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Introducing Linux to Joe Average
eco2geek writes "The local "alternative newspaper" is running a cover story titled 'The Rebel Alliance: An unlikely army of hacker hippies, geek visionaries, idealistic teachers and corporate giants is making Portland ground zero of a digital revolution.' I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything, but the article does give the average reader a good introduction to what Linux is, why it's important, and some of the politics surrounding it. (The article also mentions 'the frenetic Slashdot.org.' :-)"
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Torvalds, now a 34-year-old tech superstar whom some see as the love child of Thomas Edison and Che Guevara,...
"Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire,'" Torvalds told The New York Times last year. "I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."
"In a school, it's public money. How should it be spent? Is it ethical to buy software instead of hiring an art teacher? Me, I want an art teacher--not the Microsoft help assistant dancing on every student's desktop.
"Why spend billions," said one Amazon tech guru at the time, "when you can spend millions?"
So funny. I'd post more quotes but I'm too lazy too read the rest of the article.
If you want Joe Sixpack to use linux, you just have to show him how fun it can be! Like this picture from a wild linux-party :)
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http://linuxforum.dk/2003/billeder/chlor/r00172
Oh, they're a wild bunch!
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything. . .
Rain?
KFG
> Sure, most of us are pretty damn ugly but there's
> gotta be a few photogenic nerds among us. With
> good stories, too.
No, there aren't, at least not to Joe Average.
When one of us sleeps with J Lo, then we've got a good story
Aye, I tried smashing them with a wooden hammer, but after a few hits, the sodden thing was in pieces! Then I tried a bigger one, but to no avail. Then I decided to test my brand new diamond-head drill, but it wouldn't even leave a mark on these numbers! "Bloody hell," I said. And threw the numbers into a furnace. And when I took them out, they were bloody hot (I almost lost my left thumb because of a number 5) and there were some weird markings to be seen on them -- I guess my diamond-head drill still did some damage ;7
Hell is not other people; it is yourself. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
spreading rapidly across the Internet through UNIX mail servers
Well, of course. You can't expect exchange to be powerful enough to meet the email demand. You need a quality, robust unix server!
Throw that sig in, and the fight would go like this:
Linus: "Surely void main(void) since you've got no return, and you forgot to include your IO libraries for printf!"
Bill: "Arrgghh - fire the secret weapon! #pragma align -0.5"
(At this point Linus core dumps and Bill locks solid in the same position for 5 minutes until the referee resets him. Linus just gets on with it, but Bill returns to his corner to scandisk and blame the referee for not shutting him down properly).
biopowered.co.uk - catalytically cracking triglycerides for home automotive use since 2008. Just say no to big oil!
Or maybe Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds will turn out to have been switched at birth, and will have to swap places, because it's discovered that the wrong one has "The Mark of Cred" (dun dun DUUUNNNNN!)
So just tell ol' blondie that you're installing FreeDebian. It doesn't sound as cool as FreeFedora, but it just sounds much better than FreeMandrake.
Excellent. Now we just need a volunteer...
--
Evan "My SO and I had a long debate about photon/electron interaction tonight. I'm not giving that up for some overrated actress"
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
He does have a point.
If every mail server on the internet ran Windows, e-mail would never work well enough to function as the vector for a worm.
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
There's an old old old joke my father used to tell me when we were all out camping. It was a bonding time, between parent and child. You know those moments, when essential truths about the world are passed down. And he'd say to me:
"How can you tell when Paul Thurrott is being a biased, lying windows Shill?"
the punchline... oh and I used to wait for this one and laugh
"His lips are moving!"
and we'd cackle together around the fire, and eat another marshmallow.
Have you ever seen those big maps showing the Internet's backbone providers? Look at Porland, OR.
We have more bandwidth than god.
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
about 15 seconds.
time enough for the laser printer to warm up...
Yes, frenetic, that's a good word to describe slashdot:
cout@freakshow:~$ nc dict.org 2628
220 pan.alephnull.com dictd 1.8.0/rf on Linux 2.4.18-14
d frenetic
150 1 definitions retrieved
151 "frenetic" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
frenetic
adj : excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent
emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration";
"frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied
look in his eye" [syn: {frantic}, {phrenetic}, {frenzied}]
.
250 ok [d/m/c = 1/0/104; 0.000r 0.000u 0.000s]
Then the BSD demon would need a new place to live - his home would be frozen over.
Read reviews of shopping cart software
When one of us sleeps with J Lo, then we've got a good story
It would be easier to have Ben Affleck learn how to write device drivers.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
It appears that the "author" Zach Dundas takes open source a bit too seriously. I've noticed entire paragraphs in this article that were plagarized verbatim from other sources. He obviously didn't write it on a Linux box either; his "cut & paste" works too well........
GIMP: Dont want no leather clad prevert gettin medeival on my ass.
siggy played guitar
There's no great love for Richmond
The Civil War is over, buddy. Jeff Davis, Robert E Lee, and good ol' Stonewall are all dead and buried. It's time to let Virginia back into our hearts.
Even the Great Emancipator has stopped by to say hello.
Intellectuals! Liberals! Peacemongers! IDIOTS!!!
/*Chalk another one up for Open Software. Working together you can analyse virus code faster! */
;)
No, you analyse it just as slow as the other vendors, it's just that one of the analysts wrote the damn thing.
"For years, I struggled with reality... but I'm happy to say I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd