Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Raymond Moyers <rmoyers_at_nop.org>
Date: Mon Apr 22 01:07:06 2002

On Sunday 21 April 2002 23:03, you wrote:

> How can anyone do anything useful with a computer without the
> following? Emacs, TeX/LaTeX, dvips, the Bourne shell for scripts,
> ghostview, gimp, xv, PostgreSQL or Oracle, Perl, C, various useful
> UNIX utilities (e.g. tar, awk, nawk, grep, sed, dc, ed, diff, cal, at,
> bc, od, lint, etc.), to name a very few of the extremely useful
> programs that run on UNIX systems.

 But what makes it really powerfull is that they plumb together

  Lets see lets lookup the func for a case ins string compare

~# what str | grep two | grep case
sptrcasecm, strncasecmp (3) - compare two strings ignoring case
wcscasecmp (3) compare two wide-character strings, ignoring case
wcsncasecmp (3) compare two fixed-size wide-character strings, ignoring case

  (( alias what='apropos' ))

 I can now lookup the function with man 3 strncasecmp

 Now to a WinBloZ idiot, this means nothing,

 they are so "Winblows Limited" in their thinking, that device
 independence, the ability to have 40 CPUs as headless seemless
 networked compute nodes because the interface is network transparent,

 ( that part of X11 on its own makes winblows look far too stupid
 for anyone with a brain)

 Or the ability to:
ssh -P -l root viatie "(tar cf - /etc)" | (cat > /viatieetc.tar)

 all beyond their understanding

And what would they make a button you click on that does this ?

("SunDT :2 root_at_Sparc", SHEXEC, "(Xnest :2 -display fubar:0
 -nolock -bs -su &) && ssh1 -a -x -k -n -P -q -l root Sparc
  '(/root/xnest-desktop 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null)'")),
  
 Its like attempting to explain the shuttle nosewhell servos
 to a cave man, they have no frame of reference, and are
 too ignorant to have any hint of how ignorant they are.

 Raymond







 
Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 01:07:06 BST