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Installing Linux on a Dead Badger

Elysdir writes "An article by Lucy A. Snyder at the online speculative-fiction magazine Strange Horizons provides information on the next frontier in Linux installations. 'Let's face it: any script kiddie with a pair of pliers can put Red Hat on a Compaq, his mom's toaster, or even the family dog. But nothing earns you geek points like installing Linux on a dead badger.' (Disclosure, in case it matters: I'm an editor for the magazine.)"

511 comments

  1. Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by JM+Apocalypse · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How utterly pointless.

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  2. Wow! That's really interesting! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Eat my ass.

  3. Will the nonsense ever end? by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Informative

    Michael,

    April Fools Day was last Thursday, you insenstive clod!

    1. Re:Will the nonsense ever end? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He was on Week-light saving time, you insenstive clod!

    2. Re:Will the nonsense ever end? by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

      "April Fools Day was last Thursday, you insenstive clod!"

      Everybody bookmark this comment. It's the first time Slashdot's ever modded somebody as +5 Informative for stating what day it is!

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      "Derp de derp."
    3. Re:Will the nonsense ever end? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, it's not even that, it is what day it isn't

    4. Re:Will the nonsense ever end? by antic · · Score: 1

      About 5 years ago, I assisted in designing some Linux Badges. These guys are so behind!

      Oh, badgers...

      --
      'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
    5. Re:Will the nonsense ever end? by wickidpisa · · Score: 4, Funny

      Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!

    6. Re:Will the nonsense ever end? by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The next (previous if you read Slashdot in regular mode) comment modded to +5 Insightful is three words: "How utterly pointless..."

    7. Re:Will the nonsense ever end? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In Great Britain, *ALL* TV is on UHF!

    8. Re:Will the nonsense ever end? by RedShoeRider · · Score: 1
      No badgers


      Just sharks with frickin lasers instead

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      Chris Knight is my hero.

    9. Re:Will the nonsense ever end? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Will Slashdot ever get word filtering options, so that I can mod 'insensitive clod' spouting idiots such as yourself down to -23?

  4. Thats good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    But can you cook your TV dinner with it?

  5. the correct URL by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    is Here

    Now, I gotta say that installing Linux on badgers has some interesting Beowulf cluster potential (according to the above site), I think the related mushrooms may cause hallucinations (making you think this is a good idea), and the snake is _definitely_ cause for concern.

    YMMV.

    1. Re:the correct URL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      damn, beat me too it. oh well, as long as someone gets it out there. MUSHROOM!!! MUSHROOM!!!!!

  6. Obligatory by Patik · · Score: 3, Funny
    Mushroom! Mushroom!

    I'm sorry for those who've already seen it, and even more sorry for those partaking for the first time.

    1. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      For april fool's day they had this instead of badgers, lol

      http://www.4inthemorn.com/zombiezombiezombie.php

    2. Re:Obligatory by Andy_R · · Score: 2, Funny

      I installed Linux on it!

      Robot Robot Robot

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    3. Re:Obligatory by FryGuy1013 · · Score: 1

      Anyone else get reminded of the Pizza Matrix after seeing this? Maybe I'm seeing too many of those mushrooms, but they do sound like good pizza toppings, for pizza pizza pies.

      --
      bananas like monkeys.
    4. Re:Obligatory by wolfgang_spangler · · Score: 1

      huh...and here I thought nothing good was going to come out of this story.

    5. Re:Obligatory by el+cisne · · Score: 1

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! This is what makes life on this planet all worthwhile....a perfectly lovely animated nonsequitur; thank you.

      ok, it gets old after about 30 minutes, but.....

  7. Next PETA demonstration by prostoalex · · Score: 5, Funny


    Naked supermodels with Windows boxes protesting this.

    1. Re:Next PETA demonstration by Comatose51 · · Score: 2, Funny

      If PETA has naked supermodels protesting for them, I'm going to out hunting with an AK-47 and RPGs.

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      EvilCON - Made Famous by /.
    2. Re:Next PETA demonstration by JoeBaldwin · · Score: 1

      How about a woman having a chip implanted in her? Make a nice contrast to this.

      (That link is why Photoshopping is wrong, so very very wrong. 'twas made for an anti genetic engineering campaign in New Zealand. The model went into hiding, because everybody wanted a gawp...)

    3. Re:Next PETA demonstration by Ironsides · · Score: 1

      Scew the AK-47's (What's an RPG?)
      I'll go out with a bleepin haksaw and muscle paralyzer darts and blow gun to hunt dear and other furries just to see that.

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      Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
    4. Re:Next PETA demonstration by JoeBaldwin · · Score: 1

      You made a funny!

      Damn, that made me laugh.

    5. Re:Next PETA demonstration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Rocket Propelled Grenade

    6. Re:Next PETA demonstration by prostoalex · · Score: 1


      Go ahead, inspire yourself

      and here, protesting KFC

    7. Re:Next PETA demonstration by inode_buddha · · Score: 1

      ...time to move to New Zealand, after seeing that...

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      C|N>K
    8. Re:Next PETA demonstration by JoeBaldwin · · Score: 1

      You'd have a hard time finding her, seeing as she's in hiding. And the tubes would just get in the way...

    9. Re:Next PETA demonstration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      An RPG is a Rocket Propelled Grenade.

      I don't play that many FPS games, but even so... :]

    10. Re:Next PETA demonstration by TildeMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hell, as a member of PETA myself, I am outraged at this cruelty to animals. How would you like it if you died and a badger installed linux in you?!

      Oh wait, this is Slashdot. You guys would love that. Carry on.

      /not really a member of PETA, in case you couldn't tell

    11. Re:Next PETA demonstration by 100+Pure+IndividualT · · Score: 1

      And the ALF will turn up as well and burn a few McDonalds' and beat up some employees! Yay!

    12. Re:Next PETA demonstration by kfg · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm not really sure I want to see a BSOD on a supermodel's box.

      KFG

    13. Re:Next PETA demonstration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And they even have a PETA page!!!!!

    14. Re:Next PETA demonstration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      > How would you like it if you died and a > badger installed linux in you?!

      Let me tell you about Soviet Russia...

    15. Re:Next PETA demonstration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      damn....shouldn't have posted AC....I woulda burned a mod point on that...it had to be said

    16. Re:Next PETA demonstration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hell, it's easier to install Linux on the badger than on a supermodel. The badgers have thicker bodies with more neural tissue, and the models keep regurgitating all the source code to make their distributions lean....

      Although I have to admit, the script kiddies keep downloading my tools to make them say "Linux is hard!" and "greasy hair is so sexy!"

    17. Re:Next PETA demonstration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If they brought their "badgers", you can be damn sure I wouldn't be installing Linux on them..

    18. Re:Next PETA demonstration by Chop · · Score: 1

      Hey, I'm a memebr of PETA too.
      People for Eating of Tasty Animals
      Nevermind, I don't think it is the same one.

      Chop

    19. Re:Next PETA demonstration by jpetts · · Score: 1, Redundant

      How would you like it if you died and a badger installed linux in you?!

      In Soviet Russia this happens!!!

      --
      Call me old fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating - Bender
    20. Re:Next PETA demonstration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      > How would you like it if you died and a
      > badger installed linux in you?!
      Let me tell you about Soviet Russia...

      Where Linux installs the badger in you!

  8. what the...? by krosk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These really are getting out of hand... ok fitting a PC into a Linux box (literally) was kind of interesting. Making an iMac into an aquarium is fun. But a dead badger? I'm no animal rights activist... but this joke isn't even funny

    1. Re:what the...? by NiceGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

      You would have preferred a live badger? Would have made the install a lot more interesting I'll admit.

    2. Re:what the...? by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "But a dead badger? I'm no animal rights activist... but this joke isn't even funny"

      Well actually it is mildly funny to those of us who are sick of seeing Linux installed on everything under the sun but not being used particularly well on it. "We put Linux on a watch! That means there's great potential!! Slashdot us!!!"

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      "Derp de derp."
    3. Re:what the...? by krosk · · Score: 1
      but if MS puts out a windows version on anything, we all scream bloody murder.. but whatever =) Speaking of new ideas.. what about linux running on a cell phone? MS has their smart phone. Where's tux on my motorola?

      i dunno if the cell companies would pick it up. But I think we could use a stable, useful OS on cells (considering how advanced they are getting). Personally I've had lots of trouble with my motorola V70, i even somehow hang the OS on that!!!

    4. Re:what the...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      hm? linux is on plenty of cell phones.

    5. Re:what the...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The badger ceased to have rights at the instant it became dead. This is why we installed Linux on it rather than FreeBSD.

    6. Re:what the...? by beacher · · Score: 4, Funny

      Perhaps if we built a large wooden badger??

    7. Re:what the...? by gary+chund · · Score: 1

      It's vaguely funny to begin with, but it's FAR too long to be hilarious. It soon reaches the "Yeah, we get the point" mark long before it reaches its end.

    8. Re:what the...? by Rick.C · · Score: 1
      I'm no animal rights activist... but this joke isn't even funny

      Reminds me of a conversation with my ex-wife:

      She: You're sick.
      Me: You have no sense of humor.
      She: Yes I do, but that's not funny.
      Me: I rest my case.

      Thanks Michael! The Badger story made my day!

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      You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
      "Math in a song is good."-Linford
    9. Re:what the...? by whimdot · · Score: 1

      I expect they had more problems with worms than with Trojans.

    10. Re:what the...? by FleaPlus · · Score: 1

      Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!

    11. Re:what the...? by 1c3m4n85 · · Score: 1

      Yeah! Then we could wheel it up to Bill Gate's doorstep and act as though it was a gift! A bunch of people could then jump out and deal with Windoze in a final manner! wooden horse = Trojan Horse wooden badger = Trojan Badger = Bill Gate's worst nightmare.

    12. Re:what the...? by ever+vigilant · · Score: 0

      what do you mean, an African or a European badger?

    13. Re:what the...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


      And we can give it long ears, so nobody will recognize it as a badger at all!

    14. Re:what the...? by JohnFluxx · · Score: 1

      I had very similiar conversations with my ex-gf.

      Hmm and for both of us they were ex's.. I'm starting to see a pattern here.

  9. Wow.... by JoeLinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    This should have definitely come from the "sick-and-wrong" dept. Or maybe a new mod: "-1, Sick" Nasty Nasty Nasty.

    Though I wonder if you could put linux on an Aibo, then use the badger skin...

    1. Re:Wow.... by identity0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      You want sick and wrong? Come get some!

      In the future, when you try to get someone to switch to Gentoo Linux and they say, "Stuff it up your ass", you're going to have to "# emerge ass" to prove how portable it is...

      In 2010, Debian Stable will also support the Dead-Parrot, Stinking-Fish, and Used-Lovebot architechtures - but only with kernel 2.6.

      Darl McBride will drive around the countryside, checking roadkill for license compliance.

      In Soviet Russia, Dead Badger installs Linux on YOU! ... or the more absurd,
      In Soviet Russia, Linux installs Dead Badger on YOU!

      Imagine a rotting pile of corpses of these!

    2. Re:Wow.... by MoronGames · · Score: 1

      I'd rather have it a "+1, Sick" mod. I bet that'd turn up some interesting posts.

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      hey!
    3. Re:Wow.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


      Though I wonder if you could put linux on an Aibo, then use the badger skin...


      Oh great, you just started an Aibo skinning craze. Because skinning Longhorn isn't enough.

  10. Start of Obligatory Meme's. by wdavies · · Score: 4, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new Zombie Badger Overlords...

    1. Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. by prat393 · · Score: 1

      Godwin's second law: over time, the probability of a zombie badger story on slashdot becomes one.

    2. Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. by JusTyler · · Score: 2, Funny

      I wonder what you could do with a Beowulf cluster of dead badgers?

      1) Install Linux on dead badgers.
      2) ???
      3) Profit!

      Why did the chicken cross the road?
      To install Linux on a dead badger.

    3. Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. by ShallowThroat · · Score: 1

      since the beowulf of dead badger linux cluster has already been mentioned...

      1. Kill some Badgers.
      2. Install Linux on them.
      3. ???
      4. PROFIT!!!

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      The "Insert Quote Here" line is almost as predictable as inserting an actual quote.
    4. Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't blame me, I voted for Mushroom Mushroom.

    5. Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. by tulimulta · · Score: 5, Funny

      1. Obtaining a badger corpse. $50

      2. Removing its intestines and replacing
      them with a linux-running computer. $300

      3. Watching your co-workers flee in panic
      as your telnet-operated zombie badger
      bores through their windows boxen.
      Priceless.

