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Alan Cox: The Battle for the Desktop

richjones writes: "There's a new interview with Alan Cox up. I think he's right on the money with how Linux is going to spread into businesses, but he seems to think Internet applications are going to be big with consumers... I can't really see it... but he's Alan Cox, so he must know :)"

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  1. first post by Ubergrendle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yay me...first post...first post for me ever...and to a linux related thread too!

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  2. Jamie McCarthy: The Battle for Slashdot Ads! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Starship Trooper writes: "There's a new way to block those obnoxious new Slashdot ads up. I think he's right on the money when he says subscriptions suck dick, and that HIV is going to spread amongst the Slashdot editors, but Jamie seems to think subscriptions will be big among consumers... I don't see it... but he's Jamie McCarthy, so he must know. :-)"

  3. Subject to make you read message goes here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    CmdrTaco: The inherrant flaw in the system is that people working for free won't be perfect.

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    QuoteMstr: CmdrTaco: So your own personal amusment is more important than a website read by thousands?
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  4. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  5. To quote from the Iron Chef... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...the battle is over!

  6. That's no hydroxyl ion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that's my wife!

  7. Excellent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    parent was an excellent and useless post, not to mention a shameless attempt at karma whoring. THANK YOU GENTLEMEN !!

  8. Alan Cocks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Back when I was a young teen fuckup (as opposed to the thirty-something
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    homework, and privacy would permit; often my homework would suffer, although
    I once turned in some math homework that I had accidently gotten some spooge
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    aging twat with my always-rigid teenage penis I might've made the honor role
    that year.

    One day whilst engaged in a penis handling session I noticed that my dick had
    a visitor, a small red lump on the left-hand side. Being in the throes of
    self-induced passion I ignored it, preferring to fill my mind with thoughts
    of the large-breasted girl who sat in front of me in English class.

    The next day, the little red lump was not only still present but slightly
    larger. I worried that at the ripe old age of 14 I had contracted venereal
    disease from the handjob I received one Friday night from a female co-member
    of the school's marching band as we rode the bus back from an out-of-town
    football game.

    Naturally, I wasn't worried so much about telling my parents that
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    day (and never during school hours, either, despite the temptation to
    retreat to a little-frequented bathroom out by the home economics wing).

    Every day, the little red lump got larger and larger and eventually got large
    enough to make my spontaneous erections painful as the shaft of my erect
    penis would rub the dickzit against my underwear and jeans. Since, being a
    young lad of 14, spontaneous and instant erections were an hourly, if not
    more frequent, fact of life it became apparent that Something Had To Be Done.

    I got home from school and ensconced myself in the bathroom. Sitting on the
    toilet lid, I induced an instant erection by thinking about Susan Anton. The
    offending dickzit glared at me from the side of my rockhard penis. By this
    time, because I had steadfastly attempted to ignore it for close to a week
    and a half, it was easily the size of a nickel.

    I reached down and attempted to squeeze it slowly. An incredible amount of
    pain resulted and I almost cried out in agony, managing to hold my tongue
    only by thinking about the embarrassment that would result should my mother
    decide to burst in and discover what was happening.

    Despite the pain my hard-on didn't diminish. When I could see clearly again,
    I looked down and could see that the pus inside was almost at the point of
    bursting free. I took a deep breath, reached down, and with a violent
    contraction of my fingers squeezed the dickzit with all of the physical and
    mental strength that I could muster.

    A river of agony flowed through me! A tear trickled down my face and sweat
    streamed out of every pore as I squeezed, hoping to tease at least a tiny
    amount of pus out of the offending lump.

    And then, suddenly, it burst with an audible *SPLORT!*. Like a miniature Mt
    St. Helens the zit exploded and sent debris flying an incredible distance.
    White pus spattered against the nearby wall and instantly my pain was
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    Glancing down, I noticed a stream of clear fluid running out of the wound
    along with a small amount of blood. I dabbed it dry with a piece of tissue
    paper, placed a small amount of topical antibiotic gel (Neosporin, I believe)
    on the hole where the dickzit had formed, and then left the bathroom. Later
    that day, when I was taking a leak, I noticed that I had forgotten to wipe
    the pus off of the wall and it had dried into a cheeselike substance. Looking
    back, I wish I had tasted it.

    Things healed quickly and within two weeks there was no sign at all that my
    penis had once sported one of largest zits I had ever seen. There was no loss
    of functionality, although as a safety measure I didn't get another handjob
    from the girl on the bus.

    Years later I finally asked my doctor what it could have been, and he felt
    that it might have been a blocked sebaceous gland that was right over a nerve
    ending but avowed that after twenty years it was too late for a diagnosis.

    "If it hasn't killed you by now, it most likely won't," he told me while
    undoubtably supressing a chuckle over the whole thing.

    LIke most things involving my beloved penis, I don't find it a laughing
    matter.

  9. Re:but he's Alan Cox, so he must know... by Roto-Rooter+Man · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Particularly taste.

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    The goatse guy for president. Win one for the gaper!
  10. Re:The battle for page widening! by Karma+Sink · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Retard.

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  11. Hi by Anal+Cocks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am a FLAMING HOMOSEXUAL and a Kernel Hacker! Can I PLAY WITH YOUR CHILDREN...?

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    Hey, kid... wanna touch my "kernel patch"?

    -- Alan Cox

  12. Hello... by Anal+Cocks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like to poke my COCKS in people's ANUSES! Can I poke my COCKS in yours????

    --

    Hey, kid... wanna touch my "kernel patch"?

    -- Alan Cox

  13. Re:Favourite Quote by Anal+Cocks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello. Can I poke you in the butt with my ANAL COCKS? I only have three of them, it won't hurt or anything... I'll leave a NICE STICKY PRESENT for you, too!!

    --

    Hey, kid... wanna touch my "kernel patch"?

    -- Alan Cox

  14. Re:What Linux needs to win on the consumer desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nICE TROLL! mODDED UP TO "iNSIGHTFUL", KUDOS!

  15. Re:Cox and the DMCA by Anal+Cocks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't worry, the DMCA will NOT PREVENT me from STICKING MY COX UP YOUR ANUS. Honest.

    --

    Hey, kid... wanna touch my "kernel patch"?

    -- Alan Cox

  16. Re:ANAL COCKS: The Battle for the Desktop by Anal+Cocks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Come back here, you! I WANNA POKE YOU AGAIN!!! You got a purty bum...!! GET IT IN YA!!!

    --

    Hey, kid... wanna touch my "kernel patch"?

    -- Alan Cox

  17. Re:Cox and the DMCA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You have multiple cox?

  18. Anal Cocks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, is that from alt.tasteless?

  19. Re:but he's Alan Cox, so he must know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    .....that would be your job huh?

  20. Re:Ottowa by spauldo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    No, the asshole is close to the vagina.

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  21. Re:Of course by DrSkwid · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    dos3.3 was prettier than XP

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