Slackware Release Fun & Games
+Alan Hicks+
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Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
closest to the actual release date of Slackware 13.0 will receive 1 &
only 1 BOZO point from your's truley for each & every looser who gave
it his best guess and failed miserably. Once again, the rules are the
same. Contestants may only enter 1 guess at the release date and once
that date has been submitted it may not be changed. Also do not under
any circumstances use X-No-Archive: as the winning contestant will be
determined from Google's usenet cache. Extra points will not be given
for the use of archaic calendars (Joost!), but Discordian dates might
get you a bonus point or two if I'm in a good mood. Look! Block-text.
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Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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Ivan Rajkovic
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> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
> Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
> closest to the actual release date of Slackware 13.0 will receive 1 &
> only 1 BOZO point from your's truley for each & every looser who gave it
> his best guess and failed miserably. Once again, the rules are the same.
> Contestants may only enter 1 guess at the release date and once that
> date has been submitted it may not be changed. Also do not under any
> circumstances use X-No-Archive: as the winning contestant will be
> determined from Google's usenet cache. Extra points will not be given
> for the use of archaic calendars (Joost!), but Discordian dates might
> get you a bonus point or two if I'm in a good mood. Look! Block-text.
Boomtime, Bureaucracy 8, Year of Our Lady of Discord 3175
P.S: your sig delimiter is broken
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Dan C
> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
> Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
> closest to the actual release date of Slackware 13.0 will receive 1 &
> only 1 BOZO point from your's truley for each & every looser who gave it
> his best guess and failed miserably. Once again, the rules are the same.
> Contestants may only enter 1 guess at the release date and once that
> date has been submitted it may not be changed. Also do not under any
> circumstances use X-No-Archive: as the winning contestant will be
> determined from Google's usenet cache. Extra points will not be given
> for the use of archaic calendars (Joost!), but Discordian dates might
> get you a bonus point or two if I'm in a good mood. Look! Block-text.
Setting Orange, Confusion 59, 3175 YOLD
(July 24, 2009)
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Grant
>Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
>Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
...
>for the use of archaic calendars (Joost!), but Discordian dates might
>get you a bonus point or two if I'm in a good mood. Look! Block-text.
Yeah but you forgot double space after period for monospace :)
Grant.
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Michiel van Wessem
>
> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
> Games contest sponsored by your truly!
About time. ;-)
Boomtime, Confusion 61, 3175 YOLD
((26 July 2009))
-M.
andrew
> Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
> closest to the actual release date of Slackware 13.0 will receive 1 &
> only 1 BOZO point from your's truley for each & every looser who gave
> it his best guess and failed miserably.
Boomtime, Confusion 56, 3175 YOLD
Andrew
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Keith Keller
>
> Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
> closest to the actual release date of Slackware 13.0 will receive 1 &
> only 1 BOZO point from your's truley for each & every looser who gave
> it his best guess and failed miserably. Once again, the rules are the
> same. Contestants may only enter 1 guess at the release date and once
> that date has been submitted it may not be changed. Also do not under
> any circumstances use X-No-Archive: as the winning contestant will be
> determined from Google's usenet cache. Extra points will not be given
> for the use of archaic calendars (Joost!), but Discordian dates might
> get you a bonus point or two if I'm in a good mood. Look! Block-text.
Cheating block text! Two mispelings and a grammar on line four!
Too lazy to look up the Discordian date. June 25 2009, just because
it's my brother's birthday.
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A Guy Called Tyketto
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+Alan Hicks+ <al...@lizella.network> wrote:
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> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
> Games contest sponsored by your truly!
Brutal!
Setting Orange, Bureaucracy 66, 3175 YOLD
(Columbus who? ;) )
BL.
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"+Alan Hicks+" <al...@lizella.netWORK> wrote in message
news:an20h6x...@Cardinal.lizella.net...
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> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
> Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
> closest to the actual release date of Slackware 13.0 will receive 1 &
> only 1 BOZO point from your's
Learn about apostrophe's and they're use's, fuckwit.
> truley
Learn how to spell English words, fuckwit.
> for each & every looser
Learn the difference between LOSER and LOOSER, fuckwit.
> who gave
> it his best guess and failed miserably. Once again, the rules are the
> same. Contestants may only enter 1 guess at the release date and blah
> blah blah blah my kitten has crabs in its speaker wire nostril corpse
> flower sailer for presenting dimensional blithering without end
Learn the difference between posting and not posting, fuckwit.
Joost Kremers
> determined from Google's usenet cache. Extra points will not be given
> for the use of archaic calendars (Joost!),
but can i at least participate with an archaic calendar? IIRC last time i
was disqualified for it...
