On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Don McMorris <don.mcmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Good book, wasn't it? I was at a library conference in Boston back in 2006. > On one of my down days, I started reading it... > And it was also about that time I realized there wasn't an "i" between the > "d" and "s" in his last name, like I'd been pronouncing all the years prior > ;). > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Jim Peterson <jim.sokytec...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Being the sometimes librarian that I am, I've found a pretty good read in >> Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, a biography of Linus >> Torvalds. Too funny with the xorg.conf, tho. I wonder if he had to write his >> own driver? >> >> Jim Peterson >> Technology Coordinator >> Goodnight Memorial Library >> 203 S. Main St. >> Franklin, KY 42134 >> (270) 586-8397 >> www.gmpl.org >> Tweet me @GMLGeek >> Library Technology Blog >> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 14:56 -0500, Don Delp wrote: >> >> I found a list of "facts" about Linux Torvalds. I ended up there >> after reading a Linux article on Cracked.com of all places. >> >> * Linus Torvalds doesn’t wear glasses anymore not because he had laser >> eye surgery, but because he finally got his xorg.conf properly >> configured in his head. >> >> >> http://www.slayerx.org/2008/02/27/linus-torvalds-facts/ >> >> >> >> >
I looked it up on Google Books for the preview and it looks pretty good. This bit really made me smile: I asked him what he would like to say to Bill Gates, but he wasn't the least bit interested in even meeting the guy. "There wouldn't be much of a connection point, he reasoned. "I'm completely unintersted in the thing that he's the best in the world at. And he's not interested in the thing that maybe I'm the best in the world at. I couldn't give him advice in business and he couldn't give me advice in technology. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
