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Softpanorama
(slightly skeptical)
Open Source Software Educational Society |
May the
source be with you,
but remember the KISS principle ;-)
|
This site is best viewed with a bottle of Stoli
|
Softpanorama
(slightly skeptical)
Open Source Software Educational Society |
May the
source be with you,
but remember the KISS principle ;-)
|
| Experts arose from
their own urgent need to exist.
Murphy's laws
I
am 7 years old. My friend told me that Linus Torvalds is a talking
penguin. Papa don't know. Please tell me the truth.
from a Slashdot post |
Linux sysadmins are the most happy sysadmins on
the planet
|
There are
four major species of Unix sysadmins:
- ...
- The Administrative Fascist.
Usually a retentive drone (or rarely, a harridan ex-secretary) who has
been forced into system administration.
- ...
-
The Idiot.
Usually a cretin, morphodite, or old COBOL programmer selected to be
the system administrator by a committee of cretins, morphodites, and
old COBOL programmers
Know your Unix System Administrator
|
Softpanorama Open Source
Humor Archive
(A Unique Collection of Open Source-Related Humor)
(Prev) Vol. 17,
2005 (Next)
Enjoy the collection !
Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov
Notes:
- Those pages are written by people for whom English is not a
native language. Some amount of grammar and spelling errors
should be expected.
- This is a Spartan WHYFF (We Help You For Free) site. It
cannot replace the best teachers and
the
best books.
- The site contain some obsolete pages as it develops like a
living tree... Some links on older pages
are broken. Please
try to use Google, Open directory, etc. to find a replacement link
(see
HOWTO search the WEB for details).
We would appreciate if you can
mail us a correct link.
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| As a
service to our readers who have better things to do than to read the
self-congratulating news on Slashdot or Linux Today every day, we
present the highlights of the best open source humor stories for the
current year. But sometimes they are from the previous year or
even from the previous century; sometimes they are not about open
source. You are warned ;-)
- Editor |
An average Slashdot reader loves Linux and runs Windows
- From a Slashdot post of a person who,
probably, has access to the Slashdot webservers logs
with their 90% of Windows hits
[Dec 5, 2005]
Slashdot
Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat
Bruce Perens posts in his blog about an
amusing encounter between Richard
Stallman and United Nations security at the World Summit on the
Information Society in Tunis. It seems that RFID technology, which Stallman
opposes for privacy reasons, was used in the identification badges for the
conference. From the blog: 'You can't give Richard a visible RF ID strip
without expecting him to protest. Richard acquired an entire roll of
aluminum foil and wore his foil-shielded pass prominently.' During a keynote
speech, Stallman also passed around the tinfoil for other to use as well. It
seems that UN security was not amused...
You deserve what you get if you use aluminum foil. Any
conspiracy theorist worth his salary won't accept anything
less than genuine tin.
[Nov 15, 2005]
Fighting bugs in Microsoft
. Really cool :-)
- Watch a specific chapter:
- Introduction
- Micro-Stun option
- Micro-Impact option
- Micro-Jab option
[Nov 7, 2005] Practice
safe image viewing folks!
(Score:5, Funny)
Or your computer could get an STD (Screenally Transmitted
Disease) from viewing pornographic images.
Novell Soup Opera
See what happens when a software
development company opens the Pandora box of Linux. It seems poor Novell has become too
friendly with the shadow of Corel. Whi will
jump in and buy their remaining IP and NDS. Will IBM
want to grab yet another victim of "Linux curse" ? Tune in tomorrow and see. The suspense is killing
me! Only available on Slashdot.
... Novell going
south that quickly. Somebody's spreading FUD
here.
How about the
entire slashdot community donates a dollar and buys
the company?
Slashdot Three Snort Books Reviewed
Slashdot strikes out
reported by Anonymous Cannibal
In developing news,
Slashdot.org [slashdot.org] has released a non-SCO related article.
Slashdotters are ecstatic at the incoming news "Oh man I really thought it
was the end of the road there for a minute, I mean last week was bad, but as
of Sunday, I don't know how many SCO based articles they posted. I think
it's somewhere in the low hundreds though" stated a user who wished to
remain anonymous.
"It's exciting for the moment, but I know
these morons will just post some other sickening story about a company
that's about to go under any god damned moment". stated fx0rspy.
... ... ...