    6. Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am a badger, you insensitive clod!!!

    7. Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      It's Official: Netcraft Confirms - Badgers are Dying

    8. Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. by cbiltcliffe · · Score: 2, Funny
      Why did the chicken cross the road?
      To install Linux on a dead badger.


      Maybe after this, we can install Linux on a dead chicken buried in a nuclear landmine.....
      --
      "City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
  11. what the... by AssProphet · · Score: 4, Funny

    News for nerds, stuff that Matters
    why is this on slashdot?

    1. Re:what the... by kiwioddBall · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I don't know, this is pretty amusing - it has been a slow news day on Slashdot. Lets face it, someone posted frontpage news that says that they've skinned Longhorn this morning - an operating system that isn't out for 2-3 years, and then said it is going to change format anyway - I mean, what did they achieve? Bugger all except putting together some BMP's and an XML probably. I think the word matters lost all meaning today.

      I liked the dead badger picture.

    2. Re:what the... by Soko · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dude.

      You subscribed to Slashdot, you picked a nick like AssProphet, , you haven't been here that long and you expect me to share your moral outrage at the lameness of michael's story selections.

      Wow. Seeing that means my day wasn't that bad after all. Thanks!

      Soko

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      "Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
    3. Re:what the... by Endive4Ever · · Score: 0, Troll

      Well, in a world where the linux kernel source is slowly being locked into proprietaryness, maybe alternatives like skinnable Windows need to be examined.

      I refer to the fact that today I downloaded the 2.6 kernel source. When I tried 'make xconfig' to configure the kernel before a build, it came back at me with some bullshit about needing QT.

      What The Fuck?

      Why did they change the way 'make xconfig' worked with the 2.4 and earlier kernels? Why is the kernel config now bound up into a proprietary X Toolkit?

      Is it fricking skinnable?

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    4. Re:what the... by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 3, Informative

      Why did they change the way 'make xconfig' worked with the 2.4 and earlier kernels? Why is the kernel config now bound up into a proprietary X Toolkit?

      Have you been living in a cave for the last fucking five years? Qt on Linux is GPL.

      Now, can we have a new mod? -1, Dead Badger

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    5. Re:what the... by Endive4Ever · · Score: 1

      Who cares if it's GPL? It's a big pile of crap that shouldn't be necessary to compile the Linux kernel.

      I should be able to run 'make xconfig' on a machine with the basic X setup from x.org, and plain xfree86 on it and it should run. It always has in the past. QT is a bloated pig. Are they going to fucking prepend 'k' on the front of the kernel source tarball next?

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    6. Re:what the... by Deraj+DeZine · · Score: 1

      Sounds like a troll, but "make xconfig" has always used QT. "make menuconfig" on the other hand, uses nothing more than your non-proprietary curses implementation.

      I personally don't use xconfig since it uses QT (IMHO, an annoying toolkit).

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    7. Re:what the... by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 1

      Who cares if it's GPL? It's a big pile of crap that shouldn't be necessary to compile the Linux kernel.

      make config
      make menuconfig

      What's so hard about that? If you're so dependant on point and click, wtf are you compiling a Kernel in the first place?

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    8. Re:what the... by Endive4Ever · · Score: 1

      They broke useful functionality. Right now I'm mired in an xterm running 'make menuconfig' and I had to use control-right-click to make the text of the curses scripting big enough to read.

      Did some KDE dandy infiltrate the kernel development group?

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    9. Re:what the... by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 1

      Did some KDE dandy infiltrate the kernel development group?

      Last I heard, Linus himself wrote the new xconfig app. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall reading that...

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    10. Re:what the... by Phosphor3k · · Score: 0, Insightful

      We don't need your elitist bullshit. The story is lame. Period. It's lame if your user ID is 16. It's lame if your user ID is 1600000. It's a bullshit story, and they get posted all the time now. You don't need to have a low ID to express irritation with it.

      All we need to complete the cycle is to have Taco repost it tommorow.

    11. Re:what the... by mtnharo · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If you don't like QT, try make gconfig, which uses GTK instead of QT. Also, reading the README file is a good way to find this kind of thing out.

    12. Re:what the... by jmweeks · · Score: 1

      I should be able to run 'make xconfig' on a machine with the basic X setup from x.org, and plain xfree86 on it and it should run.

      Eh? You want the kernel to run a configuration on your preferred platform and they better damn well make sure they do it? The old xconfig was in the old, motif type toolkit, the new one is QT. Or you can

      make gconfig
      and use the gtk+ toolkit. Or you can
      make menuconfig
      and use curses in a terminal without really limiting usability. Or you can
      make config
      and answer a bunch of questions, which I admit is a little clunky and takes a long time.

      The point I'm making is you don't have to install the "bloated pig" (as you put it) that is QT to compile a kernel; you have options. Your complaint is arbitrary, it's whining that the kernel is not exactly how you want it, rather than how most people want it. You want special treatment because you refuse to install a modern desktop environment and still don't want to use curses.

      Your niche is no longer significant enough to deserve the default xconfig. There's always going to be someone dissatisfied and this time it is you.

      Get used to it.

    13. Re:what the... by Endive4Ever · · Score: 1

      Well, maybe you are right. But I can configure 2.4.x with 'make xconfig' on the same system that won't let me configure 2.6.x with it.

      I didn't know that it's always used QT. But am done ranting, I suppose. It just seems pointless to not use the most primative widgets for something as 'universal' as the Linux kernel.

      It's not offtopic on a discussion of Linux on a Dead Badger, though. I've not heard where Qt has been ported to such a platform.

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    14. Re:what the... by Tumbleweed · · Score: 1

      Seriously. Only those of us who've had to put up with this kind of thing for a long time have the right to complain! :)

    15. Re:what the... by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Run, Coward!

      I live...*RAAWWWRRRR!*

    16. Re:what the... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The old xconfig toolkit is Tk FYI.

    17. Re:what the... by 0x0d0a · · Score: 1

      Sounds like a troll, but "make xconfig" has always used QT. "make menuconfig" on the other hand, uses nothing more than your non-proprietary curses implementation.

      You are wrong, and the parent you are responding to is correct.

      make xconfig used Tk in the 2.4 series, and (much to the dismay of many, including me) Qt in 2.6.

    18. Re:what the... by 0x0d0a · · Score: 1, Troll

      It is not, however, LGPL (as a library as standard as one proposed to be *the* Linux widget set should be).

      It is also not available for Windows as a GPL package, unlike GTK.

      It is a proprietary package that is an attempt by a company to squeeze into a position where they can bleed GUI platform developers of money. Reminds me of Motif, actually.

    19. Re:what the... by 0x0d0a · · Score: 1

      No, as a matter of fact, Linus expressed concern about Qt dependence. He certainly was not responsible for introducing the Qt dependence.

    20. Re:what the... by zhenlin · · Score: 1

      Hi. You must be new here!

    21. Re:what the... by coastwalker · · Score: 4, Insightful

      No No No, this is a great story

      This is high culture and should be recorded for posterity!

      Ok so its humor and humor isnt serious enough to count as news that matters, except that if you dont "get" humor then you are probably not functioning very well.

      A little self mockery never did any harm to people with compulsive behaviour and I'm more than happy to remind myself that cool gadgets are only tools to do something else..

      Having said that can I tell you about my new minidisk portable recorder, its just like brilliant! Its got 4x extended recording and a mic input so I can record live stuff and its half the size of the tape recorder it replaces. The only thing is that I dont have an optical input on my sound card so all transfers are going to have to be analog to start with, still its going to be far better quality than the cassette tapes I usualy use. It also has this realy neat remote so you can walk around with it in your pocket. Sorry am I boring you?

      The story is well written. The voodo linux and magic are all authentic enough to read true. I get cartoons and satire in my newspaper so why not here?? Ok April 1st was a bit mad, but that was generally a bit too contrived to be funny; this article made me laugh.

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    22. Re:what the... by Feanturi · · Score: 1

      You subscribed to Slashdot, you picked a nick like AssProphet, , you haven't been here that long and you expect me to share your moral outrage at the lameness of michael's story selections.

      Now, I know absolutely nothing about this AssProphet guy, but I do wonder how you can be so sure that he 'truly' has a high UID. Look at mine for example, it's reasonably low for most griping, but maybe I decide to make a second account for trolling or something. I'm still the same experienced slashdotter, just with a different guise. Because I create a younger account, do I lose my right to fondly recall how "Beware of Fake Monkey Automata" was a ridiculous story?

    23. Re:what the... by Artifakt · · Score: 1

      What the?
      Oh, you thought that part about "stuff that matters" was serious?
      If I thought I was signing on to a serious site where real IT professionals were likely to discuss things that related to their livelyhood, society at large, and trends that could affect the whole gestalt of the future, all considered according to professional standards, I wouldn't have chosen AssProphet as a nym, but then, that's just me. That's not intended as a slam against your chosen form of anonimity. Really, some of my own nyms are not what I'd use if I was representing myself professionally, to a group of people who collectively had serious chops.
      On the other hand, if I was a slashdot editor, and I looked over the nyms of the people already commenting on this story, I'd seriously figure these were just the sort of people who might like a dead badger story.

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    24. Re:what the... by metamatic · · Score: 1

      X is a bloated pig that shouldn't be necessary to compile the Linux kernel.

      And guess what? It isn't.

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    25. Re:what the... by Dirtside · · Score: 1

      In truth, articles like this are intended to troll for humorless retards like you, so that those of us who know what laughter sounds like can mark you as Foes and mod you down to -1, so that we never have to see your piffle.

      Yes, I know, it seems like an awful lot of work just to filter out the clueless, but then we're geeks: we LIKE elaborate schemes that piss other people off!

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    26. Re:what the... by randyest · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Hey, go easy on the kid, he's already picked up two freaks because of this relatively minor little karma-whoring incident which yielded him only 1 karma point (the funny's don't matter) and no fans. I'm sure he's devastated enough already, and the mods may not be done with him yet ;-)

      At least he didn't paste in the entire article text without formatting, but including sidbear text ad copy interspersed, and then complain about how bad it sucked afterward.

      I've seen it happen. And I haven't been here that long myself.

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    27. Re:what the... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oops, I meant 2.6 always used QT for xconfig. Apparently it used Tk for 2.4 (never used xconfig then).

      Either way, I prefer menuconfig.

    28. Re:what the... by arkane1234 · · Score: 1

      Who cares if it's GPL? It's a big pile of crap that shouldn't be necessary to compile the Linux kernel.

      *rolls eyes* It's not, use what the other 99% use, make menuconfig.

      If you really want to get nutty, use make config.

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    29. Re:what the... by arkane1234 · · Score: 1

      The old xconfig toolkit is Tk FYI.

      You are correct.

      I never heard anyone blathering on about having to install Tk "to compile the kernel" :P

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  12. BUT CAN YOU INSTALL LINUX ON IT...[n/t} by Brightest+Light · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i lied, here's some text

  13. hm. by bagel2ooo · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've personally been waiting to see if they use this as an embedded OS in some form of 'smart' sex toy. Not for personal use mind you ... ... damn.

    *sits in his grave*

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  14. Notice who posted the story... by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Funny

    I told you all last Thursday that Michael didn't have to do anything special to pick his April Fool's Day stories. He'll post nonsense any day of the year!

    1. Re:Notice who posted the story... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ...Michael didn't have to do anything special....

      Maybe he did follow the steps mentioned in the article *ducks* ;P

      All in all, it should be: kill the badger, sit on it, install the laptop with Linux... LOL

    2. Re:Notice who posted the story... by Chainsaw+Messiah · · Score: 1

      What I can't figure out, seeing as this is a Michael story, how do we blame Bush for this?

  15. If it's so easy, can you help me? by ZeeTeeKiwi · · Score: 1
    OK, help a fellow geek out here.

    I've been challenged to get Linux going on a Wyse Winterm thin client. This article says any script kiddie should be able to, but google yields zip.

    Can anyone give me a pointer or link to get started?

    Thanks in advance.

  16. New business model by batkid · · Score: 0, Funny

    1) Kill badger
    2) Installs linux
    3) ???
    4) PROFIT!!!!

    Somebody has to do it.

  17. Doesn't even exist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I don't see any photographs, just a shitty drawing.

    This is LAME, fucking lame Slashdot.

  18. We all knew Linux was great for dead hardware by paroneayea · · Score: 1

    Now here's proof it runs great on dead animals too!

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    1. Re:We all knew Linux was great for dead hardware by Bobulusman · · Score: 1

      Now, when zealots are done beating a dead horse, they can boot up the body and talk about it on slashdot! Think about all the time this will save!

