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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.
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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.
... 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?
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!
True, the .swf file format does stand for shockwave flash. However, this is a flash animation; a shockwave animation is something quite different. This was an animation that was produced via macromedia flash, and runs in their flash player.
A shockwave animation is one that is produced in Macromedia Director, and requires an entirely different plugin.
They're separate products and separate file formats. The flash format (which is far more common) is vector based, and was designed to stream interesting animations to people while using up as little bandwidth as possible. Similarly, the flash player itself is (or at least originally was) designed to be as small as possible.
In contrast, the shockwave player was designed from the start to handle lots of stuff (bitmaps, vectors, 3d) and so was always a much heavier player.
So anyway, the parent post is right, I think. This is a FLASH animation, not a shockwave animation. Calling this a shockwave animation in the headline is misleading.