Who would think that Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, himself never thought much about linux being so famous and powerful and in it’s current form as it is now? Linus, in his famous message at comp.os.minix wrote in August 26 1991:
PS. Yes - it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It [...]
Funny Linux command-lines with real output…
% cat “food in cans”
cat: can’t open food in cans
% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.
% “How would you rate Quayle’s incompetence?
Unmatched “.
% Unmatched “.
Unmatched “.
% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
% ^How did the sex change operation go?^
Modifier failed.
% If I had a ( for every $ the Congress [...]
A little ad by techradar found in the Linux Format Special Edition “CODE IT!”
/*
TOP SECRET Microsoft(c) Project:Longhorn(TM) SP1
Estimated release date:2008
*/
#include “win95.h”
#include “win98.h”
#include “leopard.h”
char chew_up_some_ram[10000000];
void main () {
while (!CRASHED) {
if (first_time_install) {
make_10_gigabyte_swapfile();
do_nothing_loop();
search_and_destroy(FIREFOX | OPENOFFICEORG | ANYTHING_GOOGLE);
hang_system();
}
if (still_not_crashed) {
basically_run_windows_xp();
do_nothing_loop();
}
}
if (!DX10GPU()) {
set_graphics(aero, very_slow);
set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);
}
// printf(”Welcome to Windows 2000″);
// printf(”Welcome to Windows XP”);
printf(”Welcome to Windows Vista”);
while (something) {
sleep(10);
get_user_input();
sleep(10);
act_on_user_input();
sleep(10);
flicker_led_promisingly(hard_disk);
}
creat_general_protection_fault();
}
Apple and Microsoft have finally buried the hatchet, hung up their greedy nature for the bottom line and released a 100% free open source operating system, S.U.C.K.S. This is an abbreviation for Standard Universal Computer Kakistocracy System.
S.U.C.K.S. will employ all the best features of both the Microsoft Windows and the Apple Mac OS X operating [...]
Just what you’ve been waiting for: the Firefox for Windows installer available in 5¼” and 3½” floppy disks.
- SpreadFirefox
Check the following screenshots to understand what I mean. This is whenusing auto-correct built-in an iPhone.
Quite an old one but still funny.
So what do you make out of the following window …. error or no error !!!!!!!
ACDSee
BTW …. don’t forget that there is Canadian Grand Prix today.
On one one the blogs I noticed the following picture. The menu comes from one of India’s coffee shops. Compared to other coffee in the menu this one is much costlier. Wonder how it tastes …..
Is Coffee Day only making an announcement now, and will the actual coffee be ‘released’ an year later and behind [...]
China is so impressed by Linux, that apart from converting from Windows to Linux on a lot of computers that are used in different government agencies and leading the market where most Linux based mobiles are used, they have come up with one more product and this time it is ……
As a lot of Linux users do, especially if you like playing latest games (heard of latest S.T.A.L.K.E.R?) on PC, you eventually go back to booting WIndows, which is damn true with me ……
But then again if you are satisfied with games that are Linux friendly (you know they are of course not what latest [...]
Here are some cool videos from Novell Linux Spoof series for the weekend.
Some more videos from Novell.
Click the pic above to view cool animation.
Am I getting that famous with my blog …. wow. The number is so large that I even got lost :)
Ok, ok, I know it’s probably a bug, nothing more.
What’s so Open about Linux and Open Source = Free”dom” (free and do anything you like with it)
Found the following cool video and decided to post it …. a neat way to install Vista
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