My Quora Answer : In practice, there are only two operating systems today with any real traction : Unix (including Linux, BSD, Android, MacOS etc.) and Windows. And from my point of view, Windows has two fundamental problems : 1) A lousy command-line terminal environment that 2) Lousy multi-tasking. I’ve had Windows 7 freeze-up on …
Tag Archives: unix
Blame the Tools for Thought
Giles Bowkett : This is, in my opinion, the strongest argument for seeing Unix and basic coding skills as fundamental required literacy today. As prostheses for memory and identity, computers are too useful not to use, but if you don’t know how to craft your own code which gives you a UX which matches the …
What's Like RSS?
Dave Winer asked a great question back in December. What standards are like (his ideal for) RSS? That is, basically fixed forever by convention, large userbase and multiple suppliers? My suggestions : In practice, a few Unix classics : SSH, the diff / patch formats, rsync, finger. All used on a grand scale by many …
Plan 9 mounts and dependency injection
Cool.
SmallTalk Unix
A quick thought I had a week or so ago on the “failure” of SmallTalk. What if SmallTalk hadn’t abandoned the file system? What if it had become the official graphical shell of Unix? Here : http://thoughtstorms.info/view/smalltalkunix
Linux Commands For The Web
Can’t remember if I saw this before, or if I posted it, but it’s beautiful. One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn’t yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. talk and finger became ICQ, LISTSERV became Yahoo! Groups, ls became (the original) Yahoo!, …