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Free-Floating UNIX

Posted by timothy on from the coattails dept.

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. google cache of the article by ih8apple · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here

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    Why do I h8 apple?
  3. Nothing Beats This. by Mr_Icon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tux Catchup.

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  4. 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

  5. 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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  6. Re:How about SCO diapers by gilesjuk · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  7. Re:archive.org cache by gameshints · · Score: 3, Informative

    cache with pictures

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

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

  9. 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 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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  10. 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.

  11. 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...

  12. 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.

  13. Slashdotting Dennis Ritche... by mangu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is there no respect at all anymore?

  14. 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...

  15. 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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