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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.
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.