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> scratched away the "Designed for Windows XP" label and glued it on the
> lid of my kitchen dustbin, 
Holy crap!  these labels really _do_ have a purpose!
From: Niki Kovacs
From: Sylvain Robitaille
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You being cordial is like the sun forgetting to set.
From: A Guy Called Tyketto
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Eventually, gcc won't even be able to compile int main(){} without
complaints!
From: Chris Sorenson
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every computer-user needs at least one file system, but nobody needs
swaret.
From: cashmir
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as long as swaret & company cannot read and interpret the changelog
they're bound to ruin a Slackware system.
From: cashmir
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Hey fluffy yellow chew toy, one man's wild dogs are another's
exuberant puppies having fun.  Miserable sots like you should
take up barefoot skiing on the slopes of an active volcano.
From: Grant
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[[ The Next 50 Lines Reserved For AFC's Boilerplate Response ]]
From: No_One
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See my previous post regarding your lack of originality.
From: Dan C
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> 1. <snip> 2. <snip> 3. <snip> 4. <snip>
False quadotomy (sp?).  If the laws on the books don't allow
something then instead of violating the laws the pres should ask
congress to change the laws.  That is how it is supposed to work in
America.  It is what makes our police state better then the other
police states.
From: Faux_Pseudo In: Slackware-OT
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Please accept my apologies if I call you a dimwit...dimwit.
From: No_One
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sniff...sniff...sniff...ah...I think I smell troll.
From: No_One
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Checks feet.
Two, no holes.
Seems like I don't know how to use the weapon.
From: Genome
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That should eventually get quite fast, as the friction of sliding will
melt the ice on the bottom of the turd, and it should really pick up
steam for a while.  Eventually, though, when the turd itself begins to
melt, things will get ugly.
From: Dan C
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I gave LFS a try a few years ago. The perfect distro for people who
build cathedrals out of matchsticks or cram ocean steamboats into
bottles for relaxing.
"Linux From Itch" would be more appropriate:oD
From: Niki Kovacs
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It is a feature of a.o.l.s - when Al C isn't trying to persuade us that
Slackware is commercially doomed, and Alan Connor is not replying to
posts he claims never to have read, then RM starts a PGP purge.  It's
that time of year .....
From: Glyn Millington
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So take your bitching, your complaining, your whinging about PGP this,
PGP that, PGP-bury-your-crap-in-your-headers, and shove them up your
ass. RFCs beg to differ with you, and unless you have the authority to
change them (which you don't), things will be staying as is.
From: A Guy Called Tyketto
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On the other hand, as Bogart said to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca,
"We'll always have version 10.2."
From: No_One
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1. There will be at least one, but probably several groups of people
providing Slackware packages, most likely each of which will claim
itself to be the "true" heritance of Slackware.
2. Horrible wars will break out over who _does_ represent the "true"
heritance of Slackware. Mountains will be torn asunder, acid will rain
from the sky and there will be flamewars too terrible for our
imagination. [Don't believe me? Think back to the SlackSec days!]
3. Hopefully, the question of who has "taken over" will be solved
judging by the quality of the provided packages.
4. This one group will continue Slackware, a couple of other forks
will probably happily coexist with it and a bunch of people will
change to Arch Linux.
End of story.
From: Michael Bueker
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C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
From: Steve Taylor
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There's no reason to worry. After taking a peek in my crystal ball,
I see a bright future for Slackware.
1) Al C will buy off Slackware to ensure market share.
2) Obsolete utilities like installpkg and removepkg will be replaced
by /etc/rc.d/rc.crap-get, a daemon that automatically updates your
whole system every 48 seconds.
3) XPDE 0.3.0alpha will replace KDE as main desktop.
4) The Slackware Book will be completely rewritten by system and
baseball analyst Realto Margarino.
From: Niki Kovacs
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Both your posts are right on the money.  If you have truly embraced
the Slackware way, you'll always have it, no matter the OS.
From: notbob
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But, you have no Slack yourself.  Thus you cannot see Slack.  you
cannot hear Slack, you cannot feel Slack.  This is a curse you
have brought upon yourself alone.  You are your own punishment.
From: William Hunt
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Those who can, do.  Those who Canton, preach.
From: Franklin
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As with anything usenet related...the thread is about whatever most of
the posts in the thread are about and the subject line is just an easy
way to sort the thread alphabetically.
From: No_One
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I like runlevel 6 myself - great fun :-)
From: Ron Gibson
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+Alan Hicks+ wrote:
> It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
> Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
> Ecclesiastes 7:5
</Godquote>
From: Chu Mai Fat
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You REALLY need a blowjob, don't you?
From: Leonard The Committed
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Slackware's niche is to provide a basic usable system that people can
build on without fear of the system going down like 500 pound man with
bad knees running toward the buffet line.
From: Faux_Pseudo
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Is patented too? Must be fucked also.
From: Genome
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You know, there's nothing I can say that will put you in a worse light
than this drivel you've posted.  You put your foot in your mouth and
your solution is to ram your other foot in your mouth.
Seems like a self defeeting approach to me.
From: No_One
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It's not libel if it's the truth. 
From: +Alan Hicks+
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You can't understand because of your built-in limitations.  You're
stupid.
From: Dan C
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I don't know if it's wise to mention "all those distros you are
reviewing".
Given the idiosyncrasies of this NG, it's a bit like subscribing to
Monogamists Anonymous and rant about all those women you screw day
and night
From: Niki Kovacs
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Re: RM being banned by his ISP
Keith Keller wrote:
>> Hmm, this explains why aols has been so quiet recently!
> So that why I haven't been finding many mod qoutes lately.
From: Faux_Pseudo In: Slackware-OT
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Yes, this is one of the most abusive - and Fun - NG's, for sure, but
other Fun People here actually has something interesting to SAY.
In another set of Flames from Hell here, I tried to give you credit
for actually knowing something - based on actually remembering
bits'n'pieces from your postings. It's clear now that your set of
knowledge is quite confineable. There's just nothing more to dig out
of the can. Shake it, squeeze it, kick it with military
boots... not'in more there, folks! 
From: Mogens V.
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Please don't shoot the troll, they're fluffy stony creatures with
lots of funny stuff living on the fat of their land, besides if you
happen one day to inherit a bridge you may have the need for a good
standing troll.
From: Loki Harfagr
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Clue is served best with Flames anyway.
From: Franklin
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How about a really useful app like a truly effective troll-filter that
heuristically identifies a particular pathologically persistent
peckerhead in real-time and immediately launches a simultaneous
ping-flood/EMP blast at said maroon?
From: prodigal1
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wait until you try sudo with "insults" set in sudoers.
From: Ciro The Spider-Man
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My computer is plain dull:
# make love
target not found. don't know how to make love
From: Mogens V.
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I've *heard* of people writing perl scripts for package building,
but I'd be just as likely to write one in Swahili - I wouldn't
know perl from swine...  ;-)
From: Robby Workman
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Once again you haven't answered the question posed twice.  Why is that
Alan
Canton of Adams Blake something or other??

