Re: Vista is Dead here comes Windows ME Too

[Moshe, Goldfarb.]

On Thu, 29 May 2008 09:52:11 -0400, Subway steel wrote:

> "Rex Ballard" <rex.ballard@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:85805925-dfdb-4eec-abfd-c80d90dbe275@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>> On May 28, 9:59 pm, Ian Hilliard <nos...@hilliardtech.com> wrote:
>>> <quote>
>>> Vista is Officially Dead Here Comes Windows 7
>>>
>>
>> When Microsoft starts announcing Vapor-ware less than 18 months after
>> the release of their latest release, you know they know they have a
>> bomb and need to do damage control.
>
> This is no different then what the rest of the industry does. When a version
> of the Linux kernel or KDE or gnome or Firefox is released there is almost
> always a "product roadmap" announcement as to what is being planned for the
> next version.
>
>
>
>>
>> So Bill announced "Chicago", which later became known as Windows 95.
>> The biggest features, other than being "NT Lite", was plug-n-play,
>> which was an attempt to emulate a feature that Linux had introduced in
>> the fall of 1994, nearly 1 year before Microsoft introduced it in
>> Windows 95 (in August of 1995).
>
> This is grossly incorrect and misleading. The biggest feature of Win95 was
> the 32-bit memory model and true multitasking. PnP was also a feature but it
> wasn't nearly as important as the two that I mentioned.
>
> As far as this emulating a feature that Linux had a year earlier. This is
> also grossly misrepresenting the truth. Linux did not support PnP until
> version 2.4.0 of the kernel and that was released in 2001. In this case
> Microsoft supported PnP several years before Linux did.
>
> Your post is grossly wrong and misleading. I have to wonder if you are this
> inept at looking up simple facts or if you intentionally make posts in order
> to mislead people.
>
>
> - ss

Subway Steel.... Meet Rex Ballard......

Ask him about the plans for the Stealth Bomber that he claims the CIA/NSA
stole from his high school locker.
Ask him how he invented TCP/IP.

I'm not making this up.
It's all in Google....

Oh and BTW, Rex Ballard is Roy Schestowit'z hero.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/11955c95e422489f

Roy Speaking to Rex Ballard:

"Thanks. Coming from you, this means a lot."

Does it get any loonier?


--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

 

[Rex Ballard]

On May 29, 11:59 am, "Moshe, Goldfarb." <brickn.str...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2008 09:52:11 -0400, Subway steel wrote:
> > "Rex Ballard" <rex.ball...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:85805925-dfdb-4eec-abfd-c80d90dbe275@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

> Ask him about the plans for the Stealth Bomber that he claims the CIA/NSA
> stole from his high school locker.

Man, that's a really new one.

I did live near an Air Force base, and had a friend named Alan
Voitkoviac, who was helping me study for my General Class Amateur
Radio License when I was 12 years old (I just renewed - WA0WMY). I
also went to school with many kids whose older brothers and sisters
were active in the SDS and other Anti-War organizations, including the
Weathermen (a nasty group of people who liked to blow up electrical
transformer stations to cause power outages).

My father was a property accountant for the local Electric company,
and had intimate
knowledge of these electrical stations (including on-site inspections
with Engineers).

I was on the journalism staff at the school and had a hall pass to go
and develop some film. I went to my locker and there was a man,
dressed in overalls, going through a
friend's locker. I asked what he was doing (thinking he might be a
thief). When he
turned to face me I noticed the military insignias of an officer
(Colonel I think), and
he saw my camera, told me to let him see it, and he pulled out all of
the film.

A year later, I was in the Aviation club, and had been doing ground
school and had gone on some training flights. The club sponsor came
to my church and a week later brought a film which showed pilot-less
"drones" being dropped out of B-52s. My teacher leaned over and said
"looks a lot like that trainer project you showed me at the beginning
of the year, doesn't it? It did, but was much more sophisticated.
Later in the movie, they showed these probes that were used to detect
troop movements - the teacher leaned over to me and said "Remember
your biological lock? - that's what they are using".

I didn't even know how he knew about my biological lock (which was a
combination of a very sensitive microphone, theremin, and heat
detector) since I had scrapped the idea about 2 years earlier
(couldn't get the "combination" correct).

A week later they were threatening to fire him. My school councilor
called me into his office and told me that if I'd sign a waver, the
teacher could keep his job. It turned out that he was a Quaker and
had accessed some confidential information.

A year later, I was offered a full scholarship, including tuition,
room, and board to CU school of engineering, if I'd work for Martin
Marietta for 5 years after I graduated. I probably should have taken
the deal, but I knew that I'd be making bombs or missiles, so I turned
it down.

> Ask him how he invented TCP/IP.

I didn't invent TCP/IP. I was an associate engineer and helped a
coworker prepare for the Dalgren project - a test conducted by the
navy in 1983 to prove interoperability of TCP/IP.

Later, I introduced TCP/IP to Federal Express as a way to integrate
their various different types of computers. I then went on to Great
West Life to propose TCP/IP and Unix (SunOS and X11) for their
integration needs as well.

Then I went to Dow Jones where I helped 8000 publishers put their
content onto the Internet using Unix or Linux servers and TCP/IP
connections.

I didn't invent the internet, but I did help to commercialize it.

> I'm not making this up.
> It's all in Google....

Google has lots of things about me, including things others have said
about me, which I only wish I could actually live up to. :-D.

Best to go to my site

http://www.open4success.org

http://www.open4success.org/Olnews/index.html

http://www.open4success.org/bio/index.html

> Oh and BTW, Rex Ballard is Roy Schestowit'z hero.
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/11955c95e42...
>
> Roy Speaking to Rex Ballard:

There are some very articulate and rational Linux advocates who
interact on this group. I am one of them, but there are a number of
others, including Roy, who provides a "clipping service" to highlight
articles about Linux, including tactics of it's competitors.

It's a useful service and helps Linux advocates find information that
is useful in advocating Linux.

> "Thanks. Coming from you, this means a lot."

> Does it get any loonier?

Sure, just read some of the really crazy stuff the WinTrolls (like
yourself) write.
Especially DFS and Eric Funkenbusch.
Especially the stuff they write about me.

Some of it's really good, but most of it is just "noise".

I miss the good contributors on behalf of Microsoft, such as drestin
black, and billgw
They did a great job of providing Microsoft's best arguments, which
were lots of fun to analyze in detail for all of the inaccuracies. It
was a great way to formulate responses to Microsoft's most common FUD.

> --
> Moshe Goldfarb