Re: Linux/OSS: doomed to a lifetime under Windows' thumb
Re: Linux/OSS: doomed to a lifetime under Windows' thumb
* JEDIDIAH peremptorily fired off this memo:
> On 2008-07-22, relic <relic2@cjb.net> wrote:
>> Linonut wrote:
>>> * chrisv peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>
>>>> Linonut wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the anecote, relic. It makes me appreciate what you say
>>>>> more, and I no longer think you're simply a troll.
>>>>
>>>> Which is why he's one of the "Linux makes you you stupid" nitwits,
>>>> right?
>>>
>>> Yeah, but at least I can understand his background now.
>>
>> I've never said Linux makes you stupid, I don't capitalize linux.
>>
>> I guess it would be more truthful as, "linux tends to make you rabid" for an
>> awful lot of c.o.l.a. The saying "linux makes you stupid" starts the
>> frothing.
You may remember the old-generation Star Trek episode where the Chief
Engineer, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott is in a pub, and impassively takes
all sorts of abuse about his Captain.
But the insults start being aimed at his /ship/, kapow.
> ...yes because nothing in life should be good enough to get you excited...
>
> </sarcasm>
I (and a couple other Linux dudes) have to take a lot of good-natured
ribbing at work about Linux.
Our 2 most common curses:
"Monopoly crapware!"
"Linux crapware!"
I have to admit I was cursing VMWare yesterday and today. Yesterday, it
stopped running (due to being "not configured"), and I monkeyed around
and got it working. First thing today, it's not working again, and I
can't get it to work. I finally run it as root, and it started. Oh. I
check the config file under my $HOME, and it had the wrong license key.
--
IT MAKES ME MAD when I go to all the trouble of having Marta cook up about
a hundred drumsticks, then the guy at Marineland says, "You can't throw
that chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish."
Sure they eat fish if that's all you give them! Man, wise up.
-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.