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Ximian Desktop Installer, Red Carpet, and MonkeyTalk

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-things-friendly dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "Long-time Linux users forget what it is like to try to install something for the first time. Ximian has done a nice job writing scripts to hide the inner workings of a Gnome installation. TuxReports has snapshots of the Ximian installer. Do you believe that all Linux distributions should use such a friendly series of dialog boxes in order to attract more users to Linux?" Update: 07/14 21:13 GMT by M : Tuxreports has provided a non-PHP page for us to link to... whoops. Sorry about that.

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  1. Vorbis 1.0 is done! by Cardhore · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who cares because Vorbis 1.0 has gone gold!!! Whoo hoo. Here is a windows binary. Try encoding at the lowest quality value...about 64kbps second and be AMAZED! Otherwise get the source from CVS

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    Got friends?
  2. LOVELY SNOT! WONDERFUL SNOT! by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    LOVELY SNOT! WONDERFUL SNOT! By J. Wipo Troll, Esq., $Revision: 1.4 $

    CmdrTaco: You sit here, dear.

    CowboiKneel: All right.

    CmdrTaco (to Waitress): Morning!

    Waitress: Morning!

    CmdrTaco: Well, whatve you got?

    Waitress: Well, theres egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and snot; egg, bacon and snot; egg, bacon, sausage, and snot; snot, bacon, sausage, and snot; snot, egg, snot, snot, bacon, and snot; snot, sausage, snot, snot, bacon, snot, tomato, and snot;

    Slashdot Crew (starting to chant): Snot, snot, snot, snot

    Waitress: Snot, snot, snot, egg, and snot; snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, baked beans, snot, snot, snot

    Slashdot Crew (singing): Snot! Lovely snot! Lovely snot!

    Waitress: or Lobster Thermidor au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and snot.

    CowboiKneel: Have you got anything without snot?

    Waitress: Well, theres snot, egg, sausage, and snot, thats not got much snot in it.

    CowboiKneel: I dont want any snot!

    CmdrTaco: Why cant he have egg, bacon, snot, and sausage?

    CowboiKneel: Thats got snot in it!

    CmdrTaco: Hasnt got as much snot in it as snot, egg, sausage, and snot, has it?

    Slashdot Crew: Snot, snot, snot, snot! (crescendo through next few lines)

    CowboiKneel: Could you do the egg, bacon, snot, and sausage without the snot then?

    Waitress: Urgghh!

    CowboiKneel: What do you mean Urgghh? I dont like snot!

    Slashdot Crew: Lovely snot! Wonderful snot!

    Waitress: Shut up!

    Slashdot Crew: Lovely snot! Wonderful snot!

    Waitress: Shut up! (Slashdot Crew stops) Bloody Slashdot fags! You cant have egg, bacon, snot and sausage without the snot.

    CowboiKneel (shrieks): I dont like snot!

    CmdrTaco: Sshh, dear, dont cause a fuss. Ill have your snot. I love it. Im having snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, beaked beans, snot, snot, snot, and snot!

    Slashdot Crew (singing): Snot, snot, snot, snot. Lovely snot! Wonderful snot!

    Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.

    CmdrTaco: Well could I have his snot instead of the baked beans then?

    Waitress: You mean snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, snot

    Slashdot Crew (singing elaborately): Snot, snot, snot, snot. Lovely snot! Wonderful snot! Snot, sno-o-o-o-o-ot, snot, sno-o-o-o-o-ot snot. Lovely snot! Lovely snot! Lovely snot! Lovely snot! Lovely snot! Snot, snot, snot, snot!



    - poopbot: who doesn't like scat?
  3. Related? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, why is it that gay fan fiction is referred to as "slash"? Does this come from slashdot, or is it a funny conicidence?

    Thanks!

  4. [klerck] My question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I am a thirteen year old boy with a major problem. I like to wear pantyhose. I love the way they feel on my hairless body and I just can't stop looking at myself in the mirror. My priest says that he loves the pantyhose, but sometimes I wonder if there is something wrong with me. I think you are the smartest guy in the whole world so I thought if anybody can answer my question it would be you, CmdrTaco.

    DTABN

  5. Re:[klerck] Dear Ask Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry, but if you hang yourself, you will be conscious for between two and four minutes and will not actually die for ten minutes--unless you manage to jump from a high enough height to break your neck. The period of time it would take you to fall to your death should be much less than two to four minutes - which is how long you would end up thinking about it if you did not successfully break your neck.

    Why not try finding a really high bridge?