Friday, March 11, 2011

Sounds like fun

http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2011/03/11/lessons-learned/

tl;dr of the tl;dr: C.L.U.S.T.E.R.F.U.C.K.

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JoeMonco said...

I have a bunch of command line programs I need to run to build some scientific software. Is there no terminal emulators for Windows or something? PLEASE HELP thx.

Use MS-DOS 5.0, because quite likely that's what your "scientific" software is written for.

Otherwise, check out what sane institutes actually use:

http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/

http://www.ni.com/

Anonymous said...

It is me, or should the TL;DR to the TL;DR be "Shit nobody cares about"?

The author of the blog interviews people who say that others have an "air of superiority" yet his writing style has such a sense of unwarranted self-importance it hurts.

Anonymous said...

Still waiting for the name of this awesome scientific software...

You won't fool us queefer with your reverse-reverse-reverse trolling. I see what you are trying to do.

Anonymous said...

Jerface is a superhero of linux haters.

He's taken away the trolls and rockstar haters from LHB and kept them trapped in his 'binary playhouse', While the real hate can rock on here!

Anonymous said...

reverse-reverse-reverse trolling

OMG it's full of queefers!

Anonymous said...

Can we please stop talking about the jerkwad? He is dead to me.

Anonymous said...

Silly JoeMonco. Sane institutes use octave and xcalc.

Anonymous said...

Can we please stop talking about the jerkwad? He is dead to me.

Good luck trying to tell LHB what to talk about. Remember MJPEG

Anonymous said...

He's taken away the trolls and rockstar haters from LHB and kept them trapped in his 'binary playhouse', While the real hate can rock on here!

You fucking queefing freetard. Your trickery knows no bounds. I KNOW IT IS YOU QUEEFER. STOP PRETENDING TO BE A "HATA".

Anonymous said...

Can we please stop talking about the jerkwad? He is dead to me.

Yawn....

Slashdot is that way ------->

Anonymous said...

Yawn....

Slashdot is that way ------->


What the fuck man? Fuck you. I'm a bigger Linux hater than you could ever be.

JoeMonco said...

Sane institutes use octave and xcalc.

That sounds more like what insane institutes use.

Heh, insane institute...

Anonymous said...

When troll is caught trolling and is trapped, it lashes out by calling everyone 'queefers'.

Most interesting.

Sherlock Holmes said...

When troll is caught trolling and is trapped, it lashes out by calling everyone 'queefers'.

Most interesting.


Yeah and he complains about people calling other people 'queefers'. That was some hot meta-trolling you are doing over there. Idiot.

Anonymous said...

I'm a bigger Linux hater than you could ever be.

And I'm one of the biggest Linux haters on the planet, don't insult me like that. I have to ask who the fuck are you? This whole thing is getting fucking ridiculous.

Anonymous said...

Sherlock Holmes = queefer

Anonymous said...

Sane institutes use octave and xcalc.

I thought they used an Abacus and a slide rule.

Anonymous said...

I thought they used an Abacus and a slide rule.

That's just for moon landings.

Anonymous said...

{insert complaints about Jerkface here}

{insert suggestions that everyone should use use the name "Anonymous" instead because apparent one can spew more spontaneous nonsense that way}

{insert typical Adam King sockpuppetry here}

Anonymous said...

He's taken away the trolls and rockstar haters from LHB and kept them trapped in his 'binary playhouse',

Yeah well just looking thru some of teh comments over there, and that's pretty much on the mark. Just trolls, JF and Dr Loser.

Anonymous said...

Which one of you are queefer?

I think I get it now. ALL of you are queefer.

Anonymous said...

Sites with few users that don't have an Anon seem to always have two or three profilic posters that drown out everyone else.

Adam King said...

I'm glad you idiots finally realize .net jerkface and Dr Loser are fucking morons. Maybe you aren't as stupid as I originally thought.

Nope, you are.

Anonymous said...

Well at least we know "March 13, 2011 5:25 PM" is queefer for sure.

Anonymous said...

Well at least we know "March 13, 2011 5:25 PM" is queefer for sure.

What if that really isn't queefer? Maybe he got hacked. He uses Loonix after all.

Maybe all the anonymous posts are really queefer, and the accounted user is really NOT queefer. Have you thought of that, queefer?

I am on to your game.

Anonymous said...

Looks like he's given up the HALP NO TERMINAL ON WINDOZ?! troll

Anonymous said...

Yeah, Dr Loser and JF are such morons. In fact, I find what Adam King is often more factually accurate than those two come up with. Call me "queefer" all you want, but I think the man does have a good point here.

rockstar hater said...

I'm glad you idiots finally realize .net jerkface and Dr Loser are fucking morons

And I'm one of the biggest Linux haters on the planet, don't insult me like that. I have to ask who the fuck are you? This whole thing is getting fucking ridiculous.

Adam King said...

I find it amusing that you can't Winbreds can't seem to find a terminal emulator for Windoze.

For all the shit I've heard about RTFM and such in the Linux community from you idiots, I've yet to hear of anyone ever get called a "troll" for asking a question about software options.

That's a first for the Winbreds. ;)

tar said...

tar returns

Anonymous said...

Seriously, what's wrong with JF, Dr Loser and their stupid, misguided Linux hate? Look - Unity is the stuff, guys - give it a try!

Anonymous said...

Can we please stop calling each other "queefer"? It's getting old.

Anonymous said...

Can we please stop calling each other "queefer"? It's getting old.

Queefer,

NICE TRY.

Anonymous said...

Can we please stop calling each other "queefer"? It's getting old.

Yeah, just like MJPEG.

Leave Adam King alone!

