I concur. NewEgg gets 99.9% of all my tech-related purchases. It's too bad that Circuit City couldn't survive, but I've only been in my local store once in the past year (and IIRC, I didn't buy anything then and left empty-handed.)
If that really bothers you, just alias those commands.
alias listopenfiles=ls
alias netfind=ngrep
...and so forth. I've done that to add the DOS "cls" command to clear my terminal screen. Also, I'm a Cisco admin, so I have aliased "en" to "su", and the reverse on Cisco switches and routers. Yes, Cisco also has the alias command in IOS.
If unix were being designed from the ground up, today, user friendly commands, with aliases to power user abbreviations might make sense. It was, however, created some 30+ years ago.
yeah, if you don't like it, change it (you could even put them on a USB stick or a server somewhere so you could install them on a new machine quickly). That one could change it honestly didn't occur to me til you said it.
Dell has long been ambivalent about Linux. Their earlier offerings were difficult to locate on their website. They rarely mentioned Linux in their direct mail catalogs. Only recently when they switched from SUSE to Ubuntu have they increased the visibility of their Linux offerings. It's slowly gaining momentum there. I look forward to the day when they start advertising that they sell Linux on their TV ads.
My thoughts exactly. Current Macs are Intel CPUs that can natively run all major popular operating systems, so what is this guy getting worked up about? Doesn't he know that you can run Windows on a Mac in a VM or natively, as the primary O/S?
Identifiable brands are ususally obfuscated unless the brand owner pays to advertise their brand (at least in the USA). Look at sitcoms on TV. The husband drinks beer out of a can that is red & white like a Budweiser can, but it clearly isn't a Budweiser can. Product placement is usually paid for, like Taco Bell did in the movie "Demolition Man".
Water is the enemy of wood and can rot it pretty quickly as well as invite termites. If wood is kept dry, it will last nearly forever. There is some ancient Egyptian furniture in museums that is more than 2,000 years old, and even more furniture and wooden artifacts (shields, tools, etc.) that are more than 1,000 years old.
I still have the first computer I bought: an Apple ][+. I haven't booted it up in over fifteen years. If it still works it could be useful for some things, but without a TCP/IP stack, it can never connect to the Internet or even a LAN which severely limits its usefulness to me. Even if hardware lasts 25 years, who can say what the needs of the user will be in that time and whether the hardware will support the software needed to support those needs?
For simpler tools, such as knives, hammers and wrenches, I always buy top quality and have many hand tools that are more than a quarter century old and in perfect working condition. Some of the hand tools I have were my grandfather's first, then my father's before coming to me.
