Comments on: Version Numbers and User Perception

by: Luke

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:36:32 +0000

OMG! You mean you never saw goatsey [wiki]? Just read the wiki. It’s a disgusting shock site.

Assholes used to post it all the time on popular message boards and mailing lists, usually masking it with tinyurl or something like that and disguising their links as something that seems on topic and relevant.

But, yeah - the original site doesn’t seem to have the shock image anymore. Wiki has a link to a mirror if you are curious enough to risk being permanently scarred for life like the rest of us. Just remember that it’s definitely NSFW.

by: teamcoltra

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:17:51 +0000

What Is that… it looks like a real text version of http://www.lipsum.com/

by: Luke

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:11:13 +0000

Where do i go to download notepad?

Standard answer to that is of course: goatse.cx

by: Travis McCrea

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:05:38 +0000

I mean seriously how do you buy a website, and everything else… and not know the basics of web design.

by: Travis McCrea

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:04:54 +0000

I have had a few people like that… Luckly for me i tend to only do support for web design and most of those people know what they are doing. But you would be supprised…. “Where do i go to download notepad?”

START-> ALL PROGRAMS (IF ON XP OR HIGHER) -> ACCESSORYS

by: Luke

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:01:58 +0000

Not everyone knows that they are using windows…

I have been told that they were running “The Microsofts”, “Dell” and “Outlook” when I asked them about the OS.

by: Travis McCrea

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:52:34 +0000

Its horrible once you hit the mac platform Especially about 3 years ago when they were having the X problems
like you have 10.0.2 then 10.1.5 and its just crazy… I think if I have been tracking them properly they have simplified it (I love macs but after I stopped using them… I stopped following as much)
But I dont know, if you know the software your using well enough… YOu should know the version number like im on e107 v0.7.8. Then again im a support team member and am required to know this

it all comes down to it… some people forget to check if their computer is plugged in, when their computer doesnt turn on… let alone able to know what version of anything they are using… they know they are on windows.. thats it.

by: Luke

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:29:33 +0000

Hehe. Java did that to me too. It goes like this:

Java 1.0
Java 1.1
Java 1.2
Java 1.3
Java 1.4
Java 5.0

WTF???

I have no clue how do these big version number jumps even make sense.

by: Craig Betts

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:06:17 +0000

Remember how sun does their OS?

It used to be easy in the SunOS days . . . MajorRev#.MinorRev#.MaintenancePack#

Then the went from BSD to System V, thus began Solaris

SunOS 5.5.1 = Solaris 2.5.1

Until Solaris after Solaris 2.6 which was Solaris 7
SunOS 5.7.x = Solaris 7

Now we have Solaris Express, which is supposed to be the next Solaris, and OpenSolaris.

*sigh*

I may go load BSD . . . let’s see . . . OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD . . . AAARRRRGH!

*pulls out DOS 6.22 disks . . . *

by: Luke

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:58:41 +0000

Oh man, I should know this - is feisty before Hoary or after Edgy? Let’s see:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)
Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
Ubuntu 6.06.0 (Dapper Drake)
Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)

So feisty is the current unstable branch due for release in April, I think.

Then you get your debans:

hamm
slink
potato
woody
sarge
etch

Woody was the best codename ever, because of the embedded humor payload!