Do you prefer the former or the latter?

What the hell happened to my poll? Christ.

I always prefer the latter.

gawd, I think I'm bi-polar.

think about THAT as you drink your morning coffee and live your regular lives you lucky bastards.

I usually prefer the former, but the latter is an excellent alternative when the former is not preferable.

I'll take the former. It just sounds more sculptural, ya know.

I've been looking for a happy medium between the former and the latter.

Would that be fatter or flatter?

A latte please

Do you prefer the femur or the latissimus?

Do you prefer the farmer or the cattle?

Animals over people anyday.

Do you prefer Bulimia or Malaria?

Lapsang Souchong or Jasmine Green?

Jasmine Green. Drinking Lapsang Souchong is like smoking the wrong end of a lit cigarette.

rusty trombone or a Cleveland steamer?

I prefer the flatter.

:)

I'd like to be flatter.

hither or yon?

which the hell?

Yon, Cuz it looks like he is gonna sue Michael Moore.

More or less?
nroff or groff?
emacs or vi? (oh no I didn't go there!)

wtf or wth?

wtf or ftw?

Pie;522288 wrote:

More or less?
nroff or groff?
emacs or vi? (oh no I didn't go there!)

Bonus geek points there + :lol2:

vi (vim actually) when possible. Emacs keys in IDEs and elsewhere.

Yeah, I'm vi/vim too.
There's a disturbing lack of posix-compliant environments in my new place of work. I can feel myself getting dumber by the minute as I sit in front of my xp box. The Cellar is also too close at hand, I get nothing done!

Pie;522298 wrote:

Yeah, I'm vi/vim too.
There's a disturbing lack of posix-compliant environments in my new place of work. I can feel myself getting dumber by the minute as I sit in front of my xp box. The Cellar is also too close at hand, I get nothing done!

cygwin?

I actually prefer the mingw tools and tcsh, since they try to handle normal win32 drives and paths, but cygwin has a wider range of stuff.

And vim is available for native win32.

You also might like Console - like rxvt but better (tabbed sessions).

After a ns of working with wysiwyg, I found the scsi ui to be afu.

dar512;522317 wrote:

cygwin?

I actually prefer the mingw tools and tcsh, since they try to handle normal win32 drives and paths, but cygwin has a wider range of stuff.

And vim is available for native win32.

You also might like Console - like rxvt but better (tabbed sessions).

After my last post, I went and installed Cygwin. :D
I will check out Console. Thanks for the tip!

glatt;522320 wrote:

After a ns of working with wysiwyg, I found the scsi ui to be afu.

scsi is passé. I've got a whole box of scsi cables (once worth hundreds of dollars). Now they're pretty useless.

And they are fat enough that one or two will fill a whole box.

<geek>dar (or anyone else), are you running Ubuntu anywhere? I'm eager to upgrade to Jaunty Jackalope -- seems like a major speed increase with ext4. </geek>

*blinks* I have no idea what you are talking about. I recognise IDE and scsi....that's it.

Pie;522332 wrote:

<geek>dar (or anyone else), are you running Ubuntu anywhere? I'm eager to upgrade to Jaunty Jackalope -- seems like a major speed increase with ext4. </geek>

I'm a BSD kinda guy myself. But I think RichLevy runs Ubuntu, IIRC.

Linux is for people who hate Microsoft. BSD is for people who like Unix.

DanaC;522338 wrote:

*blinks* I have no idea what you are talking about. I recognise IDE and scsi....that's it.

Remember Pie's evil plan to take over the world? This is the first pebble to fall. Bwaahaahaa.

j/k

DanaC;522338 wrote:

*blinks* I have no idea what you are talking about. I recognise IDE and scsi....that's it.

You are at least one step ahead of me...:sniff:

dar512;522339 wrote:

Linux is for people who hate Microsoft. BSD is for people who like Unix.

Touché.

<quavery>But I started farting around with ver 0.95 back in 1992. It had nothing to do with religion.</old voice>

Pie;522288 wrote:

More or less?
nroff or groff?
emacs or vi? (oh no I didn't go there!)

classicman;522363 wrote:

You are at least one step ahead of me...:sniff:

The explanation will also make your eyes glaze over, but here you go:

'more' is the name of the ancient unix command to display text files one page at a time. The more modern version by the gnu organization is named 'less' as a play on 'more'. [Don't say we geeks have no sense of humor]

So, this fit right into the original meme of the thread, but has the additional geekiness to make it funny.

nroff and groff are the older and gnuish versions of the tools to format and display man (manual) pages on unix.

Then Pie slides in vi vs. emacs which on geek boards has been known to start flame wars. vi and emacs are text editors - both with long heritages. People generally love one and hate the other.

While I have strong opinions about what makes a good editor, I can and do use both vim (vi improved) and emacs as it makes sense.

IDE = Integrated Development Environment. A complete environment (normally GUI) which has most of the stuff needed for a developer to create software.

SCSI = Small Computer System Interface. Like USB or Firewire, but older and hardly used anymore.

Pie;522366 wrote:

Touché.

<quavery>But I started farting around with ver 0.95 back in 1992. It had nothing to do with religion.</old voice>

Really? Wow. I'm not worthy. :notworthy

re: dar - :blownup: