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Linus will move to Moscow to work with Elbrus
K.G. writes "A Russian computer related news agency Computerra said today
that Linus Torvalds will move to Moscow,
quitting his job in Transmeta to develop a Linux compatible OS
intended to run on the E2K processor from Elbrus International.
In a russian-language article named
"Closer to Dad"
Computerra said that the factors that convinced Linus to move
to Russia were "more interesting and promising job", closeness
to his father who works as a Moscow correspondent for Finnish
radio & TV, and a more familiar climate, similar to Linus's homeland
Finland (they don't get a lot of snow in LA, do they... ).
They also quoted the future boss of Linus, professor Boris Babayan:
"The great professional qualities of Torvalds will help create a dependable OS for the E2K processor, fully compatible with Linux, in a
tight deadline". "
...but not too surprising.
Well?
I love this stuff..
i think this is an early april's fool joke.
just like microsoft shipping win2k on time, microsoft building a better os and linux dying because it's open source.
It maybe too early here, but it is already the firsth of april in Moscow because they are about 9 or 10 hours ahead of US time depending on whether you have daylight savings time or not (we do not have it in AZ, but CA has it so it is ten hours for them.) So just relax, and don't worry. :>>--
That's funny.
I still like the DVD rewinder..
Well it was not appropriate then, but it is appropriate now. Do you get it. :>>--
Exactly, after then the time in CA, and AZ will be the same, because AZ has no time difference between summer, and winter, we have the same time all year round, and thanks to that it is actually same as CA in summer, so you could say that AZ keeps alternating between two time zones, because in winter it is in the Mountain Time Zone, and in Summer it is in The Pacific Time Zone. So that is why arizona has to be especially remembered when writting any time conscious software, because there is no such thing in AZ as daylight savings time. :>>--
Yes it seems that way, but take heart, because you could just conceivably get drunk, and sleep until friday thereby avoiding the whole thing. :) It is not a good idea, but it is an option. :>>--
And the Macrowave refrigerator.
Is this an early April fools joke?
Well, he coming over for dinner at my place tonight. Why don't you join us?
The address is:
1001 Uptime ln.
Sunnyvale, Ca 94086
7 Pm sharp, okay?
-B.A. Moron
Pfeh, none of those suggestions sound credible. The Russian article at least passes the first-round plausibility test (IMO).
Arizona and Saskatchewan. The only two sane places in the Americas.
Fight DST!
okay people, this thing may be a complete load of (censored). let's look at the things pointing to why this may just be all b.s.
1.) The article is in RUSSIAN people, which means they figure 99% of slashdot readers can't read it anyway, so the article is basically worthless in confirming the news.
2.) There's a lot of filler information in the post, such as about linus' father and does linus really wanna work on porting linux?
3.) is it just me or does quoting linus as using the words "interesting" to describe Transmeta?
just some thoughts, post your reply
try something with a bit more intelligence next year...
Not where I come from (New Zealand). Its 3:00pm, April 1. It's been April fools day for 15 hours.
We routinely get snow in the hills and we got actual, real snow in the valley proper about a month ago (albeit for only a few minutes).
i don't know, but he ain't bill gates, so he didn't invent the computer, and he ain't al gore, so he didn't invent the internet, so he can't be all that important...
Anybody else notice that Elbrus is an anagram of "rubles"?
I wonder if the *company* is a joke, too?
Cheers,
KenB
I concocted that posting from Alan. It's meant to be MY April's Fool day contrib. An elaborate joke. Don't take it too seriously. It's goofy like you said. I am only an AC (Anonymous Coward). (Hey! Alan Cox has the same initial. :)
:P
Notice the date: Wed 01 Apr
01 April is Thursday.
Too bad it got demoted to -1. Maybe the moderators were afraid ppl took it seriously.
Oh well... *shrug*
new kernel is out!!
Bzzt, -ENOHUMOR.
"Red Hat" is a cyclic permutation of "thread", with period 6. Coming soon: Dethar Linux, Rhdeat Linux, Terhad Linux, and Dhtear Linux.
"Dethar Linux". I actually like that.
The Alan Cox mail is a hoax. I know it. Cos I wrote it. (Rob can check the IP address log and hunt me down! :) Figured it would be April's Fool day in UK and Russia and more than half the world when I posted it... I thought therefore I posted.
:)
I don't know anything about the Russian news report. Maybe it is a hoax and maybe it is not. Personally I think it is. Hence the rejoinder. But that's my opinion.
Forgive me if it gives you sleepless night.
Apologies to Alan, Linus, RMS, ESR and BG^H^H^H all the other Linux and GNU heroes I admire so, if I have offended you. It is my own elaborate 01 Apr hack, ie. copyleft product of my own warped mind.
I am waiting for tomorrow to come. Then I will know what's up with the Russian connection.
good one guys...
I missed this the first time, but this is (unintentionally?) pretty clever!
"It is past midnight now. Time for me to have lunch." -- That would be the real Alan!
I am gonna cry!!!!
No no no... we must be strong.
Down with the evil big corporation
and its strong-arm tactics!
Linus puts out a new kernel about 2 to 3 times per week. Have you ever wondered ... is there any correlation between that and anything else he might do 2-3 times per week, as a happily married man? ... for instance, RMS seems grouchy most of the time, and it's six months between software releases for him. On the other hand, Alan Cox is a champion stud-geek. ... 2000 ... 2001"
This would explain things
And Bill Gates, aieee. "Oh it will be ready in 1999
need I say more? MS is the only thing that the
three sites (userfriendly, bedope, segfault) have in common.
I mean, come on, it's a comic strip! Why must
MS take it so seriously?
Look at the date. Due to timezone differences, its an April Fool's joke. :) Gotta love being taken :)
Please don't mention that you're a writer either, thanks.
