OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> you smelled his chair?
>
>  were all wondering: what did it smell like?


  penguins is not an acceptable answer here btw.  -jmz

>
>  -jmz
>
>>
>> interesting :-P
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
>>> I smelled his chair at OSDL during an invitation to compete for a
>>> contract and I partied with him at LinuxCon:
>>> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/lc09p2
>>>
>>> That's me in the front row:  http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/09/22/linuxcon2009/
>>>
>>> There was a rumor that Linus has been replaced by look-alikes:
>>> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Will_The_Fake_Linus_Torvalds_Please_Stand_Up_VIDEO
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/29/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>   I saw this on slashdot I think.
>>>>
>>>>   Long Live Linus.
>>>>
>>>>   -jmz
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> from
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1438232/Happy-Birthday-Linus?art_pos=11 :
>>>>>> [quote:]
>>>>>> <blockquote>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Glyn Moody writes"Today is the birthday of Linus. Just under 19 years
>>>>>> ago,
>>>>>> on the first day the shops in Helsinki were open after the holidays,
>>>>>> Linus
>>>>>> rushed out and spent all his Christmas and birthday money on his first
>>>>>> PC: a
>>>>>> DX33 80386, with 4 Megs of RAM, no co-processor, and a 40 Megabyte hard
>>>>>> disc. Today, the kernel he wrote on that system powers 90% of the fastest
>>>>>> supercomputers, and is starting to find its way into more and
>>>>>> more smartphones — not to mention everything in between. What would the
>>>>>> world look like had he spent his money on something else?"
>>>>>> </blockquote>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Mike Schwartz
>>>>>
>>>>> It appears that some of the above text, is actually from
>>>>>  http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-birthday-linus -- (which is
>>>>> pointed to, by the first underlined (clickable) hyper-link in the /.
>>>>> article quoted above -- that is, the "Just under 19 years ago" link).
>>>>>       I just read that longer item (from http://www.linuxjournal.com/).
>>>>>  Pretty interesting.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Mike Schwartz
>>>>> Glendale  AZ
>>>>> schwartz at acm.org
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>>
>> Stephen
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