(c) 2003 Disgruntled Slashdotter
If you are interested in detecting and preventing web attacks specifically
then you should have a look at
mod_security [modsecurity.org]. It is an Apache module (both branches
are supported) that allows for some very interesting HTTP-specific
filtering. It even supports POST method analysis, and can reject an
offending request. Since it works as part of the web server it makes it
much easier to detect attacks carried out through an SSL channel.
The
dotCommunist Manifesto by Eben Moglen
A Spectre is haunting multinational capitalism--the spectre
of free information. All the powers of ``globalism'' have entered into an
unholy alliance to exorcize this spectre: Microsoft and Disney, the World
Trade Organization, the United States Congress and the European Commission.
Where are the advocates of freedom in the new digital
society who have not been decried as pirates, anarchists, communists? Have we
not seen that many of those hurling the epithets were merely thieves in power,
whose talk of ``intellectual property'' was nothing more than an attempt to
retain unjustifiable privileges in a society irrevocably changing? But it is
acknowledged by all the Powers of Globalism that the movement for freedom is
itself a Power, and it is high time that we should publish our views in the
face of the whole world, to meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Free
Information with a Manifesto of our own.
Slashdot ZOTOB Not Quite as Bad as Expected
*not minimal* (Score:3, Funny)
by plarsen (579155) on Thursday August 18, @12:08PM (#13348208 )
It is not a minimal risk for a Windows XP
system to get infected. Not after Microsoft have changed their Windows
Update program. I have alot of friends struggling with properly secureing
their pirated version of XP.
*Re:not
minimal* (Score:5, Funny)
by op12 (830015) on Thursday August 18, @12:12PM
(#13348252)
Dear plarsen,
Send me a list of your friends names and addresses, and I will get
the problem resolved immediately.
-Bill G.
Nice quotes
- There is no such thing as a free lunch; unless you're the lunch. Heckel's Principle of Dealing with Big Companies:
- Free as in there's no
profit
[Aug 17, 2005] [Softpanorama] Stallman
Cloned to Finish his Job on Hurd
Unidentified fan cut off a piece of RMS
beard while he was sleeping after free software feather section at Usenix
and cloned the man several times. "I want many more Stallman's clones" he
explained in his phone conversation with New York times -- "I want them to
write Hurd OS, the work unfinished by the original human prototype. Also
both GCC and emacs now are showing its age and need fresh workforce to
prevent stagnation. ". "That's the most effective way to support the idea of
free software" the man stated.
There were rumors that he already has at
least three RMS clones and expect to raise the
number to nine in the near future. I have enough generic material for a
battalion of RMS clones boasted the man. He also mentioned that Linus
Torvalds clones are also in his plans.
Asked about question whether human cloning is legal the perpetrator of this
mass RMS cloning replied to NYT correspondent Judith Miller that he does not
care. "I think genes are essentially a form of software that wants to be free
and realize themselves in as many copies as possible" he
stated.
Slashdot The Cathedral In The Bazaar An interesting remark about Slashdot
objectivity:
With all due respect (Score:3, Interesting)
by Amsterdam Vallon
(639622) <amsterdamvallon2003@yahoo.com>
on Friday January 10, @06:46PM (#5059174)
(http://www.mit.edu/)
|
Why is everything that gets posted on Slashdot these days either:
A) A write-up done by someone boasting about their latest article,
experiment, or "product",
or
B) A write-up done by one of the editors that sounds sneakily like an
inside-job advertisement done to line the wallets of VA, OSDN, Slashdot,
or whoever the hell owns this site these days
Just an honest question -- don't mean to offend anyone. |
Shift Key FAQ by
by Alan Meiss
Unleash the Power of Shift!
Q. My shift keys have little arrows on them. Does that mean the *real*
shift keys are located above them, and these keys are just little signs
to point them out?
A. Nope, they're the Real McCoy. The little arrows mean "up", as
in "look up at the screen". Your keyboard is telling you to learn to
touch type and quit staring at your fingers.
From: Mark Taylor [mtaylor@PureAtria.COM]
Subject: world standards day
No comment necessary:
"(T)he International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) designated Oct. 14 as World Standards
Day to recognize those volunteers who have worked hard to define
international standards ... The United States celebrated World
Standards Day on Oct. 11; Finland celebrated on Oct. 13; and Italy
celebrated on Oct. 18."
