- Linus Torvalds to join Microsoft to head Windows 9 project! (link)
- Mandriva invest in Formula One racing and will be embedding the Mandriva operating system in racing cars! (link)
- Ubuntu 13.04 will disable Dash online search by default says Mark Shuttleworth. (link)
- Systemd will replace libc, as they need it to include an email client? (link)
- Valve announced Half-Life 4 exclusively for Linux! (link)
Breaking news about Linux!
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Breaking news about Linux!
There is so much happening today, I'd thought to summarize it here. Exciting developments, though a bit scary at the same time. Have I missed anything?
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Re: Breaking news about Linux!
Oh goodie, I can't wait to ditch Mint and load a copy of Windows 9!!!
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ROTFLMAO
This one is my personal favourite:
Karl
This one is my personal favourite:
- Linus Torvalds to join Microsoft to head Windows 9 project! (link)
- Ubuntu 13.04 will disable Dash online search by default says Mark Shuttleworth. (link)
Karl
The people of Alderaan have been bravely fighting back the clone warriors sent out by the unscrupulous Sith Lord Palpatine for 771 days now.
Lifeline
Re: Breaking news about Linux!
More exciting news! KDE's KMix switches to diagonal volume sliders: http://wm161.net/2013/04/01/the-volume- ... ompromise/
Debian has some new kind of spelling checker used on their website? Check it out: http://www.debian.org/ (Thanks to dagon for this one.)
Debian has some new kind of spelling checker used on their website? Check it out: http://www.debian.org/ (Thanks to dagon for this one.)
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Oh, that has the be the winner for the day.xenopeek wrote: Debian has some new kind of spelling checker used on their website? Check it out: http://www.debian.org/ (Thanks to dagon for this one.)
Mint Cinnamon 20.1
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I can't help feeling that it's a bit too easy. You see something that is obviously off and then you laugh a bit, drop your guard and whammo!, you get hit by something like... http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/#grtdockery97 wrote:Oh, that has the be the winner for the day.xenopeek wrote: Debian has some new kind of spelling checker used on their website? Check it out: http://www.debian.org/ (Thanks to dagon for this one.)
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Oh, KDE is on a roll today KWin's magnifier plugin can now zoom in to the subpixel level http://sreich.blogspot.nl/2013/04/kwin- ... ments.html
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New patent troll goes after Unix. For the uses of "NSFW" in the code base. (link)
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IS it really Half Life 4? I thought it was Left 2 Dead 4
P.S. Tenured university professors fail to see the humor when you replace all their chalk with pastel sidewalk chalk. The students seem to think it is quite funny.
P.S. Tenured university professors fail to see the humor when you replace all their chalk with pastel sidewalk chalk. The students seem to think it is quite funny.
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Another one. Open a terminal and run the following command:
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curl -L http://bit.ly/XctxG7 | bash
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AUUUUUUGH! MY EARS!
Have you ever seen the ASCII Star Wars?
Have you ever seen the ASCII Star Wars?
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telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
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Someone posted one of these on hackernews and someone made a pull request with rm -rf ~ that got merged. Also, it's piping a remote script directly into your shell. Very dangerous.xenopeek wrote:Another one. Open a terminal and run the following command:Code: Select all
curl -L http://something.sh | bash
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That would be quite a booger, wouldn't it. Not unfixable, but a real pain.
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Well, that isn't in this one and from the history on GitHub it never was. What you wrote wouldn't work unless you ran as root, but you have a point. I've edited the link to point to a specific commit on GitHub, one that I've reviewed as not running any malicious code this way. The GitHub project is here, but you've spoiled the surprise now https://github.com/keroserene/rickrollrcd00med wrote:Someone posted one of these on hackernews and someone made a pull request with rm -rf ~ that got merged.
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Wouldn't rm -rf ~ delete the user's home directory, which they have ownership of? I don't ever recall needing root privileges for deleting home directories.
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Dôh, of course I read it as "rm -rf /"...