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Installing Linux on a Dead Badger
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on Wed Apr 07, 2004 12:03 AM
from the slightly-ahead-of-its-time dept.
from the slightly-ahead-of-its-time dept.
Elysdir writes "An article by Lucy A. Snyder at the online speculative-fiction magazine Strange Horizons provides information on the next frontier in Linux installations. 'Let's face it: any script kiddie with a pair of pliers can put Red Hat on a Compaq, his mom's toaster, or even the family dog. But nothing earns you geek points like installing Linux on a dead badger.' (Disclosure, in case it matters: I'm an editor for the magazine.)"
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Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://spamvortex.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday November 19 2003, @12:20AM)
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.teaparty07.com/)
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.ferion.net/ | Last Journal: Monday May 06 2002, @02:16AM)
I just hope nobody makes any root jokes about the dead badger. Ick.
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
New idea (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:4, Funny)
(http://babelfish.alt...%2F%2Fslashdot.jp%2F)
Don't blame Tux- he was sacrificed by Linus in a bizarre pagan^h^h^h^h^hpenguin ritual in the mid-1990s. Nowadays, Linus and senior figures in the Linux community use Tux's corpse in photographs, as a front for their sick activities.
Ever wondered why all pictures of Tux are the same pose? Simple. It's a stuffed penguin corpse. For the variants where (eg) Tux is holding a mobile phone and a briefcase, they place the phone in the corpse's hand and the briefcase in front of him.
As I understand it, a Hollywood dramatisation of these events is in the final stages of production;
Christopher Lee is Linus Torvalds in "Weekend at Tux's" [imdb.com].
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.zareste.com/?l=level3)
Sorry
Will the nonsense ever end? (Score:5, Informative)
April Fools Day was last Thursday, you insenstive clod!
Re:Will the nonsense ever end? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.ferion.net/ | Last Journal: Monday May 06 2002, @02:16AM)
Everybody bookmark this comment. It's the first time Slashdot's ever modded somebody as +5 Informative for stating what day it is!
Re:Will the nonsense ever end? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.wickidpisa.com/)
the correct URL (Score:5, Funny)
(http://tumbleweed.smugmug.com/)
Now, I gotta say that installing Linux on badgers has some interesting Beowulf cluster potential (according to the above site), I think the related mushrooms may cause hallucinations (making you think this is a good idea), and the snake is _definitely_ cause for concern.
YMMV.
Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.patik.com/ | Last Journal: Monday December 27 2004, @10:46AM)
I'm sorry for those who've already seen it, and even more sorry for those partaking for the first time.
busted! (Score:5, Informative)
Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.ferion.net/ | Last Journal: Monday May 06 2002, @02:16AM)
I betcha none of those guys ever hear the phrase "Daddy? What's with the badger video?"
Flash and the downfall of art (Score:4, Informative)
(Last Journal: Sunday October 03 2004, @04:03AM)
Badger, Badger, Mushroom. [badgerbadgerbadger.com]
All Your Base [planettribes.com].
Hamster Dance. [hampsterdance.com]
Singing Rats [rathergood.com]
Strong Bad [homestarrunner.com] is marginally better quality, but it's still hardly on par with a lot of good animation out there.
What the *hell* is wrong with the human psyche?
Maybe it's just an exhaustion with polished, glitzy, perfect, tweaked-by-marketroids stuff. Adult Swim has to do so well for *some* reason...
Next PETA demonstration (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday October 23 2006, @12:44PM)
Naked supermodels with Windows boxes protesting this.
What's an RPG? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.tonysutton.com/)
It's a Role Playing Game.
"Let's see, the deer is in the glade, about forty feet in front of you with an armor class of 2..."
"I'm attacking with my +5 damage Rocket Propelled Grenade."
Damn Santa Claus DMs.
Re:Next PETA demonstration (Score:5, Funny)
(http://gsivek.mit.edu/)
Hell, as a member of PETA myself, I am outraged at this cruelty to animals. How would you like it if you died and a badger installed linux in you?!
Oh wait, this is Slashdot. You guys would love that. Carry on.
/not really a member of PETA, in case you couldn't tell
Re:Next PETA demonstration (Score:5, Funny)
Let me tell you about Soviet Russia...
what the...? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://elliotinlondon.blogspot.com/)
Re:what the...? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:what the...? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://warez.texas.net/)
Re:what the...? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.ferion.net/ | Last Journal: Monday May 06 2002, @02:16AM)
Well actually it is mildly funny to those of us who are sick of seeing Linux installed on everything under the sun but not being used particularly well on it. "We put Linux on a watch! That means there's great potential!! Slashdot us!!!"