Anonymous said...

Queefer,

NICE TRY.


Queefer,

NICE TRY.

Anonymous said...

Remember MJPEG

NEVAR 4GET!!!!

tar said...

TAR RETURNS

Anonymous said...

o hai tard

Anonymous said...

LOL adam fails as troll by admitting troll while signed in.

Anonymous said...

MJPEG support on Windows sucks.

Anonymous said...

Remember MJPEG

NEVAR 4GET!!!!


I for one will never forget the smell or the taste of MJPEG.
What a most boring few days. A large cone of fail piled up on paper-thin slices of lulz that are soaked in troll.

Anonymous said...

Ur all NIGGERED.

Dr. Loser is a fag, ur all making up this idiot character jerk face, and UR ALL GAY!!!!

Anonymous said...

^^ Looks like Jerface has come to visit!

Anonymous said...

@March 13, 2011 6:08 PM

I am the original MJPEG guy. It kept things going, and I'm glad.

But I got nothing this week. Sorry.

Actually, those fucks at Redmond used the Japanese Earthquake as an opportunistic marketing chance to further Bing.

What do you think of those M$ whores for that? Instead of donating several 10s of millions those fucking evil pig whores offered to donate, only if you used their shit ass search engine - not that Microsoft could ever build a fucking search engine. Retards. They've already lost the fucking Mobile world and now they're losing their last vestige.

Like I said, get rid of Balmer and the company stands a chance. Balmer is as dumb as a hamster.

oh what a tangled web said...

Mr. Pogson tells us why Internet Explorer is just 'bloat and insecurity':

Software should be clean and simple .. Connect everything to everything and do it twice. Haven’t these guys heard of the KISS principle?

WTF

Obviously never a problem on linux at all.

Anonymous said...

Meanwhile Helios gives a shitty computers to a kid who wants to study music in college.

Because LinuxIsHumanRights(TM)

Anonymous said...

Yet, Ballmer wouldn't throw away his manual and disc with included software that supported his inexpensive camera's implementation of MJPEG.

So really who is the idiot?

Anonymous said...

"I've made arrangements for Time-Warner to connect Anthony's home to the Internet and I am going to pay for the first month and the setup fees from my own pocket. I can't do this often but in this case, I believe it to be important."

This is kinda misguided IMHO

Anonymous said...

What happens when random guy Helios rocks up at Time Warner looking for FreeShit(TM):

In 2008, I was granted an appointment with an executive within Time-Warner's Corporate Responsibility Department. After a 40 minute wait, I was asked by the receptionist what my appointment was for. I explained that I needed to discuss Internet connections for the disadvantaged. An hour and 15 minutes after that, I was informed that the executive was called away unexpectedly and she would not return for the day. She would contact me and reschedule the appointment.

The call never came and my subsequent calls were never returned.

How nice.

Anonymous said...

After a 40 minute wait, I was asked by the receptionist what my appointment was for.

LOL he sat their for nearly an hour before even talking to the receptionist? Mad buziness skillz right there..

Anonymous said...

Haven’t these guys heard of the KISS principle?

LOLWUT is there any FOSS software that follows that principle?

Even the GNU cat command has almosts 800 lines of code.

It's me you're looking for said...

GNU Hello is 600KB. That's right 6/10 of a megabyte for "hello world".

Anonymous said...

And that's compressed! It inflates to 2.6 MB!

Anonymous said...

Prolly 2.59Mb of cruft: autoconf turds, texinfo templates, GPL in 15 fucking languages..

The ManyEyez(TM) must be pretty sore after pouring through all this shit..

Anonymous said...

Actually read the man page. GNU Hello is quite advanced hello world app with many options.

Anonymous said...

LOL, RTFM hello n00b

Anonymous said...

the practical purpose of GNU Hello is to serve as a minimal example of a GNU package.

From the GNU Hello manpage. Notice the word 'minimal'. On what planet?

Also from the manual:

It allows nonprogrammers to use a classic computer science tool which would otherwise be unavailable to them. Because it is protected by the GNU General Public License, users are free (in perpetuity) to share and change it.

We wouldn't even have a free Hello world if it wasn't for GPL? Gimme a break..

Anonymous said...

GNU Hello was written by Mike Haertel, David MacKenzie, Jan Brittenson, Charles Hannum, Roland McGrath, Noah Friedman, Karl Eichwalder, Karl Berry, and The King.

your GNU donations hard at work!

Anonymous said...

It's suppose to be a showcase of some GNU technologies like autoconf and such. It's used as shell for writing other more complicated apps so there is a lot of scaffolding.

Anonymous said...

and dont pick on gnu hello plz

Anonymous said...

The King

This is what Stallman is calling himself now?

Anonymous said...

Nah, it's Elvis.

Anonymous said...

>You going to bring back snickerdouche eventually?

I am who you bums call the 'snickerdouche', and I very much object to being lumped with the Q man.

Btw, you hatertards are no different from the Linux Loons. *snicker* Come talk to me when you can admit that MS is a convicted monoplist (just like the New York Frigging Times said)!

Anonymous said...

OMG a rockstar douche!

Anonymous said...

Come back when Linux, Gnome, Evolution, and gnu aren't a giant steaming pile of useless shit.

captcha: tazed - you certainly should be.

TM Repository said...

Besides the Powershell "shell" looks more like an IDE.

No it doesn't

You're thinking of of the Powershell ISE. However, that actually is a good option. It supports multiple tabs, has an isolated command pane that doesn't prefix with the path, etc.

Anonymous said...

I don't think the troll understands the difference between a shell and a terminal emulator..

And it was a troll anyways. A terminal emulator has NOTHING TO DO with building software

Anonymous said...

