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Hate to plagiarize my own comment, but I was particularly annoyed the first time I saw it... Not that I care about WoW specifically. Original discussion at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=159086&cid=13323538

(Can't find the original article, used to be at http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/10249. Below is the only quote I could find.)

Michael Simms: I think Blizzard made a mistake. There has never been any kind of open source threat to any of their current titles, there have just been fans emulating their older games, or in the case of battle.net trying to play their purchased games in a better way.

All Blizzard has managed to do is alienate some of its most loyal fans and supporters, aka their best customers.

Blizzard is definitely no friend to Linux or the open source community. Sure they make good games, but thats about it. There is a Linux version of the hugely popular World of Warcraft, and Blizzard canned it, without warming or explaination, even though it was functionally complete and ready to go, and after a discussion of a
support agreement with LGP. It would have risked nothing for them to make the game available, and they chose not to.

That Slashdot story about Peep was from way back in 2000 (not that there's anything wrong with that). You might be remembering a story here on Slashdot from about a year and a half ago, titled The Sound of Your Firewall. In a nutshell, it linked to a brief article on Linux Gazette about how to script this sort of thing. It's obviously a much simpler approach, but maybe it's one of the options you heard about. As a bonus, the Linux Gazette article also included a quick approach to getting your Caps/Scroll/Num lock lights to blink as indicators for network activity.

You can't have enough noise, and you can never have enough blinky lights... :-)

This isn't very interesting at all.

You can compile a java-program and run it under Mono.
Eclipse runs under Mono.
See: http://www.go-mono.com/images/ikvm-screenshot.png

As the distinction between Java, .NET and Mono seems to be unclear to a few people, I'll throw in my "humble view":

• Mono supports several langauges, that easily interoperate. Java supports one langugage.
  You can write in support for other languages in Java, like Jython, but this is not the point.
  A compiled function written in Boo can easily be called from C#.
  See: http://www.mono-project.com/Languages
  
  
• Mono has a compiler, VM, and a bunch of classes that are all As Free As They Can Be (tm).
  In addition, Mono has re-implemented a few microsoft-specific classes, that can easily be removed, where there supposedely is an incredibly tiny chance that anyone will care. If you're making Linux-only programs, this will never be an issue for you, and you'll have a very nice and powerful tool for making programs with.
  See: http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_General
  
  
• It's easy to call .dll's and .so's from Mono. For what I know, It's not that easy from Java. I tried calling some dlls a few years ago, and it was a mess. For me, at least, the threshold for calling a function from libsomething.so from Java is a lot higher than from Mono. Especially if you're planning on doing this in a crossplattform way, which Mono has support for. You can call the native .so on Linux and the native .dll on windows, with the same program.
  See: http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/8794
  
  
• Python supposedly runs faster under IronPython (which runs on Mono) than normal python (CPython).
  See: http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/9/
  

Regardless of my list of points above, I hope you'll see that Novell could very well be "reinforcing their commitment to the Java community, while at the same time funding Mono".

I like this one...

where's the Maya/3DS/LW/Softimage alternative? It doesn't exist (dont be a bone head and suggest Blender here, its like comaring a 79' VW to a Ferrai).

Maya Software Requirements

where's the video editing solutions? We have one decent one, but all with haggid no-useable interfaces (seen from a non-linux-fanboiii perspective).

Make it yourself (or find one, I don't do this myself).

Where's the DVD authoring software(i know about dvd-author, and the v.0.0.1 guis being made for it. From a desktop users perspective these are 100% useless atm)? Heck, where's the LEGAL dvd player to watch your newly mastered holyday vid?

NeroLINUX

Where's the CAD/CAM software?

CAD Programs for Linux

Where's the games?t

Like Doom III, Unreal Tournament, or loads of Windows games under Wine?

Maybe before you get in a tiff about Linux programs you should go check Google first.

Blizzard is definitely no friend to Linux or the open source community. Sure they make good games, but thats about it. There is a Linux version of the hugely popular World of Warcraft, and Blizzard canned it, without warming or explaination, even though it was functionally complete and ready to go, and after a discussion of a support agreement with LGP. It would have risked nothing for them to make the game available, and they chose not to.

