The longest post, ever!
Dell is AP2P? What exactly are these people up to? and apparently so is Yahoo! And lately, they've been flooding the networks with fakes. Has anyone been getting really slow connections lately? Well it's because they've been scanning everyone for any p2p programs. Bastards!
Anyway, a little flashback. I remember Fu Keong. The first i him was at my first C++ lesson at States Computer School. He wasn't a programming guy, but he did sorta like computers. How i got to no him was as we were looking at the computer our instructor was using as he was installing a version of Linux that he had helped make. Anyway, i suddenly smelt fart. I immediately queried my brother who denied it. So this Fu Keong fella began laughing. I tot at the time it was because it was so funny that i was asking him like that. Anyway, it turned out it was him. Damn stinky lor. Somemore, In an airconditioned room, in the BASEMENT, furthest away from the stairs. Haha. He lives in the East. It's amazing how so many people i meet always seem to live in the East.
So many important people live in the EAST
Some people don't know what Linux is. They say it sux. Frankly speaking, that's because they're stupid. Anyone who actually knows what a computer really is, will know right away that Windows is so damn buggy, that most of us have grown to accept the occasional crash and reboot. Here's a pointer for those of you in the dark. Almost every OS out there is based on UNIX technology, a really stable, but old, command line bsaed operating system. It was even before DOS. The reason why nobody used it on desktops was because it wasn't designed for that. It's mainly for mainframes and occasionally, some servers. There are only a few exceptions of where OSes were not entirely based on UNIX technology. Even the Mac OS is based on UNIX technology. There are many different Operating Systems besides UNIX that you won't know about. They include Netware, ESIX, Plan 9 and tons of others.
The reason why there are so many Linux variants is because the original Linux, was open source, meaning anyone could take a look at the code and rewrite it. It was called GNU(Gnu is Not Unix. Then that GNU broke down into something else. There's aname for something like that but i forget.) It was basically, shared. Now back in the old days, everything was fixed in the OS. Meaning if you wanted to install Solitaire, you couldn't. It had to be preincluded in the distribution. If you really wanted to, you had to edit the Linux code and add in the code for solitaire and then add in the code for the links to Solitaire and etc... Some people didn't like that so they made their own variants of Linuxes with different inbuilt stuff.
Only much later did something called kernels come about. It basically is one of the best inventions of all time. It allows the core system files(kernels) to be loaded as normal, and then the rest are later added as an add-on. No one needed to ever recompile Linux again.
A simple analogy is this.
The Old Linux was like this. You draw an oval for a face. Then you draw the eyes, nose and mouth. If you wanted to draw eyebrows for example, you could. But then they would be stuck there forever.
What kernels do, in this analogy, are to allow other bits of software to act as transparency sheets. You put the transparency sheet over the original face and you can draw on the transparency all you want. Ultimately, when you look at it, if you drew eyebrows on the transparency, the face will look like one with eyebrows. If you didn't want them, all you had to do was remove the transparency.
(the add-ons are usually called user mode programs.)
Because of this, people didn't need to create their own variants of Linux ever again. But by now, the people with the different distributions(variants) of Linux, had changed their own code so much that they couldn't do anything to change it back without all the hassle. So basically, that's what were left with today. Of course some people still create their own variants because they don't like the way the different distributions have changed so much from the original. SO they try to make their own version of the original. No one's perfectly happy of couse as no one can get the most perfect basic version of Linux. Almost every distribution of Linux now has different "basic" features.
So here's the deal. Linux is stable because it has currently no viruses attributed to it. And when it does, it will be very sparse. The coding is just that stable. Furthermore, it's open source. So it's highly likely that with so many people looking at the code, there will surely be one person who noticed a bug in it.
Linux has been trying very hard to win over the Windows-Generation. The generation that thinks that Windows is so great. It's not. If you stop to take a look at it, the whole hacker culture developed because of Windows. The Antivirus companies aren't really supporting Linux because they know that would kill off their business.
What many of you don't know is that many Windows games can be played in Linux thru a process called porting. All your Microsoft Office files can also be viewed and edited in Linux without even the need to port. On almost every system, linux boots up faster than Windows.
The main thing that is holding back the masses is the lack of hardware drivers. The moment one piece of hardware comes with Linux support, I can guarantee you that many people will make the switch. In fact, some people who can't wait, have made their own drivers for Linux.
The moment more drivers begin to be made for Linux, the masses will move over. But the big hardware companies need to know that we want Linux drivers.
