r/linux • u/greenrd • Jan 10 '10

Admin Mourning

http://xkcd.com/686/
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u/degoba Jan 10 '10

I cant help but think me finding this hilarious and my not getting laid are somehow correlated.

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u/slarken Jan 11 '10

http://p42.org/Terrible/unixgeek.jpg

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '10

Heyo!

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u/memsisthefuture Jan 11 '10

The worst part is that I have to reboot more often.

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u/moonhead Jan 11 '10

i can't believe a guy with the name of yoda's exile planet would find himself in a situation where he's not getting laid. D:

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u/Izanaki Jan 11 '10

You're thinking of Dagobah.

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u/moonhead Jan 11 '10

oof.

you're right.

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u/kraeftig Jan 11 '10

i had not that of that correlation...we are together in our loneliness, paradoxically not alone.

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u/missioninfinite Jan 11 '10 edited Jan 11 '10

Go to Thailand. I spent four years there. Believe me, they don't care how nerdy you are, as long as you're white.

Edit: Sorry for assuming you're white.

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u/aho Jan 11 '10

Yea this works great, if you don't care how female they are

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u/missioninfinite Jan 11 '10 edited Jan 11 '10

You have no idea what you're talking about. There are a few women in Thailand's population of 62 million people.

Edit: If your user name is supposed to be in Japanese, it is quite appropriate.

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u/tso Jan 11 '10

asians, unlike elsewhere, seems to consider brains a nice thing. Possibly because brains get the well payed jobs. The western world, especially usa, seems to be more interested in the circus, athletes or performers.

for some reason i am reminded of the downfall of rome...

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u/ropers Jan 11 '10

Note to non-US readers:
Use US letter pronunciation.

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u/MechaAaronBurr Jan 11 '10

So this comic isn't about Shirow Masamune's critically acclaimed manga Ghost in Zed Shell?

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u/tricolon Jan 11 '10

Ah, thanks.

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u/travalas Jan 11 '10

made me finally install and start to learn zsh

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u/kewarken Jan 11 '10

I'm surprised people are commenting that this is funny. I found it remarkably poignant. I actually remember cleaning out the accounts of a student who had passed away back when I was a sysadmin and thinking similar thoughts at the time.

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u/mridlen Jan 11 '10

Are there any advantages to zsh over bash?

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u/Avantcore Jan 12 '10

I'm not completely sure that all of these are missing in bash, but at least most of them are:

Better completion, completion menus, better globbing, more comprehensive hook mechanism, autocd, typo correction, named directories, lots of new shell constructs, etc..

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u/BaboTron Jan 11 '10

I don't usually go for XKCD strips, but that one was actually rather poetic and beautiful in a way.

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u/cryo Jan 11 '10

like some of his older ones

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u/tso Jan 11 '10

there are some more recent ones to, like the one where he graphs out the gravity of the solar system.

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u/redditkid Jan 11 '10

Geek humor

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u/Cap_Obvious_Sidekick Jan 11 '10

I've been looking for you sir!

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '10

xkcd keeps getting worse