WinCE + WinME + WinNT =

Windows CEMENT
As hard as a rock and as dumb as a brick.

or the ever classic Windows CE ME NT

You should check this article instead of talk nonsense. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue32/henning2.html And for power consumption I suggest you these links: http://www.sandpile.org/impl/m2.htm http://www.sandpile.org/impl/p5.htm http://www.sandpile.org/impl/k6.htm Seems like you know something about CPU so i don't need to tell you who's Christian Ludloff right? in case you ask about the web site.

I'm sure there are many ways. This link is a little dated but still worth a read. You can create different printers on a Samba machine and print to them from any computer on the network, the resulting file is dropped into a Samba share.

At work, I have a Samba server setup with a PDF, jpeg, tiff, gp4 fax, and several other "printers" that I can print documents to from any Win machine and have them converted.

Basically building on the above link, create multiple printers and use gs and switches to your desire. For jpeg I use gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -r300x300, for g4 fax I use gs -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -r100x100 and so on (man gs or google for other options). Works great.

What seems to be happening is that one of the Costa Rican government's cash cows, the internet (and communications, in general) seems to be threatened by this. As such, they are concerned that they won't have the budget to provide the services they currently do. Of course, I have no way of knowing specifically what their budgetary constraints are.

Personally, I think the banning of VoIP would be a bad thing considering the usual ethics of Costa Rica. (For example, they don't maintain a standing army). But I'm going to wait to hear from Willy Smith (hey Willy!), at the Linux Gazette since he lives there and probably has a much more informed opinion than myself.

Standard linux distros with ext2/ext3/reiserfs don't have that.

Wrong. Note that they're talking about Slackware 3.2, which has been around since about 1997.

you mean the elite stigma associated with linux when compared with windows?

Point taken.

However, it is my experience that such people will get 0wned during one of their rants, sooner or later.

Besides, there's a sure-fire way to tell 'the creeps' from the real linux users. Real linux users try to stick to linux advocacy guidelines.

Cheers.

The effect of easing the hardening of systems is to produce far more hardened systems, which has the macroscopic effect of making the Best Practice into a Standard Practice. Take the example of telnet on by default. Bastille and programs like it had been turning off telnet for years and educating sysadmins about SSH as a replacement before vendors became comfortable turning it off.

Here's another example, more complicated. Most Linux vendors chroot their DNS servers, for instance -- they didn't do this for the first two years that Bastille was around until the Lion worm changed their minds. Chroot'ed DNS servers fared much better, it had been best practice to chroot for a while, and projects like Bastille created a larger base of admins comfortable with the practice. When vendors' packagers decide whether to do this by default, they feel more comfortable with the idea if they've seen it done a great deal in the field. They feel even more comfortable if they've seen it done successfully programmatically.

Consider a proprietary program and a GPL-covered library. The program uses the GPL-covered library if it is available on the system. Otherwise, users are asked to install the library. It has been argued that the dynamic linking by an end-user may not necessarily violate the GPL. Even if the library headers are GPL-covered, they could be redone in a "clean room." Dynamic use of the library code might or might not constitute a "derivative work" with respect to copyrights. Could the GPL be circumvented by transferring GPL-covered code to a dynamically-linked library?

while microsoft discontinues support for old systems, they go to extraordinary lengths... ... read raymond chen's blog...

Joel Spolsky wrote in his now famous article about two opposing camps at Microsoft, one of which he calls the "Raymond Chen Camp" and the other, the "MSDN Camp".

Flip. Flop. The strategic direction is the result of a tension amongst younger people that is arbitrated by a few central older characters.

Linux, seems to be organized along different lines. The unpaid authors are motivated by other interests and by different values. Linux may be akin to a spiritual journey for some authors. Such a force may result in a coherency over time that stems from a belief system rather than from a marketplace.

But that's just about the author geeks who create Linux. The marketing people may be on yet different journeys still.

IBM's doing well and plays a part in Linux community.

Meanwhile, the community exhibits a lot of diversity and that's both a sign of flexibility and a source of strength.

I've never had to do this but your problem interested me. Think about it, how could you possibly make the database spit out a perfectly frozen-in-time set of tables without actually freezing in order to make the set?

I dunno, PostgreSQL does a good job. :-)

you can set up an streaming server / music repository on a Linux box that doesn't have to have X running on it or even a CD-Rom that you can then use from any iTunes client and if you really want to, you might be able to get it to stream from the repository to a stereo via an AirPort Express.

here is the link.

Furthermore, you can still have the songs available for other streaming servers, and you get to bury it in a closet or the garage or something and SSH to the command line so you don't have to listen to the fan.

