hey nick what do you mean "delicious" Patrick Davidson? It sounds sort of gay. sorry, but I couldn't hold it in :)

THE DELICIOUS CONVENTION!

Paul Drazba (geek101@dork.com) and Scott Tagge (scott@penix.net), both very good friends of mine in real life, have reached an important, pivotal conclusion:

Adding the word "delicious" to modify a noun in any way makes it much (MUCH) better.

Hence, if you are "delicious," it's a very good thing.
And if you say it dragging out the "ish" in "delicious," it sounds even funnier.

Try it =)

--BlueCalx

DELICIOUS POST!!!

Now you're cooking!

(No pun intended, of course.)

--BlueCalx

This is vaguely disturbing.

You're telling me ;)
But I suppose Nick is vaguely disturbed, so it doesn't really matter much.
My Two Cents (or maybe Two Pence in good 'ol UK) - if Nick had said "delicious" in that context in the UK, he probably would have been lynched as *ahem* someone of an unusual sexual persuasion, if you know what I mean... but then again, the UK isn't known for political correctness. More for football (soccer to you US ppl!) hooliganism, actually :(

you people are magically delicious!

HEY!!! I'M BACK !!! Guess what !
I totally repalced windows.Now, I use linux!!! great!!! it works perfectly
Except that ...... how can I send Phoenix to my calc ?????
thanks
(remember the word "novice")
I know there's a link program out there, how to install it?

OK! phoenix will be soon on my calc again, since the new version of sonic crashed my calc :-(

What new version of Sonic?

This Phoenix game is pretty cool.. unlucky for that Prabal guy since he was about to make a version of his mod for 5.0, right when 6.0 comes out... :-)

Speaking of operating systems, which is better? Windows 98 or Windows 2000? Or something completely different (other than Linux)?

(WRT the OS thing) It depends on what you have/need.

- Want a good server OS? Use Linux.
- Want a good OS for graphic design? Use BeOS.
- Want a good, stable, overall fast and neat-o OS? Use Windows 2000 (what I have).
- Have hardware that's not supported by any of the above? Enjoy frequent crashes? Don't have the budget to buy new hardware? Get Win98 :)

--BlueCalx

- Want a good server OS? Use Linux.
Why not

- Want a good OS for graphic design? Use BeOS.
Have you ever used BeOS? No applications, none. It's a neat toy, but not good for anything real. I do believe most graphic designers still use Macintosh :). The GIMP is good on UNIX. And I've heard Silicon Graphics machines are nice :)... I use one on occasion, but not for graphic design.

- Want a good, stable, overall fast and neat-o OS? Use Windows 2000 (what I have).
I suppose, but it really isn't that neat-o, and it isn't that fast, and it isn't that good :). I think you haven't had enough experience with other operating systems :)

- Have hardware that's not supported by any of the above? Enjoy frequent crashes? Don't have the budget to buy new hardware? Get Win98 :) or use win95 :)

I do believe you missed a few....

Doing a lot of programming/development/technical things?
Use UNIX
Don't want commercial software?
Use Debian Linux
Want to customzie everything every which way?
Write your own operating system... oh wait... use
Linux.
Want to have the easiest to use interface, but be subject to technical inferiority in terms of OS?
Use MacOS, but then again MacOS X will be very nice :).

-- Want a good OS for graphic design? Use BeOS.
-Have you ever used BeOS? No applications, none. It's a neat toy, but not good for anything real. I do believe most graphic designers still use Macintosh :). The GIMP is good on UNIX. And I've heard Silicon Graphics machines are nice :)... I use one on occasion, but not for graphic design.
One word: Realtime. Yes, no rendering- with just standard hardware. What other OS could open up a 1.3Gig Avi file and start playing it without skipping in 1 sec? Certainitly not Linux. Note machine 266 with 96meg ram.

-- Want a good, stable, overall fast and neat-o OS? -Use Windows 2000 (what I have).
I suppose, but it really isn't that neat-o, and it isn't that fast, and it isn't that good :). I think you haven't had enough experience with other operating systems :)
And what would you suggest? Windows2k offers the best comprimise, runs most 98/5 applications and games, offers much better stability then win98/5, easy to setup, support for most hardware (a burdon with Linux), more control then 98/5 but nicer interface then Linux.

-- Have hardware that's not supported by any of the above? Enjoy frequent crashes? Don't have the budget to buy new hardware? Get Win98 :) or use win95 :)
Lol, who says you have to have a budget? I'm running Win2k Adv Server. ;]

-Doing a lot of programming/development/technical things?
Use UNIX
Yes Linux/Unix is a good choice for that, unless your developing for Windows (majority of developers).

-Don't want commercial software?
Use Debian Linux
Um...Ok why make your job tougher?

-Want to customzie everything every which way?
Write your own operating system... oh wait... use
Linux.
True you have much control over Linux like good old command promt stuff (don't get me wrong, the command prompt is usefull, just not for the average user)
Also if you call customizing making your own drivers so that your unsupported hardware works then you are right, use Linux

Linux graphical interface is great, I use Redhat 6,and it comes with "gnome/enlightenment" and it's incredible!! Windows in gnome can be transparent!desktops themes are excelent!
(I didn't see this on Win98/95/2k, even using those programs that change the win desktop appearance)

Hey! the main difference is that linux is free!!!
Anyway, my win98se is a pirate copy.

I personaly haven't used gnome (I've _only_ worked with KDE) but every single GUI I've seen, has tried to copy many of the similarities that win95 has. KDE has the _exact_ same display properties as win98.

-Hey! the main difference is that linux is free!!!

Lol, but you paid 30 bucks (or more) for Red Hat? For what the services? lol, Linux has its uses, but those are limited by many factors, ie. lack of certain software (Microsoft office mainly), GUI is still not near as _clean_ as windows, lacking hardware support (and a lot of hardware it can support you have to manually configure), sometimes too much control- can get overwhelming to non-techies (majority of computer users), getting to be too many versions out there- needs to be one clear Linux, one standard. That is why Linux won't ever take over for windows, because it has no clear developer- yea Linus, but one man is a little slim.

Rogue

KDE is awful, it's almost windows. Give a try to gnome.

My Redhat came with a magazine, that's 5 U$S here in my country. Office? I can download StarOffice, but the best option is to get it from a CD, another 5 U$S if avaible in a magazine(very possible). They say it has same power as Microsoft Office(!!!!!).
Actually, you can consider RedHat as the standar Linux.
I think 80% of Linux users has redhat. If you want an easy to install/use linux, get the corel linux version. But SuSE linux, Caldera, Corel, Redhat are like the most importants distributions. Wait a year to get a real linux as you want. My 5 $ redhat has a lot of software, including netscape 4.7 .Entering the internet was very easy.I could open over 5 netscapes in a 5x86 133Mhz!!! and the speed didn't decrease!! I was amaze!! Delicious OS!!

HEY!!! what about those minilinux for 68k machines??
Can somenone(a programer, mainly) port that to the TI89/92+???

I have three operating sysems right now.
1. Mandrake Linux
2. Windows 2000 Professional
3. Windows 2000 Advanced Server

I use Advanced Server because it offers high stability and security. I rarely use linux, mainly because I can't find my damn bootdisk. I need to start learning unix, though, if I want to become the system administrator for my school (Los Alamos High School).

btw, this new version of phoenix is nice.

5 Netscapes? On 133 Mhz? My computer runs slow enough to crash with 1 on a 233 Mhz.

"I personaly haven't used gnome (I've _only_ worked with KDE) but every single GUI I've seen, has tried to copy many of the similarities that
win95 has."

It's kind of hard to develop a GUI that doesn't show files grouped together in a hierarchy, displaying them in window form; unless of course you can figure out some sort of abstract, colored-light-and-sound-based GUI... which nobody would buy because only certain species of seal could understand it.

Well, that made no sense. I think I'll shut up now.

for os, linux is much better!!!. But anyways, my new mod (5.2) for starwars is up at <A HREF="http://www.swtc89.com" www.swtc89.com </A> and for the 6.0 thing well i am doing greyscale for the 89 now so it doesnt matter. The new version of SWTC is going to be totally different than phoenix, its gonna be greyscale and more animated!!!

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<sarcasm>Whatever happened to Mac OS? Oh I get it... You guys aren't even bothering to mention it because of it's superiority over everything else in existence. Why, everyone knows that Mac OS is inferior only to God Himself. We all know the world would be perfect if everyone had a bright and shiny translucent bluberry iMac sitting on their desk. That would make the world a much, much better place. C'mon, admit it. You know I'm right.</sarcasm>

-Fil and his shiny translucent bluberry-flavored $0.02

MacOS is God's OS. Only God Himself can use it.

:P

--BlueCalx

Or Steve Jobs... wait! He is God! (allegedly)

No, Steve Wozniak is God.
Or SOMETHING!

--BlueCalx

Fil is picking up some weird vibes here. Lemme guess, you like "The Pirates of Silicon Valley"? If it wasn't for that movie, I would have no idea who Steve Wozniak even is.

-Fil Wozniak posting this comment from his Lisa, which he bought at a garage sale for $0.02.

Uh, call me unconnected but
a) What/who is Steve Wozniak
b) What is Pirates of Silicon Valley, except a TI BASIC group that submitted a link to SiCoDe the other month... ;)

And if you want wierd vibes... http://sicode.ticalc.org/psycho

Steve Woznaik is refering to Steve Jobs. "Pirates of Silicon Vally" was a movie that T&T made about a year ago.

Oops. I mean thet Steve Wozniak is the guy who actually made the first Apple Computer. Steve Jobs is the guy who took credit of it.

Ahhhh. Thanks
But ummm. What's T&T?

T&T is a Cable TV station.

Ahhh. In the US. Thanks guys.

He meant TNT.

Ya, thats what I meant. I wote those commets when I first got up in the morning.

Holy my crap! look at all those RE's~!! ^^^^^^^

Have you got a problem with all the RE:'s that are on this topic?

One time I got a chain mail letter in e-mail where there were no less than 500 "Re:" thingies...

How bloody annoying!

why am I replying to myself?

That would be 'TNT', bub.

A-hyuk.

I would seriously give up the large paper weight I am typing on right now for a tangerine iMac any day! I can't give it up because it isn't mine to give up. My dad owns it and I use it. It is a nice deal, but I would still prefer a tangerine iMac.

http://gtktilink.ticalc.org - send files to your calc in Linux :)

Oh yeah! That. :)

--BlueCalx