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Linux For Supervillains
computernut writes "Supervillains seem to like Linux. Take a peek at a cool Shockwave Animation on why they use it." Cute little animation. I think we might have shown it here before, but hey it's Sunday, and August which means this is the closest thing to news we might have all day.
This story is a great reason not to get a subscription to slashdot.
Anyway, the video -- which is funny -- is several years old and comes from http://www.ubergeek.tv/
Linux is for Supervillians. The Good Guys use NetBSD.
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man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
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This thing is nearly 3 years old
It's mentioned on other websites with a date of january 2003!
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
..but at least he's honest about it. Doesn't fucking bother capitalizing August or Sunday, doesn't care to look up if it's a dupe.
*gasp* He's just another lazy computer geek! Everyone, get the pitchforks and torches! We're supposed to all be pissed off cuz he's getting paid to be a lazy geek! We're supposed to gripe about having subscriptions and.. o, wait, I'm an AC.
Yes, anyway, Taco is still my man.
First, "they hate copyright", now "they want to destroy the world". What next? "They're trying to put an entire industry (anti-virus) out of business!"?
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
Since we're duping movies we've seen before, I might as well point out the funniest Switch parody I've ever seen... http://www.roosterteeth.com/archive/download.php?i d=499
Wow, this animation is soooooooooooo old. here is the actual site this came from.
The Television Wiki
At least all EVIL desktops when the east coast is seized.
... but it's still funny! And besides, some of us don't remember /. stories three years old => So, I for one welcome our three-year-old Linux supervillian overlords. But only when used appropriately.
When I post something relevant it gets rejected, but when someone posts an admittedly funny, but million year old flash animation, it gets front paged?
who cares?? it entertained me - thats more than you can say for most /. posts
How could they get fired? They own the shop.
Naw.
Next time I submit a story, I'll just make sure it's Sunday in August.
Besides, the video did make me laugh, and on a day I could use it, so I'm happy.
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Take a peek at a cool Shockwave Animation on why they use it.
That is a Flash animation, not Shockwave.
Yet again, something absolutely useless on Slashdot has made me dumber. This time it was unfunny too. Thanks Slashdot! Two or three more like this and I'll be too retarded to type.
Slashdot: 24 hours behind every other site or your money back!
They sold out a long time ago. Who do you think OSTG is?
michael was fired a while back... and I'm beginning to think maybe they fired Zonk. He's never got this long without a story.
Just because it's old doesn't mean it's not funny. I happen to like this thing, gives me something funny I can use to promote my favorite operating system. :-)
Creative misinterpretation is your friend.
Don't you get it yet? Are you that thick?
lol!
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I feel better in the morning knowing I can always count on Slashdot to post something dated from at least a year ago.
It's like Karl Marx chasing down Jesus and the Dell Dude while astride a dinosaur.
Isn't it ironic that there is no such thing as a shockwave player for Linux?
Windows XP, fully updated, rarely goes down. Like in Linux, the base system can often save the rest. You just need to restart explorer.exe. Real BSODs, in my experience, tend to be driver and hardware related. The hardware culprits for me have been: An ATI Radeon card, a motherboard (a revision of K7s5a fails memtest out of the box), and bad RAM, of coore than a year.
None of my current Linux systems go for more than a month without X-Windows manager troubles. In one case, I know this to be a video card driver issue. The others, I have no idea about.
This thing is called Flash for 5 years already! And previously it wasn't simply Shockwave, but Shockwave Flash. Shockwave is the name of Macromedia Director's internet format and entirely different technology.
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It a FLASH animation, not a shockwave animation. Get it right the first time!
Macromedia has renamed SWF to "Small Web Format" I'm serious. I sat through a presentation and that's what they called it.
See how much has changed since then, as the Linux revolution in ease of use and consistency has swept the world's desktops.
Yes Veronica, that was intended as sarcasm, not irony.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Goethe
I wish you wouldn't.
.. and yet you do. And even posting comments.
- Peter Brodersen; professional nerd
I wouldn't be surprised to see a /. story on, say, hampster dance in a few years. Not only has that video been around for years, but Darl Mcbride even referred to it in his "open letter" not long ago:
t ml?.v=19
/ 1717257&from=rss
A popular animation
on the Internet features a guy named Steve, the Linux Super Villain.
During the course of the 60 second animation, he describes his work
with Linux stating, "First you have to config it, then write some
shell scripts, update your RPMs, partition your drives, patch your
kernel, compile your binaries and check your version dependencies..."
http://ca.us.biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050808/lam060.h
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/08
If you don't like this site, why do you post so much? I did a quick search for posts by you "Anonymous Coward" and it looks like you're the biggest user of this site!
I think we might have shown it here before
At least this article admits openly that it is a dupe.
As for the flash animation, I found it mildly entertaining but somehow I feel like I've seen it before many years ago.
He could've just not posted any new articles, keeping the ones that are there on the main page so we can discuss them more.
/.: In the good ol' days, Taco and Hemos posted an article when there was something to post, maybe once an hour, maybe once a day. Articles stayed on the front page for days, and we managed to have meaningful discussions about them.
Why we used to love
Why we don't love it anymore: There's now a quota of one article per hour (or one per 2 hours during USA-side nights and weekends). This results in lots of lame articles and dupes, and makes the older articles disappear from the front page quickly. Unless you're glued to your computer, there's no way to carry on a meaningful discussion, and there's a rush by everybody to post a comment within the first few hours, flooding the articles with irrelevant stuff.
Basically, slashdot's gone from quality to quantity. Great for ad revenue, not so great for readers.
http://www.macboy.com/cartoons/switch/gates/
Really. It does. If you've ever heard an interview with him or seen a presentation - that's him!
