User:AgadaUrbanit
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Agada Urbanit (Hebrew: אגדה אורבנית) - English: Urban legend
The quality of an operation system is more a subject of religious debate than of technical merit. The Windows community is like the Catholic Church; it has the largest following, and its members a mostly laymen who do not participate much in religious debates. The community is organized on strong hierarchical lines.
The Unix community is like the mainstream Protestant Church; it has not as large a following as the Windows community, and its members define the system and run the community. Like the Protestant Church, there are many flavors of observance: Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mach; the list is as long as list of protestant variants. Most are highly evangelical - a good Protestant trait - with Linux perhaps being the most fanatical.
The Macintosh community hangs somewhere in the lurch between Windows and Unix, the Catholic and the Protestants, a bit like the Anglican Church; they're Protestant acting like Catholics.
Plan 9 from Bell Labs is like the Quakers: distinguished by its stress to "Inner Light," noted for simplicity of life, in particular for plainness of speech, like the Quakers, Plan 9 does not proselytize.
— Sape J. Mullender, Pierre G. Janson, Real Time in Real Operating System[1]
About me[edit]
- I am a reader: science fiction specializing in Muad'dib and military history specializing in Gaza War.
- I am also a software engineer specializing in kernel panic.
- I do not WP:OWN those articles.
Barnstars[edit]
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Civility Award | |
| Sincerely, I award you a barnstar for your civility in the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict debates. --Darwish (talk) 12:53, 10 February 2009 (UTC) |
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The BLP Barnstar | |
| It's nice to see someone actually taking BLP policy seriously, and making articles policy-compliant. JN466 22:35, 21 May 2011 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar |
| Thanks for your contributions, AgadaUrbanit. SwisterTwister talk 17:53, 20 May 2012 (UTC) |
Not quite a barnstar, but...[edit]
—Biosketch (talk) 06:23, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hello AgadaUrbanit, I hope you enjoy this cookie as an amicable greeting from a fellow vandal fighter/Wikipedian. SwisterTwister talk 21:05, 24 December 2011 (UTC) |
See also[edit]
- Paul thinks, "They will call me Muad'Dib", and they do call him Muad'Dib, because thats what's he asks them to call him. He must be psychic! [3]
- Some functional programming devotees use the derogatory term destructive assignment to refer to the imperative programming assignment operation.[4]
- I am pleased that God made my skin black but I wish He had made it thicker.[5]
- A multilingual handsome kernel panic dialog in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is more informative to the end-user than older Mac OS X 10.0, 10.1 gibberish messages.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ Mullender, Sape J.; Janson, Pierre G. (2004-02-26). "Real Time in Real Operating System". In Herbert, Andrew J.; Jones, Karen Spärck (eds.). Computer systems: theory, technology, and applications : a tribute to Roger Needham. Springer Science+Business Media. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-387-20170-2.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ Professor Wikipedia. Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ^ Scott Clevenger; Sheri Zollinger (11 June 2006). Better Living Through Bad Movies. iUniverse. p. 89. ISBN 9780595400232. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- ^ Ruediger-Marcus Flaig (2008). Bioinformatics programming in Python: a practical course for beginners. Wiley-VCH. pp. 98–99. ISBN 9783527320943. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
- ^ Gerald Lyn Early (1998). Ain't but a place: an anthology of African American writings about St. Louis. Missouri History Museum. p. 126. ISBN 9781883982287. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
- ^ David Pogue (17 December 2009). Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition. O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. 589. ISBN 9780596804251. Retrieved 4 May 2011.