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Free-Floating UNIX

E1ven writes "First Microsoft detergent, now, UNIX Diapers, among other niceties. The author of this page has apparently worked to photograph and categorize the use of the term UNIX in other, non software products." (And don't forget Linux detergent.) Update: 10/12 21:23 GMT by T : Less garbled now ;)

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  1. Wow. by Phosphor3k · · Score: 4, Funny

    Zero Comments and Utterly destroyed. Ph33r those who would cross the Slashdot Linux community!

    1. Re:Wow. by tux_deamon · · Score: 5, Funny

      I know... /. is like the death star... we focus this intense beam on of traffic on a single web host and BLAM!

      BEN: I felt a great disturbance in the Web...as if millions of httpd daemons suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

    2. Re:Wow. by Josh+Booth · · Score: 1
      BEN: I felt a great disturbance in the Web...as if millions of httpd daemons suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
      THAT is what should have won the Slashdot T-shirt contest. ROTFL
    3. Re:Wow. by MGS+Hartman · · Score: 1
      Maybe this link may help the lower forms of life known as lunix (sic) losers?

      pjw.

    4. Re:Wow. by Alien54 · · Score: 1

      That and the old foot with tag graphic they used to have around here

      --
      "It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
    5. Re:Wow. by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 1

      I felt a great disturbance in the Web...

      Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The power of a Slashdotting is insignificant compared to the power of the Google Cache.

    6. Re:Wow. by Andrewkov · · Score: 1
      Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The power of a Slashdotting is insignificant compared to the power of the Google Cache.

      If only then knew the darkside of the force...

      +1 redundant ;-)

  2. no wonder there are no posts... by Lshmael · · Score: 1

    Object not found
    The object /cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html does not exist on this server.

    1. Re:no wonder there are no posts... by Thoron · · Score: 2, Funny

      I am sure that SCO shutdown Dennis' website as his license to UNIX has been revoked.

    2. Re:no wonder there are no posts... by CowboyMeal · · Score: 2, Funny

      Of course there are no posts, everyone on slashdot reads the article before even thinking about posting.

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  3. google cache of the article by ih8apple · · Score: 2, Informative
    1. Re:google cache of the article by jrockway · · Score: 1

      Nice sig. But after you get modded down for it, you can't get the point back by making them click the link :)

      --
      My other car is first.
    2. Re:google cache of the article by ih8apple · · Score: 1

      I just got sick of people asking me why I hated apple :)

  4. Unix diapers by MikeXpop · · Score: 1

    Perfect for those long night coding sessions.

    I think we're going to need some Valve ones when Half Life 2.

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    Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
    1. Re:Unix diapers by spektr · · Score: 1

      Perfect for those long night coding sessions.

      That's for the juniors; as a senior programmer I do my coding in a whirlpool.

  5. Nothing Beats This. by Mr_Icon · · Score: 4, Funny
    --
    If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
    1. Re:Nothing Beats This. by StevisF · · Score: 1

      Those are some saucy looking penguins ;-)

    2. Re:Nothing Beats This. by M.+Silver · · Score: 1

      Transliterated, that'd be "Gvin & Pin," I think. Shouldn't it be the other way 'round, though?

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      Slashdot's token middle-aged housewife
    3. Re:Nothing Beats This. by gmby · · Score: 1

      Check out the crabvspipe.mpg

      Good stuff..

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    4. Re:Nothing Beats This. by M.+Silver · · Score: 1

      a reference to a (rather stupid) russian folklore joke

      Googling doesn't seem to dereference it for me. (Okay, it apparently *does* dereference it, but only in Russian.)

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      Slashdot's token middle-aged housewife
    5. Re:Nothing Beats This. by SailFly · · Score: 1


      I like the tux ketchup (catsup?)

      Apparently, the names of Tux and friend are:
      "Green & Peen"

      (that's how to pronounce the names on the label)

    6. Re:Nothing Beats This. by Drakon86 · · Score: 1

      Well, actually the name is the word "Penguin" broken up.
      So, it is something like "Guin & Pen" translated into English. :-)

  6. Re:Unix Diapers!!!! by PiGuy · · Score: 1

    The object /cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html does not exist on this server.

    The object /cm/cs/who/dmr/ does not exist on this server.

    The object /cm/cs/who/ does not exist on this server.

    The object /cm/cs/ does not exist on this server.

    The object /cm/ does not exist on this server.

    Talk about brute force.

  7. How about SCO diapers by Lost+Penguin · · Score: 1, Funny

    For when the $#!+ gets deep.

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    I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
    1. Re:How about SCO diapers by gilesjuk · · Score: 2, Funny

      SCO diapers are no use, they're already full of s^H^H^Hit :)

    2. Re:How about SCO diapers by salmo · · Score: 1

      I argue that this is the best use of the control character ^H I have seen on Slashdot in at least 3-4 years (since well after the joke got old). Bonus points for makinging a cliche not such.

  8. Slashdot detected by AntiOrganic · · Score: 1

    And the page has already been removed.

    Well, now, this sure is disappointing.

  9. Shortest lived Slashdot story ever! by Andorion · · Score: 1

    too funny. The site probably had an anti-slashdot script running... if X number of visitors from /. in 30 seconds, delete the content linked to =)

    ~Berj

  10. Re:A new record? by sabNetwork · · Score: 1

    BitTorrent isn't made for small files, silly.

  11. Unix diapers.. by adeyadey · · Score: 1

    ..with Linux liners?

    --
    "You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
    1. Re:Unix diapers.. by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      The best part is that the Unix diapers are unisex. Brings to mind a certain dilbert strip.

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  12. Cmon ... Google Cache is there :) by akis · · Score: 1


    Check it:
    http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:BEx4Qo2x uaUJ: cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html+&hl= en&ie=UTF-8

    1. Re:Cmon ... Google Cache is there :) by akis · · Score: 1

      once more ... google doesnt like IPs

      http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:BEx4Qo2xuaU J: cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html+&hl= en&ie=UTF-8

    2. Re:Cmon ... Google Cache is there :) by kasperd · · Score: 1

      once more ... google doesnt like IPs

      Nope, it is just /. that doesn't like your way of posting links. Here is a working link.

      --

      Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?
  13. Site Slashdotted, Google Mirror by wo1verin3 · · Score: 1
  14. archive.org cache by gameshints · · Score: 1

    http://web.archive.org/web/20020210134518/http://c m.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html (has some pictures)

    1. Re:archive.org cache by gameshints · · Score: 3, Informative
  15. automatic shutdown by F2F · · Score: 2, Interesting

    poor Plan 9 web server, you're giving it the run of its life...

    well, the people at Bell Labs aren't stupid -- they've automagically turned off the web page in question, as soon as they saw the transfer to it peaking...

    notice, however, that neither the network connection nor the web servers are saturated: stuff like http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist and http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9dist works just fine :)

    gotta lova plan 9 :P

    1. Re:automatic shutdown by KingDaveRa · · Score: 1

      notice, however, that neither the network connection nor the web servers are saturated: stuff like http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist [bell-labs.com] and http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9dist [bell-labs.com] works just fine :)

      Yeah, because serving 404 errors is so highly processor-intensive.

      I actually know this from experience tho, having run Apache Bench with an incorrect URL, with something like 50,000 hits, 100 concurrent. It did the lot in no time, and the server hardly flinched. I was amazed at the speed (It was meant to be doing a DB lookup for a search). Oh how silly I felt.

      Rambling now...

    2. Re:automatic shutdown by WWWWolf · · Score: 1

      Automagical rejection is cool, yeah... except that they return 404 Not Found instead of returning... well, something that might indicate a temporary server failure. ("502 Server Temporarily Overloaded" isn't offical, I think? 500 Internal Error?)

      Such error would indicate that the resource is only temporarily unavailable. Now, people visiting think the page is actually deleted or moved without appropriate redirection. My first reaction was "Oh my God, they fired dmr and nuked his web page!"

  16. Re:A new record? by AntiOrganic · · Score: 1

    You did just give me a pretty cool idea for a distributed webpage network. It could be peer-to-peer like BitTorrent, but integrated into the web browser via some plugin or something to make browsing seamless. Add another tally to the list of shit that would be cool that I would never, ever work on due to my overwhelming laziness.

    And, to nitpick, the .torrent is not the file you're downloading with BitTorrent.

  17. Waybackmachine by tessaiga · · Score: 3, Informative
    Google cache is nice for news links, but for sites where the primary purpose is pics, it's a bit of a letdown since Google doesn't archive those.

    Try Waybackmachine instead; it's a little older but at least they archive the pics too.

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  18. Their poor, poor server by Kujah · · Score: 1

    Did the smartest thing it could have done given the situation - offload the transfer to the google cache!

  19. what about the pen? by tuggy · · Score: 1

    unix diappers, unix detergent...never saw it. BUT
    i also have a unix pen :P

  20. Fire extinguishers too by vadim_t · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can see an UNIX fire extinguisher in the trains in the spanish underground.

  21. Has apparently has worked? by spektr · · Score: 2, Funny

    The page has apparently has worked to photograph and categorize the use of the term UNIX in other, non software products.
    Server-response: Object not found

    Has apparently has worked

    English is my second language, willing to learn: is this the non-subjunctive perfect?

    I think I read someting about this in a Douglas Adams book!

    1. Re:Has apparently has worked? by MGS+Hartman · · Score: 1

      Elglish doesn't really have a subjuctive tense, unlink French.

    2. Re:Has apparently has worked? by MGS+Hartman · · Score: 1

      Now that was just silly:

      English doesn't really have a subjunctive tense, unlike French.

    3. Re:Has apparently has worked? by fishbot · · Score: 1

      Oh, I dunno. I know certain folk who would love to 'unlink french'.

      In the purely *nix meaning of the word...

    4. Re:Has apparently has worked? by nat5an · · Score: 2, Informative

      Well, really it's called the subjunctive "mood," not tense. We do have it in English, but only in very specific situations. For example, "I wish this webpage were available." Normally you'd use "was," but the wishing puts the verb into the subjuctive mood. It's really a minor thing.

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    5. Re:Has apparently has worked? by MGS+Hartman · · Score: 1

      English does but it's very limited, unlike French which has some 7 subjunctive tenses (iirc), of which 1 is only really used.

      Pour que lunix (sic) puisse mourir, donc sois sage.

    6. Re:Has apparently has worked? by MGS+Hartman · · Score: 1

      It only gets unlinked when its link count drops to zero and the data is freed when the last (potential) close is 'called'.

      So what's st_nlink and how many fd's reference it?

  22. Ermm.... by Tore+S+B · · Score: 1

    ...This is old news. That site has been around for a looooong time. What I really am looking forward to, though, is wierd Linux stuff. Once, in Denmark I ate Linux Smoked Salmon. It was good. This was before I knew of Linux.

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    toresbe
    1. Re:Ermm.... by MGS+Hartman · · Score: 1

      Sure has been. We Plan 9'ers call it lunix (sic) for any *NIX version that didn't come out of 1127.

    2. Re:Ermm.... by Tore+S+B · · Score: 1

      I am much of a history loving sort of guy (Something which my homepage makes quite obvious, http://tore.nortia.no) so of course I search for stuff like that in the context of the PDP-7. BTW, what did you mean by 1127?

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      toresbe
    3. Re:Ermm.... by MGS+Hartman · · Score: 1

      1127 is/was the 'unix group' at the labs. 11271 is/was the 'core' of it.

    4. Re:Ermm.... by Tore+S+B · · Score: 1

      Ahh, OK. Thanks. I was thinking in terms of 11/27... :) But they (you?) were using the /70 and /35 before that, from dim memory,

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      toresbe
  23. Not just *NIX by thelen · · Score: 1
    Every hacker needs a Perl thong !

    1. Re:Not just *NIX by po_boy · · Score: 1

      The item description actually says "This product is designed to fit juniors." Is this product for the same kind of person that asks the Victoria's Secret salesperson "Does this come in childrens' sizes?"

  24. Awesome.. by grub · · Score: 1


    If you thought the RIAA suing a 12 year old girl in a housing project was bad, just wait for SCO to try suing a diaper company.

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    Trolling is a art,
    1. Re:Awesome.. by fishbot · · Score: 1

      They could only sue because the product contains the same old s*** :)

  25. Re:Next up by E_elven · · Score: 1

    Ahaha. Cereal! What next, an opera?

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    Marxist evolution is just N generations away!
  26. This author? This author!?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This author is Dennis Ritchie. You know -- Dennis Ritchie, the guy who *created* Unix.

    Sheesh, kids these days, don't even know their history.

    The world did not spring into full form from the hand of Linus, one sunny Finnish afternoon.

    Fruufu.

    1. Re:This author? This author!?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


      The world did not spring into full form from the hand of Linus, one sunny Finnish afternoon.

      Indeed. I quote from "The Book of Slashdot" chapter 2, section 4:

      ..and The Ritchie doth spake
      "Bring to me all that is Good and Just."
      and it was so. Then The Ritchie doth spake more
      "Bringeth thy Finn, lest my loins burst."
      and it was done.

      The young Finn protesteth his guilt
      "I doth not copy thy look and feel, oh great Ritchie."
      The Ritchie was angered
      "Silence, welp! Lest I pummel thee into meat."
      The young Finn recalled the stories of The Ritchie's temper
      and how he hath made The Stallman into The Goatse.cx Guy
      with but a flick of the wrist.

  27. Re:What I fear. by sloanster · · Score: 1

    spoken like an anonymous coward.

    In any case, people are people, and have their interests, be it linux, mswindoze, scifi, or whatever. I suggest you find something else to do, anonymous coward, and quite trying to run people's lives.

  28. Just what are they trying to sell? by StevisF · · Score: 1

    Those penguins sure don't look like they're selling ketchup to me!

  29. xterm by stile · · Score: 1

    Ages ago I saw a bottle of "X-Term Flea and Tick Fogger" in the grocery store. I just had to buy it. I knew xterm had a lot of feature creep... but I had no idea it could get rid of fleas and ticks too!

  30. Biting the hand that feeds you... by ummit · · Score: 5, Informative
    The author of this page has apparently worked...

    "The author of this page" is none other than Dennis Ritchie, who knows a thing or two about Unix. He's had that page quietly sitting there for a year or two. I don't think he deserved this...

    1. Re:Biting the hand that feeds you... by criquet · · Score: 1

      Thanks for using the proper case for Unix. It's starting to become pet peeve of mine when people use "UNIX" to mean Unix.

    2. Re:Biting the hand that feeds you... by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 1

      I don't think he deserved this...

      Out of everyone in the world, shouldn't Dennis Ritchie be able to configure a Unix box that can survive a Slashdotting?

  31. Two words... by ShaunC · · Score: 1

    ...Heidi Wall.

    Sorry, Larry :)

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    Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
  32. Approval by __aafkqj3628 · · Score: 1

    I wonder if these items will pass the Open Group's tests for UNIX branding?

  33. Re:ketchup? katsup? Catsup? by Mr_Icon · · Score: 1
    --
    If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
  34. Here's a few funny ones... by RichardtheSmith · · Score: 1

    This one is good...

    Unix Fire Extinguisher

    These two are also pretty funny:

    Apple Evil

    Connection reset by peer

  35. Re:What I fear. by flossie · · Score: 1

    I tried that but it seems to be all dark out there, some kind of weird cratery white disk had taken the place of the big yellow one. Scary! Could you please give me some more advice so that I can know what I have to do to get a life?

  36. Is the market for diapers that high among eunuchs? by wirelessbuzzers · · Score: 1

    ...oh, UNIX... Still, point stands...

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  37. Should this really be in the humour section? by Trogre · · Score: 1

    The object /cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html does not exist on this server.

    I don't get it.

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    "Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
  38. Slashdotting Dennis Ritche... by mangu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is there no respect at all anymore?

  39. Poor German webservers by caluml · · Score: 1

    These guys, http://www.unix-rent-gmbh.de/ must be thinking - WTF? Almost midnight on a Sunday evening, and our server almost melts with visitors from all over the world.

    1. Re:Poor German webservers by AchmedHabib · · Score: 1

      followed by..
      Hay Dieter, ve arh gatting a lot of zurfers on our zite!!
      Jah, Hanzie, Das is guth! Ich habe ferkaufen a lot of new carz tzo rent aut!
      Guth Thinking, Dieter! Weh are goinh to be raich nowh.

  40. Hungarin Unix trading company by Charles+Dodgeson · · Score: 1
    In the early 1990s, I remember seeing a sign advertising "UNIX Import/Export" or "UNIX Kereskedlmi" or something like that in Budapest.

    If I recall correctly, it was a little, poorly produced sign along Ulloi ut, in the tenth district. I can't remember the name of the major cross-street (also the name of the metro stop).

    I always meant to take a picture of the sign and do something with it, but the list of things I'd always meant to do is far far longer than the list of things I've actually done.

    For all I know, the company still exists. I moved from Budapest in 1994.

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  41. THANK You. by MrChuck · · Score: 4, Informative
    I saw the address and was appalled to read the slashotter's words
    "the author of this page"

    The author of Unix...

    I just hope Caldera-sco goes after him for misuse of their trademark.

    I'll bet if they search his computer they find that he's stolen (STOLEN! I say) unix source code from them. C'mon darryl, take him on...

    1. Re:THANK You. by chgros · · Score: 1

      I just hope Caldera-sco goes after him for misuse of their trademark.
      UNIX is a trademark of the open group, not Caldera

    2. Re:THANK You. by malverian · · Score: 1
      I saw the address and was appalled to read the automated script's response!
      Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.
      The authors of this page???! The author of Unix!!
      --
      You're just mad because the voices in your head talk to me.
    3. Re:THANK You. by majid · · Score: 1
      I was tickled as well, as I am credited on the page (for the "UNIX - the next generation cereal fungicide" photo, no less...).

      A small nit to pick: Ken Thompson is the father of Unix. Dennis Ritchie is "merely" the father of C (although he did code a significant chunk of the original Unix, of course).

  42. Re:The author of this page... by rkww · · Score: 1

    [Dennis] Ritchie and [Ken] Thompson joined Bell Labs within a year of each other, Thompson in 1966 and Ritchie in 1967. They worked closely together for several years on the design and development of UNIX. The C Language, in which the UNIX operating system is written, was invented by Ritchie. It grew out of an earlier language, B, written by Thompson. (link)

  43. Unix Blow Dryers by John+Sokol · · Score: 1

    Look like that site is down.

    I have seen a Unix Blow dryers in Korea, I really wanted to bring one home but didn't have the time to.

    Here is the Unix brand UN-1421 blow dryer. Goto
    http://www.lgeshop.com and search for UN-1421 and click on the image of the blow dryer that come up.
    Because of there Java Server pages a direct link doesn't work.

    Or

    A copy of the image on my server.
    http://www.unixprogram.com/images/1092924 _N1.jpg

    You really need to see the box this thing is shipped in.

    I have also a copy of the Linux brand paper towels one line.
    http://www.unixprogram.com/images/linux.jpg

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  44. UNIX diapers by buzzdecafe · · Score: 1

    I often change my 9-month-old's UNIX diapers to clear out all of the SCO IP.

  45. A New Revenue Stream for SCO by Evil+Pete · · Score: 1

    Darl, if your listening please spread the joy to the non-software world.

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    Bitter and proud of it.
  46. Fruufu? by ShaunC · · Score: 1
    Sheesh, kids these days, don't even know their history [...] Fruufu.
    Sheesh, geezers these days, don't even remember their ROT13. It's furrfu, man!
    --
    Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
  47. Japanese "UNIX Magazine" and Tupperware by oddmake · · Score: 1

    IIRC,some lawsuit had happened "UNIX Magazine" and Tupperware maker.
    Trademark is per nation,per product-type IP.
    Japanese UNIX Tupperware maker had trademark of "Unix" on its own as "Japanese" "Food-related product".They regist "Unix" for years older than UNIX(as Computer Software).
    When UNIX as we know comes to Japan,some thought its nice to publish "UNIX Mgazine",the magazine filled with geekish material.
    Tupperware maker didn't think it cool,instead they considered it blatant IP theft.

  48. Re: Getting a life. by Alien54 · · Score: 1
    Could you please give me some more advice so that I can know what I have to do to get a life?

    Sorry, but the source code for your life is no longer available in its original form. A re-compile with appropriate patches (such as the MoreMoney and MoreBrains) and updates (such as FashionSense and MusicTaste) will not be possible.

    You may consider hacking a patch, or even a new life from the code fragments that are available on the web. Be warned: most known source code fragments are corrupt in some way.

