Re: Submission for "Most Curious, 3rd Millenium AD"
Dear Gentlefolk,
I wrote the _real_ movie the names Bo, Hamm, Woody,
Sarge comes from was...
> > CALIGULA!
>
Mr Hvostov writes :
> Where the hell did you dig _that_ up?
>
Apparently, my links were not checked.
If you do a TITLE SEARCH on "Toy Story II" on
http://us.imdb.com the first "Movies" result is
CALIGULA.
http://us.imdb.com/Tsearch?title=Toy%20Story%20II
If you do a GOOGLE SEARCH on "Toy Story II", the
fourth link down is a link to
http://www.landoverbaptist.org which quickly compares
TOY STORY II to a MODERN DAY CALIGULA.
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1199/toystory.html
This _IS_ Curious. In fact, I would challenge anyone
to find anything more curious about Debian in the next
1000 years. I hope many things are found, just so a
sleazy loon like Caligula does not permanently
maintain the #1 spot.
-Josh
--- Alexander Hvostov <alex@aoi.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 17:22, Josh Narins wrote:
> > Submission for "Most Curious, 3rd Millenium AD"
> >
> > This could possibly be the most curious thing I've
> > noticed about Debian. Although, perhaps we should
> hope
> > it'll end up being the 17th.
> >
> > See, I was tyring to learn what all the named
> Debian
> > releases had been, and so I did a Google search,
> and
> > then realized I should check (what I've read on
> the
> > Internet is) a widely used by Movie Industry folks
> > website, so I opened another mozilla tab.
> >
> > It reminds me now like the sound of opening a soda
> > can.
>
> Your soda cans make a 'woody' noise when opened?
> Consider cracking less
> smoke.
>
> > .
> > Your websites are (
> >
> > The Intenet Movie DataBase website, which is _not_
> > running Debian that I know of, but is running
> mod_perl
> > @ http://us.imdb.com (There is no
> non-us.imdb.com, I
> > checked)
> >
> > AND
> >
> > And Landover Baptist, well, lies for itself...
> > http://www.landoverbaptist.org (if you don't have
> > time, it's religious parody, sometimes adult).
> >
> > )
> >
> > Now, Sid, Woody, Potato, Slink, and all the other
> > Debians I have not used, are names of characters
> from
> > a movie?
> >
> > Most Debian users _think_ they know they answer,
> but
> > they are _wrong_.
> >
> > THE CORRECT ANSWER IS:
>
> ...that there is more than one.
>
> 'sid' is an acronym for 'Still In Development'. It
> is synonymous with
> 'unstable', and is a holdover from when there was no
> 'testing'. At that
> time, ports to architectures not considered
> sufficiently stable for the
> next release were in 'sid' rather than 'unstable'.
> At the next release,
> 'unstable' would become 'stable'. Without 'sid',
> those unstable ports
> would have been released with 'stable'.
>
> Everything else is from Toy Story (2). This is
> because Bruce Perens
> worked for Pixar during much of his Debian career.
>
> The complete list of release names is: buzz (1.1;
> there was no 1.0 due
> to a prerelease Debian CD being mislabeled as 1.0)
> rex (1.2) bo (1.3)
> hamm (2.0) slink (2.1) potato (2.2) woody (3.0) sid
>
> All of this information is on the Web site
> somewhere, but I don't
> remember where, and it's probably moved more than
> once anyway.
>
> > CALIGULA!
>
> Where the hell did you dig _that_ up?
>
> Alex.
>
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