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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.)"
How utterly pointless.
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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
Agreed. This has to rank up there as the single most fucking retarded story Slashdot has ever posted.
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.
You're completely right there. If only I had mod points for insightful...
riding round the world on an old motorcycle
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.
The flag just makes more sense than the constitution. - Judas Gutenberg
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.
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.
"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."
It's at times like these that one can be proud to be Canadian.
The next (previous if you read Slashdot in regular mode) comment modded to +5 Insightful is three words: "How utterly pointless..."
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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.
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
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.
everything in moderation