If I thought I could control the masses, I'd arrange it so that you
couldn't post.
From: Keith Keller
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In alt.os.linux.slackware, Two Ravens dared to utter,
>>Keith Keller wrote:
>>> Maybe ANC is actually a really complex bot.
>>
>> A bot I can believe, really complex ? Nah !
>>
> Maybe a bot with a complex.
From: Two Ravens
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It must be a bummer to have illegal passions, like having to set fires
or molest parked vehicles to get off.
From: John  Larkin
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You should learn to STFU and get a life... Trust me, one day, when you
grow up, stop touching yourselves and decide to move out of your
parent's house, you and a few other trolls in this place will realize
it can be useful. 
From: Martin Lefebvre
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I'd definitely need to proofread to proofread what I 
From: Loki Harfagr
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both Linus Torvalds & Patrick Volkerding wont touch Gnome anymore and
have bad mouthed Gnome in the recent past & removed it from a certain
distro (since 10.2), maybe they are trying to give the Gnome
developers a whap on the head with a cluestick, :P
From: Marvin
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Allright, so you had this impulsive need to show off your difficulties
in finding peace of mind ? 
And you had this peculiar urge to do it in aols ?
Now, tell me about your sister. ,-D)
From: Loki Harfagr
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When you read the script counterclockwise on a turntable
spinning low-endian to the big end you clearly hear the
unabashed daemon recitant singing Oblaaaaddiblaaaadda in
suomi with a Peter Falkes accent imitating the Dion.
From: Loki Harfagr
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Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ob_get_clean() in
D:\nopanel\garofano\sicurezzarete.com\www\voltalinux\contact.php on
line 155
Oh my, a windoze server error on yet another wannabe linux distro 
site :o) 
From: Grant
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How hard can it be to set up a voltalinux box at your home and host on
that?  If you can't do that, I'm curious how you expect to persuade
people to use your distribution.
From: Keith Keller
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So, let's summarize:
1.  You run the "Volta" website on a windoze box.
2.  You post to the Slackware NG, using M$ Outhouse Excuse, to
advertise the release of "just another homegrown distro".
3.  You expect anyone here to respect that, or even care?
From: Dan C
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Your confusion stems from trying to apply a model which does not fit
the subject.  You're trying to put the round peg in the square hole.
Look a little closer and your play-bench and you'll find a round hole
that neatly fits the round peg.
From: William Hunt
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Everyone should have a hobby.  What's yours?   Has it earned you a
living?  Earned you an international following of dedicated
enthusiasts?   Earned you the respeect of an industry?   Do they talk
about you on Slashdot?  Do they interview you on Slashdot?  Are there
any third-party websites featuring your hobby? Any usenet news groups
where kooks and whiners can go about making jackass assumptions about
who what or why you are? 
From: William Hunt
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When I need you to help me decide what to "get worked up" about, I'll
let ya know, n00b.
From: Dan C
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read, experiment, make mistakes, read some more, dogpile, when in
doubt..re-read
From: prodigal1
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sendmail is not suited for such people, as a brain is required.
From: Patrick
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Time spent learning a third party firewall tool is better spent
learning iptables... 
From: Grant
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And you waste bandwidth by stating the obvious and I waste more by
pointing it out. You need to get out more.
From: Ian Bell
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notbob wrote:
> I swaret wasn't me!
I can't decide if I should modquote you or killfile you for that one.
From: Franklin
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Clue sticks are welcome (especially if fixes are attached to said
sticks)...
From: Robby Workman
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Life was so much easier with 7-bit ASCII and WordStar using the hi-bit
as a word delimiter in documents.  Writing code was editing a
'non-document'. 
From: Grant
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I always get a laugh when I hear Gentoo'ites claim "I learned a lot
about Linux by installing Gentoo".  Horsefeathers.  You don't learn
anything about Linux, you learn how to follow written instructions.
From: Dan C
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I'll remind you of that when forged messages sent out in your name
make it back to your ISP, and your service gets whacked because of
it. I'll sit here in the solace that I people know when messages come
from me, and when they don't.
From: A Guy Called Tyketto
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Your technical ignorance is rivalled only by your lack of social
skills. 
Realto Margarino wrote:
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I loved my C80, until I hated it.
From: Old Man
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Not to be a smart (you know what).  I (sarcastically) tell some of my
clients (those that I can get away with it with) "That is the
definition of 'Broke', 'It was working, and now it is not.'"  The
problem becomes, for us in the know, figuring out:
A)  WHAT is broke
B)  WHERE is it broke
C)  WHEN did it brake
D)  WHY / HOW did it brake
E)  How do we prevent it from braking again.
From: "Taylor, Grant"
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If your request for pardon is sincere (can't imagine why I doubt
that), maybe you'll accept a suggestion that you undertake an
appropriate act of contrition, like say, leaving everyone here in
peace for six months; and that upon your return, you swear off name
calling, personal attacks, condescending sermons, the giving of
unsolicited advice, and inciting others to bad behavior.
From: Old Man
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March 1997 on IRIX on an Indy, this student wants to send an email,
types elm, gets to compose email and the thing is busted -- nothing
more than a stupid line of tildes down the left of the screen and
typing doesn't work :(
From: Grant
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Steve Youngs <steve@youngs.au.com> typed on 2006-09-28:
> If it was my system or one of my customers' I would have installed 
> emacs on it long before the filesystem filled up. :-)
s#long before\(.*\)filled.*\(up.*$\)#so\1would fill \2#
From: Bartosz Oudekerk
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And IMNHATAO, syntax coloration is a whitecane to the deaf, or an
ear-aid for the blind, I mean it produces much more irating noise than
helpful info (and that only in the barely met cases the conf file is
correct :D)
From: Loki Harfagr
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Nothing wrong in Windows except the OS ;-)
From: Loki Harfagr
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Just as long as there is a lot of rum in it, who cares if it's called
cake, pie, etc.
From: Bud
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Obviously there is a configuration problem that prevents you from
browsing or downloading. I did not have the same issue. But blaming
Slackware because a download did not work is not really fair or
accurate. 
From: Peter
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I enjoy the sensation of your lips upon my buttocks.
From: Alan Connor
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That's the problem with witch hunts, in their attempt to track
down those they perceive as a danger, the people doing it often
take down the innocent.
From: Michael Black
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It's a harsh world out there.  But if getting no BOZO points is as
harsh as it gets, then things aren't too bad after all. :-)
From: Steve Youngs
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Sadly, during the course of evolution, the genes associated with
hopeless insanity weren't discarded and unfortunately grouped together
to form sub-species degenerate individuals like you.
From: Joe
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It has to do with the utterly hollow void in your smelly, pretentious,
fat and dirty head.  It has to do with you being the lowest class
piece of ham that this newsgroup has ever had the misfortune of
harboring.  It has to do with the fact that you just don't get that
you are a terminally coward loser.
From: Joe
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The local electric company, Progress Energy, has a TV commercial where
they ask you to report your power outages on their website.  Do I need
to say any more? :( 
From: "Michael A. Terrell"
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For 9 years I'd been complaining to the phone company about the
noise on my line, and the loss of DSL signal. For 9 years they
told me there was either no problem or the line was TNF (tecnically
not feasible). I had a T1 installed finally and when testing
for it, they found a fault 30-35 feet from the box on my house.
Lo and behold, that is where the junction box was. They sent a
crew out to dig up and repair said junction box. I arrived home
in the middle of this and asked the quy what he found. He lifted
on of the bundles of wires and showed me all the broken wires
and insulation cracked and missing. Then he picked up the main
splice (encased in gelled sealent) and squeezed. The water ran
like squeezing a wash cloth in the shower. Yep, nothing wrong
with those lines.
From: JRS
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Why is it people insist third party SlackBuilds go to /usr, instead of
/usr/local or /opt?
From: Grant
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Steve Youngs wrote:
> If it was my system or one of my customers' I would have installed
> emacs on it long before the filesystem filled up. :-)
s#long before\(.*\)filled.*\(up.*$\)#so\1would fill \2#
From: Bartosz Oudekerk
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He's just an angry scriptkiddie. I think the most merciful thing we
could do is ignore him.
From: Rich Grise
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I've always been a slacker, now I'm a Slacker!
From: Rich Grise
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Do you use the "sample" credit cards that came with your wallet?  Why
do you use the sample OS that came with your computer?  ;-)
From: Sylvain Robitaille
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A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
From: Leo
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CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP WITH THIS? Even if anyone was available just
to hold the saucepan handle for a short time, that would be a real
help.
From: Stuart Winter
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As much at pathetic losers like rm disgust me, I think people should
be able to post whatever they want on Usenet or blogs.  Usenet is just
bullshit to begin with, and blogs are just individual's opinions.  If
I want to say Hillary Clinton is a stupid cunt, I should be able to
say so.
From: ~kurt
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it's _Gandhi_ you putz... here's a variation on a theme, RAFB...a
history book 
From: mr.b
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Wow! I just got slimed by incomprehensible guy.
From: Bar
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One thing about the learning curve with Linux is knowing what question
to ask and where to start looking for the solution.
From: Douglas Mayne
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Anyone using powerpoint for anything is no friend.
From: notbob
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When I give my granddaughter her first computer, she'll never even
know Windows exists and so will never miss it.
