Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Kintaro on 21 February 2003, 04:41
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At school, im not the type of geek that hangs around with geeks, i actually hang around with computer illetrates and a few warez kiddys. I know a couple of Linux people who we share distros but there not really friends of mine, just people I know. My last girlfriend was a Linux chick who I happened to meet at an installfest.
Yet I am in a new IT Class called "VCE IT" which is college IT in highschool pretty much. (Im in year 10, last year of high school).
The geeks in my IT class where "amazed" because i know html, and that the school disabled the command prompt, so id make batch scripts to do what i needed to do, they called me a "hacker". There not geeks because they actually know everything (like i do (http://smile.gif) ). But because there outcasted because there really ugly or because of whatever, anyway they think im god now because I have some social skills and still spend more time on my computer then my cpu does.
There are many geeks in the class and many people who like Windows XP. Yesterday however my system crashed, and someone says "damn these computers suck". So natrually i started ranting like a maniac. (I wont post everything i said because i really did say it all, and if you just look around old threads in the forum you will get the message). Anyways i started by saying how Microsoft put bugs in there software, then there licenceing, then how they brought stuff of other companys and sold it. (Like how Microsoft Dos was made). By the time I was finsihed everybody listening was saying comments like "im gonna kill that dirty bill gates barsted" ect.
One kid told me "You know everything dont you!"
So i was stumpted (kinda flattered) and said "Lets just say know at least something about everything".
This has came as a shock to me, I have been having a day off and was reading about Linus Torvalds when I realized I was almost like him in every way. I dont mean to sound like im trying to take some credit, but he is a fast learner, he thinks he is god, and he likes playing jokes on people (read the Linux Anecdotes thread in Linux/Unux).
Well I dont know what to say, but we both like beer, we both like pool, we both like hacking, I am his evil twin or somthing.
Really its weird, or maybe everyones like Linus, hmmmmmm i thought i was more like Stallman or Tiemann
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Can you really be a twin when you're years and years younger than him? On a different note: I think you're trying to flatter yourself[/f]--otherwise you wouldn't be writing this thread.
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Originally posted by TheQuirk:
Can you really be a twin when you're years and years younger than him? On a different note: I think you're trying to flatter yourself[/f]--otherwise you wouldn't be writing this thread.
Probably. Or maybe Linux users have a similar connection to what Mac users have? (If you know someone is a Mac user, you can just start a conversation with them, even if they are a total stranger. Take my word for it, I've done it)
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Originally posted by X11: Slackware Commando.:
At school, im not the type of geek that hangs around with geeks, i actually hang around with computer illetrates and a few warez kiddys. I know a couple of Linux people who we share distros but there not really friends of mine, just people I know. My last girlfriend was a Linux chick who I happened to meet at an installfest.
Yet I am in a new IT Class called "VCE IT" which is college IT in highschool pretty much. (Im in year 10, last year of high school).
The geeks in my IT class where "amazed" because i know html, and that the school disabled the command prompt, so id make batch scripts to do what i needed to do, they called me a "hacker". There not geeks because they actually know everything (like i do (http://smile.gif) ). But because there outcasted because there really ugly or because of whatever, anyway they think im god now because I have some social skills and still spend more time on my computer then my cpu does.
There are many geeks in the class and many people who like Windows XP. Yesterday however my system crashed, and someone says "damn these computers suck". So natrually i started ranting like a maniac. (I wont post everything i said because i really did say it all, and if you just look around old threads in the forum you will get the message). Anyways i started by saying how Microsoft put bugs in there software, then there licenceing, then how they brought stuff of other companys and sold it. (Like how Microsoft Dos was made). By the time I was finsihed everybody listening was saying comments like "im gonna kill that dirty bill gates barsted" ect.
One kid told me "You know everything dont you!"
So i was stumpted (kinda flattered) and said "Lets just say know at least something about everything".
This has came as a shock to me, I have been having a day off and was reading about Linus Torvalds when I realized I was almost like him in every way. I dont mean to sound like im trying to take some credit, but he is a fast learner, he thinks he is god, and he likes playing jokes on people (read the Linux Anecdotes thread in Linux/Unux).
Well I dont know what to say, but we both like beer, we both like pool, we both like hacking, I am his evil twin or somthing.
Really its weird, or maybe everyones like Linus, hmmmmmm i thought i was more like Stallman or Tiemann
Ok first of all you dont know jack shit. Well I dont either, but I just thought Id enlighten you. Second of all when I was in high school I was the biggest moron in the world, but I was so cocky that I swore I was a genius. Lets hope you arent the same way. By the way linux isnt for everyone, and I truly do admire those who are really good with MS Windows, they focused on an area different than me, but that doesnt mean they are stupid.
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I'm getting the same comments from non-tech people that Mr. Tate gets too. I'm not flattered at all.
