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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. Well then... by speedfreak_5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Legion's number is now 3,520?

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    Why yes I am paranoid! Thanks for asking!
  2. flamebait? by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeh, okay...

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  3. Meetup was fun. by snoozebutton · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Meetup was fun.