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Wow, amazing what boredom will do, huh? Decided to tell something of a love story of a UNIX sysadmin and a user on his network, using as much old jargon and commands as possible ^^;
This wasn't really inspired by anything, the idea just came to me of a sysadmin who lived his job and tried to write a song to express his feelings...I took this in a different direction to the original idea but heck, I've just been running with whatever comes to mind XD
For anyone who wants to "understand" this better, there's an explanation in my scraps or you could just go here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4177047/
This wasn't really inspired by anything, the idea just came to me of a sysadmin who lived his job and tried to write a song to express his feelings...I took this in a different direction to the original idea but heck, I've just been running with whatever comes to mind XD
For anyone who wants to "understand" this better, there's an explanation in my scraps or you could just go here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4177047/
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Thanks. I guess I'm just a tech geek at heart :P
Kicking the habit can be hard but I broke free over a year ago and moved to Linux, I've not looked back since. I know for a lot of people it just won't be for them but for me Linux has been perfect and even in this age of user-friendly this, that and everything, it's good to see that I can still kick things back old school and blast back to the past with the commands and ideas of unix in the 70's and 80's still somewhat intact.
Kicking the habit can be hard but I broke free over a year ago and moved to Linux, I've not looked back since. I know for a lot of people it just won't be for them but for me Linux has been perfect and even in this age of user-friendly this, that and everything, it's good to see that I can still kick things back old school and blast back to the past with the commands and ideas of unix in the 70's and 80's still somewhat intact.
Heh, sounds good. I guess I'm lucky in that whilst my laptop is the most linux-friendly machine in the world (namely wireless and sound card), most major distros from the past year or so are fine with it. Something about the ability to tear away the illusion of user-friendliness the OS puts up for the user and to be able to get my hands dirty with the inner workings appeal to me, as does the sheer wtf-scale of customisability.
The fact that the only other OS available in my house is Vista may be another factor that caused me to rush to the adoption of the penguin ;)
The fact that the only other OS available in my house is Vista may be another factor that caused me to rush to the adoption of the penguin ;)
Not to mention that when I tried installing a service pack it forced my laptop into an endless cycle: it would be on stage 3 and even after leaving on overnight it wasn't done yet. After a few more hours it was done, rebooted and we were back to 40%. It was that incident that made me install my first linux distro. I eventually got Vista sorted (although after all that it still didn't have the damn service pack installed) and on the whole I try to avoid using it wherever I can.
It's amusing that even with my crap graphics card I can get better effects with Linux for less resources and with more stability. It's also amusing that Windows XP, despite being 9 years old, is still arguably superior for most people's needs.
It's amusing that even with my crap graphics card I can get better effects with Linux for less resources and with more stability. It's also amusing that Windows XP, despite being 9 years old, is still arguably superior for most people's needs.
Yeah, there are a few people out there who haven't had major problems but they're the exception rather the rule from what I've gathered. To be fair it doesn't Blue Screen or crash as much as Windows 95 did but it's still a pain when compared to XP or even 2000.
I've heard good things about Win7 but from a combination of logic and seeing it in action at a friend's house, I've concluded that it's merely a slightly more stable Vista with a few new features. My friend was having memory leaks left right and centre, explorer.exe was crashing and he was generally having a hard time with things last time I visited. I still have no idea why he upgraded, he was using XP before then and he mostly uses his box for gaming, video editing and art. All of his programs were fine on XP, as did his games. I should ask him about it sometime...
I've heard good things about Win7 but from a combination of logic and seeing it in action at a friend's house, I've concluded that it's merely a slightly more stable Vista with a few new features. My friend was having memory leaks left right and centre, explorer.exe was crashing and he was generally having a hard time with things last time I visited. I still have no idea why he upgraded, he was using XP before then and he mostly uses his box for gaming, video editing and art. All of his programs were fine on XP, as did his games. I should ask him about it sometime...
As I said to WingedZephyr, if anybody wants me to I'll see if I can write a line-by-line explanation. I'd have to keep it in the comments or link to it separately, so that those who can understand at least some of this can enjoy it without having the references or "jokes" spoiled by the explanation.
Exactly. There's just not as much material to work with when it comes to Windows and DOS (besides the obvious ones like blue screens, errors, the paperclip, etc) which is why I'm not sure if I could do it. Sure I could lookup some obscure registry stuff and use DOS commands but it's just not the same. That and there's the fact that I don't "understand" Windows like I do UNIX and Linux. I mean sure, I know about the differences between Windows based on DOS and Windows based on NT, of some of the APIs, some DOS commands, the registry but...I don't "get" it like I "get" a unix-like system. I may not truly understand everything about such systems or even fully understand a single component but overall I "get it".
I know what you mean about wanting to understand and how it's strange but not strange. You have little reason to invest time or effort into learning something that won't be of any use to you but at the same time you're curious and perhaps attracted by the rich history and culture that exists.
I'm not sure if any of that applies to you specifically but I think you understand what I'm saying.
I know what you mean about wanting to understand and how it's strange but not strange. You have little reason to invest time or effort into learning something that won't be of any use to you but at the same time you're curious and perhaps attracted by the rich history and culture that exists.
I'm not sure if any of that applies to you specifically but I think you understand what I'm saying.
Well, I was referring to 
guzzlemuzzle9460 and the fact that the explanation does even exist.
guzzlemuzzle9460 and the fact that the explanation does even exist. 
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