- Open Systems Today, 10/31/94
Humorix The Hottest
New Distribution LinuXXX
LAS VEGAS -- Described as the world's first "pornographic operating
system," a new Linux distribution called LinuXXX was unveiled earlier today
at a press conference in the lobby of a Las Vegas hotel. Sales of the distro
have been... well, hot.
read more
RFTP MAN PAGE
rtfm(l) UNIX Programmer's Manual rtfm(l)
Humorix/Slashdot Editors Promise To Actually Edit Stories Fake News written by James Baughn on April 1, 2005
HOLLAND, MICHIGAN -- The end is near. After defending wave after
wave of criticism from the omnipresent Anonymous Coward, Taco Boy
today announced that he and the rest of his staff will actually live
up to their titles as "editors."
"I've always believed that 'editor' is simply another name for
he-who-knows-the-root-password," Taco Boy wrote in his 6:32 AM CST
Slashdot post. "Not anymore. I promise that things will start to
change around here."
Read more...
Humorix/Russia
Donates Cyrillic Characters To Alleviate Acronym Shortage Fake News written by
James Baughn
on January 29, 2005
from the esr-and-rms-unavailable-for-comment dept.
In an international gesture of goodwill, the Russian government
announced last week that it will help fight the worsening SAS
(Severe Acronym Shortage) by donating several Cyrillic characters,
with more on the way.
"The acronym shortage could devastate the world economy if action
is not taken soon," said a Russian government official. "The only
solution is to increase the size of the alphabet available for
acronyms."
The Blartner Group
has been
warning about the impending ASC (Acronym Shortage Crisis) since
2002. "Most acronyms are written by English speakers limited to a
paltry 26-letter alphabet," Blort Blartner explained. "It's no
surprise that ANCs (Acronym Namespace Collisions) are occuring at a
rapidly increasing rate. This will place a huge burden on the IT
industry by hindering communication, potentially leading to a
rupture of the very fabric of the entire GE (Global Econony, not
General Electric)."
In a recent survey by the American Association Against Acronym
Abuse (AAAAA), 73% of people in computer-related fields admitted
that they "had created an acronym within the last year that wasn't
really necessary." Shockingly, 5% of participants acknowledged that
they "might suffer an addiction to stringing new acronyms together
as a form of entertainment."
Said the AAAAA chairwoman, "Russia's bold move will help to
disambiguate some acronyms, but it doesn't solve the root problem:
the AN (Acronym Namespace) is simply too polluted by UACs
(Unnecessary Acronym Creators). IMHO, this situation will require
drastic measures, such as the creation of an AEPB (Acronym
Environmental Protection Bureau)."
However, the founder of the rival CNP (Coalition for Namespace
Purity) argued, "Adding another bureaucracy never works. The new
office will simply create a whole new regime of acronyms, such as
requiring companies to submit an ACRF (Acronym Creation Request
Form) and an EISFAC (Environment Impact Study For Acronym Creation)
in the hopes of receiving an AACP (Approved Acronym Creation
Permit)."
Last month, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formally
adopted RFC 10523, which will require all future RFCs to limit new
acronyms to one per document. "If a namespace collision in
unavoidable," the RFC states, "then an attempt must be made to
recycle obsolete acronyms first. If that fails, then the new acronym
must undergo NSD (Numeric Suffix Disambiguation). For instance,
Xtreme Programming should be called 'XP-1' in order to avoid
confusion with Microsoft's Xceptionally Pathetic operating system
(Windows XP)."
"The IETF needs to take full responsibility for the entire zoo of
questionable acronyms that have been created by RFCs over the last
decades," said one IETF participant. "It is imperative that we reuse
archaic acronyms like 'UUCP' and 'ARCHIE' and assign them more
productive meanings."
It isn't just the computer industry that faces a threat from the
acronym shortage. The USAF (United States Air Force) has probably
created more new acronyms than another other institution in history.
"This is no laughing matter," said a USAF PAO (Public Affairs
Officer). "Last year we nearly suffered an SSS (Significant Security
Situation) when an MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) was mistaken for an MRE
(Massive Radioactive Explosive). This kind of problem could prove
catastrophic in a combat situation."
The PAO added, "The Pentagon has already launched an ARC (Acronym
Review Committee) to weed out ORAs (Obsolete or Redundant Acronyms).
