Re: GNU/Linux is the Empowerment of the PC. So What Do You Do?

On 4/12/2024 9:17 AM, vallor wrote:

On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:00:23 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
wrote in <uvb7on$2bjoi$2@dont-email.me>:
 

chrisv wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
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Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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some dumb fsck wrote:

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I used to fuck with my hard-of-hearing, grumpy old grandfather by
looking at him and mouthing words.  Later on I did it to my Dad, too.
  heh!
RIP to grandpa HTS and father JFS.

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Once an asshole, always an asshole, eh?
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Too bad they didn't take a switch to yo ass.

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Too bad he wasn't aborted.

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And when I implied he should have been beaten with a switch,
I meant a Cisco switch :-D

 Speaking of technology...
 I mentioned two technological advantages of Linux over Windows,
expecting a discussion from the guy:  early fork(2) behavior,
and TCP/IP.
 Instead of discussing it, he just went on the attack.

I didn't know you wanted some repartee over those issues.
1) fork(2) behavior?
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fork.2.html
fork you
2) "Where did Windows get TCP/IP from?"
It's common knowledge MS used the BSD FOSS TCP/IP code, but they wrote their own brand new implementation 16 frickin' years ago.  That's sixteen.
I'm sensing an ignorant and stuck-in-the-past mindset on your part.

I've also seen him ask a question in comp.lang.c that he
could have answered himself by typing on his Linux shell:
 $ man size_t
 I really, really, wanted to give him sh*t for that, but held
off because he was already receiving his just due of "WTF?".

When you don't know if you should bite your tongue or not, don't. You'll feel better.
I figured I would catch some hell for that question, but I was curious why memset accepted ints when the function prototype specifies size_t.
For a language as 'strict' as C, it seems to be handled with a little leeway.  gcc warns or errors using printf(%d) with a long int.

He may be a competent Excel and Access programmer

More than competent (at least in the past).

-- and maybe even Python -- but given his old-fashioned
ideas, I suspect he may sell buggy whips on the side.

I sense a mild insult in there.
And I don't understand: which of my ideas is old-fashioned?

Finally, I once confronted him as being racist.  His response?
"Everybody's racist!  You're racist too!"

Sounds like me.  But I'll have to look that one up in my all-knowing, all-seeing database.
In the meantime, tell me about all your non-White friends, accountants, lawyers, doctors, etc.  Don't slink away now.
I found this, from 9 years ago
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I've asked you 4 or 5 times why you refuse to run your business on Linux
desktops, and all you do is slink away.
I show how ALL the founders and top managers and executives at Sonic are
White, and you claim you're not a racist organization.
I ask how many black friends you've had over to your house the last 6
months, and you run away.
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You NEVER did answer any of those issues.

So he's ignorant. 

Not in the least.  Your problem is you didn't grow up in Apelanta.

Cunning, though -- don't turn your back on him.

A cunning linguist in my day, for sure.  They all said so.