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  19. Vapourware? by DeathFire · · Score: 1

    Come on, no proof or anything. It's gotta be vapourware!

  20. badger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    badger badger badger badger...

    1. Re:badger by Hassman · · Score: 0, Redundant

      mushroom...mushroom

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    2. Re:badger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      snake!

    3. Re:badger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      look out for snakes!

      eeegah...

    4. Re:badger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ad infinitum

    5. Re:badger by NanoGator · · Score: 1

      "look out for snakes!"

      Not funny. I'd mod that -1, Ant-eater.

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    6. Re:badger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'd mod you -1 homosexual.

    7. Re:badger by NanoGator · · Score: 1

      If I were homosexual, why would that be -1?

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    8. Re:badger by Hassman · · Score: 1

      Apparently the AC is republican...

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  21. This makes sense by Daimaou · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've been installing and supporting a dead beast of an OS on nice hardware for my clients for years. It only makes sense to install a nice OS on a dead beast for a change.

    1. Re:This makes sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Tell me about it... I still support a few PDP-11/94's!

  22. First... by dnahelix · · Score: 1

    ... you have to uninstall Windows!

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  23. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 5, Funny

    My name is Darl McBride. Is that dead badger licensed?

  24. everything2! by apetime · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Very cool to find a writeup from everything2 in actual publication. The article first appeared here in January.

    The writeup has 10 C!s. Very nice.

  25. Poor Job Decision by div_2n · · Score: 1

    Disclosure, in case it matters: I'm an editor for the magazine.
    Hey, its nothing to me that you are an editor. However, you boss might be pissed that your web server just caught fire due to /.ing.

  26. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by JM+Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    Now I'm confused. Are you Walt Dismal or aren't you!

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  27. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by TechniMyoko · · Score: 1, Interesting

    thats what I say to any story about installing linux on anything

  28. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Agreed. This has to rank up there as the single most fucking retarded story Slashdot has ever posted.

  29. Badgers? by Punk+Walrus · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... we don't need to stinkin' badgers!

    (obvious)

    1. Re:Badgers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The correct mangled quote:

      Badgers? What stinkin' badgers? We don't need no badgers!

    2. Re:Badgers? by Noren · · Score: 2, Informative
      Nope, the correct quote (from UHF (1989)) is:
      Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers.
      ...which is a reference to Blazing Saddles (1974):
      Badges? We don't need no stinking badges.
      ...which itself is an homage to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948):
      Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.
    3. Re:Badgers? by Punk+Walrus · · Score: 1
      ...which itself is an homage to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

      THANK YOU! Man, for the last day I have been wondering where the original quote came from. I knew it was in Blazing Saddles, but knew even in that film it was a reference to something else.

      .......

      Buddy Bizarre: Cut! Cut! Cut!
      Taggart: Fuck You! I work for Mel Brooks!

    4. Re:Badgers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Of course, you left out the spaghetti western Clint Eastwood movie, which I was quoting. ( I believe it was The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.. but all those he did from that era start blending after a while)

      Hey, you learn something every day on /.

    5. Re:Badgers? by s88 · · Score: 1

      So obvious, in fact, that it was already said before you, and modded to +5 to boot.

  30. How about installing *BSD on a dead Badger? by WiKKeSH · · Score: 1

    Nothing like installing a dead OS on a dead badger.
    How about a dead penguin? :)

  31. Seen it before by JoeBaldwin · · Score: 1

    Also at Everything2, by the same author.

  32. Did anyone else notice? by cjw1 · · Score: 1

    The badger looks like an animal from the cover of an O'Reilly computer book...

  33. busted! by zer0mass · · Score: 5, Informative

    shit, I can't believe I wasted 10 minutes watching that damn thing. I viewed it for 2 minutes, thinking something cool would happen in the end, but then realized the shit was just looping over and over again.

    1. Re:busted! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      PWNED

    2. Re:busted! by TeraCo · · Score: 3, Funny

      What did you do for the other 8 minutes?

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    3. Re:busted! by zer0mass · · Score: 1

      try to figure out the meaning of that snake slithering across. I really didn't get it.

    4. Re:busted! by cyt0plas · · Score: 3, Funny

      After like 40 minutes or so, the audio gets out of sync. They are saying badger, but showing mushroom.

      After 6-7 hours, they get back in sync though.

      No, I'm not kidding. I wish I was.

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    5. Re:busted! by JPriest · · Score: 3, Funny

      Were you expecting the meaning of life?

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    6. Re:busted! by JPriest · · Score: 1
      ".... reapeating the same thing over and over expecting different results"

      Maybe they know something we don't?
      /me puts tinfoil hat back on

      --
      Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
    7. Re:busted! by Tumbleweed · · Score: 1

      Geez, you really missed the point of Badger!

      Didn't you notice the cool Mushroom? What about the scary snake?! My favourite part is when the Badgers dance! Badgers are really cute! Well, the animated ones are, but the real ones aren't so cute, but mushrooms do taste good and I heard snakes taste like chicken, and I like chickens, so I guess I like the whole thing. I wish I could get the mp3...

    8. Re:busted! by Kippesoep · · Score: 1

      How did you manage to waste 10 minutes, while you've posted your comment 8 minutes after the link appeared?

    9. Re:busted! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      LIAR I've watched it for extend periods of time the music cuts out after about 2 hours.

    10. Re:busted! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Using a software timer on a Pentium?

    11. Re:busted! by dtfinch · · Score: 1

      The far right badger will occasionally disappear and reappear.

  34. Badgers... by ubugly2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    .....We don't need no stinking badgers

    1. Re:Badgers... by biobogonics · · Score: 1

      Once upon a time a man and his wife were in a terrible auto accident. The wife was severely injured but the man was barely hurt. Unfortunately she was nearly a vegetable. The man felt sorry for his wife and decided to go to a mad scientist. The mad scientist showed him the IQ Reducing machine. "10 seconds in here will make you more like your wife" he said. But instead of 10 seconds, the man got a 1/2 hour dose, since the mad scientist's broker called while he was in the booth. "Oh my god, what have I done?" the mad scientist said as he realized his mistake. Quickly he unlocked the booth and the man stumbled out. Miraculously he was still able to speak. With a glazed look on his face, he exclaimed "Go Bucky!"

  35. Appendix II by frovingslosh · · Score: 2, Funny
    but an adapter may be required. See Appendix II for details.

    Badgers got two appendixes????

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    1. Re:Appendix II by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Surely you meant appendices.

    2. Re:Appendix II by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Appendixes is an acceptable variant pluralization, and don't call me Shirley.

    3. Re:Appendix II by frovingslosh · · Score: 1

      dno't call me Surely

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    4. Re:Appendix II by IceAgeComing · · Score: 1


      No, II is a reminder of the shape of the appendix when small incisions are made to the top and bottom.

  36. 1 word, awesome.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    use proper caution when driving your zombie badger. Do not allow your zombie badger to consume mushrooms or African snakes, or your badger may emit catchy techno music. Do not taunt zombie badgers. Prolonged use of a zombie badger may cause acne, insomnia, leprosy, unusual weather, or the end of time.

    funniest thing ive read in weeks

  37. Proof by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Slashdot confirms it

    Linux is DEAD!

  38. no thats hilarious by SirSlud · · Score: 0

    If thats not funny, you may need help. Morbid Edward Gorey style humour! Me likes!

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  39. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by edwdig · · Score: 5, Funny

    It can't really be much worse than installing Linux 2.6 on the iPod. Altho 2.4 kinda worked, 2.6 had a note in the release notes along the lines of "It mostly works, except for the hard disk and the screen." If that can be described as "mostly works", then I'm sure someone can come up with some criteria that defines Linux on a badger (living or dead) as useful.

  40. A dream I once had... by gnu-sucks · · Score: 2, Funny

    This reminds me of a dream I once had, where I came back from school, and my parents had installed a circuit board into my cat's brain, to make her "more pleasant".

    It was a truly awful dream, as the process was not reversible.

  41. Take that! by Qetu · · Score: 1

    Take that, NetBSD! :P In before Linux is dying jokes ...

  42. Anyone know... by Comatose51 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone know if the reanimation and Linux installation process described in the article can be adapted for use on a doll, as in the blow-up kind...

    If this works, fun can be only a Perl script away...

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    1. Re:Anyone know... by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 1

      If this works, fun can be only a Perl script away...

      Careful, dude. Get one character wrong and she might bite your dick off. Better use Python.

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    2. Re:Anyone know... by pekoe · · Score: 2, Funny

      That would be a Perl necklace, right? Sorry. I am a bad man.

    3. Re:Anyone know... by ezzewezza · · Score: 1

      I'd prefer my python to be the only one entering the blowup doll.

    4. Re:Anyone know... by minion · · Score: 1

      Anyone know if the reanimation and Linux installation process described in the article can be adapted for use on a doll, as in the blow-up kind...

      If this works, fun can be only a Perl script away...


      Phhhbbtt. Real men do it in the shell!

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    5. Re:Anyone know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      #!/bin/sh

      who | grep -i blonde | talk; cd ~; wine; talk; touch; unzip; touch; strip; gasp; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; gasp; unmount; make clean; sleep
  43. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

    Anonymous SHIT Member
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  44. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

    Anonymous SHIT Member
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  45. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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    13643

  46. Back in January, by same author by dupper · · Score: 1
  47. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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  48. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

    Anonymous SHIT Member
    6627

  49. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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  50. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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  51. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Endive4Ever · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with net booting Linux on an iPod?

    It seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

    There's something fascinating in net booting headless machines. A 'box' out there on your network, tethered to the network with a single cable, through which you communicate into it and through which it gets all storage. With only two connections to the rest of the world, the ethernet cable and the power cord. And with an iPod there would be even less, just the USB or 'FireWire' cord.

    Dunno about this badger thing, though.

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  52. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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  53. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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  54. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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  55. Now Taking Bets by dupper · · Score: 1

    On how long until we have a Slashback with pics of someone's successful installation. I think I saw this on the Tom Green show, once.

  56. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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  57. ripoff by zer0mass · · Score: 1

    damn, I was hoping we'd at least have an image of the finished product.
    btw, I'm already working on installing Linux on a dead moose, since there aren't many badgers up north in Canada (at least where I live).

  58. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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  59. heh by EngMedic · · Score: 0

    mushroom! mushroom!

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    filter: +3. Hey, look! all the trolls went away!
  60. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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  61. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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  62. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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  63. Maybe this story isn't as bad as you think by JumperCable · · Score: 2, Funny

    With the vast number of post made on Slashdot as it is maybe stuff like this isn't a bad idea after all. Think of it as a honey pot for poor ideas and people who just like to post something. They waste their time posting silly comments on stuff like this, leaving the better articles for everyone else to enjoy.

    And yes, I am aware that I was sucked in by this too. But I do think it might have value weather it was originally intended or not. Maybe they should start a stupid stuff section.

  64. Everyone knows by JoeBaldwin · · Score: 1

    That these badgers are the way forward for Linux.

    You literally have an all singing all dancing Linux system (rimshot)...

  65. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

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  66. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

    Anonymous SHIT Member
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  67. My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of badgers. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making badgers, muskrats, and a multitude of other badger-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared badgers for my family.

    As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my badger-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 badgers... The day I placed a warm badger between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a badger to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only badgers can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with badgers, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

    By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for badgers, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate badger. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for badgers became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for badgers. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL badger.

    My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The badgers do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

    My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy badgers. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a badger, would you submit to his will?

    Anonymous SHIT Member
    30360

  68. slashdot has hit a new low by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How low slashdot can go......

  69. important note by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't forget to keep watching the animation until it's done!

    1. Re:important note by tepples · · Score: 1

      After you've seen the snake scene twice, you've seen all of it.

  70. Wow, this is a waste of time by public_class_name_ex · · Score: 1

    So the real question is, who is the writer sleeping with?

    1. Re:Wow, this is a waste of time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Probably some crazy art slut.

  71. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by jigyasubalak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wake me up when someone installs a Linux in an alive/dead Darl's ass.

    --
    The best planning can be done after the project completes.
  72. I wonder... by Moocowsia · · Score: 1

    Do badgers have good driver support?

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    Moo!
  73. I for one... by theantipode · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... welcome our new zombie badger overlords!

    --
    When I am king, you will be first against the wall
    With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
  74. errrrrr by grendel_x86 · · Score: 1


    Worst posting, ever!

    Seriously, since when are the stories suposed to be as craptacular as the comments?

