All good:) Props to the Finnish education system, but I figure it's polite to at least make an attempt to learn the language of the country you're going to (even if you do end up murdering tenses, etc). For me, there's very little worse for my mood than trying to give a German tourist directions around Nottingham when he only wants to speak German. My response when I encounter such ignorami is to point at their map and wave with the other hand in the universal greeting "If you can't be arsed to make an eff
I had the opposite problem. In Germany and Austria, I'd try to speak German and as soon as they heard my American accent they would speak English back to me.
Indeed, that probably goes for everyone here. Linus sounds like a cool guy. I especially agree with "I really hate big laptops. I can't understand people who lug around 15" (or 17"!) monsters. The right weight for a laptop is 1kg, no more." Mine is about the size of a hard cover book, and weighs about he same.
I wonder what distro Linux uses? If he uses a GUI or a CLI? If GUI (which I doubt), which one?
Last I heard he uses Fedora and XFCE4 after leaving the sinking ship that is GNOME 3. (Choice quote: "Who do I need to fuck to get standard font size and panel options, instead of having to wade through this kind of "unsupported and random extensions that look ugly as hell and break randomly" crap?")
Indeed, that probably goes for everyone here. Linus sounds like a cool guy. I especially agree with "I really hate big laptops. I can't understand people who lug around 15" (or 17"!) monsters. The right weight for a laptop is 1kg, no more." Mine is about the size of a hard cover book, and weighs about he same.
Depends on what you do with it. My "15-inch monster" isn't too bad - it's a Retina MBP, so it's relatively light and thin - and I use it as my primary machine, so I want a bit more "disk" space and screen space. I mainly move it around the house, so it's good that it's portable, but it doesn't have to be as portable as a road warrior's machine.
Of course, "GUI or CLI" is a bit ill-stated. I "use a GUI" in the sense that I don't do a console login on my Mac and run on the console tty, but a lot of what I do is in a GUI app called "Terminal", so I'm using a CLI in a GUI. In the 2007 interview [apcmag.com] in answer to "What software do you use everyday? Your browser, desktop (if any), email client and so on?" he said "Well, ignoring the actual development stuff (make, compiler, editor etc), it ends up being mostly just xterms and "alpine" (the newer version of the venerable old "pine" email reader. Strictly text-based, thank you very much)." In the next paragraph he also included a browser, but it sounds as if it's in the "a lot is a CLI in a GUI" category.
I guess that means you don;t think of yourself in this category: "Quite frankly, there are a lot of f*cking morons on the internet."... unfortunately, it depends on what category Linus thinks you're in... I wouldn't hold out much hope if you choose the wrong sort of pint!
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...someone I could sit down over a pint with and just geek out. Cool.
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They use liters in Finland, you insensitive clod!
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OK.
Otan 560 mililitres olutta ja paketti perunalastuja
Thanks, Bing Translate. :)
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It's actually "En stor stark och lite chips tack."
(Linux speaks swedish...)
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tha's no good to me if I'm trying to order a pint and some flakeys in Helsinki! :x
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All good :) Props to the Finnish education system, but I figure it's polite to at least make an attempt to learn the language of the country you're going to (even if you do end up murdering tenses, etc). For me, there's very little worse for my mood than trying to give a German tourist directions around Nottingham when he only wants to speak German. My response when I encounter such ignorami is to point at their map and wave with the other hand in the universal greeting "If you can't be arsed to make an eff
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Don't mention the - oh, never mind.
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:-/
I had the opposite problem. In Germany and Austria, I'd try to speak German and as soon as they heard my American accent they would speak English back to me.
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Really? I would expect that here in Sweden but in my experience Germans really like speaking German and would rather not speak English if avoidable.
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no, if they'd bothered trying to convert you'd end up in the drink.
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A buddy of mine (a Brit) recently confessed to me in embarassment, that in fact, the most popular beer in Britain is now Budweiser.
Take that for what it's worth -- I don't know if it's true.
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Budweiser != beer.
Budweiser = chill filtered gnats piss.
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Indeed, that probably goes for everyone here. Linus sounds like a cool guy. I especially agree with "I really hate big laptops. I can't understand people who lug around 15" (or 17"!) monsters. The right weight for a laptop is 1kg, no more." Mine is about the size of a hard cover book, and weighs about he same.
I wonder what distro Linux uses? If he uses a GUI or a CLI? If GUI (which I doubt), which one?
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Why do you doubt he uses a GUI? There's been many slashdot stories about Linus's dislike for GNOME (esp. 3).
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Last I heard he uses Fedora and XFCE4 after leaving the sinking ship that is GNOME 3. (Choice quote: "Who do I need to fuck to get standard font size and panel options, instead of having to wade through this kind of "unsupported and random extensions that look ugly as hell and break randomly" crap?")
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Indeed, that probably goes for everyone here. Linus sounds like a cool guy. I especially agree with "I really hate big laptops. I can't understand people who lug around 15" (or 17"!) monsters. The right weight for a laptop is 1kg, no more." Mine is about the size of a hard cover book, and weighs about he same.
Depends on what you do with it. My "15-inch monster" isn't too bad - it's a Retina MBP, so it's relatively light and thin - and I use it as my primary machine, so I want a bit more "disk" space and screen space. I mainly move it around the house, so it's good that it's portable, but it doesn't have to be as portable as a road warrior's machine.
I wonder what distro Linux uses?
Well, at least earlier in 2012, part of the answer was "not OpenSUSE" [google.com], at least on the laptop. He's apparently used Fedora in the past [ostatic.com], at least; he probably doesn't use any of the Real Man's Linux Distributions, given that, at least back in 2007, he said "Funnily enough, the only distributions I tend to refuse to touch are the "technical" ones, so I've never run Debian, because as far as I'm concerned, the whole and only point of a distribution is to make it easy to install (so that I can then get to the part I care about, namely the kernel), so Debian or one of the "compile everything by hand" ones simply weren't interesting to me." [apcmag.com]
If he uses a GUI or a CLI? If GUI (which I doubt), which one?
Prepare to have your doubts busted; at least as of whenever he made the announcement (I'm not going to sign into my Google account just to read his posting, but the article in question is from April 2011) [linuxjournal.com], he was using Xfce, after switching from KDE 4 to GNOME 2.
Of course, "GUI or CLI" is a bit ill-stated. I "use a GUI" in the sense that I don't do a console login on my Mac and run on the console tty, but a lot of what I do is in a GUI app called "Terminal", so I'm using a CLI in a GUI. In the 2007 interview [apcmag.com] in answer to "What software do you use everyday? Your browser, desktop (if any), email client and so on?" he said "Well, ignoring the actual development stuff (make, compiler, editor etc), it ends up being mostly just xterms and "alpine" (the newer version of the venerable old "pine" email reader. Strictly text-based, thank you very much)." In the next paragraph he also included a browser, but it sounds as if it's in the "a lot is a CLI in a GUI" category.
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According to what I can find, as of 2011, he was running Linux Mint with XFCE.
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I guess that means you don;t think of yourself in this category: "Quite frankly, there are a lot of f*cking morons on the internet."... unfortunately, it depends on what category Linus thinks you're in... I wouldn't hold out much hope if you choose the wrong sort of pint!
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Local dark ale, every time.
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what, you expect me, a sophisticated nerd, to drink ::gag::Budgnatspissweiser::gag::!?
I'd rather die of thirst than drink that if it was all that was on offer.