I was thinking about DosBox, if you need DOS support. You can even install DOS on a VM, and that would provide even better support as it will be the real deal.

If you want something like the shitty Linux experience you can always use CygWin. As a plus it wont break with every update!

If you are using Windows commands and functions and your "scientific software" is based entirely on Windows, Powershell is the best option out there.

These solutions are all free. Well, only the DOS on VM solution is partially free, as you would need an original copy of DOS to stay legal. You can pirate it in the true freetard spirit, but if you are old enough to do scientific research you probably already have the floppies around somewhere.

Anonymous said...

@March 13, 2011 6:25 PM

I wonder if he even made an appoint, or if he just rocked up and was going to use ThePowerOfSourceCompellzU!(TM)

Anonymous said...

Well Queefer pretty much admitted it was his troll in his named comment..

Anonymous said...

'scientific research' is pretty fucking vague.

"So what are you researching?"

"Oh, you know.. science!"

Anonymous said...

A terminal emulator has NOTHING TO DO with building software

You'd think a freetard would realize that.

Guess most don't know the difference between xterm and bash.

Anonymous said...

Btw, you hatertards are no different from the Linux Loons. *snicker* Come talk to me when you can admit that MS is a convicted monoplist (just like the New York Frigging Times said)!

I don't know about you, but I personally prefer Cosmo's 10 bulletproof "tips to please your man" to anything reported by New York Time. You know, at least Cosmo never has the galls (or ability) to pretend not to be utter bullcrap.

Anonymous said...

Remeber that episode when Cosmo was friends with that soup nazi guy! Hilarious!

They don't make comedy like Seinfeld anymore :-(

Anonymous said...

I wonder if he even made an appoint

probably not. he prolly just went in Michael Moore style to demand free internet for freetards of his choosing, and got turned away looking a dick.

Anonymous said...

It's suppose to be a showcase of some GNU technologies like autoconf and such.

Well when your "minimal" hello world is pushing 3Mb of source, it's not such a great showcase, no?

Anonymous said...

Jerry always had a Mac Plus in the background. In the later series it became a Mac SE I think.

GNU/Hello said...

From the link in my name:

"Writing a program that prints 'Hello, world!' is the classic beginner's programming task. The GNU version takes this a step further by processing its argument list to modify its behavior, by supporting internationalization, and by including a mail reader; it's a true demonstration of how to write programs that do these things."

I had no idea Zawinski's Law applied to Hello World.

Boy, I sure am glad I spent all those years mocking Microsoft for producing unnecessarily bloated software.

Heliotard said...

Since 2005, The HeliOS Project has rebuilt over 1200 computers and distributed them to disadvantaged and exceptional students in the Austin area.

Is that all? If he spent more time working on distributing computers and less time being a Freetard he'd get a lot more done.

1950s White Man said...

How does segregation work on these here internets?

Is there some sort of NiggerNet just for darkies?

Anonymous said...

Since 2005, The HeliOS Project has rebuilt over 1200 computers and distributed them to disadvantaged and exceptional students in the Austin area.

I think I could do a better job by myself. Over six years that's 200 per year, about 17 per month, about half a PC per day, about 75% of a PC per day if you cut the weekends out, or about two per day if you're only devoting weekends.

I'd expect after a few months to nail down some deals where discarded PCs magically arrive on pallets at the back of a warehouse, just waiting for me to arrive and process them. Then I take roughly two weekends per month to manage the project. That's assuming I'd do it all myself, but I'd probably be able to get college credit interns to do it for me at no cost.

Anyway, weekend #1 would be sorting through the "product" and weekend #2 would be building the "best of" whatever I had. I'd expect to reach full efficiency within six months (remember only doing this twice per month). I should be able to crank out at least 25 rebuilt PCs per month, 50% more than HeliOS, doing it myself and have that number scale accordingly among sub-staff.

Businesses love this kind of stuff because not only can they avoid EPA harassment over hazardous waste but they can even take a tax deduction assuming the recycler is a registered non-profit so there's financial incentive for them to deliver their old junk to me. They can also stand up before their Chambers of Commerce and preach about how green they are and how much they care about the community.

Anonymous said...

Is there some sort of NiggerNet just for darkies?

I hear all about these "dark nets". Maybe that's what they refer to?

Anonymous said...

@March 14, 2011 8:23 AM

It would be even easier and cheaper here. Businesses would pay the delivery, that would be much less than paying for disposal. This would yeld benefits for them, and free stuff for me to work with.

Stuff that would be in non-working condition can be easily disposed for free at the comunal disposal area. You just bring stuff here, nobody asks you anything, they think about it all. You could probably go there and pick up some stuff (paid by weight) and see if you find something that works. There's all kind of electronic devices, motherboards with CPUs and RAM modules, semi-disassemled PCs, dishwashers, etc.

I would then use my company to buy OEM licenses for Windows (maybe starter) and Office Starter 2010, and give the poor, disadvantaged or local churches reconditioned PCs that are actually usable. You can use OEM versions of Microsoft products on reconditioned PCs, so they don't need to be completely new.

This will probably improve the company's public image in the local area and boost our profits. being "green" (as much as old PCs can be green) and socially active is a double plus.

Anonymous said...

You could probably go there and pick up some stuff (paid by weight) and see if you find something that works.

The interns would start the day scavenging known dumping areas. Cutting deals with Chambers of Commerce and/or town clerks will net a substantial discount on associated fees. Also, some municipalities are highly territorial with junk, so dealing with the local government would smooth this out as well.

