Quote of the day

[machinebacon]

The place to unload your quote of the day. With reference, if you like.

If you really don't like OpenBox, why don't you give LXDE a whirl? It's a simple, intuitive windows manager, I reckon it's much better than Xfce.

-- ausmuso, #! forums

[Alad]

A classic:

WHY DO YOU HATE HANDICAPPED PEOPLE?

-- Lennart Poettering to Wolfgang Draxinger (datenwolf)

[chilli]

^ I had to look that up, now trying to find a transcription of the entire talk in english.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdUmlGxVo0

(quote around the 23 minute mark)

I can understand Lennart clearly but having a hard time with making out what datenwolf is saying for the most part.

[pidsley]

So many good Unix quotes, but here's one from Doug McIlroy that resonates with me today:

Everything was small... and my heart sinks for Linux when I see the size of it. The manual page, which really used to be a manual page, is now a small volume, with a thousand options... We used to sit around in the Unix Room saying, 'What can we throw out? Why is there this option?' It's often because there is some deficiency in the basic design — you didn't really hit the right design point. Instead of adding an option, think about what was forcing you to add that option.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Doug_McIlroy

[GekkoP]

^ beautiful.

[simgin]

^^ Very nice find Pidsley +1

[wuxmedia]

Junior Sysadmin: Thinks he knows everything.
Experienced Sysadmin: Thinks he knows nothing.
Veteran Sysadmin: Hates Computers.
All Sysadmins: Hates Users.

patched together from a tweet and amended by pids.

[Alad]

From a book {p120d16y} recommended:

True appreciation of programming elegance is left for the hackers:
computer hobbyists whose end goal isn’t to make a profit but to squeeze
every possible bit of functionality out of their old Commodore 64s, exploit
writers who need to write tiny and amazing pieces of code to slip through
narrow security cracks, and anyone else who appreciates the pursuit and the
challenge of finding the best possible solution. These are the people who get
excited about programming and really appreciate the beauty of an elegant
piece of code or the ingenuity of a clever hack.

[p120d16y]

So many good Unix quotes, but here's one from Doug McIlroy that resonates with me today:

Everything was small... and my heart sinks for Linux when I see the size of it. The manual page, which really used to be a manual page, is now a small volume, with a thousand options... We used to sit around in the Unix Room saying, 'What can we throw out? Why is there this option?' It's often because there is some deficiency in the basic design — you didn't really hit the right design point. Instead of adding an option, think about what was forcing you to add that option.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Doug_McIlroy

This is an excellent quote, pidsley. Thanks.

I really laughed at Bacon's intro quote.


I leave you with this;

“This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.”
― The Mentor

[simgin]

^ nice one Prodigy!

[machinebacon]

Please make the next version newbie-friendly to install.
Not only making the ISO NON-bootable a pain, but the suggested tool doesn't look for *.iso files & my USB drive is locked so I can't write to it. mad Not excited about having to burn a Linux LiveCD just to run a few commands to install another distro. If I've got the CD in the drive, I'll just install that version instead then install OpenBox, which would be fewer steps.
Seems that you have to be at least an medium-skilled Linux user to even instal this OS. Which is fine, but please at least update your home page to be more forthcoming about the required skill level.

-- tomByrer, 1 post, #! forums

[p120d16y]

Alad: It's a good book!

“What hackers do is figure out technology and experiment with it in ways many people never imagined. They also have a strong desire to share this information with others and to explain it to people whose only qualification may be the desire to learn.”
― Emmanuel Goldstein, Dear Hacker: Letters to the Editor of 2600

[rhowaldt]

^^ oh my.

[kexolino]

Oh, sorry, wrong freaking thread, delete this please :C

[elixir]

Manbecue
An even more manly version of a BBQ. Absolutely no vegetables allowed. It basically consists of a lot of beer and meat. There is usually a lot of yelling and loud music involved.

Should be a spin.

[bones]

^ Manbecue, indeed!

[elixir]

"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
- Rumi

[franksinistra]

^^^ manbecue. that must be the nicest name i've ever heard of

[GekkoP]

"Being the bigger man is overrated" - Huey Freeman

[machinebacon]

This thread is full of quotes of a day: https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=14884.0

Oh yes... i think its not possible to watch video INSIDE terminal :-\ I thought you just want something without GUI, write command in terminal and watch in second window ::) I am sorry.

Be sorry, .... :D

This is the god of all terminals, woah.

Uhum, it should be more blinky tho'!

Mmm. That is interesting. I'm still using terminator for some light web browsing, and the Xfce terminal emulator as any power user would do. But I changed the fonts, and made the background transparent. I should do better that that, But I'm lazy. But really, that is some nice terminal work and artwork.

Powah usah xfce4-term! Even configged the shit out of it!