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    #242
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    So would you define six of the seven stickies being Linux related as "close enough" or not?
    It's not the Linux forum. I'm not sure where proximity comes into it.
    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    Err so why are you here telling me what it is and isn't?
    Why are you here asking me if it's "close enough" or not?


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    #243
    Endymion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Endymion


    Tell me SimpleSam06 did you look at the unix forum before or after you made claims about the abilities of the users? I at least know the difference between Unix and Linux, or at the very least I can just ask Nadir.

    Also don't be so mean to sceptre.


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    #244
    tba
    Registered Users Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    I for one am sick of using Boards.ie I think its time I moved the relationship beyond this shallow meaningless level, never again will I be a user and abuser.


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    #245
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    oscarBravo wrote:
    It's not the Linux forum. I'm not sure where proximity comes into it. Why are you here asking me if it's "close enough" or not?
    No, its not called the Linux forum, plus a few odds and ends. To all intents and purposes it is the Linux forum. The UNIX title is, I assume, a hangover from the old days when UNIX was the OS du jour for some people. Or possibly was named in ignorance. If you need to ask me why, you really might try reading back over the thread there, because I have neither the time nor patience to go repeating myself ad inifinitum.


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    #246
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    No, its not called the Linux forum, plus a few odds and ends. To all intents and purposes it is the Linux forum.
    No, it's not. It's the forum for all Unix-like operating systems, including aspects of MacOSX. The fact that most of the discussions there pertain to Linux doesn't make it the Linux forum.
    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    The UNIX title is, I assume, a hangover from the old days when UNIX was the OS du jour for some people. Or possibly was named in ignorance.
    The Unix title is the best approximation for the range of operating systems for which the forum is intended. There have been discussions about renaming it, which have failed to come up with a more appropriate title. It's the Unix forum. Deal with it.
    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    If you need to ask me why, you really might try reading back over the thread there, because I have neither the time nor patience to go repeating myself ad inifinitum.
    I've read every post in this thread.


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    #247
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    oscarBravo wrote:
    The Unix title is the best approximation for the range of operating systems for which the forum is intended. There have been discussions about renaming it, which have failed to come up with a more appropriate title. It's the Unix forum. Deal with it.
    Erm, UNIX is a seperate OS from Linux and Mac OS X. Its called the UNIX forum, it most certainly isn't. So I suggest you deal with it. What is this, night of the living pedants? Should I be stockpiling dried food?
    oscarBravo wrote:
    I've read every post in this thread.
    Could have fooled me. If you had read the thread, you would know I was recommending that a good source for Linux expertise would be that forum. Instead I get people flying in from stage left with their knickers around their ankles trying to debate points I really, truly don't care about. Its a good source of Linux expertise, can we agree on that? Because thats all I am trying to say.


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    #248
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    Erm, UNIX is a seperate OS from Linux and Mac OS X.
    MacOSX uses the BSD Mach kernel. You do know what BSD is, don't you?
    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    Its called the UNIX forum, it most certainly isn't. So I suggest you deal with it. What is this, night of the living pedants? Should I be stockpiling dried food?
    Hey, at least I'm a self-professed pedant.
    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    Could have fooled me. If you had read the thread, you would know I was recommending that a good source for Linux expertise would be that forum.
    ...without bothering to check whether Linux expertise is in any way relevant to the problems being discussed.
    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    Instead I get people flying in from stage left with their knickers around their ankles trying to debate points I really, truly don't care about.
    And yet, you've debated them. Funny that.
    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    Its a good source of Linux expertise, can we agree on that? Because thats all I am trying to say.
    You've said a hell of a lot more than you claim to be trying to say, but yes: it's a good source of Linux expertise, and no: that doesn't make it the Linux forum.


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    #249
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    So many battles, so far off the point.

    Coming soon to this thread: The Battle Royale that will finally decide which endian encoding is best, and Star Trek vs Star Wars: Round 6x10^15.


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    #250
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    Its called the UNIX forum, it most certainly isn't.
    Huh?!

    Incidentally, if food stockpiling is to be rife amongst the boarderatti, does that mean that there won't be a byte to eat around here anymore, not even a bit?


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    #251
    Endymion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Endymion


    I lol'ed

    Anyway, oscarBravo is just a computer engineer, yea know, those things you don't think exist.


