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Linus to speak on "The Origins of Linux"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-the-seventh-day-he-rested dept.

Paul J. White writes: "Everyone in Silicon Valley will probably be there when Linus Torvalds lectures on "The Origins of Linux" in Mountain View, California on Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 6 PM. It's bound to be interesting, so sign up early!"

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  1. There? by grammar+nazi · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Why would they go to that? Don't the have to work?...

    ...Wait a minute. Everybody is unemployed in the valley so they will be able to attend!

    --

    Keeping /. free of grammatical errors for ~5 years.
  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hah, on my birthday, too.

    1. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Happy Birthday!
      You can pretend that your FP is your cake, because you will getting fuck all else.
      BTW, your parents hate you.

  3. Re:you mean, instead of reading the book? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I make my presentation slides with a copy of my article and a xerox machine.

  4. Re:you mean, instead of reading the book? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    My crotch itches.

    I bet I got crabs from that black skank whore I had sex with last Saturday.

  5. Linus' speech: by odaiwai · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Hello, My names Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as 'a funny thing happened in my bedroom when I was a student'".

    Of course, in the original Swedish:
    "Hellu, My nemes Leenoos Turfelds und I prunuoonce-a Leenoox es 'a foonny theeng heppened in my bedruum vhee I ves a stoodent'". Bork Bork Bork!

    dave "chef"

  6. Re:you mean, instead of reading the book? by tahpot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lol, powerpoint presentation under linux.

    probably a vi presentation

  7. Moderator abuse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Danger! The post claims that there's Microsoft program that's lightyears ahead of anything similar on Linux. Must moderate it down at once!

    1. Re:Moderator abuse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Why on earth didn't vi die along with the 8" floppy drive?

      Say no more.

      It's the only editor in which I had to spend time figuring out how to move the cursor in the first place and how to delete the last character of the line.

      It's ridiculous to except the people to read a manual in order to use a lightweight text editor!

  8. Re:you mean, instead of reading the book? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh COME ON Mods. This is NOT a Troll, it's an honest post and should be modded as such.

    I agree with this too.

  9. Re:you mean, instead of reading the book? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    A message to the oreo cookie: No matter how hard you try to switch, here's what they think about you:

    "You gold teeth, gold chain wearin', fried chicken and biscuit eatin', monkey, ape, baboon, dip dive, fast runnin', high jumpin', spear chuckin', 360 degree basketball dunkin', tick coon spade, moolinyah. Go the fuck back to Africa. Go the fuck back to Africa."

  10. Re:Totally wrong. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Idiot. The original post was obviously a pitiful attempt at humour, since it was basically a string of factual mistakes: for example, he claimed that Linux was started in 1991, and that Tanennbaum was sceptical at first. He even misspelled Linux's surname!

  11. Re:who cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Unlike RMS or ESR, he's married with children. Doesn't sound gay to me.

  12. Re:you mean, instead of reading the book? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Peter? My office - now!

    -your boss

  13. Re:who cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow! Married with children, sounds a little illegal :)