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Michael Black
>
> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
> Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
> closest to the actual release date of Slackware 13.0 will receive 1 &
> only 1 BOZO point from your's truley
July 4th, 2009
Michael
Helmut Hullen
Du meintest am 21.06.09:
>> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun
>> & Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses
>> the closest to the actual release date of Slackware 13.0 will
>> receive 1 & only 1 BOZO point from your's truley
> July 4th, 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(film)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Film)
No chance for a slackware distribution.
Viele Gruesse
Helmut
"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
Glyn Millington
Sweetmorn, Confusion 50, 3175 YOLD
St. Swithin's Day!
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Dan C
> On 2009-06-20, +Alan Hicks+ <al...@lizella.netWORK> wrote:
>>
>> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
>> Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
>> closest to the actual release date of Slackware 13.0 will receive 1 &
>> only 1 BOZO point from your's truley for each & every looser who gave
>> it his best guess and failed miserably. Once again, the rules are the
>> same. Contestants may only enter 1 guess at the release date and once
>> that date has been submitted it may not be changed. Also do not under
>> any circumstances use X-No-Archive: as the winning contestant will be
>> determined from Google's usenet cache. Extra points will not be given
>> for the use of archaic calendars (Joost!), but Discordian dates might
>> get you a bonus point or two if I'm in a good mood. Look! Block-text.
>
> Cheating block text! Two mispelings and a grammar on line four!
>
> Too lazy to look up the Discordian date. June 25 2009, just because
> it's my brother's birthday.
No need to "look up" anything:
danc@moria:~$ ddate 25 06 2009
Sweetmorn, Confusion 30, 3175 YOLD
danc@moria:~$
Dan C
> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512
Bugger the fuck off, Win-droid.
Dirk van Deun
: only 1 BOZO point from your's truley for each & every looser who gave
Confusion 42.
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Keith Keller
>
> No need to "look up" anything:
>
> danc@moria:~$ ddate 25 06 2009
> Sweetmorn, Confusion 30, 3175 YOLD
> danc@moria:~$
That counts as a lookup when I'm feeling really lazy. I mean, come
on, I even have to call out a shell and everything! ;-)
Keith Keller
>
> "+Alan Hicks+" <al...@lizella.netWORK> wrote in message
> news:an20h6x...@Cardinal.lizella.net...
>
>> it his best guess and failed miserably. Once again, the rules are the
>> same. Contestants may only enter 1 guess at the release date and blah
>> blah blah blah my kitten has crabs in its speaker wire nostril corpse
>> flower sailer for presenting dimensional blithering without end
>
> Learn the difference between posting and not posting, fuckwit.
If you're going to rewrite someone's blocktext, then insult him, you
should at least preserve the blocktext.
Michael Black
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:12:35 -0700, Keith Keller wrote:
>
>> On 2009-06-20, +Alan Hicks+ <al...@lizella.netWORK> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
>>> Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
>>> closest to the actual release date of Slackware 13.0 will receive 1 &
>>> only 1 BOZO point from your's truley for each & every looser who gave
>>> it his best guess and failed miserably. Once again, the rules are the
>>> same. Contestants may only enter 1 guess at the release date and once
>>> that date has been submitted it may not be changed. Also do not under
>>> any circumstances use X-No-Archive: as the winning contestant will be
>>> determined from Google's usenet cache. Extra points will not be given
>>> for the use of archaic calendars (Joost!), but Discordian dates might
>>> get you a bonus point or two if I'm in a good mood. Look! Block-text.
>>
>> Cheating block text! Two mispelings and a grammar on line four!
>>
>> Too lazy to look up the Discordian date. June 25 2009, just because
>> it's my brother's birthday.
>
> No need to "look up" anything:
>
> danc@moria:~$ ddate 25 06 2009
> Sweetmorn, Confusion 30, 3175 YOLD
> danc@moria:~$
>
Now you tell us.
I know we went through this the last time, but by now I couldn't remember
the command.
Michael
Grant Taylor
> I know we went through this the last time, but by now I couldn't
> remember the command.
Wikipedia made reference to the ddate command.
My question is, is there an equally easy to translate from YOLD back to
Gregorian?
Grant. . . .
Chris Willing
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On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:59:38 +0000, +Alan Hicks+ <al...@lizella.netWORK> wrote:
>
> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
> Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
[snip]
Setting Orange, Bureaucracy 1, 3175 YOLD
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> It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
> Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
> Ecclesiastes 7:5
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Dan C
I recommend you add this line to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local :
/usr/bin/ddate
Then, you'll see the Discordian date at every bootup, and you'll remember
that it's in rc.local, and if you ever need to use it, you'll know that
the command is "ddate" (which of course has a man page for further study).
