2004-10-27 & 02:01 : -
secretbruises (1:49:15 AM): what's scox?
MiasmicAnomie (1:49:24 AM): Long story.
secretbruises (1:49:29 AM): oh.
secretbruises (1:49:40 AM): if it's a bunch of geeks, it's probably not too subtle
secretbruises (1:49:53 AM): my dad is a geek and he LOVES subtle humor
secretbruises (1:50:07 AM): the sublter (i made up a word!) the better
secretbruises (1:50:11 AM): ithink you're safe.
secretbruises (1:50:53 AM): http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=11122001
MiasmicAnomie (1:52:29 AM): Unix was written by AT&T, who spun off USL, who sold Unix to Novell, who sold the licensing to (old)SCO, which was a good unix company. (old)SCO sold what it bought from Novell to Caldera, and Caldera then changed it's name to 'The SCO Group'
MiasmicAnomie (1:53:04 AM): so now Caldera/SCO is suing IBM saying they took code from SysV unix and put it in linux.
secretbruises (1:53:11 AM): is unix an OS? a language? what the hell?
MiasmicAnomie (1:53:22 AM): except in court they say the case is just contract and nothing to do with linux
MiasmicAnomie (1:53:24 AM): it's an OS
secretbruises (1:53:37 AM): that's what i thought. is unix different than linux?
MiasmicAnomie (1:53:48 AM): So they've basically pissed off the entire geek world.
MiasmicAnomie (1:54:11 AM): Well, linux is a from scratch write of an OS to look/feel/act like unix
MiasmicAnomie (1:54:27 AM): but it doesn't actually have any unix code, it's just all the same commands & functions and things
MiasmicAnomie (1:54:45 AM): 'Unix clone', basically
MiasmicAnomie (1:55:13 AM): There's tons of different flavors of Unix.
MiasmicAnomie (1:56:03 AM): Like, FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD all can actually sort of consider themselves Unix, rather than 'unix clones', because their codebase is the BSD Unix written at UC Berkeley
secretbruises (1:57:47 AM): i wish i understood anything you were saying to me
secretbruises (1:57:55 AM): instead, let me tell you something awesome i just did
MiasmicAnomie (1:58:06 AM): Heh, cool :-)
secretbruises (1:58:20 AM): i was pulling something out of the oven, and accidentally put my finger under the baking sheet
secretbruises (1:58:34 AM): and basically melted away the fingerprints on the side of my right index finger
secretbruises (1:58:52 AM): let that be a physical manifestation of the difference between you and me.
MiasmicAnomie (1:58:52 AM): Ack
secretbruises (1:59:01 AM): you understand everything you just said to me
secretbruises (1:59:08 AM): i, on the other hand
MiasmicAnomie (1:59:17 AM): Stop making me laugh :-)
MiasmicAnomie (1:59:26 AM): Ok, hmm, lemme see if I can break it down
MiasmicAnomie (1:59:33 AM): You've used DOS, right?
secretbruises (1:59:35 AM): forget to use an oven mitt when removing metal that's been in an oven at 400 degrees for 40 minutes.
secretbruises (1:59:38 AM): I AM GREAT.
secretbruises (1:49:15 AM): what's scox?
MiasmicAnomie (1:49:24 AM): Long story.
secretbruises (1:49:29 AM): oh.
secretbruises (1:49:40 AM): if it's a bunch of geeks, it's probably not too subtle
secretbruises (1:49:53 AM): my dad is a geek and he LOVES subtle humor
secretbruises (1:50:07 AM): the sublter (i made up a word!) the better
secretbruises (1:50:11 AM): ithink you're safe.
secretbruises (1:50:53 AM): http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=11122001
MiasmicAnomie (1:52:29 AM): Unix was written by AT&T, who spun off USL, who sold Unix to Novell, who sold the licensing to (old)SCO, which was a good unix company. (old)SCO sold what it bought from Novell to Caldera, and Caldera then changed it's name to 'The SCO Group'
MiasmicAnomie (1:53:04 AM): so now Caldera/SCO is suing IBM saying they took code from SysV unix and put it in linux.
secretbruises (1:53:11 AM): is unix an OS? a language? what the hell?
MiasmicAnomie (1:53:22 AM): except in court they say the case is just contract and nothing to do with linux
MiasmicAnomie (1:53:24 AM): it's an OS
secretbruises (1:53:37 AM): that's what i thought. is unix different than linux?
MiasmicAnomie (1:53:48 AM): So they've basically pissed off the entire geek world.
MiasmicAnomie (1:54:11 AM): Well, linux is a from scratch write of an OS to look/feel/act like unix
MiasmicAnomie (1:54:27 AM): but it doesn't actually have any unix code, it's just all the same commands & functions and things
MiasmicAnomie (1:54:45 AM): 'Unix clone', basically
MiasmicAnomie (1:55:13 AM): There's tons of different flavors of Unix.
MiasmicAnomie (1:56:03 AM): Like, FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD all can actually sort of consider themselves Unix, rather than 'unix clones', because their codebase is the BSD Unix written at UC Berkeley
secretbruises (1:57:47 AM): i wish i understood anything you were saying to me
secretbruises (1:57:55 AM): instead, let me tell you something awesome i just did
MiasmicAnomie (1:58:06 AM): Heh, cool :-)
secretbruises (1:58:20 AM): i was pulling something out of the oven, and accidentally put my finger under the baking sheet
secretbruises (1:58:34 AM): and basically melted away the fingerprints on the side of my right index finger
secretbruises (1:58:52 AM): let that be a physical manifestation of the difference between you and me.
MiasmicAnomie (1:58:52 AM): Ack
secretbruises (1:59:01 AM): you understand everything you just said to me
secretbruises (1:59:08 AM): i, on the other hand
MiasmicAnomie (1:59:17 AM): Stop making me laugh :-)
MiasmicAnomie (1:59:26 AM): Ok, hmm, lemme see if I can break it down
MiasmicAnomie (1:59:33 AM): You've used DOS, right?
secretbruises (1:59:35 AM): forget to use an oven mitt when removing metal that's been in an oven at 400 degrees for 40 minutes.
secretbruises (1:59:38 AM): I AM GREAT.