If you hold true to form you will:

a. vanish for a few days.
b. claim not to engage in conversations with terrorists etc etc etc.
c. ignore the question entirely and go on as if nothing was asked.
d. pretend your sitting on the moral high ground, therefore, you don't
have to answer.
e. put your fingers in your ears, stomp your feet and make gibberish
noises.
f. pretend to misunderstand the question, provide an *answer* then do
a, b, c, d, e or try f again, working on the assumption you might be
able to fool some of the people some of the time.
Ah....so many choices, so many possibilities.
From: No_One
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Shaker design uses simple elements in their architecture and
furniture. This is "form follows function" simplicity. That is inline
with Slackware's KISS principle.  There will always be a market for
quality objects which work as advertised.
From: Douglas Mayne
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You lose me when you want to pick a winner from the various GNU/Linux
distributions.  To me, that's like saying Jefferson's idea of freedom
is better than Paine's.  They're both pro freedom.
From: Douglas Mayne
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wellllll, donning incremental vestments and speaking by authority of my
office as Bozo#6 of aols as so designated by He Whose Name Shall Not Be
Mentioned, hisself, huzzah huzzah, i'd have to tie the bozo/saint point
exchange rate at a ration of the last close in the apopolyptic prophecy
market, measured in units of Truth, and divided by the price of 6 month
futues market in 1 tonne Clue, deliverd.  While demand for Clue remains
strong, apopolyptic phropecy is in oversupply, currently about a dime a
dozen, it doesn't take a wise guy to tell that we're going to hell in a
humvee.  So, any saint points you might hold now are roughly equivalent
to the value a troll's opinion, worhtless, nada, zero, zilch, no matter
how you spell it.

furthermore, No_One has No_Standing, so it is a moot point, not a saint
point.  The simplest way to achieve sainthood is the old-fashioned way:
steal it!!  Much much less trouble than all that miracle and good works
stuff.  I have consulted the Sacred Spring Catalogues and I can find no
reference to canonization ceremony, only to the cannonization ceremony,
which does not sound like any fun at all, but does require not just any
goat but The Pantomime Goat.  So that's the kibbosh, The Pantomime Goat
hasn't been seen since the unfortunate incident with the Bishop.
From: William Hunt
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Managers want liability contracts, etc., it only distracts from what
Slackware users want: a good UNIX system. A good UNIX system does not
come with buzzwords or contracts, it just works. 
From: Daniel de Kok
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A little honest deception will substitute for quite a lot of
thoghtless trust.
From: Mark South
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BTW., on a more personal note, if you allow me: you mentioned on
several occasions that you are interested in Indian philosophy. From
my limited experience with Yoga I know that harmony and peace are one
of the central values to become a good yoghi. It seems that this
newsgroup has a very negative influence on your peace of mind (since
think there is a wild pack of dogs), and your posts seem to be
disturbing to many in this newsgroup.
Wouldn't it be best for all of us if you and AOLS part ways?
From: Daniel de Kok
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I once figured out that heaven is:
the police are British
the chefs are French
the mechanics are German
the lovers are Italian
the Swiss run the transportation system
hell is:
the police are German
the chefs are British
the mechanics are Italian
the lovers are Swiss
and the French run the transportation system
From: ray
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Hallowed be the day when some charitable soul teaches you how to
masturbate, so your libido will be spent in a more effective way than
thousands of verbal cumshots in the face of usenet groups.
From: Niki Kovacs
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Netiquette tip #1 - Use a mirror!
From: +Alan Hicks+
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And for those of you too young to understand the concept of mirrors,
think of it like a tree. At the root you have Slackware.com. The
leaves are the end users. The nodes between the root and leaves are
the mirrors. If everyone tried to download from the root, we'd be a
bush, not a tree (and who wants to be a bush in this day and age).
From: Melissa Danforth
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01:54 < rob0> You need a girl who likes sex AND computers.
01:54 < alan> sex WITH computers
01:54 < fred> ...
01:55 < rob0> well, uh, not exactly
From: Rob0, +Alan+, Fred E, In: IRC for slackbook.org/slamd64.com
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I'm always telling people that there's a thin line between genius and
madness, and today, I have to say, I'm *really* not sure which sife of
the line you're on!
From: Carl Inglis
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Anyone else find it alarming that people seem to equate "professional"
with click a button (or enter a command like apt-get) and let the
machine do everything for them?
From: Melissa Danforth
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it's probably not advisable to stand so close to the fire when you
throw all that gasoline on it.
From: prodigal1
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How do you expect a group of hobbyists to give you a more detailed
answer than the one The Man himself has provided? And to call those
who do give you the same basic answer as provided in the official FAQ
people who are "giving credibility to that gadfly rm" just makes you
sound like a child who cannot handle the truth when it does not fit
his expectations. Take your temper tantrum elsewhere. Cloaking
yourself in a veil of sanctimonity does not make your temper tantrum
right, just a little more pathetic.
From: Melissa Danforth
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you're probably paranoid, caused by your bad habit of
openly offending other people in this ng. and elsewhere.
think about it, it's eating you.
From: cashmir
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Yeah.. it's like this here.. The thing is.. RM flame everybody.. and
everyone flame back RM.. That's give [sic] the result we see here..
From: Martin Gagnon
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In practice, I've found that it's a lot easier to "upgrade" from a
known starting position: blank disk.  That way when you apply local
modifications, you know exactly where you're starting from: fresh
installation, regardless of OS version.  Short downtime to replace the
OS disk on a system with the newly installed one, and you're on your
way (assuming a sufficiently flexible disk layout, of course).
From: Sylvain Robitaille
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it seems to me the people who can't easily upgrade slack with the
tools available are the same people who use velcro to cinch up their
shoes.
From: No_One
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I feel more in touch with my feminine side now, in a masculine way.
From: Quasipsyco In: Slackware-OT
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Hey, does vim make my hard disk look fat?
From: Keith Keller In: Slackware-OT
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All of you mentioned in some way "security is a process, not a
product," and I'll take that to heart.
From: "Liam"
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I stopped using pictures to communicate when I learned to read and
write.  I realize you still find pictures necessary, but, I'm not
inclined to indulge you.
From: No_One
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Today, must be pot vs. kettle day. 
From: Douglas Mayne
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He's right, Dan.  You should have told the original poster to "Just
put a bullet in Al's head and it would be even quieter on the
newsgroup ..."
From: Sylvain Robitaille
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Silly me.  I believed that people in the publishing business might
have some interest in knowing how to read
From: Sylvain Robitaille
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I'll say it right here, right now, in the wide open: I WOULD SOONER
FLIP BURGERS THAN WORK FOR AL CANTON!  And if Al Canton's running the
burger joint, I'll go deliver pizza!
From: Sylvain Robitaille
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You make incorrect assumptions about my age, my integrity and my
mentality. I have no doubt that you project your own twisted thought
patterns on others, so I will take no offense. You're pathetic, that's
all, and I am glad you take it into the open for everyone to witnes.
You're playing the fiddle? Pulling *our* strings? Hahaha! Google holds
all the evidence any future prospect of yours might ever need.
From: Eric Hameleers
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Message-ID: <6CM4g.70947$H71.67629@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.slackware/msg/1d9e5d092a579c93
Have you noticed that whenever someone has a problem with someone else in
this group they call them:  troll, pathetic, in need of medication,
retarded, sick, unstable, twisted, or some other characterization that
implies mental impairment. And while you avoided it, have you noticed  how
often people either threaten others with implied violence or support the
concept of it? What other group would allow and support a Dan C. to imply
that another member should be killed? What kind of people ARE you?

