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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.)"
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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.
I'm sorry for those who've already seen it, and even more sorry for those partaking for the first time.
Naked supermodels with Windows boxes protesting this.
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...
I, for one, welcome our new Zombie Badger Overlords...
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why is this on slashdot?
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*
( o ) one could say I'm rather baked
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) Kill badger
2) Installs linux
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!!!
Somebody has to do it.
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.
My name is Darl McBride. Is that dead badger licensed?
... we don't need to stinkin' badgers!
(obvious)
.....We don't need no stinking badgers
Badgers got two appendixes????
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
look out for snakes!
eeegah...
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.
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.
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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You would have preferred a live badger? Would have made the install a lot more interesting I'll admit.
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.
Don't forget to keep watching the animation until it's done!
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.
... 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
That would be really bad.
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.
were refused. But now I question why...
Was the dead horse unavailable for the project, so you had to settle for the badger? :P
Join the TWIT army now!
What about a Beowulf Cluster of dead badgers?
Regardless of how much flea or mite spray you have, puting linux on a dead badger is just way too buggy!
In Soviet Russia, Dead Badgers Install You!
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!
I'd love to see a dead-wolfpack of these.
All Your Dead Badgers Belong To Us.
(see below for Four and Five: Beowulf and Business Model).
What did you do for the other 8 minutes?
Not Meta-modding due to apathy.
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
A Beos Wolf cluster.
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
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.
Contact Me (got tired of viruses emailing me).
Or if you're geek enough you can tape yourself badger-badgering: http://www.mtl2600.org/media/video/badgerbadger.mp g
No, I'm sure you mean:
"The *other* license and registration, please..."
Those who can, do. Those who can't, consult.
Were you expecting the meaning of life?
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.
"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!
"Derp de derp."
"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.
"Derp de derp."
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.
Learn something new.
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.
>> what were these guys THINKING!?!?
:D
You give them too much credit. But yeah, funny as hell
---- Take the Space Quiz!
Great! Now I can finally make myself a Bear-Wolf cluster.
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
Now I understand how Google's pigeon cluster works...
-Deep
Gives new meaning to the term "Boot up"
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
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
The badger ceased to have rights at the instant it became dead. This is why we installed Linux on it rather than FreeBSD.
At least, with the badger being striped already, you dont have to worry about installing a RAID card.
If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?
Perhaps if we built a large wooden badger??
Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!
Badger badger badger badger, Linux, Linux!
Sorry
I am NOT a number! I am a - oh wait, I'm number 761710. Look! 761710!
just wait til they dupe it on friday
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. -- George Carlin
Didn't you hear? That's the process to get past the particularly restrictive firmware.
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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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Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my badger. Prepare to die.
"Perhaps if we installed Linux in a large, wooden badger...." -- Sir Bedevere
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.
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
Now when I watch that little animation, the fist thing that comes to mind is a Beowulf cluster.
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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Shoot, I'm waiting for someone to install a live badger in Darl's ass!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I want to see linux installed on beowulf...not the cluster...the mythical hero
... substitute a dead armadillo. It has the added advantage of being already ruggedized.