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Posted by chrisd on from the slashdotting-our-own-bandwidth dept.

x180 writes "Those goofy hackers over at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego this week have, in a spate of fun, put together a series of Switch ad spoofs for the geeky ones. Writes Rael Dornfest in his blog, 'You've no doubt seen Apple's fabulous Switch campaign commercials. But what of the others? The geeky ones. The scripters. The sysadmins in their server cages. The command-line jockeys. Those through whom the source flows openly.' See the stories of hackers chucking Emacs in favor of Vi, leaving Perl to explore Python, and leaving the familiar home of Unix to play with XP." These, of course, aren't the only switch parodies. Their numbers are Legion.

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  1. So just use something everyone has... by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Like MPEG.

    It might not be the 'best for the project', but it will work for the most people. Quicktime is proprietary crap, and the player on windows sucks. Real is proprietary crap all around. And MS is proprietary (although the windows player is ok). If you use MPEG, everyone is happy.

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  2. Sarah? by Laplace · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Is that you? The one I went to school with? Sorry to say, dear, but you're looking like shit. Get out. See the sun. Exercise a bit. You used to be cute!

    (not trolling this time, she's an ol' wustl bud of mine. heh heh)

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  3. Re:It's a nice little irony... by geekd · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I've been at the OSCON all week, and I am shocked at the blatant, ongoing Apple OSX commercial that OSCON is.

    Everyone is sporting and flaunting thier iBooks and other OSX machines. I thought this was the *Open Source* convention. Run linux on your laptop like a real geek.

    posers