Posted on 01/04/2006 11:39:01 PM PST by HAL9000
Don't know about that. Apple did ok taking FreeBSD and attaching their GUI to it. _nix may well be the future, but the REAL question is who will get it done. Right now the Open Source People are pretty innovative, but they don't speak a language that most computer users (this one included!) can understand.
They need to simplify instructions to such things as "type in THIS command (insert terminal command), click on THIS icon, etc. Going through Linux documentation can be a real nightmare to the average user.
_nix will not be ready for the average guy until the people who are writing it realise that the average guy DOESN'T CARE how something works, they just want to know in simple steps how to do it.
As i said above, Apple OSX is just about there.
BTW, this comes from a Linux user on a PC, and not a Mac owner.
No. We get the dreaded Kernel Panic instead. Granted, they are far more rare than BSOD's ever have been, but I'm told they do happen. (Just not to me) :-)
Full Disclosure: I was woken up in the middle of the night about 6 weeks ago. It was my HP printer vocalizing "RED ALERT! RED ALERT" with a siren-type sound howling as well. and apparently there was something akin to a general protection fault with the driver.
Never did go back to sleep, either -- sounded too viscerally like a fire alarm.
XP will last me a long long time. I have zero need for aeroglass and other Windows Vista eye candy. I understand that Apple is driving Microsoft to make Vista a more eye pleasing operating system. But count me out
I'm sorry, but that's the funniest thing I've seen in weeks!
Regarding the BSOD, did you know that with Vista, the BSOD is a thing of the past????
It is red now. LOL.
Great. I sweat blood and tears to write vanities, and no one notices. But I get attacked once by a trans-species computer virus and people are in stitches.
BTW, looked up your Freeper page. Glad to see someone used gopher to find things out. (I'm an ex-Minnesotan).
...and regarding ramen and others, which of the four do you think men and women are to each other (on the whole)?
Cheers!
...and regarding ramen and others, which of the four do you think men and women are to each other (on the whole)?
So, to get back at me by laughing at your misfortune, you hit be with a question that's going to get everyone mad at me? :-)
Seriesly tho, I'd have to say that in general men and women are Ramen in relation to each other. To quote my page: peace and communication is possible. I'd say "possible" because it would seem to be so, though we are more or less different species who look a the universe in entirely different ways. I'm not making any claims regarding the likelihood of the aformentioned peace and communication, just that it is possible.
O.K., really seriesly this time... On good days, and between specific individuals, I believe some men and women can actually relate to one another as Framling - "A human we recognize as part of our same species, yet from another world or planet." I believe this is best described by the "man/mars and woman/venus" concept that seems to have come into the popular culture.
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