This is all well and good, but what about a Freedows port to the new processor?
*cough* *cron* *cough*
April fools you FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Liek he would leave USA, when WW3 is about to start, thats suicide to move to russia. but then again, usa would be wiped too , but its damn nicer than russia.
There are species of penguins that live on the Galapagos Islands. Surely the California Zoos have those. Wait a minute, I live in California and I have seen penguins at zoos.
*gasp!* could this be... a joke?!
But they didn't look too happy.
Hmm... Linus understands them better I guess.
"Alas we will reveal ourselves to the Jedis; alas we will have our revenge." - familiar? Trailer B!
T1 access to the internet? Is it just me, or do any of the rest of you feel that Linus would never in a million years make a stupid comment like that. That just sounds plain ridiculous. Why would Linus really care (and if he did care, why would he say that to Alan) if he had a T1 or a ds3 or an oc48 or a 56k modem. And I don't know if there exists T1 lines in Russia... not at an affrodable price for a company...
Same thing at userfriendly.org
Either they decided to do the same April's fool joke, or they are in real trouble...
Has anyone else noticed that slashdot is setting cookies called "sexual_orientation" and "religion" now ???
Of course it's an april fool ... just look at the names of the cookies - "mothers_maiden_name", "iq", "sexual_orientation", "religion", "income bracket", "social_security_number" etc...
....
or is it... OR IS IT ????
Doo Doo Doo Doo Dink Dink Dink Dink Doo Doo Doo Doo Dink Dink Dink Dink
X
I am not a number, I am A FREE MAN
A humourless letter from one of a few members in a conspiracy of humour sites hoping to spring an April's Fool Joke tomorrow in the USA has ordered The Register not to tell the joke first.
Click the link for the full story.. =)
(They are into the April's Fool game too!)
:)
4:30am is past midnight and considering how hard Alan works, he might lose track of time.
Anyway, an A.C. above claimed he wrote the hoax. I believe him because I am he. So there we are. All is well. And the sun will rise tomorrow.
Hmmmm.... Dosent Linus sign as Linus and not
> Linus Benedict Torvalds
> Transmeta
You *THINK* that it's a joke? Pulease!!!
What kind of web site posts news in Russian!? Hellooooo... the Internet standard is ENGLISH. If you can't speak it or read it tough. :-) (j/k)
Just a thought
Arrgh! User friendly _IS_ gone!!! Dammit, if this is Microsoft's doing...I don't really need to finish that, do I? It'll be the single most stupid publicity blunder they have ever done.
This is just as bad....
in New Zealand, they posted a news item aboout moving the international date line, to avoid us...because economically Australia was better for Y2K... Economics arent the timeline...geesh
tho that was a bloody good april fools joke.
It would sure be easier if the whole world used GMT.
>iMac fan site
MacWorld Sweden reports that the Strawberry iMac is 9% faster than the other colors!
;-)
Lightnin' in the aiiiaiirr
Gold in them hills and it's
Waitin' for me therrerre
Ooops! Sorry, I was just listening to that a little while ago!
Or Swatch beats! Woo!
Hi guys !
Russian is my native language and I'm familiar
with Russian tradition to publish funny "news" on
the 1-st of April.
For example, ixbt.satck.net is full of such news
today, including the news on Linus Torvalds.
I suggest to wait until tomorrow for the
confirmation or denial.
Though it's true that Linus's father is in
Moscow...
Regards,
Sergei.
The site I mentioned is actually
ixbt.stack.net
.
Regards,
Sergei.
There is no T1's in Russia. We are using E1, as well as Europe.
I submitted this weeks ago, and they just now post it.
Why is this guy so important?
Linus didn't take a job in Russia because he wanted to. He fled because he *had* to.
The NSA finally noticed all the crypto code in the kernel. Not the "loopback hooks"; those are an obvious red herring. But the IDEA implementation in drivers/net/pseudo/pseudocode, the steganography in the low bits that come of drivers/char/random.c, and the experimental Merced firmware virus hidden in drivers/scsi/qlogicfs_asm.c.
Taking him out at Transmeta was out of the question, of course, because the control for Transmeta comes straight from the Bavarian Illuminati. So they tried a "small job" at his home. But they forgot about Tove (code name: "kill -9").
Paranoid? Ask yourself this: why do you think they call it *RED* Hat?
Dear Fellow Members of the Linux Community,
:)
It is with a solemn heart that I break this news to you. The posting speaks truth. Like most of you, I thought it was an April's Fool joke. In great mirth, I emailed Linus. Imagine my surprise when he sent back the following reply:
> On Wed, 01 Apr 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Linus, you have to take a look at the posting
> > on Slashdot. Utterly hilarious!
>
> Dear Alan,
>
> My apologies for not informing you of my
> decision earlier. I am afraid the report is
> correct. It is a last minute decision by Tove
> and I. We believed it is the best decision for
> everyone. Let me elaborate:
>
> 1. Spring is in the air. The flowers bloom, the
> sun shines and the great outdoor beckons to me -
> "Drop your work! Come out! Have fun!" it says.
> My heart stirs. My mind strays. The bugs creep
> into the kernel. Recalling the days in Helsinki,
> where the cold kept me indoors and I could work
> without distraction, I decided that it was for
> kernel 2.3's interest that I moved to Russia,
> where the cold is forbidding.
>
> 2. My father. The news report says it all. Have
> your fellow Russian coworker translate it.
>
> 3. The penguins. They don't thrive in the warm
> Californian climate. The local zoo can't do
> anything about it. It saddens me. I am having
> them sent to the Moscow zoo as well.
>
> 4. Transmeta. My work is done here. Alas, we
> will reveal our chip^H^H^H^H product to the
> world. Alas, we will have revenge.
