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Imminent Mandrake Name Change?
An anonymous reader writes "Mandrakesoft has lost a trial
and has been condemned to change its name and its logo"
The article is in French, but it says that King Syndicates owns a trademark on Mandrake the Magician.
Update MandrakeSoft can use the logo during appeals, which may take up to 3 years. You can now read their official statement on the ruling.
... for that Dreyfuss Affair crap"? Jews are superior.
this first post is
- #Teens4Christ
15 frist psot's and counting (today)
Today was shaping up to be a great day for Eric S. Raymond, Open Source figurehead and accidental anthropologist extraordinaire. He had finally received, after two years, a reply to his Match.com love-letter. Using Open Source tools such as Perl and Jgermeister, Eric had wired his entire house to his 386 running Linux. His shack had just lit up like a Christmas tree before his eyes when the reply landed hit his inbox.
Straining to read the dusty 13" monitor, ESR pulled out a soiled handkerchief and spat it in, eagerly wiping away the years of filth and grime. When the screen was cleared, he sat anxiously at his kitchen table waiting for his lovely's email to come up. After what seemed like minutes (and was actually closer to a half hour) of Linux swapping, Felchmale displayed her reply on the screen. Eric beamed as he read the first few lines, and warm sweat began welling up on his ruddy brow.
Eric clapped his hands together several times as a smiled festered its way across his face. He exhaled sharply through taut lips, as if he were literally letting pressure off, and mopped sweat from his forehead. He also began opening a new bottle of Jgermeister.
Eric almost had a heart-attack. Jger shot into the air and his hands started shaking uncontrollably. This girl was not only beautiful, but recognized his intelligence and therefore his alpha-male dominance! He began drinking the Jger with his trembling left hand as he started pounding on his chest with the right not in victory but in an attempt to get his heart beating in a proper cycle again. Replies this good only came along once in a blue moon. After a few seconds his crooked eyes returned to the email.
Eyes whirring back and forth, Eric quickly scanned the rest of the email. It was bursting with flirtations and niceties. Clearly this woman was swinging material! He wasted no time in writing his reply. Fetchmail crashed, a known bug that Eric had yet to fix, so he started Pico and began typing in earnest, his lazy eye closed in concentration.
With the clack of a key-combo, Eric's reply was hurtling through cyberspace to his lovely in Kansas City. He began packing.
If anything, that should be modded up as funny.
We don't have NEARLY enough distros whose names seem to imply something somehow indeterminately related to gay porn.
Hahaaaa You stupid Karma Whore, see what it got you?
huh? works fine here.
first post!!! you lame assholes... I can post first because my XBox is a american product and my pride in my great country and my great XBox accelerate everything...
If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!
Join the fun!!!
Do you know gamespy.slashdot.org???
Yeah, that is typical 'random mashing'. A rolling pattern that oscillates around the keyboard in a semi-predictable pattern.
...or the "Mickey Mouse Linux" distro I'm developing will never see the light of day. :(
Mandrake and Lothar are standing by their car, which has a flat tire. Lothar asks Mandrake why he doesn't just fix the tire with his magicks. Mandrake replies, that he can hypnotize Lothar into believing that the tire is fixed and that he could probably even hypnotize himself to believe that the tire is fixed but that he has no idea how to hypnotize the TIRE to believe it is fixed.
Add my vote to the cathegory that says "has nothing to do with comics" please.
Sigs for Nerds. Sigs that Matter.