No political or socially iconic animals were injured in the making of
this post.
From: E. Charters
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The computer must be on, Linux must be active, and cron must be
running before /anything/ in crontab can be executed. 
From: Lew Pitcher
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I can just see rm walking down the rubber-walled hallways of his
hospital shouting "fuck, shit, bitch, pgp trash troll delete!" at
random.
From: +Alan Hicks+
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I nominate Faux_Pseudo to look for spelling errors.  ;-)
From: Keith Keller
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Re: AOLS Mod Quotes Vol VIII
>  Quotes from Realto Margarino and Al. C
-o option?
From: Blumf
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Might I suggest you take a 6th grade writing course and learn to use
meaningful sentences and place them inside paragraphs. However, your
post probably doubled the entropy on my system which is good for
random number generation, so perhaps I should be thanking you.
From: +Alan Hicks+
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Mini-how-to-use-slackbuilds-on-slamd64:
1) Change arch to x86_64
2) Remove any -march and -mcpu flags from CFLAGS
3) Add -fPIC to CFLAGS
4) Pray and run it
5) Patch the program
6) Goto 4
From: Fred Emmott
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Installing gentoo makes me feel like a script-kiddie following a
recipe, and producing a non-viable result.
From: GrantC
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It never hurts to run ldconfig.  I suggest that you read its man page
to see for yourself what it does.  The leap from "knowing what it
does" to "knowing when to use it" is very small. :-)
From: Steve Youngs
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So you're asking how to manipulate stolen media the open source way?
From: Martin J. Green
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[GP] go find a hole and hide from sight.
Preferably next to Luc Cotteyn.
From: Eric Hameleers
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I don't need Slackware to be popular to use it. If popularity was
really important to make a choice, I guess we would all use Windows,
wouldn't we ? :) 
From: LiNuCe
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I'm starting to think you need to refill that prescription.
From: Sylvain Robitaille
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lisp. most of our programming is done in common lisp, but the rm bot
happens to be written in emacs lisp. which, it must be said, is a
slightly inferior dialect. and that shows. ;-)
From: Joost Kremers
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He [Al. C] seems to have made a wrong choice initially and is now,
with assistance from myself and others, notable amongst whom is Glyn
Millington, migrating to another OS, a difficult challenge in its
self.  
From: Two Ravens
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You really shouldn't take 'Bozo's' name in vain.
From: Two Ravens
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Sucking on a fag can have such a different meaning when it means
cigarette.
From: Scott Cole
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Postulate: You get what you pay for.
Corollary: The cost of software is proportional to the quality.
Proof: The cost of software is inversely proportional to what you pay
for it.
From: Alan Hicks
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Yes, Dorothy, there really are ISP's that still charge for the
quantity of traffic by their users.
From: HJohnson
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Subject: Re: NetServer LH Pro Installation
> I had one set up. I stopped using it after an hour or two because
> it made as much damn noise as a 737 idling in my recroom.
I currently use mine as background noise whilst playing flight
simulators... 
From: Murphy replying to prodigal1 
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But what about the all-important market share?  Won't somebody
*please* think of the market share?!?
From: Keith Keller
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Never underestimate the quality of a perfectionist farm boy with
proper tools. :-)
From: +Alan Hicks+
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if I weren't so arrogant, I'd be perfect. Really need to work on that.
From: Bartosz
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GP wrote:
<merde coupé>
ça c'est déjà trop
*plonk*
espèce d'imbécile
From: prodigal1
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Naw, he's [GP] just like the magic eight ball.  Ask his a question,
shake him up, turn his upside down and out comes the answer.
From: No_One
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Unfortunately, he's [GP] more like a magic eight ball stuck in one of
those paint mixing machines.  His "answer" keeps coming out... and
coming and coming, no matter what anyone else here does.
From: Kurt Fitzner
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Slackware Book? (Score:5, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 16, @ 2:59PM (#11956763)

Why would anyone do a book on Slackware? What's the point? I mean
really? The three people besides Da Maaaaaaaan still using Slackware
are assholes anyway. No one wants to use that Shit. 

In the last month Slackware fell to 10th on Distrowatch at a time when
everyone at least remotely interested in Slackware is flocking to that
site to see if Da Maaaaaaan has expired yet. 

GP
From: +Alan Hicks+
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Is "I hope you get slashdoted" the geek equivalent of "Break a leg"?
From: Faux_Pseudo
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If you decide to do this, please let us know, so that I can write
letters to Pat to try to convince him not to listen to your letters.
From: Keith Keller
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You know that the fdisk man page recommends cfdisk over fdisk, right?
:)
From: Keith Keller
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Slackware is cool and stable, but your argument is weak.
Laurenz Albe
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My
name is Alan Hicks.  You pgp trash troll deleted my father.  Prepare
to die.
From: +Alan Hicks+ In: Slackware-OT
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Freeze now.
A real Camino margin agent is already on the way
to pick you up. Remain cordial, don't even try a reboot,
you're on tape !
From: Loki Harfagr
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Alan Hicks (all-round nice guy, genius and editor of the Unofficial
revised Slack book)
From: Glyn Millington
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From: Glyn Millington
> Alan Hicks (all-round nice guy, genius and editor of the Unofficial
> revised Slack book)