>
> 5. Tove. She doesn't get enough karate practice
> here. She would love to tackle the grizzly bears
> in the Russian countryside. Anyway, cuddling by
> the fireplace is nicer when there is a blizzard
> outside.
>
> Alan, we have often talk about me moving to
> England. Alas the paparazzi will hound me day
> and night. Russia is still the best for me.
>
> Please forward this mail to Slashdot.
>
> To my faithful followers: I have not
> forsaken you! The Russian KG^H^H company
> has promised me T1 access to the internet. I
> will continue to code. Updates and patches will
> be released as frequently. Nothing has changed.
> Linux is still GPLed. You still have ESR, RMS
> and BG (yes, him too). Do not lose thy faith.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Alan
>
> Linus Benedict Torvalds
> Transmeta
So there it is. From our fearless leader himself. I hope we will all respect his decision. It is past midnight now. Time for me to sleep.
Alan
PS: Sorry, I forgot my password. Hence the AC posting.
Wasn't the "Linus joins Microsoft" thing done last year? In any case, I think you could have a LOT more fun with an April Fool's joke involving RMS. :)
Michel wrote:
Well, what are all those computers-things then? I've got this big box here with blinky lights on 'em. What can it do? (another decent question!) And there's this, this thing with Looooots of buttons on it, what's that then?
The computer thingy that's a big box with blinky lights on it is a computer toaster. It is a super special interactive toaster, you put bread into the slot in the front, and push its buttons until the bread is toasted. Hours of fun (that's why it cost so much).
The thing with lots of buttons is a cat bed, what else could it be?
----
Open mind, insert foot.
Eric
--
Be who you are...and be it in style!
April Fools.. Maybe the whole Segfault thing is in on it too.
Basically, what I'm saying, is "Is this true?"
A valiant attempt, but It doesn't look like you sucked in any /.'ers.
Good story though
VENI! VIDI! VICI!
Posted by Wayne Steele:
It appears segfault.org has temporarily closed its site due to the latest developments in the potential suit being brought against them, User Friendly, and Be Dope. The latter two sites are business as usual for the moment.
Perhaps we'll know more by April 2nd?
Bzzt, wrong. Red Hat is named after a red hat. Sorry.
...if you view the source code, there's an awful lot of English in there........almost like someone arranged with the site to post their "article" (to add legitimacy)..........
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
What is your Slash Rating?
Just a hunch, but I bet I'm right...
I doubt it. It started too early and has gone on too long.
No. I'm right. I'm certain it's a joke.
I've been following up on this stuff, and I've gotten too many strange responses. Besides, why would MS go after these sites? Their primary readers already hate MS...
This is one massive, well-coordinated April Fool's joke. Slashdot is in on it, too. Expect a story tomorrow about how Microsoft is shutting those sites down due to libel.
I remember a comment from either CmdrTaco or Hemos a while back about BIG plans for the April Fool's day. This is it.
MS is the only thing that the three sites (userfriendly, bedope, segfault) have in common.
And the same audience... And the people who run these sites know each other... And they're all part of the same MS-hating community.
Slashdot is in on it, but only to provide the final piece -- a big story on the first concerning the lawsuits...
Slashdot couldn't pretend like it was being threatened or else we'd have a massive media frenzy and then the joke would be revealed early... like checking to see if a suit has actually been filed in the appropriate courts.
I'll bet you a $1000 the lawsuit does not exist.
They probably planned it at LinuxWorld...
acshully we had quite a few snow flurries here this winter, BUT that thawed pretty fast...i'm sure Linus is used to slightly larger amounts of snow than most ppl from silicon valley are ;)
From where I sit, it says 5:00pm MST.. Since MST is GMT-7, I'm guessing it was posted by cron at 12:00AM GMT. ;)
And RMS is cutting his beard off, Microsoft is filing bankruptcy, and the next president is a woman.
dude, if you havent figured out that this whole forum is an april fool's joke, then the egg is on *your* face :)
-Stu
User Friendly's site has gone down as well... This is evil! I hope Microsoft (as I believe it is safe to assume is behind this) gets what they deserve for this...
Well, this little April Fool managed to get some of the facts wrong. First off, Linus lives in Santa Clara, not LA. Trust me, Northern California is a completely different state from Southern California.
--
--
I noticed
It's getting about time to leave everywhere
Of course, Santa Clara is a completely different beast from San Francisco.
--
--
I noticed
It's getting about time to leave everywhere
Actually, I would think it would be the other way around. It would seem to me the number of software releases would be inversely related to the number of times the developer was "doing it". More software releases, less doing it, More doing it, less software releases...
MMmmm, Whitehouse interns...
-- The unsig...
The best trick before this was a Compaq ad for a mouse that can recharge the batteries in your laptop - it included a special game to make recharging easy and fun!
my blog: good times, man, good times
Taking away the best talent from the US?
But, hard to believe why Linus Torvalds wants to work in Moscow instead of the Silicon Valley... he has a family and he is considered normal by most people. (I.e., it is more believable if someone say RMS is moving to Moscow.)
Free Software: the software by the people, of the people and for the people. Develop! Share! Enhance! Enjoy!
And why the AC post? Perhaps.. Alan forgot his password, but honestly how long does it take to get another
Well, I you can get the password re-emailed to you, so this is almost certainly Bull.
Jim Cape
http://www.jcinteractive.com
Jim Cape
http://www.jcinteractive.com
sexual_orientation=
visa_number=
etc.
Rob, you rule.
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
>they don't get a lot of snow in LA, do they
I thought that Linus was in Santa Clara, not LA. And just for the record, the last time Santa Clara had snow was 1976.
This "letter from Alan Cox" is clearly a hoax, which in no way indicates that the original newsitem from sengan is either true or false.