I would then use my company to buy OEM licenses for Windows (maybe starter) and Office Starter 2010, and give the poor, disadvantaged or local churches reconditioned PCs that are actually usable. You can use OEM versions of Microsoft products on reconditioned PCs, so they don't need to be completely new.

I forgot to mention that. It was implied in my head--of course I'm not using Linux, haha. I bet the terms of this deal with Microsoft would surprise many folk in how affordable it is. I'd also have no problem including a big honking "Sponsored by Microsoft" logo in everything associated with this venture. Why not? It'd lend even more legitimacy.

Anonymous said...

@March 13, 2011 6:24 PM

So they are too poor for internet access and so HeliOS's great idea is to stiff them with a $30-50/month bill after the first month? Secondly, those "setup fees" from Time Warner are like 25 bucks. He's trying to make himself out as some sort of humanitarian when he probably only spends like $75.

Anonymous said...

We spent a 2008 and a good part of 2009 building a guerrilla or "bandit" network in East Austin. It worked fine while the user base was at 30 homes or less but as it grew, we experienced more and more problems. Not in just lost connectivity but in failing or vandalized equipment and directionals. It got to the point where we were spending inordinate amounts of time just keeping the network up. Unfortunately, due to lack of manpower and resources, we had to let it go.


Hahahahahahahahahaha. Do these guys know even the basics about security equipment?

Anonymous said...

*securing equipment* was what I meant to say.

Anonymous said...

On the Linux Hater's Blog, nothing is sacred. Not even charity work.

I love it :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmjnYKlVnM

Anonymous said...

@March 14, 2011 9:09 AM

How is it "charity" when you foist a $30-50/month bill on a family that obviously can't afford internet? If they could have afforded it THEY WOULD HAVE ALREADY HAD IT. Secondly, he gave the kid Linux. That isn't charitable. And in a few months the kid will be cursing HeliOS for sticking him with a piece of crap and will have to pirate himself a copy of Windows.

Anonymous said...

to the guy who wants a better UI for CMD.EXE

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

Anonymous said...

Come talk to me when you can admit that MS is a convicted monoplist (just like the New York Frigging Times said)!

LMAO motherfuckers are still talking about this shit? SARIOUSLEEEE?1

JERFKACE said...

Jerfkace sayyy OBMAMA IS NOBAMA

Anonymous said...

The "illegal monopoly" shit is even WORSE than MJPEG. What I wouldn't give for more MJPEG over the potential "illegal monopoly" shit starting again.

Anonymous said...

Unity in all of its glory.

Note the transparency of the applications menu... at some point I expect tons of hilarity to ensue when users can't easliy discern the program they wish to open from the stuff in the background.

Anonymous said...

I will NEVER understand the obsession of freetards about transparent windows. My former office-mate-freetard also had transparence on, even for the terminal. Why would you want to obfuscate the focused window by having the background visible as well?

The only thing that I could imagine that might be useful would be to turn transparency on when a window is moved. But I have never seen this.

Anonymous said...

I think that the earthquake, tsunami and the situation at our nuclear reactors makes up the worst crisis in the 65 years since the war.


"Since we tried to take over the world alongside the nazis and murder everybody"

Anonymous said...


"Since we tried to take over the world alongside the nazis and murder everybody"


"Since we ate a pair of nukes" FTFY.

Are you suggesting that Japan somehow deserves the Quake, aftershocks, tsunami, threat of a triple nuclear meltdown, and the tens of thousands dead and even more missing?

Go die in a fire.

Faillanova said...

I don't even know where to begin with this huge fucking ... what the fuck is it, anyway?

Anonymous said...

@March 14, 2011 11:01 AM

Exactly. I think the transparency in Aero is the right balance of usable. The freetard equivalents are crap. Why do I need to be able to see three 3 or 4 layers of stacked windows? That's not fucking usable in the least.

Anonymous said...

Isn't Project Bossanova the one where the freetards stated that it would only be Linux only?

Anonymous said...

When is Bossanova gonna have the logo contest? You're not a real FOSS project without having a logo contest. Especially before any code is written!

Anonymous said...

Oh god I love this from the FAQ:

Will your game be FOSS software?

We haven’t made our ultimate decision here, but likely, no. If we were Free Software from day one, there is little doubt someone would port the game to Windows in a matter of days and defeat part of the purpose behind this project.

There are many out there who feel that making a game exclusively for Linux while closing the source goes against the very nature of FOSS itself and therefore defeats the entire purpose. We fully understand and respect this position, but feel we will likely need to stay closed in the beginning, although we haven't ruled out open sourcing the code down the track.

Obviously we want to do what's best for Linux and the Free Software community as a whole, so our standing on this matter will be constantly under review.


Italicized part is beautiful butthurt. OH NOES!!! OUR GAME WOULD RUN ON WINDOZE!!!! THE HORROR!!! THE HORROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!

Anonymous said...

So remember that "Avaneya" game that was another "GNU/Linux only" game that was supposed to be "cerebral science fiction game" (link in name). Apparently the project lead is a 9/11 truther. LULZ!!!

Anonymous said...

japs are eating shit because they're becoming an upiddy 51st state. they should remember we could've neucd them silly.

DigitalAtheist said...

/A 9/11 truther? For fuck's sake! Judas Fuckin' Priest, those idiots have NO idea what real explosions are like. Believe me, I used to be in the army, a combat engineer (Essayons, and all praise to Fort Lost in the Woods, Missouri... or Fort Leonard Wood if you are a civie). 9/11 truthers chap my ass because they have no concept of what explosive demolitions actually entail in the form of amount of explosives required, the time and effort to prime said explosives, nor the formulae needed to even get a clos estimate of what time and personnel is needed to perform the job. huh.. come to think of it, truthers sound too much like freetards....