How about an anarchist article in Linux Gazette using toll roads as a metaphor for proprietary software?

A bit OT, but yes it is. I use a DWL-650+ with my SuSE 9 Pro laptop all the time (plug and play). Of course, YMMV. :-)

While I applaud the effort, and I'm sure many people will find it useful, I personally don't see this becoming a widely used resource. When I have problems with my hardware under Linux, I have a general routine of hitting Google, a few Wikis, some IRC channels and some forums. Between them, I get enough information to let me know what the situation is with the hardware in question. Rarely (in my experiences) is the hardware just straight 'incompatible'. I almost always find a hack on the Internet, or someone who's dealt with the same situation and come up with an ugly fix and/or solution. If hardware is truly incompatible, it tends tends to spread pretty fast in the Linux community anyway.

Maybe it's because I tend to stick with rather plain hardware for my Linux needs (servers, etc...), but I have rarely turned to a centralized resource for my troubleshooting needs. It'd be interesting to hear what the more 'bleeding-edge' Linux brethren think about this, or how other Linux users solve hardware problems.

How about this?

interestingly motd ~ works like this with /etc/issue and /etc/motd... you can edit your /etc/rc.d file as shown in the link but I just leave 2 lines blank.

• $ vi /etc/motd
  # commented newline 1
  # commented newline 2
  this is your motd message here
  :wq! (to save & quit)
  $

this should allow your motd to appear next boot into bash.

CAD link 1

CAD link 2

PCB link 1

PCB link 2

PCB link 3

I couldn't find any COGO links. But then, I searched for COGO in general, and the only suites that came up were DOS and Unix. I can't comment on the quality of the Linux software, as I don't do this stuff. But I wasn't under the impression that Windows was the premier CAD environment (all the CAD and Database guys at work have big Unix workstations).

I believe many people would agree with you. (Do you remember when emacs was ridiculed for its vast size (50M ?)?)
However, I do not think KDE is "hacked"; it works well for me. (I do not use Gnome and cannot comment on it.) What specific issues do you have with KDE?
I assume you have tried Lynx or Links as a web browser. (Actually, I love vim; it is compact and works well.) There are other desktops, of course (e.g. fvwm, enlightenment).

if it wasn't going to be McBride, it would be someone else down the line that would exploit this little problem

One could argue that this problem has been exploited already in a smaller scale, and people involved in Linux should worry about it getting worse and worse.

In many ways, what Darl is doing feels a lot like what William Della Croce, Jr. did in 1996. That took about a year to get resolved.

First a false trademark infringement claim. Now a false copyright infringement claim. I really fear the false patent infringement claim that I expect is coming up in the future.

heres a site to make a lcd display show your cpu stats. http://www.linuxgazette.com/book/view/1648 you can get creative... ;)

I just wish something just like apt-get existed for the rpm world that made it just as easy to update. However, I've read of projects in the works just for that so I'm sure "rpm hell" will be over a lot sooner than "dll hell" lasted.

I believe the apt system also handles rpms now. Also, checkout YUM (from the ppc distro), which uses apt-get to manage rpm dependencies.

Fedora uses yum as well

What people seen to be missing is that Linux doesn't only do multi-processor architecture via clustering a' la' Beowulf.

In the traditional clustering architecture you have a lot of standalone machines that operate each in their own memory space an each use their own operating system image.
This is great when a problem can be broken into a lot of nearly independent pieces.
When you have a lot of interconnected pieces as might happen in matrix problems - finite elements or big matrix inversions it is best to have a single block of memory accessed by many processors simultaneously. This cuts down on the penalty for inter processor communication.

Linux has had NUMA from since the mid 2.4 days.

The SGI Altix uses this technology with 256 processors operating with a single Linus OS image on a single block of memory!!!

I can just imagine some ad involving flying penguins zipping past a jet or something..

So, in the near future (or indeed, far past) when GUIs will allow users to click-and-combine functions to automatize their own task in an user-friendly way, will you recognice the superiority of GUIs over one-entry-point CLIs?

Adobe Acrobat

Not to be confused with the Adobe Reader that just about everyone has.
Every place that I have used or maintained Samba, I've also installed a network PDF printer for the client workstations to use (using this guide as a reference). Of course why stop there, you can also use the same concept descibed in the above link to install various printers like jpg, tiff (color and group 4 fax), and just about any other printer that gs can export to. These virtual printers make a great document converter for those people that you want to share stuff with that may not have the specific application to print or open the native file you may have to send them. Another advantage is printing confimations, receipts, web pages etc.. in electronic form instead of on paper.

