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Merry Christmas Everyone
So I'm wandering off to my rapid-fire trio of family festivities today, but I figured before I hit the road I'd wish my slightly more extended family a Merry Christmas (or kurt@thepope.org or Annual Gift Giving Day or whatever the hell else you choose to celebrate or not celebrate around this time of year). Hope you get a day (or at least a few hours) off, and that you don't get snowed in (especially if you live in California). Hope Santa leaves you a wearable PC that is capable of running Linux, or an Aibo, or maybe a shiny new DIMM under your tree... or for the more paranoid, 600 gallons of pure drinking water and lots of ammo!
Best wishes to all of you (except the flamers: may you get a lump of coal).
Best wishes to all of you.
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Merry Christmas to all. =)
Best wishes to all in coding, and life in general.
=)
Be kind. There are too many mean people out there already.
HO HO HO! Hope you got lots of toys under your tree, a bunch of kids ripping paper everywhere, and the kitty cats having a ball with the torn up paper, or dogs, or whatever you have around the house! Thanks for the cookies and milk! Yum, yum!
Santa was here! hehehe...
(don't forget to log out!)
Merry christmas to everyone that makes this page the best!
The readers, the writers, the posters, the people who supplied the servers, and andover.net.
I wish all of you good luck in the new year, and i hope you have a great time today!
Tyler
Yay!!! It's Xmas day! Happy whatever you celebrate. Happy severely belated Chanukkah to all. And on and on and on. If anyone has a new board or processor they'd like to put in my stocking, feel free. :)
"The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is allev
Just kidding... Merry Christmas, Best Wishes, and happiest of holidays to all of you and yours (well, most of you)... May your segfaults be quick and painless, and your core dumps be merry.
To those of you running Win**, may your BSODs be just a shade brighter, and your security holes be just a little smaller.
Once again, happy holidays (applicable to whatever you celebrate).
May your holiday season be filled with happiness, family and love. May your socks never develop holes in the back part commonly known as the heel, and may your computer chair never become as uncomfortable as mine has. (Ow, ow, ow... SANTA, HELP!!!)
Seriously, besides the copyright infringement that I hope Hallmark doesn't notice (or I'm in a world of hurtin), I want to wish all of you slashdotters a very Merry Christmas... don't forget your Y2K vows (never underestimate stupid people) and remain calm and happy.
doc
This is a sig. It is like every other sig in the world, except that it is mine, and it is different.
Among the many things I'm thankful for this holiday season is.
1) A warm, caring loving family ;)
2) Faith
3) Open source hitting major media.
4) Open source hitting wall street.
5) micros~1 finaly recognized as a monopoly
6) Linus
7) The thousands of programers world wide that make this comunity grow and thrive.
8) A computer that just works (thanks to numbers 6 and 7)
9) Triple digit Karma
How about you ?
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This week I was faced with the death of my grandmother and the death of a couple of friends. I guess I am starting to learn the value of friends and family. At the risk of sounding cliche...sometimes you really don't appreciate what you have until it's gone.
r s tell your family and friends that you love them. Tell them how much they mean to you. Don't waste a second you have with them. Don't panic for Y2K...Don't stock pile guns and ammo...Don't contribute to the hysteria. Don't take life for granted. Have a wonderful day today...and a wonderful week before the new millenium. See you all in postings.
I don't have a devote faith to any religion. I was raised Jewish by my step father. But by choice I am more a Humanist. I try to behave decent and morally without any expectation of reward or punishment in the after life. I have been doing a great deal of reflecting this week and next year I am going to start living more for the moment. I will try to appreciate what I have more, and never hold back the truth.
This Christams/Hannukah/Festivus/WinterSolstice/NewYea
Peace,
Jaxn
"Being alive is a crock of shit." --Kilgore Trout
My virtual gift to all of you is a lump of coal...
And a box of matches, a coin and a handful of grain... And this little bit of doggerel.
Here's tinder and flint - so you'll not want for light
Here's coal for your hearth for warmth in the night
Here's grain for your larder and coin for your purse
May the things that you want for be not of this earth.
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
Top 10 things I wanted for Christmas ... but didn't get :(
;)
/dev/null that gives - and not takes
1. triple caffeinated penguin mints
2. semis@slashdot.org
3. A Hemos action figurine
4. "Fear the Penguin" T-Shirt signed by bill.
5. one of them things from fufme.com
6. a new hotmail exploit on Bugtraq
7. my shell to say "Merry Christmas - jackass" when I logged in
8. "slashdot me, baby" boxers.