/* MAGIC THEATRE
ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY
MADMEN ONLY */
sorta been looking for these little beggers. Technically I've filtered out the 'funnies'...look like I'll have to log in again :)
peterrenshaw ~ Another Scrappy Startup
Read the long quoted e-mail.
:o>
It's goofy, so I'm skeptical that this isn't all just a big honkin' joke.
J.
damned vulpine http://sb.drtwister.com/
...
...
...
*OHHHHhhhhh...*
*THAT* BG!!
Wow...
J.
damned vulpine http://sb.drtwister.com/
It would be more adequate to christen it Djihad Linux. :-)
I also favor their foreign policy a bit higher than I do the West's.
--
As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
"Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right." - Mao
...like Linus signing on at Microsoft, or deciding to change the Linux kernel license from GPL to QPL, or Commander Taco announcing that he's going to end slashdot so he can spend his time working on an iMac fan site.
-Eric
He is the character from the comic strip "The Peanuts" who always carries his blanket and hangs out with Charlie Brown.
-Eric
Yep, the three 'big' sites are down...
;-)
;-)
And Slashdot is up...
Just to report that the three 'big' are down
1st of April rulez
This brief history of mcsun (and its mcvax predecessor) seems to suggest "kremvax" was an invention of the Dutch, not of the Russians....
One presumes the above is Sengan's own April Fool's joke (my Russian vocabulary has largely evaporated - or, at least, been moved to tertiary storage - but there wasn't anything about LA in the article), given that Transmeta isn't in LA.
But we don't get much snow here in Silicon Valley, either.
Yeah, I've seen it through the smog on the way to work.
I must've been inside when that happened. (The hail, on the other hand, I was in the middle of.)
Right on brother. Damn Nixon's megalomania.
While *I* send my resume to Transmeta!
(I hear they need help in the mail room)
**>>BELCH
the site is indeed legit. I looked through it and it seems to be a nice site. They even have forums for Linux and BeOS fans. Intrestingly enough, they have slashdot-style polls with a 'huh?' answer being an option. (gee, where did they get this idea from?).
Oh, and this is somewhat related, they have an article Babayan vs Intel which I didn't read. They also had a poll about this and something like 50% believe it's for real.
The article might be a joke. Or maybe it's just so they get more hits? Who knows?
___
If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
... I guess my weekend starts now: I only read /. at work.. ;)
Actually, Blueberry and Grape are faster. Darker shades of translucence allow less light to interfere with the workings of the machine, keeping the (already cool) G3 a little cooler. This provides for a slightly faster speed.
Lime is somewhere in the middle, if I recall.
- Darchmare
- Axis Mutatis, http://www.axismutatis.net
- Jeff
I was wondering, since it's still March 31st were I am, but a quick trip to the site shows the date as April 1st :)
BINGO!
> Basically, what I'm saying, is "Is this true?"
Basically, what we're saying is
Cheers,
-- jr 'will troll for food' a
(And no, I wasn't the original author.)
(Vote for RFC2100 in the contest!)
Cheers,
Who fooled 4 moderators into believing this? Look at the penguin jokes. Alan Cox would never forget his /. password, I`m not even sure he has one...
/* Steinar */
(This comment is of course GPLed.)
That could actually work, though. At least the mouse could generate enough to provide its own 5 volts and a little to spare. Of course the mouse would weigh about as much as a small brick and you'd have to change from one hand to the other regularly to keep one arm from being a shirt size larger than the other from the muscle build-up.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Actually, I believe it was the barbecue grill manufacturers and such trying to get more daylight for people to use their products. At least it was definitely them behind the change of the start from the last weekend of April to the first weekend of April a few years ago.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
I don't read Russian, and since most of their pages look like extended ascii apparently my browser doesn't read Cyrillic, but I clicked some of the links on the sight (found something from March 1st that seemed to be talking about Linux and Merced)so I'm pretty sure that the site is legit even if the story isn't, but it occurred to me that a great 4/1 trick would be if Slashdot, including all of the previous Slashdot pages, polls, Ask Slashdot's, etc., was suddenly in Russian. :-)
(hope this doesn't start a rash of consultants telling the PHB's "see, we told you this Linus guy is a commie, all those free software beatniks are!"
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Is it just me or does this have
:)
APRIL FOOLS
written all over it?
BTW. segfault.org is down, claiming:
This site is closed
As many of you have been following, over the past week we have been engaged in discussions with a third party about their objections to
the content of stories posted onto this web site.
As a result of the latest stage of these discussions, I have decided to take this web site down until the issue is fully resolved.
I greatly appreciate all the e-mails and messages of support I have received from you, the readers, and I promise I will fight this one
through to the end.
See you on the flip side!
I am willing to BET that is an APRIL FOOL too.
PS. Out here in australia April fools has FINISHED>.. and some of us are kinda sick of it
I see this as a great April Fools day joke :))
Been there Seen it and blessed by it. IRIX I need you baby
Check the date...
Looks like you weren't the only one. It did get me for a few seconds too, I'll admit. But then I remembered "kremvax". Those peskie Russkies have done this before.
Quite so. Must remember to check my memory against the Jargon File before posting in future.
Um.... if it's april foolery, it's terribly annoying. :P
Ya... something along the lines of "RMS wins the NY State lottery. Rethinks whole philosophy regarding free beer...."
--- http://foo.ca
Thank you for this lovely piece of info! After reading about Caldera's battles with MS, ESR, and flames, etc..., it's nice to be able to laugh once again.
The link to the Russian web site was very good, very inspired thinking. However, there was only one thing missing. Sengan should have added a commentary at the end. Something like how he totally approved of this move and that the computer expertise in Europe was much better than what the average American thought it was. Now that would have generated a few thoughtful replies.