IBM, the company that actually originally supported the money mogul, Microsoft, is now also switching to Linux. They were backstabbed by Microsoft anyway. And there grows a coalition of major companies
What you always hear is that it's free. That shouldn't be your main driving factor. What should be is that you shouldn't need to pay thousands of dollars for software that doesn't work properly, when you can get one that's free AND works properly. If Microsoft wanted too, they could make programs for Linux anyway.
It's freeware, opensource. IF youstill aren't convinced, let me remind you to think of the opposite. Even China is making their own version of it.
7-Apr-99 - Burlington Coat factory, placed an order with Dell for 1250 Linux machines.
Copmuter companies that publicised their switch to Linux and their support for it:
IBM, Oracle, Informix, Corel, SAP, Hewlett Packard, Dell, Sun Microsystems and Sybase
All these companies are "porting" their main programs to Linux. It means making it work only on Linux.
IBM is also authorizing their huge Global Services division to support Linux distributions from Caldera, Red Hat, S.u.S.I and Pacific HighTech (Turbo Linux).
Eight of the world's largest consumer electronics companies-including the
world's No. 3 mobile-phone maker-said they will team together to promote and
standardize Linux technology for electronic devices, including mobile
phones.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Sony Corp., Hitachi Ltd., NEC
Corp., Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sharp Corp.
and Toshiba Corp. founded the new CE Linux Forum. IBM Corp. said it is
pursuing membership.
One name that is notable only in its absence is Motorola Inc. The world's
No. 2 mobile-phone maker recently announced major support for a Linux/Java
operating system and said it would include the technology in a majority of
its devices. Motorola officials could not immediately comment on whether
Motorola will participate in the new CE Linux Forum.
The move comes as Linux technology makes its way into the mobile-phone
industry as an alternative to major operating system efforts like Symbian
and Microsoft Corp.'s Smartphone OS. Chinese carriers and manufacturers have
voiced major support for Linux, and Sharp has already shipped a personal
digital assistant-style device using a Linux operating system.
Almost the whole of Germany's governments is also changing to Linux!
READ THIS!!! Almost all you need to know about Linux minus the techie stuff.
note: PCs are computers running windows. Workstation, desktops are the real names.
NOTE: LINUX FILE SYSTEM DOES NOT FRAGMENT!!!
ANOTHER NOTE: WINDOWS DOES NOT SUPPORT CLUSTERING!!! YOU CAN"T LINK MANY WINDOWS COMPUTERS TOGETHER TO FORM A SUPERCOMPUTER.
Windows rarely follows World Standards, eg. Internet Explorer.
Linux does. And so does other software like Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape. (They're more or less the same though)
"Heard about the Linux virus? It works on the honor system. First it asks you to please e-mail it to all your friends, then it asks you to please log back in as root so it can tell you how to trash your system."
http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit997.html#secure more stuff. real cool.
People who don't know how to use it call it stupid. They're stupid because they don't know how to work such a simple machine. It's even easier than windows actually. It's just point and click.
Anyway, off the topic of technology.
Not too long ago, i told a friend of a secret that i had. Then he asked me, "What kind of secret is this?"
I was like, "What?"
And then he said, "You know, open secret? Close secret?"
So i said, "Close."
What i really wanted to say was it's a secret, secret. If it wasn't secret then it wouldn't be called a secret now would it? A leak is called a leak. Not an open secret you dumbass.
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I'm reading Digital Deception now. It's very snappy. Not very nice. The twists and plots are there(although some are too easily recognisable), but the way the story is written isn't that great. Although this is what got me re-interested in Encryption algorithms. I wanted to create my own but i didn't have time. Next time perhaps.
The Ring 2 is coming out. It's the Americanised version though. The shorts do look good however.
note: the following song doesn't mean anything. It's not my way of displaying my feelings. Some dimwits have been judging my emotions based on the songs i put here. I just like the muted guitar that's all.
Here's the lyrics for the song thats being played now:
And sacrifice my everything for just a second's worth
Of how my story's ending
And I wish I could know if the directions that I take
And all the choices that I make won't end up all for nothing
Show me what it's for
Make me understand it
I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer
Is there something more than what i've been handed?
I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer
Help me carry on
Assure me it's ok to use my heart and not my eyes
To navigate the darkness
Will the ending be ever coming suddenly?
Will I ever get to see the ending to my story?
Show me what it's for
Make me understand it
I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer
Is there something more than what i've been handed?
I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer
So when and how will I know?
How much further do I have to go?
How much longer until I finally know?
Because I'm looking and I just can't see what's in front of me
In front of me
Show me what it's for
Make me understand it
I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer
Is there something more than what i've been handed?
I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer