Re: [OT] Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
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 -- 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... -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
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 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
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 oil, but Clinton defunded the project three weeks into his first term and it's sat idle since. Sign, global warming then... -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
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! ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
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 are) - yesterday, 18 September 2007, was the 60th birthday of the Air Force. jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[OT] Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
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 -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member Emeritus: USENIX Association (2000-2006) (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. I don't know which is worse, the fact that I didn't know that Sept. 17th was the birtday of Linux, or the fact that it's my anniversary as well, and neither me *nor* my wife remembered :) Happy Birthday Linux! Now you can drive :) -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
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 some other good history (on Linux and other newsgroup stuff), check out Google's newsgroup timeline: http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html -Ken ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
