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Shog9 0

MatrixCoder wrote:

It's awesome!

Yup. That it is. :) Ah, your post brought back memories, of picking up a Slackware Linux CD back in the mid-90s, the jaw-dropping amazement that came from finding it stuffed full of cool software and the source. Building my own kernel, tweaking drivers, writing shell scripts, constructing, for the first time, the environment that I wanted. Good times...

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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.

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MatrixCoder

The Grand Negus wrote:

what development tools are you thinking of using once you switch over?

I'm still going to develop primarily for Windows, but I'm going to setup my own Web Server and network. I do want to start some developing for Linux, but I'm still looking into what dev tools I'm going to use. Do you have any suggestions?

Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before. Neo: That's why it's going to work.

MatrixCoder

Shog9 wrote:

Building my own kernel, tweaking drivers, writing shell scripts, constructing, for the first time, the environment that I wanted.

I'm aiming to do the same. :) Do you still use Linux? If so do you develop with it?

Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before. Neo: That's why it's going to work.

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Shog9 0

MatrixCoder wrote:

Do you still use Linux?

No, not these days. Been pretty much straight-Windows for the past 5 years; too much time developing for it to really focus on much else.

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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.

--Raymond Chen on MSDN

Robert Rohde

The Grand Negus wrote:

we are looking for someone to re-write the Linux Kernel in Plain English

:laugh::laugh::laugh: Please tell me you are kidding... PLEASE!!!!

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Rajesh R Subramanian

The Grand Negus wrote:

But we are looking for someone to re-write the Linux Kernel in Plain English,

This is no sarcasm or mock; I just wanted to ask this: "When there are apparently very few plain English developers, and you have them all at your place, how can anyone else re-write Linux in plain English?" Shouldn't we be asking you to re-write Linux in plain English? Why is it going the other way round here? :)

[How not to ask a question]

Michael Dunn

At Symantec, I once had to install Slackware on a computer. But this was no ordinary computer, it was a computer in our live-virus lab. That meant that it was on the lab's isolated internal network - it couldn't see the internet, and no computer outside the lab could see it. This was also before CD burners, so I think I ended up making 25 or 30 floppies. :omg: And naturally, a couple of the floppies were bad so I had to make a few trips back to my desk to re-make the disks. Fun times (although I wouldn't consider it fun now ;))

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Lost User

"If you just want to laze about and discuss things that don't quite fit elsewhere, then this is the place."

The tigress is here :-D

Lost User

Let me know when you've thought that through.

The tigress is here :-D

El Corazon

Robert Rohde wrote: Please tell me you are kidding... PLEASE!!!! he's not, he's here only to convert everything, everyone to PE. We'll all eventually realize his work is great, kiss his feet, bow to his greatness and rewrite everything using his compiler. Minus a few pesky things like floating point, but he does support it in a library form, just doesn't believe in direct support, because floating point is foolish.... :rolleyes:

_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

El Corazon

Trollslayer wrote:

Let me know when you've thought that through.

oh, he might pay 50cents an hour....

_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

Jerry Hammond

I'll do it for no less than 150000/y. I have 5 years experience writing the following 'hello world' proceedure and in plain english too. PRINT 'Hello World!'

"We are all repositories for genetically-encoded information that we're all spreading back and forth amongst each other, all the time. We're just lousy with information." - Neal Stephenson

Matt Newman

Right, cause I don't use Paint.NET, Foxit, Dameon tools, windiff, or any other free software. Though there is a certain irony that you are saying its cool BEFORE you install it.

Matt Newman

Chris Kaiser

The Grand Negus wrote:

But that aside (since I personally don't care)

You cared enough to comment on it.

This statement was never false.