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The coolest IT ad ever? (NewsForge)
For a bit of Friday afternoon amusement, take a look at the latest
animated advertisement from Lindows.com,
as reported on NewsForge. Macromedia Flash 7 is required for viewing.
"Linspire President Kevin Carmony, a former music industry executive and no stranger to parodied song with the previous single "Lindows Rock" (ala Chubby Checker's "Limbo Rock") under his belt, said while he came up with the lyrics, Linspire engineer Clifford Beshers suggested the use of the Doors' top hit, "Light My Fire."
"It's good fun," Carmony said. "Hopefully, Microsoft will appreciate the humor.""
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The coolest IT ad ever? (NewsForge) Posted Jul 23, 2004 22:38 UTC (Fri) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] I think the title is a little over the top ;). My coolest IT lab is still the herding cats for the Superbowl of a couple of years ago.
The coolest IT ad ever? (NewsForge) Posted Jul 23, 2004 23:26 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] >My coolest IT lab is still the herding cats for the Superbowl of a couple of years ago.I second that opinion. :-)
Found it! Posted Jul 24, 2004 19:06 UTC (Sat) by ordonnateur (guest, #6652) [Link] What a pity it's an ad for EDS. Ah well, the devil always gets the best tunes.
EDS supports SUN's JDS Posted Jul 26, 2004 7:48 UTC (Mon) by vztfzc (guest, #1319) [Link] Well, at least EDS does have some involvement with Linux. It officially supports SUN's JDS.
The coolest IT ad ever? (NewsForge) Posted Jul 24, 2004 13:05 UTC (Sat) by topher (guest, #2223) [Link] I still think the coolest one I've ever seen was in a magazine back a number of years ago, for some company that made PCMCIA cards for laptops. The company made special cards that didn't use dongle's for connecting the cards to other stuff.The ad centered around a picture of Michaelangelo's (sp?) "David" sculpture, with his "thingy" missing (broken off). The caption was, "Lost your dongle?" I would love to find a copy of that ad somewhere. ;-)
The coolest IT ad ever? (NewsForge) Posted Jul 24, 2004 21:42 UTC (Sat) by manuel.flury (guest, #7880) [Link] Oh no, squid is hiding ads ;-)
The coolest IT ad ever? (NewsForge) Posted Jul 24, 2004 22:52 UTC (Sat) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688) [Link] I always liked the Logitech ad back in the 90's. It was a two page ad with two babies laying on their backs. One was in a diaper and the other was naked, smiling, and peeing into the air. Under the one with the diaper it said "Feels good." Under the peeing baby it said "Feels better." The ad then went on about how their mice were better than the competitors.
Coolest thing about this ad ... Posted Jul 26, 2004 18:00 UTC (Mon) by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256) [Link] I was able to view and hear it from a "no frills" KNOPPIX 3.4 boot!My main browsing machine in the living room is a simple old Dell Optiplex GX1 (400Mhz Pentium II) with no hard drive in it (but a USB thumb drive, an I use KNOPPIX on it. Upgrades are a snap (just reboot and put in the new disc) and downgrades are just as easy (just boot back the old disc). Testing various custom versions of KNOPPIX, MEPIS, Morphix, etc is just as easy. (My persistent screen/shell/MUA session is on another system accessed via ssh). Anyway the recent versions of KNOPPIX include Flash support so I was able to just view the ad then call my wife in, right click on "rewind" and let her watch it too. Incidentally watching the cat herding MPEG was just as easy. I'd never seen that one before. :) JimD
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