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Quite honestly, Richard Stallman won't be happy until we're all building our own hardware, up to and including cutting the circuit boards ourself. What's next? "We need a FREE PSU?" Get real, Rich.
Honestly, Richard Stallman hurts the movement. He only contributes to the belief that hackers and open source friendly people are a bunch of shower-avoiding hippies.
We all need to understand that there is a better practice to hold to when we are considering software; choosing good, quality software that works, is relatively devoid of issues, and has a license we can get along with. If this means XP, Mac OS X, Linux, heck, even DOS to you, then more power to you.
Stallman is about as hurtful to this movement as any could possibly be. He gets upset when you call it Linux, because HE thinks you should call it GNU/Linux. My Powerbook has quite a few utilities on it that were developed by the FSF or GNU - should I refer to it as GNU/Mac OS X? My workstation that runs Windows XP has a few utilities on its disk that were developed by GNU (namely Cygwin) - should I call it GNU/Windows? I installed FreeBSD on a system to experiment with it. I'm not a BSD expert, but many of those utilities were written by GNU - should I call it GNU/FreeBSD? My server runs Gentoo - but it only says Gentoo Linux when it boots. Is this bad? Am I being a "bad person" because I don't want to call everything GNU/Linux? No - face it; attitudes like this, his insistance on viral naming conventions, are part of what hurts the free software movement.
Sooner or later, you (and I say "you" referring to those who contribute to the open source/free software zealotry that is so prevalent here) are going to have to realize that "visionaries" like Richard Stallman HURT your movement, while actual sane, intelligent and non-radical minds like Linus help it. We need to realize that the reason we are in software is not because we're free software evangelists - at least, it should not be. We should be in software because we love computing and the work of building software is a labor of love.
I'm grateful to what RMS has given us (although I think Emacs is hideous), but it's time for him to get down from his soapbox, get his ass in front of a terminal with a compiler, and get back to just hacking on code. He was much more productive when he was doing this.
Make sure to install some hacks to that stupid K tea cooker app to remind you to take a shower, since Linux users don't take showers - they're always too busy compiling their kernel to get power supply support to be interested in soap and water.
I read here a while back that Wal Mart is selling PCs with Linux preloaded on them.
Now, think about your local Wal Mart. Everyone's there buying stuff at dirt cheap prices because they can't afford to do so anywhere else. What is one of the things that they doubtlessly buy? Soap, of course. What do you use soap in? Taking showers.
Does this make sense to you? Of course it does - because people who go to Wal Mart don't take showers, they're perfect candidates for using Linux - since it's an operating system made by people who don't take showers for people who don't take showers.
It started about a week ago. I'm a computer science major at a local university so I decided to give Linux a try. Up until now, I had been happy running Microsoft Windows XP Professional on my desktop, an x86 machine. I proceeded to gentoo.org and downloaded the newest release, burned it (a live CD), popped it in and rebooted my computer.
After a short boot, the system came up to a bash prompt. I started following the directions on the Gentoo site to compile the operating system from scratch. Hours passed; days, even. I ate, breathed and slept Linux these days. My system was finally back up and running, with the newest kernel and all the trimmings.
As time went by, I began to like Linux much more. However, I did begin to notice a disturbing trend; I began to skip showers. It wasn't that I didn't want to retain my hygiene; I just didn't have the time. Between recompiling my kernel to support keyboard input and recompiling X to display video output on two screens at once, I did not have time to take a shower. Not only that, but I didn't want to take showers.
After a month lacking a shower, I started to wonder, are there other Linux "enthusiasts" who have forsaken hygiene for their operating system? I found a local LUG to find out. Coincidentally, that night I stepped into a talk being given by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jon "CowboyNeal" Pater, with a special guest being Linus Torvaulds, the author of Linux.
I asked them, when you began to run Linux full-time, what happened to your showering habits? They all responded to me in turn. Rob said that, being an ugly, zit-faced nerd all of his life, he never saw much of a point to taking showers. He said that they were "usless" and that "people in Europe didn't take them anyway, which is where Linus is from so it's all good."
Pater just stared at me blankly; apparently he did not understand the question. I began to think he might be having a medical problem of some sort when he quickly flipped out a hamburger from between his stomach rolls and chomped down on it, complaining about how difficult it was to fit his obese body in a shower stall.
Linus, however, had the most interesting answer. He told me about his childhood in Switzerland, the country of his origin. He said how it was a custom in Switzerland to not take showers; everyone was filthy in his home country. He watched people on television taking showers and wondered what it was all about, so he took one once on a weekend trip to Spain with his boyfriend at the time. He found it revolting; without the fumes caused by body odor, he could think clearly and not in his Swiss cheese induced haze. He began to hate those with proper hygiene and wondered, how could he stop it? How could he prevent the automaton of cleanliness from dominating the country?
