OT: BEA Diary

Each year I post this because I know that some of the Slackware readers
here want a bit of sanity in their lives. No, it has nothing to do with
Slackware, but there are a few good-looking babes in it... and it is
well known that most Slackware users have not had a date in a very long
time!


[url]http://asaturdayrant.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html[/url]
or
[url]http://tinyurl.com/5qtqex[/url]

Of course, Dan C. is not one of them... but as I've said for so many,
many years, if you are going to be on this newsgroup you need to
understand that it is run by a wild pack of dogs... and Dan C. is the
lead hound.

BTW, what ever happened to Melissa? She must have graduated from U.C.
Davis by now with her Ph.D. Anyone heard from her? Is she still on this
NG?


ANC

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:23:11 -0700, ANC wrote:
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> Each year I post this because I know that some of the Slackware readers
> here want a bit of sanity in their lives.[/color]

Har! LOL! I knew it. It's like chumming for sharks. They show up every
time.
[color=blue]
> No, it has nothing to do with Slackware, but there are a few
> good-looking babes in it...[/color]

Damn, you sure have a different definition of "good-looking babes" than I
do. Other than the one with the big plastic tits, all I saw were dogs
(not including that emaciated greyhound-looking mutt). Mostly fat, old
ugly dogs, at that.
[color=blue]
> and it is well known that most Slackware users have not had a date in a
> very long time![/color]

Could be, dunno. I've been married for almost 25 years, so doesn't apply.
[color=blue]
> [url]http://asaturdayrant.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html[/url][/color]

Quite a lame event, although to your credit you even admit as much.
[color=blue]
> Of course, Dan C. is not one of them... but as I've said for so many,
> many years, if you are going to be on this newsgroup you need to
> understand that it is run by a wild pack of dogs... and Dan C. is the
> lead hound.[/color]

<YAWN>
[color=blue]
> BTW, what ever happened to Melissa? She must have graduated from U.C.
> Davis by now with her Ph.D. Anyone heard from her? Is she still on this
> NG?[/color]

Haven't seen her around.

Well, damn. Two long-lost blabber-mouths show back up on the same day.
Interesting. Good to see you're still as lame as you ever were, ANC.

Smeg off.


--
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, ANC wrote:
[color=blue]
> well known that most Slackware users have not had a date in a very long
> time![/color]

This is because most of us are married or with a long term partner and
that is because Slackware is so incredibly stable and reliable and doesnt
need 30 updates a week, or midnight callouts or double shifts that we have
a fantastic stable love life, unlike those dweebs that run debian, redhat
and win$hit networks :P


--
Cheers
Res

I read usenet and lists in pine. But m$ outlook, thunderbird and gmail
often use html span/whatever for quotes, makes it hard to tell who said
what, so I dont try. If I ignore you, thats why! Use a compliant mailer.

On 2008-06-14, Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> wrote:[color=blue]
> Haven't seen her around.
>
> Well, damn. Two long-lost blabber-mouths show back up on the same day.
> Interesting. Good to see you're still as lame as you ever were, ANC.
>
> Smeg off.
>
>[/color]

You might check the headers....it was or is friday the 13th....

ken

On Jun 13, 11:23 pm, ANC <acanton.take-...@adams-blake.no_spamxxx.com>
wrote:[color=blue]
> Each year I post this because I know that some of the Slackware readers
> here want a bit of sanity in their lives. No, it has nothing to do with
> Slackware, but there are a few good-looking babes in it... and it is
> well known that most Slackware users have not had a date in a very long
> time!
>
> [url]http://asaturdayrant.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html[/url]
> orhttp://tinyurl.com/5qtqex
>
> Of course, Dan C. is not one of them... but as I've said for so many,
> many years, if you are going to be on this newsgroup you need to
> understand that it is run by a wild pack of dogs... and Dan C. is the
> lead hound.
>
> BTW, what ever happened to Melissa? She must have graduated from U.C.
> Davis by now with her Ph.D. Anyone heard from her? Is she still on this
> NG?
>
> ANC[/color]

Since you now use OS X why do you post here? Are you that lonely?

John C.

ANC wrote:
[color=blue]
> Each year I post this because I know that some of the Slackware readers
> here want a bit of sanity in their lives.[/color]

Each night you search this group, hoping to find some positive mention of
yourself. So, let's see what you found: Dan C puts you in the same class
as Roger. Two Ravens suggests Dan C can "call you up" with his "mojo."
No_One says the proper incantation is "market share." And Ravens points
our that you returned on Friday the 13th. Are you seeing a pattern here?
[color=blue]
> BTW, what ever happened to Melissa? She must have graduated from U.C.
> Davis by now with her Ph.D. Anyone heard from her? Is she still on this
> NG?[/color]

Melissa? You're hot for Melissa? She knows where to find you (and how to
call you up).

