AnUnusualRelic

AnUnusualRelic , vor 7 Tagen

I'm pretty sure that's how most corporate software stays afloat.

AnUnusualRelic , vor 16 Tagen

The number of people not from the US is actually surprisingly large.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

Sure (with a bit of effort). Can you run Windows software with just 2GB? Now that's a completely different problem.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

When you see what they did in the 60s and 70s, where they ran an entire country's social security system in a mainframe with a whooping 16Kb of memory (I'm not sure if it was 4 or 16, but it doesn't make that much difference).

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

Stop making him cry, ask him some Rampart questions!

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

With browsers it added up to a few seconds of difference per day. It was completely preposterous.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

You're clearly not running servers.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

While I did switch to Linux because Windows 3.11 (or more specifically MS Word) sucked, I never found the need to go back, even back then. So there's that.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

Burma was switching to metric. The US's club is getting smaller.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

Thanks!

I installed OpenSuSE!

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

As if users understood anything related to their computer.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

It's like Oreos. I think it's things that are cultural. You probably can't get into it once your taste has already been shaped. But if you grew up with it, it's different. We probably all have such things at home. Although typically not from the horrifying US big food conglomerates, which maybe makes them a bit less atrocious.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

I found them atrocious, but maybe it's me. The cookies don't taste like anything really identifiable, the paste is just sugar.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

And when you've finally managed to decipher them, that's when the grammar hits you.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

You aren't allowed to have sex in the metro anymore.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

Wasn't she the semifinallist from Highlander?

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

Even better?

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

Technically, it's a bicycle.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

I think that it's been tried and did yield similar effects. Unsurprisingly.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

Those are wise words.

Remember that in the end, all the distributions end up doing and installing pretty much the same thing (from the user's pov). It doesn't matter all that much what you use. Most of the major ones work just fine.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

That's a very useful feature for all those people who reinstall their system each time they turn their computer on.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

I'm pretty sure accountants invented negative numbers. They've probably been behind most basic mathematical notation progress back in the early days.

AnUnusualRelic , vor einem Monat

Eniac??

Plugging cables in jacks to program it? Yes, it's technically a computer. But have fun running stuff on it.

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

Or you can run OpenSuSE which comes with one of the best Kde versions by default.

It's another enterprise type distribution that's rock solid. It also has a rolling version.

1lso it's based in Europe, which some see as a plus.

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

Regarding the true Unix, there was also Unixware, which was AT&T's effort to move Unix to PCs (with Novell). It later passed on to SCO before they were sold, restructured, renamed and rebranded and subsequently became lunatics, In the end it seems like they offloaded it so some other company that's just letting it die.

It was a good system. Not super fun, but industrial strength server stuff that was really reliable. Bit of a shame.

But of course, Linux was just simpler for everyone, it just doesn't make sense to keep a million proprietary systems.

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

If you want fairly bleeding edge, go with OpenSuSE Tumbleweed and you'll still have a stable system with no version update worries (well, technically, there's a version update every other day).

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

Sorry to hear that it didn't work for you.

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

Nobody knows. They don't know either. They're terrified that someone will figure it all out and they'll have to pay back all that VC money. Hence the current crisis.

At least that's my take.

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

I'm melting! I'm melting!

No, actually nothing much happens. Sorry.

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

<package manager> install nvidia

The horror! Sometimes you even have to log out and bacd back in...

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

Back in the 90s I'd configure && make && make install my kernel regularly, even with nvidia drivers, and there wasn't much to it.

Now, modelines, those could be tricky.

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

A lot of people make great careers thanks to a good set of tits.

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

Rolling release, update every now and then, 4000+ packages is common. Nothing ever breaks.

Thanks zipper!

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

I did.

However my zipper never breaks either. So both work, although in that case it's loosely related.

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

Many governments have that same problem. I'd actually consider it a bigger problem for those other governments.

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

They managed to scare me away with gnome 1.1 (or was it 1.2?).

Stayed away ever since.

They're that good.

AnUnusualRelic , vor 2 Monaten

A PHP kernel?

AnUnusualRelic , vor 3 Monaten

Just install debian on it.