.It's pretty clear who the winner isRese249er wrote:Linux. *nods*
. "...I'll beat your a$$ in chess and Jeopardy...." 
Do you mean "Quick and Dirty" OS? I know QDos is related to CP/M, but I don't know how the two relate back to Unix, because it sure seems that Unix had at least some sort of an influence on them (I accidentally typedNigelJK wrote:I suspect that after his QDos defeat he realised there were no losers as he was allowed to carry on.
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$ dirFrom http://my.opera.com/Dendiablo/blog/2010 ... ux-and-godCommRLock78 wrote:Do you mean "Quick and Dirty" OS? I know QDos is related to CP/M, but I don't know how the two relate back to Unix, because it sure seems that Unix had at least some sort of an influence on themNigelJK wrote:I suspect that after his QDos defeat he realised there were no losers as he was allowed to carry on.
MsDos came along running on an 8 bit system, and used a sort of merger of two prior systems: CPM and Unix, but in a way choosing only the worst parts of each and then violating those parts profusely.
'dir' is generally just 'ls' dressed up differently. 'dir --help' actually displays 'ls' at the top of the help text.CommRLock78 wrote:(I accidentally typedinto my terminal a couple months back, and I was surprise to see that it listed the contents of the current directory)Code: Select all
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File: coreutils.info, Node: dir invocation, Next: vdir invocation, Prev: ls invocation, Up: Directory listing
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`dir' is equivalent to `ls -C -b'; that is, by default files are listed
in columns, sorted vertically, and special characters are represented
by backslash escape sequences.
*Note `ls': ls invocation.Just goes to show you what a detriment MS has been to computing in generalAnyway, all this confusing stuff like "A:" and "\" and so forth was not the only thing. MS took great pains to make sure that everything MS did was a bastardization of some previous standard. The C language was once very simplistic, but MS made sure that it had to be overlaid with dozens of strange conventions which made Latin seem like baby talk, including the necessity of dipping into assembly language to handle some aspect missing from drivers or the OS.
& . .Always good to hear a conversion storyRese249er wrote:I'm not. Just shooting the manure with my neighbor this morning, will be converting his laptop to Ubuntu. I had him at "free virusscan updates and no viruses EVER."
. No viruses in not completely true, but the structure of Linux certainly makes it a lot harder for malware/viruses to get their "foot in the door" - you should warn him about root kits, though.So sad and true.SwissMäc wrote:Then later, the machines will rise, the Mankind is just too dumb... They don't even can keep clean their own Planet
From Chuck Pendergast's "Organic Gardening", Published 1971 by Nash PublishingChuck Pendergast wrote:...The workings of nature have been in existance since long before man was around to observe them. Let us now stop, think, and respect that fact. When man finally did arrive, he fell naturally into step with nature and her methods. He didn't know what his part was in the scheme; he only recently has come to recognize the scheme itself. But he learned which plants were good to eat, and which were not. He learned which animals could be tamed, used as food, and even clothing and work sources. Man also learned which plants could be used as medicine, and in what combinations. He learned that some plants affected his mind, as well as his body. An admirable society is one which has realized that these plants are to be regarded with great respect, and not as the means to escape from the drudgeries of mere survival. In a society where all physical [needs] are satisfied, these special plants are then used as an additional stimulus to the process of thinking. And the thinking man is a moderate man, and comes to recongize the absurdity of unnecessary gorging...