His solution was simple. He was somewhat gifted on his feet and had a quick mind, and he had somewhat of an ability with programming and computers. He bought a plane ticket bound for Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. There, he infiltrated SCO's world headquarters and stole the source code to UNIX, SCO's operating system crown jewel. Back in Switzerland on holiday with his boyfriend, he changed a few variable names and repackaged it as Linux. But, in an effort to further his means, he took the features out of the operating system that were useful and replaced them with convoluted Makefiles and ncurses-based interfaces. These diversions were put in for one reason alone; to take up so much time that no one could run Linux and maintain the proper hygiene from showers.
Through an amazing amount of luck, Linux has permeated the Internet; but, its use does not come without a cost. Specifically, when we run Linux, we can't take showers. We can't brush our teeth. We can't comb our hair.
Why, you ask? Simple - because Linux is an operating system for people who don't take showers by people who don't take showers.
It started about a week ago. I'm a computer science major at a local university so I decided to give Linux a try. Up until now, I had been happy running Microsoft Windows XP Professional on my desktop, an x86 machine. I proceeded to gentoo.org and downloaded the newest release, burned it (a live CD), popped it in and rebooted my computer.
After a short boot, the system came up to a bash prompt. I started following the directions on the Gentoo site to compile the operating system from scratch. Hours passed; days, even. I ate, breathed and slept Linux these days. My system was finally back up and running, with the newest kernel and all the trimmings.
As time went by, I began to like Linux much more. However, I did begin to notice a disturbing trend; I began to skip showers. It wasn't that I didn't want to retain my hygiene; I just didn't have the time. Between recompiling my kernel to support keyboard input and recompiling X to display video output on two screens at once, I did not have time to take a shower. Not only that, but I didn't want to take showers.
After a month lacking a shower, I started to wonder, are there other Linux "enthusiasts" who have forsaken hygiene for their operating system? I found a local LUG to find out. Coincidentally, that night I stepped into a talk being given by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jon "CowboyNeal" Pater, with a special guest being Linus Torvaulds, the author of Linux.
I asked them, when you began to run Linux full-time, what happened to your showering habits? They all responded to me in turn. Rob said that, being an ugly, zit-faced nerd all of his life, he never saw much of a point to taking showers. He said that they were "usless" and that "people in Europe didn't take them anyway, which is where Linus is from so it's all good."
Pater just stared at me blankly; apparently he did not understand the question. I began to think he might be having a medical problem of some sort when he quickly flipped out a hamburger from between his stomach rolls and chomped down on it, complaining about how difficult it was to fit his obese body in a shower stall.
Linus, however, had the most interesting answer. He told me about his childhood in Switzerland, the country of his origin. He said how it was a custom in Switzerland to not take showers; everyone was filthy in his home country. He watched people on television taking showers and wondered what it was all about, so he took one once on a weekend trip to Spain with his boyfriend at the time. He found it revolting; without the fumes caused by body odor, he could think clearly and not in his Swiss cheese induced haze. He began to hate those with proper hygiene and wondered, how could he stop it? How could he prevent the automaton of cleanliness from dominating the country?
His solution was simple. He was somewhat gifted on his feet and had a quick mind, and he had somewhat of an ability with programming and computers. He bought a plane ticket bound for Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. There, he infiltrated SCO's world headquarters and stole the source code to UNIX, SCO's operating system crown jewel. Back in Switzerland on holiday with his boyfriend, he changed a few variable names and repackaged it as Linux. But, in an effort to further his means, he took the features out of the operating system that were useful and replaced them with convoluted Makefiles and ncurses-based interfaces. These diversions were put in for one reason alone; to take up so much time that no one could run Linux and maintain the proper hygiene from showers.
Through an amazing amount of luck, Linux has permeated the Internet; but, its use does not come without a cost. Specifically, when we run Linux, we can't take showers. We can't brush our teeth. We can't comb our hair.
Why, you ask? Simple - because Linux is an operating system for people who don't take showers by people who don't take showers.
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IAWTP. It's time for these slushgut hippies to go outside a little and enjoy the fresh air when they're not inside recompiling for keyboard support.
CmdrTaco is a FAG
http://slashdot.org/~repruhsent/journal/102989
Fuck you Taco.
IAWTP. No, seriously, Taco needs to shut the fuck up. NO ONE thinks any of these are funny.
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...should have won for game most often played by Linux faygots while not taking a shower.