While we're at it...
b _animations/flash_anakin.swf
http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/humor/we
that they chose to do it in shockwave, which has no player available for linux?
I am trolling
As long as people are posting old news, here is a guide to being an Evil Overlord http://www.evilrulers.com/eviloverlord.htm
that over 50% of terrorist websites run on Open Source webservers? :)
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Why does it matter what day of the week or month it is? We get dupes every day of the week, year round.
Olds for 'tards. Stuff that mattered.
apple switch parodies made by the olde english sketch comedy group...
Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb...
August is traditionally a slow news month. The US Congress is out of session. A lot of people are on vacation. People don't usually make major announcements. Maybe tech could be different, but as the article says, "News for Nerds" is a little thin on the ground.
The other key word is "Sunday", meaning no companies issued press releases yesterday or today. If a company has done something interesting (and face it: in the tech world a lot of stuff gets done by companies) it comes out either as a press release or a leak. Slashdot usually runs a lot of "just amusing" stuff on Sundays.
Yeah, it's a years-old Flash animation (which is really cute, but still... who even cares about the iMac ads that it's parodying?). So it's August. Take a breather.
i stumbleupon'ed this last month....
Soap box, Ballot box, Jury box, Ammo box. Use in that order.
Well I kinda liked it. It's Sunday and some nutty flash can't do me any harm, now can it?(Besides my RHEL4 which I'm trying to tune thru my VNC wirelessly).
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It's a strange coincidence that I was desperately searching for this flash video all week and happened to see it here today, just in time to show the family at the reunion.
-Benjamin Vander Jagt
-Vander Jagt Computers
p.s., geez it was hard to figure out the hidden text this time!
Is that why you use that little devil character as your mascot?
You'd think that he could at least pronounce Linux correctly.
Become a Linux or BSD gangster today and cap a windows users ass!
MOD PARENT UP... quoth the AC
At least the article's animation was smaller than the apple mov file. Or was that the point?
Well, did YOU know...
;)
> 68% of all websites run on Open Source webservers
Assuming the rest run on some form of Microsoft webserver we can clearly se that Microsoft are directly advertising to terrorists
Yet more proof that Microsoft are evil
Unlike wine, flash movies do not get better with age =P
I have found nazi headquarters4 93&spn=0.005025,0.007308&t=k&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.675014,-117.158
You don't compile your binaries. You compile the source code and it becomes a binary. Funny, while I was at school some guy was trying to make fun of me and was all like "Yeah Linux is for nerds, cause I have to compile your binaries, hehehehe." I was all like "WTF What binaries do I compile, uhh right, I compile source." Wait, ...... I REALLY AM A DORK!
Well ok, time to reopen that issue and find out. Considering the current crop of vacuous airheads that are living in their 15 minutes now at least we know that one uses computers. I doubt she will ever say 'Chicken by the Sea".....
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Dupes aside, are Slashdot editors paid on a Sunday? Do they get double time or do they work a 6 x days + 1 free shift.
For the record, I haven't seen the animation before so it was new to me.
Being a long time comics reader and supervillain myself (well, wannabe, anyway), I believe in Linux!
Kim Polese used this at her talk announcing SpikeSource last year. I had just downloaded it a few days before myself, so when I listened to the MP3 of her talk and heard this come on, I was like, "Oh, cool, Kim!"
I count Kim as a "gorgeous fembot" for this coolness.
Sadly, Linux has not yet improved my love life.
But the orbiting brain laser research is going well on Mandrake 10.1 - to be upgraded to 2006 when it comes out.
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This game, made by the same guy, is much much cooler ;)
"A truly wise man realizes he knows nothing."
It seems to me that Slashdot got stuck in an endless time loop where every day for last two years had been a Sunday in middle of an August.
I guess non-news non-article just proves that it's better to have no news articles for a day, than to have crap that is neither article nor news.
maybe my standards are a bit low, but I have no problems leaving my debian system looged into a KDE desktop for a couple of weeks at a time.
Windows XP, on the other hand, doesn't actuallly crash, but after a week it is so incredibly sluggish for me that it is unusable. The debian box, after its been running for a week, is as snappy as ever.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
Jeez it's not even a shockwave animation! *points to the SWF extension*
I remember a few years ago when I was about 17; I was angry that some people were posting some GNAA crap and just joking about the stupidity of the article. I was an internet geek -- and was sad when people made fun of something that had potential. Saw that very cartoon when it came out. Laughed in my glee running around on my brand spanking new DSL connection that would blink out every so often.
Flash forward, now 20 years old, been looking at slashdot every once and a while. Seen all the complaints over the years, but never really understood. Bored with the internet, only checking one forum that I started moderating back then 1 time every 2 days. Post counts uninteresting, login ID numbers no longer a sign of seniority. I check slashdot using my 3 meg cable connection in my apartment at college to find an article presenting that cartoon I saw, what feels like, so long ago presented as new.
My feelings verified. Same junk circling around from years past, and finally understand what people were complaining about back then. I have just been reading a website put together by some random person with nothing to do. Gods of the internet I saw back then, prove themselves just to be another Joe who is out to make a buck.
I'm glad to see that people are still interested in this animation after all these years :). When I first made this animation, I didn't think the popularity would be what it is today. I was just having fun. I made this in 2002, and got a surprise bandwidth bill of $500 because of it. Now I've got a great server farm ( plug: www.cachefly.com ) that handles the load, so slashdot away :).
Man, I've got to make a sequel some day!
What's so funny is the fact that, although they love linux, they still make the animaton in shockwave, which macromedia doesn't release for linux.
And once again /. has managed to outdo itself...
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On linux: adzapper+squid? It works fine on my PC.
interesting. All it took was a single -1 Overrated mod a few comments ago and El Gordo was no more.
And that Overrated mod was for asking the question:
"A raw or frozen egg?"