--
Old Man

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -
John Kenneth Galbraith

In article
<4951b47c-d7d0-4c72-9e6c-55ac321ba8e0@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
"john@wexfordpress.com" <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:

[color=blue]
> Since you now use OS X why do you post here? Are you that lonely?
>
> John C.[/color]

This is great. I know John (Culleton) of the so-called Wexford Press,
although no one can recall anything he ever published of note. Anyway,
John (whom I met in Wash. DC a few few years ago... is a gentleman in
public although a total asshole on the Pub-Forum listserv as well as the
Self-Publishing (yahoo) group which he co-mods... much to the
disagreement of his two fellow mods (I met them both in LA two weeks
ago... they talk.)

John calls himself a book designer.

Here is a guy who tries with little success to compose books using TeX
and LaTex and a whole bunch of other lame and antiquated tools. I've
seen his work, and ... lets just answer with literary diplomacy and say
that (like Oakland) "There is no there there." John is capable of using
In Design and the Adobe Creative Suite, but he's just too stubborn to do
so. As a result none of the top-tier (or even middle-tier) publishers
will hire him. He gets his work from newbie publishers who don't know
any better.

In a way you have to admire his stubbornness on a personal level, but on
a business level it makes no sense. If you want to drive a horse and
carriage as do the Amish, fine. But don't try to compete on the freeway
in CA with a Beemer... because in the hands of a good designer that is
what the Adobe products are. So... perhaps more power to him... although
I think if you are going to use a tool... even an old one... you need to
have the (creative) ability to use it well... and while I have no doubt
that John has excellent Unix skills, he has zero book design skills.
Nada. None.

And to answer his question, I still have one laptop that runs Slackware.
And with more people using OS X (FreeBSD which beats crap out of Linux)
than Linux of any distribution, how could one be "lonely?"

There is not one thing that Slackware does better than OS X. Not one.
Yes, you can run it on different hardware... but so what. OS X runs on
hardware "mated" to it as opposed to being like Linux which is not so
much an operating system as it is a small kernel with a bunch of mostly
poorly designed utilities cobbled together and bolted on to it.

Think about it. If Linux was "going to happen" as everyone predicted
(and keeps predicting) it would have "happened" by now!

Lonely? You Slackware users must be the Maytag repair people of
computer-world.... or perhaps the Rodney Dangerfields... as you get no
respect from the media or even your own Linux colleagues... who all fawn
over SuSE or Ubuntu. Slackware? "Is that old thing still around? It was
the best that 1996 had to offer."

ANC

In article <bd2dnWBRJa1eVM7VnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d@comcast.com>,
Old Man <bill@witch.lan.invalid> wrote:
[color=blue]
>
> Each night you search this group, hoping to find some positive mention of
> yourself.[/color]

Positive? There is nothing positive about this newsgroup. Every thread
disintegrates into a flame war. You people don't know how to disagree
all you know how to do is fight with each other... year after year after
year? You (especially Old Man) never get tired of it. Slackware is the
embodiment of the Klingon culture... without the parts about honor and
integrity.

Indeed, this group IS a pack of wild dogs... and for most of the
subscribers here the view never changes.

Always nice to stop by here every once in awhile and see that while the
rest of the Linux world has moved on and tried (without much success) to
become "mainstream", the Slackware group is still the way it was in the
90s. And why not? After all, Slackware IS the best Linux that 1996 had
to offer... and still is.

ANC

ANC <acanton.take-out@adams-blake.no_spamxxx.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>
> And with more people using OS X (FreeBSD which beats crap out of Linux)[/color]

How exactly does FreeBSD beat the crap out of Linux? For a while there,
FreeBSD did outperform Linux in pretty much every benchmark (other than
availability of drivers and native binaries for applications). It did so
at the expense of a twisted and complicated kernel that was only maintainable
by those working on it (and they liked it that way). Linux caught up and
surpassed it for a bit (sticking to Linus' philosophy of simplicity over
"elegant but complicated"). The last I read, FreeBSD made a comeback and was
beating Linux in most benchmarks. How will things compare 5 years down the
road? Which OS has the greatest long term prospects? Time will tell.