Wow.... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.pacificnet.net/~joelinux)
Though I wonder if you could put linux on an Aibo, then use the badger skin...
Start of Obligatory Meme's. (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. (Score:5, Funny)
(http://tumbleweed.smugmug.com/)
Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. (Score:5, Funny)
2. Removing its intestines and replacing
them with a linux-running computer. $300
3. Watching your co-workers flee in panic
as your telnet-operated zombie badger
bores through their windows boxen.
Priceless.
what the... (Score:4, Funny)
(http://imathis.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday February 12 2005, @05:44AM)
why is this on slashdot?
Re:what the... (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.petesmith.co.nz/)
I liked the dead badger picture.
Re:what the... (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.davefancella.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday December 31 2003, @02:21AM)
Why did they change the way 'make xconfig' worked with the 2.4 and earlier kernels? Why is the kernel config now bound up into a proprietary X Toolkit?
Have you been living in a cave for the last fucking five years? Qt on Linux is GPL.
Now, can we have a new mod? -1, Dead Badger
Re:what the... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars)
You subscribed [slashdot.org] to Slashdot, you picked a nick like AssProphet [slashdot.org], , you haven't been here that long [slashdot.org] and you expect me to share your moral outrage at the lameness of michael's story selections.
Wow. Seeing that means my day wasn't that bad after all. Thanks!
Soko
Re:what the... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://tumbleweed.smugmug.com/)
I live...*RAAWWWRRRR!*
Re:what the... (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.coastwalker.com/)
This is high culture and should be recorded for posterity!
Ok so its humor and humor isnt serious enough to count as news that matters, except that if you dont "get" humor then you are probably not functioning very well.
A little self mockery never did any harm to people with compulsive behaviour and I'm more than happy to remind myself that cool gadgets are only tools to do something else..
Having said that can I tell you about my new minidisk portable recorder, its just like brilliant! Its got 4x extended recording and a mic input so I can record live stuff and its half the size of the tape recorder it replaces. The only thing is that I dont have an optical input on my sound card so all transfers are going to have to be analog to start with, still its going to be far better quality than the cassette tapes I usualy use. It also has this realy neat remote so you can walk around with it in your pocket. Sorry am I boring you?
The story is well written. The voodo linux and magic are all authentic enough to read true. I get cartoons and satire in my newspaper so why not here?? Ok April 1st was a bit mad, but that was generally a bit too contrived to be funny; this article made me laugh.
hm. (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.gnuhorizons.net/)
*sits in his grave*
Notice who posted the story... (Score:5, Funny)
This makes sense (Score:5, Funny)
everything2! (Score:5, Interesting)
The writeup has 10 C!s. Very nice.
Badgers? (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday September 23 2003, @01:46PM)
(obvious)
Appendix II (Score:3, Funny)
Badgers got two appendixes????
Anyone know... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.evilcon.net/)
If this works, fun can be only a Perl script away...
up tille now I accepted when one of my stories (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.xutopia.com/)
So what happened? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.livejournal.com/users/cmdrproteus | Last Journal: Monday February 13 2006, @10:23PM)
E2, Jan 25 2004 (Score:4, Informative)
(http://example.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday January 30 2005, @05:19PM)
i kind of freaked when i saw that because... (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://asecular.com/)
Imagine (Score:5, Funny)
(http://blog.paulmcgarry.com/ | Last Journal: Friday July 25 2003, @12:57AM)
Installing Linux on a tree - security problems (Score:5, Funny)
Google's pigeon cluster (Score:3, Funny)
-Deep
Linux more widely ported than NetBSD (Score:3, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Sunday October 03 2004, @04:03AM)
Note that NetBSD *maintains* more ports in their distro than any single Linux distro maintainer (a lot of Linux ports are maintained just for a particular platform), so if you want a single distro that will build and run on the most CPUs, NetBSD is still ahead, but if you count specialized ports like ucLinux (for embedded systems) and all the crazy Linux ports out there, Linux has been ported to an absolutely insane number of devices.
If you can buy it or build it and it uses electrons, you can probably run Linux on it.
What's the world coming to!!! (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday September 07 2004, @08:25PM)
Genda
After posting this idiotic story... (Score:3, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Sunday January 11 2004, @03:55AM)
Flea shampoo not needed. (Score:3, Informative)
(http://www.dixie-chicks.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday July 24, @05:17PM)
How the flea is likely to behave when its original host is re-animated, however, might be up for debate.