    Im drunk enough to find the dancing bager-shroom crap funny, yet this does nothing for me.

    And worse off, they promised LINUX IN THE TITLE, and all we got was crappy OSX.

    If they would have mini-goatsied it to run a cat5 or power cord, that would have been funny as hell.

    But nothing... im disapointed...

    --
    Im glad /. isnt the real world, that would really suck..
    1. Re:errrrrr by inode_buddha · · Score: 1
      "Seriously, since when are the stories suposed to be as craptacular as the comments?"

      Well, maybe that's the point Michael is trying to make... maybe the craptacular comments get on his nerves. Of course, I've had a few brews and feel generous ATM too. But just in case...

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      C|N>K
  75. Badger is lame... by Maljin+Jolt · · Score: 1

    I am running linux on the charged Gargoyle. You don't believe? Well, dude, that's hostname of my PDA.

    --
    There you are, staring at me again.
  76. Why bother? by ShallowThroat · · Score: 1

    isn't it dying? *ducks*

    --
    The "Insert Quote Here" line is almost as predictable as inserting an actual quote.
  77. Re:If it's so easy, can you help me? by Endive4Ever · · Score: 1

    Probably you'd be best off first learning how to net boot from a conventional PC. When you have a boot server working for that, you'll be familiar with the tasks needed to Net Boot the Winterm.

    It's always a good thing to know anyway. Slap a good ethernet card into an old Pentium box and have at it. You'll need to configure one of your other machines as a boot server.

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  78. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 2, Funny
    Suppose you install Linux in your car... And get pulled over by Darl McBride. "License and registration, please," he says. You produce a driver license, to which he replies, "No, you idiot... your $699 Linux license! Oh, you don't have one? Step out of the vehicle with your hands up..."

    That would be really bad.

  79. What??? NetBSD wasn't ported first? by stox · · Score: 1

    It runs on everything else. Oh, the shame!

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    "To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
  80. Re:April Fools Day was a week ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    wait a minute - slashpot smoked real stories?! when was that?

  81. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by JPriest · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are the person companies hire just so you can walk up to the water cooler, tell a joke, have everyone stare blankly at you, and then go back to working.

    --
    Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
  82. Badger? by Markos · · Score: 1

    BADGER?!@ We don't need no stinking BADGER!!!

  83. Harvey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Harvey utilities built into Pooka may cause sudden, unpredictable invisibility issues.

    Hey, that movie was on one of the classic movie stations a couple nights ago. And it was a lot more interesting than this slashdot article.

  84. Re:My Biography by Clay+Pigeon+-TPF-VS- · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.

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    Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
  85. up tille now I accepted when one of my stories by xutopia · · Score: 2, Funny

    were refused. But now I question why...

    1. Re:up tille now I accepted when one of my stories by JPriest · · Score: 2, Funny

      I am glad yuo queston it, becase eye dont'

      --
      Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
    2. Re:up tille now I accepted when one of my stories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Given your spelling and grammar, my bet is that the reasoning of the editors went something like this: "What the fsck is this guy saying? Can anybody read this?"

  86. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yes, it would.

    A flat tyre would also be bad

    And just as funny as your joke

  87. Re:My Biography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    who or what is this new group, SHIT?

    obviously someones using a crapflooding bot, but i need more information on who or what SHIT is as I am currently writing a thesis on Internet trolling and haven't heard of SHIT before.

    please send any information to me at this address.

  88. I've figured out why michael posted this article by aardvarko · · Score: 1

    one (1) Duppy card (available in CardBus and PCI models)

    He misread "Duppy" as "Dupey" and got all excited.

  89. So what happened? by whiteranger99x · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was the dead horse unavailable for the project, so you had to settle for the badger? :P

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    Join the TWIT army now!
    1. Re:So what happened? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, no, the dead horse is only for Trojans. That means Windows only.

  90. Now for the obligatory comment... by questforme · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about a Beowulf Cluster of dead badgers?

    1. Re:Now for the obligatory comment... by JPriest · · Score: 1

      In Soviet Russia, a flashmob of dead badgers that must be new here imagine a beowolf cluster of you.

      --
      Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
    2. Re:Now for the obligatory comment... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ????!, Profit.

  91. Too many bugs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Regardless of how much flea or mite spray you have, puting linux on a dead badger is just way too buggy!

  92. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    its spelled tire. "T-I-R-E"

  93. E2, Jan 25 2004 by thinkninja · · Score: 3, Informative

    In its original form: How to install Linux on a dead badger.

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    "The number of Unix installations has grown to ten, with more expected." (Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd ed.; june 1972)
    1. Re:E2, Jan 25 2004 by born_to_live_forever · · Score: 1

      I'm sure I don't need to point this out, but all the same: [Lucy-S] on E2 is the same person as the credited author, Lucy Snyder. So, there's no monkey (or badger) business going on.

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      - Peter Ravn Rasmussen

  94. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by chimpo13 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You're completely right there. If only I had mod points for insightful...

  95. what about a fat german cat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    What kind of cluster could you get into a 18.5kg German fat cat

  96. Might as well bag the rest I guess by wdavies · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, Dead Badgers Install You!

  97. What's an RPG? by runlvl0 · · Score: 4, Funny


    It's a Role Playing Game.

    "Let's see, the deer is in the glade, about forty feet in front of you with an armor class of 2..."

    "I'm attacking with my +5 damage Rocket Propelled Grenade."

    Damn Santa Claus DMs.

    --

    Carthago delenda est!
    1. Re:What's an RPG? by svallarian · · Score: 1

      It's also the one of the worst programming languages in the world!

      Steven V.

      --
      I patented screwing your mom. But it got revoked for "prior art."
  98. List under the Dept. of the Chronically Unfunny by ferretous · · Score: 0

    Shameless self-promotion laced with idiotiotic brainless attempts at humour. Please find some other place to annoy people (tried your kids?)

  99. New idea by t0ny2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd love to see a dead-wolfpack of these.

    1. Re:New idea by Ann+Elk · · Score: 1

      Wolfpack is already dead, and it already has an OS. Sorry.

    2. Re:New idea by linuxpyro · · Score: 1

      It would be a beowolf cluster! *Dodges flames*

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      Saying "I'll probably get modded down for this" in a post is the best way to get it modded up.
    3. Re:New idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      *Dodges clue*

  100. Three of Five by wdavies · · Score: 2, Funny

    All Your Dead Badgers Belong To Us.

    (see below for Four and Five: Beowulf and Business Model).

  101. i kind of freaked when i saw that because... by victorvodka · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have a computer named Badger. In fact, the naming convention here at my house is to name computers after furry animals, with marsupials reserved for Macintoshes. Printers have women's names, wireless access points have insect species names, hard drives are birds, and mobile devices are named after flying mammals. Badger has always been a Windows XP box, though Hedgehog recently went from being Windows NT 4.0 to being Mandrake 9.2.

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    The flag just makes more sense than the constitution. - Judas Gutenberg

    1. Re:i kind of freaked when i saw that because... by kundor · · Score: 1

      You name your hard drives?
      (insert raised eyebrow here.)

    2. Re:i kind of freaked when i saw that because... by Rick.C · · Score: 1
      You name your hard drives?
      (insert raised eyebrow here.)

      You don't !?

      How do you keep them straight?

      I mean, with nine systems at home, many with multiple drives, and all visible on the network, I had to name them all to keep from accidentally getting the wrong one.

      At work, with thousands of drives, we just number them in an efficient-but-hardly-interesting way. I think I shall relabel TSP517 (Temp Storage Pool) to BADGER and see if anyone takes notice.
      --
      You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
      "Math in a song is good."-Linford
    3. Re:i kind of freaked when i saw that because... by kundor · · Score: 1
      Well...if each machine has one filesystem, it's really irrelevant how many drives you have or where they're mounted, at least for network use.

      I suppose it's different in the windows world.

    4. Re:i kind of freaked when i saw that because... by Rick.C · · Score: 1
      I suppose it's different in the windows world.

      It's different in the mainframe world, too. Each OS image has a hierarchical filesystem for Open Systems components' use (with root, /bin, /usr, /etc, etc.), but that whole filesystem is housed in just one medium-sized MVS data set on one disk volume. We have eight OS images and thousands of disk volumes, so naming conventions are important.

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      You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
      "Math in a song is good."-Linford
  102. Dont kill it by TheJaff · · Score: 1

    I would keep it alive and extract the very valuable badger milk. Just be certain of the badger's sex before milking.

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    28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds... that is when the world will end.
  103. Cross-platform by BitwizeGHC · · Score: 1

    So... when can we expect to see the ports to the popular "Mushroom" and "Snake" platforms?

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    N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
  104. SECURITY WARNING! by scmason · · Score: 2, Funny

    Telnetting into a dead badger can be EXTREMELY insecure and compromise your entire system! You should only use a secure shell when logging onto mid-sized angry reanimated mammals.

    --
    "I am a patient boy. I wait I wait I wait. My time is water down the drain..." Fugazi
  105. Am I the only one seeing the conspiracy? by Bender_ · · Score: 1

    1) Write bizarre story involving Linux and Badgers
    2) Add "subtle" request to donate money (see rocket to the left)
    3) Post story on Slashdot.
    4) ?? !!
    5) Profit?

    I wonder how it works out..

  106. What a waste of time by walter_kovacs · · Score: 0

    It'd be much more interesting to set up a linux box to stream the video of you fucking the dead badger out onto the internet, and then charge admission to watch it... you'd be a millionaire in no time.

    1. Re:What a waste of time by walter_kovacs · · Score: 0

      Come on now, bestiality is fun for the whole family!

  107. Drivers? by Stevyn · · Score: 1

    Where would you get the proper drivers for a badger if you wanted to install Windows instead?

  108. What's the Point of this Article? by zeromemory · · Score: 1

    When I read the summary, I thought someone had ACTUALLY turned a badger into a Linux computer. Sick and disgusting, yes, but not too far off from the other things people have done...

    Boy, was I disappointed when I looked at the site! It isn't all that humorous, and they didn't even bother to at least include pictures like, say, a stuffed animal badger with CAT 5 cables running out of it.

    I guess I'll go write an "Installing Mandrake Linux on a Dead French Poodle" article...

  109. Badgers... by CompSurfer · · Score: 1
    Badgers badgers badgers....

    I guess linux makes the badgers move faster than ever before...

  110. Imagine by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Beos Wolf cluster.

    --
    Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
    1. Re:Imagine by WWWWolf · · Score: 1
      A Beos Wolf cluster.

      BeOS? Over my dead body.

    2. Re:Imagine by Feanturi · · Score: 1

      A Beos Wolf cluster.
      BeOS? Over my dead body.


      Are you proposing yourself as a guinea pig? That might not work too bad, as BeOS can live in just one big file in your native nervous system, so we wouldn't need to overwrite existing peronality/ies.

    3. Re:Imagine by aroobie · · Score: 1

      Are you sure you didn't mean "A Beos Badger cluster"?

      --


      My other car is a motorcycle!
    4. Re:Imagine by WWWWolf · · Score: 1

      Otherwise yes, but I'm having a little bit of problems finding required space. There's this somewhat buggy "coffee" process that needs all of the temp space it can get...

      And regrettably I have this bulk-produced (pretty smoothly designed but uncomfortably tight) chassis that doesn't have any extra brain lobe slots and there's not even any way to plug them to the brain stem, so getting extra space seems to be nearly impossible.

      And sorry for being hostile toward BeOS - I was just temporarily afraid of the unknown. =)

  111. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I always thought that I sucked. Until I read your post.

  112. Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by rv101 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or if you're geek enough you can tape yourself badger-badgering: http://www.mtl2600.org/media/video/badgerbadger.mp g

    1. Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by MochaMan · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's at times like these that one can be proud to be Canadian.

    2. Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Or if you're geek enough you can tape yourself badger-badgering: http://www.mtl2600.org/media/video/badgerbadger.mp g"

      I betcha none of those guys ever hear the phrase "Daddy? What's with the badger video?"

      --
      "Derp de derp."
    3. Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hehehe. Can't wait till they see thier bandwidth bill next month. Serves them right.

    4. Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      What? Has Hell frozen over again?

    5. Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by LastCa_ · · Score: 1

      I am the geek master.
      (Actually I'm the realisator of this clip and the snake holder..)

      BTW we also made a badger badger contest in a LAN party (450ppl), the winning price was a Radeon 9800XT. Participants (over 20) where dancing badger badger hardcore, really.

      Just when you tought watching badger badger was geeky, now we have invented the dance...

