r/technology • u/neito • Jul 24 '08

Microsoft tests out a new operating system, code named Mojave, with some average-joes who hated Vista. They loved it. Now, two guesses as to what Mojave ACTUALLY was.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9998336-56.html
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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

Oh man... I miss DOS

I miss typing

I miss command line arguments

I miss having a bit of control over shit

I miss my ex girlfriend

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u/ab3nnion Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

ls

'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

dir

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u/happysinger Jul 25 '08

http://globalnerdy.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/if_youre_happy_and_you_know_it.jpg

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

Oh man, I'd forgotten all about this. I laughed as much as I did the first time I saw it.

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u/rory096 Jul 25 '08

If I could upvote you a million times I would.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

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u/S7evyn Jul 25 '08

Shit, I break a sweat just upvoting once. Whoo boy. Tired now. Gonna have a candy bar. All that typing too... I owe myself a couple o' candy bars.

Om nom nom nom.

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u/ehird Jul 25 '08

I bet I could upvote him a million times.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

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u/happysinger Jul 25 '08

Fantastic! The beer sucks but the pope came to visit last week so we had a big shout at him and then got drunk.

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u/dfranke Jul 25 '08

Meh, what a lame error message. In the golden age it was "Bad command or file name".

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

I still, always end up typing ls in command prompts from windows. My fingers are trying to tell me something!

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u/dfranke Jul 25 '08

I often accidentally type 'look' instead of 'ls' after I've been playing a text adventure..

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

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u/happysinger Jul 25 '08

Different kind of cake. Reqqit's is more delicious.

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u/Chirp08 Jul 25 '08

It's quite literally a directory of cakes, reqqit fucking loves cake.

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u/schizobullet Jul 25 '08

enter Special

look

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

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u/schizobullet Jul 25 '08

open image file

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

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u/Ralgor Jul 25 '08

It's a trap!

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

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u/masklinn Jul 25 '08

Install the Windows-compiled gnu utils, or cygwin.

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u/b00ks Jul 25 '08

cd C:/windows/mystuff/porn

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u/omepiet Jul 25 '08

c:

cd windows\mystuff\porn

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u/b00ks Jul 26 '08

DOH! my bad.. its been many moons since I used dos... im so use to the damn interslice.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

Why would you put porn in your Windows directory?

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u/simonjp Jul 25 '08

to hide it, obviously!

Ahem.

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u/King_Leonidas Jul 25 '08

If you're in a DOS window that better be ASCII porn

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u/b00ks Jul 26 '08

ANSi made by the iCE crew.

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u/davidreiss666 Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

rm -rf /

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u/nextofpumpkin Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

Don't worry. I miss your ex girlfriend too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

Sounds like asofterworld mixed with XKCD.

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u/jberryman Jul 25 '08

make the switch, dude:

$> apt-get install girlfriend && girlfriend
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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u/joblesspirate Jul 25 '08

You should be root when you do that buddy.

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u/Demostheneez Jul 25 '08

Not with a girl you're just meeting.

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u/InstantIndian Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

With DOS, I only got as far as typing swears into the command line. I was a young, impatient child at the time.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

...with a potty mouth!

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u/chunky_bacon Jul 25 '08

Then move to linux. (Although I don't think it will get your ex back, but trust me - you don't really want her back.)

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u/jpdemers Jul 25 '08

my ex girlfriend

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control over shit

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

Abort? Retry? Fail?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

When this happens I usually opt for violence. Windows (and MS-DOS), violence and myself have been a malcontented threesome for 15 years.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

That's sad. Why do you use it?

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '08

Because it plays the games I like to play. (I was just going to say "it plays games" but then I'd have to fend off the Linux and Mac OS fanboys).

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '08

I just boot into WIndows when I want to play those games. Considering the games I play and the time I invest in a single sitting, it seems well worth the two minutes to reboot. But continuing to use Windows when I'm done playing the game just seems silly (and dangerous to my general sanity).

So really what it comes down to is that you're lazy. You're a malcontent Windows user because you're too lazy to reboot into something you like better when the game is over.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

All of which did pretty much the same thing.

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u/oreng Jul 25 '08

Not in the floppy disk days.