Can we get a mod-quote for that? I don't think I've ever been called a
genius in public. :^)
From: +Alan Hicks+
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You know how dumb the average person is? Well around half of them are
dumber than that and they're calling your help desk.
From: Blumf
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> Is there anyone here over age 15... or who has a real job and is not in school? Adults anyone?
Yes, but some of us (maybe most of us) fitting that description have better things to do than engage in silly arguments
From: Jim Diamond
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The bottom feeders are always most jealous of the ones on the high ground.  And from the smell of those "pgp trash troll" posts, Mr. Margarino has definitely been bottom feeding down-hill where the interesting compost flows.
From: Kurt Fitzner
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Why are the pgp trash troll posts attributed to me?
Hmm?
From: Realto Margarino
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> Should I just pick a chapter and go for it?
<snip> 
> Ante up you bitches.
> Who's with me?
From: +Chiron+
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Strange, how Alan actually attempted to HELP the questioner, including
a bit of advice to make it easier to get help in the future, then,
just like clockwork, you show up like an attention-starved child of
inbreeding, waving your flippers around and spewing incomprehensible
garbage in a desperate attempt to get someone to notice you, so that
you can delude yourself for just a few more minutes that someone,
somewhere, loves you enough to care that you exist. 
Except, no one does. The realization that you are insignificant even
in the smallest of schemes must haunt you at night, as you lay on your
soiled rubber sheets, thrashing about and screaming for your mommy to
put down the crack pipe and hold you, just for a minute.
Now stop morphing and stay in the goddamn killfile, you waste of
oxygen. 
From: Ciro The Spider-Man
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I would like to point out that not all us children of inbreeding are
like Realto. ;-)
From: +Alan Hicks+
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Gnome is a POS, it deserves to die, pull the feeding tube from Gnome
and let that braindead desktop die
From: Cheapskate
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If Slackware doesn't work for you, and certainly it may not, you have
four choices - find another distribution, start your own project, get
used to it, or continue being an annoying asshole.
From: Old Man
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You are not a Linux advocate, GP.  You seem to be a megalomaniac with
some sort of weird messiah complex.  Or, maybe a pathetic loser who
can't deal with Volkerding's rejection.  Or, maybe just a dumbass
troll.
From: Old Man
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Anyway, a proper killfile (scorefile) is a more humane method than any
rope.
From: Trygve Selmer
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New shop opening soon!
Prepackaged (with souvenirs included) boxes of "new, improved, no
choresterol, no fat, no salt, NO SENSE" "Troll Feed"(t/m).
From: Stanislaw
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Message-ID: <10lusdu8n4326a1@corp.supernews.com>
I certainly wouldn't be caught dead downloading anything from
swaret.sourceforge.net at the present time, not even from sourceforge,
for that matter.
From: GP In: comp.os.linux.misc
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Let Slackware be Slackware, Debian be Debian, RH be RH and get on with
your life!
From: Al. C
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So, repeat after me.  The Unofficial Revised Slackware Book Project is
the official slackware book.
That even sounds subgenious. :^)
From: +Alan Hicks+
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while (1)
{
        print "It's not about market share.  ";
}
From: Keith Keller
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I use ntloader on the theory that the less I screw with windows, the
less windows screws with me, and the less I have to screw with windows.
From: Old Man
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Contradicting what was in the original message requires that there be
something of substance there to contradict. 
From: Kurt Fitzner
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cat << _EOF_ > /etc/rc.d/rc.local
#!/bin/sh
###
trap : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
  defaultAlC="Y";
  printf "It's not about market share. Is it ? [Y/n]";
  read AlC;
  : ${AlC:=$defaultAlC}
  case $AlC in
        Y|y)    printf "Something's gotta give\n" ;
                /sbin/telinit 0 ;;
        N|n)    printf "Someone's learning ...\n" ;;
        *)      printf "To Hell and back, maybe ...\n" ;;
                /sbin/telinit 6 ;;
  esac
From: Loki Harfagr
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he goes right back to his old habits of running people down, whining
about how things should be different, but won't do the first damn
thing to change them.
From: +Alan Hicks+
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Oh, absolutely. This group has a lot more entertainment value than
technical value. It's fun to just sit back and watch what happens when
I throw a piece of raw meat to the puppies.
From: Al. C
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please start paving the path with something that won't hurt your feet
or find another road to travel, and watch out for the pot holes.
From: Faux_Pseudo
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As far as differing opinions, your [Al. C], never ending, harping on
something or other requires more tolerance than Job could muster on a
good day.
From: No_One
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No one goes around here bragging about their accomplishments except Al
C.  Wonder why that is?  Hmm.... could it be because Al C. desperately
wants to be part of the hip "new" 1337 $1@c|<\/\/\@r3 culture but just
doesn't understand that bragging about one's accomplishments to
hackers doesn't impress them, particularly when such accomplishments
are entirely uninteresting to hackers?
From: +Alan Hicks+
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Guard dogs bark, hound dogs bay, and bird dogs rarely ever make a
sound. 
/me turns Al C back into a bird dog with the magic word....
*PLONK*
From: +Alan Hicks+
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If I'm seen as a Slackware spokesman I don't understand why anyone
criticizes George W. Bush's speaking.
From: +Alan Hicks+
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So tell me tough guy, , preacher man, business man, CEO, author,
publisher, computer consultant, PR guru, historian, etiquette
master...shit!!! I forgot the question.
From: No_One
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Welcome, then, Mr. Margarino to being the first person ever added to
my firewall's virus scanner.  Perhaps the first person ever added to
any virus scanner. 
From: Kurt Fitzner
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Worm.MargarinoFilth.A:0:*:5265616c746f*4d6172676172696e6f
Worm.MargarinoFilth.B:0:*:6a7573746c696e75782e6361
Worm.MargarinoFilth.C:0:*:6a7573746c696e75782e6e6f70652e6361
From: Kurt Fitzner
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