Dear Gentlefolk, I wrote the _real_ movie the names Bo, Hamm, Woody, Sarge comes from was...
> > CALIGULA! > Mr Hvostov writes : > Where the hell did you dig _that_ up? > Apparently, my links were not checked. If you do a TITLE SEARCH on "Toy Story II" on http://us.imdb.com the first "Movies" result is CALIGULA. http://us.imdb.com/Tsearch?title=Toy%20Story%20II If you do a GOOGLE SEARCH on "Toy Story II", the fourth link down is a link to http://www.landoverbaptist.org which quickly compares TOY STORY II to a MODERN DAY CALIGULA. http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1199/toystory.html This _IS_ Curious. In fact, I would challenge anyone to find anything more curious about Debian in the next 1000 years. I hope many things are found, just so a sleazy loon like Caligula does not permanently maintain the #1 spot. -Josh --- Alexander Hvostov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 17:22, Josh Narins wrote: > > Submission for "Most Curious, 3rd Millenium AD" > > > > This could possibly be the most curious thing I've > > noticed about Debian. Although, perhaps we should > hope > > it'll end up being the 17th. > > > > See, I was tyring to learn what all the named > Debian > > releases had been, and so I did a Google search, > and > > then realized I should check (what I've read on > the > > Internet is) a widely used by Movie Industry folks > > website, so I opened another mozilla tab. > > > > It reminds me now like the sound of opening a soda > > can. > > Your soda cans make a 'woody' noise when opened? > Consider cracking less > smoke. > > > . > > Your websites are ( > > > > The Intenet Movie DataBase website, which is _not_ > > running Debian that I know of, but is running > mod_perl > > @ http://us.imdb.com (There is no > non-us.imdb.com, I > > checked) > > > > AND > > > > And Landover Baptist, well, lies for itself... > > http://www.landoverbaptist.org (if you don't have > > time, it's religious parody, sometimes adult). > > > > ) > > > > Now, Sid, Woody, Potato, Slink, and all the other > > Debians I have not used, are names of characters > from > > a movie? > > > > Most Debian users _think_ they know they answer, > but > > they are _wrong_. > > > > THE CORRECT ANSWER IS: > > ...that there is more than one. > > 'sid' is an acronym for 'Still In Development'. It > is synonymous with > 'unstable', and is a holdover from when there was no > 'testing'. At that > time, ports to architectures not considered > sufficiently stable for the > next release were in 'sid' rather than 'unstable'. > At the next release, > 'unstable' would become 'stable'. Without 'sid', > those unstable ports > would have been released with 'stable'. > > Everything else is from Toy Story (2). This is > because Bruce Perens > worked for Pixar during much of his Debian career. > > The complete list of release names is: buzz (1.1; > there was no 1.0 due > to a prerelease Debian CD being mislabeled as 1.0) > rex (1.2) bo (1.3) > hamm (2.0) slink (2.1) potato (2.2) woody (3.0) sid > > All of this information is on the Web site > somewhere, but I don't > remember where, and it's probably moved more than > once anyway. > > > CALIGULA! > > Where the hell did you dig _that_ up? > > Alex. > > > -- > > PGP Public Key: > http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key > > > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > > Version: 3.1 > > GCS d- s:++ a18 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 y > > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
