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Welcome Longmarch, Harp, jdsmith, ES|700

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Sun Jun 9 14:48:20 2002

three of you guys are new even to Ars ('cept Harp.  Who does indeed have a 'fro)

Please, tell us a bit about yourself, why you came to OSY, how you found OSY in the first place (such as a google search under the word "indeed" "poopy-head" or "why'd those kittens have to die?"

and finally, do you pledge your allegence to the Mighty AYB?

:)

Magus

Sun Jun 9 16:31:35 2002

Mmmmm, fresh meat.
longmarch

Sun Jun 9 16:43:29 2002

Hi AYB.  Thanks for the welcome.  Longtime Ars lurker (3 years?), sometimes poster (year or so - used to have a handle taken from a motherboard I grew to loathe, so I reregistered).  Started posting to Ars more.  OS freak, so followed LB/JR's discussion of GNUStep on Darwin over here.

Work: Database statistician (not what I studied to be, but what the Hell).  Solaris, NCR UNIX, Win2k, FreeBSD.  FreeBSD, WinXP, Slowaris x86 at home.  Some OpenBSD (firewall), though I've been playing with Linux firewall packages trying to find something simple I can get my father to use.  Try a lot of OSes for the Hell of it.

First home computer was a TS1000 (ZX81 for the U.S. market).  Next was a Cado II minicomputer (as used by half of the U.S. Congress at one time).  Then a 512k Mac, then a string of obsolete x86 laptops.  Have rolled my own desktops for the past few years.  Thinking of buying either an eMac or an iBook to get back into Macs.  Probably need the iBook more.  Like the idea of NextStep Part II, hate the fact the Human Interface Manual got shredded somewhere along the way.  OSX = teh very intriguing.  Aqua = teh meh.

Overclock some, mostly for kicks, but obsessive about stability.  Don't need a lot of the speed I have at home so in the process of downgrading (!) my machines there to reapply funds to other hobbies.  Rarely game (CS got old on dial-up) but thinking Doom III may be worth a try.  Have a life away from computers, but fanatically private so try to leave that off the forums.

Allegience to AYB?  Perhaps not totally, but I'm all for non-aggression pacts.  Pretty easy-going sort, mostly.  Again, thanks for the welcome.  OSY is spiffy.

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Sun Jun 9 17:06:02 2002

Welcome, and good post.

in due time, all of you are belong to me :)

jdsmith575

Sun Jun 9 18:52:57 2002

Hey, thanks for the welcome.

I don't quite recall how I got to Ars, but I found OSY through the Battle Front. (It truely is a stupid place.) I think it was Jeremy who posted his experiences with Darwin that brought me here.

I am a true Mac zealot, but I'll try to keep it at a minimum. I haven't sold my soul to Apple though.

By the way, does anyone have experience with Citrix?  I'm working for this guy who implements Citrix environments, for small banks mainly.  It's pretty cool stuff.

Magus

Sun Jun 9 19:12:14 2002

Nice to meet y'all.

longmarch:
That's some OS variety there. Does each OS have its own box? As to the firewall, have you tried smoothwall loonix? It's a distro devoted to being a firewall.

jdsmith575:
Yup, the BF has earned its nickname, "the Stupid Place". As for the Mac zealotry, don't worry man. We can help you get over that. ;)

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Sun Jun 9 19:19:37 2002

I am a true Mac zealot, but I'll try to keep it at a minimum. I haven't sold my soul to Apple though.

Welcome, it takes all types.  

longmarch

Sun Jun 9 19:57:07 2002

longmarch:
That's some OS variety there.

Man cannot live by Windows alone.  :-)

Does each OS have its own box?

At work I connect to the UNIX boxes remotely from Win2k (on a p.o.s. Dell laptop).  At home I have a BSD box, a Win box, a Slowaris box, the firewall, a box I play around with, another box I play around with, and a box I play around with.  I also have an ancient laptop and a couple of spare boxes I play around with.  I have far too much hardware.

As to the firewall, have you tried smoothwall loonix? It's a distro devoted to being a firewall.

I have an iso of it somewhere, but have been playing with IPCop, which is a smoothwall fork.

Magus

Sun Jun 9 20:16:38 2002

from longmarch posted at 2:57 pm on June 9, 2002

longmarch:
That's some OS variety there.

Man cannot live by Windows alone.  :-)

Maybe not, but I sure try! :)

(Edited by Magus at 3:17 pm on June 9, 2002)

jdsmith575

Sun Jun 9 23:59:40 2002

Sorry, I'm uncureable.

Oh, I've got some variety too, just not quite as diverse. G4 Sawtooth, G3 Desktop, G3 iMac, PM 6500, Performa 575, Duo 230, and two Classics.  And I built a PC. It's had 98, 2k, XP, FreeBSD, and soon Mandrake.

Magus

Mon Jun 10 00:22:52 2002

from jdsmith575 posted at 6:59 pm on June 9, 2002

Sorry, I'm uncureable.
Just kidding at you, man. Remember, this is the Silly Place. Indeed!
jdsmith575

Mon Jun 10 04:30:05 2002

Silly is good.

(I'll be the last person here to take anything personal, so don't worry.)

Magus

Mon Jun 10 05:02:00 2002

Silly is quite good.

postCount++;

jdsmith575

Mon Jun 10 05:03:52 2002

Since I'm new, can someone explain post whoreing?
jdsmith575

Mon Jun 10 05:04:24 2002

Or am I doing it now?
jdsmith575

Mon Jun 10 05:04:47 2002

How about now?
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Mon Jun 10 17:04:27 2002

Or am I doing it now?

indeed.