Substitute ps2pdf in the above linked guide to gs for other printers, examples below

RGB color tiff at 300dpi:
gs -sDEVICE=tiff24nc -r300x300

Standard Group 4 Fax (tiff):
gs -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -r100x100

300dpi Jpeg:
gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -r300x300

Authoring video DVDs on linux is more than a little difficult, these days. That said, with a little command line knowledge and some good old-fashioned ingenuity, you can accomplish much.

I found this article to be a good starting point. The beginning of the article assumes that you'll be working with a framegrabber and generating MJPEG video with appropriate resolution/framerate, etc. Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world, so you'll actually need to transcode your videos into the MJPEG format before you do the MPEG2 encoding. I find that mencoder is usually the best way to accomplish this:

mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -oac copy -vf scale=720:480 -sws 9 your_file.avi -o mjpeg_stream.avi

Note that the above command assumes you are making a DVD for NTSC (US/Canada/Japan) format. If you use PAL, you'll want 720:576 as your resolution and 25 fps as your framerate instead. If you're encoding from a film (24 fps) source, try applying the telecine filter, as well (add ",telecine" after the scale command, and set "-ofps 29.97). This method of framerate conversion is the standard for cinematic DVDs.

Now, I know you're asking, why not use mencoder to encode the MPEG2 stream directly and skip the middleman? Well, I've tried this, and it isn't possible for a couple of reasons. The first is bandwidth control. Although mencoder will accept a bitrate option for MPEG2 encoding, it is not conscious of the buffering assumptions of the DVD standard, and will produce streams that will encounter buffer underruns in hardware DVD players. The second problem is that an MPEG2 program stream for a DVD must contain empty navigation packets (these get filled in when you create the actual vobs), which mencoder won't create. C'est la vie.

It's worth noting that you can get at more advanced bitrate control options for libavcodec's MPEG2 encoder by using lavc's native transcoding application, ffmpeg. At least, theoretically you can. My version of ffmpeg 0.4.7 doesn't seem to include mpeg2 as a possible output format, even though it's accessible through mencoder. Go figure.

OK, let's move on to our friend mpeg2enc. The first thing you'll notice is that it's slow. Really slow. Especially compared to mencoder. You'll live, though. Take a nap or something. The instructions in the article will give you a stream that's perfectly fine for DVD encoding, but it's definitely worth looking at the manpage as well. One of the most important things you'll learn there is that mpeg2enc takes arguments for both aspect ratio and framerate of incoming movies. Add the option "-a n" to the command given in the article, substituting 2 for n if your video is in the 4:3 aspect ratio (regular TV), 3 if it is 16:9 (letterbox widescreen format, most movies), or 4 for 2.21:1 (cinemascope widescreen, movies shot in panoramic view). The "-F n" command specifies the framerate. IF you are using PAL or SECAM, always use 3. If you are using NTSC, always use 4. Anything else will make you cry. Finally, you can add the "-p" option if you have 24 fps input video that you intend for NTSC viewing, and you didn't already have mencoder apply telecine. I actually prefer to have mpeg2enc do telecine, as that way you are certain to avoid A/V sync problems.

Moving right along, the article tells you how to use the dvd authoring tools to eventually get an iso file ready to burn. It should be noted that the image you have ready won't have menus or other niceties. For sooth! Lucky for you, you actually can include these things, but it won't exactly be easy. Now that you know the basics of encoding for the DVD format, this guide can instruct you on how to add things like menus and whatnot. Anyway, once you get the iso file ready to go, I highly recommend you burn it with KDE's excellent K3B, unless you have an attachment to the command line too

Found it! It appeared in the linux gazette of november 2001 - I thought it was a year ago maybe. Gee, time flies!

There is an excellent article by Krishnakumar, at least to get you through the bootloader part. Though he didn't write the next part(s), you can gather them from other sources.

You may want to read an article in Linux Gazette:
So You Wanna Create Your Own x86 Operating System?

You can always grab the radio signal from the ether and encode it to MP3 or whatever on your own. Here are a couple of pages on how to do this: #1, #2.

