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We tell people we use Linux because it's secure. Or because it's free, because it's customizable, because it's free (the other meaning), because it has excellent community support...

But all of that is just marketing bullshit. We tell that to non-Linuxers because they wouldn't understand the real reason. And when we say those false reasons enough, we might even start to believe them ourselves.

But deep underneath, the real reason remains.

We use Linux because it's fun!
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/15/193234&from=rss
http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/03/real-reason-we-use-linux.html

http://lh6.google.ca/abramsv/R9Y-PKtLfJI/AAAAAAAALRw/5plvmPY8Y_U/s1600-…

If Windows really was the cheaper alternative, then Microsoft would have to pay me to use it.

Fun: Are you a Linux Poser?

http://www.openjason.com/2008/02/09/9-free-open-source-and-phenomenal-p…

Are you bored this week-end? Why don’t you try some fun with your girlfriend. Like give her a 5.25″ floppy disk, your notebook and tell her that on the disk are some unseen before photos with her … Let’s see how she will handle this issue… Priceless

http://blog.pcnews.ro/2008/02/09/week-end-fun-2/

Someone asked me this recently. I don't have just one answer. I compiled a list of things I thought of and emailed it to my friend...then I thought I would post it here for future reference. Feel free to add to the list! There is also a forums thread on the same topic, that I remembered as I complied my thoughts, so I stole some of the ideas posted there.

link

Several readers have written to tell us about one users rant in which he tells the story of being so frustrated with gaming on Windows Vista that he tried comparing gaming on Vista to that on Linux using Wine, with surprising results. "This post is clearly a bit biased. What shocked me though was how easy it was to find games that didn't run under Vista but did in Linux by using Wine or DOSBox. I'm not a huge gamer, so I don't have a huge collection of games to try out, but even still with just a few hours of frustrating work, I have been able to show that not only is Linux a reasonable alternative to Vista for gaming (XP is still king though), but also that Linux handles application failures more gracefully than Vista. Every game but Blackthorne crashed my Vista box, this didn't happen a single time under Linux."
http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/02/02/0236200.shtml

http://xkcd.com/378/

This Page Crashes Internet Explorer

Life is cruel for Internet Explorer users

http://www.tylerm.info/this_page_crashes_ie.html

http://www.xitimonitor.com/fr-fr/barometre-des-navigateurs/firefox-dece…

This week the US Patent and Trademark Office issued a surprisingly (although I guess it shouldn't be) broad patent for a "mobile entertainment and communication device". Upon closer inspection you may notice that it pretty much outlines the ubiquitous smartphone concept. "It's a patent for a mobile phone with removable storage, an internet connection, a camera and the ability to download audio or video files. The patent holding firm who has the rights to this patent wasted no time at all. At 12:01am Tuesday morning, it filed three separate lawsuits against just about everyone you can think of, including Apple, Nokia, RIM, Sprint, ATT, HP, Motorola, Helio, HTC, Sony Ericsson, UTStarcomm, Samsung and a bunch of others. Amusingly, the company actually first filed the lawsuits on Monday, but realized it was jumping the gun and pulled them, only to refile just past the stroke of midnight. "
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/25/2031214&from=rss

Show how some people have managed to organize cables into something close to art:
http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=240

truly messy data center cabling: http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=234
ti melyik stilust kovetitek?

the progress of Future Combat Systems, the U.S. Army's Linux-based operating environment that has been under development for several years. The project, which currently surpasses 63 million lines of code, has received criticism for having a scope greater than that which the Army can manage. Since the program's inception, integration of commercial applications has increased the amount of code, but has also saved the developers time and money. "Boeing and the Army said they chose not to use Microsoft's proprietary software because they didn't want to be beholden to the company. Instead, they chose to develop a Linux-based operating system based on publicly available code. Boeing's Schoen said that it is designing software so that if soldiers lose their connection, the software will automatically "heal itself," retrieving the information within seconds without rebooting."
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/25/025256&from=rss

Craiglist offers an interesting approach to finding a life partner , summmary: "There is a sad truth to the world today. I am part of a dying breed of people known as "shell users." ... Because there are fewer and fewer of us, I must help keep our lineage alive. I am looking for someone to help me do this. I need a woman (obviously) who is willing to raise a child with me in the method of Unix.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/21/1540229&from=rss
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/485967082.html

"With all the pieces floating around on OOXML, it's been hard to get a good sense of where it is in the standardization process. Fortunately, IBM's Rob Weir has a provided us a road map. Today Microsoft is due to submit its set of proposals for resolving the 3,522 comments to JTC1, which controls OOXML. Tomorrow or soon after, we can expect a media blitz heralding these 'changes,' as numerous reporters are, reportedly, being flown to Redmond. But all those recommendations are non-binding, because only JTC1 can change the standard and that happens during the Ballot Resolution Meeting. And even if all of the recommendations are adopted, no one has to change their vote. The BRM, where all the real work will happen, isn't until February 25-29. Within the 30 days after that, everyone will be able to reconsider their vote. That's when we can expect the real fireworks."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/15/0252251&from=rss
egy erdekes hozzaszolas:
OOXML is to ODF as the Zune is to the iPod: relatively incomplete, too hastily implimented, too late, and ugly.

http://m3.youneed2see.com/piles/?s=linuxanime

"The British government's educational IT authority has issued a report advising schools in the country not to upgrade their classroom or office systems to Windows Vista or Office 2007. According to this InformationWeek story, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency says costs for Vista and Office 2007 'are significant and the benefits remain unclear.' Instead, Becta is advising British schools to take a long look at Linux and open source suites like OpenOffice.org."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/2242208&from=rss

