Once upon a time, in a town far far away, 2 students, Windows & Linux were very popular in their local school. Half the class would favor Windows, while the rest would favor Linux. There would often be fights among the class mates over Windows & Linux.
Fed up with the constant fights, the teacher decided to test both of them in simple calculations. She was to ask both of them 3 questions, and whoever answered all of them was the winner.
The test was scheduled on 12th of June 2008. We bring you the live results.
Question 1
Teacher: What is 5 ^ 2 ? ( ^ stands for ‘raised to the power’ )
Windows answered: The answer is 25
Linux answered:Huh! That’s too easy! Are you insulting me? Here’s the answer. Now ask more difficult ones.
Since both of them answered it correctly, the teacher moved on to the second question. The score was level 1 - 1.
Question 2
Teacher: What is 123 ^ 123 ?
Windows answered:
Teacher:Windows? What is this e+257 ? Who asked you to express the result in an exponential form? I want the complete result, accurate up to the last unit’s place.
Windows:Sorry Madam! I don’t know how to calculate so accurately.
Teacher:Linux! Can you answer it the way I want?
Linux answered:Sure Ma’am! Have a look at my answer.
Teacher:That is indeed the correct answer! The score now is Linux 2 - Windows 1. This is the final question.
Question 3
Teacher: Calculate 12345 ^ 12345 ?
Windows answered:
Teacher:You are calling my question invalid? Ridiculous!! You should rather be saying, “Sorry! This is too much for me to calculate. I can’t do such huge computations.” Linux, I hope you won’t let me down.
Linux answered:Certainly not ma’am! You give me anything to do! I will always give you the answer and that too the way you want, correct up to the unit’s place. Here’s my answer.
28678652250036694428264556049831799639658398529657212556768276628156\
96261243172347789319941760086956841965972700488642307045998675445189\
84960996737862117995807379142674907192989339718880065284843484709220\
46522997772125192222112118557757900006720919493481549573810933428036\
89165122900820157088604214710502544876982691049541677186794836992989\
07974081747060546208718375389204314445497215881794694894684687375359\
62687607333571191466271021861688294604734302375739696328810431827027\
91429564012052045914119507177013466017683361896410615937679211596486\
17986564739287063543667898753671513319828497309322258396679417811597\
04387604855335056462341300502451888485722096720490458750302708255415\
// Message truncated for ease of read.
Linux:Ma’am the length of this result is seven hundred and forty lines (740 lines!!!) and I have calculated all the fifty thousand, five hundred ten digits (50510 digits!!!) accurately. Ma’am the length of this result is seven hundred and forty lines (740 lines!!!) and I have calculated all the fifty thousand, five hundred ten digits (50510 digits!!!) accurately.
Teacher: Mind blowing Linux! Very well done!
…..And Windows and Linux never fought thereafter. (How we all wish)
June 12th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
BWAHAHHAHAHAAHHA.
as a fanboy would say Linux RULEZZZ!!
(Guess who the fanboy is
)
June 12th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
hmmm, valid point, wonder why so though?
June 12th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I knew it! I knew the moment I saw the word “Linux” on twitter as your blog post, I just knew that Sathya would’ve already commented LMAO!!!!!!
June 12th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
June 12th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
@Sathya - I thought of you while writing this post. Knew you’d be around when I mention “Linux”. I’ve tried installing Linux a couple of times on my PC, but fail to find simple thing like “My Computer” etc, cant play songs, cant find browser, so I’ve lost hope. Though I’d love to get some basic formal training
@Manan - Have you ever used a Linux machine before? Comfortable using?
@Devesh - Absolutely Likewise - I think I should try getting Linux on my box again and press “F1 Sathya” if I’m stranded
June 12th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Aah its simple dude. get Ubuntu, and watch these screencasts!
http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/
PS: F1 Sathya will do
June 12th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Hardy is truly exceptional.
However, my XP Pro installation is still hanging on in dual boot cos I need to run Sony Vegas for video editing. Nothing out there on Linux for video man!
June 13th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Easier said than done @Sathya. I guess i’ll have to get a box first where I can install Linux, dont want this happening on the laptop.
@Prashant - Video Editing for work, or TP ? Sathya might be able to help you if there is any video editing software in Linux.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Naa man Prashanth is right for Professional Video Editing, nothing on Linux.
he can have a look at this though:
http://www.progbox.co.uk/wordpress/?p=540
June 13th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Thanks for the link Sathya - not sure how useful it would be for Prashant.
June 14th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Nothing professional… although there isn’t anything even halfway close to what a Win or OSX platform might have for video.
It doesn’t mean I don’t love my Ubuntu install.
Only boot into WinXP when I need to get some screen time with video.