LUNIX SUCKS
...together in one place would have to smell like shit, what with the average Linux user's lack of showering.
Quite honestly, Richard Stallman won't be happy until we're all building our own hardware, up to and including cutting the circuit boards ourself. What's next? "We need a FREE PSU?" Get real, Rich.
Honestly, Richard Stallman hurts the movement. He only contributes to the belief that hackers and open source friendly people are a bunch of shower-avoiding hippies.
We all need to understand that there is a better practice to hold to when we are considering software; choosing good, quality software that works, is relatively devoid of issues, and has a license we can get along with. If this means XP, Mac OS X, Linux, heck, even DOS to you, then more power to you.
Stallman is about as hurtful to this movement as any could possibly be. He gets upset when you call it Linux, because HE thinks you should call it GNU/Linux. My Powerbook has quite a few utilities on it that were developed by the FSF or GNU - should I refer to it as GNU/Mac OS X? My workstation that runs Windows XP has a few utilities on its disk that were developed by GNU (namely Cygwin) - should I call it GNU/Windows? I installed FreeBSD on a system to experiment with it. I'm not a BSD expert, but many of those utilities were written by GNU - should I call it GNU/FreeBSD? My server runs Gentoo - but it only says Gentoo Linux when it boots. Is this bad? Am I being a "bad person" because I don't want to call everything GNU/Linux? No - face it; attitudes like this, his insistance on viral naming conventions, are part of what hurts the free software movement.
Sooner or later, you (and I say "you" referring to those who contribute to the open source/free software zealotry that is so prevalent here) are going to have to realize that "visionaries" like Richard Stallman HURT your movement, while actual sane, intelligent and non-radical minds like Linus help it. We need to realize that the reason we are in software is not because we're free software evangelists - at least, it should not be. We should be in software because we love computing and the work of building software is a labor of love.
I'm grateful to what RMS has given us (although I think Emacs is hideous), but it's time for him to get down from his soapbox, get his ass in front of a terminal with a compiler, and get back to just hacking on code. He was much more productive when he was doing this.
MEOW MEOW DANIEL TIGER
Make sure to install some hacks to that stupid K tea cooker app to remind you to take a shower, since Linux users don't take showers - they're always too busy compiling their kernel to get power supply support to be interested in soap and water.
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/ kidtalk.mspx
Revel in the zen that is my Fristage Postage! SUCK IT HOES
MEOW MEOW DANIEL TIGER
MEOW MEOW DANIEL TIGER
Richard Stallman Touched my Junk
I read here a while back that Wal Mart is selling PCs with Linux preloaded on them.
Now, think about your local Wal Mart. Everyone's there buying stuff at dirt cheap prices because they can't afford to do so anywhere else. What is one of the things that they doubtlessly buy? Soap, of course. What do you use soap in? Taking showers.
Does this make sense to you? Of course it does - because people who go to Wal Mart don't take showers, they're perfect candidates for using Linux - since it's an operating system made by people who don't take showers for people who don't take showers.
OMG big cock
It started about a week ago. I'm a computer science major at a local university so I decided to give Linux a try. Up until now, I had been happy running Microsoft Windows XP Professional on my desktop, an x86 machine. I proceeded to gentoo.org and downloaded the newest release, burned it (a live CD), popped it in and rebooted my computer.
After a short boot, the system came up to a bash prompt. I started following the directions on the Gentoo site to compile the operating system from scratch. Hours passed; days, even. I ate, breathed and slept Linux these days. My system was finally back up and running, with the newest kernel and all the trimmings.
As time went by, I began to like Linux much more. However, I did begin to notice a disturbing trend; I began to skip showers. It wasn't that I didn't want to retain my hygiene; I just didn't have the time. Between recompiling my kernel to support keyboard input and recompiling X to display video output on two screens at once, I did not have time to take a shower. Not only that, but I didn't want to take showers.
After a month lacking a shower, I started to wonder, are there other Linux "enthusiasts" who have forsaken hygiene for their operating system? I found a local LUG to find out. Coincidentally, that night I stepped into a talk being given by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jon "CowboyNeal" Pater, with a special guest being Linus Torvaulds, the author of Linux.
I asked them, when you began to run Linux full-time, what happened to your showering habits? They all responded to me in turn. Rob said that, being an ugly, zit-faced nerd all of his life, he never saw much of a point to taking showers. He said that they were "usless" and that "people in Europe didn't take them anyway, which is where Linus is from so it's all good."
Pater just stared at me blankly; apparently he did not understand the question. I began to think he might be having a medical problem of some sort when he quickly flipped out a hamburger from between his stomach rolls and chomped down on it, complaining about how difficult it was to fit his obese body in a shower stall.