Forgive me if this is old news to you, but there was once a company called sourceXchange that provided services much like those you describe:

the developer [can] hop over to the RFP (Request For Proposal) section and see if any of the unbid projects are of interest. ... Each RFP includes what the contractor is looking for in terms of skills and deliverables and how much the contractor is willing to pay, both in cash and materials.

In the end, the company ultimately ran out of money and went under, as far as I can tell. Still, I hope you find this an interesting historical footnote.

yours

A really good troll makes every word in his sentence a link so that his point seems valid.

You don't even have to visit the sites, just google something like "linux vs windows", grab relevent links and include then in your post. No one will read them anyways, and believe you because you provided plenty of background Info and reputable sources (computing.net included!). They will have to believe your Pro-Windows rant.

Linux isn't a Toy OS. it's used by google. Who provided you this Informative post :)

Hey All! Have you ever seen Linus Torvald's wife Tove Torvalds? Not to be rude but can't that beautiful baby get a makeover and put on the sexy?! I mean, Linus has become very metro recently and he is a very trendy metrosexual! You see, Linus used to look like a complete dork. But now, if I was a faggot, I would be all over this guy today! In the meantime, I'm sure Linus is getting his share of the booth babes... ;)

Hey All! Have you ever seen Linus Torvald's wife Tove Torvalds? Not to be rude but can't that beautiful baby get a makeover and put on the sexy?! I mean, Linus has become very metro recently and he is a very trendy metrosexal! You see, Linus used to look like a complete dork. But now, if I was a faggot, I would be all over this guy today! In the meantime, I'm sure Linus is getting his share of the booth babes... ;)

Feel welcome to bitchslap them.

The other shoe has just dropped: SSC evidently feels its easier and cheaper to try to seize our domain than to file a trademark-infringement lawsuit, and they've just delivered a cease & desist letter to our domain registrar, citing their bogus trademark claim. We are of course not sitting down for that, and are drafting a response just in case SSC causes the ICANN UDRP to be applied (as may be their intent). You can see a recent version of that draft at http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/134/228#228 (unless SSC deletes the post).

And, yes, we have indeed posted the demand letter to the EFF's http://www.chillingeffects.org/ Web site. It'll be case #983, when available for display, there.

Rick Moen
Contributing Editor, Linux Gazette

With apologies for the original state of the posting, here is a new, revised one with full links (at least, most of them).

Summary:
1. Linuxgazette.com - originally founded by a group of volunteers.
2. SSC offered to host them, very generous and kind.
3. SSC voluntarily took over editing at some point.
4. Recently, SSC changed the entire look/feel of the site, trashed the articles at will, and basically started locking out the original founders.
5. the founders took their content to linuxgazette.net
6. SSC, in the form of linuxgazette.com, is unhappy with the .net folks for continuing to use the name. Sadly, SSC tried to trademark the name on Oct 23, 2003, the same day the founders announced the Fork.

LWN: The Linux Gazette Forks

LWN: Linux Gazette

LG: Linux Gazette, Reborn

LG: Histoy of Linux Gazette

SSC: Publisher's comments

SSC: Reply to publisher's comments

SSC: Forum: Anyone prefer the old site?

SSC: Forum: New Site!

Note on the forum links, to change the sort method, you have to edit the URL. The sort the link goes to is the standard one, to change it to the expanded list, use mode=2, etc.

With apologies for the original state of the posting, here is a new, revised one with full links (at least, most of them).

Summary:
1. Linuxgazette.com - originally founded by a group of volunteers.
2. SSC offered to host them, very generous and kind.
3. SSC voluntarily took over editing at some point.
4. Recently, SSC changed the entire look/feel of the site, trashed the articles at will, and basically started locking out the original founders.
5. the founders took their content to linuxgazette.net
6. SSC, in the form of linuxgazette.com, is unhappy with the .net folks for continuing to use the name. Sadly, SSC tried to trademark the name on Oct 23, 2003, the same day the founders announced the Fork.

LWN: The Linux Gazette Forks

LWN: Linux Gazette

LG: Linux Gazette, Reborn

LG: Histoy of Linux Gazette

SSC: Publisher's comments

SSC: Reply to publisher's comments

SSC: Forum: Anyone prefer the old site?

SSC: Forum: New Site!

Note on the forum links, to change the sort method, you have to edit the URL. The sort the link goes to is the standard one, to change it to the expanded list, use mode=2, etc.

With apologies for the original state of the posting, here is a new, revised one with full links (at least, most of them).

