Do not post without providing any useful information whatsoever. I would be willing to try to guess if there was SOMETHING. You gave us nothing to go on. -- /dev/rob0 % modprobe +cibao+ -- Blumf % Your choice to troll instead of assist has been duly noted in your record. -- +Cibao+ % Leave the damned messages on! These are put there on purpose to get your mind ready for phaseII of your Slackware experience: Your introduction to a Texas UFO doomsday cult. -- "Leonard the Committed" % although I did deviate from my own personal slackware tradition of drinking beer while doing the install (which as I'm told in lore) is necessary for a virgin install unless you want headaches. -- Drew % you could have supplied at least *somekind* of actual information, or did you want people to guess ? -- Jurgen Philippaerts % > Are all slackware users this friendly? I believe they are even more unfriendly to top-posting shitheads. -- Billy Watt % i don't have my own PGP here, so i'll leave yours here instead so as to piss off the troll: -- William Hunt % I was planning to use a headset for a telephony application, but the tuits I've found have not been appropriately circular. :) -- /dev/rob0 % most Slackers are real control freaks and wouldn't trust some installer to automagically download and install crap. -- Kurt % I don't think the majority of Slackware users would care for an auto-update system, it takes away the control we hold so dearly. I want to know what is and gets installed on my system. I want to avoid unecessary bloat. -- Bartosz Oudekerk % If you describe 'anal majority' as a group knowledgeable regulars that keep the standard of the group high by actively letting (new) posters know when they asked a stupid question, then yeah there a lot of them. -- Andy McDowell % membership is strictly limited to those who don't need to have the docs slowly read out loud for them. -- William Hunt % yes, of course. boogered [1] is more catastrophic than the more generalized 'flummoxed'[2], where something that is flumoxed might conceivably still function, and yet less so the totality of fubar [3], where all hope is lost. something that is boogered simply will not work yet still retains the potential for salvage. -- William Hunt % at this point he has no way of knowing what is a newbie question and what is a "OMFG WTF" question. He looks through the groups.. he sees .newbie and he sees .guru. Guess which group he is going to post to with the subject line of "!!! NEED HELP !!!"? Exactly he is going to post to both. -- Faux_Pseudo % Don't let your sister tell you what to post. It makes you seem...well...femmie -- "lionel_rooskie" % How do you decide if you want System V IPC or BSD Process Accounting or what the fuck is Sysctl support?!? And what the hell is i686, really? My computer says Pentium, it doesn't say 686, which is basically the same thing as a 386, right? Wuzzup wit dat 'i' in front, either?! IT IS ALL SO CONFUSING< I HATE YOU ALL! -- AthlonRob % we then put this Dual Opteron up as a mail server.It's been handling about 200,000 Emails/day very gracefully (thanks to the Sobig worm). -- JWSmythe % rm, would you do us all a favour? find a nice high tree outside, get a rope, tie a noose in it and hang it from the tree. stick your head through the noose and pull tight. (make sure your feet don't touch the ground.) then stay there hanging for a few hours. it will do you good. oh, btw, if you find you have trouble breathing in this position, don't worry about it. that't to be expected. -- Joost Kremers % dern it, I plonk you once, and you go changin around your address and break my plonkage. *re-plonk with better plonkage*. -- Chris % Feeding the trolls, as always (they make a better *plonk* when properly fattened up first), -- Chris % I think there's a real shortage of clueful people throughout industry and academia. And then there's added pressure and the excrement of male bovines. IMHO DIY @home is the best way to learn, if not the ONLY way. -- /dev/rob0 % Welcome to alt.os.linux.slackwre. We hope you will enjoy your stay. Your answer is here: -- Faux Pseudo % rm. Never has so much been spewed by so few brain cells. -- George Georgakis in slackware-ot % rm. Nothing but a good excuse to master regular expressions. -- Mark Hill in slackware-ot % You people and your silly emacs! Everyone knows you save files with a true text editor using ":x". I mean, what's up with this "Meta-S + Meta-X" crap? How do you keep those things straight? -- Alan HIcks % I am thoroughly convinced that God uses slrn and elvis! -- Alan Hicks % that's enough I think I'm going to turn the noise way down and the signal way up -- beldar % Lucifer's crowning glory in all of computing [...] Q W E R T Y U I O P A S D F G H