I just realized something. That link is to a Russian web site. We all know what happens when /. posts a link. Right now, there a Ruskie running around shouting "Capitalistic Running Dog cyber attack! They're trying to take down our server!" If the server stays up, then the same guy starts yelling, "I'm Invincible!"
Tomorrow in Pravda, "Cmdr Taco, NSA's Secret Weapon Launches Attack on Russian Computer Network."
Had my knickers all in a twist for nothing! Damn. I don't think I've ever been rooked on 4/1 as badly as I was by Illiad, et al.
Hats off to yas, ya schmucks!
A host is a host from coast to coast...
Unless it's down, or slow, or fails to POST!
It... Was... A... Joke...
Didja get that? The original article by Sengan was a joke, too. Funny. Ha-ha. Tee-hee.
Sheesh... *translator burns out*
A host is a host from coast to coast...
Unless it's down, or slow, or fails to POST!
I think that you're forgetting they're in a different time zone.
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Hehe. Porn guys can be pretty clever. They're known for grabbing lookalike domains, like alta-vista.com. I wouldn't be surprised if someone registered slashdot.com and put up a porn site.
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"Closer to dad!"
As of April 1st, reliable sources have confirmed that Linus Torvalds, who earlier worked for a Californian firm Transmeta, is moving to Elbrus International for a position of a department head.
His move to permanent residence in Moscow is thought to have been influenced by several factors, including a more interesting job (he will be porting the Linux kernel to platforms based on the E2k processor, currently being developed by Elbrus International), a location closer to his father, who has been working as a Moscow correspondent for Finnish radio and television, and a climate that is closer to Finland and more familiar.
Linus's future boss, Boris Babayan, said "Torvald's excellent professional qualities will help to develop a reliable 'home OS' for the E2k processor that will be completely compatible with Linux."
Personally, I'm not sure whether to believe it. It's too serious to be an April Fool's joke, especially since it was posted on a seemingly serious news site, something like the Russian equivalent of ZDNet. I guess I'll just have to waite and see.
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"Closer to dad!"
As of April 1st, reliable sources have confirmed that Linus Torvalds, who earlier worked for a Californian firm Transmeta, is moving to Elbrus International for a position of a department head.
His move to permanent residence in Moscow is thought to have been influenced by several factors, including a more interesting job (he will be porting the Linux kernel to platforms based on the E2k processor, currently being developed by Elbrus International), a location closer to his father, who has been working as a Moscow correspondent for Finnish radio and television, and a climate that is closer to Finland and more familiar.
Linus's future boss, Boris Babayan, said "Torvald's excellent professional qualities will help to develop a reliable 'home OS' for the E2k processor that will be completely compatible with Linux."
</translation>
Personally, I'm not sure whether to believe it. It's too serious to be an April Fool's joke, especially since it was posted on a seemingly serious news site, something like the Russian equivalent of ZDNet. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
BTW, that date is April the 1st, which has already arrived in Russia - not January the 4th.
Both Netscape and IE will be shot in the foot after I'm done this post.
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Actually, 77 counties in Indiana do not observe DST, they follow EST year-round. There are 5 by Chicago and 5 by Evansville (both Central, therefore using CST and CDT) and 2 by Cinicinatti and three near Louisville (Eastern, using EST and EDT) that do. See this reference.
Or was your post an april fools too?
*sigh*
marijane
If that's the most original thing they can think of as a joke for April Fools, the ruskies must REALLY be dumb.. You can't make an effective joke about anything THIS serious over the internet.. The headline tipped me off right away.. Linus moving to Russia to make practically no money (given the current value of the ruble; or lack thereof) working on porting linux to a chip that does not even exist? Come on, people.. let's try and be creative once in awhile, ok?
Well, what are all those computers-things then?
I've got this big box here with blinky lights on 'em. What can it do? (another decent question!) And there's this, this thing with Looooots of buttons on it, what's that then? But seriously: I don't care if it's a decent question or not. A lot of flamebait are decent questions too. This moderator should ask himself: "Do I really need to see this post to understand the discussion at hand? Is it on topic?"
No?
Well then why shove it up to the front of the queue? You could have just given the guy a straight answer and get it over with, instead of putting it in the spotlight like this.
This is exactly the problem with a lot of discussion groups online. People who just wander in having not at least a basic grasp of what the group is for, and just firing of a question instead. It's called noise. It disturbs the signal.
Jeeeeez.
I know that, most of the honourable gentlemen and ladies at /. find the idea that Linus leaves highly paid job in the US to the research center in Moscow, where highest salary is probably no more than $500 a month. A month! And they don't get paid for months.
:(
Most importantly, there they've got no money to develop their great ideas. If Linux was to work there, he would find that actually he can't do much, as no money means: no equipment, no newest data, no partners, no shit.
For me, as a Russian, is very sad to see this stupid joke. The people at the Babayan's lab have some of the greatest designs, but they have no chance to implement them, because of lack of funding. As a person who known Russia not from newspaper, I can say they are not going to get anything from Government in nearest 3-5 years. Their only hope is foreign investments, but companies like Intel doesn't really want to develop something superior than their own designs.
Even if they are to buy the company, it will be just to make sure the designs will never leave the door.
The joke originally comes from Russian newspaper, and I tell you, that in Russia fools day (1 April) is generally the day, when most sad and sick jokes are done.
The last guys who will laugh today are the E2K processor team (maybe Linus won't laugh at that too, he is ethical guy enough not to laugh at someone's major problems, at least I hope so and want to believe).
p.s. Article was not translated properly, in particular OS is said to be "native", but not "dependable" as in suggested variant.
p.p.s. Spell and grammar sucks, I know and I am working on it.
