On Wed, September 19, 2007 12:16 pm, Jon 'maddog' Hall said:
All I know is that today (September 19th) is Talk Like A Pirate Day,
so imagine the conversation in some places:
Arrggg, Matey, I really don't want any more of that Microsoft
software, even if I don't have to pay for it.
md
On 9/20/07, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, last Thursday was September 13, the 8th anniversary of the day
the moon was blown out of Earth's orbit by a magnetic chain reaction
in a lunar-based nuclear waste dump...
So that's what that noise was...
-- Ben
On Sep 20, 2007, at 07:29, Ben Scott wrote:
So that's what that noise was...
I know you're just tempting me to say, but there's no sound in
space, so I guess I missed the joke.
Actually the real joke is that we had working technology to get rid
of nuclear waste and get us off foreign
On 09/18/2007 10:17 AM, Paul Lussier wrote:
Happy Birthday Linux! Now you can drive :)
Thanks for that perspective. Now I feel really old. Gads.
-Mark
/get off my floppy disks!
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On 9/19/07, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 09/18/2007 10:17 AM, Paul Lussier wrote:
Happy Birthday Linux! Now you can drive :)
Thanks for that perspective. Now I feel really old. Gads.
-Mark
If you want to feel young (or old, depending on which side of 1947 you
All I know is that today (September 19th) is Talk Like A Pirate Day,
so imagine the conversation in some places:
Arrggg, Matey, I really don't want any more of that Microsoft
software, even if I don't have to pay for it.
md
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Jon maddog Hall
Executive Director Linux
anniversary as well, and neither me *nor* my wife remembered :)
Happy Birthday Linux! Now you can drive :)
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Seeya,
Paul
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It was on this date in 1991 that Linus Torvalds had the first tar ball
(V0.01 of the kernel) posted to an ftp site.
Originally the name of the kernel project was to be Freax, but Linus'
friend who did the posting decided to over-rule Linus and renamed it
Linux.
Honest I didn't want to
Hi,
While there are several concepts of when Linux was born, certainly one of
them is September 17, 1991 when the first tarball of code was posted on the
net:
linux-0.01.tar.gz
before this, the name of the system was supposed to be Freax
For those newer to Linux and Free and Open
Hi,
[...]
For those newer to Linux and Free and Open Source Software, there is a
brief history of those early moments written by Linus himself at this
URL:
http://www.li.org/linuxhistory.php
Thanks, Maddog! Good reading -- I don't think I'd seen that compilation
before; informative. For
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