You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Fuck you, Stallman. Not because you think it should be called "GNU/Linux" or even because you think "GNU/Linux" is the only "correct" name, but because of this bullshit implication that people call it "Linux" because the poor souls don't know any better and not because they disagree with you.
Man, getting rousted or of bed by your stomach at 4:30 AM is never good. Time to reply to some things.
64-bit, when it comes to PCs, means the processor can address more than 4 GB of RAM. Most of the time, you can still get away with 2 or 3 GB, especially under XP or Linux, but Windows 7 and especially Vista will be slow. My mom tends to have a zillion tabs open in Chrome, and so I got her 64-bit Windows with 8 GB RAM so her computer won't chug. Also, when AMD designed the 64-bit mode, they took the time to streamline the instruction set a bit, so programs using it run a little faster.
As for the Recycle Bin, well, this was also the era of FernGully and other things like it, so I'm sure that had some bearing on it.
Finally: To me, "GNU/Linux" specifically means Debian, mainly because they're the only distro that uses the term with a straight face.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Stallman is a fucking piece of shit who can't stand the fact that whatever influence he's ever had is gone, and rightfully so. His imposing, unwanted presence on Linux bothers most people to such a degree that people are forging letters and responses from Torvalds which distance him from the whole thing.
A while back he appeared on some tech show desperate to talk about the whole situation with Adobe's Flash, especially after Jobs gave it the boot in favor of HTML 5.0. Anyway, Stallman's appearance was months after Jobs passed away, and he was still trying to get his paltry thoughts in on the matter. It must really chap Stallman's ass to know that even in death, Jobs is and always will be more relevant than himself.
Yeah, Stallman's chief period of relevance was about 20-30 years ago, when the UNIX Wars were still being fought. Now that the squabbling has stopped and there's no longer an AT&T or a Symbolics (or even a 1990s Microsoft, for that matter) to rant about, it's just silly.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'm running Windows 7 with 3 GB of RAM, but it's fast enough for the stuff I tend to do. At any given time, I tend to have 5-10 Chrome tabs, Spotify, Pidgin, and maybe Microsoft Word running at once, and it seems to handle that okay. It's only once I get into 20+ Chrome tabs that it starts to grind to a halt.
I assume a newer computer with more RAM would seem blazingly fast in comparison, though. I'm hoping to save up for one once I get a job, so I'll have it when I start college in the fall.
Stallman's insistence on "GNU/Linux" always kinda smacked of jealousy to me. You may have had the idea first, dude, but just suck it up and admit Torvalds beat you to implementing it.
64-bit, when it comes to PCs, means the processor can address more than 4 GB of RAM.
Not quite the case with the first Pentium and on up -- it came loaded with a 64-bit wide bus which allowed it to send out one 32-bit instruction at the same time it was receiving another during the same cycle. This is what the trick the Jaguar was able to pull, it was nothing new but for Atari it was good enough to bestow the "64-bit" title on the system when in reality it was just a 16/32bit 68000 with a really powerful video chipset.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Oh yeah, Stallman's jealous. The fact that the industry celebrates Jobs, Gates, Torvalds and not him would be pitiable except those three never yelled at a 14 year old fan over something as stupid as the name of an OS.
If there's anything about Hurd that strikes me as odd, it's just how dated it looks. It's a pure microkernel OS, like VxWorks or QNX, and you generally only find those in embedded systems these days because desktop machines don't need hard real-time or the assorted pains in the ass that come with it. Microkernels were all the rage in the late 1980s and very early 1990s, and Hurd was riding that initial wave of interest before Linux and 4.4BSD changed everyone's minds.
Anyway, my stomach feels better now (damned red hot potato chips, why must you be so delicious?), I have fluids in me, time to go back to bed for a while since I don't actually need to be up until 8.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
See you later, then.
I have to get going myself...Grandma needs a ride to work again, and I thought afterwards I might to to Westerville and take pictures, if it's not too incredibly cold out.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'm back.
Westerville ended up not happening because it's 9° out. It's supposed to get all the way up to 30 this afternoon, so I figure I'll try again then.
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64-bit, when it comes to PCs, means the processor can address more than 4 GB of RAM. Most of the time, you can still get away with 2 or 3 GB, especially under XP or Linux, but Windows 7 and especially Vista will be slow. My mom tends to have a zillion tabs open in Chrome, and so I got her 64-bit Windows with 8 GB RAM so her computer won't chug. Also, when AMD designed the 64-bit mode, they took the time to streamline the instruction set a bit, so programs using it run a little faster.
As for the Recycle Bin, well, this was also the era of FernGully and other things like it, so I'm sure that had some bearing on it.
Finally: To me, "GNU/Linux" specifically means Debian, mainly because they're the only distro that uses the term with a straight face.
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