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      - LastCall_
    6. Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Pretty geeky... :-) but what the hell, it's funny.

    7. Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by tverbeek · · Score: 2, Funny

      Perhaps the saddest aspect of this video is the fact that most of them do the badger dance so... poorly. The tall one on the right has the right instincts for synching up the arm waving and knee bending, so I give him credit for that, but it's not how the badgers actually do it. And the rest of them do very little to dispel certain stereotypes about the lack of rhythm in the heterosexual caucasian male. If these guys fail to reproduce (which seems likely), it's not because they're cruising the dance floor of their local gay bar.

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    8. Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hi, I take care of the www.mtl2600.org site. :) I am also the Mushroom guy in the video. I had to redirect all downloads to our file server which is hosted elsewhere on a slower connection because our ISP is freaking out at 80gigs of downloads only today. Our ISP tells us the next bill will be 400$. :) Please give a good hand for our ISP www.Simple-Net.ca. Please go see them if you have web hosting needs. :) They have resisted a SlashDot.org onslaught, so that's a good selling point. :)

    9. Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by alexandre · · Score: 1

      Oh yeah, well i have a lower ID then you do! (ok ok i'm on that video too ;-)

    10. Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Have you ever tried to do that 'badger dance'? I bet not, otherwise you would know that it's pretty hard to do all by itself, let alone in synch with the music. So you can't really evaluate on how well they do it from some funny video and neither can you draw any conclusions on how they would dance 'normally'. In addition to that I somehow doubt that badgerbadgering on the dance floor will get the chicks' attention. ;)

      Apart from that, how can you assert that these are heterosexual caucasian males? Last time I checked it's not too easy to distinguish homosexuals and heterosexuals, unless the former dress/act like females in which case their sexuality becomes fairly obvious.

    11. Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by tverbeek · · Score: 1
      how can you assert that these are heterosexual caucasian males?

      OK, one of them looks like he might be asian. But as for "heterosexual", it's an assumption that's both statistically likely and... oh come on, everyone knows that gay guys can dance better than that! Even gay geeks! And even the badgerbadgerbadger dance! :)

      But of course the main thing is that one have fun with one's life, and I'd rather see a bunch of young men badgerbadgerbadgering badly with smiles on their faces than standing sullenly along the wall at a school dance.

      --
      http://alternatives.rzero.com/
    12. Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, I happen to be a gay guy and I can assure you that I definitely cannot dance better than that. In fact, I cannot dance at all (and so far I never thought of that being an issue either).

  113. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by bobjohnson · · Score: 1

    The quality of content gets better and better here on slashdot...

  114. I'm really hoping by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    this headline is a bad dream I'm having. This is up there with Beware Fake Monkey Automatons. What's next - Beware Fake Monkey Automatons installing Linux on a Beowulf Cluster of Dead Badgers?

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

    1. Re:I'm really hoping by inode_buddha · · Score: 1

      Actually, no. Next will be 200 monkeys. Dead ones. One of them will be wet and have linux installed. One of them will be frozen and have linux installed. 198 of them will be charred and have linux installed. The garbage man will refuse them all, and everyone else is *still* an ingrate. The genitals have seen better days.

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  115. MOD PARENT UP +500000 HIIIILLLLLAAARRIOUS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    please mod parent up

  116. Actually... by trainsnpep · · Score: 1
    It's supposed to be about installing linux on a dead blogger...

    donno how they mistyped that one so badly... (on a philosophical note, the first link points to an operating system not unlike linux in many ways...)

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    --<Mike>--
  117. OMFG ROFLAMO MOD UP PARENT SERIOUS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    lol omg funny shit since i jsut discovered this whole phenomenon the other day

  118. A dead badger? by pla · · Score: 1

    Oh, gimme a break. Anyone can install new software on a dead badger. You might as well call that wimpy "attenuated" Polio an actual virus, if we want to play these sort of games.

    Not, a live badger... Those suckers have big long pointy teeth. And don't underestimate their small but very fast and sharp claws! A pissed (living) badger will put a serious hurtin' on your average penguin.


    Okay, totally unrelated (so fire away with those -1's), but then, I'd have to vote the FP "offtopic" in the first place, if we could vote on the articles themselves... Hmm, so does that make this on topic? How... Curious. Anyway...

    Check out "Beatallica" (check the thread on Metafilter for both a torrent and a web link), a band that, ala DJ Danger Mouse (available via Illegal Art), has chosen to blend the Beatles and, in this case, Metallica. Really quite a good blend - While DJDM only used actual Jay Z lyrics to actual Beatles loops in the background, Beatallica has done a "real" double-covering, with entirely new (though strongly derivative) lyrics and music actually played anew. Definately worth checking out, for all fans of music soon to get sued into oblivion.

    As the one downside, the vocalist, while not all that bad at sounding like James Hetfield, just has a certain slightly annoying twinge to his voice. In another genre, it wouldn't show up, but it gives him a sort of Wierd-Al feel when trying to do Metallica.

  119. Poor NetBSD by starseeker · · Score: 1

    Now they're gonna have to port NetBSD to an earthworm to maintain their "most portable" title. I can see it now:

    A badger? Hah! That's no challenge - it's got a full sized brain! NetBSD doesn't need all that power - we can run on an earthworm and like it!

    Alternately, they can try running it on our politicians if they want a real challenge. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of congress critters... on a good day they might equal a pocket calculator! Imagine the budget wonders we would see.

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    "I object to doing things that computers can do." -- Olin Shivers, lispers.org
  120. oblig. MIB reference by shachart · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, I'm sure you mean:
    "The *other* license and registration, please..."

    --
    Those who can, do. Those who can't, consult.
  121. External adapter by McAlt+0178 · · Score: 1

    Tried the SpiritInTheSky external ethernet adapter instead of the Duppy Card. Problem is that it didn't leave enough room for the cold cathode tube. Yet, the cat5e dragging from its,.. well, only allows for a limited range of 325 feet.

  122. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by kfg · · Score: 2, Informative

    Anyone who can install anything on a live badger and live to tell about it has my admiration.

    That's why I always follow this procedure:

    1: Kill badger
    2: Procede as per dead badger
    3: ???

    KFG

  123. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by JPriest · · Score: 1

    Ok, living in your mom's basement posting from a dead badger running Linux might just be the only thing worse than homelessness. You poor thing.

    --
    Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
  124. e2 by Triv · · Score: 1
    It's worth mentioning that the author of this article is a noder, and that the piece was originally published here.

    Triv

  125. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What? Where do you think we get our release codenames? :P

  126. hmm... by tormentae+agent · · Score: 1

    Ha, ha, ...ha

    Maybe funny if come randomly across. Maybe not when the editor tells us: Look at this and laugh.

    Maybe.

  127. Wait for it... by MukiMuki · · Score: 1

    Badgers? ... BADGERS?!...
    .....
    ...
    .....
    We don't need no stinking BADGERS!!!

  128. I wonder if the badger starved... by Johnso · · Score: 1

    They must not know what badgers eat.

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    1. Re:I wonder if the badger starved... by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 1
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  129. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by davew2040 · · Score: 0

    If I had the power to slap a +5 Insightful on this, I would. But I see you have a handle on the kinds of posts those are reserved for.

  130. Am I missing something? by mabu · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I submitted a story days ago about how a study from the American Association of Pediatrians linked television to A.D.D., CNN and the other networks even picked it up... would have made a great story here. But no... let's install Linux in a mythical dead badger... That's not funny. It's not even pathetic. How about the ./ editors submit a story on the drugs they're taking when they review submissions?

    1. Re:Am I missing something? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ADD is rampant and you wonder why they choose a preposterous story about a dead badger instead of your scientific study? Mushroom! Mushroom!

  131. Words fail me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As if the original Flash bit weren't surreal enough... what were these guys THINKING!?!?

    1. Re:Words fail me by Walkiry · · Score: 2, Funny

      >> what were these guys THINKING!?!?

      You give them too much credit. But yeah, funny as hell :D

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      ---- Take the Space Quiz!
  132. Question... by PrimeWaveZ · · Score: 1

    Will this work with a wooden badger?

    1. Re:Question... by kundor · · Score: 1
      Will this work with a wooden badger?

      Yes.

  133. Supermodels have tight boxes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They run FreeBSD.

  134. Obligatory Simpsons Link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    According to this, badgers don't eat Linux installations.

  135. Nice joke, how about this REAL frog by Schmucky+The+Cat · · Score: 1
    That's a nice joke about the badger. But you know what, this is f'real though. It's a web server that makes a dead frog twitch based on user input. Includes quicktime footage of the freaking dead frog already. That badger thing doesn't even have PhotoShop'd pics, this has video.

    Make the dead frogs legs twitch

    Ok then?

    1. Re:Nice joke, how about this REAL frog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That is sick...

      What next? Parading ex-Iraqi leaders on TV...oh hang on...

  136. Unleash the fury! by Bill_Royle · · Score: 1

    The badger may not stink after installation, but the story did - from beginning to end.

    Unleash the fury of a mighty Slashdotting, if only to prevent others from wasting their time reading it.

    Do it for all of us. Do it for the children!

  137. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "thats what I say to any story about installing linux on anything"

    I don't mind the "installing Linux on something unusual" bit, it's the lack of anything like "... then we wrote this app that takes special advantage of this hardware." Installing Linux on a dead badger is lame, installing Linux on a dead badger and programming it to chase my sister would be cool, though.

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  138. Wouldn't it make more sense... by chendo · · Score: 1

    ... if we installed BSD instead? After all, dead things should go with dead things :p

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  139. Full Throttle by Rassendyll · · Score: 1

    Good thing that's a badger... Why? 'Cause if that were a dead polecat, I'd have to trash the place.

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    An eye for an eye... leaves the whole world blind.
  140. Should be in the next Slash'em release by astroboscope · · Score: 1

    and it will be glorious...when your pet dies, revive it by installing Linux, as long as you have the right materials. Infinite uptime, as long as you keep it well fed (even Linux computers crash when they lose power).

    --
    If we were ants living on a Rubik's cube, differential geometry would be a little more confusing.
  141. two words by MasTRE · · Score: 1

    re-tarded, you are

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  142. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Agreed. This has to rank up there as the single most fucking retarded story Slashdot has ever posted."

    I just hope nobody makes any root jokes about the dead badger. Ick.

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    "Derp de derp."
  143. obligatory netBSD post... by ca1v1n · · Score: 1

    I don't even have to say it...

  144. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by mog007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tux was always so innocent in my eyes. He's like a nice wholesome character you can get all your friends to worship. I had no idea he was a necrophile.

  145. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by ozmo · · Score: 1

    -->note to self, leave the racoons alone.....

  146. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by hdparm · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe. But wait till someone mods a badger with extra fans, neon and water coolers! It will be like a live badger - nobody would be able to tell the difference.

  147. The original... by Gossy · · Score: 1

    I remembered reading this on Everything 2 and immediately thought she'd stolen it straight from there. The thief! But no, it just looks like the same author decided to post it on a website a few months afterwards.

    There was a point here somewhere..

  148. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by francium+de+neobie · · Score: 1

    Apparently Mr. McBride installed a copy of SCO Linux on him.

  149. Gives a new meaning to... by Anonymovs+Coward · · Score: 1

    "Linux isn't dead, it just smells that way"

  150. The bastards! by OC_Wanderer · · Score: 1
    Character 1: They killed Kenny! Character 2: The bastards!

    (Kenny's my pet badger.)

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    -- There is no spoon. Only fork.
  151. Very interesting by Gary+Destruction · · Score: 1

    While many people might find it a waste of time, I do find the concept to be interesting from a cybernetic point of view. Of course, if the components could be smaller and more covert, and a camera connected to its eyes, that badger might be useful for surveillance, tracking and even spying. Perhaps something like this could be done on a more intelligent being. It would be interesting to see AI and natural intelligence coexist in the same brain.

  152. Other dead animal electronics by rynthetyn · · Score: 1

    When I was in college, several of my hallmates installed an alarm clock in a dead squirrel. Said squirrel was left on my hall by a guy's hall, so we kindly returned it with an alarm clock set to go off at 3:00AM. Didn't think it possible, but yes, a girl's hall grossed out a bunch of guys with our fusion of road kill and electronics.

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    1. Re:Other dead animal electronics by Dogtanian · · Score: 1

      When I was in college, several of my hallmates installed an alarm clock in a dead squirrel. Said squirrel was left on my hall by a guy's hall, so we kindly returned it with an alarm clock set to go off at 3:00AM. Didn't think it possible, but yes, a girl's hall grossed out a bunch of guys with our fusion of road kill and electronics.

