Comments on: Get A GREP

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:23:38 +0000

I still have a few special purpose DOS programs that I use, and they just rip along on newer boxes, but the standard Windows programs don’t get any faster because of the increased overhead of the bloated operating system.

Every time there’s a significant increase in capabilities in hardware, those capabilities get sacrificed to the software.

One of the least appreciated features of building your own system in Linux, is that the system only contains what you can use on your hardware. If you don’t need it or want it, you can dump it.

I don’t play games on computers, but I have all of this software, some of it loaded at boot, that is only needed for games. I don’t use IE, but I can’t remove it because it is used by other programs. I can’t control my own machine.

When it is re-built, I hope the University of New Orleans continues to use Linux, because that’s where things are going.

By: Anntichrist S. Coulter

Anntichrist S. Coulter — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:51:22 +0000

I tellya, the more updates that they do of MS platforms, the more that I miss the old UNIX/LINUX computers at U.N.O. No “purdy colors” or any of that childish WebTV-style crap of Windows, just doing exactly what you need without all of the bullshit. And no smirky fucking dogs or paperclips talking to you like you’re a fucking lobotomy patient. And even back then, on the low-size hard drives of the day, shit ran a LOT faster. Hell, I wouldn’t even mind the longer-than-the-road-to-Damascus command strings or URLs if I could get that kind of processing power back.

Besides, you could still run DOOM2 on ’em, so it was all good.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:23:55 +0000

The Spam Filter did it, but I have scanned the post and can’t find a reason for it.

There is no match to the word list or the addressing. It seems to be a one off hiccup.

As you can see, I can pull them back without a problem.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:14:08 +0000

Bryan, your spam filter is whacking my post again, and I can’t guess which word(s) offend it.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:09:30 +0000

Karen, what you can take away from Bryan’s and my little Unix/Linux pun-fest is that Linux, like Unix before it, is full of breathtakingly powerful software in the form of general-purpose tools suitable for use on complicated tasks… by a programmer. Imagine a kind of car that has an absurdly powerful engine, steered by a manual tiller attached directly to the rear wheels, with a transmission that requires both hands and both feet to change gears, and you’ll have some idea of the problem. Unix was never intended to be directly operated by an end-user, and all Unix shops for years had a specialist on board to do the complicated stuff. If Linux is to become the next generation of home-use platform, it must be made as easy to use, at least, as Windows, and preferably easier. As much as I hate to praise Dell for anything, they’ve taken a first step toward the meaningful commercialization of Linux for use by ordinary mortals.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:36:11 +0000

I don’t guess we want to get into the C-shells or the Korn field.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:07:27 +0000

Expecting normal people to use “grep” or “awk” is not realistic. – Bryan

What Bryan sed.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:48:08 +0000

There’s a tipping point Karen when “human compatible” [AKA – “user friendly”] becomes a real issue. Expecting normal people to use “grep” or “awk” is not realistic. There are a lot of things that happen in a Unix/Linux environment that are the result of people showing off their coding skills, not an attempt to improve the environment.

Linux has interfaces that are just as, if not more useful than Windows. OSX on the Mac is one of those interfaces, but it’s proprietary. There are free versions in the same class.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:07:17 +0000

Len sings Linux praises all the time! But being a hapless Tech-No-Dweeb, I’ve never been introduced to its *mysteries*. However, if it became more popular and pre-installed…NOW that might change a dweeb’s mind on using it!

😮

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:20:33 +0000

There are a lot of things about Mike Dell that are less than wholesome, including some of his personnel policies, and some of the the things the company has done when it locates facilities. Neither he, personally, nor his company are good neighbors.

Hopefully, this action will free up some of the other companies, and more of them will follow the lead.

Mike Dell and I go back to the days when he sold computers out of his dorm room. At one point the microcomputer business was a very small world.