;-)
No_One
>
> Then, you'll see the Discordian date at every bootup, and you'll remember
> that it's in rc.local, and if you ever need to use it, you'll know that
> the command is "ddate" (which of course has a man page for further study).
Anyone notice the man page for ddate is 6600 lines of which 6000 and some
are empty....or is it just my manpage
ken
Douglas Mayne
Prickle-Prickle, Confusion 73, 3175 YOLD
(August 7, 2009)
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Peter Chant
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> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
> Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
> closest to the actual release date of Slackware 13.0 will receive 1 &
> only 1 BOZO point from your's truley for each & every looser who gave
> it his best guess and failed miserably. Once again, the rules are the
> same. Contestants may only enter 1 guess at the release date and once
> that date has been submitted it may not be changed. Also do not under
> any circumstances use X-No-Archive: as the winning contestant will be
> determined from Google's usenet cache. Extra points will not be given
> for the use of archaic calendars (Joost!), but Discordian dates might
> get you a bonus point or two if I'm in a good mood. Look! Block-text.
Impressive, perfect full justification with a fixed width font.
Anyway, never quite understood this Discordian stuff. Is it serious, is it
a parody of is it simply the product of too many "long" cigarettes?
Pete
Sylvain Robitaille
> Anyone notice the man page for ddate is 6600 lines of which 6000 and
> some are empty....or is it just my manpage
: charlotte[syl] ~; man ddate |wc -l
108
: charlotte[syl] ~; cat /etc/slackware-version
Slackware 12.1.0
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+Alan Hicks+
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On 2009-06-21, Joost Kremers <joostk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> determined from Google's usenet cache. Extra points will not be given
>> for the use of archaic calendars (Joost!),
>
> but can i at least participate with an archaic calendar? IIRC last time i
> was disqualified for it...
You can participate, but disqualification depends entirely on my
ability (and give a damn) to translate it to Gregorian. :^)
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It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5
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+Alan Hicks+
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On 2009-06-22, Keith Keller <kkeller...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> If you're going to rewrite someone's blocktext, then insult him, you
> should at least preserve the blocktext.
</modquote>
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It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5
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No_One
> No_One wrote:
>
>> Anyone notice the man page for ddate is 6600 lines of which 6000 and
>> some are empty....or is it just my manpage
>
>: charlotte[syl] ~; man ddate |wc -l
> 108
>: charlotte[syl] ~; cat /etc/slackware-version
> Slackware 12.1.0
>
Hmm..same here, however, using less or most as the pager I get 6k empty
lines before the paragraph marked EXAMPLES.
Checked ddate.1.gz and found .bp before the EXAMPLES section, changed it to
.br, now the pagers read the correct number of lines.
I guess I had a bad manpage after all....slack 9.1
ken
Auric__
> On 2009-06-22, Keith Keller <kkeller...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>
> wrote:
>> If you're going to rewrite someone's blocktext, then insult him, you
>> should at least preserve the blocktext.
> </modquote>
Hell yeah. Seconded.
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Keith Keller
>
>
> /usr/bin/ddate
Why not put it in /etc/profile? ;-)
(actually the proper Slackware way would be to make a shell script and
plop it into /etc/profile.d/. But explaining all that takes too long.)
Thomas Overgaard
Alan Hicks wrote :
> The contestant who guesses the closest to the actual release date of
> Slackware 13.0
My guess:
Sweetmorn, Confusion 70, 3175 YOLD.
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Mussemouse
> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
> Games contest sponsored by your truly! The contestant who guesses the
> closest to the actual release date of Slackware 13.0 will receive 1 &
> only 1 BOZO point from your's truley for each & every looser who gave
> it his best guess and failed miserably.
My guess : Boomtime, Confusion 51, 3175 YOLD
//Micke
Franz Sauerzopf
Boomtime, Confusion 46, 3175 YOLD
jr4412
Setting Orange, The Aftermath 3, 3175 YOLD
haldir
Yeti
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+Alan Hicks+ wrote:
> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
> Games contest sponsored by your truly!
Woohoo, count me in!
Boomtime, Bureaucracy 3, Year of Our Lady of Discord 3175
Yeti
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>
> Yes folks, it's that time again! Time for the Slackware Release Fun &
> Games contest sponsored by your truly!
Prickle-Prickle, the 73rd day of Confusion in the YOLD 3175.
(7 August 2009)
Brad