      So near, and yet so far. You should have installed a radio receiver inside the thing and have it make freaky noises... nothing too obvious (making it talk would likely give you away), but enough to freak the guys out.

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    2. Re:Other dead animal electronics by rynthetyn · · Score: 1

      Doubt that freaky noises would have done anything with that group of guys, we just wanted them to stumble out in the middle of the night to find a partially decapitated squirrel. I forgot to mention before, but the squirrel's head ended up in the RA's bed the next day, for him to find a disembodied squirrel's face staring at him.

      You have to go pretty far to shock or gross out that hall--heard that this year they hung an entire deer carcas from the ceiling on another guys' hall.

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      Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines...
    3. Re:Other dead animal electronics by Dogtanian · · Score: 1

      You have to go pretty far to shock or gross out that hall

      So you reckon that if they'd crossed the mafia, the horse's head would be taken as a gross-out prank?

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      "Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
    4. Re:Other dead animal electronics by rynthetyn · · Score: 1

      So you reckon that if they'd crossed the mafia, the horse's head would be taken as a gross-out prank?

      Most assuredly. And then they would complain about people copying them and not giving them sufficent credit for their ideas.

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      Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines...
  153. Isn't April Fools Day over with? by tuxlove · · Score: 1

    This might have been funnier 6 days ago...

  154. Obligatory UHF quote: by missing_hed · · Score: 1

    Badgers?
    BADGERS?
    We don't NEED no stinking (linux) BADGERS!

  155. There you go, heres a screenshot for ya timmy! by urbieta · · Score: 1

    Dumb joke and obviously a stupid copy-paste job from an expensive writer since the very editor could have done the job more gracefully.

    But this is /. so we can't just cross our arms and live on, so at least let's slashdot a screenshot shall we? hehehe

    have fun!

  156. Maybe they'll die in the process too... by bi_boy · · Score: 1

    The worst part about this article is that some moron is going to try it.

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    Chicken fried butter sticks? Do ... do you use a fork? - Black Mage, 8-Bit Theater
  157. Yes, but... by le_jfs · · Score: 1

    ... does it run Linux?
    Now, seriously, where do you plug the power cord?

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  158. I'm waiting... by m1chael · · Score: 0

    for installing Linux in Paris Hilton (Debian because of lack of processing power). Hopefully they make a video about it and post it on the internet.

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    I know you are psychotic, but please make an effort.
  159. It is public domain. by weeeeed · · Score: 1

    You will find this site interesting:

    Images in the Public Domain... The Badger.

    ...not many animals left for new O'Reilly books.

  160. Linux on animals... by Mr.+Moose · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great! Now I can finally make myself a Bear-Wolf cluster.

  161. Installing Linux on a tree - security problems by CdBee · · Score: 4, Funny

    I had a success installing Mandrake 8.1 on a (living) chestnut tree, but it got hacked via a platform-specific Root exploit.

    --
    I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
    1. Re:Installing Linux on a tree - security problems by FrostedWheat · · Score: 1

      but it got hacked via a platform-specific Root exploit.

      I'd also keep an eye out for woodpeckers.

    2. Re:Installing Linux on a tree - security problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I tried that once, but it got chopped down by someone with an AIX

  162. Google's pigeon cluster by tdhdeep · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I understand how Google's pigeon cluster works...

    -Deep

  163. i can see it now... by fluxmix · · Score: 0

    these comments prove that the readers of slashrot have no capacity for sensing humor at all!

  164. WTF by CGP314 · · Score: 1

    From the slightly-ahead-of-its-time dept

    So are you saying that in the future linux will be often installed on a dead badger?


    -Colin

  165. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by spurious+cowherd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gives new meaning to the term "Boot up"

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    Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

  166. Are you new here? by tehcyder · · Score: 2, Funny
    You do *not* make jokes about Linux on /.

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    To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
  167. Linux more widely ported than NetBSD by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Linux is now more widely ported than NetBSD (the previous "ridiculously ported" OS).

    Note that NetBSD *maintains* more ports in their distro than any single Linux distro maintainer (a lot of Linux ports are maintained just for a particular platform), so if you want a single distro that will build and run on the most CPUs, NetBSD is still ahead, but if you count specialized ports like ucLinux (for embedded systems) and all the crazy Linux ports out there, Linux has been ported to an absolutely insane number of devices.

    If you can buy it or build it and it uses electrons, you can probably run Linux on it.

  168. What's the world coming to!!! by Genda · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ya can't bloody install linux on a bloody dead badger!!! It's passed on. This badger is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late badger. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't tried to install bleedin' linux on it, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-badger!

    Genda

    1. Re:What's the world coming to!!! by fuzzybunny · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, but it would make for an absolutely wicked case mode, wouldn't it?

      I just hesitate to consider where you'd attach peripherals...

      --
      Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
    2. Re:What's the world coming to!!! by arvindn · · Score: 1

      For those who were wondering what that was about, its a monty python dead parrot reference.

    3. Re:What's the world coming to!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well thank you, Captain Obvious!

    4. Re:What's the world coming to!!! by Tore+S+B · · Score: 1

      No, no, it's only sleep()'ing!

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      toresbe
    5. Re:What's the world coming to!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can only say, "Duh"

  169. Dead badger storage integrity by QuasiRob · · Score: 2, Funny

    At least, with the badger being striped already, you dont have to worry about installing a RAID card.

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    If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?
  170. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by hplasm · · Score: 1

    now I am tired..

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    ...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
  171. Flash and the downfall of art by 0x0d0a · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've always wondered why the only popular uses of Flash that spread via word-of-mouth are horrifically awful.

    Badger, Badger, Mushroom.

    All Your Base.

    Hamster Dance.

    Singing Rats

    Strong Bad is marginally better quality, but it's still hardly on par with a lot of good animation out there.

    What the *hell* is wrong with the human psyche?

    Maybe it's just an exhaustion with polished, glitzy, perfect, tweaked-by-marketroids stuff. Adult Swim has to do so well for *some* reason...

    1. Re:Flash and the downfall of art by gotih · · Score: 1

      virutal bubblewrap makes everything ok

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      fear is the mind killer
    2. Re:Flash and the downfall of art by CastrTroy · · Score: 1

      Of course, you missed the link, to The Best Flash Cartoon Ever. Gives a look into the lives of Dungeons and Dragons Players

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      Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
    3. Re:Flash and the downfall of art by generic-man · · Score: 1

      It's the same reason why William Hung has a record album. People are attracted to stupid stuff. The Internet makes distribution of stupid stuff possible.

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      For more information, click here.
    4. Re:Flash and the downfall of art by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Except that in that case they're laughing at the poor schmuck. Rather like the dude with the light sabre.

      With the badgers thing it's quite a different sort of quizzical regard.

  172. After posting this idiotic story... by AvantLegion · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ... I think it's time for michael to start training his replacement.

  173. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Zareste · · Score: 5, Funny

    Badger badger badger badger, Linux, Linux!

    Sorry

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  174. pay attention by gotih · · Score: 1
    --

    fear is the mind killer
    1. Re:pay attention by mabu · · Score: 1

      I submitted my story before then and it was rejected. bleh.

  175. Might have been funny(dead beef joke) by RedLaggedTeut · · Score: 1

    The joke might have been almost funny if it was about installing Linux on OxDEADBEEF.

    Sadly, a dead badger contains a g and an r, making it uneligible for hexadecimal, although it is dead beef in a way.

    Maybe someone with more imagination than me can actually make a real joke out of "installing Linux on 0xdeadbeef".

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  176. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by xSauronx · · Score: 2, Funny

    just wait til they dupe it on friday

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    By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. -- George Carlin
  177. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Short+Circuit · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't you hear? That's the process to get past the particularly restrictive firmware.

  178. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I find it hilarious that this is ranked +4 Insightful :)

    "Hey, you're a moron!!"
    "Hmmm, that's insightful. Can you elaborate?"

  179. umm..excuse me but I take offence by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 1

    Script-kiddie != Geek.

    Script-Kiddie = loser.

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    I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
  180. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Dogtanian · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tux was always so innocent in my eyes. He's like a nice wholesome character you can get all your friends to worship. I had no idea he was a necrophile.

    Don't blame Tux- he was sacrificed by Linus in a bizarre pagan^h^h^h^h^hpenguin ritual in the mid-1990s. Nowadays, Linus and senior figures in the Linux community use Tux's corpse in photographs, as a front for their sick activities.

    Ever wondered why all pictures of Tux are the same pose? Simple. It's a stuffed penguin corpse. For the variants where (eg) Tux is holding a mobile phone and a briefcase, they place the phone in the corpse's hand and the briefcase in front of him.

    As I understand it, a Hollywood dramatisation of these events is in the final stages of production;
    Christopher Lee is Linus Torvalds in "Weekend at Tux's".

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  181. Another slow news day? by TehHustler · · Score: 1

    Only explanation I can think of for this utterly useless story.

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    http://www.elmarko.org/ - Useless bilge
    http://www.asylum-games.co.uk/ - Co-Founder
  182. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by deadbadger · · Score: 1

    I'm not that thrilled about it either, to be perfectly honest. I'm more of a BSD badger.

  183. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How utterly sence-of-humorless

  184. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Wiz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my badger. Prepare to die.

  185. #Trouble by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You guys are in trouble now....

    There is another term more powerful than Slashdotted'd...

    ...PETA'D

  186. This story really is unuseful... by Praedon · · Score: 1

    Why do we have to be subjected to this nonsense..

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    Just me
  187. Anatomy classes by tiger_omega · · Score: 1

    I remember doing anatomy pratical in 1st year medicine with the slow and careful dissection of a human corpse. It now seems so obvious to me not install a motherboard, CPU, HD etc etc. And then put Linux on to it.

    Mind you at the time of doing my Anatomy class Linux was just been born. Could have put on MS Windows and invented the 1st human borg. ;)

  188. Dimsdale! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dimsdale!

    1. Re:Dimsdale! by f00dif00 · · Score: 1

      Yeah.

  189. Installing Linux on a badger by cjellibebi · · Score: 1

    Installing Linux on a Badger is tricky 'coz there's not much room inside, but it's possible to sneak it inside.

    1. Re:Installing Linux on a badger by MR.Gates · · Score: 1

      ...through the backdoor err I mean orifice

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      A few hours grace before the madness begins again.
  190. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Feanturi · · Score: 1

    Agreed. This has to rank up there as the single most fucking retarded story Slashdot has ever posted.

    It's more useful for us to be warned of the dangers of carelessly installing Linux on zombie creatures, than it was for us to be warned about Fake Monkey Automata.

  191. It had to be done. by acidrain69 · · Score: 1

    While on the subject of badgers.

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  192. Computer vs. Dead Badger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nine out of ten Slashdot readers can't tell the difference between a computer and a dead badger.

    (Obscure Monty Python reference)

  193. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by zombiestomper · · Score: 1

    Badgers...

    Badgers???

    We don't *need* no stinking badgers!!!

  194. It's old an tired but... by zenrandom · · Score: 1

    All your badger are belong to us!

  195. Flash and the liberation of art by cjellibebi · · Score: 1
    The 'badgers' cartoon is actually part of a collection from the Weebl's stuff Toon Collection (they also have games and other stuff - just select the headings at the top).

    Another site with silly Flash cartoons worth looking at is http://www.rathergood.com/. I like the one where they turn Destiny's child into a bunch of kittens from Northern England.

    >What the *hell* is wrong with the human psyche?
    >Maybe it's just an exhaustion with polished, glitzy, perfect, tweaked-by-marketroids stuff.

    The nature of the Internet means that it's possible for people to publish things themselves without any interference from the cultural equivalent of the powers that be. When writing a book, TV programme or a film, the authour does not have the means to get it out into the world, and they do that through publishers/producers. These publishers are very picky about what goes out, and if they don't see mass appeal, they reject the submission. This has the result that they also end up dictating culture, because we're so used to seeing what does not get rejected that we end up thinking of it as normal, and in extreme circumstances, we actually like this mass-produced entertainment.

    When publishing a web-page, all you have to do is upload your material to a web-server, and spread the URL around. There is nobody to dictate what can or cannot be published. All of a sudden, authours get into te habit of going straight from brain to output without the interference of the cultural police. This results in things that look very un-orthodox, but appeal to some people in ways that mainstream culture could not possibly appeal. As the Internet grows, people's minds will be expanded by the greater variety of art out there, and finally be free, and who knows, these free minds may someday overthrow our cultural overlords.