AtW,
http://www.investigatio.com
alexc
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Though how I'm gonna compete w/ that joke at work tommorrow is gonna be tough.
~Grell
The true meaning of "Dark Horror" in Call of Cthulu is not appreciated until you face Ewoks riding Giant Space Hamsters.
...when it gets down to fundamentals, do what you have to do and shed no tears. Dr. Matson in Tunnel in the Sky
> The latter two sites are business as usual for the moment.
Not any more. I just checked User Friendly, and it's been closed, too. Damn. My question is, WTF is going on here?!?
Hisssssss....
Windows is the Acme of computing -- in the Wile E. Coyote sense.
They make a point of putting a calander on the bottom of the page that shows it's April 1st, with 1 - 4 - 1999 next to it.
Why those slimy bastards! I was just enjoying
the comics and suddenly 'free speech' has been
revolked. Developing hard....
BooBoo
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
...but the claim isn't outrageous enough. If the claim were that Linus were being hired to port linux to the new Turbotron2000 plasma-based quantum CPU, now that would be a good April Hack's Day joke!
--JT
The big three are all down - userfriendly, bedope, segfault... I sure as hell hope it's an April Fools joke. (No disrespect to Linus, of course - whatever he wants to do is fine. :)
Leilah
~ Leilah
Why is this posting getting moderated down?? This seems to be the most relevant post for this whole article! I understand that it's in as an AC posting, but that shouldn't be any reason to drop its score down - it is on topic, flames no one, etc, etc. What the heck is the deal here?
Leilah
~ Leilah
- I doubt that Linus would move to Moscow with his dad, especially at this time when his dad isn't even in Moscow. He's taking care of his other kids at home in Finland. He'll be back in Moscow soon though.
- The Russian climate is different from the Finnish one. Finland generally has warmer winters, especially in the south where Linus would be.
So, you should've written that Linus has finally given up his golden rule not to participate in politics and has now gone to Russia to study the remnants of the commie Soviet Union. Also, you might've thrown in a note about RMS accompanying him. Keep that in mind for next year...Heh. I heard that this morning as I was in that semi-asleep mode after waking up. They had me confused there for a few minutes until I remembered the date.
:)
Darn you TripleJ
You got me :).
I doubt it. It started too early and has gone on too long.
And we won't be getting more information until next week, according to Daily Static
Can anyone independently confirm this (ideally by talking to Linus)? After the recent hype about the processor, this seems suspiciously like marketing vapour (though I could well be mistaken).
make that 1000 to 1.
It's not so ludicrous that Linus could go to work there, he may just be a raging alcoholic.
Cody -- http://www.howstrange.org
Maybe the International Date Line has already crossed over to April 1!!!
Never attribute to stupidity what can be construed as a monopoly preservation tactic.
No, this was better...if they went for the really outrageous one, you wouldn't have seen as many people falling for it... :)
-- John Truong
Think about it :) No Wintel....what else would you need...
Have you been to whitehouse.com? Why would you want to crack a porn site?
"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
With your majestic, and superior cackling hen,
Your people i do not understand..
And to you i shall put an end.
then you'll...never hear...surf music again.
-Jimi Hendrix, Third Stone from the Sun
"The value of a man resides in what he gives,
and not in what he is capable of receiving."
--Albert Einstein
Damn slackers...
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
What with this and hearing that the IOC had revoked Sydney's right to hold the 2000 olympic games on the radio (Beijing and Manchester being asked to reapply), I think the world is comming to an end :)
Same here ... for a while I couldn't work out why no other stations were carrying news about it, seeing how JJJ is delayed 3 hours over here. It had me going for a while.
..because you are attempting to pick apart little parts of a post that is so obviously BS that you needent have wasted your time. I think anyone that saw it ought to see that.
Vidi, Vici, Veni
Doesn't mean they are not out to get you
-Master Switch, one more element in the machine
You're on the ball aren't you Taco? :P
Yes but it's a very tempting bad idea.... *g*
Boy, you can never trust these internet news sites... =)
Oh come on people! Look at the smegging URL:
http://www.computerra.ru/news/1999/04/01/1.html
-ck
-- This sig is only a test. If this were a real sig it would say something witty. --
Awesome! Just imagine playing Quake on a Beowolf cluster of these things while cracking into whitehouse.com.
I have discovered a truly marvelous sig, unfortunately the sig limit is too small to contain i
Why would you want to crack a porn site?
To protest against American Capitalists who promote euro-centric standards of beauty to the detriment of indiginous women worldwide. Oh, yeah, and to get free p0rn.
I have discovered a truly marvelous sig, unfortunately the sig limit is too small to contain i
I've got Netscape set to ask before setting cookies. I've been seeing some odd ones from /. tonight.
Nice guess at my salary, Rob.
I have discovered a truly marvelous sig, unfortunately the sig limit is too small to contain i
The jokes would have been much more interesting if every idiot who wanted to prove he had at least one brain cell left didn't go crying out "Oh, it's joke!".
Think of how much more enjoyable it would have been if EVERY post treated it as true.
More proof that the intelligence and humor of the internet is dead.
-- Keith Moore
This sig is the express property of someone.
BTW, I've a nasty suspicion that the UF and SegFault things are real - it's been building up to this for a month or so.
Here in Australia, it is already well past
midday. So on this side of the planet, foolsters
loose.
Come one! Get a sense of humour! Bloody americans! :)
Linux uses the term 'interesting' at least once in all the speaches, writings, talks ive ever heard him give.
>
Linus I mean, not Linux
>
Mike
--
Mike
--
"Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?"
I am originally from Evansville, and my mom's from Mt. Vernon; I guess I've been in FL so long that my brain's turned to mush.
Mike
--
Mike
--
"Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?"
make that Bill's money against mine
Is this also an April's fool?