One benefit of FreeBSD is the "stable" kernel is stable, where as that
term is a bit of a joke with Linux "stable". You really have to wait and
see when it comes to each stable release of Linux - but that isn't much
of a problem, and we have The Man to look to for guidance in that respect.

Oh, wait, you are under the belief that OS X runs FreeBSD under the hood.
Well, I believe FreeBSD and Mach are both derivatives of BSD - Mach, and
ultimately NeXT, followed by OS X, are not direct descendants of FreeBSD -
more of a sibling. So, you are comparing Linux 2.6.x to a kernel what
is 15, 20, more years old? Bottom line - you are not running FreeBSD,
or even BSD - not even Mach. Darwin, if I remember, is a derivative
of Mach, with some **** from FreeBSD. Even if Darwin was completely based
off of FreeBSD, that was FreeBSD around 2000 - and Linux was surpassing
FreeBSD soon after that. So, you are just pulling **** out of your ass
(as usual).
[color=blue]
> There is not one thing that Slackware does better than OS X. Not one.[/color]

Such a statement is not true when comparing any OS. One reason why I
would never be able to use OS X (or MS Windows) on a regular basis is the
lack of configurability with respect to how the windows react. For instance,
I prefer sloppy focus, where the active window is not forced to be on top.
I have much more control over the user interface on Linux than I would ever
have on OS X.

Linux is actually open source. There is a quick patch I need to make to
my kernel (just a few lines of code). I can do this right now - I don't
have to wait for Apple to release an update. Darwin is open source, but
that is about it.

Linux is free (as in freedom). Apple products are very restrictive.

A default Slackware install comes with a vast array of compilers, tools,
applications, etc....

Out of the box, you can create fully encrypted systems on Slackware. Great
for laptops when you are on the go. Can OS X do this, or do you need to
buy extra proprietary software that probably has a backdoor or two in
it?

Linux supports a *huge* variety of file systems - what about the Mac?
This came in very handy years ago when I had to consolidate data from
various external hard drives all from different operating systems.

ETC.
[color=blue]
> Think about it. If Linux was "going to happen" as everyone predicted
> (and keeps predicting) it would have "happened" by now![/color]

Seems to be happening just fine - been using it for a decade, and watching
it grow for about 15 years.

- Kurt

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:23:11 -0700, ANC wrote:

<snip>

yaawwwwnnnn


now **** the **** off

*plonk*

In article <FbadndKlQbO6_8nVnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@supernews.com>,
mister b <mist@b.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:23:11 -0700, ANC wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> yaawwwwnnnn
>
>
> now **** the **** off
>
> *plonk*[/color]

Oh lord, oh lord. It's so much fun. I play you people like an old
violin. There is nothing more predictable in the entire world than the
reaction of a Slackware user to someone who dares disagree with them.

Some of the names change, but the culture never does, nor does the
collective IQ of the group. One can play the same old tunes and you all
still get up and dance.

It warms my heart. You people are an affirmation of faith.

ANC

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:52:50 -0700, ANC wrote:
[color=blue]
> There is nothing more predictable in the entire world than the reaction
> of a Slackware user to someone who dares disagree with them.[/color]

Occam's Razor says that the bad reaction you get is more to do with
posting stuff that's both off-topic *and* boring.

Mark Madsen wrote:[color=blue]
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:52:50 -0700, ANC wrote:
>[color=green]
>> There is nothing more predictable in the entire world than the reaction
>> of a Slackware user to someone who dares disagree with them.[/color]
>
> Occam's Razor says that the bad reaction you get is more to do with
> posting stuff that's both off-topic *and* boring.[/color]

Actually, Ockham's Razor is the sort of thing that appeals to weak minds
who are not capable of understanding any but the simplest of explanations.

Minds like yours.

Bugger off.

cordially, as always,

rm

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:24:26 -0400, realto margarino wrote:
[color=blue]
> Mark Madsen wrote:[color=green]
>> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:52:50 -0700, ANC wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> There is nothing more predictable in the entire world than the
>>> reaction of a Slackware user to someone who dares disagree with them.[/color]
>>
>> Occam's Razor says that the bad reaction you get is more to do with
>> posting stuff that's both off-topic *and* boring.[/color]
>
> Actually, Ockham's Razor is the sort of thing that appeals to weak minds
> who are not capable of understanding any but the simplest of
> explanations.
>
> Minds like yours.
>
> Bugger off.[/color]

Thank you for your generous and considered contribution.