Wargo does a rant (was Re: [geeks] Cool Mac deals...)

[Greg Evans]

	Feeling better?

	I miss the Newton, hate vmsa, think Java sucks, and tend to open up the front 
of my EMC frames just so I can see the blinky lights :)

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/* Greg Evans, Bloomington, MN., USA - gje at parrotheaven.com */
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"The more advertising I see, the less I want to by" - Tom Robbins
 -from "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates"

Peter L. Wargo [pwargo at basenji.com] wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, joshua d boyd wrote:
> 
> > You hated them due to a botched challenge install, right?  Remeber, I'm a
> > major graphics geek.  What I want primarily (at this time) is massive
> > texturing performance.  And to my understanding, the only thing that beats
> > the texturing of an O2 is an Onyx2.  Nothing in a PC has come close yet to
> > my understanding, especially if you want more than 32/64/128 or whatever
> > the card has for video memory.  Wanting more is a very real posibility for
> > me.   I'm thinking photoshop in hardware.
> 
> I tend to think more in terms of reliability, servicability, and
> bang-for-the buck.  If I want a good photoshop system, a G4 is the way to
> go.  (I'm just sitting here, gnashing my teeth waiting for an OS X
> verison...)
> 
> For *NIX platforms, I prefer SunOS/Solaris.  Not because I work for them,
> but because over the years SunOS has hurt me less than other OS's.  IRIX
> is a flying piece of shit, almost as bad as HP-UX.  AIX has some redeeming
> features (a JFS early on, fer example), but is an administrative
> nightmare.  OpenBSD is nice, as is FreeBSD.  Linux used to be cool, until
> Linus turned into an arrogant twat and it got as bloated as Solaris.  BSD
> beats SysV, and the best ever was SunOS 4.1.1_u1.  
> 
> Actually, it's all been shit since about 1988 or so.  I miss the 680x0
> arch, and the Sun 3/60 is still the coolest workstation ever built.
> 
> NeXT was cool, too.  Good OS, but the MO drive sucked the big weenie.
> 
> Sun Should've never ditched the Sbus, it's smaller and much better than
> PCI.  SCSI rocks, but give me firewire disks, I'm tired of ID's,
> termination, and having to kill innocent chickens just to get my drives to
> work.
> 
> Any system that lets you take it apart without giving you scars (I have
> multibus scars all over my hands) is for wusses.  VMS rules, was, is, and
> always will be DEC's best gift to mankind after the PDP-11.
> 
> Keyboards now all suck as well, 1988 was the high-water mark.  (Remember
> the Zenith Z-100?  THAT was a keyboard.)  Sun's type-6 makes me want to
> spew lung butter all over the cosmos.
> 
> Things were better with blinkey lights - you could walk by a rack of disks
> and see where your hot spots were w/o having to fire up a stupid damn
> Veritas Java GUI that runs slower than a lame poodle through lime
> Jell-O(tm).
> 
> Java SUCKS! (Sorry Scott, can I keep my job?), Perl sucks, Python is cool,
> as is PHP.  Sendmail killed most of my brain cells, Apache rocks, and I
> love DSL.
> 
> Needless to say, MS Windows blows.  Seriously.  I would say that all
> Mickeysoft software bites, but IE for the Mac is pretty cool, and much
> more stable than Nutscrape.  Word and Excel were Mac applications long
> before Windows, and I ran PowerPoint on the Mac long before Mickeysoft
> bought it.
> 
> Apple should've never killed the Newton, Jobs owes me a free TiBook for
> that one.  The Palm pilot is cool, the Handspring line is cooler.
> 
> MP3's are a neat thing, but I prefer a dbx-equipped Reel-To-Reel running
> at 15ips.  Analog is more fun than digital, and real sex is more fun than
> MUDs.
> 
> Real hackers speak proper english, don't tack "z"'s onto the end of every
> damn word, and have a code of ethics.  Real hackers also prefer flat foods
> and massive amounts of cola.  Also, programming stoned is far more
> productive, and C++ is actually a cruel joke designed to keep hardware
> companies in business by creating bloated code that requires a gigahertz
> processor just to read email.
> 
> People who send me Excel spreadsheets as attachements are clueless, ditto
> for Word, PowerPoint, and anyhting else except plain text.  Network
> Solutions (formerly the InterNIC) can eat me.  
> 
> "Waiter, more wine!"
> 
> ....and that's my rant.
> 
> -Pete
>  (I just felt like letting it all out.)
> 
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