I think they just wants a computer to work, and if something doesn't work, they come to me to fix it.
When it's fixed, I get comments like "Wow, you are amazing with computers", "you really do know everything don't you?".
It's something to get used to. I don't think I'm that good in computers...
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i know nothing about computer operating systems compared with the authors of every software tutorial and document i have ever read. However i seem to know more than most people i have ever met about software.
i wish i was a faster learner though.
i know i'm a dumbass, but why doesn't everybody else know?
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You only have ten years of school in Australia? That explains quite a bit.
Surprisingly, thats the only comment I have.
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i'm sure they have eleven or twelve of compulsory school, like any sensible country.
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You could only know how to access the BIOS menu, and most dolts would think you could program your own OS.
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Originally posted by Fett101:
You could only know how to access the BIOS menu, and most dolts would think you could program your own OS.
funny, because its true :D
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Originally posted by Fett101:
You could only know how to access the BIOS menu, and most dolts would think you could program your own OS.
I got a better one: I got into the command prompt a while back (which you aren't supposed to do) and everyone is like "Whoa! You a big l337 hax0r". Morons.
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Originally posted by Macman: LITERALLY a genius / bob:
You only have ten years of school in Australia? That explains quite a bit.
Surprisingly, thats the only comment I have.
That's not a very nice thing to say. There are 10 years of compulsory schooling in Australia, and 2 years non-compulsory, but the way things are going, if you don't do all 12, you will have a hard time finding a decent job. btw, I did all 12, and am now at uni. I also work as a database programmer, using skills that i started to acquire in grade 11 and 12, and continued to improve on. Australia has a very good education system.
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Originally posted by Lt. Reliability of the Redmond Army:
That's not a very nice thing to say. There are 10 years of compulsory schooling in Australia, and 2 years non-compulsory, but the way things are going, if you don't do all 12, you will have a hard time finding a decent job. btw, I did all 12, and am now at uni. I also work as a database programmer, using skills that i started to acquire in grade 11 and 12, and continued to improve on. Australia has a very good education system.
Pretty much the same here in the US, except it's called "Dropping Out" rather than not continuing with optional education ;)
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There are 12 years of education. i know because i just finished the last one and moved into uni campus today. X11 year 10 computer classes are a joke.
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which is college IT in highschool pretty much.
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dont flatter yourself! i did specialist maths last year and i still am working my ass off to prepare for my courses coming up. most of the ppl on these forums prob no twenty times more than you and me combined dude but dont take it too harshly - if you think you have what it takes work hard and get to uni, dont waste your intelligence. (ie DONT drop out at year 10 (unless your idea of computers is those little cash registers at maccas))
i also got called "good with computers" pretty muchj only because i could dl stuff of sites for the jocks. its like any compliment:means nothing unless its from someone who knows what their talking about.
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You only have ten years of school in Australia? That explains quite a bit.
get fucked 8-)
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i'm sure they have eleven or twelve of compulsory school, like any sensible country.
thankyou, much better, btw 3-1 at soccer man can you poms play any sport? 8-)
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Australia has a very good education system.
damn right. 8-) wtf is with the msn icon though?
in summation mr X11 keep working at it. year 12 might be a little difficult getting through if ur used to how easy the rest of your education was but its worth it. talk the talk less and walk the walk more. actual ability will be respected far more than loudmouthing.
ps. if aone checks what os im using, its only temporary... mr slackware install wont install... lilo claims the mbr is too small ?!? and it wont let me make a linux boot disk either so i have to use windows till i can get my help at the local linux users group.
[ February 21, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]
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Originally posted by Macman: LITERALLY a genius / bob:
You only have ten years of school in Australia? That explains quite a bit.
Surprisingly, thats the only comment I have.
10 years then a "VCE" (college) for 2 years
12 years you dumb fat retart.
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man can you poms play any sport?
Not really. (http://smile.gif)
But we were playing a very young side if you remember, which explains some of it.
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"VCE" (college)
vce is college now is it? i always thought it wasnt but hey what the genius X11 says is true hey? dont call people dumb fat retards unless you know what your talking about you dumb fat retard.
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But we were playing a very young side if you remember, which explains some of it.
oh hush, we suck at soccer and now we finally win a game. plus its an excuse to pick on the damn poms... with their... evil... pom... ness. ???
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btw america has colleges, we have universities. say it with me X11 its only five sylables - u, ni, ver, sit, y. no, no X11, not v, c, e, thats really hi, skool (fool). btw have they taught you visual basic yet in that "college level" vce course? man the rest of the world already thinks Australians are backward savages dont make it worse. or we'll shove you in woomera, charge you $125 a night for the "pleasure" and then deport you to Zimbabwe. I live in Canberra now so if i want to force Johnny Coward to whip out the deportation i can little fella. so *watch yourself* 8-)
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Originally posted by Faust:
oh hush, we suck at soccer and now we finally win a game. plus its an excuse to pick on the damn poms... with their... evil... pom... ness. ???
Uhm you dumb fat hairy, person, VCE is just basicly what college is in the USA, is it not? yes it is, and i think i know that ALL countrys with a democratic goverment (at least they say they are) have univeritys, aussieland has all that, and faust, its only macman, he was ment to be flamed.
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Originally posted by Lt. Reliability of the Redmond Army:
That's not a very nice thing to say. There are 10 years of compulsory schooling in Australia, and 2 years non-compulsory, but the way things are going, if you don't do all 12, you will have a hard time finding a decent job. btw, I did all 12, and am now at uni. I also work as a database programmer, using skills that i started to acquire in grade 11 and 12, and continued to improve on. Australia has a very good education system.
Actually as soon as a kid turns 15 he can drop out if he likes so its about 9 years compolsuarty, after doing your VCE you can goto TAFE (dont know if you call it that in the US) but basicly you go there and can do a cource on whatever (my brothers doing Software Development, Hardware crap (which is more Windows orientated then a MSCE), ect.
<alf from home and away mode>AND DONT GO FLAMIN MY FLAIM CVOUNTRY UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR FLAMIN TALKING ABOUT YA FLAMIN FOOL</alf>
Oh and the Austrlian public education system (in my state) sucks ass, the goverment pays public school 30% of the education money, and the provate schools 70% which is fucking crazy, and austrlia is susposed to be a worker land, no its not, its ruled by corperations and im going to move to somwhere else. Im leaving austrlia, because of the goverment, it has 3 years to fix itself, then i goto Canada. I never hear canadians complaining so that where ill be going.
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how the fuck does that quote relate to your comment? a quote on soccer... followed by a comment on college/uni. it doesnt make sense fuckfeatures. btw im not fat (50kg) nor hairy (unless shoulder length is hairy now...) and im not dumb - you're the little year ten.
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VCE is just basicly what college is in the USA, is it not?
a: who the fuck cares this is australia. you want to be an american then follow little johnies lead.
b: they have junior high and senior high i think... (good system imo btw)
c: could an american please respond as to whether you call the last years of secondary education "college?"
what does having a democratic government have to do with uni? there are still smart ppl in undemocratic countries young fella. (yes i know pol pot etc like killing smart ppl but in some cases ok?)
yeah ok macman was asking for it. dont knock our country macman or we declare war on *you* personally instead of saddam.
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the goverment pays public school 30% of the education money, and the provate schools 70%
damn right thats fucked. its ok though most of the private school kids drop out at uni because their too used to being spoonfed. and a public school education will still have you knowing more than those narrowminded private school students. And STICK IN SCHOOL. Year ten dropouts cant be saved by TAFE... its maccas, bricklaying or putting tar on roads. If your smart trust me you want to keep going... most of the dumbasses drop out pre year 12 so if you stick through to year 12 they actually teach you *interesting* and (gasp) *relevant* and doubleplus gasp *harder* stuff. Yeah i know you can sleep through year 10 maths and still pass it, but thats only because of the jocks.
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ruled by corporations
dont like it? go to a demo, vote one green and never let stupid right wing fucks open their mouth without a smartass comment from you. dont give up x11 all the fun stuff is at uni... its only two more years in school till you get here. anyway in year ten / year eleven classes all you have to do is pass, which isnt hard so read interesting books during class its what i did. i would recommend Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a good book to start with. 8-) or a manual for something. anything really 8-).
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Originally posted by Calum: Member # 81:
i'm sure they have eleven or twelve of compulsory school, like any sensible country.
Whatever. I was just being an ass.
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yes it is wrong, nobody here cares, so im leaving this hole of a country.
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Originally posted by Faust:
c: could an american please respond as to whether you call the last years of secondary education "college?"
Well I'm a junior in an american high school... and I have one more year before i go to college. I think that proves your point (http://smile.gif)
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Junior = 11th year, not counting kindergarten.
[ February 22, 2003: Message edited by: cloudstrife ]
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thankyou, much better, btw 3-1 at soccer man can you poms play any sport? 8-)
i'm scottish, i usually wish luck to any side that will beat england, and i was very happy to hear how well australia trashed england the other day! my girlfriend's australian so i have a much better connection with australia than england.
and before we hear any comments about scotland not being much cop at football (yes i know you guys all have egg chasing games that you call football, but here 'soccer' is called football), remember that scotland can beat england on a good day (ie when they're not on the defensive) and more to the point, scotland's population is only a twelfth of england's.
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Scotland rules! My parents drag me to the highland games every year.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/simpsons/images/quotes/willy.gif)