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| Hi,
i am a begginer to the world of unix, an interviewer asked me
" wat do u think is the difference between unix(or *.nix) and windows"
i kindly request u to help me to ans this Q?
sany
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| Jim Cochrane 2004-11-16, 3:56 am |
| In article <f860fdb0.0411151917.9be88ba@posting.google.com>, sandy wrote:
> Hi,
> i am a begginer to the world of unix, an interviewer asked me
> " wat do u think is the difference between unix(or *.nix) and windows"
> i kindly request u to help me to ans this Q?
> sany
You're either so much of a beginner that you don't realize that this is
similar to asking, in an auto-related newsgroup: "Would you please,
in this newsgroup, post an article that will teach me how to drive?", or
you're intentionally trying to waste people's time.
In other words (assuming it's the former), the only way for you to
really answer your question is to try out both OSs until you have enough
experience that you are confident that you can answer the question
yourself.
--
Jim Cochrane; jtc@dimensional.com
[When responding by email, include the term non-spam in the subject line to
get through my spam filter.]
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| sandy wrote:
> Hi,
> i am a begginer to the world of unix, an interviewer asked me
> " wat do u think is the difference between unix(or *.nix) and windows"
> i kindly request u to help me to ans this Q?
> sany
The difference is the same as that between a bicycle and a space shuttle,
with windows being the bike. In essence they are both a means of
transportation.
--
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
people very  and been widely regarded as a bad move."
-Douglas Adams
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| Philip Paeps 2004-11-16, 8:56 am |
| In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc wally <root@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
> sandy wrote:
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> The difference is the same as that between a bicycle and a space shuttle,
> with windows being the bike. In essence they are both a means of
> transportation.
I'll have to remember that one :-)
But I would compare microsoft "windows" to ice skates rather than a bike.
- Philip
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philip@paeps.cx I follow the newsgroup.
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| Barry Margolin 2004-11-16, 3:57 pm |
| In article <f860fdb0.0411151917.9be88ba@posting.google.com>,
gana.san@gmail.com (sandy) wrote:
> Hi,
> i am a begginer to the world of unix, an interviewer asked me
> " wat do u think is the difference between unix(or *.nix) and windows"
> i kindly request u to help me to ans this Q?
> sany
If you don't already know, you aren't even close to being qualified for
the job you were interviewing for. And getting us to help you won't
make you qualified.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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| Philip Paeps wrote:
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> I'll have to remember that one :-)
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> But I would compare microsoft "windows" to ice skates rather than a bike.
No, I agree with bike. You ride the town bike and you're guaranteed to
pick up an infection.
--
Bob
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| Barry Margolin wrote:
> If you don't already know, you aren't even close to being qualified for
> the job you were interviewing for. And getting us to help you won't
> make you qualified.
I actually assumed it was a homework question. I've seen loads of
examples of kids posting "bet you can't answer this" or "you'll be the
best if you can answer this" type subject lines, desperate to trick
another fifteen year old into writing their tech essay. And I reckon
'question of all time' is right along those lines.
--
Bob
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| Pascal Bourguignon 2004-11-16, 3:57 pm |
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gana.san@gmail.com (sandy) writes:
> Hi,
> i am a begginer to the world of unix, an interviewer asked me
> " wat do u think is the difference between unix(or *.nix) and windows"
> i kindly request u to help me to ans this Q?
> sany
1- Go buy MS-Windows.
2- Install MS-Windows on your PC.
3- Write a small program for MS-Windows.
4- Connect to the Internet.
5- Observe the worms on your PC and the SPAM it's sending.
6- Download a Linux distribution. (or FreeBSD)
7- Erase MS-Windows and install Linux. (or FreeBSD)
8- Write a small program for Linux. (or FreeBSD)
9- Connect to the Internet.
A- Observe how no worm can contaminate your PC.
B- Go back to the interviewer to answer what you think about the differences
between unix and MS-Windows.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
The world will now reboot; don't bother saving your artefacts.
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| Jetze Mellema 2004-11-16, 3:57 pm |
| Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> 1- Go buy MS-Windows.
> 2- Install MS-Windows on your PC.
> 3- Write a small program for MS-Windows.
> 4- Connect to the Internet.
> 5- Observe the worms on your PC and the SPAM it's sending.
Bad sy min alert!
--
Met vriendelijke groet,
Jetze Mellema
http://www.mellema.net/homecomputers 'Heel erg vet spul!'
http://www.mellema.net/tekoop IBM Pentium IV systeem, Tulip Pentium III
systeem
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| Bob wrote:
> Philip Paeps wrote:
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> No, I agree with bike. You ride the town bike and you're guaranteed to
> pick up an infection.
LOL! I never thought of it that way.
--
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
people very and been widely regarded as a bad move."
-Douglas Adams
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| Trent Buck 2004-11-16, 3:57 pm |
| Quoth Bob on or about 2004-11-16:
> I actually assumed it was a homework question.