  196. Ewe! by iCharles · · Score: 1

    I mean really....

    Ewe!

  197. but what about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~blagger/the_duel.h tml

  198. That site has other installation guides too by yourruinreverse · · Score: 1
    For Devil-Linux for instance, and one for Debian, to name but a few.

    In fact, with this fantastic website, you can easily publish any installation manual you like.

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    JeR
    1. Re:That site has other installation guides too by yourruinreverse · · Score: 1
      That went wrong somehow. Try this link to the Debian installation manual:
      http://www.strangehorizons.com/index.pl?Contents=h ttp://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual
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      JeR
  199. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No it isn't. "Tire" is a verb meaning "to become worn out". A rubber thingy on the outside of a wheel is a tyre. With a y.

    When the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for the New World they probably had more important things to think about than remembering to pack a dictionary. But in 2004 there is no excuse anymore. Either learn to spell properly or invent your own language {like the Welsh did so we don't have to speak to them}.

  200. penguin? by kguilber · · Score: 0

    how about installing linux on a dead penguin? wouldn't that be more appropriate?

  201. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Stud1y · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I saw the actual thread on the body building website a couple weeks ago. Amazing how quickly these things spread.

  202. not a rocket propelled grenade. by dunkelfalke · · Score: 2, Informative

    a rpg (as in rpg-7) is ruchnoy protivotankoviy granatomet - that is russian for "portable antitank grenade launcher"

    it is not a rocket propelled grenade.

    btw ak-47 is waaay obsolete and was replaced with akm in the early 1950s.

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  203. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Unkle · · Score: 1
    I just hope nobody makes any root jokes about the dead badger. Ick.

    You know you just guaranteed it, don't you?

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  204. Go to sleep. by tasinet · · Score: 1

    I think that both Michael and Elysdir need to get a lot of fucking sleep.
    When a badger dies, be you geek or not, you put him in the ground, not in the Linux community. Perverts.

  205. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Tactical+Skyrider · · Score: 2

    mandrake mandraaaake! mandrake, ah mandraaake!

    for those of you staring blankly at your screens wondering where the hell all this came from, please behold badgerbadgerbadger.com

    i wonder if weebl can be convinced to do a third badger flash where they have shell prompts, and in some scenes can be seen gnawing on 'clippy'...

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  206. I don't have enough imagination by Rick+Zeman · · Score: 1

    In the iPod article, I made the comment about "iPod now, garage door opener next."
    Little did I know....

  207. GPL vs LGPL by metamatic · · Score: 1

    The FSF advocates releasing libraries under the GPL, not the LGPL, so the idea that a widget set "should" be released under the LGPL is debateable at best.

    The only purpose of the LGPL is to allow code to be exploited for non-free software. Why should Linux developers want that? If they did, we wouldn't have the kernel taint system, and the kernel and its drivers would be LGPL.

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    1. Re:GPL vs LGPL by 0x0d0a · · Score: 1

      The FSF advocates releasing libraries under the GPL, not the LGPL, so the idea that a widget set "should" be released under the LGPL is debateable at best.

      The FSF, however, not being stupid, releases fundamental, core libraries as LGPL (see glibc).

      The only purpose of the LGPL is to allow code to be exploited for non-free software.

      Absolutely not. If you try to push a library as "standard", so that a user expects software to work the way the library does (having Qt widgets), it does not merely "avoid exploitation" -- it establishes a *barrier* to non-GPL (not non-free -- I can make up the 0x0d0a License that is quite libre and gratis, but doesn't work with the FSF's license terms, and I would be barred from using that license.

      I fall very firmly into the ESR camp here. If open source really is better, if it's not a lot of lies about "more efficiency" and "better security" being pushed -- then *let open source win on its own merits", not by trying to force non-open source adherents from being able to write non-open-source software. I believe open source really *is* a better approacch. I also think that trying to force people to do something that they *don't* want to do (i.e. make it a pain in the ass to release non-GPL software when it wasn't before) is sure to create friction and pissed-off people that roundly reject open source. If you want to make "Joe's Sockets Library" and make the thing GPL, knock yourself out. A vendor can easily choose not to use your sockets library -- yeah, they have to reimplement that functionality, but there isn't a legal barrier to producing their software. However, with a standard widget set, there is an expectation that things will look and act the same way (as can be seen from complaining by users of GTK and Qt software on one desktop). Distros *ship* Qt.

      There are a tiny handful of libraries that can be hijacked in such a manner. There is libc (mixing glibcs on a system is not a great idea and prevents folks from using other systemwide libraries). There is libX11. And there is whatever libraries compose the standard widget set. TrollTech is working very hard to force a massive number of people to "pay the TrollTech tax" in the future, and I am decidedly less-than-happy with their stance. They are *not* doing what they're doing in the interests of good software, they are doing it with an eye to a very lucrative position in the future. It's like Verisign acting as a DNS root -- yes, it's all very convenient now, and they take care of something at the moment...but ten years down the line, they're in a wonderful position to demand money from everyone, and they are *terribly* difficult to extricate.

      There are a lot of Open Source companies that I think are quite ethical and do a wonderful job out there without threatening elements of the Open Source community. TrollTech is most definitely *not* one.

    2. Re:GPL vs LGPL by metamatic · · Score: 1

      I fall very firmly into the ESR camp here. If open source really is better, if it's not a lot of lies about "more efficiency" and "better security" being pushed -- then *let open source win on its own merits", not by trying to force non-open source adherents from being able to write non-open-source software.

      I used to think that; dig up the archives of gnu.misc.discuss circa 1991/92 for my rants on the subject. ESR probably believes it because he's a right-wing libertarian, and most right-wing libertarians mistakenly believe that a free market is the same thing as an unregulated market.

      The problem with licenses like the BSD license is that they set up an extremely slanted playing field, where commercial software can take what it likes from the free software world, but the reverse is not true. That's not fair competition at all, that's leeching. Frankly, there's already enough illegal leeching going on, without legalizing it.

      The Qt licensing doesn't stop anyone from being able to write non-open-source software. It just means that if they want to use TrollTech's work to do so, they have to pay money in return. Seems reasonable to me--why the hell should TrollTech subsidize the development costs for a purely commercial piece of software that they won't be able to use, learn from, or distribute?

      Now, there is a legitimate gripe against Qt: that it doesn't allow for closed-source freeware. You either need to go open source, or pay for a Qt license. However, I don't see that as a big deal myself.

      There are a lot of Open Source companies that I think are quite ethical and do a wonderful job out there without threatening elements of the Open Source community.

      Smells like troll. When have TrollTech ever threatened the open source community? They release Qt under the GPL, they let anyone in the open source community use it, modify it, redistribute it. It's the commercial leech community they threaten.

      The GNOME project could have done what so many other GNU projects have done--made an open-source clone of a "proprietary" library.

      In fact, the hypothetical commercial software companies who want to use Qt but find the price too onerous could easily club together and fund the development of a commercial closed-source clone of Qt. They probably would, if the argument had any validity whatsoever.

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  208. um.... by presmike · · Score: 1

    ok... so my stuff gets rejects when its seems somewhat usefull and yet this gets on slashdot... there is no justice.

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  209. Great... by lurwas · · Score: 0

    ...just what we need, more zombie processes...

  210. Wrong skit... by finelinebob · · Score: 2, Funny


    "Perhaps if we installed Linux in a large, wooden badger...." -- Sir Bedevere

  211. security issue by nodata2 · · Score: 0

    If the badger isn't responding correctly, you may need to make some configuration adjustments via Telnet; instructions are in the VuDu manual.

    First thing you need to do is install SSH and get rid of telnet.

  212. Well, I Guess This Answers the Famous Question... by bfg9000 · · Score: 1

    "..but will it run Linux?"

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  213. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by useosx · · Score: 2, Informative

    And then, hanging his head in shame, he goes back to his cubicle, posts the same joke on Slashdot and gets modded +5, Funny.

  214. Badger? by zoomnmd · · Score: 1

    Dead? BSD!

  215. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Tassach · · Score: 2, Funny

    No big accomplishment there... even the lamest joke can be +5 -- all it takes is 3 or 4 similarly humor-impared individuals with mod points.

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  216. april fools by genner · · Score: 0

    Happy April fools day everyone.....wait what do you mean that was days ago....but slashdot only posts stories like this on April fools day....the calander must be wrong.

  217. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Tackhead · · Score: 1
    > Badger badger badger badger, Linux, Linux!

    McBride! McBride!

    (Apologies to any snakes in the audience.)

  218. That may be but by UrgleHoth · · Score: 1

    But this supposedly most retarded story got a lot of comments. Pointless as it is, it drew a lot of peeps in, even you.

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  219. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by bsharitt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now when I watch that little animation, the fist thing that comes to mind is a Beowulf cluster.

  220. Wait for 'possum by bobbuck · · Score: 1
    This is really only good a proof of concept. Linux installed in carcasses will only be mainstream when it
    can be done on commodity varmits like possums or even deer (if you need more expansion capability.)

    Badgers are difficult to handle premortem, especially if they think you might plans for them postmortem.

    In short, "Badgers...Badgers...We don't need no stinking badgers!!"

    1. Re:Wait for 'possum by maduro55 · · Score: 1

      Excellent idea! I live in a fairly rural area of central OH(not nearly as redundant a phrase as it used to be) and we've got shitloads of dead possum and deer along the roads. Skunks are really common this time of year(the drive skunk 'tang gets 'em killed frequently), although they are kind of small(a laptop version!) Deer would be very handy for really large scale use like server rooms. Multiple units in each carcass.

  221. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Arthur+Dent+'99 · · Score: 1

    In this case, I believe the proper term would be "rigorware".

    By the way, it might be a good idea to be careful where you locate the ethernet jack...

  222. freecache link by donutz · · Score: 1

    save these guys a little bandwidth if you can: get your badgering fools through freecache.org

  223. Badger badger badger badger... by Junta · · Score: 1

    mushroom mushroom.......

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    1. Re:Badger badger badger badger... by tttonyyy · · Score: 1
      mushroom mushroom.......

      That freekin' badgerbadgerbadger.com is addictive, I say!

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  224. What? no one put up a link ? by JLavezzo · · Score: 1

    How shocking that no one put up the link to the inspiration for this article!

    http://badgerbadgerbadger.com

    Remember on April 1st, the badgers were all zombies...

  225. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Master+Rux · · Score: 2, Funny

    I mean really that's just stupid. They really will post any story that has anything remotely to do with linux.
    Besides, when I tried it on a rare species from China, I had to recomplie the kernel and even then half the drivers didn't work.

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  226. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by spacerabbits · · Score: 0

    1: Kill badger
    2: Procede as per dead badger
    3: ???
    4: profit!

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  227. BADGERS? WE Dont Need no STINKIN BADGERS! by www.sharkdefense.com · · Score: 1

    (Sorry, couldnt refuse.)

  228. Dead badger? by Laconian · · Score: 0

    Why is the badger dead? Must be from the SNAKES A SNAKE OHHHHH A SNAKE..

  229. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shoot, I'm waiting for someone to install a live badger in Darl's ass!

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  230. Your writer plaigurized this from Everything2: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See:

    http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1515 48 6&lastnode_id=736506

    So yell at the writer for being a hoser.

    Your writer snaked the entire article from E2 and changed up a few things, but its obvious its the same write up. And he/she didn't even give credit.

    Everything from the installation requirements to the "boot incantation" is the same.

    Also this isnt very funny.

  231. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Patik · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that's the wors-- No, I'm positive that's the worst SCO joke to date.

  232. IO IO I'm dead but I still must go... by mrmeval · · Score: 1

    After building and testing the nano-ATX cube with Red Hack, the Socialist Democratic Martian Peoples Party official Linux distribution, Mpleorgy carfully sets it into the brain pan of the dead OoOolongo, the Martian equivilent of a badger.

    After making his connections and sealing them he boots.

    The badger twitches and opens it's eyes reveiling saphire blue marbles of color.

    "But Linux doesn't do BSOD, why BSOD?"

    The badger replies.

    "Gotcha"

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  233. Flea shampoo not needed. by RobertB-DC · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know, I'm too late for anyone to actually *read* this. But it must be pointed out that you will *not* need to use flea shampoo on a dead badger. Fleas need a live host. As soon as the host dies, the flea looks for another warm-blooded host.

    How the flea is likely to behave when its original host is re-animated, however, might be up for debate.

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  234. Doh! He should install Linux in a PENGUIN! by Zemplar · · Score: 1

    'nuff said!