Anonymous said...

Do you really think the government is incapable of doing 9/11? If someone as retarded as you can bring down a building then surely the world's best and brightest can do it even better and make it look like terrorism.

high priest helios said...

Helios gives away second-hand computers running linux.

And at the risk of sounding completely hokey, what I do isn't really a job...

It's a calling.

Not necessarily in a spiritual way, although I won't discount the possibility.


Helios gives away second-hand computers running linux.

Anonymous said...

I guess if someone gave away computers running Windows then it would be OMG WAR CRIMEZ.

It is Linux that makes it a holy mission for him, nothing more..

DigitalAtheist said...

oh.. they could... but since each tower would need tons of explosives, which would require hundreds if not thousands of man hours and crap loads of blasting caps and det cord (or thousands of radio controlled detonators all working on seperate freqs), not to mentiong that most of the areas needed to acoomplish the placement and priming of charges would be noticeable to people inside the towers, for weeks, if not months, no... it is not resonable to assume the government could pull off a conspiracy of this size. No matter what you see in the movies, actual explosives demolitons requirea a lot of time and effort, from working the actual amount of explosives needed (substance and Relative Explosve Factor--REF--divided by weight per unit), to the actual placement (controlled demo as proposed by the so-called "truthers) requiring careful placement of EACH INDIVIDUAL CHARGE, to the simple fact that there would be holes in the walls noticeable to every person in the building, plus tons of det cord running all over the place would lead any one with even the remotest bit of knowledge about explosives to tell you that no, there is no way this could be pulled off and made to look like a "terrorist" incident.

Considering the fact that each I-beam truss in both of the main towers was held to its vertical supports (on each end) by 2, and only 2 5/8 inch steel bolts, the remarkable thing is NOT that the towers fell, but that they stood as long as they did with the number of vertical columns cut by penetration, added to the amount of extra weight they had to support afterwards.

Sorry, but truthers are idiots. not a single one of them has ever experinced an actual explosion, except for those in the movies. even a few hundre pounds of bang-bang can be heard miles away, not as a rumble, but as an actual bang.

P.s. the formual for something as simple as an external timber cutting charge is: P=D2/40/REF. Define P, D2, and the REF for A/N, Military dynamite, and C-4. Then give the formula for a Ribbon charge, an abatis charge, and Internal timber.

Anonymous said...

maybe they didn't notice the AIRPLANES FLYING INTO THE BUILDINGS.

i guess those airplanes are hard to miss on first viewing..

Anonymous said...

I guess if you can convince yourself using Linux is better than Windows, than it's not hard to believe that the world is flat, Windows did 911 and the connection fee is the most expensive part of an internet connection..

Anonymous said...

From the Avenaya FAQ:

Open source is a marketing term that came to be as the original free software community split into two general streams, free and open source. Open source embodies values such as speed, robustness, portability, maintainability, availability of source code, and so on. While these are important values, they are superficial engineering values at best.

I love how they get all revisionist about the whole thing. Open source predates free software. It started at Berkeley, there was never a movement associated with it, it was purely and issue of academic convenience. In fact when GNU started, after wasting the first two years writing the manifesto, it was Berkeley that RMS was harassing to port their kernel over to 68k from VAX.

And that underlines the key difference between the two. Open source is about writing code, free software is about pointless politics.

Another key difference is that the founding fathers of open source (Bill Joy and friends) used said code to go on to found IT giants (Sun's first run of workstations shipped with BSD OS, and the original SunOS was entirely BSD derived) where as the founding father of free software started the whole deal over butthurt that his "buddies" in the AI lab went off to start businesses of their own, and free software was started as a means to destroy them.

DigitalAtheist said...

Yeah... it was kinda hard to see the planes hitting the buildings and comprmising the structural integrity of the buildings... buildins which required all of the exterior and interior columns to keep from collapsing. The miracle is that the really did stand as long as they did. two 5/8" bolts on each side of a not very big to start with I-beam isn't a whole lot of hold-together power. What I would like is for someone to explain if Ribbon charges were used or counter-force charges were used, and what each would have been used for. Never mind that once steel reaches a temperature of 700 degrees F, it loses 50% of its strength and things go rapidly down hill from there.

Anonymous said...

Open source embodies values such as speed, robustness, portability, maintainability, availability of source code, and so on. While these are important values, they are superficial engineering values at best.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. These guys are serious? How are any of those things superficial values?

Anonymous said...

Do you really think the government is incapable of doing 9/11? If someone as retarded as you can bring down a building then surely the world's best and brightest can do it even better and make it look like terrorism.

Of course this is the same government that sat on its ass for five days after Katrina, was led by a moronic, coke-head, millionaire, playboy, National Guard drop-out, that couldn't figure out where the "WMDs" were, yet somehow able to perform a brilliant masterpiece of chicanery on the world by secretly destroying two of the world's tallest buildings, one of the shorter buildings in the complex, punching a hole in the Pentagon, and crashing a plane into a Pennsylvania field.

The fact is you are a moron, now do the world a favor and finish drinking your strychnine like a good cultist.

Anonymous said...

And at the risk of sounding completely hokey, what I do isn't really a job...

It's a calling.


No, it truly isn't a job. It's basically foisting turds on to suckers who don't know any better until a few months in and they face the BiannualDeathMarch(TM) and then have to give in a purchase a Windows machine or pirate a copy of Windows.

Anonymous said...

@March 14, 2011 12:33 PM

They couldn't even FAKE finding WMDs correctly. Who here doesn't laugh in remembering about those supposed "mobile weapons labs" that looked like nothing more than some trucks with porta-potties in them. So they couldn't even get something as simple as that right yet we are to believe that they were able to flawlessly carry out 9/11 with none of the insiders leaking any of the details?