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    #252
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    oscarBravo wrote:
    MacOSX uses the BSD Mach kernel. You do know what BSD is, don't you?
    Dear gawd whyyy? Who ever said it wasn't? Who caaares? Aiiii *head asplode*
    oscarBravo wrote:
    Hey, at least I'm a self-professed pedant.
    Is there a twelve step group for that?
    oscarBravo wrote:
    ...without bothering to check whether Linux expertise is in any way relevant to the problems being discussed.
    When you are talking about server efficiency, Linux is always relevant. Thats why it forms a large percentage of all web servers worldwide.
    oscarBravo wrote:
    And yet, you've debated them. Funny that.
    I've corrected them. Big difference. :D
    oscarBravo wrote:
    You've said a hell of a lot more than you claim to be trying to say, but yes: it's a good source of Linux expertise, and no: that doesn't make it the Linux forum.
    Well then my point is made.


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    #253
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    Gordon wrote:
    Huh?!

    Incidentally, if food stockpiling is to be rife amongst the boarderatti, does that mean that there won't be a byte to eat around here anymore, not even a bit?
    *rimshot*


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    #254
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    Who ever said it wasn't?
    Whoever said "UNIX is a seperate OS from... Mac OS X." I wonder who that could have been?
    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    Who caaares?
    Obviously only the people who are having this discussion. That would be me and... who else?
    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    When you are talking about server efficiency, Linux is always relevant.
    Really? I have an old iSeries here, running OS/400 v2r3. It's not very efficient - what do you suppose a Linux expert will recommend I do to improve it?
    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    I've corrected them.
    For very approximate values of "correct", perhaps.


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    #255
    amp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    So boards runs on BeOs?


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    #256
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    oscarBravo wrote:
    Whoever said "UNIX is a seperate OS from... Mac OS X." I wonder who that could have been?
    It is a seperate OS. So is Linux, as several court cases have clarified. Just because they have an X in them doesn't make them UNIX.
    oscarBravo wrote:
    Really? I have an old iSeries here, running OS/400 v2r3. It's not very efficient - what do you suppose a Linux expert will recommend I do to improve it?
    Is boards running on it?
    oscarBravo wrote:
    Obviously only the people who are having this discussion. That would be me and... who else?...For very approximate values of "correct", perhaps.
    You're not alone, you know. There are other people out there with the same problems. All you have to do is reach out, help is near. Just call 1800-PEDANT.

    We believe in you.


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    #257
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    Is boards running on it?
    Ah, when you said "server efficiency" you meant "boards.ie server efficiency". Right, gotcha. You've a funny definition of "always", but hey, you've a funny definition of "correct" as well.

    Still utterly irrelevant, as boards.ie doesn't run on Linux.


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    #258
    WizZard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    When you are talking about server efficiency, Linux is always relevant.
    orlyhb2.jpg


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    #259
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    It is a seperate OS. So is Linux, as several court cases have clarified. Just because they have an X in them doesn't make them UNIX.


    Is boards running on it?


    You're not alone, you know. There are other people out there with the same problems. All you have to do is reach out, help is near. Just call 1800-PEDANT.

    We believe in you.

    S-H-U-T-U-P


    all of you!

    shut up!

    take your bloody OS pedantry somewhere else! take it to the linux/unix/whogivesacrap forum!


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    #260
    Hobart
    Registered Users Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Hobart


    WhiteWashMan wrote:
    S-H-U-T-U-P


    all of you!

    shut up!

    take your bloody OS pedantry somewhere else! take it to the linux/unix/whogivesacrap forum!
    Don't mind WWM. I, for one, am enjoying seeing the pair of you at it.


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    #261
    Diogenes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,701 ✭✭✭Diogenes


    geeksgonewild.com


    Goes off to register the domain name


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    #262
    pH
    Registered Users Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    Right then.

    Where were we on that descending index question?


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    #263
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Hrmmm....trying to think of something i can say that will completely stop all conversation.

    can't think of anything.

    which is weird, cus i'm very good at this in real life.


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    #264
    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    SimpleSam06 wrote:
    You're not the only one that has a problem with idiocy. Thats how the grant system works, had you applied for any grant ever you would know that. Or you could STFU and listen to someone who has, successfully, like a good lad, and lay off the abuse.
    I think everyone else knows I'm not going to STFU any time soon, especially for someone who doesn't ask nicely.


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    #265
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Ok, in Summary ...

    The site is slower than we'd all like, this is being addressed, but not as quickly as we'd all like due to circumstances beyond our control.

    I'd like to thank everyone for their input and I am reassured to know that if our soon to be announced tourism website based on Linux / Sybase ever has any issues that we'll have an enthusiastic source of expertise to help us out.


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    #266
    regi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,279 ✭✭✭regi


    I'm not opposed to Sybase...


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    #267
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Neither am I, but I had to get the doctor to prescribe anti-biotics the last time I used Linux.


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