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

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Apr 22 02:02:57 2002

You've just demonstrated what an inane line of logic this comment of yours
represents.

See below, plz.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Moyers" <rmoyers_at_nop.org>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)


> 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,
>
and why would that matter?
>
> 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,
>
Nevertheless, it's possible for a "Winblows Idiot" as you put it, to spell
everything he puts out correctly, which you apparently aren't swift enough to
do. Note that I'm not talking about typo's, but about syntax errors in the
English, resulting in non-words that a spell-checker would reject. I'm also
not referring to the acronymns you're inventing or applying from your "world."
>
> ( 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.
>
I wonder why anyone would want to do that. I've been using computers in one
way or another since the '60's and have yet to encounter a need for this
gibberish. Now, I know it has its place, but I've never needed it, nor,
apparently, have the millions of "Winblows Idiots" to whom you refer. I
submit they're all smarter than you, since they're not troubled by this at
all.

If explaining a "shuttle nosewhell" [sic] to a caveman were important work,
I'm sure nearly any "Winblows Idiot" could do it as easily as running his
spell-checker which you apparently can't do. It's like I said before,
Raymond, to guys like you, making sense isn't as important as your hatred of
Microsoft. It's obvious enough, but I don't know why it's got to be that way.
Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 02:02:57 BST