Summary:
1. Linuxgazette.com - originally founded by a group of volunteers.
2. SSC offered to host them, very generous and kind.
3. SSC voluntarily took over editing at some point.
4. Recently, SSC changed the entire look/feel of the site, trashed the articles at will, and basically started locking out the original founders.
5. the founders took their content to linuxgazette.net
6. SSC, in the form of linuxgazette.com, is unhappy with the .net folks for continuing to use the name. Sadly, SSC tried to trademark the name on Oct 23, 2003, the same day the founders announced the Fork.

LWN: The Linux Gazette Forks

LWN: Linux Gazette

LG: Linux Gazette, Reborn

LG: Histoy of Linux Gazette

SSC: Publisher's comments

SSC: Reply to publisher's comments

SSC: Forum: Anyone prefer the old site?

SSC: Forum: New Site!

Note on the forum links, to change the sort method, you have to edit the URL. The sort the link goes to is the standard one, to change it to the expanded list, use mode=2, etc.

With apologies for the original state of the posting, here is a new, revised one with full links (at least, most of them).

Summary:
1. Linuxgazette.com - originally founded by a group of volunteers.
2. SSC offered to host them, very generous and kind.
3. SSC voluntarily took over editing at some point.
4. Recently, SSC changed the entire look/feel of the site, trashed the articles at will, and basically started locking out the original founders.
5. the founders took their content to linuxgazette.net
6. SSC, in the form of linuxgazette.com, is unhappy with the .net folks for continuing to use the name. Sadly, SSC tried to trademark the name on Oct 23, 2003, the same day the founders announced the Fork.

LWN: The Linux Gazette Forks

LWN: Linux Gazette

LG: Linux Gazette, Reborn

LG: Histoy of Linux Gazette

SSC: Publisher's comments

SSC: Reply to publisher's comments

SSC: Forum: Anyone prefer the old site?

SSC: Forum: New Site!

Note on the forum links, to change the sort method, you have to edit the URL. The sort the link goes to is the standard one, to change it to the expanded list, use mode=2, etc.

The first link on the main article are the SSC guys' comments on this, and the second link is the linuxgazette founders (.net) replies to his comments.

Here is a link to the linuxgazette.net with their side of the story :

Linux Gazette, Reborn

Here are two links to the linuxgazette.com forums - lots of discussion in here from both sides. Be warned that the .com folks WILL DELETE any posting with the linuxgazette.net address in it. The censor stuff as they see fit.

Forum: Anyone prefer the old site?

Forum: New Site!


Note that if you browse around the forums, a lot of things are broken. To view the forums in expanded format, most recent postings at the top, add &mode=2 to the URL. For example:

http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/104&mode =2

The first link on the main article are the SSC guys' comments on this, and the second link is the linuxgazette founders (.net) replies to his comments.

Here is a link to the linuxgazette.net with their side of the story :

Linux Gazette, Reborn

Here are two links to the linuxgazette.com forums - lots of discussion in here from both sides. Be warned that the .com folks WILL DELETE any posting with the linuxgazette.net address in it. The censor stuff as they see fit.

Forum: Anyone prefer the old site?

Forum: New Site!


Note that if you browse around the forums, a lot of things are broken. To view the forums in expanded format, most recent postings at the top, add &mode=2 to the URL. For example:

http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/104&mode =2

Ever heard of Della Crose ??

Try this...

...and this...

Although we met several technical challenges along the way (specifically, Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext2 file system)

See here for HOWTO on Linux Token Ring, and here for a discussion of why ext2 filesystems don't really need defragging. Oh, and report to the CEO of each company you consult for, requesting to be fired for being a pig-ignorant moron; I found these examples from 2 minutes on Google.

Maybe so. But she's still a fucking ugly dumbass who married a geek with a stupid name. So fuck you, and fuck "Tove" as well.

You know, I honestly doubt whoever wrote this has even seen Linus' wife. In truth, she does not appear in many photographs, so I had not seen her either. I always imagined her as a svelte ninja goddess.

Curious, I did a little Google research, and my personal conclusion is that there do not appear to be any glamour photos made of Tove (whereas there are many carefully grommed Linus images) and many of the pictures of her are bad. I don't think she is ugly, but some of the pictures are badly taken, on bad hair days, or somesuch.

Then again, you can judge for yourself, eh?.

Personally, I think she looks just fine. And if she makes Linus happy, that is all that matters, right? That makes her beautiful to me.