Comments on: Open Cola

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:05:37 +0000

“I’d hate to see a Redmond hack.”

http://uk.gizmodo.com/bill%20gates.jpg

Couldn’t resist.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:53:58 +0000

Back to sodajuice: I got spam yesterday (to an email address I had given to ReserveAmerica when we reserved a campsite:

http://www.sodaclubusa.com

When I first opened it (since it was “from” ReserveAmerica, I didn’t think it would be spam) and saw what it was, I forgot that it was from them and figured ‘ole pink sent it as a joke…

If it had a built-in ceramic and charcoal filter, it might be tempting…

By: mark

mark — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:48:00 +0000

DOS was a hack. Windows 1 was a hacked patch on a hack. …. Windows ME was a patched hack on a patched hack on a …. hack.

NT 3.5 was a hack. Windows 4.0 was a patch on a hack. Windows 2000 was a hacked patch on a patch on a hack. Windows XP was a patch on a hacked patch on a patch on a hack.

Vista is just plain scary.

(To be fair, Fedora Core 1 and 2 were pretty lame also. As was Solaris 2, 2.1, and 2.2 - it took Sun 4 major releases just to get a stable Sys V Unix release.)

NeXTSTEP 3, upon which OS-X is based, was just plain beautiful. ‘Wish I could justify the cost of a Mac…

By: pinakidion

pinakidion — Wed, 30 May 2007 04:06:47 +0000

If that was a patch, I’d hate to see a Redmond hack.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:32:26 +0000

ME was a “patch” not a “hack”.

By: pinakidion

pinakidion — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:35:29 +0000

grep seltzer.

That sounds like a cool band name to me.

I was going to say something about how Sodajuice would be more like Ubuntu than Debian, but there is a limit.

By: mark

mark — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:02:59 +0000

sodajuice is the ultimate expression of the Unix Philosophy: small standalone tools that can be combined together to make things that are better than the sum of their parts. Why would I want to re-write grep or manufacture seltzer?

By: wax tablet

wax tablet — Mon, 28 May 2007 03:58:31 +0000

You mean no one offers a hack as an OEM product?!?!

Can we say, Windows ME? There is a linux based one that I was thinking of, but the name escapes me.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 28 May 2007 03:16:17 +0000

sodajuice is a hack, Bear, not a OEM Product.

By: wax tablet

wax tablet — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:37:08 +0000

Good one Alan, I snorted a bit of commercial soda on that one.

Mark, sodajuice? I’d never heard of it. I had Orangina in Paris ca 1988, that was the first carbonated juice I can remember seeing and/or tasting.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/OpenCola_soft_drink_recipe.pdf

In the pdf, it talks about…

just adding the syrup to sodium-free carbonated water (Mark)

and

Tightly sealed glass containers (Alan):)