In addition, the entire US military will now encourage of the use of
abbreviations instead of acronyms for CritOps (Critical Operations)
and StratInts (Strategic Initiatives). While we appreciate the help
offered by the Russian government, we believe we can solve this
problem without the need to outsource our language."
[Jul 13, 2005] Grandma adopts Linux
"Hello my dear Linux friend,
"Thank you for developing this amazing desktop.
I'll be the first to admit that I don't get out much out of Linux that my
grandson installed for me. Because of my rheumatism and bursitis, I
cannot use neither keyboard not mouse.
But still I'm very proud of my grandson and all
of those brilliant computer people. Now I watch Linux more then TV. . I think
people who write screen savers for Linux are absolutely amazing...!"
Slashdot Best
Linux Security Books
Dude, get with the times (Score:1,
Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 08, @09:12PM (#13018242)
|
| The current slashbot cheer is "use
Ubuntu!"
Example usage:
Your mom: "When are you going to
move out of our basement so your dad and I can build a sex
dungeon down there?"
You: "Use Ubuntu!"
You're on the right track, though.
This article had absolutely nothing to do with distribution
selection and yet you felt compelled to get out your pom-poms and
cheer for the flavor of the month. The only thing you did wrong was
select last month's flavor.
Kudos to you, slashbot. Keep reaching
for that rainbow! |
Slashdot Debian Struggling With Security "News for herds" sometimes publish
a pretty revealing comments. "Unfortunately Slashdot has an unending supply of
new posters straight out of kindergarten who have no problems at all firmly
believing in the rightness of double standards and the logic of conflicting
axioms. ;-)
Re:Now If This Was Microsoft... (Score:5, Insightful)
by Brandybuck (704397) on
Tuesday July 05, @06:11PM (#12989292)
(http://www.usermode.org/)
|
I'd just figure some people would grow up sooner or later.
Oh we do indeed grow up. Unfortunately Slashdot has an unending supply of
new posters straight out of kindergarten who have no problems at all firmly
believing in the rightness of double standards and the logic of conflicting
axioms. |
OSS graphoman.
It is a bit of a surprise that this useful
expression of Greek origin has not entered the English language. A graphoman is
someone who suffers from the disease of graphomania, an extreme
obsession with writing without the commensurate and required talent that should
accompany it.
Computer Quotes
gathered on the Net
- "Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell."
- "RAM /abr./: Rarely Adequate Memory."
- "The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other
invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila." — Mitch
Ratcliffe.
- "Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can
be tolerated only in race horses and women." — Lord Kelvin.
- "If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong
oxen or 1024 chickens ?" — Seymore Cray, about clusters.
- "Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake
it." — Seymore Cray, on virtual memory.
- Programming /n./ A pastime similar to banging one's head against
a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward.
- "Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and Halloween because Oct31
== Dec25 !"
- "Vampireware /n/, a project, capable of sucking the lifeblood out of
anyone unfortunate enough to be assigned to it, which never actually sees
the light of day, but nonetheless refuses to die."
- "All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially
attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps
the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually
focus on the end goal.
Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and
the young are always optimists. But however the selection process works, the
result is indisputable: 'This time it will surely run' or 'I just
found the last bug'." — Fred Brooks.
- "If you want to eat hippopatomus, you've got to pay the freight." — Attributed
to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory.
- "Programming is an art form that fights back."
- "Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature,
because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the
software engineer." — Fred Brooks.
- "Managing senior programmers is like herding cats." — Dave
Platt.
- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." — Rich
Cook.
- "UNIX is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows
is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus." — Peter H. Coffin .
- "Sendmail is the sort of tool that gave UNIX its bad reputation." — System
Performance Tuning.
Slashdot Taking on an Online Extortionist
Groklaw-style reporting parody:
Re:Sources ? (Score:5, Funny)
by born_to_live_forever
(228372) on Sunday October 24, @08:37AM (#10613581)
(http://www.scholiast.org/)
|
| Who needs sources, when you've biased reporting and scurrilous innuendo?
Milo Bloom: Senator? This is Milo Bloom at the Beacon. Will
you confirm that you sunk Jimmy Hoffa in your backyard pond?
Senator Bedfellow: What? Of course not!
Milo: Fine. I'll go with "Sen. Bedfellow denies that pond is where he
sunk Hoffa."
