rofl you spend some time doing shit, shaq. I thought I was bad eating my garlick cookies, they expired in july. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mohammed Shaqeel" <mshaqeel@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <adeel420@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 2:40 AM Subject: [adeel420] Re: Question to do with freelists > > roflrofl man k man they can get me if they want. man I > found this interesting article on the nett. look at > the end there's someone callded randle that comes in > it. > > True History Of The Net > [Key Players and Terms identified at end] > > First there was God. He was quite lonely so he created > Dennis. > > Dennis was unimpressed with God. > > So,... God created Brian. > > But, Brian got bored with God. > > So Brian and Dennis started playing, and they created > C. God saw C, and saw that it was good. So he decided > to let Brian and Dennis play some more. > > Then Brian and Dennis created Unix. God saw Unix, and > he was jealous. So he created Bill to torment Brian > and Dennis and obscure their creation (for God > could not destroy Unix, for he secretly admired its > perfection). > > So Bill created Microsoft. And Microsoft created > Windows. And God saw that it was bad, but it had > market share, so he was happy. Then Bill got cocky, > and > his ego got bigger than God's. So to knock Bill down a > couple of pegs, God put into effect, a wondrous plan. > > First God created Tim. And Tim created the World Wide > Web (using Unix, of course). This was good, but not > THAT good. So God created Marc. Marc created Mosaic > (using Unix, of course). Mosaic created a huge feeding > frenzy that has cost a lot of people who are reading > this their jobs. > > But that's a different story. Mosaic was good, and God > saw it was good, so he allowed Marc to start Netscape. > Back to this later. > > But all this time Brian and Dennis started to make > something better than Unix called Plan 9 (because God > was successful in foiling Brian and Dennis' previous > seven plans [there was no Plan 8 because Brian and > Dennis pulled the wool over God's eyes and just jumped > to Plan 9, which was too bright a move for even > God to figure out.] ) > > Eventually, God figured out how to create Larry. > > No one knows how or why he created Larry, except > perhaps to reduce productivity at the Jet Propulsion > Labs at NASA. [Rumors are that God created Larry > because > he secretly liked what Dennis and Brian had done with > C, but didn't think C and Unix was enough -- this > probably isn't true because God believed he had > destroyed Brian and Dennis' plans by destroying Plans > 1-7, and by creating Microsoft to slay their beloved > Unix. > > Anyhow, Larry created Perl (using Unix and C, of > course), and God saw it was good, so he made Randal. > Larry and Randal wrote books about Perl. And everyone > saw that this was good, except snobs who were too much > into C, Windows, and Intel. > > One day God and the angels were discussing all this, > and in walks an Intel lawyer. God asked him, "Where > have you been?" and the lawyer said, "Cruising > the Net". God thought he would cut the Intel lawyer > down a peg, so he said, "You must have seen my > faithful servant, Randal. What do you think? Books, > courses, free advice on the news group, the guy never > stops." But Intel's lawyer said to God, "Big deal, > what with all the money from royalties, consulting, > courses, etc., no wonder he's such a boy scout. Take > it away, and he'll give up, curse you and stop telling > bad jokes." > > This was too much for God. "No way!", he said. "Go > take all Randal has, but let him keep teaching courses > as long as he tells those great jokes. I love > his jokes." (Randal's jokes are a big hit with God and > all the angels. On earth folks think they're bad. In > Heaven they say you had to be there.) So the > Intel lawyer had the Oregon D.A. take every penny > Randal makes that isn't necessary to keep him teaching > courses. And that is why Randal tells bad jokes > as if his life depended on it. > > The Intel lawyer told the D.A. and everyone else that > the reason Randal was being punished was because he > sinned against God by breaking into Intel. And > many repeat the story told by the Intel lawyer even > unto this day. > > Anyhow, back to Randal. So Randal and Larry wrote > books, but they had to be nice because of the people > they worked for. So then came Tom. But back to Tom > later. > > Anyhow, God saw Netscape (made using Unix and C, of > course), and he saw it was good, and that annoyed Bill > quite a bit. And that made Him very happy, and > made Marc very rich. But Bill was already very very > rich. But that's a completely different story. > > But as good as Larry's creation, Perl, was, it > couldn't do everything, so God created Scott. Scott > announced Java, and this was big news. Now Java