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I admit to everything. I am merely an artificial creature, designed by Lennart and sent here by the GNOME cabal, to end Debian as it is and turn it into a useless system that is not the UNIX way™.

-- Josselin Mouette

When I finally got my new fangled EGA screen, it was *configurable*: you could use a button to choose to have it in orange, green, or with actual colours. Back in the good old days when you were actually given a choice.

Nowadays, if I type my login name all uppercase, I don't even get an uppercase "PASSWORD:" prompt anymore :(

-- Enrico Zini

Arrows move the cursor, enter follows links, '/' searches. And don't dare touch anything else because nobody knows what could happen!

-- Michał Górny

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Posted May 23, 2013 14:59 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link] (6 responses)

So funny when people use the "argument" "made by Lennart".

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Posted May 23, 2013 20:58 UTC (Thu) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link] (5 responses)

It's no worse than “made by DJB”, really.

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Posted May 23, 2013 22:17 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (4 responses)

That's a pitiful excuse. Lets hope everyone sticks to the technical pros/cons of the project instead of behaving as if this is a celebrity gossip column.

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Posted May 27, 2013 21:00 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (3 responses)

You're suggesting that it is possible to obliterate gossip from any forum populated by human beings. This seems to be to be a hopeless quest. Gossip is what humans do.

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Posted May 27, 2013 22:08 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

I don't want to remove gossip at all and occasionally even enjoy it. Just don't want the noise added in between technical discussions in debian devel list or LWN.

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Posted May 27, 2013 22:25 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, because debian-devel is such a technically focused, ego-free, passion-free, peaceful non-flamy gossip-free forum.

You are trying to shut the barn door after the barn has been buried 2km deep in hot ash by a supervolcano eruption :)

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Posted May 28, 2013 0:14 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

That's part of the reason I don't identify with that community but I don't think it is healthy to endorse it here.