On every slashdot page I visit, I'm asked to accept three cookies.
I hate cookies!
Please Rob, take them out - I'm sure there is no real need for it.
Not only. On my box it set:
- user
- income_bracket
- visa_num
- sexual_orientation
- high_school_gpa
- iq
- religion
- mothers_maiden_name
- soc_sec_num
I wonder, when it will overflow my tiny harddisk..
:-(
ms
Um, Illiad never claimed Microsoft was suing User Friendly. In fact, he explicitly refused to name the party threatening him.
User Friendly, Segfault and BeDope are all closed. All of their front pages say the same thing. It's April 1st. Obvious, now that you think of it...
most of indiana doesn't switch over either.
actually, since i live in nw indiana (lake county, as far north and west as you can get. specifically the "calumet region") i can tell you that we sure do spring forward and fall back.
it's the rest of indiana that's weird.
joe
poland is the country that gave you vodka and don't you forget it!
Nice one, You actually had me worried for a while.
QuMa
I just fell for one in a newsgroup, where someone claimed that BG was going to take the stand in the DOJ suit. Then they quoted a psychologist saying BG would probably admit to wrongdoing, in hopes that the judge would believe the opposite of whatever he said and so dismiss the lawsuit.
Can't wait to see the video.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
It's April 1 *somewhere* in the world when this was posted... :)
Side note: Red Hat is Red Hat because they're headquartered in research triangle, North Carolina.. home of, among many other colleges, North Carolina State University, where no doubt most of the RH founders went. When you come from NC State, *everything* is red.
-Chris
Some poor Russian news server is getting /.'ed for the sake of a nerd april fools joke...
If it crashes, does that mean we're even for what they did to whitehouse.gov?
-Chris
Well, let's get busy then! :)
-Chris
It's gonna be a LONG 28 hours...
Ryan
1. If you forgot your password you could have
:~)
easily requested that it be mailed to you.
2. You probably ***WORK FOR MICROSOFT*** those
lovely people who can't just leave the Linux
community alone. Why can't you just give up
even trying to compete?
3. I don't think that "our great leader" Linus is
planning to give up his position as the great
kernel maintainer of an increadibly popular OS
to go and work in Russia!
4. F**K microsoft!
5. Oh its not late now so I'm not going to bed...
www.uttercrapandnonsense.com
http://www.jonmasters.org/
> On Wed, 01 Apr 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
Ummm... April 1 is a Thursday... It's probably a hoax...
Also Humorix is now ActiveHumorNT...
Or Rah Ted! Linux
I am not a number, I am A FREE MAN ....
I am not a hat, I am a free... not a hat...
The whole "I plugged the new processor into my PII slot, and set my bios to a pentium II at 900,000 mhz" part is the thing that made me say "f#$@"
I was, needless to say, perturbed. What a respectable magazine is doing wasting 5 pages of documentation and $$$ (magazines are not cheap to publisth!) is beyond me.
Lowmag.net
Any longtime reader of Slashdot should know that this is a joke because Sengan could never post a story like that without making some kind of comment.
Nice touch having the story site in russian so the majority of the readers can't read it, though.
We don't switch over until this weekend.
Exactly, after then the time in CA, and AZ will be the same, because AZ has no time difference between summer, and winter, we have the same time all year round, and thanks to that it is actually same as CA in summer, so you could say that AZ keeps alternating between two time zones, because in winter it is in the Mountain Time Zone, and in Summer it is in The Pacific Time Zone.
;o)
Is that so Zonies don't have to change their watches when they come to SoCal to get away from the summer heat?
haha... April .. .. hehehe
Wow. I can understand him being a little home-sick. Leaving a job with Transmeta? He must know what he's doing, I guess. hehe
heh :)
Posted at 10:30, if it was from Alan that means from the UK so 4:30 am.. and he says it's past midnight so he has to go sleep.
Sure.
Um.... if it's april foolery, it's terribly annoying. :P
Like April Fools' Day itself :-)
I've made a point of being extra vigilant ever since my mother fooled me when I was a kid. I ran downstairs in my pyjamas to get a glimpse of the rare furry animal she said was in our back garden, only to be told "April Fool!". No-one's caught me out since.
Ok, I've had it with this first of april-"fun".
They've removed the userfriendly cartoon!
Am I supposed to laugh now?
Dammit!
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Since you're russian; what does the linked russian article say? Could you please translate it and post it on slashdot?
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Mobile: +31-6-22390057
e-mail: fjjvh@wxs.nl
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Is this a joke? Yes, I, of course, admit that our processor (I'm from Moscow) is promising, but... such announce on 1st of April? Bite me, I don't believe it 8-( )
I seem to remember reading in April's "Electronics Now" an article which detailed a brand new analog processor that could run at a whopping 300 GHz...sounded dubious, especially when I saw the name of the company that made it -- ecraf corporation. ;-)
(for those of you who need a bit of help, that's farce backwards)
Do i think linux is really moving? Hell, no!
(I'm still holding out to see what transmeta is REALLY doing
See you, space cowboy...
Honestly..I might have thought this e-mail to be possibly truthful until i read this:
/. account/pass..a whole 2 minutes? Depending on how bogged down the server is. So maybe that point is arguable.
> Please forward this mail to Slashdot.
No offense to Rob or the great people and users at slashdot, but Back in that MSNBC chat thing w/ Linus, he said it himself, he had never even been to Slashdot. So why the interest in informing everyone?
And why the AC post? Perhaps.. Alan forgot his password, but honestly how long does it take to get another
But I really like this one:
> The Russian KG^H^H company has promised me T1 access to the internet.
