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Honestly, where would they have unloaded that anyway? yorgasor writes "Yahoo reports that the stolen copies of Newton's Principia have been successfully recovered. The thieves are also suspected of other thefts from several Moscow and St Petersburg libraries."
They have everything. An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Lycoris joins Lindows and Mandrake in being preloaded for walmart.com: 'The new $199 Desktop/LX Certified MicroTel PCs include the Desktop/ LX operating system. Desktop/LX also includes the following incredible software features without any additional downloading:'"
Who needs a war? Krieger writes "I found this link to the definitive browser wars at HardOCP, where you get to play checkers to prove your browsers superiority. Taking the browser wars to a new high/low?"
Here's the hook, can you pass that sinker please ... JoeWalsh writes "According to this article, earlier this month RMS visited India and tried to convince them to use Free (as in freedom) Software. Then along comes Bill Gates this month, handing out free (as in beer) software, and suddenly India isn't interested in RMS's message. A choice quote: "We are a poor country. We cannot develop operating systems and platforms on our own." Did RMS tell them they couldn't use GNU/Linux, or is this more Microsoft propaganda at work?"
FIRST! UNF.
And the first line in newtons principia was....
first post...
Repost from http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug-chat/2001/O ctober/msg00317.html :P
O ctober/msg00317.html ---------------
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:51:06PM +1100, Gnuthad wrote:
> On 28 Oct 2001, Catie Flick said:
> > Well, it was dark, you see, so I pushed it in as hard as I could and
> > thought the little catches were in properly... but they weren't. One
> > powerup and slight burning smell... ooh, what's that? hmm, better power
> > off... put hand in to feel RAM... shit, it burned me! Run to cold water
> > tap, etc.
>
> Uh huh, the reply of "over-stressed female" appears to be totally
> correct
Tell me about it.
I was sitting around with Catie and various other gal pals the other day, and we were swapping makeup tips and and gossiping about men, you know how it is, and then, it was getting a bit late in this girly night, and one of us, a pretty young thing, but a bit flighty, you know how girls are, brought the conversation around to computers.
I'll omit the ridiculous high pitched giggling we indulged in for the sake of your sanity.
"So, um, you know, those um, computer things?"
"Oh yeah, they're kind of scary. Like, you know, really scary. Hard and stuff. It makes me, like, stress, and stuff."
(snips sobs of terror and general female stress, since SLUG is so alert to it as it is, you know how it goes)
"It's a dirty GNU thing anyway."
"Yeah, thank goodness. It, like, hurts my brain."
"Yeah, I made the mistake of trying to do my own computer stuff the other day," said Catie.
(insert gentle feminine frowns and sighs here)
"I hope you realised the error of your ways," said random female.
"Oh yes. It made me stress," said Catie.
The others nodded, understandingly. We've all made that mistake.
"It's definitely a hippy thing. It takes, like, brains and stuff." Giggle, giggle.
"Definitely," chorused the girls.
"I mean, take those dirty GNU hippies on SLUG," said I, sensibly. "Why do your own GNU/Linux... stuff, when there are those GNU guys on SLUG? I mean, like, they're so gay. They do all this stuff, like, all the time. There's no point."
The others nodded at my concise summary of the situation.
"I mean, I used to do SLUG, right?" said I. "And then, I realised how painful I was making it for them with all my female stress. I mean, these guys, they don't stress the same way."
"Really?" chorused the listeners.
there's a difference between ordinary stress and female stress? When girls on SLUG have a problem right, the hippies pick up on the stress, it's special female stress. It used to freak them out. They'd pick up on it right away - 'female stress.' Not just any old stess, they'd point out that it was female stress. They used to make such an effort to point it out. The slightest little problem I had, and they'd detect it - 'arg!' were the cries 'a stressed female, not a pretty sight.' Even, if, you know, I thought I was stessing about something that was, like, totally gender free, like hardware or something, they'd recognise the female stress.
"And here was I, like, a stressed female, and I'm thinking, yeah, hey. I didn't want to disturb all these unkempt longhaired beast-bearded dirty SLUG hippies with my female stress. I mean, they're so gay, and they were so quick to jump on the female stress whenever I did something, I thought they must have a point. So now I've left them to it."
The girls nodded approvingly.
And then we went on to assess the sexual attractiveness of these particular guys from SLUG, the ones that we had so unwittingly stressed on, but maybe you don't want to know what we said.
-Mary.
-- Mary Gardiner
-- Reposted from http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug-chat/2001/
MOD PARENT UP!!!
Could anyone tell me how they handle the loopback interface on the Windows-lookalike Linux systems that they sell? I'm interested in faking a network with these things.