Bedfellow: That's not true!
Milo: Okay. "Bedfellow did sink Hoffa in pond".
Bedfellow: I don't know where Hoffa is!!
Milo: "'I lost the body' says Bedfellow." |
Slashdot Sun's Schwartz Attacks GPL
Re:Spaceballs? (Score:5, Funny)
by Tackhead (54550) on
Wednesday April 06, @12:11PM (#12155064)
|
MCNEALY:
Yes. I am the keeper of a greater magic. A power known throughout the
universe, known as....
ESR: Open Source?
MCNEALY: No. The Schwartz.
RMS: The Schwartz?
MCNEALY: Yes. The Schwartz. [He holds his Schwartz ring. His is
different than the ring BILL GATES has.]
ESR: But, McNealy, what is this place? What is that you do here?
MCNEALY: Licensing.
ESR: Licensing? What's that? (Keep out of this, RMS!)
MCNEALY: Licensing. Come. I'll show. Walk this way. Take a look. We
put the company's copyright on everything. Licensing. Licensing. Where the
real money from the software is made. Sun-the-Server, Solaris-the
Operating System, UltraSPARC-the Pizza box, Sun-the-dot-in-dot-com. (The
analysts loved that one.) Last, but not least, Sun-the-Doll. Me!
[pulls on the string]
DOLL: "May the Schwartz be with you!"
MCNEALY: It ain't the Steve Ballmer Monkeyboy Dancebot, but it
sells. May the Schwartz be with you! |
Re:Poor baby. (Score:5, Funny)
by Shadow Wrought (586631)
on Wednesday April 06, @11:56AM (#12154875)
(http://slashdot.org/~Shadow%20Wrought/journal
| Last Journal:
Tuesday April 05, @06:46PM) |
| Does anyone see some light at the end of the tunnel for Sun?
Netcraft just confirmed it. It's a train. |
Where is Transmeta Heading
OPEN LETTER TO SLASHDOT POSTERS
by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02, @12:02PM (#12120215)
|
| Why oh Why did everyone bitch because
the admins posted a bunch of arguably lame april fools day articles?
Can't you people lightin up for one day? Who cares if they post 100
stupid lame fake articles in a row, it's not going to affect the
integrity of slashdot. Is this your only legitimate place for finding
technology news? I hope not ! Does your hole life revolve around getting
accurate technology news on one specific day of the year that happens to
be a day where people play practical jokes? I hope not ! Slashdot does
not publish their own content, they give links to other places. So don't
take a few april fools jokes too seriously. If you really care that much
goto a different website. Lightin up, have fun, stop complaining so
much, and if you think someones taking a joke too far, let em! Just
don't associate with them anymore, simple as that. |
[Apr 1, 2005]
Slashdot/Transmeta is suing Intel, IBM and AMD for violation of it's patents.
Commenting on the lawsuits Linus Torvalds
noted :
"Why is everybody so concerned with
Transmute suing some manufacturers? It is not suing every chip
manufacturer in sight, just three of them. It did not become a patent
whore! IP companies are not bad by
definition. Just the contrary. And SCO is an exception! Even Rambus, is
not the public enemy some open source enthusiasts are trying to turn it
into. Maybe not all of their products are as good or as cheap as many
would like them to be (including Rambus themselves), but at least the
company is not in the business with groundless lawsuits. Ask yourselves
should Transmeta benefit if CPU manufacturers (ie Intel, AMD, IBM)
adopted the very good technologies, part of Crusoe and Efficeon
processors (stuff like LongRun and
LongRun2, you know).
Also please stop bitching that transmeta
is reducing its workforce (mostly marketing people. It got a contract
with Sony who will pay for the help of 100 of the about 200 engineers
from Transmeta. This will reduce quarterly costs to $5 million and might
increase Transmeta life expectancy"
Some Slashdot users disagreed:
Re:Willies (Score:1)
by afd8856 (700296) on
Saturday April 02, @12:34PM (#12120361)
|
| Wouldn't it be cool if SCO buys (with MSFT money) Transmeta, and
then they claim that Linus wrote, while at Transmeta, the linux kernel,
so it's rightfully theirs?
