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Amusing slashdot quotes

Amusing slashdot quotes Troubleshooting 50 posts Oct 25, 2003 — Jan 31, 2004

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#1 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 - 18:41

"When man calls an animal "vicious", he usually means that it will attempt to defend itself when he tries to kill it."

#2 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 - 19:11

amusing? not really.

#3 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 - 19:13

Quote:

Originally posted by mishap:
amusing? not really.

I
have a
lower threshold obviously
to get amused. Or
should I have said, "interesting?"

#4 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 - 19:46

Quote:

Originally posted by mishap:
amusing? not really.

More amusing than your comment.

#5 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 - 19:56

amsalpemkcus, the quote is more of truth than amusing though

#6 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 - 19:58

"The finest thing about GPL:ed software is that you can modify it yourself.

The worst thing is that you often have to."

#7 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 - 20:15

Quote:

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
amsalpemkcus, the quote is more of truth than amusing though

Dont know about it being the truth. But I insist that it is amusing for me.

#8 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 - 20:22

"When a MacNN forum member calls another forum member "stupid", he usually means that he isn't educated in the topic he is trying to discuss and the person has just talked over his head."

#9 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 - 21:17

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst

#10 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 - 21:30

#11 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 - 22:16

Not again.......

I'm good for +1 though...

#12 Sun, 26 Oct 2003 - 15:54

The only difference between a car salesman and a computer salesman is that the car salesman knows he's lying.

#13 Sun, 26 Oct 2003 - 17:31

why'd the chicken cross the road...

#14 Mon, 27 Oct 2003 - 04:06

"A programmer is a person who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand."

#15 Mon, 27 Oct 2003 - 04:16

Quote:

Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
"When a MacNN forum member calls another forum member "stupid", he usually means that he isn't educated in the topic he is trying to discuss and the person has just talked over his head."

Did you look in a mirror when you quoted that?

#16 Mon, 27 Oct 2003 - 11:05

You: Open the hatch, Clippy.
Clippy9000: I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that.

J

#17 Mon, 27 Oct 2003 - 16:20

/. has the best sig quotes:

"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? "

"Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked." - Robert D. Sprecht, Rand Corp.

"When life hands you lemons, grab the salt and pass the tequilla."

#18 Wed, 29 Oct 2003 - 06:29

Ginsburg's Law: At the precise moment you take off your shoe in a shoe store, your big toe will pop out of your sock to see what's going on.

#19 Tue, 9 Dec 2003 - 08:13

Drilling for oil is boring

#20 Tue, 9 Dec 2003 - 08:49

Here's one I SWEAR I came up with fifteen years ago in high school that I saw on /. a few weeks ago (no attribution):

Indecision is the basis of flexibility.

-s*

#21 Tue, 9 Dec 2003 - 09:20

Quote:

Originally posted by amsalpemkcus:
"When man calls an animal "vicious", he usually means that it will attempt to defend itself when he tries to kill it."

Of course, no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it's attacked first.

Ever.

#22 Tue, 9 Dec 2003 - 09:32

Quote:

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Of course, no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it's attacked first.

Ever.

VERY rarely.

Ever.

#23 Tue, 9 Dec 2003 - 09:44

I know I'll be going straight to hell for posting this, but hey... this is pure Slashdot culture

It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying

Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

Recently, Slashdot confirmed that FreeBSD has been bucked away by WindRiver to FreeBSD Mall, for a carton of Winston's and a six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon. This only serves to confirm the fact that FreeBSD is unwanted, doomed to be passed around like a harelipped orphan from one foster parent to another.

All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

Fact: *BSD is dead

#24 Tue, 9 Dec 2003 - 10:10

The funniest slashdot comment, and perhaps the funniest comment i've ever read on a computer related site is this one, posted in a discussion about why you shouldn't log into OSX as root:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=3468107&sid=32156

Quote:

Root is like crack. Don't smoke it. I did once and got hooked. I ran Mac OS Updates as root. ****, I even had sex with my girlfriend as root. Man, that caused some permissions problems. When I started the road to recovery (logging in as Zacks) my girlfriend was all like: "**** no! You can't get any cause you don't own me an I don't go groups. You don't have the power to read, write OR execute so get out of my FACE" So I was all HELL NO bitch. And she wuz like you do not have root (superuser) privlages so get out of my TruBlueEnvironment! So then I went chown and chmodded her ass to me. Dat be-otch be up in my hizzouse. What what. Holla!

#25 Tue, 9 Dec 2003 - 17:14

Why, why did the hell I opened this thread?. My Nerdmeter has exploded and I will have a hard time finding a replacement. Damn you all, there are nerdmeter debris all over my office!

#26 Tue, 9 Dec 2003 - 17:16

It's no differnt than that South Park quote...

IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!

*BLAM* *BLAM*

#27 Tue, 9 Dec 2003 - 17:18

Quote:

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Of course, no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it's attacked first.

Ever.

Don't worry, he didn't insult American or Religious animals so you don't have to do your typical defence.

#28 Sat, 13 Dec 2003 - 12:53

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants. -- Adam Walinsky

#29 Sat, 13 Dec 2003 - 16:14

#30 Sat, 13 Dec 2003 - 16:49

Quote:

Originally posted by Jansar:
It's no differnt than that South Park quote...

IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!

*BLAM* *BLAM*

You do realize South Park is satire, don't you?

-s*