Installing Linux on a Dead Badger 511
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michael
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.)"
Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:5, Insightful)
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:3, Funny)
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:2, Funny)
That would be really bad.
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:2, Insightful)
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:3, Funny)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Sorry
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't mind the "installing Linux on something unusual" bit, it's the lack of anything like "... then we wrote this app that takes special advantage of this hardware." Installing Linux on a dead badger is lame, installing Linux on a dead badger and programming it to chase my sister would be cool, though.
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)
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:3, Insightful)
Re:Will the nonsense ever end? (Score:5, Funny)
the correct URL (Score:5, Funny)
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.
important note (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
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)
Re:busted! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:busted! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:busted! (Score:3, Funny)
After 6-7 hours, they get back in sync though.
No, I'm not kidding. I wish I was.
Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks (Score:4, Funny)
I betcha none of those guys ever hear the phrase "Daddy? What's with the badger video?"
Re:Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Words fail me (Score:3, Funny)
You give them too much credit. But yeah, funny as hell
Re:Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
Robot Robot Robot [pipex.com]
Flash and the downfall of art (Score:4, Informative)
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)
Naked supermodels with Windows boxes protesting this.
Re:Next PETA demonstration (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Next PETA demonstration (Score:2)
I'll go out with a bleepin haksaw and muscle paralyzer darts and blow gun to hunt dear and other furries just to see that.
What's an RPG? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
not a rocket propelled grenade. (Score:3, Informative)
it is not a rocket propelled grenade.
btw ak-47 is waaay obsolete and was replaced with akm in the early 1950s.
Re:Next PETA demonstration (Score:2)
Go ahead, inspire yourself [nakedprotesters.com]
and here [wjjs.com], protesting KFC
Re:Next PETA demonstration (Score:5, Funny)
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...
Re:Next PETA demonstration (Score:3, Funny)
KFG
what the...? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:what the...? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:what the...? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:what the...? (Score:5, Insightful)
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)
Though I wonder if you could put linux on an Aibo, then use the badger skin...
Re:Wow.... (Score:3, Funny)
In the future, when you try to get someone to switch to Gentoo Linux and they say, "Stuff it up your ass", you're going to have to "# emerge ass" to prove how portable it is...
In 2010, Debian Stable will also support the Dead-Parrot, Stinking-Fish, and Used-Lovebot architechtures - but only with kernel 2.6.
Darl McBride will drive around the countryside, checking roadkill for license compliance.
In Soviet Russia, Dead Badger installs Linux on YOU!
Start of Obligatory Meme's. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. (Score:2)
Three of Five (Score:3, Funny)
(see below for Four and Five: Beowulf and Business Model).
Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe after this, we can install Linux on a dead chicken buried in a nuclear landmine.....
what the... (Score:4, Funny)
why is this on slashdot?
Re:what the... (Score:5, Insightful)
I liked the dead badger picture.
Re:what the... (Score:4, Informative)
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:2)
Who cares if it's GPL? It's a big pile of crap that shouldn't be necessary to compile the Linux kernel.
What's so hard about that? If you're so dependant on point and click, wtf are you compiling a Kernel in the first place?
Re:what the... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:what the... (Score:5, Funny)
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)
I live...*RAAWWWRRRR!*
Re:what the... (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:what the... (Score:3, Insightful)
At least he didn't paste in the entire article text without formatting, but including sidbear text ad copy interspersed, and then complain about how bad it sucked afterward.
I've seen it happen. And I haven't been here t
hm. (Score:3, Funny)
*sits in his grave*
Notice who posted the story... (Score:5, Funny)
If it's so easy, can you help me? (Score:2)
I've been challenged to get Linux going on a Wyse Winterm thin client. This article says any script kiddie should be able to, but google yields zip.
Can anyone give me a pointer or link to get started?
Thanks in advance.
This makes sense (Score:5, Funny)
First... (Score:2)
everything2! (Score:5, Interesting)
The writeup has 10 C!s. Very nice.
Poor Job Decision (Score:2)
Hey, its nothing to me that you are an editor. However, you boss might be pissed that your web server just caught fire due to
Badgers? (Score:5, Funny)
(obvious)
Re:Badgers? (Score:3, Informative)
...which is a reference to Blazing Saddles (1974): [imdb.com]
...which itself is an homage to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948):
Badgers... (Score:2, Funny)
Appendix II (Score:3, Funny)
Badgers got two appendixes????
A dream I once had... (Score:2, Funny)
It was a truly awful dream, as the process was not reversible.
Anyone know... (Score:5, Funny)
If this works, fun can be only a Perl script away...
Re:Anyone know... (Score:2)
If this works, fun can be only a Perl script away...
Careful, dude. Get one character wrong and she might bite your dick off. Better use Python.
Maybe this story isn't as bad as you think (Score:2, Funny)
And yes, I am aware that I was sucked in by this too. But I do think it might have value weather it was originally intended or not. Maybe they should start a stupid stuff section.
up tille now I accepted when one of my stories (Score:3, Funny)
So what happened? (Score:5, Funny)
Now for the obligatory comment... (Score:2, Funny)
Too many bugs (Score:2, Funny)
E2, Jan 25 2004 (Score:4, Informative)
i kind of freaked when i saw that because... (Score:3, Insightful)
Cross-platform (Score:2)
SECURITY WARNING! (Score:2, Funny)
Am I the only one seeing the conspiracy? (Score:2)
2) Add "subtle" request to donate money (see rocket to the left)
3) Post story on Slashdot.
4) ?? !!
5) Profit?
I wonder how it works out..
Drivers? (Score:2)
Imagine (Score:5, Funny)
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)
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)
Genda
Re:What's the world coming to!!! (Score:3, Funny)
I just hesitate to consider where you'd attach peripherals...
After posting this idiotic story... (Score:3, Insightful)
Flea shampoo not needed. (Score:3, Informative)
How the flea is likely to behave when its original host is re-animated, however, might be up for debate.