Suse's new competition: Paris Hilton(!!!)
You're not going to believe this: http://bbspot.com/News/2006/08/paris-hilton-tinkerbell-linux.html "First," she [Paris] writes, "I think The Open Source Movement is, like, really hot. I've been dabbling with coding for ages, but it's taken me some time to find the courage to release it." i had to check the calendar to make sure it's not an April Fool's joke. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
On Thursday 31 August 2006 19:20, Tobias Haf wrote:
You're not going to believe this:
Right! :)
"Critics of the distribution claim that applications they built using Nicole Ritchie's GUI toolkit for KDE aren't compatible."
Enough said? ;)
If it isn't: "based on Slutware Linux"
stephan beal wrote:
You're not going to believe this:
http://bbspot.com/News/2006/08/paris-hilton-tinkerbell-linux.html
"First," she [Paris] writes, "I think The Open Source Movement is, like, really hot. I've been dabbling with coding for ages, but it's taken me some time to find the courage to release it."
i had to check the calendar to make sure it's not an April Fool's joke.
The link to download the source was dead. I was really bummed. http://www.parishilton.com/tinkerbell/. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing"
On Thu August 31 2006 12:14 pm, stephan beal wrote:
You're not going to believe this:
http://bbspot.com/News/2006/08/paris-hilton-tinkerbell-linux.html
"First," she [Paris] writes, "I think The Open Source Movement is, like, really hot. I've been dabbling with coding for ages, but it's taken me some time to find the courage to release it."
i had to check the calendar to make sure it's not an April Fool's joke.
In case anybody here doesn't get it, bbspot is a technical humor site. This article *is* a joke, as is everything else there. To truly appreciate bbspot, check out some of their older articles; this one is a classic: http://www.bbspot.com/news/2000/4/MS_Buys_Evil.html . -Nick -- <<< Knock, knock, Neo. >>> /`-_ Nicholas R. LeRoy The Condor Project { }/ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~nleroy http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor \ / nleroy@cs.wisc.edu The University of Wisconsin |_*_| 608-265-5761 Department of Computer Sciences
Nick LeRoy wrote:
On Thu August 31 2006 12:14 pm, stephan beal wrote: <snip>
i had to check the calendar to make sure it's not an April Fool's joke.
In case anybody here doesn't get it, bbspot is a technical humor site. This article *is* a joke, as is everything else there. <snip>
Oh, you mean I can't actually compile her source? Now I'm even *more* bummed. Ooooooh, ./configure, make, make install. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing"
On Thursday 31 August 2006 20:54, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Nick LeRoy wrote:
On Thu August 31 2006 12:14 pm, stephan beal wrote:
<snip>
i had to check the calendar to make sure it's not an April Fool's joke.
In case anybody here doesn't get it, bbspot is a technical humor site. This article *is* a joke, as is everything else there.
<snip>
Oh, you mean I can't actually compile her source? Now I'm even *more* bummed. Ooooooh, ./configure, make, make install.
Before you start, don't forget make clean
On Thu August 31 2006 1:59 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 31 August 2006 20:54, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Oh, you mean I can't actually compile her source? Now I'm even *more* bummed. Ooooooh, ./configure, make, make install.
Before you start, don't forget make clean
I suspect that it'd have it's own make that'd say something like: make: skipping unknown target 'clean' make: building default target 'dirty' -Nick -- <<< It's the question that drives us. >>> /`-_ Nicholas R. LeRoy The Condor Project { }/ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~nleroy http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor \ / nleroy@cs.wisc.edu The University of Wisconsin |_*_| 608-265-5761 Department of Computer Sciences
On Thursday 31 August 2006 20:54, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Nick LeRoy wrote:
On Thu August 31 2006 12:14 pm, stephan beal wrote:
<snip>
i had to check the calendar to make sure it's not an April Fool's joke.
In case anybody here doesn't get it, bbspot is a technical humor site. This article *is* a joke, as is everything else there.
<snip>
Oh, you mean I can't actually compile her source? Now I'm even *more* bummed. Ooooooh, ./configure, make, make install.
What a bummmer.... was looking forward to paris->fork() Then again wonder how much to reserve for the .trash directory? Jerry
-- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing"
On Thursday 31 August 2006 01:47 pm, Jerry Westrick wrote:
On Thursday 31 August 2006 20:54, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Nick LeRoy wrote:
On Thu August 31 2006 12:14 pm, stephan beal wrote: <snip>
What a bummmer.... was looking forward to paris->fork()
Then again wonder how much to reserve for the .trash directory?
No hard drive is large enough. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing"
Tony Alfrey wrote:
On Thursday 31 August 2006 01:47 pm, Jerry Westrick wrote:
On Thursday 31 August 2006 20:54, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Nick LeRoy wrote:
On Thu August 31 2006 12:14 pm, stephan beal wrote: <snip>
What a bummmer.... was looking forward to paris->fork()
Then again wonder how much to reserve for the .trash directory?
No hard drive is large enough.
Yeah, that'd be dangerous. It might slow Beagle down. Wouldn't want that to happen! -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com www.4thedadz.com
On Thursday 31 August 2006 12:14, stephan beal wrote:
You're not going to believe this:
I do...another post that should've been on the OT list.
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