J K L Z X C V B N M -- Lord Almighty (through the keyboard of /dev/rob0) % After all, brevity is the soul of that word I can't spell. -- Faux_Pseudo % Linux is about being a great OS in it's own right - it's not about being an alternative. -- Ori % > At least my comments are easy to judge on the Mod Quote scale, if it's an > odd numbered compilation I'm in, if it's an even one I'm out. -- Billy Watt I was going to submit that as a mod quote, but the next one is an even one. :) -- Simon % [...]the mark of a true geek. A geek knoweth how little he know; a non-geek knows how much. -- Carl Inglis in slackware-ot % Is dissatisfaction included with each MS license fee? -- /dev/rob0 % "think we have mostly recovered from my multiple personality disorder." -- Simon % Linux doesn't cut it at turning a $3000 computer into a $200 video game console compared to windoze[...] -- Ciro The Spider-Man % Tymshare PDP10? I think we're going to need a sample of you to carbon date :) -- Blumf in alt.linux.slakware % I used to write Beej's Guides... -- Beej Jorgensen % There's only one reason why you would persist through college toward a degree: to make yourself more marketable in the eyes of people who are not qualified to judge technical competence, but yet who have been put in charge of corporate purse-strings. -- /dev/rob0 % If we top post then the terrorists have already won. -- Faux_Pseudo % If this pattern continues, it may become necessary to impose martial law - - temporarily of course - to ensure that top-posters cease in their efforts to assist terrorist organizations. -- +Cibao+ % Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. -- A friend of Faux_Pseudo % mcuh as i ssihtapmye wtih yuor etroffs to dralcee snillepg rnadnudet, Fuax, trehe is a non-sutiuqer in tihs rninosaeg...[1] [...] [1] much as i sympathise with your efforts to declare spelling redundant, Faux, there is a non-sequitur in this reasoning... -- Joost Kremers % You can't do anything until you understand what you're doing. A rather simple anti-Klutz mechanism. -- notbob % Slackware: You can do what YOU want and how YOU think it works right. -- Henry Jensen % my workplace only allows RedHat 'for security reasons' -- Big Bird % linux keeps people honest. no need to be a little pirate in your own room. Arr... -- Jurgen Philippaerts % So, people with clue are returning to college to get the piece of paper that will impress those without clue... [...] But people with clue know the true value of paper--that's how toilet paper was invented. -- Keith Keller % It takes a unique brand of dedication and selfless service in pursuit of the general nuisance to get me to bother creating a filter. -- James % IMHO people that still use MSOE and think it's neat to click on every file that comes into their mailbox should receive a serious beating with a clue-stick. -- Joost Kremers % RTFM - learn it, live it, love it -- William Hunt % No need to learn the manual, it may change; just learn to think about reading it when needed :D) -- Loki Harfagr % My thesis is that all great minds are self-taught, and that the right kind of college can be a great place to teach yourself things. -- Bryan Bibb % "Friends don't let friends use Windows". -- Simon Williams % Slackware--decisions are based on technical opinions, not political or economic factors. -- Keith Keller % Amen! :) Hmmm, this gets me wondering how the bat was chosen for the cover of the bat book. Perl's camel makes sense: perl is big, slow, ugly, but very powerful. :) Bats ... always chasing bugs: yes, that fits. :) -- /dev/rob0 % Qmail takes a Unix system and turns it into DJBNIX. -- /dev/rob0 % Also he has a four digit UID on Slashdot. Which is quite good. Better than my 6 digit one. He probably joined up when it was worth reading. -- Richard James % Linux is a crazy crowd. There are distributions for "users"[0] and "Users" for distributions. Go figure? -- Stan Flatto % There's no need to bottom-quote *every* line of previous posts, just to add your own 2 cents to a conversation. Doing so will: Make you a better Netizen. Make your conversations easier to follow. Save bandwidth. Make your posts more likely to be read by those with limited bandwidth. (You never know who's going to be able to answer your Q's) Make your teeth shiny and bright. Make you more attractive to the gender of your preference. Increase your stamina. _Really_ piss off 'rm'. =) -- +Cibao+ % What a silly question, of course I ..... Oh S**T!! I hereby nominate myself for "Prat of The Year" award - I should win it easily (might manage Prat of the Century too. -- Mike % Doesn't M$ usually back stuff that sucks? ;) -- Jamess % You are not a lawyer. None of us here are lawyers. Lawyers tend to be too stupid to