How about now?

indeed again.

Evil Merlin

Mon Jun 10 17:32:20 2002

whore... a mac using whore at that!
Magus

Mon Jun 10 18:27:54 2002

Yes, that's post whoring.
Maximus

Mon Jun 10 18:53:18 2002

Yes, it's a bit of post-whoring.  

Evil Merlin

Mon Jun 10 19:22:54 2002

But is it just post whoring, or just a little post whoring?
Maximus

Mon Jun 10 19:28:54 2002

Just a little
Harbinger

Mon Jun 10 20:06:36 2002

from Evil Merlin posted at 3:22 pm on June 10, 2002

But is it just post whoring, or just a little post whoring?

I'd consider it just "dabbing your toe" into the post-whoring lifestyle.

Magus

Mon Jun 10 21:03:51 2002

True post whoring is being able to hold a running monologue for seven pages of smam!
Maximus

Mon Jun 10 21:19:01 2002

Indeed.
pauli

Mon Jun 10 21:55:10 2002

True post whoring is being able to hold a running monologue for seven pages of smam!
no, that's true conspicuous postwhoring. genuinely skillfull post whores will post to every thread available, participating enough that nobody notices until they see the post count.

this is what differentiates continuum from alex, as it were.

well, if we classify conti as a post whore... which i don't. perhaps the tarrbot of old would be a better example, since i have no idea if he actually contributed or not :)

(Edited by pauli at 5:56 pm on June 10, 2002)

Magus

Tue Jun 11 00:17:01 2002

Participating? Like this? :)
Evil Merlin

Tue Jun 11 11:25:40 2002

Indeed!
Maximus

Tue Jun 11 18:36:39 2002

Yeah...
Evil Merlin

Tue Jun 11 18:38:22 2002

Oh man, I miss the days of CSMA...

You should have seen Jeremy in there... he was truly a sight to behold when he got ahold of a rabid mac fan.

Maximus

Tue Jun 11 19:32:36 2002

I'm guessing something like throwing a ham bone in a room full of pit bulls, eh?
Jeremy Reimer

Tue Jun 11 19:58:38 2002


You should have seen Jeremy in there... he was truly a sight to behold when he got ahold of a rabid mac fan.

Heh... you know, on this very website is a link (It's under the Jeremy Section, under the "Silliness" subjection) to the official CSMA FAQ, of which I provided a great deal of the answers.

I was an insane postwhore back then.  One day I posted 157 messages to csma.  In a SINGLE DAY.

I've gotten better since then.  ;)

Magus

Tue Jun 11 22:14:47 2002

Better? Does that mean you post more or less?
Imitation Gruel

Wed Jun 12 01:55:00 2002

all of you are belong to me

Except me. As the Sorceror Supreme of this (and every other) universe, and the only other Admiral, at least by postcount; I can be exempt from this by my choice, however I choose not to do so. It loses me nothing.

One day I posted 157 messages to csma.  In a SINGLE DAY.

While superb, I once posted 180+ spams to OSY. IN A SINGLE HOUR. With [color=purple][u][size=7]ONE[/size][/u][/color] window open.

:sagrin: :sagrin: :sagrin: :sagrin: :sagrin:

(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 6:55 pm on June 11, 2002)

Jeremy Reimer

Wed Jun 12 02:06:28 2002

I've gotten better in that I post less often.

These 157 messages in a day... these were not spam.  None of them were spam.  I was responding to 157 separate conversations in 157 separate threads!!  :eek2:

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Wed Jun 12 02:11:16 2002

Thanks IG for belonging to me.

you are among my best buds evar! :)

Imitation Gruel

Wed Jun 12 02:12:25 2002

Ah, but how many of those were in topics you started, Reimer?

Because in that glorious ~65 minutes, I started something in excess of 70 topics.

Okay, maybe I'm reaching. Damn.

Jeremy Reimer

Wed Jun 12 02:39:02 2002


Ah, but how many of those were in topics you started, Reimer?

Probably more than half of them.

Do a Google Groups search on c.s.m.a. for around 1998ish.  I was insane.

OscarWilde

Wed Jun 12 03:41:45 2002

there might be a need to bring back the infamous post whore poem...


hmmmm...

Magus

Wed Jun 12 05:24:45 2002

Heh, I may not post to many of them, but I easily read that many threads on Ars daily.
PaulHill

Wed Jun 12 07:42:33 2002


By the way, does anyone have experience with Citrix?  I'm working for this guy who implements Citrix environments, for small banks mainly.  It's pretty cool stuff.

<raises hand>

Yeah, for a row of tellers (or task-based knowledge workers as they're called in press releases) it makes perfect sense.  Really quite easy to set up, utterly standard environment for whatever teller is signed on, and you can swapout in minutes.

Trying to force them down an entire organisation though, because you're a fat, lazy Frenchman? Wrong wrong wrong.

Evil Merlin

Wed Jun 12 10:37:04 2002

Yes 1998 was a good year for those of us who disliked the Mac. The grenades that Jeremy, Nate and myself tossed into that newsgroup rippled thru the Mac community for weeks...

Then I found ars... and coined Fucktard.

As for Citrix,

Yeah I use it a lot. Mostly 1.8, but slowly replacing 1.8 with Citrix XP. Good stuff.

(Edited by Evil Merlin at 3:39 am on June 12, 2002)

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