On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:12:59PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:35:16PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > David Pastern wrote: > > > > > Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"? > > > > > > BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker > > > operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos > > > Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. [...] > > > > That was a lovely bit of satire, wasn't it. It was originally published > > on the currently-defunct site Adequacy.org a year or so back. The > > article was entitled something like "Is Your Son a Hacker?" and was a > > parody of all the old "Is Your Child a Drug User?" scare-pamphlets of > > years past, in which various common symptoms of adolescence were > > described as "danger signs". > > IMO the funniest part of that was the wild replies from people who > didn't get it. >
Yeah, didn't somebody post a link to it on the mailing list when the article first came out around June? I really found it funny because I had just started using Linux around that time and I understood it, but other people who I had thought had been using Debian and/or Linux in general for a while didn't really get it. :) Of course, OTOH, I'm a teenager and (at the time) my parents were pretty clueless about Windows and Linux. "What's so bad about Windows? I've never had problems with it" and "How can you get a *full*, *working* operating system for *free*? Everyone else charges for theirs. Well, if you really want it, you can get your own computer-- but don't come complaining to us when you find out you get what you pay for" were common arguments I had to deal with. Now, after having to reinstall WinME *twice* since my parents bought their computer in August of 2001, and having to deal with corrupted programs and more BSODs than I can count, they've decided that Linux is ok. :) They still don't quite understand how everything (distros, etc.) works, but they've accepted it as superior. So that's why I got the joke. But what was really funny was the comments from people who took it seriously. Anyway, that's my $0.02 USD. -- Vikki Roemer Homepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, The hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning, It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a--- C++++(++) UL++++ P+ L+++>++++ E W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r-- x? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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