[aklug] Re: Better Idea

A reality TV show based on command line hacking and programming
competitions? I... I would watch that with no shame or regret, and
with rapt attention. The intoxicating, damn-near-divine feeling of
having wrought something from the void. The agony of bitter defeat at
your pasty, unkempt rivals at the next workstation. The drama! The
excitement! Just like... at work.

But seriously: Where is this show?

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Christopher Howard
<choward@indicium.us> wrote:
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> Instead of all this arguing about attracting Linux users, why don't we
> go back to that old BB idea?: create a Trojan that converts Windows
> systems over to Linux. Just wrap a self-extracting Linux image inside a
> a zip file, call it "michael_jacksons_best_hits.zip", and put it on
> bittorrent.
>
> One morning everybody wakes up and they're all starting at a black
> screen, a dollar sign, and a blinking cursor. Everyone who learns how to
> use the CLI becomes a contributing Linux guru, and everybody else gets
> free health care. ;)
>
> And if we really wanted to weed out the boys from the men, we could give
> them stripped down systems with only the "ash" shell, plus grep, sed,
> awk, wget, and gcc and see how many people manage to get a usable system
> put together. Kind of like one of those survivor reality T.V. shows.
>
> - --
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Received on Fri Sep 18 11:21:55 2009