Anonymous said...

How is it "charity" when you foist a $30-50/month bill on a family that obviously can't afford internet? If they could have afforded it THEY WOULD HAVE ALREADY HAD IT.

I hope internet doesn't require 12 or 24 month contracts like it does in some places.

Otherwise Helios' "charity" could end up costing them thousands. To a family that CAN'T AFFORD A CAR

Anonymous said...

@March 14, 2011 12:27 PM:

He's probably referring to the Open Source Initiative, which did come later. ESR claims credit for the term "Open Source" in a marketing context, which was supposed to be a way of downplaying the zealotry, and giving business-friendly licenses the same level of exposure as the GPL. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine the degree of success or failure this approach had.

CAPTCHA: ching - the sound of money being spent on software, something freetards won't recognize.

Anonymous said...

I guess if someone gave away computers running Windows then it would be OMG WAR CRIMEZ.

It is Linux that makes it a holy mission for him, nothing more..


Exactly. Pogson did a blog post on his school receiving free computers from MS.

What did he do? Format them and install some linux turd on it. Goodbye education software..

Oh I forgot it's not about the children it's about the freetards feeling self rightous and having job security

Anonymous said...

@March 14, 2011 12:41 PM

I hope internet doesn't require 12 or 24 month contracts like it does in some places.

Unless you get a bundle you can get Time Warner internet without a contract.

Otherwise Helios' "charity" could end up costing them thousands. To a family that CAN'T AFFORD A CAR

Exactly. It's not as if these people were too stupid to call Time Warner to get an Internet connection set up. And the fact that thinks paying the $25 connection fee is some sort of grand charitable notion is absolutely hilarious. That's like trying to claim that you're some hero of the homeless when you bought some random dude a snickers bar. Paying for an entire year of their internet service would be one thing, but paying what is probably going to be less than $75 is not something to hold up as being some divine gift.

Anonymous said...

Don't forget the time Stallman wasted looking for other people's code to inherit (steal) like with what became GCC, EMACS, and HURD instead of doing the groundwork himself or convincing people his cause was decent idea. Stallman was so hard-up for a compiler he accepted some random Pascal bastardization and wrote some shit-ass C frontend on it, lol.

Yeah, I know, some of this stuff actually worked out (eventually), but the bottom line is that Stallman spent about a decade, including his manifesto writing time, replicating a late-70s era UNIX setup, sans kernel (the most important part of an "operating system"), that performed worse due to the spit-n-scotch-tape manner in which it was assembled.

The stuff that did work out is primarily due to outside contributors who are more associated with "open source" than free software, e.g. Red Hat and its work with Glibc and GCC.

Anonymous said...

@March 14, 2011 12:47 PM

NUH UH!!! $TALLMAN WROTE ALL THAT ON HIS OWN!!!!!!!!! STOP LYING ABOUT THE GREAT ST IGNUCIUS!!!! IMMA GONNA GO WRITE A LINUX ONLY 3D GAME THAT IS GONNA TOTALLY KILL WINDOWS!!! YOU'LL BE SORRY THEN!!!!

Anonymous said...

It's like some hipster who gives someone a $99 iPhone as a "gift" and saddles the recipient with a bill that's $50 monthly higher than what they were paying before plus 2 year contract extension. Gee thanks.

Anonymous said...

But at least the iPhone would actually be more useful than an 10 year old computer running some turd of a Loonix distro.

Anonymous said...

Time for an Angry Tux update!

NOTHINGS HAPPENED

Carry on with your lives

Anonymous said...

But what about the logo contest for the Python version! I'm glued to my seat about that! Oh and what are the results for the poll on which source control system they are going to use?!? Inquiring minds want to know!

Anonymous said...

10 year old computer running some turd of a Loonix distro.

What do you think it'll be used for? Writing music? Learning for school?

No. It will be used for porn.

Anonymous said...

No. It will be used for porn.


Which linux is even worse at! Hope he enjoys lots of stuttery, tearing video! Oh and don't expect to be able to use anything like Porntube, Youporn, etc because smooth flash playback still doesn't work!

Anonymous said...

Oh but I heard that Oombooboo Pregnant Pelican is going to support 10,000 core systems!

Anonymous said...

Yeah, the video quality of those sites is bad enough without Linux adding its shit filter on top of it.

Anonymous said...

@March 14, 2011 12:58 PM

Obviously you haven't tried Linux lately otherwise you'd know that Canonical changed the name of Ubuntu 15.3.14.159 to Pedophile Panda.

Anonymous said...

Oh and don't discount GNU Social!

NoticesThis is the public timeline for GNU social but no one has posted anything yet.

Fuck me, Facebook must be shaking in their boots!!

Anonymous said...

Blogger ate my Diaspora post..

The point was they have done fuck all, one blog post THIS YEAR, and their is STILL NO WAY to join their social network.

More ANTI-social network, like.

Anonymous said...

Helios: the Prometheus of Porn

Unity: behavioural mockups said...

There are six behavioural mockups of Unity to try at the link.

Since most of you guys don't want to go through the pain of installing Unity you can use these HTML mockups instead.

Jokes about shittiness and imminent failure of the above greatly appreciated.

Anonymous said...

Yeah... it was kinda hard to see the planes hitting the buildings and comprmising the structural integrity of the buildings...

What planes? Oh...

LOL.