From: notbob
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I will admit XP now gives a warning before going belly up, but it
still goes, warning or no. 
From: notbob
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Thanks to its robust package manager, unsensible to dependency hell,
Sleackware keeps one of the easiest and most solid distros for the
newbies, unlike its competitors Slackware doesn't crash suddenly
when you try to print a file while plugging an USB key, nor will it
suddenly install two hundred useless packages just because someone
b0rked a dependency config file and implied the bc needed an X-server
nested with Samba SQL and replace sendmail with postfix.
From: Loki Harfagr
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Please use the proper terminology.  Linux has directories.  The
unmentionable OS has misnamed them as folders.
From: CBFalconer
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the medication has changed again, hasn't it?  For what it's worth,
assuming that this new medication has the intended effect, it's better
than the previous meds.  You've been more "cordial" these days ...
Cordial is good ... 
From: Sylvain Robitaille
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I'm a Bozo, I freely admit it, Just not a very talkative one
From: Billy Watt
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Bar wrote:
> Is /dev/idiot your home directory?
You've obviously not been paying attention, it would be /home/idiot.
From: Peter Chant
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Why is it that when people find themselves at odds with a significant
number of people in the group, they always seem to resort to this
appeal to be sensitive to "newbies," as if "newbies" were fragile
children who need their protection?  This has always puzzled me,
because I don't recall any "newbie" ever writing anything like, "You
guys are mean! I'm gonna tell Bar on you!"
From: Old Man
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You seem to be one of those people that equates a simple correction to
a personal attack.  Your name wouldn't be Al by any chance would it?
From: Franklin
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Someone here will probably try to help you, though god knows why.
Anyone so stupid as to insult those he asks for help is unlikely to be
teachable.
From: Old Man
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The Slackware community is very helpful to people who ask nicely and
have some semblance of clue; unfortunately for you, it appears as if
you failed on both counts.
From: Robby Workman
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The problem is simple.  You're a moron.
From: Old Man
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To plonk you would be to acknowledge you are worthy of notice.  You
are not.
From: notbob
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The cost of human attention has remained static.  Nobody is accuing
you of wasting bandwidth -- there are individuals posting DVD ISOs who
use more bandwidth than all text posts in all newsgroups combined.
What you are accused of is wasting people's time; first with untrimmed
posts and now with Yet Another Me Against The Entire Newsgroup
Flamewar. 
From: invalid
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An unstable debian wouldn't last longer than a plain spaceship would
while trying an hyperspace double rear flop in a ~Euclidian ensemble.
From: Loki Harfagr
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"Ubuntu"   -- an African noun, some persons are trying to turn it in
              to a brand name for some agitated bewerage.
"Kanotix"  -- A German word, meaning "Slackware *was* too hard for me". 
"Mandriva" -- A French word, meaning "Mandrake too ard fer I".
"Mandrake" -- A French word, meaning "we got a RedHat to be usable
              then the nym police hyt us hyrd in Gotham".
"Fedora" - an American word, meaning "Flappinuuuumm".
From: Loki Harfagr
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You write excellent English. Why use the German plural form boxen?
From: Peter
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DW is nothing. It funnels release announcements and provides links to
external sites. It appears that it does nothing original. Just a
portal that tracks clickthroughs. I have found it useful for finding
the home pages of distros I know nothing about. I have learned nothing
from it though. I suppose its valuable if you like measuring hits over
time. It says nothing about a distro's penetration or extent of usage.
From: Peter
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You're kidding, right?  Slackware's dead, baby.  Slackware's dead.
Clearly SLS is the wave of the future!
From: Keith Keller
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Whenever I see an ad that includes "xxx.inc recommends Microsoft
Windows XP" I automatically cross xxx.inc off any prospective
vendor list.  I recommend the practice.
From: CBFalconer
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If you write a C program you don't need to open a broken library to
make your program crash, there are many ways to write C programs that 
crashes :-).
From: Henrik Carlqvist
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If a beer really required fruit it would have been added at
the brewery. And sometimes such an action results in a really
good beer.
From: Kees Theunissen
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Who cares if XMMS is dead?  It works perfectally fine for me, and it's
not like using it is going to pose some major security threat or the
like, it's just a simple media player.
From: saltmiser
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Incidentally, rejoinders four days after the initial event, tend to
lose much of their impact.
From: Two Ravens
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aols Bozos promote principles which include 'do what you want, but do
it right' and Bozos like goal-oriented solutions that can be
implemented trivially with standard facilities in a minimally invasive
manner.  And Bozos promte the education, liberation and empowerment of
all through RTFM. 
From: William Hunt
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Yes, but this is Slackware, not Ubuntu, Mandriva, Suse, or what have
you.
