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What should my 6000th post to the BF be about?

Jeremy Reimer

Tue Jun 11 20:09:45 2002

Well, I'm stuck at 5999 and I want the next one to be a goody.  Ideas?
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Tue Jun 11 21:20:22 2002

Amiga Snippets please.

or just copy and paste Smamtrolli's guide to trolling, ya know the one where he calls us prepubecent teenage boys :p

longmarch

Tue Jun 11 21:24:32 2002

Rhapsody.   You must tell us about Rhapsody.  That covers multiplatform-ness and Macs and lets you troll the Linux zealots quite nicely.
Magus

Tue Jun 11 22:17:18 2002

Linux on the desktop might be interesting, but it's been done a few times. Amiga and Rhapsody sound interesting.
Jeremy Reimer

Wed Jun 12 01:23:00 2002

3 way tie, guys, someone break it!
Imitation Gruel

Wed Jun 12 01:46:15 2002

Definitely Amiga. There's much to be learned in how a computer platform that was [u][color=blue]AT LEAST[/color][/u] 10 years ahead of its time can STILL lose the battle.
Imitation Gruel

Wed Jun 12 01:48:00 2002

By the way, I think the 2nd choice should be your guide to trolling. But it's a distant second in my opinion.
Jeremy Reimer

Wed Jun 12 14:30:44 2002

We need more votes people!  
longmarch

Wed Jun 12 15:27:04 2002

Want me to stuff the ballot box?
Jeremy Reimer

Wed Jun 12 15:55:27 2002

Nah, I'd like more of OSY's illustrious readers to vote.
Magus

Wed Jun 12 16:03:22 2002

Well, I've done my duty.
Harbinger

Wed Jun 12 16:33:55 2002

OK, OK... I voted.  Couldn't help it that your site was unreachable this morning. ;)


BTW, sometime in the past few days, I passed the 3000 mark myself.  If I didn't spend so much time in the techie fora, it'd be much higher, I'm sure.  (The BF being a pit of flaming trollage despair, and whatnot.)

Jeremy Reimer

Wed Jun 12 17:12:00 2002

I had NO internet access this morning. I did an ipconfig and my IP address had been changed to something TOTALLY wrong, I had NO gateway address, the subnet was WAY wrong, it was horrible.  I had to reboot.

Fucking cable modems.  Give me my uptime!

Anyway, I see we're leaning towards the Amiga thingy.  Just as I'm busy taking screenshots of Rhapsody DR2... oh well... ;)

Harbinger

Wed Jun 12 18:50:33 2002

I have some pix I've been meaning to send you.  Will hopefully take care of that tonight.
Stainless

Wed Jun 12 19:24:00 2002

DR 2, most of the other stuff has been done many times.  

Except maybe the Amiga, but that's guaranteed to degrade right off the bat.  

Jeremy Reimer

Wed Jun 12 19:32:51 2002

I just finished taking 20 screenshots of Rhapsody DR2.  I have to use them somehow.

If I talk about DR2 but mention the Amiga in places, would that be okay?  I'm leaning towards that.. I don't have enough material for a good Amiga post (yet)

Stainless

Wed Jun 12 20:08:30 2002

There are two dangers in bringing up Amiga.

1) Instant taunting for Amiga's coming back RSN - even if you don't say it is.

2) Comparision to the "Atari is all you need" threads - IE dimissed as whacko.

Of course it's the BF, pretty much anything is likely to degrade no matter what you do.


Stainless

Wed Jun 12 20:09:32 2002

Post the damn DR2 screenshots already.

Or burn me a CD.

jdsmith575

Wed Jun 12 20:24:54 2002

Oooh, tell us why you like your iBook. Maybe Apple will put you into their new marketing scheme.
HitScan

Wed Jun 12 21:29:00 2002

Jeremy! I've an old Zenith computer that could use some alternative OS lovin. It's got a Pentium 1 mobo with an Intel chipset, ATI Mach 64 graphics processor, and I think about 50MB of RAM, with an Intel NIC. If this sounds like something that DR2 or OpenStep 4.2 can handle please let me know and I'll further pester you for linkies. :D Or I could offer to cover shipping and media and etc if you like too. (hint hint) :D
PaulHill

Wed Jun 12 21:52:44 2002

How about explaining that with Rhapsody and Apple's iBook, the need for an "alternate" to Windows on the desktop is nicly sated, and Linux is likely to suffer a similar fate to the Amiga, having a small and incredibly bitter hardcore of users treating it's eventual resurrection as an article of faith?

Just a thought.

Jeremy Reimer

Wed Jun 12 22:53:09 2002


It's got a Pentium 1 mobo with an Intel chipset, ATI Mach 64 graphics processor, and I think about 50MB of RAM, with an Intel NIC. If this sounds like something that DR2 or OpenStep 4.2 can handle please let me know and I'll further pester you for linkies.

It's pretty much ideal for Openstep or DR2.

Unfortunately the only DR2 I have is a disk image for Virtual PC/Windows.  Very cool if you have Virtual PC, but I don't know how to turn it into a real disk image.

Harbinger

Thu Jun 13 03:07:11 2002

JR, I have a 20MB file I wanna send ya.  What delivery method would you prefer?
Jeremy Reimer

Thu Jun 13 04:27:46 2002

I'll open up my ftp server again.  You know the details, if not, email me.