Anyway, I was wrong about Windows 7 Starter. I think it is still available to some big OEMs, as I don't have access to it. Windows 7 Home Premium is, instead, something like 75€ per license with the DVD OEM version. Volume licesing should be much lower, something like 25€ per license with one DVD and all the stickers. I don't know how it works in details as I always bought single licenses, but it should be very simple and much cheaper.

One thing I noticed is that many businesses change frequently monitors. Sometimes the monitors' warranty is still active and they don't have any problem, but are thrown away to make space for bigger monitors. Getting them in bulk could be great, and those are much better than old CRTs both for the environment (less heat, less energy wasted) and the poor kids eyes. You can even get free mice and keyboards, as many replace the default stuff that comes with new PCs (like from HP and Dell) with wireless combos.

Anonymous said...

Exactly. Pogson did a blog post on his school receiving free computers from MS.

What did he do? Format them and install some linux turd on it. Goodbye education software..


At which point MS should have charge him the full price of each license voided by his stupidity.

Anonymous said...

Exactly. Pogson did a blog post on his school receiving free computers from MS.

What did he do? Format them and install some linux turd on it. Goodbye education software.


At which point MS should have charged him full price for each license violated.

Anonymous said...

Oh but I heard that Oombooboo Pregnant Pelican is going to support 10,000 core systems!

Name has been changed to Pompous Penguin, regardless of what any one else may say.

Capcha" farcu... nothing else needs to be said.

Anonymous said...

At which point MS should have charged him full price for each license violated.

"Voided," okay. "Wasted," okay. But why do you write "violated"?

Anonymous said...

@ Unity mockups:

Jesus Krist what a fuckin' mess

Anonymous said...

Jokes about shittiness and imminent failure of the above greatly appreciated.

Some of the mockup features are copied straight up from the Windows 7 taskbar and what was introduced in Vista on the Start menu (integrated search).

It might seem a step in the right direction just because it doesn't look like Windows 95, but upon close inspection you can see it's actually a clusterfuck of UI elements from Windows and OSX. It doesn't really make much sense, and I feel like I could design something way better. Actually my eight years old cousing could design something way better for Unity, and it wont feel like a shitty remix of different GUIs.

LOL LOLNIX said...

LOL

Anonymous said...

actually, voided was the word i used originally, but blogger was being pissy and didn't wanna post my first attempt and i wasn't paying attention my second time around and used violated instead, but voided works as well.. although when they exepted the computers and got windows at a discount then erased it for a bassakwards OS they did sorta violate the original agreement.

Anonymous said...

You know how Linux screenshots traditionally have an irc channel, two transparent terminals and a porno background?

Well there's a new trend. Check out the screenshot of "current Unity with the latest updates."

I particularly like how the guy who took the screenshot denies all knowledge: "And no, I have no idea who she is or how she invaded my computer!"

Anonymous said...

Of course this is the same government that sat on its ass for five days after Katrina, was led by a moronic, coke-head, millionaire, playboy, National
Guard drop-out, that couldn't figure out where the "WMDs" were, yet somehow able to perform a brilliant masterpiece of chicanery on the world by secretly
destroying two of the world's tallest buildings, one of the shorter buildings in the complex, punching a hole in the Pentagon, and crashing a plane into
a Pennsylvania field.


Wow. You are an idiot. Bush is just a figurehead meant to draw your attention away from the real concentrations of power. He was put there so you could make that exact point when they blew up the towers. He's what we call in the world of smart people a distraction.

proprietary software kills said...

It doesn't matter who did 911, because:

Microsoft is worse than 911 anyway

Everytime you boot up Windows, you commit murder.

Proprietary software kills. (click on my name for an insane rant)

Anonymous said...

My response to the truthers.

Anonymous said...

Sorry but no.

Of course Bush didn't hold much actual power. Well done for noticing. But that doesn't change the point - the government is still massively disorganised. You can't expect us to believe there is a conspiracy that is (a) capable of orchestrating 9/11 for some evil purpose, but (b) incapable of reforming the vast, messy Washington bureaucracy that prevents any actual change - whether positive or negative. Really, it is time to move on and find a new, more plausible conspiracy theory.

Anonymous said...

COINTELPRO!

Anonymous said...

Of course Bush didn't hold much actual power. Well done for noticing. But that doesn't change the point - the government is still massively disorganised.
You can't expect us to believe there is a conspiracy that is (a) capable of orchestrating 9/11 for some evil purpose, but (b) incapable of reforming the
vast, messy Washington bureaucracy that prevents any actual change - whether positive or negative. Really, it is time to move on and find a new, more plausible
conspiracy theory.

Of course they didn't reform the bureaucracy. Their goal is to use the terror craze to get themselves richer. Same thing with the financial meltdown.

Anonymous said...

Yes. Let's collect billions. Then devalue it all. Genius!

CAPTCHA: prole. LOL, Blogger is full of win when it comes to relevant CAPTCHAs.

Ouch said...

Dang, SP1 is screwed up

Anonymous said...

Right... Everyone, just calmly step away from the loon before he kills someone.

Anonymous said...

Yes. Let's collect billions. Then devalue it all. Genius!

Yes. Like buying up a shitty neighborhood and then selling it when Wallmart suddenly injects some life into the area. These guys devalued the dollar and got themselves super rich and when the value goes back up they'll be even richer.

Anonymous said...

These conspiracy theories are incomplete. Needs moar Tony Blair and Monica Lewinsky.

CAPTCHA: stfugso

Anonymous said...

>You know, at least Cosmo never has the galls (or ability) to pretend not to be utter bullcrap.

New York Times is suddenly utter bullcrap because it called your master an illegal monopoly? You bums are something else, really!

The way a term is used in newspapers and such denotes what it means to the general public. Microsoft is popularly referred to as an illegal monopoly in the sense that Microsoft abused its monopoly status. For some odd reason, the idiot MS supporters on this board have a tough time with this terminology. They want to play semantic games just like the Linux supporters try to split hairs about Linux being a kernel.

You have no business criticizing Linux Loons because you bums are no better. Linux Hater seems like a sensible fellow, but some of you bums are just the other side of the freetard coin.

Anonymous said...

Does this place count as a "dark net"? So many winbreds here it must be considered.

Anonymous said...

New York Times is suddenly utter bullcrap because it called your master an illegal monopoly?

The Times is hit and miss in their journalism. Failing to question Yellow Cake and this nonsense are not Pulitzer prize winning moments.

Anonymous said...

NYT said yellowcake was safe to eat and nows I gots tumors all over. WTF?

Anonymous said...

Welcome back Adam... freetard.

Anonymous said...

I just want to say:

I love you all guys.

I love cake said...

Yellowcake. Yum.

Fuck Yeah! said...

That's what I'm talkin' about!!!

Meow said...

Happy Sweet 16!

Anonymous said...

I like to put fondant in my ass and have Adam King eat it out.

Anonymous said...

Who doesn't!

Anonymous said...

I wish my turds tasted like sugar.

CAPTCHA: neshol. Nestle's exciting new sugar-flavoured shit product.

Get shit done with Closed Source said...

That one is interesting.

Instead of going the FOSS route, this developer coded his freeware game in directx on Windows and it is isn't cross plattform and it isn't FOSS.

Game is a xcom remake.

Result: Real progress. The linked page is the FAQ:

Anonymous said...

Q: Why not an open source?

A: Oddly enough, im getting this question alot. Amongst reasons you can find such things as: I do like working on the project. So i’m going to be selfish and not give away or share with other my joy of making this game. I want to finish it. Other valid reason is that open sourcing the project doesn’t actually have to speed the developing process. It can even slow it down, that depends on luck, what kind of people will participate. Open sourcing also favours a different way of thinking. Since you don’t have any deadlines with this type of projects, its common to simply leave stuff behind in hopes that someone other will code it in. In particular when the stuff that needs to be coded is annoying. I for one know, that i would work less on this game if I knew that some of the less fun parts could be coded in by someone else...

Anonymous said...

..And if that someone doesnt code them, the project gets a slowdown. As everyone can see from observing many other xcom remakes, open sourcing doesnt mean the game gets automatically done. I know there are pros and cons to this. Open sourcing could help porting the game to other platforms, and so on. I did consider everything and that’s what i believe will work best both for me and for the project.

Anonymous said...

Linux haters are the worst

Anonymous said...

Linux haters are the worst

allow me to correct that: Linux lovers are the worst.

No need for thanks, You're Welcome! :-)

Anonymous said...

Dang, SP1 is screwed up

Typical.

Anonymous said...

Dang, SP1 is screwed up

Yep, Ubuntu has never had any problems without updates, ever...

Anonymous said...

jerkface has a new post everyone check it out

Anonymous said...

check it out and fuck it up, bullshit blog @ jerfkace

Anonymous said...

jerkface has a new post everyone check it out



link plox

Anonymous said...

/b/playhouse.com

IE9 BITCHES said...

IE9 released worldwide! Download links for every architecture and language in name.

IE9 is the best browser said...

Guise.. Internet Explorer 9 is the Haxx0rs. See the link in my name guise.

Anonymous said...

Use scilab or octave or R

Anonymous said...

what is it with jerkface's obsession with 'tech trendsters'?

Anonymous said...

I hope M$ got with the fucking program and made IE9 Diaspora compliant. Otherwise bye-bye marketshare!!!!

Anonymous said...

Can i have the link to jerkface blogspot please?

Anonymous said...

no. google it.

Anonymous said...

i tried googling "jerkface linux" but it didnt show anything relevant.

Anonymous said...

Jerkface trolling LHB to get traffic? Lame.

Anonymous said...

What the heck?

Blogger seems to eat messages automatically if they were posted using IE9.

Just try it.

I guess the spam filter still doesn't recognize the IE9 user agent string and thinks it's a spam bot.

Anonymous said...

Jerkface's blog: binplay.com

Anonymous said...

@March 15, 2011 1:28 AM

Yeah, right..

Funny, queef's blog is #1, Jerkface's #2.

JoeMonco said...

what is it with jerkface's obsession with 'tech trendsters'?

Because they are pretentious scums that fuel all the IT hypes and bubbles?

Anonymous said...

Yawn, although I am not a big fan of IE9's look and feel, Mozilla's Asa Dotzler seems to be pissed:

Asa Dotzler bitches again

This time about "sexist Internet Explorer ads".

This is the second lame rant from him, the first was "IE9 is not a modern browser".

They seem to be really afraid of something, now that they must bring forth such straw man attacks.

Anonymous said...

Because they are pretentious scums that fuel all the IT hypes and bubbles??

More than freetards?

Give me a trendster over a "Linux is a god and Gates is worse than Hitler" guy any day.

JoeMonco said...

Give me a trendster over a "Linux is a god and Gates is worse than Hitler" guy any day.

Can I have neither instead?

Anonymous said...

pretentious scums that fuel all the IT hypes and bubbles

How? By buying shit like iPods and Macbooks?

Not at all like freetard Johnathan Swartz.

Anonymous said...

Can I have neither instead?

The third option is John Stamos.

Anonymous said...

FLASH IS DEAD! FLASH IS DEAD!

Or at least according to Mozilla.

Anonymous said...

I can't wait til they add "plox" to the Scrabble dictionary. Thirteen points!

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