Google currently processes over 20 petabytes of data per day through an average of 100,000 MapReduce jobs spread across its massive computing clusters. The average MapReduce job ran across approximately 400 machines in September 2007, crunching approximately 11,000 machine years in a single month.
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/01/google-mapreduce-stats.html

"Computers and handheld devices running default GNU Linux or Unix OSes have swept Amazon's 'best of' list for 2007, according BusinessWire.com for 28 December 2007. Best selling computer? The Nokia Internet Tablet PC, running Linux. Best reviewed computer? The Apple MacBook Pro notebook PC. Most wished for computer? Asus Eee 4G-Galaxy 7-inch PC mobile Internet device, which comes with Xandros Linux pre-installed. And last, but not least, the most frequently gifted computer: The Apple MacBook notebook PC.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/29/1959244

Amazon.com Announces ''Best of 2007'' Lists

• Google is the “fastest growing company in the history of the world.” – Times of London, 1/29/06
• Google controls 65.1% of all searches in the U.S. at the end of 2007 and 86% of all searches in the UK, according to measurement company Hitwise.
• Google was searched 4.4 billion times in the U.S. alone in October, 2007 (three times Yahoo), says Nielsen. Average searches per searcher: 40.7.
• Google’s sites had 112 million U.S. visitors in November, 2007, says Nielsen.
• Google’s traffic was up 22.4% in 2007 over 2006, according to Comscore.
• Google earned $15 billion revenue and $6.4 billion profit in 2007, a profit margin of 26.9%. Its revenue was up 57% in the last quarter of 2007 over 2006, says Yahoo Finance. As of late 2007, its stock was up 53% in a year. The company has a market capitalization of $207.6 billion.
• Google controls 79% of the pay-per-click ad market, according to RimmKaufman. It controls 40% of all online advertising, according to web site HipMojo.
• Google employed almost 16,000 people at the end of 2007, a 50% increase over the year before.
• Google became the No. 1 brand in the world in 2007, according to Millward Brown Brandz Top 100.

belenéztem a régi blogomba, es rohogtem nehanyat. idemasolok nehanyat hetfo reggelre jo lesz:)
http://andrej.initon.hu//blog/Aranykopesek.html

Ez egy fortune:

0 7 * * * echo "...Linux is just a fad" | mail billg@microsoft.com -s "And remember..."

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Fri Dec 26 19:10:07 CIT 2003,fortune: "Apa, miert kell le bujnunk ha jonnek a rendorok?" "Azert kisfiam, mert ok emacs-osok, mi pedig vi-t hasznalunk."
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bash-2.05b# cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama #Shit, my RAM is full of llamas!
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index cikkbol: "[...] nem tökéletes, mert tökéletesség csak a matematikában van, többek közt ezért is unalmas a matematika."
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A Düne saga egyik új k0nyvéböl(A gépírtó hadjárat): "Nem létezik zárt rendszer. Pusztán a megfigyelö számára fogy el az idö."
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2005,poen: Az "Amerikai istenek"-böl HA NEM TUDOD MEGENNI, MEGINNI, ELSZÍVNI VAGY FELSZÍVNI... AKKOR B*SZD MEG!
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slashdot-on lapalairas: "Elephant, n.: A mouse built to government specifications."
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mocsi a HUP-on: A mókus és a patkány egy azonos családba tartozó rágcsáló, csak a mókusnak jobb a PR-ja;)
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A slashdot-on Bill Gates Is Coming To A College Near You hirben Bill elmegy foiskolakba es eloadast tart a kovetkezo kerdesekrol: Why Computer Science? Why Now?, az egyik olvaso valasza: "Because we need people with more skill to fix up all your shit Bill."
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slashdot hozzaszoló sig-je: A man without a God is like a fish without a bicycle.
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a HUP-on Macskajancsi irta: A hütögépet windows-zal vezérelem. Kifogástalanul müködik. Fagy. ;)
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Check it out, send me comments, and dance joyously in the streets, -- Linus Torvalds announcing 2.0.27
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Microsoft innovates again: R&D here stands for "Rape and Destroy"?
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - by Rich Cook
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Lenin is megmondta: RTFM, RTFM, RTFM (C) szabog
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Enjoy the best & Fuck the rest!
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slashdotrol:
Is Virtual Rape a Crime?
Sentence them to Virtual time in a Virtual prison.
With Virtual assrape!
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index e-papir cikkebol: "Doom e-papíron: csavard fel a szörnyeket!"
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"Light a man a fire and hell be warm for a day, set a man on fire and hell be warm for the rest of his life"
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The New York Times is reporting on how the NYSE group now feels that Linux is 'mature enough' for the New York Stock Exchange. They are using commodity x86 based Hewlett-Packard hardware and Linux in place of their traditional UNIX machines. From NYSE Euronext CIO Steve Rubinow: 'We don't want to be closely aligned with proprietary Unix. No offense to HP-UX, but we feel the same way about [IBM's] AIX, and we feel the same way to some extent about Solaris. Other reasons cited for the switch were increased flexibility and lower cost.'"
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/14/2312210&from=rss
de a lenyeg a hozzaszolasok:

It is official. As PDF Architect Jim King blogged today, Adobe has received word that the ballot for approval of PDF 1.7 to become the ISO 32000 Standard (DIS) has passed by a vote of 13 positive to 1 negative. A two-thirds majority is required to pass so it was a large margin of victory (93%). The vote breaks down as follows: Countries voting positive with no comments (9): Australia, Bulgaria, China, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine. Countries voting positive with comments (4): UK (13 comments), USA (125), Germany (11), Switzerland (19). Countries voting negative with comments (1): France (37 comments). Countries abstaining (1): Russia.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/05/0149227&from=rss