It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! You have probably heard about the awesome OLPC project and the Asus eee PC, both of which have Linux as its running operating system. Their popularity got the attention of Bill Gates, who now wants to put his Windows OS on both machines! Thom Holwerda from OS News sums it up perfectly:
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It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! Did you go see the Simpsons Movie yet? We in Germany are lucky enough to see the film one day ahead of the official release in the US and the UK; in fact, some movie theaters were showing the dubbed version on the 25th already! Without telling you guys too much I’ll only say this: No it doesn’t suck at all, no it’s not the best episode ever, and yes I’d watch it another 50 times! Do you know that Ben & Jerry’s made an ice cream flavor called “Duff and D’oh-Nuts” specially for the movie premiere in Springfield, Vermont? It’s a combination of chocolate and cream stout with chunks of glazed chocolate donuts. According to Ben & Jerry’s it’s a “one-time and one-day-only” flavor, but who says we can’t make our own donut ice cream?
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Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice cream by its diameter?
A: Pi á la mode.
It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! Those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere have just celebrated the official start of summer…ok, many probably didn’t even realize that was an official date, but the rising temperature and the cheerfulness is definitely palpable. I don’t know how you guys mark the beginning of your favorite reason, but I did get myself a triple-scoop ice cream - sesame with honey, chilli with chocolate, plus ginger - on an extra buttery cone. What are your favorite ice cream flavors? Maybe there are regional flavors where you are that you don’t get anywhere else? In Japan, for example, gourmets can enjoy octopus or kelp flavored ice cream, whereas in Taiwan I’ve seen pork flavored and green-tea flavored ice cream. I wonder if you get snail flavored ice cream in France?
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Previously on LinuxTag Comes to Springsfield (Part I)
3 days later. The Simpsons are having breakfast when the door bell rings. Homer goes to get the door. It’s the mailman.
Homer: What do you want.
Mailman: What does it look like?
Homer: You selling insurance?
Mailman: I got a registered letter for Lisa Simpson.
Homer: Registered letter. Must be important.
Mailman: Whatever.
Homer: Can I read it before giving it to her?
Mailman: Like I care.
Homer: Do you have a registered letter for me?
Mailman: No.
Homer: Why not.
Mailman: Dunno.
Homer: Why are you so snappish.
Mailman: You’re annoying the hell outta me!
Homer: (shocked and offended) I never want to see you again! (slams the door and cries all the way back to the kitchen) keep reading… »
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At the Springfield Elementary.
Krabappel: OK class, can someone tell me what Linux is? Yes Ralph.
Ralph: You use it to blow yellow liquid out of your nose and block red liquid from coming out of your nose.
Bart: Don’t you mean “Kleenix”, Ms. “Rabappel”?
Class giggles.
Krabappel: Shut up Bart. Yes, Milhouse?
Milhouse: I saw it on the laptop of my dad’s divorce lawyer once: it’s some sorta penguin that likes to eat kernels of the Debian plant.
Krabappel: Milhouse! Why didn’t you tell me your dad’s getting a divorce! I want your father to call me after 10 o’clock tonight so we can discuss your academic dishonesty problem. As for the rest of the class, watch and learn!
Krabappel dims the room and puts a VHS in the VCR.
McClure: Hi! I’m Troy McClure, you may remember me from educational films such as Amoeba: What You Don’t Know Might Not Kill You and memorable blockbusters such as Snakes on the Rollercoaster. In the next 20 minutes we’ll be learning about this revolutionary operating system called Linux. keep reading… »
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It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! We looked at Linux on a YouTube video last time, and guess what, today we’ll be talking about the world’s oldest alcoholic beverage. Attentive Cryptic Clarity readers have probably noticed that our monthly feature was put on hold in April because of my disappointing trip to Hamburg for a Joanna Newsom concert, only to arrive at the concert hall faced with a cancellation notice. As I wandered about on the flamboyant Reeperbahn dejectedly at night, I noticed something curious: almost every bar and club has something like this on its sign or door.
What is Astra, I asked my Hamburger friend, and why is it on every bar and club? keep reading… »
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Have you ever felt like raising your laptop in the air, smashing it on the floor really hard and jumping on it a thousand times? Have you ever had the urge to use a hammer and beat your computer into a million pieces? Let me guess: you’re using Windows from Microsoft, right? I know because I’ve felt that way so often ever since Windows 95 all the way to Windows XP.
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