From: Bradley Reed
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The real question is 'do newbies grow into geeks?'.
From: Two Ravens
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Usually a n00b wont admit he's a newbie, you must have read messages
like this: "I've been at the Usenet for 10 years now and so far nobody
has complained about the way I form my messages "Top post - full quote
underneath". And if you check the mans posting history it goes back
only one month.
From: Thomas Overgaard
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If you can show me where i'm wrong, then great, please do so.  Educate
me, educate the OP.  Educate the others who've offered solutions.  But
don't attack me for just trying to help answer a question!  At least
-read- the thread before attacking me.
From: William Hunt
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Indeed, anal rape in prison may be the only way many geeks will ever
have a sexual experience.
From: Leonard The Committed
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In Slackware the configuration is left to the admin of
the system, to set it up just like that admin wants it.
From: steelneck
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Slackware, like Chuck Norris, could easily overcome these
obstacles.
From: Simon
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The fact is you know more about the methods of deploying East Tibetan
Yak rescue resuscitation maneuvers than you do about Slackware, 
Linux, Windows, computers, happy packets, IP's, reverse xener flip
flop circuits and double R-X-Ray routers... and your certification in
East Tibetan Yak theory expired 5 years ago.
From: A Guy Called Tyketto
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Enhancement surgery is available.  And they sell those pills on late
night TV.  Have you tried those pills yet?
From: RM
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Le Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:53:45 +0000, rm a ecrit :
> Apparently some of them do.  So-called "computer professionals" buy
> windoze, not slackware.  Bill Gates is the richest man in the world.
> Linux Torvalds isn't even a millionaire.

According to your argumentation, Britney Spears would be the best
musician in the world, huh?
From: Niki Kovacs
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We Slackers enjoy configuring every little aspect of our
machines. There are distos out there that do everything for you. The
point, again, we have that choice. 
From: Phil Jackson
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I get the impression that you haven't really used Linux. You should
stop wasting time flaming in here and take the time to learn it. Then
maybe you could hold a sensible discussion in the _correct_ forum.
From: Phil Jackson
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You started this thread!? Oh, forgive us, oh great Peacock!
Forgive us! And may thy Peafowl-ness reign supreme! And may Dan C's
armpits, and various hairy areas, be infested by the fleas of a
million sweaty camels!
From: A Guy Called Tyketto
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M$ has been a losing propostion ever since it reached its zenith with
NT4.  Vista will do more to advance the adoption of Linux than any
other past event in M$ history.  They've not only nailed one foot to
the floor, they've shot themselves in the other foot. 
From: notbob
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Roger Maynard is just a sleazey troll.  Outing him is acceptable,
even if it is a waste of time.
From: Floyd L. Davidson
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Slackware isn't a 'distro for the desktop', it's a solid base upon
which to build a system of your choice.
From: Handover Phist
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Yes, gnome is a bear and its dependencies worse.
From: Peter
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I can always count on you guys to give way more information than
needed.  Too bad all this puts the wife to sleep.
From: Handover Phist
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Do NOT advise destructive procedures (like format or fdisk)
when the source of the problem has not yet even been identified,
let alone diagnosed.
From: William Hunt
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Anybody who writes an article 1737 lines long is seriously
challenged mentally.  There was a time when any article of over
16kB was automatically rejected.
From: CBFalconer
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I don't think my fellow slackers would appreciate having my 65 apps
dumped into their Slack any more than I would like theirs. :) 
From: slakmagik
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If you really think Slackware is dead, switch now and stop pestering
the rest of the newsgroup with your doomsday ''predictions''.
From: Keith Keller
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Slackware is a linux distribution which focusses on well-working
software.  If something isn't broke, PV doesn't fix it.  He adds
bugfixes and patches security holes as he becomes aware of them,
and this makes Slackware an excellent choice for production.  It
is a big draw for those of us who use Slackware professionally.
From: TTK Ciar
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You [RM] are, on the rare occasion, not completely worthless.
Sometimes you even make a valid point (especially when it comes to
those who view Linux as a religion[1] instead of a tool). 
[1] Slackware, on the other hand, is worthy of religious cultlike
devotion.
From: ~kurt
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distruction: (n). the aftermath of installing gentoo  :^)
From: +Alan_Hicks+ In: Slackware-OT
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From: Phil Jackson
> Why do you refer to yourself as "we" all of the time, are you
> especially lonely or something?
Obvously, he has a tape worm.
From: Ron KA4INM
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Frankly..some folks just need a good ass kicking, and a slightly
smaller subset simply need to be killed.
From: Gunner
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Do you guys hide in a Faraday Cage when you type stuff like that????
From: Maxwell
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Whether bored or busy, other people often killfile abusive
trollfeeders.
From: Keith Keller
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