T1 access to the internet? Is it just me, or do any of the rest of you feel that Linus would never in a million years make a stupid comment like that. That just sounds plain ridiculous. Why would Linus really care (and if he did care, why would he say that to Alan) if he had a T1 or a ds3 or an oc48 or a 56k modem.
This whole E-mail post sounds like a load of crap to me, and I honestly think it's a joke. Moderate that crap to a -10.
~Steve
--
"<r-xr-xr-x> Just try to edit me" -- www.ircnews.com
It probably got a Score: 2 because it was a decent question.
Dont post untill you have some idea what is going on...
The whole idea of posting is to ask questions/answer questions/and discuss stuff.
~Steve
--
"<r-xr-xr-x> Just try to edit me" -- www.ircnews.com
gee thank you. isn't that what i just posted an hour and 10 minutes before you called me "naive"? I could have sworn I just said ...
This whole E-mail post sounds like a load of crap to me, and I honestly think it's a joke. Moderate that crap to a -10.
~Steve
--
"<r-xr-xr-x> Just try to edit me" -- www.ircnews.com
It didn't dawn on me until now it could be an April Fools joke. I sure hope not since I just sent Gates a letter telling him to F*** him**** and publicly proclaimed I will never us a M$ product again (which ain't such a bad idea anyway). If it is a joke it's in bad taste. If it isn't I'm really mad and will do everything I can to convince everyone I can to quit supporting M$ in anyway.
valley always reminds me of la-la...without the women, of course.
-- your knees hurt, don't they?
If I'm wrong, I hope for the best (speedy acquittal) for those in jail. Hopefully the bikers and the NRA will come through with some support.
Assuming this is the delightful hoax I hope it is, my hat (the red one) is off to you.
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
My office has been taken over by iPod people.
The big three are all down - userfriendly, bedope, segfault... I sure as hell hope it's an April Fools joke.
Yes, they all are down. But however, it has not been reported on other community sites, like SlashDot, which would lead us to believe that at least Rob et al. think it is a hoax.
Also, they being all shut down at this particular date would also hint at something of that note.
But if it isn't a hoax, and the sites are really gone... well, simply, someone is going to be very pissed off.
--
Midgard Project - Open Source CMS
With the unexpected Linux move to Russia, most people haven't noticed that Linus has also started the next series of hacker kernels. Detailed information on the usual sites... Can you think of any other news that match this special day? :-)
I just about broke down crying as I was hoping to get a chance to meet Linus in California someday. Glad *somebody* thinks it was funny; I thought it traumatic.
:) /sarcasm >
< sarcasm >
I am now emotionally scarred. Maybe I should sue somebody for it
CmdrTaco, lets talk about a settlement.
<
This is just too funny! Though it would have been better if this job offer came from AMD or Intel.
Happy April fools day,
April fools. If Linus is home sick (which I doubt,
he has mentioned on several occasions, that he likes it living in a warmer place), he'd never go to Russia. The weather might be close to Helsinki's, but all the other conditions... *shiver*..
- drift
I haven't found any confirmation on other news sources (in Russia). On the other hand, hey, it's 1st of April!
God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ --1Thes5:9
Geez, you guys scared the crap outta me.
Now I hafta wash these pants
Calmacil
Calmacil
I can't seem to face up to the facts, I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax... --Talking Heads
Sendan posted almost exact translation of Computerra's article, though article itself was published 04/01 (or 01-04 as somebody mentioned somewhere else :-)
I'm wondering, how many of today's stories should be ranked as "April, 1"?
You've got it all wrong .. he's now working for MICRO$OFT !! ..
hehhe
I hope that this is troll bait, not an honest question. If you are new to the whole Linux/Computer/Internet thing, learn the deffinition of the word lurk. Dont post untill you have some idea what is going on and have some background or history. If your a newbie, do some research, its called the World Wide Web for. Since you didnt do it, I took an entire 30 seconds and found the unofficial Linus FAQ. But for short.
Linus Linus + Unix
He's the father of the kernel to the operations system we all know and love.
possibly because it could be more BS and hoaxy than the origional story?
Elbrus is named after a mountain range that the company is next too. i.e. Sierra Mountains/Games.
Its the SUN/IBM of Russia and has been around for decades.
No, they didn't.
The article is real, although it's probably
a joke.
:-)
These guys are pretty funny!
Here is another one:
Translation:
Hold on to the Brand Name!
The DaimlerChrysler corporation, maker of the Mercedes brand of luxury cars, has filed a lawsuit against Intel for illegal use of a trademark. DaimlerChrysler's lawyers have decided that the name of the Merced processor, developed by Intel, does not simply coincide with the first six letters of the famous brand name, but is an attempt to exploit the positive associations consumers may have developed in regards to the quality, speed, and reliability of the world reknown Mercedes automobiles.
The two companies, however, managed to come to a resolution before the courts would give any ruling. According to the signed agreement, the tri-pronged Mercedes star will be situated on all Merced processors next to the DaimlerChrysler logo, and, next to the Intel Inside sticker, a Mercedes sticker will be required on all CPUs based on the Merced processor.
In turn, the new Mercedes 900 will be built with an on-board computer, based on an Intel processor and running Linux , and a silver ornament Intel Inside will be put on the hood. It was decided to refrain from Microsoft products, as having to add the Designed for Windows 2000 logo on the hood was deemed beneath the creators of Merced and Mercedes.
Haven't crashed yet...
What's the point, you still can read the article :). You will not even see the true Cyrilic letters unless you switch you browser to Cyrilic-KOI8 encoding and have Cyrilic fonts installed. On 95 latest NC comes with Cyrilic fonts. On Linux I didn't find one.
I meant can't ... Sorry
I'll belive this load of B/S when I see it in a newspaper ,NOT on slashdot.BTW 4/1 is lawyers day
Waste a lawyer win a prize!!!!