I can understand the occasional post that goes too far. I do it... we all do
it from time to time.... we let our emotions run away with us. But this
group seems to have a special penchant for it... which is why I use the
nazi and terrorist metaphor so often... because I can't think of another
way to adequately describe the ethos and/or 'culture' here. 

I've never seen a better 'textbook' case of collective ego-centricity 
outside of either a cult like the Dividans or the political hysteria that
formed the Third Reich. If you see this group as a warm, caring, loving,
supportive group, such as you find at linux.debian.user, or on the
kanotix/ubuntu/mepis boards, or on any of the LQ boards, than I can only
surmise that we read things totally differently. 

 You're playing the fiddle? Pulling *our* strings? 

Oh, my goodness yes. What did you think? What do you think my purpose in
posting most of the things I post is? 

Sure, yes, I would like to find a few people to have a interesting
conversation on the economics of Slackware, its marketing, its "place" in
the software 'world' and issues that relate to the industry in general. But
as we've seen, that means that sometimes one has to say something negative
about the product... and that is simply forbidden by the cultists here. So
yes, I have hopes that one day a thread can develop along those issues, but
I don't fool myself to any great extent. 

So at the end of the day this group becomes a place for me practice my
writing skills and debating abilities and creativity. Without a doubt I
have the ability to get most of you to dance to any tune I play. Do I
'play' most of you people? Absolutely... and believe me, it is not hard. I
know exactly what to post to bring out Melissa, I know exactly how to
enrage Dan and 'ken' and I can even 'get' the usually mild-mannered Keith
and you (Eric) to foam at the mouth.

One day I sincerely hope to play a tune and actually get people to sing
along to it in harmony and good will, and without prejudice or rancor. I'd
love to see a real debate on 'marketshare' or why Slackware is inferior to
other distros. But until then, I'll continue to play the fiddle and watch
you all go into your ritualistic St. Vitus Dance.

You know how to use a killfile? Do you know how to use the delete key? If
so, I suggest you do.
From: ANC
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If I want warm and caring, I will go and find real people to talk to,
From: Eric Hameleers
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What's "FOAD" in Spanish?
From: Mark South
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Slackware: Distro of Steel
Slackware: Simply for the hacker
Slackware: No cream, no sugar
Slackware: Cause my boss can't crack it
Slackware: Back to the source
Slackware: None of your business
Slackware: My dog eats gnomes
Slackware: simply Linux
From: AOLS
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