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*n*x? (Score:5, Funny)

by fafaforza ( 248976 ) writes: on Sunday July 13, 2003 @12:26PM (#6428352)

OK I have to ask. What the heck is this?

I was willing to tolerate *nix, since it might, however remote and esoteric, be an attempt to gather all Unixes under a single label. But *n*x?

I sure hope it does not deteriorate to a four-letter-word-like ***x. Or maybe *x or x^ ?

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- Re:*n*x? (Score:0)
  
  by gantrep ( 627089 ) writes:
  
  How about XXX or ****?
  - Re:*n*x?-Open Source Porn. (Score:0)
    
    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    "How about XXX or ****?"
    
    The porn OS. "Come here and let me look under your covers."
    - Re:*n*x?-Open Source Porn. (Score:1)
      
      by xenocytekron ( 586678 ) writes:
      
      If they are coming over, why would they still be wearing covers (blanket?)? even if they were, you wouldn't be looking "under" the covers, would you?
- Re:*n*x? (Score:0)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  this will be our secret PR weapon:
  upgrade to the power of *n?x today!
- Re:*n*x? (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by SunPin ( 596554 ) writes: <[moc.atsirebyc] [ta] [mapshsals]> on Sunday July 13, 2003 @12:31PM (#6428380) Homepage
  
  FUCX...The new, dynamic OS from IBM featuring Carrie-Anne Moss.
  
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  - Re Carrie-Ann Moss (Score:-1)
    
    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    Carrie-Ann Moss is *hot*! I wanna smack that a** TWO TIMES!!
  - Re:*n*x? (Score:1)
    
    by ovapositor ( 79434 ) writes:
    
    Ack... she is nasty.... she lookls like a dried up skeleton. Imagine having sex with that desicated mummy. Bah.
- Re:*n*x? (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday July 13, 2003 @12:33PM (#6428399)
  
  how does HP-UX fit into this wildcard scheme?
  
  and did you ever wonder what would have happened if Dave Packard won the coin toss? We'd have PH-UX... try to pronounce THAT one!
  
  If Tux phux, then we'll have little tuxes running around!
  
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  - Re:*n*x? (Score:2)
    
    by pergamon ( 4359 ) writes:
    
    I'm not sure if HP-UX should fit into that scheme, since it mainly just PH-UX's you over.
  - Re:*n*x? (Score:1)
    
    by Trespass ( 225077 ) writes:
    
    If Tux phux, then we'll have little tuxes running around!
    
    No, because Tux is gay.
    - Re:*n*x? (Score:0)
      
      by Anonymous Coward writes:
      
      as in GAIM ("Gay I Am"), right? That software had the best logo ever-- Tux hugging the AIM guy.
      - Re:*n*x? (Score:1)
        
        by Trespass ( 225077 ) writes:
        
        That makes me just a little bit more uncomfortable with the acronym 'IANAL'.
  - Re:*n*x? (Score:1)
    
    by jasonhamilton ( 673330 ) writes:
    
    Given a file "HP-UX", `ls *U*X` would match it
    - Re:*n*x? (Score:1)
      
      by jasonhamilton ( 673330 ) writes:
      
      bah. I just woke up. Ignore my stupid post.
  - Re:*n*x? (Score:4, Funny)
    
    by sharkey ( 16670 ) writes: on Sunday July 13, 2003 @05:21PM (#6429774)
    
    how does HP-UX fit into this wildcard scheme?
    D*GSH*T.
    
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  - Re:*n*x? (Score:1)
    
    by usotsuki ( 530037 ) writes:
    
    I just say "*x".
    
    -uso.
  - The Devil made me do it (Score:1)
    
    by Pseudonymus Bosch ( 3479 ) writes:
    
    If Tux phux, then we'll have little tuxes running around!
    
    Wow, imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.
- Re:*n*x? (Score:1)
  
  by vslashg ( 209560 ) writes:
  
  He obviously used this bizarre wildcard pattern because it matches "Linux", but doesn't match any of the BSDs. This should make sense to the /. crowd, since BSD is dying.
  - Re:*n*x? (Score:2)
    
    by saden1 ( 581102 ) writes:
    
    BSD is dying? I think not! Ask people who work in the real world what they use and they'll tell you they have one or two *BSD servers in their cool room.
    
    This [slashdot.org] recent post on slashdot attests to this.
    - Re:*n*x? (Score:1, Funny)
      
      by Anonymous Coward writes:
      
      New here?
    - Re:*n*x? (Score:0)
      
      by Anonymous Coward writes:
      
      I work in the real world. I don't have one or two *BSD servers in my cool room. I do have 60 Windows 2000 systems, 1 Solaris, and 1 Linux.
- Re:*n*x? (Score:1)
  
  by Leffe ( 686621 ) writes:
  
  It could almost be read like this:
  *n*x -> Windows XP
  - Re:*n*x? (Score:0)
    
    by santorum ( 683099 ) writes:
    
    Nope. You would need *n*x* or *n*x? or something... we're covered here. Have some nice creamy santorum with your anal sex today.
    - Re:*n*x? (Score:1)
      
      by Leffe ( 686621 ) writes:
      
      I did say 'almost'.
      
      *looks at title, sees: Re:*n*x?*
      
      Oh, what's that? A ?, yes.
- Re:*n*x? (Score:1)
  
  by Demanche ( 587815 ) writes:
  
  But..actually it would be ???x for a four letter word...
  
  But i personally like *?*?*?*x
  
  :>
- Re:*n*x? (Score:2)
  
  by egreB ( 183751 ) writes:
  
  I'd say just *x*, case insensitive. This way, you'll cover most of the lot. What is this thing about the letter X, by the way? Unix, XFree, Linux, XP.. you name it (I know, *BSD).
  - Re:*n*x? (Score:1)
    
    by ChuyMatt ( 318775 ) writes:
    
    Please, change your sig to say "... they WROTE". I BEG you...
    - Re:*n*x? (Score:2)
      
      by egreB ( 183751 ) writes:
      
      No can do. It's a quote from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; but the sig-limit limits me from quoting all of it. It ends this way: ..worked out. --Douglas Adams
      
      I'm too lazy to change it, or find a new sig. So as of now it's left as an exercise for the reader.
- Re:*n*x? (Score:0)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  wiNdows Xp sort of fits the *n*x wildcard, too, doesn't it?
  - Re:*n*x? (Score:0)
    
    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    No... but maciNtosh operating system X does.
- Re:*n*x? (Score:0)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  It still doesn't include systems like Solaris. From now on we should just use *.
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  by Alethes ( 533985 ) writes:
  
  I prefer /[^microsoft]/.
  - Re:The Least Confusing Regular Expression (Score:1, Funny)
    
    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    Not containing the letters m, i, c, r, o, s, f, or t?

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