If that's the case, then his country's education system is a damn sight
more clued than mine. Here in .au most secondary schools don't get much
farther than the relative merits of Microsoft Office components[0].
"*Programmin'*? That's Un-i-versitee teachin', son."
-trent
[0] Well, that was four years ago. Now you can apparently do a unit on Borland
Delphi (wow!).
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| Trent Buck wrote:
> Quoth Bob on or about 2004-11-16:
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> If that's the case, then his country's education system is a damn sight
> more clued than mine. Here in .au most secondary schools don't get much
> farther than the relative merits of Microsoft Office components[0].
>
> "*Programmin'*? That's Un-i-versitee teachin', son."
>
> -trent
> [0] Well, that was four years ago. Now you can apparently do a unit on
> [Borland
> Delphi (wow!).
Funny you say that, Here in Canada it reversed. I would say that my
highschool education was better than my university. Highschool did Basic in
grade 10, Turing (Used to be Pascal) in grade 11, and in grade 12 they
taught us C. I was amazed to see how much they covered: pointers,
structures, unions, etc. I cant speak for other universities, but mine
tried an introductory course in C in first year, they didnt even try to
cover pointers, scanf was the furthest they went and told us we should
accept the '&' as a given, and that we will be instructed when to use it.
Over the next three years they crippled our minds with Java. Programming in
Java makes me feel like trying to give a life saving speech with tongue cut
out. They also supplemented our education with as much microsoft software
as they can dig out. They even gave us free subscription to some MS website
where we can download legit copies of most MS crapware. By fourth year they
were pretty certain that we were well conditioned and gave us choice of
platform, I rejoiced and did everything in C on Linux/Solaris, the TAs had
no clue what to do about marking it.
There is many other areas where my formal education is lacking but I dont
concern myself with this, especially when I can see the answers an employer
will get when they ask one of these people to explain the difference
between WIndows and Unix (nevermind any other techincal subject)
I am glad to be done that BS. My personal favorite was:
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Input-->| System |--> Output
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| Justins local account 2004-11-16, 3:57 pm |
| Philip Paeps <philip+usenet@paeps.cx> writes:
> In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc wally <root@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
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> I'll have to remember that one :-)
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> But I would compare microsoft "windows" to ice skates rather than a bike.
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> - Philip
segway and a quad-bike?
One is expensive, available from only one supplier, stable in narrow
range of well defined environments and slow.
The other is available from a variety of vendors, with differing
prices and quality, are generaly fast, stable in a wide range of
environments, and gives you plenty of opportunity to do yourself
serious harm.
--
Justin Murdock
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| J. Porter Clark 2004-11-16, 3:57 pm |
| An obvious troll, gana.san@gmail.com (sandy), writes:
>Hi,
>i am a begginer to the world of unix, an interviewer asked me
>" wat do u think is the difference between unix(or *.nix) and windows"
>i kindly request u to help me to ans this Q?
>sany
Windows is to sh*t as *nix is to shinola.
You may quote me,
--
J. Porter Clark <jpc@suespammers.org>
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| Michael Green 2004-11-16, 3:57 pm |
| >
> But I would compare microsoft "windows" to ice skates rather than a bike.
>
> - Philip
Nah, no matter how good you get on "Windows", it still dumps you on your arse.
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| Randy Howard 2004-11-17, 3:59 pm |
| In article <20041117014735.43316a66@harpo.marx>, NOSPAMfubarbaz@bigpond.com
says...
> Quoth Bob on or about 2004-11-16:
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> If that's the case, then his country's education system is a damn sight
> more clued than mine. Here in .au most secondary schools don't get much
> farther than the relative merits of Microsoft Office components[0].
>
> "*Programmin'*? That's Un-i-versitee teachin', son."
Strange, 25 years ago, they taught programming in the 9th grade where I
grew up.
--
Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)
"For some reason most people seem to be born without the part
of the brain that understands pointers." -- Joel Spolsky
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| sol gongola 2004-11-17, 3:59 pm |
| Randy Howard wrote:
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> In article <20041117014735.43316a66@harpo.marx>, NOSPAMfubarbaz@bigpond.com
> says...
>
> Strange, 25 years ago, they taught programming in the 9th grade where I
> grew up.
>
> --
> Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)
> "For some reason most people seem to be born without the part
> of the brain that understands pointers." -- Joel Spolsky
I remember the same thing. It was on a machine like a Bendix where
you actually had to learn how a computer works in order to program it.
Today they rareley teach computers, they teach microsoft.
sol
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| Jose Pina Coelho 2004-11-30, 4:02 pm |
| Justins local account <justin-nntp@pipemedia.net> wrote in
news:aypt2dzrbq.fsf@bsdclient1.pipemedia.net:
> [...] and gives you plenty of opportunity to do yourself
> serious harm.
I thought that was IE ...
--
Doing AIX support was the most monty-pythonesque
activity available at the time.
Eagerly awaiting my thin chocolat mint.
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