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"Elflord" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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To put it simply -- Linux everywhere. The bottom line is, it works,
and it's
cost effective

My main [censored] was it didn't scale up without falling on it's face. Maybe
it's better today.............

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the developers love it, so it gets used.

Now that's true but only because that is all colleges can afford and
what students and eventual programmers get used to along with C++ and OO
unless another language has crawled out of the language quagmire . Unix
was the first college created OS and was a bastardized bunch of
functions that in many case were nonsensica but did port to most
hardware. If you grew up in Unix and Linux (another Unix in my
opinion) and that's all you know then you are comfortable.

Doug said:

Now that's true but only because that is all colleges can
afford and what students and eventual programmers get used
to along with C++ and OO unless another language has crawled
out of the language quagmire . Unix was the first college
created OS and was a bastardized bunch of functions that in
many case were nonsensica but did port to most hardware.
If you grew up in Unix and Linux (another Unix in my
opinion) and that's all you know then you are comfortable.

Oh my!

I guess you've answered the question: "what do you get when you cross
a nutjob who runs hundred milers with a career IBM guy?" ;-p

P.S. I've praised Victory Brewing Co's "Hop Devil" in this venue
before. I'd like to add a recommendation for their "Golden Monkey".
It's a really nice ale with a nod toward Belgium. It ain't Chimay but
nor is it priced like Chimay. Quite tasty and refreshing.

"Doug Freese" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Elflord" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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To put it simply -- Linux everywhere. The bottom line is, it works, and
it's
cost effective

My main [censored] was it didn't scale up without falling on it's face. Maybe
it's better today.............

Dude, the best OS's were on the VAX machines. They play like an old Jimmi
Hendrix tune.

"Charlie Pendejo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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P.S. I've praised Victory Brewing Co's "Hop Devil" in this venue
before. I'd like to add a recommendation for their "Golden Monkey".
It's a really nice ale with a nod toward Belgium. It ain't Chimay but
nor is it priced like Chimay. Quite tasty and refreshing.

As long as it's heavy in hops like Cascade, I'm a happy person. I'll
look for hop devil. I see form
http://www.beerpal.com/Victory-Hop-Devil-Beer/539/ it's Pa brew.

I like the listing of the worst beers.
http://www.beerpal.com/Worst-Beer.htm I looked at the firsat 50 and
they are really poor. 😉

And how about the top ones http://www.beerpal.com/Worst-Beer.htm Chimay
is 50

-D

1 = The number of testicles in Austin's Underoos.

Doug said:

Pendejo said:

P.S. I've praised Victory Brewing Co's "Hop Devil" in this venue
before. I'd like to add a recommendation for their "Golden Monkey".
It's a really nice ale with a nod toward Belgium. It ain't Chimay but
nor is it priced like Chimay. Quite tasty and refreshing.

As long as it's heavy in hops like Cascade, I'm a happy person. I'll
look for hop devil. I see from
http://www.beerpal.com/Victory-Hop-Devil-Beer/539/ it's Pa brew.

Yeah, somewhere in the Philthy area I think. If you like hops, Hop
Devil is for you! Stop in if you ever get to Brooklyn, I'm almost
never without one in my fridge.

I don't think I'd had two Golden Monkeys in one sitting before
tonight. Turns out they're nearly 10% alcohol, and I'm feeling it. I
agree with the reviewers on the site you reference above - it's such a
nice refreshing summery beer, you don't think it's high alcohol at
all. Sure glad I set up the new turntable (Empire 698, a real beauty)
before drinking these and not after.

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And how about the top ones http://www.beerpal.com/Worst-Beer.htm
Chimay is 50

Was that 50th worst or best? If worst, it must be some kind of joke,
or else rated by dumbass college kids who prefer Milwaukee's Beast and
Buttwiper. Unless there's some really bad variety of Chimay I don't
know about, like Grand Ipecac.

"Doug Freese" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Supercomputing no but reliability yes, The architecture has built in
limitations to keep it from progressing at more than a snail pace faster -
like feeding the mice steroids. High speed I/O does very little when the
app is CPU constrained. 😉 The SP did have a high speed I/O package but
hey sold it under a separate license aka, more $$$$. There is a god as I
can't remember the I/O product name -the purge is working nicely.

Come on Doug,

when you retired, vacuum tubes had just come into being. And what was it
like witnessing the signing of the Magna Carta anyway?

;-)

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Some day after a race, or during a race if you take up some long races,
over a beer we can duke this out. 🙂

-Doug

I2Run said:

Can you all put a lid on this or take the geek talk to
supercomputing forum!

This is Usenet. Aren't we all geeks here? 🙂

--
Mark Shroyer
http://markshroyer.com/

Thomas said:

Come on Doug,
when you retired, vacuum tubes had just come into being.

He's not *that* old. I'm pretty sure the evil pentode already ruled
the earth by the time Doug left HAL, oops IBM.

Pendejo, whose audio chain is pentode-free... single-ended directly
heated triodes, baby, is where it's at!

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 23:31:31 -0400, [email hidden] (Miss Anne

Thrope) said:

1 = The number of testicles in Austin's Underoos.

Me thinks you've been studying that area a wee bit too much...

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"Charlie Pendejo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Thomas said:

Come on Doug,
when you retired, vacuum tubes had just come into being.

He's not *that* old. I'm pretty sure the evil pentode already ruled
the earth by the time Doug left HAL, oops IBM.

Oh hell, there are continents that are more recent than Freese.

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Pendejo, whose audio chain is pentode-free... single-ended directly
heated triodes, baby, is where it's at!