really > pissed Bill off, because Bill also created Blackbird, > and Java killed Blackbird. This was bad because > killing Blackbird also meant killing the Microsoft > Network. And many rejoiced over that, but that, too is > another story. > > Now Java, obviously had done much to annoy Bill. For > Java was so good that Bill had to license Java. All > this time, Scott poked lots of fun at Bill because > Sun, which was where Scott worked, made a better OS, > derived -- of course -- from Unix, which was better > than Bill's and Microsoft's Windows. > > Anyhow, even God's creations Steve and Steve who > created Apple couldn't make Bill license the much > superior MacOS. But finally, Bill had to license Java. > So justice was served, and Bill's ego was served him > on a platter for him to eat his words. Or something. > That part is unclear. > > So by this time Windows and Microsoft and Bill in > general really sucked. Especially considering the > advantages that Brian and Dennis' C and Unix, running > Marc's Netscape and Mosaic over Tim's World Wide Web, > doing cool CGI stuff with Larry's Perl, which you > learned from Randal and Tom, and got to program > with Scott's Java. > > And God realized he had put Bill down too far. So then > God made it so that Marc's Netscape and Mosaic could > run on Windows. We already know that Bill had > to license Java from Scott. We know that Bill missed > the boat for not beating Tim to the punch on the World > Wide Web. The last straw was for God to make > it possible for Larry's Perl to run on Bill's Windows. > > So back to Tom. Tom was a Perl God. And God didn't > like this, but Tom's a God so there isn't much God > could do, so He couldn't stop Tom from saying things > like "install an operating system on your poor lonely > computer the way God and Dennis intended", and > "Espousing the eponymous /cgi-bin/perl.exe?FMH.pl > execution model is like reading a suicide note - three > days too late." > > The moral to the story? God is fickle. That's why > Microsoft and Bill and Windows exists. Do what God > intended, install C, Unix, Mosaic/Netscape, Java, and > Perl on your system, and make Brian, Dennis, Larry, > Tim, Tom, Randal, Scott, and even Steve and Steve, I'm > sure, happy by doing so. > > Oh yeah, Linus was cool too. He's the guy you thank > for being able to run all the cool stuff on your > crappy little Pee Cee. (anything with x86 on it, by > default, is crappy, no PERSONAL flames intended) > > Glossary (courtesy, Dr. Priest, CITS): > > Brian and Dennis -- of Kernighan and Ritchie Fame for > developing the "C" language at Bell laboratories. "The > C Programming Language" The "bible" for C programmers. > > "C" -- came after "A" and "B" -- perhaps the most > flexible and extensible language for programming > > Bill -- Bill Gates (who else?) > > Tim -- CERN's Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of HTML and > the web > > Marc -- Marc Andraesson, developer of the graphical > browser at NCSA -- Mosaic, founder of Netscape > > Larry -- Larry Wall, Associate with O'Reilly and > Associates (previously Unisys and Seagate) > > Randal -- Randal Schwartz "Eclectic Tradesman and > Entrepreneur", Stonehenge Consulting Services, > previously, Tektronix, ServioLogic, Sequent > > Larry and Randal -- Authors of "Programming Perl, 1st > edition" > > Perl -- "Practical Extraction and Report Language" > sometimes referred to as "Pathologically Eclectic > Rubbish Lister" > > Tom -- Tom Christiansen, Free-lance consultant, > previously with Convex > > Larry, Randal, and Tom -- Authors of "Programming > Perl, 2nd Edition" > > CGI -- "Common Gateway Interface", used for making web > pages interactive > > Scott -- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems > > Java -- locally run code on a PC, received, usually, > from a web site > > Steve and Steve -- Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, > co-founders of Apple Computer. Jobs went on to found > NeXT, which created NeXTstep, an object-oriented > Operating > System for various platforms. NeXT was later acquired > by Apple Computer. What's next? "The Woz" went on to > do other amazing and often legendary things. > > k, chow, > Licenced To Chill > > --- Sean Randall > <Shwatscoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > man you insulting me here? > > You may have just been saying whatever crap popped > > into your head like you > > always do, but I detected the faintest hint, > > tanjable taste of perhaps a > > teeny weeny little insult? > > bad boy! > > Now the F B i, C I A, and s.h.hwat have to > > investigate you, mohamed. > > be ware, idiots are coming! > > ----- Original Message ----- > > ---has been deleted--- > > ---so suck my pop2 account--- > > ---and the next time you say I can't count i'll > > blow--- > > ---blow your friggin head off--- > > > > > > ===== > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > >