IAR80 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @03:12PM (#28029575) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

Correct. MCC Interim Linux was the first linux distro.

Comment Re:64bit only DVD's? (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:53PM (#28029301) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

No digital cameras then. :) I remember it was a shopping bag full of them. Unfortunatelly not the most reliable medium. I still have vivid memories from the strugle.

Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 2, Insightful) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:48PM (#28029223) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

From Gentoo to Suse! Ouch. My path was Slackware -> FreeBSD -> Gentoo and never got tired of compiling. Such is Unix.

Comment Re:Original anouncement (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:46PM (#28029179) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

I used to run that on a 386DX33 with 4MB of RAM. And I was fortunate I had a friend who had to run it on 2MB. Try that nowadays. When I got money for 8MB Xwindows started flying even using Openlook.

Comment Original anouncement (Score 2, Informative) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:44PM (#28029145) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

http://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php

Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:41PM (#28029113) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

Yep! Best learning distro ever. Actualy the first linux distro.

Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:40PM (#28029093) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

I found in 2004 a slackware 3.6 mail server which I instaled back in 1998. It hasn't been rebooted since. Almost 6 years uptime and over the 2000 day mark.

Comment Re:64bit only DVD's? (Score 1) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:37PM (#28029039) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

First one I installed it was 40 something floppy drives and it took me quite a few hours. That was back in 93. Nowadays you install everything off a usb stick in minutes. Sort of spoils the whole adventure.

Comment Re:Wow Slack is still around? (Score 3, Insightful) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:34PM (#28029001) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

If you want a linux engineer to fix things up for you pick a Slackware user not an Ubuntu one.

Comment Re:Glad to here. (Score 2, Funny) 164

by IAR80 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:31PM (#28028979) Attached to: 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive

First distro I ever used. And I kept using it until 2002. It warped me for good on the BSD file layout. Now I can only use Gentoo because of that. :)

Comment Re:Will this help? (Score 1) 259

by IAR80 on Thursday May 14, 2009 @05:28AM (#27948863) Attached to: Gates Foundation Funds "Altruistic Vaccine"

Me neither, but I am strongly advocating for the reduction of our impact on the environment. Otherwise we will cull ourselves by famine, due to destruction of fertile land, disease, caused by pollution lack of water supply and ultimately genocide. WAIT! We are already doing that! http://www.library.utoronto.ca/pcs/eps/rwanda/rwanda1.htm

Comment Re:Will this help? (Score 4, Informative) 259

by IAR80 on Thursday May 14, 2009 @04:15AM (#27948555) Attached to: Gates Foundation Funds "Altruistic Vaccine"

Mosquitoes certainly have their role in the ecosystem and killing them will certainly have unforeseen consequences. More like in the Mao and sparrows story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sparrow_Campaign

Comment Why a 100K would be needed from Bill to fund this? (Score 5, Insightful) 259

by IAR80 on Thursday May 14, 2009 @04:06AM (#27948499) Attached to: Gates Foundation Funds "Altruistic Vaccine"

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist." HÃ©lder CÃmara

Comment Re:Translation (Score 4, Funny) 435

by IAR80 on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @04:49PM (#27156885) Attached to: Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests

And they call me anti-social next they are going to call me a communist.

Comment Jane Goodal (Score 3, Funny) 435

by IAR80 on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @04:46PM (#27156835) Attached to: Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests

Bring me that Jane Goodall chick!

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