    --
    "It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
  49. Ay, yi yi! Enough of this silly argument! by danielsfca2 · · Score: 1

    Why don't we just adopt an official policy that a post of a google cache or similar useful content should be modded +1, Funny? IIRC "Funny" doesn't add to Karma, but it does allow useful (although trivial to obtain,) pieces of information to be more highly visible to someone with a higher threshold. I've been thinking about it for a while, and I like the idea, so does anyone see a problem with it?

  50. I had no idea what you meant... by Nailer · · Score: 1

    until I read the link. Dude, its catsup or ketchup.

    1. Re:I had no idea what you meant... by Mr_Icon · · Score: 1
      --
      If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
    2. Re:I had no idea what you meant... by Nailer · · Score: 1

      Those who live in the US, where the dictionary you've cited comes from. Good luck anywhere else.

    3. Re:I had no idea what you meant... by Hooded+One · · Score: 1

      Those in the know generally agree that dictionary.com lists more non-words than any other dictionary. (Slang dictionaries excepted, of course.)

  51. UNIX golf club by Lemur+catta · · Score: 1

    Once while visiting the crappy (now defunct) driving range, I found in the "pro shop" (full of used and no-name clubs), I kid you not:

    A "UNIX System V" driver.

    I am NOT making this up! I would have bought the club if it hadn't been terribly overpriced.

  52. Linux Detergent by Alien54 · · Score: 1
    Various links on Linux detergent, etc.

    photo here

    using Linux detergent box for Boxen

    Another boxen photo

    Trademark S/N 75735641

    Status page for MS-Linux trademark, [hint, someone pick it up quick!]

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    "It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
    1. Re:Linux Detergent by TPFH · · Score: 1

      So.... which is better, Linux detergent or Microsoft Detergent?

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  53. Slashdot has officially gone to hell by anti-NAT · · Score: 1

    It used to be that almost everybody who read slashdot would know who Dennis is.

    Now it appears that almost nobody does.

    What is this world coming to ?

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  54. That's it for me and Slashdot. by Nethead · · Score: 1

    Ok, that's it for me. Back in the old day /. was good. The posters and users had a clue. Now they have employees posting Dennis Ritchie's personal web site to get slashdotted. HOW STUPID CAN A SO CALLED GEEK BE?

    I hosted slashdot's images back when Rob first started because I believed that slashdot would become a good thing. Now it's just a bunch of kiddies thinking they are cool because they can say "line-ux" and know that BSD is dead, even though they have never tried it.

    I'm quiting. I'm pulling the /. link from my homepage. I canceling account 1563. Good bye kids, you can fight over my karma.

    -Joe Hamelin

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    1. Re:That's it for me and Slashdot. by cujo_1111 · · Score: 1

      Now it's just a bunch of kiddies thinking they are cool because they can say "line-ux" and know that BSD is dead, even though they have never tried it.

      As opposed to /. in the old days where it was a bunch of nerds who thought they were cool playing around with a backyard operating system and took pride in hating Bill Gates before everyone else...

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  55. Microsoft Diaper by WayneConrad · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is really missing out on a great use for their slogan:

    "Microsoft Diaper -- Where do you want to go today?"

  56. Cuh by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 1

    Object not found
    The object /cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html does not exist on this server.

    Looks like they were running the server on Unix diapers.

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  57. For those needing an tech diaper fix... by Snaggy · · Score: 1



    Due the recent disappearing diaper, I present for your enJoyment a recent Joy of Tech. click yourself senseless, and don't be a baby about it. ;)

  58. Re:fixed URL... by Snaggy · · Score: 1

    Ouch, check those URL's!

    Here is the right one

  59. Clue-by-four needed by JoeF · · Score: 1

    I don't understand how this story could make it to /. in this way.
    The author of this page??? Guys, the author is Dennis Ritchie, one of the inventors of Unix. Would somebody please hit the submitter and the /. crew with a clue-by-four...

  60. Time to delete the bookmark... by xnixman · · Score: 1

    "The author of this page has apparently worked to photograph and categorize the use of the term UNIX in other, non software products"

    I never thought I'd see it. Dennis Ritchie referred to as "this guy" on slashdot. That's like calling Torvalds "some guy from Finland" and Stallman "that hippie that writes software."

    Dan