9. a
10. A Picachu voodoo doll
That's what happened LAST year at my brother's house when his wife's sisters and families showed up, not to mentioned my parents and me. That was quite a morning of opening Christmas presents, dogs running around and eating a bit too much for breakfast and dinner (burp).
Hope your holiday season is happy.
Raymond in Mountain View, CA
I hope Santa was as good to all you slashdotters as he was to me.
Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est
PS. Tried to post this using the Opera beta, but it crashed. It's probably a bit too early to be releasing it as a beta, but it's definitely a step in the right direction. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out when finished. Mozilla M11 was pretty good too, but it's becoming a bit of a bloated mess :-( It does at least render HTML 4.0 correctly, though, unlike most other browsers.
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
Never hurts to mention that today is, most importantly, Sir Isaac Newton's 357th birthday. "Eating apples (and dropping them) is popular." So merry Newtonmas to you all!
To the editors: your English is as bad as your Perl. Please go back to grade school.
will be out soon - with fully articulating arms! And if you pull the string I'll say: "Nanotechnology - to infinity and beyond!"
Yeah, I'm that guy.
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Its so nice *not* to be told "Happy Holidays" (how boring). Merry Christmas to all.
I'm still working on a clever footer.
On that note, I'm off to pick up a carless stepdaughter and her small children. Our living room will soon be a storm of small bodies, discarded wrapping paper, and food, food, food.
(My wife is a chronic holiday cook who always makes 10 times as much as we can actually eat...)
So Merry (your holiday here). Hope yours is as warm and joyful as ours.
- Robin
And Happy Holidays to all you intelligent posters out there.
(Hey Sony! I'd like an AIBO for Christmas!!!)
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon? :P)
(If you can't figure out how to E-Mail me, Don't.
I thought I would share some cheer, or at least laughter with all of you. I know many Slashdot readers have already found Strenua Inertia, but if you haven't, I suggest reading the current story arc.
The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.
Isaac Newton!!
To celebrate, I'm going up to the tallest tower I can find and drop large and small bowling balls off of it to reconfirm that all objects fall at the same rate!!!
P.S. Who is this Jesus shmoe that everyone is talking about? Never did anything for me.
P.P.S. Shabbat Shalom (Good Sabbath) and have a nice loooong Shabbos nap (the best type of nap there is) :-)
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
The best thing about this holiday is that it can trancend all faiths and walks of life.
It's really about the best human virtues:
Charity
Giving of oneself
Sacrifice for the sake of others
Loving you fellow human, no matter thier situation or short comings
All the Season's Best to all. Life is the best gift all of us are given. Go in Peace. God bless us all.
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
Did anyone else notice, or did Rob just refer to us as family. *sniff*
I love you guys.....
-Andy Martin
-Andy Martin
If y'all don't like me, blow me.
But I'm just 17 so I am still on the receiving end. I have another year of being a bum so I'm making the best of it.
Right now I am feeling awfully proud of this free software revolution... of what it has accomplished since 1986 (or whenever the exact year is). If there is anything like Christmas it would be the Free Software Movement. Sharing and caring for geek toys: software.
Santa has been good to me this year. With gnu/linux systems going mainstream and all... Hey, I used some of my Christmas money and bought a gnu/linux distribution... at Wal-Mart of all places. Especially in my town out in the middle of no where. A linux distribution in Wal-Mart... there may be hope of World Domination yet.
Well, these are my Christmas wishes for next season:
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope all of your Christmas wishes come true. I certainly hope so for mine.
Can this 'Christmas' thing be Beowulfed? What would the performance benefits be. Has anyone patented it yet (they could be on to a gold mine!). Finally, is there an open source version of 'Christmas', I hear the Microsoft version has some odd bugs in it.
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Best ASCII art lighter I can do, looked OK in preview... Just to prove I have no life at all, as if there was ever any doubt...
Hmmm... Flamebait?
Merry Christmas to Rob, Jeff, the crews at Slashdot, BSI, and Andover.net (obviously they got something nice in their stocking!), and everyone that contributes to making Slashdot great. And, for those that don't celebrate Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Ramadan, Happy Midwinter's Day, or whatever you choose to celebrate at this time of year.
And let's all do what we can to ensure that 2000 will be The Year of The Penguin!
Eric (and Pamela)
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"Free your code...and the rest will follow."
Be who you are...and be it in style!