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2006-02-08

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Posted by 2006-02-08 09:14|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We forgive you . . . this time. [:-)]

Posted by Mike 2006-02-08 09:40|| 2006-02-08 09:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Make sure it's a paperbag, and not a plastic bag! Or if you insist on using a plastic bag, don't forget to have air holes in it!
Do you know how many bloggers suffocate each month while wearing a bag on their head? It's tragic!

That was my safety tip for the day, thanks for your attention. Next time I'll explain how to drink a glass of water without drowning (trick is not to breath at the same time).

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-02-08 09:53|| 2006-02-08 09:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank God! I was beginning to think the Apache's have come to get you....

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-02-08 09:57|| 2006-02-08 09:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Funny Linux flash cartoon.

http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-08 10:04|| 2006-02-08 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 That was scary. Please don't do that again.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-02-08 10:31|| 2006-02-08 10:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Naah,

Plastic and paper are for wimps!
Fred's gonna go whole hog and use burlap, the itchiest, scratchiest bag he can find!
Who says bloggers can't do self flagellation as good as the Islamofascists?

:)

Posted by DanNY 2006-02-08 10:36|| 2006-02-08 10:36|| Front Page Top

#7 thank you Moose
....

and thank you

;-)

Posted by RD 2006-02-08 10:39|| 2006-02-08 10:39|| Front Page Top

#8 So what do you have against the Apache Nation?
Is there a Jack Abramoff connection there you dont want to discuss? Come clean repubs/cons.

Posted by Common Sense 2006-02-08 11:29|| 2006-02-08 11:29|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't understand why in the hell you picked Debian as a Linux distribution. It is poor on config tools, doesn't autodetect hardware and IMHO it is a distro for people playing macho. The fact it solves dependencies (its one redeedming feature) is nolonger an argument since other distros do it as well (and will do it better once they integrate Smartpm who is leagues ahead of apt-get). Anyway it is not a distribution for people coming straight from Windows.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-02-08 11:30|| 2006-02-08 11:30|| Front Page Top

#10 All that matters is that you fixed it, Fred dear. And in only a few hours, too. Now my heart rate can return to normal, espcially as this was only due to a small programming error, rather than another battle in the War on Terrorists.

Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in a cup of tea, which we can drink in peace as we peruse Rantburg's pages. Besoeker's favourite milk tarts are on the sideboard, along with the "something a bit stronger" for those of you who aren't posting from work. Fred, I'll set some aside for when you get back from your paying job, and Ethel, too, of course. Poor dear, how many pills did she have to bring you while you sweated over your little problem, I wonder. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-08 12:13|| 2006-02-08 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Good Job fixing it!

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2006-02-08 13:16|| 2006-02-08 13:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Being a Debian user is hard, you have to put up with all the jealousy from the users of the lesser distributions out there.

I had minor problems with _this_ install (it's a newly bought and installed machine) because I decided to go with the amd64 distribution, which is a little more bleeding edge, but as you can see, it's working.

I do want to talk to Fred and his other tech consultants in a conference call because I suspect he's [redacted] and he'd be better off doing [redacted] but I don't want to go over the details here. And I don't have time to mess with it now, I've got stuff at machine shops that need prints _now_...

(And a lawn mower being fixed. There's a rig in Patagonia that's shut down until I can get the handle on the lawn mower rewelded and they can mow a new path to the platform...)

Posted by Phil 2006-02-08 14:09|| 2006-02-08 14:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Do it yourself head bag:
Roll out 12 inches of aluminum foil. lay middle finger of left hand at 45 degrees from one corner pointing toward middle of aluminum sheet. Curl on edge of sheet around till it touches other edge pivoting around middle finger. Crimp edges tangent to middle finger together. The resulting shape will be a cone. Please start over if you have any other shape. Remove finger and place cone on head.To be kept in the dark place cone on head with long side over eyes. To see while ~~receiving messages~~ contemplating, place cone on head with long side toward rear.

Posted by wxjames 2006-02-08 15:05|| 2006-02-08 15:05|| Front Page Top

#14 distro for people playing macho
I forsee the need for popcorn.

I would like to say that I think a 7.6 distro linnux would work and be efficient. I will use the word Barrett and 12.7 for the google 'bots.

Posted by 6 2006-02-08 16:44|| 2006-02-08 16:44|| Front Page Top

#15 Sorry I shouldn't be posting here but hacking away..
Time to go back to it.

Posted by 3dc 2006-02-08 17:02|| 2006-02-08 17:02|| Front Page Top

#16 Being a Debian user is hard, you have to put up with all the jealousy from the users of the lesser distributions out there.

Linus would say here: Tweaking with distributions is for wimps. Real men are too busy studying quantum physics or hacking kernel.

No he hasn't said that but it is his style and he is a notorious user of easy distributions. :-)

Posted by JFM"> JFM 2006-02-08 18:03|| 2006-02-08 18:03|| Front Page Top

#17 You did see what he had to say re: kde vs. gnome, right?

Posted by Phil 2006-02-08 18:22|| 2006-02-08 18:22|| Front Page Top

#18 I apologize. I had that stupid "The Internet" icon on the new computer at work, so I dragged it into the trash, and it said "Are you sure you want to delete The Internet."

I said yes.

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