Linus, however, had the most interesting answer. He told me about his childhood in Switzerland, the country of his origin. He said how it was a custom in Switzerland to not take showers; everyone was filthy in his home country. He watched people on television taking showers and wondered what it was all about, so he took one once on a weekend trip to Spain with his boyfriend at the time. He found it revolting; without the fumes caused by body odor, he could think clearly and not in his Swiss cheese induced haze. He began to hate those with proper hygiene and wondered, how could he stop it? How could he prevent the automaton of cleanliness from dominating the country?
His solution was simple. He was somewhat gifted on his feet and had a quick mind, and he had somewhat of an ability with programming and computers. He bought a plane ticket bound for Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. There, he infiltrated SCO's world headquarters and stole the source code to UNIX, SCO's operating system crown jewel. Back in Switzerland on holiday with his boyfriend, he changed a few variable names and repackaged it as Linux. But, in an effort to further his means, he took the features out of the operating system that were useful and replaced them with convoluted Makefiles and ncurses-based interfaces. These diversions were put in for one reason alone; to take up so much time that no one could run Linux and maintain the proper hygiene from showers.
Through an amazing amount of luck, Linux has permeated the Internet; but, its use does not come without a cost. Specifically, when we run Linux, we can't take showers. We can't brush our teeth. We can't comb our hair.
Why, you ask? Simple - because Linux is an operating system for people who don't take showers by people who don't take showers.
It started about a week ago. I'm a computer science major at a local university so I decided to give Linux a try. Up until now, I had been happy running Microsoft Windows XP Professional on my desktop, an x86 machine. I proceeded to gentoo.org and downloaded the newest release, burned it (a live CD), popped it in and rebooted my computer.
After a short boot, the system came up to a bash prompt. I started following the directions on the Gentoo site to compile the operating system from scratch. Hours passed; days, even. I ate, breathed and slept Linux these days. My system was finally back up and running, with the newest kernel and all the trimmings.
As time went by, I began to like Linux much more. However, I did begin to notice a disturbing trend; I began to skip showers. It wasn't that I didn't want to retain my hygiene; I just didn't have the time. Between recompiling my kernel to support keyboard input and recompiling X to display video output on two screens at once, I did not have time to take a shower. Not only that, but I didn't want to take showers.
After a month lacking a shower, I started to wonder, are there other Linux "enthusiasts" who have forsaken hygiene for their operating system? I found a local LUG to find out. Coincidentally, that night I stepped into a talk being given by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jon "CowboyNeal" Pater, with a special guest being Linus Torvaulds, the author of Linux.
I asked them, when you began to run Linux full-time, what happened to your showering habits? They all responded to me in turn. Rob said that, being an ugly, zit-faced nerd all of his life, he never saw much of a point to taking showers. He said that they were "usless" and that "people in Europe didn't take them anyway, which is where Linus is from so it's all good."
Pater just stared at me blankly; apparently he did not understand the question. I began to think he might be having a medical problem of some sort when he quickly flipped out a hamburger from between his stomach rolls and chomped down on it, complaining about how difficult it was to fit his obese body in a shower stall.
Linus, however, had the most interesting answer. He told me about his childhood in Switzerland, the country of his origin. He said how it was a custom in Switzerland to not take showers; everyone was filthy in his home country. He watched people on television taking showers and wondered what it was all about, so he took one once on a weekend trip to Spain with his boyfriend at the time. He found it revolting; without the fumes caused by body odor, he could think clearly and not in his Swiss cheese induced haze. He began to hate those with proper hygiene and wondered, how could he stop it? How could he prevent the automaton of cleanliness from dominating the country?
His solution was simple. He was somewhat gifted on his feet and had a quick mind, and he had somewhat of an ability with programming and computers. He bought a plane ticket bound for Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. There, he infiltrated SCO's world headquarters and stole the source code to UNIX, SCO's operating system crown jewel. Back in Switzerland on holiday with his boyfriend, he changed a few variable names and repackaged it as Linux. But, in an effort to further his means, he took the features out of the operating system that were useful and replaced them with convoluted Makefiles and ncurses-based interfaces. These diversions were put in for one reason alone; to take up so much time that no one could run Linux and maintain the proper hygiene from showers.
Through an amazing amount of luck, Linux has permeated the Internet; but, its use does not come without a cost. Specifically, when we run Linux, we can't take showers. We can't brush our teeth. We can't comb our hair.
Why, you ask? Simple - because Linux is an operating system for people who don't take showers by people who don't take showers.