about being an asshole *to* someone, not
> *when* I'm going to be one.

Nice outlook there.

> Why do names bother you so, Erik? That really _is_ your name, isn't it?

Considering i've been posting under this name to usenet for more than 15
years, that'd be awfully forward thinking of me, don't you think. Not to
mention that various people have stalked me enough to find previous
employers and addresses.

So why pretend otherwise?

> How do I know that it is? Because a website says so? I've had several
> that said I was various names, including my real one. How can I know
> you aren't doing the same thing?

It's called having a history in the real world.

> Is all of this concern about real names because it makes it harder for
> you to search out trash on people? Or maybe because you think "they"
> really /are/ out to get you?

No, I just don't like people that use anonyminity to allow them to do
things they wouldn't do if they were signing their real name.

Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:20:38 -0600, Sinister Midget wrote:
>
>> On 2007-11-11, owl claimed:
>>> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:12:18 -0000, Tim Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Daeron seems to be annoyed that I called him Daeron instead of Doug Mentohl.
>>>>
>>>> He is a nymshifter, though. Besides that. Honestly, I don't even think
>>>> Doug Mentohl is his real name. A long time ago, when he was posting from
>>>> his internet cafe joe job in London, I did some basic searches of UK voting
>>>> and tax records and couldn't even come up with anyone named Mentohl as a
>>>> real name living in the UK.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That sort of stalking is what makes people hide their identities in the
>>> first place. Why do you feel a need to know anything at all about a
>>> usenet poster's real life?
>
> This message hasn't made it to my news server.
>
> The reason, at the time, was clear. He was being abusive and stalking
> Simon Cooke, calling and emailing his employer in an attempt to get him
> fired, and being a real douche bag. He was trying to use anonyminity to
> prevent legal consequences for his actions.
>


What would *you* do with information you found on somebody during one
of your stalking sessions?


>> Presumably that's why he wanted my real name awhile back, too. I
>> expected he'd do some searching. I also expected he wouldn't find a
>> lot.
>
> No, "presumably" I don't take people that use pseudonyms seriously. You
> have no consequences to your words or actions, and you can say whatever you
> like without fear of it ever coming back to haunt you. That's why you,
> like Daeron, are such a prick all the time.
>
> At least people like Peter K, Jim Richardson, etc.. have the balls to use
> their real names. And as such, they don't say things they wouldn't say in
> real life. You'll also note that nobody has ever tried to "stalk" them.
> Because, even if people don't agree with them, at least they're posting
> honestly, and they act responsibly, unlike you and daeron.


What makes you think that any of those people are posting under real
names? Just because their nyms resemble "normal" names? Surely you're
not that naive. But really, the main question is, why do you even
*care* that those are their real names? This is usenet. Who gives a
****.

Christ, I'd rather be talking to a troll than a self-righteous stalking
kook. At least they have a sense of humor.

High Plains Thumper writes:

> Tim Smith wrote:
>
>> Daeron seems to be annoyed that I called him Daeron instead of Doug
>> Mentohl.
>>
>> If you didn't want people to know that Doug Mentohl is Daeron, maybe
>> you should not have used your doug.ment...@gmail.com or
>> doug_ment...@yahoo.co.uk email addresses when posting as Daeron:
>
> Who in the freakin' goodness of COLA cares what you think of an
> advocate?

Dog mental is an advocate?!?!?!?! I thought he was a loony. Oh yes.
COLA. Synonymous.

--
Un amigo fiel es un alma en dos cuerpos.
-- Aristóteles. (384-322 A.C.) Filósofo griego.

On 11 Nov, 17:55, Erik Funkenbusch
wrote:



> I don't take people that use pseudonyms seriously. You
> have no consequences to your words or actions, and you can say whatever you
> like without fear of it ever coming back to haunt you. That's why you,
> like Daeron, are such a prick all the time.
>
> At least people like Peter K, Jim Richardson, etc.. have the balls to use
> their real names. And as such, they don't say things they wouldn't say in
> real life.

That's just after-the-fact self-justification Erik. The reason people
use noms de guerre in ngs like this is because ngs like this are /
like/ bloody wars... I don't say **** here I wouldn't say IRL. But
certain folk here (I'm looking at /you/!) who dislike something I say
may want to cause me crap. I dunno why, I guess ass-holery just comes
naturally to some. So I use an obscure pseudonym and a disposable
gmail account. Doesn't mean I'm up to anything bad. Unlike you.