Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
On Friday 23 December 2005 10:05 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: > Hope you all enjoy your day tomorrow. Merry Christmas! Thanks! Blessed Solstice to All! (A bit late...) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
On Friday 23 December 2005 23:53, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 23 December 2005 10:05 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: > > Hope you all enjoy your day tomorrow. Merry Christmas! > > Thanks! > > Blessed Solstice to All! > (A bit late...) And a Merry Non-Demoninational Solstice Holiday With Gift Giving to you also! > > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:59:11 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: > And a Merry Non-Demoninational Solstice Holiday With Gift Giving to you > also! A happy Festival of Capitalism to you all :) -- Neil Bothwick Electrocution, n.: Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
On 24 December 2005 12:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:59:11 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: > > And a Merry Non-Demoninational Solstice Holiday With Gift Giving to you > > also! > > A happy Festival of Capitalism to you all :) Buying nothing than a bottle of scotch for myself. ;-) hehehe Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
On Friday 23 December 2005 23:59, a tiny voice compelled Dan Meltzer to write: > On Friday 23 December 2005 23:53, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Friday 23 December 2005 10:05 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: > > > Hope you all enjoy your day tomorrow. Merry Christmas! > > > > Thanks! > > > > Blessed Solstice to All! > > (A bit late...) > > And a Merry Non-Demoninational Solstice Holiday With Gift Giving to you > also! IT'S CHRISTMAS! Merry Christmas to all my friends here. If you don't celebrate the birth of Christ, please disregard this message. If the message offends you, move somewhere where they have laws against celebrating Christian holidays. I'm sure you'll be much happier. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 07:32:40 up 3 days, 20:37, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.26, 0.54 Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
Ernie Schroder schreef: > On Friday 23 December 2005 23:59, a tiny voice compelled Dan Meltzer to write: > >>On Friday 23 December 2005 23:53, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >>>On Friday 23 December 2005 10:05 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: >>> Hope you all enjoy your day tomorrow. Merry Christmas! >>> >>>Thanks! >>> >>>Blessed Solstice to All! >>>(A bit late...) >> >>And a Merry Non-Demoninational Solstice Holiday With Gift Giving to you >>also! > > > IT'S CHRISTMAS! Merry Christmas to all my friends here. If you don't > celebrate > the birth of Christ, please disregard this message. If the message offends > you, move somewhere where they have laws against celebrating Christian > holidays. I'm sure you'll be much happier. > Happy holidays to all-- whatever the holiday you are celebrating at this time! It's really kinda nice that /everybody/ has a holiday around now, regardless of religion or culture. It would be nicer if we all could appreciate that as a kind of common ground across religions and cultures. Maybe next year. :-) Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:48, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick to write: > > It's really kinda nice that /everybody/ has a holiday around now, > regardless of religion or culture. > > It would be nicer if we all could appreciate that as a kind of common > ground across religions and cultures. > > Maybe next year. > > :-) > > Holly A nice way of saying what I attempted. A special Merry Christmas to you Holly. Thanks for bearing with us idiots throughout the year. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 08:03:59 up 3 days, 21:08, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.60, 0.73 Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
Of all the communities I am/have been a part of, Gentoo is the best one. So I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Safe & Happy New Year as well :- ) Robin On 12/24/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ernie Schroder schreef: > > On Friday 23 December 2005 23:59, a tiny voice compelled Dan Meltzer to > > write: > > > >>On Friday 23 December 2005 23:53, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> > >>>On Friday 23 December 2005 10:05 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: > >>> > Hope you all enjoy your day tomorrow. Merry Christmas! > >>> > >>>Thanks! > >>> > >>>Blessed Solstice to All! > >>>(A bit late...) > >> > >>And a Merry Non-Demoninational Solstice Holiday With Gift Giving to you > >>also! > > > > > > IT'S CHRISTMAS! Merry Christmas to all my friends here. If you don't > > celebrate > > the birth of Christ, please disregard this message. If the message offends > > you, move somewhere where they have laws against celebrating Christian > > holidays. I'm sure you'll be much happier. > > > > Happy holidays to all-- whatever the holiday you are celebrating at this > time! > > It's really kinda nice that /everybody/ has a holiday around now, > regardless of religion or culture. > > It would be nicer if we all could appreciate that as a kind of common > ground across religions and cultures. > > Maybe next year. > > :-) > > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:48:46 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > It's really kinda nice that /everybody/ has a holiday around now, > regardless of religion or culture. Well, it makes sense for everyone to have a holiday around now, what with everywhere being closed for Christmas :) -- Neil Bothwick Windows 98 took us to the edge of the cliff. With Windows XP we took a big step forward. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:49:24 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Buying nothing than a bottle of scotch for myself. ;-) hehehe That's true Christmas spirit, provided it's a decent single malt :) -- Neil Bothwick She's fine, upstanding, and wonderful laying down. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:48, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick to write: It's really kinda nice that /everybody/ has a holiday around now, regardless of religion or culture. It would be nicer if we all could appreciate that as a kind of common ground across religions and cultures. Maybe next year. :-) Holly A nice way of saying what I attempted. A special Merry Christmas to you Holly. Thanks for bearing with us idiots throughout the year. Especailly me. LOL Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
On Saturday 24 December 2005 13:51, Dale wrote: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:48, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick > > to > > > >write: > >>It's really kinda nice that /everybody/ has a holiday around now, > >>regardless of religion or culture. > >> > >>It would be nicer if we all could appreciate that as a kind of common > >>ground across religions and cultures. > >> > >>Maybe next year. > >> > >>:-) > >> > >>Holly > > > >A nice way of saying what I attempted. A special Merry Christmas to you > > Holly. Thanks for bearing with us idiots throughout the year. > > Especailly me. LOL > And a Merry Xthing and a Happy New Year from me and the Hairy Ones. Hiding in Berkx UK. ( wrapping himself round a bottle of Aussie Shiraz and thinking that an emerge world would not be a good thing to do) -- Big Tone -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
Tony Davison wrote: >On Saturday 24 December 2005 13:51, Dale wrote: > > >>Ernie Schroder wrote: >> >> >>>On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:48, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick >>>to >>> >>>write: >>> >>> It's really kinda nice that /everybody/ has a holiday around now, regardless of religion or culture. It would be nicer if we all could appreciate that as a kind of common ground across religions and cultures. Maybe next year. :-) Holly >>>A nice way of saying what I attempted. A special Merry Christmas to you >>>Holly. Thanks for bearing with us idiots throughout the year. >>> >>> >>Especailly me. LOL >> >> >> >And a Merry Xthing and a Happy New Year from me and the Hairy Ones. >Hiding in Berkx UK. >( wrapping himself round a bottle of Aussie Shiraz and thinking that an emerge >world would not be a good thing to do) > > Merry Christmas to all and a very happy New Year. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
#!/bin/pub ${Merry_xmas} >> . bah humbug was going to go for an appropriate bash script with pub and Glenlivet involved, realised I cant wrote them so .. Have a merry christmas all :] stu ps. New year resolution = bash, need a geekier greeting for next year On 24/12/05, Tony Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 24 December 2005 13:51, Dale wrote: > > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > >On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:48, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick > > > to > > > > > >write: > > >>It's really kinda nice that /everybody/ has a holiday around now, > > >>regardless of religion or culture. > > >> > > >>It would be nicer if we all could appreciate that as a kind of common > > >>ground across religions and cultures. > > >> > > >>Maybe next year. > > >> > > >>:-) > > >> > > >>Holly > > > > > >A nice way of saying what I attempted. A special Merry Christmas to you > > > Holly. Thanks for bearing with us idiots throughout the year. > > > > Especailly me. LOL > > > And a Merry Xthing and a Happy New Year from me and the Hairy Ones. > Hiding in Berkx UK. > ( wrapping himself round a bottle of Aussie Shiraz and thinking that an emerge > world would not be a good thing to do) > -- > Big Tone > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
quoth the Stuart Howard: > #!/bin/pub > > ${Merry_xmas} >> . > > bah humbug was going to go for an appropriate bash script with pub and > Glenlivet involved, realised I cant wrote them so .. How about: if [[ ${Merry_xmas} != 0 ]]; then do /pub/glenlivet --short --double --rocks ; done > Have a merry christmas all :] And happy Festivus, the holiday for the restofus ;) > stu Darren > ps. New year resolution = bash, need a geekier greeting for next year > > On 24/12/05, Tony Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 24 December 2005 13:51, Dale wrote: > > > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > >On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:48, a tiny voice compelled Holly > > > > Bostick to > > > > > > > >write: > > > >>It's really kinda nice that /everybody/ has a holiday around now, > > > >>regardless of religion or culture. > > > >> > > > >>It would be nicer if we all could appreciate that as a kind of common > > > >>ground across religions and cultures. > > > >> > > > >>Maybe next year. > > > >> > > > >>:-) > > > >> > > > >>Holly > > > > > > > >A nice way of saying what I attempted. A special Merry Christmas to > > > > you Holly. Thanks for bearing with us idiots throughout the year. > > > > > > Especailly me. LOL > > > > And a Merry Xthing and a Happy New Year from me and the Hairy Ones. > > Hiding in Berkx UK. > > ( wrapping himself round a bottle of Aussie Shiraz and thinking that an > > emerge world would not be a good thing to do) > > -- > > Big Tone > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- > "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand > binary, those who don't" > > --Unknown -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 pgpvNxREM0gdG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas all! Its now 42min into Christmas day in South Africa! -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
051224 Ernie Schroder wrote: >> a Merry Non-Demoninational Solstice Holiday With Gift Giving also! > IT'S CHRISTMAS! Merry Christmas to all my friends here. Indeed it is ! Us pagans recognised the solstice a few days ago, when we hide in the back of a nice deep cave with a supply of mammoth bones, but we also know that different tribes have different gods & it's natural for people to worship the gods of their ancestors. Christians have a charming story about a baby & Jews use a lot of bright candles to commemorate yet another rescue event; only the Moslems with their lunar year miss out on this season, but we can remember to greet them when Ramadan next ends, a bit earlier each year. Greetings to Gentooists wherever whenever ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 17:50 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > 051224 Ernie Schroder wrote: > >> a Merry Non-Demoninational Solstice Holiday With Gift Giving also! > > IT'S CHRISTMAS! Merry Christmas to all my friends here. > > Indeed it is ! Us pagans recognised the solstice a few days ago, > when we hide in the back of a nice deep cave with a supply of mammoth bones, > but we also know that different tribes have different gods > & it's natural for people to worship the gods of their ancestors. > Christians have a charming story about a baby > & Jews use a lot of bright candles to commemorate yet another rescue event; > only the Moslems with their lunar year miss out on this season, > but we can remember to greet them when Ramadan next ends, > a bit earlier each year. Greetings to Gentooists wherever whenever ! > > -- > ,, > SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies > TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto Merry Christmas to All, hot buttered run for everyone. -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org /\ \ \ \__/ \__/ \ \ (oo) (oo) \_\/~~\_/~~\_ _.-~===~-._ (___) \___/ I Want To Believe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:30:25 -0800, darren kirby wrote: > if [[ ${Merry_xmas} != 0 ]]; then do /pub/glenlivet --short --double > --rocks ; done Heathen! A decent whisky should never be polluted with ice. USE="noice" emerge glenlivet -- Neil Bothwick Last words of a Windows user: = Why does that work now? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
quoth the Neil Bothwick: > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:30:25 -0800, darren kirby wrote: > > if [[ ${Merry_xmas} != 0 ]]; then do /pub/glenlivet --short --double > > --rocks ; done > > Heathen! A decent whisky should never be polluted with ice. > > USE="noice" emerge glenlivet Well, I was just trying to help out Stuart, I don't drink scotch myself, and didn't realize ice is a faux pas. My own script would be more like: if [[ ${today} == ${weekday} ]]; then do /home/beer --ale; done elif [[ ${today} == ${weekend} ]]; then while [[ ${sober} ]]; do /bar/martini --gin='bombay' --dry --shaken done # literally! fi -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 pgpQIqJyH0XyB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
heheh ice and scotch lovers normally leads to a minor riot, plus to those Gentooists who do not live in the UK would not realise that it is normally cold enough here to not need ice :] An addition to your script Darren ### cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth ### ^^ shamelessly stolen from a gentoo-dev post to this list many months ago stu ps. xmas piccy http://dugnet.com/klown/wallpaper/show.php?id=_wallpaper/_linux/christmastux2k5 On 25/12/05, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quoth the Neil Bothwick: > > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:30:25 -0800, darren kirby wrote: > > > if [[ ${Merry_xmas} != 0 ]]; then do /pub/glenlivet --short --double > > > --rocks ; done > > > > Heathen! A decent whisky should never be polluted with ice. > > > > USE="noice" emerge glenlivet > > Well, I was just trying to help out Stuart, I don't drink scotch myself, and > didn't realize ice is a faux pas. > > My own script would be more like: > > if [[ ${today} == ${weekday} ]]; then do /home/beer --ale; done > elif [[ ${today} == ${weekend} ]]; then > while [[ ${sober} ]]; > do /bar/martini --gin='bombay' --dry --shaken > done # literally! > fi > > -d > -- > darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org > "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." > - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 > > > -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
Great picture. I am always on the lookout for some nice tux wallpaper :-) On 12/25/05, Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > heheh > > ice and scotch lovers normally leads to a minor riot, plus to those > Gentooists who do not live in the UK would not realise that it is > normally cold enough here to not need ice :] > > An addition to your script Darren > ### > cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth > ### > ^^ shamelessly stolen from a gentoo-dev post to this list many months ago > > stu > > ps. xmas piccy > > http://dugnet.com/klown/wallpaper/show.php?id=_wallpaper/_linux/christmastux2k5 > > > > > On 25/12/05, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > quoth the Neil Bothwick: > > > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:30:25 -0800, darren kirby wrote: > > > > if [[ ${Merry_xmas} != 0 ]]; then do /pub/glenlivet --short --double > > > > --rocks ; done > > > > > > Heathen! A decent whisky should never be polluted with ice. > > > > > > USE="noice" emerge glenlivet > > > > Well, I was just trying to help out Stuart, I don't drink scotch myself, and > > didn't realize ice is a faux pas. > > > > My own script would be more like: > > > > if [[ ${today} == ${weekday} ]]; then do /home/beer --ale; done > > elif [[ ${today} == ${weekend} ]]; then > > while [[ ${sober} ]]; > > do /bar/martini --gin='bombay' --dry --shaken > > done # literally! > > fi > > > > -d > > -- > > darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org > > "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." > > - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 > > > > > > > > > -- > "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand > binary, those who don't" > > --Unknown > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
On 25 December 2005 12:36, Stuart Howard wrote: > heheh > > ice and scotch lovers normally leads to a minor riot, plus to those > Gentooists who do not live in the UK would not realise that it is > normally cold enough here to not need ice :] Hey, I can assure you that it isn't cold around, but we, too, don't use ice in scotch. Now, tell the Scottish they don't need to filter out oils from their whisky. Since we all drink it without ice, it won't cloud. ;-) Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list