Post #176,035
9/23/04 9:35:17 PM
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Urk, I pulled Windows
[image|http://www.bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2003/01/os_quiz/windows_98.jpg|0||90|300]
I guess the idea behind it is right, but I never though of Windows 98 as well liked. It always seems more like the strange cousin who never quite did what you expected.
Jay
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Post #176,040
9/23/04 10:24:09 PM
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<nelson>haw-haw!</nelson>
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Post #176,060
9/23/04 11:52:08 PM
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Ditto, and WTF?
import('standard_disclaimer.txt');
Oh come on. That's just because, given the choice among five shitty languages I picked Commodore. It's as close to "none of the above" as I could get.
Bah, online quizes are bullshit anyway.
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Post #176,063
9/23/04 11:59:15 PM
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Stick to idling. It's what you're good at.
Peter
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Post #176,064
9/24/04 12:07:24 AM
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You kidding me?
Windows 98 burns about 25% of the CPU when it's not doing anything. I apparently can't idle.
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Post #176,112
9/24/04 9:34:08 AM
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Shoulda picked C
I could still use that on a daily basis if I had to. C++ is a different story.
The Sig: "Despite the seemingly endless necessity for doing
so, it's actually not possible to reverse-engineer intended invariants
from staring at thousands of lines of code (not in C, and not in
Python code either)." Tim Peters on python-dev
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Post #176,437
9/25/04 9:31:55 PM
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Just re-took it, gave some of the alternate answers
Came up as Amiga this time.
[image|http://www.bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2003/01/os_quiz/amiga.jpg|0|You are Amiga OS. Ahead of your time. You keep a lot of balls in the air. If only your parents had given you more opportunities to suceed.|90|300]
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Post #176,473
9/26/04 1:46:43 PM
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Ditto here, but the first time.
Alex
"If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
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Post #176,085
9/24/04 3:43:37 AM
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Re: Urk, I pulled Windows
Well that probably fits too :)
I liked Windows 98. It had enough of the "good past" in it to evoke a warm nostalgia, and enough of the "better future" to make one optimistic. In contrast, Windows NT was a hateful, stupid, opportunistic kludge, like Shrub.
-drl
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Post #176,118
9/24/04 10:16:00 AM
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EEEE-Freaking GADS!
/me too
I am wondering how they came up with that.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyNo matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]Here is an example: [link|http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/|Executing arbitrary commands without Active Scripting or ActiveX when using Windows]
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Post #176,120
9/24/04 10:26:45 AM
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ha!
-drl
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Post #176,122
9/24/04 10:29:26 AM
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Suckerrrrrrrrrrr!
-YendorMike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #176,140
9/24/04 10:53:09 AM
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You're shading the truth, and you know it.
You were [link|http://bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2003/01/os_quiz/windows_95.jpg|Windows 95], admit it. :-P
Cheers,
Ben
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Post #176,143
9/24/04 10:55:48 AM
9/24/04 10:56:46 AM
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Actually Ben... I was.
Yes... you were right. I didn't notice Win 98 was there... oops.
[image|http://bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2003/01/os_quiz/windows_95.jpg||||]
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyNo matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]Here is an example: [link|http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/|Executing arbitrary commands without Active Scripting or ActiveX when using Windows]
Edited by folkert
Sept. 24, 2004, 10:56:46 AM EDT
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Post #176,145
9/24/04 10:57:31 AM
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This is fixed in GF95b
-drl
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