Re:Nostalgia
by nomadic (141991)

Now, can we please stop seeing topics like this based entirely on nostalgia?

But if they stop posting topics like this, in a few years we'll start reminiscing about them. "Remember those old topics based entirely on nostalgia? Weren't those great? I miss those days..."

Re:Nostalgia
by mickwd (196449)

Now, can we please stop seeing topics like this based entirely on nostalgia?

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

huh???
by nomadic (141991)

You mean I WASN'T Scarlett Johansson's date to last year's Oscars??? Despite the picture I have of it??

Article abstract
... A custom Web server went missing at an unnamed public university, but who was the culprit? The department manager. Thinking that the Linux Web server (which used a Microsoft XBOX for its hardware) was a normal game console, he snuck the device out of the server room and home for his son to play over the holiday weekend. The philosophy students who used the server for their class were not amused."

Philosophy students
by Gothmolly (148874)

What were they doing with it, sitting around asking 'what is the sound of 1 Xbox playing?' Philosophy kids don't actually DO anything, esp. on weekends, so whats all the outrage?

Re:Philosophy students
by nomadic (141991)

Philosophy kids don't actually DO anything, esp. on weekends, so whats all the outrage?

Re:Question...
by iluvcapra (782887)

This is good, I like this political stuff:

MS-DOS 1.0 was Herbert Hoover, aloof to the problems of the common man but friend of the engineer in all of us. Also discovered Transformers.

Mac OS 7-8-9, all Franklin Roosevelt, very competent, lead us through difficult times, but left a legacy of programs which have become quite a mixed bag.

Windows 3.1, Dwight Eisenhower, amiable enough, competent, but leaving historians (and many contemporaries) very wanting.

Windows 95 thru ME, Lyndon Johnson, one of the boys, very able at getting things done, but in the end a disaster, rightfully ceding his throne.

Windows NT, Richard Nixon, the archetypal back-room politician, ruthless, and ultimately brought down by little faults, but many believe he was a great president and did much to modernize the Republican Party.

Windows XP, Ronald Reagan, everybody who hates him never met him, he could charm anyone, the Great Communicator. Bought Iranian weapons for contras with drug money.

Mac OS X, Bill Clinton, cheerful and smart, if not the most productive. Known for his speeches.

Re:Question...
by nomadic (141991)

Vista, George W. Bush, elected because of his name, even though the prior iteration wasn't especially respected or well-liked. Introduced instability and performance issues, all in the name of "security". Many of the corporate interests who promoted him early on are having second thoughts.