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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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Michael,
April Fools Day was last Thursday, you insenstive clod!
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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.
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
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...
News for nerds, stuff that Matters
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!
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?
The writeup has 10 C!s. Very nice.
Agreed. This has to rank up there as the single most fucking retarded story Slashdot has ever posted.
... we don't need to stinkin' badgers!
(obvious)
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.
.....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.
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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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.
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 its original form: How to install Linux on a dead badger.
"The number of Unix installations has grown to ten, with more expected." (Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd ed.; june 1972)
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).
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
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
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.
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
"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."
"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.
>> what were these guys THINKING!?!?
:D
You give them too much credit. But yeah, funny as hell
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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
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.
May we never see th
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
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?
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...
May we never see th
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.
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.
Conservatism: The fear that somewhere, somehow, someone you think is your inferior is being treated as your equal.
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'...
In Soviet Redmond, software programs you!
"Perhaps if we installed Linux in a large, wooden badger...." -- Sir Bedevere
And then, hanging his head in shame, he goes back to his cubicle, posts the same joke on Slashdot and gets modded +5, 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.
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.
IMO the best browser game ever http://wittyrpg.com
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 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.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
... substitute a dead armadillo. It has the added advantage of being already ruggedized.