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Installing Linux on a Dead Badger

Posted by michael on from the slightly-ahead-of-its-time dept.

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

    Michael,

    April Fools Day was last Thursday, you insenstive clod!

  2. 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.

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

    Rocket Propelled Grenade

  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. 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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  6. 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

  7. 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...

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  8. 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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  9. 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.

  10. 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.
  11. 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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