understand computers. -- /dev/rob0 % And just think. I just purchased the "Official 9.1 Distribution CD Set" just last week from http://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/store - should receive the set in snail-mail much quicker than I could expect to receive a stable version of windows. -- Gruppy Old Man % The rest, as they say, is history (although I have no idea who "they" are nor why they say that.) -- /dev/rob0 % do fish piss in the sea ? is the pope catholic ? are you lucky that i answered you instead of +cibao+ ? will it hurt when i poke my finger in your eye ? will rm eventually grow up ? nah, scratch that last one. -- Jurgen % Slacking 'cause Bob told me to. -- Blumf % ...most competent people in any endeavour tend to be self-taught; even those who sought a degree in that field. -- /dev/rob0 % Um, yeah... duly noted. The tinfoil hats don't work unless you have the shiny side OUT. -- Ciro The Spider-Man % If you're not going to use software because some of its end-users are assholes, you're not going to be using much software. :) -- Keith Keller % I think there is a central FUD factory that gives industry discounts. -- Bryan Bibb in slackware-ot % "if you feel that you'll need expensive support for a simple opensource application, that is well documented, then you're underqualified for your job, and you're wasting our resources." -- Jurgen Philippaerts in slackware-ot % man bash has everything you need. -- Keith Keller % Please fix the user of your newsreader--he's horribly broken in many ways. -- Keith Keller % [1] Alzheimer's time for me.[2] [...] [2] The 3 best things about Alzheimer's:[3] You can hide your own Easter eggs. You make new friends every day. You can hide your own Easter eggs. You make new friends every day. [3] Did I ever tell you the 3 best things about Alzheimer's? [...] [3] Did I ever tell you the 3 best things about Alzheimer's? -- /dev/rob0 % I wouldn't exactly say anyone runs KDE. Walks KDE maybe, but runs is just a little exageration. :^) -- Alan Hicks % daemontools is a horrible nightmare of depravity, and anyone who uses it deserves to have it respawn in runlevels 1 and 6. :) -- Keith Keller % slackware's installer's only taks is to install what you tell it to. and o that right. that's all it has to do, and that's why we love it. i've had some close encounters with so called "smart" installers. i hated it. they kept insisting to install crap i didn't want. so much for smart, i'd call them stubborn, at most. -- Jurgen Philippaerts % Have you had your google today.. -- Richard Adams % Linux is for hackers. Windoze is for appliance-operators. Linux is for idealists. Windoze is for consumers. -- Alan Connor % go say three Hail Bob, give alms to the poor, and try again. -- William Hunt % Making things easier for the lazy, at the risk of screwing machines up for everyone else. It all sounds so very Micrososftian, doesn't it? -- George Georgakis % Some distros attempt to be smart by doing things for you. Slackware is the smartest one of all, because it only does what you tell it to do. -- Morgan Landry % People too afraid to do something that the vast majority of people aren't doing, well..... what the hell are you doing using Slackware? -- Alan Hicks % Heh. In my job "TUI" stands for "Telephony User Interface." You think it's hard being user-friendly with a command line? Try it with 12 buttons and no screen. -- Duke Robillard % > I wonder about the maximum RAM. Is 640MB enough? 640MB ought to be enough for anybody. :) -- Keith Keller in slackware-ot % Usually if you don't get a reply, that means that we don't know and can't be bothered to look. -- Bartosz Oudekerk % I guess if I put out so many one-liners one's gotta be funny every once in a while. :) -- Keith Keller in slackware-ot % First thing you need is a great big clue-stick slammed hard into the side of your head. Then you'll know to do a few things. -- Alan Hicks % Perl is significantly more readable after encryption. -- Keith Keller % I love how a good troll can bring out the *love* in the community. Group hugs all around. :-) -- Bryan Bibb % If you stop morphing, I promise I won't morph just to evade your sophisticated scoring mechanism (which probably somehow pipes each post through sed, rot13, and grep, and adds up exit statuses to decide the final score of each post). -- Keith Keller % I had no way of knowing that, I don't have permissions to read /dev/yourmind. -- Bartosz Oudekerk % Did I hurt your feelings somehow? If so I'm dreadfully sorry, as well as completely at a loss as to how my post could have been offensive. It shan't happen again unless perhaps you should happen to morph your posting identity. -- /dev/rob0 % Old computers never die, they just smell that way