[ale] I can't quit laughing

[Justin Goldberg]

Even the command "[" "]" still aren't completed.

Whoever runs the infrastructure for microsoft obviously has (or had) a
good head on their shoulders. For example, microsoft's use of
hockeyp-ux for its dns servers for a couple of years. And their use of
NFS (I think NFS, based on network file names mentioned in the leaked
ms-dos 6 source code).

On 5/4/12, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> HA! Most stuff is beta at best! Software that is shipping with big $$ price
> tags is beta is the developers dreams (the alpha version was the marketing
> depts final product while upper management is _still_ trying to figure out
> why it needs to actually ship with a working support team behind it).
>
> If anything ever gets actually completed, it's a freaking miracle.
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Matthew <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Its kind of interesting. Its impossible this day in age to have something
>> done. If everything is finished, you have to change something to make
>> people happy.  Keeping it Beta, makes it so it doesn't have to supported.
>> Doesn't surprise me that its still beta.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Not surprising.  However, I setup a friend a few years back with a
>>> netbook with fedora and skype. It's benn upgraded to f16 and the latest
>>> skype for Linux. It all works. Even the video.
>>> On May 4, 2012 9:18 PM, "Lawrence Hamblin" <infinity.d2 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think I'll just rain on your parade with a bit of irony: the Linux
>>>> version of Skype is still stuck, after over two years, on version 2.2
>>>> beta.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Microsoft.
>>>>
>>>> Lawrence
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Having been in this since kernel v.0.95 and seen the train wreck of
>>>>> Microsoft trying to hold off the inevitable, for them to cave this
>>>>> quickly
>>>>> and USE a Linux cluster as a core component is just a funny thing to
>>>>> me.
>>>>>
>>>>> And, yes, it is _QUITE_ a compliment!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Matthew <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Why? They realized linux was more efficient for their needs. I see it
>>>>>> as a compliment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/4/12, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft.ars
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > --
>>>>>> > --
>>>>>> > James P. Kinney III
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted
>>>>>> > to
>>>>>> > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do
>>>>>> > as
>>>>>> they
>>>>>> > please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
>>>>>> outcome.
>>>>>> > - *2011 Noam Chomsky
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
>>>>>> > *
>>>>>> >
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
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>>>>> James P. Kinney III
>>>>>
>>>>> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
>>>>> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
>>>>> they
>>>>> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
>>>>> - *2011 Noam Chomsky
>>>>>
>>>>> http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
>>>>> *
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>
>
> --
> --
> James P. Kinney III
>
> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> - *2011 Noam Chomsky
>
> http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
> *
>


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