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On 4/12/2024 9:17 AM, vallor wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:00:23 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
> wrote in <uvb7on$2bjoi$2@dont-email.me>:
> 
>> chrisv wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> some dumb fsck wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I used to fuck with my hard-of-hearing, grumpy old grandfather by
>>>>> looking at him and mouthing words.  Later on I did it to my Dad, too.
>>>>>   heh!
>>>>> RIP to grandpa HTS and father JFS.
>>>
>>> Once an asshole, always an asshole, eh?
>>>
>>>> Too bad they didn't take a switch to yo ass.
>>>
>>> Too bad he wasn't aborted.
>>
>> And when I implied he should have been beaten with a switch,
>> I meant a Cisco switch :-D
> 
> Speaking of technology...
> 
> I mentioned two technological advantages of Linux over Windows,
> expecting a discussion from the guy:  early fork(2) behavior,
> and TCP/IP.
> 
> Instead of discussing it, he just went on the attack.

I didn't know you wanted some repartee over those issues.


1) fork(2) behavior?

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fork.2.html

fork you



2) "Where did Windows get TCP/IP from?"

It's common knowledge MS used the BSD FOSS TCP/IP code, but they wrote 
their own brand new implementation 16 frickin' years ago.  That's sixteen.

I'm sensing an ignorant and stuck-in-the-past mindset on your part.



> I've also seen him ask a question in comp.lang.c that he
> could have answered himself by typing on his Linux shell:
> 
> $ man size_t
> 
> I really, really, wanted to give him sh*t for that, but held
> off because he was already receiving his just due of "WTF?".

When you don't know if you should bite your tongue or not, don't. You'll 
feel better.

I figured I would catch some hell for that question, but I was curious 
why memset accepted ints when the function prototype specifies size_t.

For a language as 'strict' as C, it seems to be handled with a little 
leeway.  gcc warns or errors using printf(%d) with a long int.


> He may be a competent Excel and Access programmer

More than competent (at least in the past).


> -- and maybe even Python -- but given his old-fashioned
> ideas, I suspect he may sell buggy whips on the side.

I sense a mild insult in there.

And I don't understand: which of my ideas is old-fashioned?



> Finally, I once confronted him as being racist.  His response?
> "Everybody's racist!  You're racist too!"

Sounds like me.  But I'll have to look that one up in my all-knowing, 
all-seeing database.

In the meantime, tell me about all your non-White friends, accountants, 
lawyers, doctors, etc.  Don't slink away now.



I found this, from 9 years ago
============================================================================
I've asked you 4 or 5 times why you refuse to run your business on Linux
desktops, and all you do is slink away.

I show how ALL the founders and top managers and executives at Sonic are
White, and you claim you're not a racist organization.

I ask how many black friends you've had over to your house the last 6
months, and you run away.
============================================================================

You NEVER did answer any of those issues.




> So he's ignorant.  

Not in the least.  Your problem is you didn't grow up in Apelanta.



> Cunning, though -- don't turn your back on him.

A cunning linguist in my day, for sure.  They all said so.