Re: Hardware (was Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux)

2007-01-28 Thread Nate Bargmann 
* Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Jan 28 12:28 -0600]:

> What a time to have missed the "open box" and "as is" AMD and Intel 
> dual core machines. Oh well, not like I _need_ another machine.

Quite possibly, that was no accident.  Either Microsoft or the
manufacturers or both probably didn't want stuff like that hitting the
market right before Vista's launch.

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Hardware (was Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux)

2007-01-28 Thread Curt Howland 
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On Saturday 27 January 2007 21:52,  
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> That's great, isn't it?  My latest box is a PIII-733 that I picked
> up for C$69.00.  I paid C$3500.00 for the same thing new in a
> laptop five years ago.  With Vista (Pto!) coming in, we can
> expect a lot of great "trash" coming our way soon.  :-)

The stores around here cleaned out their floor models with XP on them, 
unfortunately doing so _last_ weekend rather than this one, and have 
spent the last week putting out "Do Not Sell Until Tuesday January 
30th" PCs.

What a time to have missed the "open box" and "as is" AMD and Intel 
dual core machines. Oh well, not like I _need_ another machine.

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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-27 Thread s. keeling 
Rob Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>  On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:08:20AM +, s. keeling wrote:
> > 
> > He's suggesting a nickel would get him a better computer than what he's
> > using.  That's a pretty damning indictment.  A nickel can't buy a
> > computer in any way, shape or form.
> 
>  Are you kidding?  I can get for free (out of a dump) a computer that 30
>  years ago people would have killed to own; that 50 years ago governments
>  would have killed to own.  Of course, 30 or 50 years ago, nobody was
>  running Windows, so let the arguments about "better" continue...

That's great, isn't it?  My latest box is a PIII-733 that I picked up
for C$69.00.  I paid C$3500.00 for the same thing new in a laptop five
years ago.  With Vista (Pto!) coming in, we can expect a lot of
great "trash" coming our way soon.  :-)


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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson 
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 16:20 -0500, Stephen wrote:
> OK it might not be that funny, but hey, at least it mentions Linux and the 
> evil
> empire (as we know it);

For even more linux-in-mainstream-comics I found this archive, 
http://folk.uio.no/hpv/linuxtoons/index.html

Supposedly it was on Digg not long ago, so maybe I'm the last on the
planet to see it.

They missed Sluggy's "Grand Auto Theft: Linux" though,
http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=050123
http://store.sluggy.com/detailed-gat.html

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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-27 Thread Curt Howland 
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On Saturday 27 January 2007 09:38, Chris Bannister 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> Check out userfriendly.org(?) for, IMO, LOL humour.

UserFriendly also has a handy search function with which you can look 
for particular words in the text of the frames.

Such as, "Debian", "linux religious wars", and other fun things like 
that.

I've been reading it daily since I found it in 2000. Too bad Illiad 
gave up on the Abandoned Missile Silo story arch after September 
2001. I was curious where that was going.

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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-27 Thread Chris Bannister 
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:20:59PM -0500, Stephen wrote:
> OK it might not be that funny, but hey, at least it mentions Linux and the 
> evil
> empire (as we know it);
> 
> 

Check out userfriendly.org(?) for, IMO, LOL humour.

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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-26 Thread Rob Sims 
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:08:20AM +, s. keeling wrote:
> Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >   Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:16 -0700, ChadDavis wrote:
> > >> Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up=
> > 
> > >> to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a
> > >> real computer."
> > >
> > > http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg :-)
> > 
> > Odd, the strip says ``go buy yourself a /better/ computer''.  I would
> >  have sworn a might oath that the original said ``real computer'', as
> >  ChadDavis says.  That's how Neil Stephenson quotes it in ``In the
> >  Beginning was the Command Line''[1], and I think it's better that way.
> 
> He's suggesting a nickel would get him a better computer than what he's
> using.  That's a pretty damning indictment.  A nickel can't buy a
> computer in any way, shape or form.
 
Are you kidding?  I can get for free (out of a dump) a computer that 30
years ago people would have killed to own; that 50 years ago governments
would have killed to own.  Of course, 30 or 50 years ago, nobody was
running Windows, so let the arguments about "better" continue...
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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-26 Thread s. keeling 
Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>   Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:16 -0700, ChadDavis wrote:
> >> Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up=
> 
> >> to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a
> >> real computer."
> >
> > http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg :-)
> 
> Odd, the strip says ``go buy yourself a /better/ computer''.  I would
>  have sworn a might oath that the original said ``real computer'', as
>  ChadDavis says.  That's how Neil Stephenson quotes it in ``In the
>  Beginning was the Command Line''[1], and I think it's better that way.

He's suggesting a nickel would get him a better computer than what he's
using.  That's a pretty damning indictment.  A nickel can't buy a
computer in any way, shape or form.

Always loved that strip from the first time I saw it.  Great to see it
again.  Thx.


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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-26 Thread Joshua J. Kugler 
On Friday 26 January 2007 04:20, Max Hyre wrote:
>  Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:16 -0700, ChadDavis wrote:
> >> Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up
> >> to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a
> >> real computer."
> >
> > http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg :-)
>
>Odd, the strip says ``go buy yourself a /better/ computer''.  I would
> have sworn a might oath that the original said ``real computer'', as
> ChadDavis says.  That's how Neil Stephenson quotes it in ``In the
> Beginning was the Command Line''[1], and I think it's better that way.

I agree...I thought it was "real computer."  Oh no! Revisionist comic history. 
EVERYBODY PAAANIIC!

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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-26 Thread Max Hyre 

 Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:16 -0700, ChadDavis wrote:
>> Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up
>> to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a
>> real computer."
>
> http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg :-)
>

   Odd, the strip says ``go buy yourself a /better/ computer''.  I would
have sworn a might oath that the original said ``real computer'', as
ChadDavis says.  That's how Neil Stephenson quotes it in ``In the
Beginning was the Command Line''[1], and I think it's better that way.



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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom 

Sven Arvidsson wrote:

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:16 -0700, ChadDavis wrote:

Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up
to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a
real computer."


http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg :-)



I used to work with a Unix devotee at IBM Research, looked just like the 
guy with the beard ...



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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Hyslop 
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ChadDavis wrote:
>> 
> 
> 
> Can someone explain the last frame? Who are those people?

You gotta think like Dogbert: who cares who they are? They serve the
purpose :=)

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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson 
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On 01/25/07 17:25, Glenn Becker wrote:
> 
>>> Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up
>>> to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a
>>> real computer."
> 
> yes.
> 
> but i think it was a /nickel/. :D

Inflation?

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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson 
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On 01/25/07 12:16, ChadDavis wrote:
>> 
> 
> Can someone explain the last frame? Who are those people?
> 
> Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up
> to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a
> real computer."

PR flunkies?


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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-25 Thread Glenn Becker 



Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up
to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a
real computer."


yes.

but i think it was a /nickel/. :D

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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-25 Thread ChadDavis 




Can someone explain the last frame? Who are those people?

Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up
to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a
real computer."


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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson 
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:16 -0700, ChadDavis wrote:
> Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up
> to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a
> real computer."

http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg :-)

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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-25 Thread Stephen 
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:22:44AM +0100 or thereabouts, Michael Dominok wrote:

> Well, Scott Adams must have read your post. Todays Dilbert "features"
> Linux too 
> 
> http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070125.html

Thanks -- I like the new one, kinda makes the point a little better.

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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-25 Thread cassiano 

Michael Dominok wrote:

Am Mittwoch, den 24.01.2007, 16:20 -0500 schrieb Stephen:

OK it might not be that funny, but hey, at least it mentions Linux and the evil
empire (as we know it);





Well, Scott Adams must have read your post. Todays Dilbert "features"
Linux too 

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070125.html




Or maybe uncle Bill has...


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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-24 Thread Michael Dominok 
Am Mittwoch, den 24.01.2007, 16:20 -0500 schrieb Stephen:
> OK it might not be that funny, but hey, at least it mentions Linux and the 
> evil
> empire (as we know it);
> 
> 
> 

Well, Scott Adams must have read your post. Todays Dilbert "features"
Linux too 

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070125.html



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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux

2007-01-24 Thread Evan 

nice.

On 1/24/07, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

OK it might not be that funny, but hey, at least it mentions Linux and the evil
empire (as we know it);



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2007-01-24 Thread Stephen 
OK it might not be that funny, but hey, at least it mentions Linux and the evil
empire (as we know it);



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