:-)) |
To Evil! March '05 Edition Open
Source, Linux News & Software - OSDir.com Linux & Open Source News from Across
the Community
Looking through the notes for Evilitude in the
Year of Our Lord 2005, February Division, there's just one place where the
dark clouds gather; one place that is gathering to its breast its orcish bot
hoardes, and whose all seeing "Oooooooooooo"s span across our enshadowed
domain.
Google. Google, O most cherished of those children of the Net currently
incorporated in Delaware for tax purposes! How hast though fallen?
Ministry of Truth in Slashdot: disappearing critical posts: variant
from Google cache contains two posts of the user Zocalo; variant from real site
taken on Mon 21, 2005 contains just one (the second) post ;-)
Variant 1: Original
Slashdot Open Source License Comparison (variant from Google cache
contains two posts of the user Zocalo)
Re:Please help make it better -- don't just flame. (Score:1)
by Zocalo (252965) on
Thursday August 16, @09:28AM (#2137042)
(http://www.zocalo.uk.com/)
|
| The License Quick Ref is definitely a work in
progress.
It's a bit brief too. There are a lot more licenses
out there, most of which are described on the following three pages.
(I've emailed this too).
- http://www.softpanorama.org/Copyright/catalog_of_s
oftware_licenses.shtml
- http://www.eroj.org/linux/theory.htm
- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
Good idea, BTW. |
Wait for the GPL vs BSD flame fest...
(Score:1)
by Zocalo (252965) on
Thursday August 16, @08:48AM (#2157886)
(http://www.zocalo.uk.com/)
|
| I'll give it an hour. Max. USian's will
all be in work soon...
I like the idea behind the chart though. Choosing a
license is a personal thing, and after all, it's the developer's right
to do what (s)he will with their own code isn't it? A simple chart like
this should help people make a more informed choice.
It would be nice if it included a few more licenses
though; there are what? Maybe 30 or more? Anyone have a list to send
this guy? |
Variant 2: with history rewritten
Slashdot Open
Source License Comparison (variant from real site Mon 21, 2005 contains
just one (the second) post ;-)
Wait for the GPL vs BSD flame fest... (Score:1)
by Zocalo (252965) on
Thursday August 16, @08:48AM (#2157886)
(http://www.zocalo.uk.com/)
|
| I'll give it an hour. Max. USian's will all be in work soon...
I like the idea behind the chart though. Choosing a license is a
personal thing, and after all, it's the developer's right to do what (s)he
will with their own code isn't it? A simple chart like this should help
people make a more informed choice.
It would be nice if it included a few more licenses though; there
are what? Maybe 30 or more? Anyone have a list to send this guy? |
Hello and welcome to (programmers) mental health hotline......
- If you suffer from low self esteem, please hang up, all the operators are
too busy to talk to you.
- If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.
- If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.
- If you have multiple personalities, press 3 and 6.
- If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. Stay on the
line so we can trace your call.
- If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the
mother ship.
- If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and your inner voice will tell
you which number to press.
- If you are manic-depressive press 8 and state your name, address ,
telephone number, date of birth, social security number, and your mother's
maiden name.
- If you are dyslexic, press 969696969696969.
- If you have bi-polar disorder, press 0 and leave a message after the
beep. Then wait 10 minutes call again and leave another message.
- If you have any other nervous disorder, please fidget with the pound key
until someone comes on the line.
Slashdot RMS Blasts Sun's Open Source Patent Licensing
uh-oh (Score:5, Funny)
by revery (456516) <charles
AT cac2 DOT net> on Monday January 31, @04:33PM (#11532696)
(http://www.livejournal.com/users/gymbrall/)
|
RMS takes Sun to task...
Later on, he gave IBM a stern talking to, and then towards the end of
the article, he gave Microsoft a vigorous tongue lashing. Also,
mosquitos, as a species, were maligned.
Seriously guys, the trash talk is getting embarrassing... |
The world of Richard Stallman (Score:3,
Interesting)
by wheelbarrow (811145)
on Monday January 31, @04:34PM (#11532725)
|
I have no problem with the world according to Richard Stallman as
long as compliance is voluntary.
|
So RMS, (Score:0)
by wramsdel (463149) on
Monday January 31, @04:49PM (#11532972)
|
| How many teeth in that gift horse's mouth? |
Another dirty Sun trick. (Score:1,
Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 31, @05:07PM (#11533280)
|
There it goes...I have been saying it all along. Sun has always
been untrustworthy. Take NFS for example. Didn't they do that dirty
trick of releasing the NFS specs only to sue everybody else that
implemented the protocol? Or what about Star Division? They bought out
that poor company only to distribute its product under the dubious
OpenOffice guise. And what about the dirty money they have dumped into
Gnome and X.Org? Yet another trick to infiltrate the opensource
community with patent ridden software! But with this disgusting CDDL
(which was approved by that evil OSI -- obviously they got kickbacks)
the cup has runeth over. It is clear that Sun is trying to infiltrate
the open source community with their evil patents as they have done
dozens of times before. So, I propose:
1)Everybody stop using NFS. If it comes from Sun, it can't be good.
2)Dump OpenOffice now! It is just another Trojan horse of theirs.
3)Dump GNOME! Besides, when there is KDE, who needs it?
4)Dump X.Org. It has been touched by evil. Can't be too careful with
these matters.
5)Do not write applications using Java. Java is evil. There are god
knows how many of these no-good Sun patents in there. Sun can pull the
carpet under your feet at any time.
6)Burn every machine that has this despicable Sun logo on it. It may
infect your trustworthy Intel and IBM servers which have served you so
well in the past. |
Slashdot Which Linux for Professional Admins A nice template of typical
Linux enthusiast distribution comparison is reproduced below (some typical
religious style arguments were probably omitted for brevity, or the author was
an atheist ;-)
Re:To put it short (Score:5, Funny)
by eln (21727) on Monday January
31, @05:12PM (#11533388)
|
Wrong! My distribution of choice is superior in every way to your
pathetic distribution of choice. You are the lowest form of loser to
think that your worthless distribution could hold a candle to the
God-like superiority of my distribution.
My distribution's superiority is clearly demonstrated by it's
magnificent out-of-the box handling of my obscure feature of choice.
Your pathetic distribution doesn't even support my obscure feature of
choice without a course of action so complex that it's madness to even
contemplate it.
Clearly, my distribution of choice will utterly destroy your
distribution of choice. This is so certain it is pointless for you to
resist it. |
Please, flame away (Score:5, Funny)
by Raunch (191457) on Monday
January 31, @05:05PM (#11533240)
(http://www.honnecke.us/)
|
Read no further. Without having to read the reast of these posts;
you can get a sense of what is to come here, and hopefully avoid some
painful reading:
"I like A".
"I like B".
"A sucks and so does your mom".
PS. Apt-get rules. |
Unix Recovery
UNIX RECOVERY (Score:1)
by Overdrive
Trucking (171212) on Tuesday April 04, @11:37AM (#1152193)
|
| Help is available! Desperate? Lonely? Confused? You can
recover from UNIX, and you don't have to do it alone. Humberto Molena
Rodriguez, Press Officer |
Slashdot/Linux Getting Harder To Crack
Work hard for the Linus Force! (Score:-1,
Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 18, @12:19AM (#11392413)
|
| Join the Linus Force to better the Linux Dream!!! Work free, get
lots of kudos, and be with the mighty spirit. Don't worry others will
benefit financially from your efforts, even if you do. Don't let the
Dream down!!! |
Re:Owned? (Score:4, Funny)
by Master of
Transhuman (597628) on Tuesday January 18, @12:07AM (#11392355)
|
How about "pawned"?
Since none of the
/. nerd-boys can afford to actually BUY a computer since they're
spending too much time on
/. instead of working for a living...
(I can't wait for the "What's YOUR excuse?" responses...)
|
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 04, @09:28PM (#11260399)
|
| 85% of Slashdot users use windows, and 60% still use internet
explorer. |
| |
Re:Be honest (Score:5, Funny)
by BorgCopyeditor
(590345) on Sunday January 02, @12:13PM (#11238614)
|
| And only on Slashdot would the old saw "you scratch my back, I'll
scratch yours" be described as a "Star Trek ideal."
Just sayin'. |
Java Forums - OT java.sun.com not accessible for hours
Eric S. Raymond.
A rather vocal proponent of Linux and related open source systems, with the
basic message that "open source = good, anything else = evil". To "support"
his views, uses rhetoric (and sports a personality) that is a bit
incompatible with, and causes much eye-rolling in, a number of other members
of H.Sapiens. Also lends his name to the term [url=http://www.softpanorama.org/OSS/Bla_faq/raymondism.shtml]
Raymondism[/url].
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