  235. on beowulf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I want to see linux installed on beowulf...not the cluster...the mythical hero

    1. Re:on beowulf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Best damn piece of Beowulf wit I've heard for a while.

  236. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by hensons · · Score: 1

    Badgers!? We don't need no stinkin badgers!

  237. Don't throw away the intestines! by PetoskeyGuy · · Score: 1

    Intestines work great for keeping your cables together. Check ebay for some used badgers. They make great conduits.

  238. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by TechniMyoko · · Score: 0

    I meant anything other than a pc (stupid things that dont need linux like an ipod or gamecube) No need for the insults there guys

  239. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by TechniMyoko · · Score: 0

    reading back, the thing that I thought was an insult, was not

  240. I was disapointed... by TerminalInsanity · · Score: 0

    I stopped reading the article and went in search of the Vudu distro, only to come back to it 10 minutes later to continue reading and realize it was made by germans in jamaca

  241. Dead badgers and Linux badgers by tepples · · Score: 1

    [Soviet Russia,] Where Linux installs the badger in you!

    Badgerbadgerbadger.com is in fact running Linux. However, Weebls-stuff.com is running FreeDeadOS.

    So we have all three search terms: dead, badgers, and Linux!

  242. You mean Toad? by tepples · · Score: 1

    You mean this Mushroom Mushroom?

  243. before embarking on such a project.. by sucati · · Score: 1

    You might want to learn about What Badgers Eat

  244. WTF by GabeK · · Score: 1

    What the fuck is this? Who let this go by? Oh, Michael, right. The last bastion of stupid, worthless information. Why is there a penguin there? The foot should be the icon for this thing. Unreal. Worst story ever on /. Can anyone find one worse?

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  245. Oh, no.... by buckeyeguy · · Score: 1

    the author is from my town... which is strange (not as strange as the story!), since badgers just don't pop up much around here. If she writes about installing Linux in a dead skunk or very large squirrel, then she may have something. ;)

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  246. TrollTech -- the new evil empire by 0x0d0a · · Score: 1

    The problem with licenses like the BSD license is that they set up an extremely slanted playing field, where commercial software can take what it likes from the free software world, but the reverse is not true. That's not fair competition at all, that's leeching.

    I didn't say the BSD license (though I *still* think trying to force people not to use the BSD license in *their* software by leveraging the strategic position *you* managed to get your software to occupy is irritating and not a good justification). Use any license that isn't GPL-compatible -- it doesn't have to allow commercial use of the code, even. Use pine's, if you like.

    The Qt licensing doesn't stop anyone from being able to write non-open-source software. It just means that if they want to use TrollTech's work to do so, they have to pay money in return. Seems reasonable to me--why the hell should TrollTech subsidize the development costs for a purely commercial piece of software that they won't be able to use, learn from, or distribute?

    Personally, I *don't* think it's a great idea to have people making the primary widget set on Linux, the standard C library, or the X11 libraries commercial, but they *can* make money doing so, even if it requires them to do by selling good (but optional) dev tools for Qt.

    Look, at that point, TrollTech becomes a big impediment to the use of Linux. *Microsoft* doesn't try to charge every person that wants to release a closed-source Windows application a tax on doing so. TrollTech is trying to do *exactly* that.

    Take all that closed-source work. (Or, now that I think of it, probably stuff for internal use only but that you want to disallow other people in your company from distributing to other people, both within and without the company -- it's a good bet that restrictions on redistribution would be a violation of the GPL.) All of a sudden, TrollTech gets money from everyone writing Linux GUI software software that uses some random license. That's not cool, and it's not healthy for Linux.

    When have TrollTech ever threatened the open source community?

    A big *sword* over my head isn't a vocal threat, it's just something that sooner or later is going to negatively impact me. A change in market dynamics to where anyone not using the GPL is paying a fee *hurts Linux* as a viable platform. TrollTech very clearly has a business based off of leveraging this.

    It's the commercial leech community they threaten.

    All closed-source software is not "leech"ing from the open source community. Is Quake, Quake 2, and Carmack's other work "leeching" from the FLOSS community, in the years before he GPLed it and did Linux releases? I certainly don't think so. But if he wanted to include GUI config support using the *standard widget set* that everything else on the platform is using, he is forced to pay the "TrollTech tax". You can't tell me that it's not a negative thing for Linux to be so profoundly influenced by a company with that degree of control.

    The GNOME project could have done what so many other GNU projects have done--made an open-source clone of a "proprietary" library.

    People have -- GNOME didn't like some of the technical decisions made in the production of Qt, and went with a newer approach, so GNOME chose not to do so. There was a group that did a Qt implementation called Harmony, but it isn't feasible for them to keep up with Qt, which is a large API, just as it isn't feasible for the WINE people to keep up with Windows (and the same argument "well, if you don't like it, just reimplement it" is equally invalid -- the position they occupy, just as the position Microsoft occupies, is a severe barrier to others.

    1. Re:TrollTech -- the new evil empire by metamatic · · Score: 1

      Look, at that point, TrollTech becomes a big impediment to the use of Linux. *Microsoft* doesn't try to charge every person that wants to release a closed-source Windows application a tax on doing so. TrollTech is trying to do *exactly* that.

      On the other hand, Microsoft tries to prevent people from releasing completely free (as in freedom) applications, because the only way to develop Windows applications is to use Microsoft's proprietary libraries, and you're not allowed to distribute them at all, let alone distribute the source code.

      All closed-source software is not "leech"ing from the open source community.

      Didn't say it was. The leeches are the ones who want something for nothing--they want to take from Linux, but they don't want to give back in source code or money. Qt's licensing doesn't let them use Qt if they're gonna do so. Well, boo hoo.

      But if he wanted to include GUI config support using the *standard widget set* that everything else on the platform is using, he is forced to pay the "TrollTech tax"

      And as a Porsche-driving commercial game developer, he could afford to pay TrollTech a couple of thousand dollars for their work. He didn't mind paying NeXT for their OS to develop on; hell, he probably spent more than that on soft drinks during development.

      GNOME didn't like some of the technical decisions made in the production of Qt, and went with a newer approach...

      Pity it turned out to be a dead end. I see more excitement around AmigaOS than around CORBA these days...

      There was a group that did a Qt implementation called Harmony, but it isn't feasible for them to keep up with Qt, which is a large API

      If you think that, I assume you'll agree with me that Mono is a complete waste of time, and that the GNOME team must be smoking crack if they think it's sensible to build future GNOME apps on .NET...

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    2. Re:TrollTech -- the new evil empire by 0x0d0a · · Score: 1

      On the other hand, Microsoft tries to prevent people from releasing completely free (as in freedom) applications, because the only way to develop Windows applications is to use Microsoft's proprietary libraries, and you're not allowed to distribute them at all, let alone distribute the source code.

      (a) Everyone on Windows already *has* msvcrt and comctl32 and almost all the standard DLLs.

      (b) There are a couple of libraries that not everyone has (especially the Visual Basic runtime libraries of various versions) and Microsoft *does* let you redistribute the binaries with your application. If nothing else, Microsoft has a healthy deal of respect for letting third-party developers not fuck about with licenses.

      Didn't say it was. The leeches are the ones who want something for nothing--they want to take from Linux, but they don't want to give back in source code or money. Qt's licensing doesn't let them use Qt if they're gonna do so. Well, boo hoo.

      And *I'm* saying that if you expect people to write to an API, you should not expect them to *also* to conform to a particular license in doing so. I can't just "swap in GTK" and build an application that works seamlessly on distros that are KDE-oriented.

      And as a Porsche-driving commercial game developer, he could afford to pay TrollTech a couple of thousand dollars for their work. He didn't mind paying NeXT for their OS to develop on; hell, he probably spent more than that on soft drinks during development.

      Perhaps he does -- many people do *not*. I just can't understand why you think people are going to find this remotely acceptable. *I* like using the GPL a pretty fair bit, and *I*'m very much bothered by it, and the hordes of existing developers are *not* interested in paying a tax or being forced to use the GPL when considering Linux. Seriously, one of the *biggest* pieces of FUD that people have worked *so* hard to dispell is that "people have to use the GPL if they release software for Linux", and just as we manage to get people uneasily considering transitions again, up pops TrollTech trying to make that *exactly* the case. That's a hell of a good way to scare off developers.

      Pity it turned out to be a dead end. I see more excitement around AmigaOS than around CORBA these days...

      Actually, I was referring to the choice of base language - C and the choice of C++ + STL when designing the C++ API.

      If you think that, I assume you'll agree with me that Mono is a complete waste of time, and that the GNOME team must be smoking crack if they think it's sensible to build future GNOME apps on .NET...

      What, you think the GNOME team is planning to build future apps on .NET? You've been reading too much horror stuff on kde.net. *Miguel* happens to like the idea of writing *his* software in C#. *He* might do up some of his future software in C#, and he happens to also be one of the core developers. The vast bulk of the software, as the GNOME team has pointed out many times, is in C and is going to stay that way. There are KDE adherents that like Ruby, but you hardly see the GNOME crowd running around claiming that KDE is "going to be built in Ruby".

      But really, this isn't about GNOME/KDE. I don't have a problem with KDE -- nice set of software. I have a problem with Qt's licensing situation.

  247. If You Live in Texas... by klausner · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... substitute a dead armadillo. It has the added advantage of being already ruggedized.

  248. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by HenchmenResources · · Score: 1
    "alive/dead"

    o_O

    so. . . um Darl is really Schrodinger's cat?

    that might explain why he's so angry.

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  249. stupid by buht · · Score: 1

    umm. stupid.

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  250. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by foggi3 · · Score: 1

    Some people can't afford Windows, so they install Linux.

    Who can't afford 0.00$ for Windows?

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  251. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well, I did have a similar experience personally once. I hooked up with this little blonde KKG slut at one of my frat's exchanges, and went back to her place after drinkingan unfathomable amount of booze. After pounding the stuffing out of her WHILE her roommate and some dreadlocked monkey the roommate brought home were passed out in the other bed, I woke up desperately needing to take a monster leak. I couldn't find her keys, and she was still passed out. I didn't want to get locked out of her room buck nekked, so I pissed in her closet.

  252. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by vistic · · Score: 1

    All your posts are so lame.

  253. Re:Frankly I'm tired of this bullshit. (OT) by vistic · · Score: 1

    Wow... I guess everyone has an issue they're really passionate about...

  254. Yay for not citing sources! by GoodKingNerdnor · · Score: 1

    This was written by Lucy-S on www.everything2.com on January 25th of this year. This article is from April 5th of this year and sites no sources, looks like pure plaguerism to me. Lovely. Link to the ORIGINAL: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1515486&la stnode_id=124

    1. Re:Yay for not citing sources! by GoodKingNerdnor · · Score: 1

      I'm an idiot, please ignore me.

  255. The song gets worse by daniel_yokomiso · · Score: 1

    Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger,
    Linux, Linux, Badger badger badger badger badger
    badger badger, SCO, Oh SCO, It's SCO.

    Really sorry

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  256. missing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The author forgot to mention that in Louisiana you need a license for a zombie badger.

  257. foiled again by nberryguy · · Score: 1

    too bad I can't us my collection of "fair" condition badgers

    1. Re:foiled again by maduro55 · · Score: 1

      You might be able to get windoze on one, after all it's only a fair OS at best.

  258. Imagine a beowulf cluster of these... by srcosmo · · Score: 1
    ... if you're into necrophiliac badger orgies, that is.

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  259. No bonus points without pictures by DigitalCrackPipe · · Score: 1

    Nifty idea, but without pictures (not just illustrations) it doesn't really get any bonus points.

  260. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Xilo · · Score: 1

    But a better idea to mind where you place the power jack.. *zzzt*

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  261. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by michaelhood · · Score: 1

    sco's on shrooms! sco's on shrooms!

  262. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Bush+Pig · · Score: 1

    Um - no. It's definitely "tyre", at least around here.

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  263. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by chimpo13 · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the insightful mod. I think I'll steal that joke from whoever modded me insightful.

  264. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Captain+DaFt · · Score: 1

    Wake me up when someone installs a Linux in an alive/dead Darl's ass.

    Hmmm... Kinda tricky that... finding an asses ass!

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  265. dead badger by joshua_archer · · Score: 1

    Mushroom! Mushroom! Dude, forget linux -- if you can stop the badger song from playing in my head, you get the Nobel. (a Snake! a Snake!)

  266. Nope. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    This would make sense ... except that that the post you linked to was made 5 hours after post you replied to.

    If you'd gotten the chronological order right and attacked the post that was actually redundant you might have made a good point.