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Originally Posted by gemniii42
I'm a man, but I'm also a geek. One of the rules for geeks is:
Most of us are male.
From several sources of rules for men:
"Christopher Columbus did not need directions, and neither do we"
Most of us only read all the documentation if we think there is a good chance that somewhere it will say forget all the rest of the instructions.
Read documentation:Yeah, it drives some people near to me mad. They give me a nice present, and I spend a half-hour in the manual before I finish unpacking it. (If the manual contained assembly instructions, I skimmed them, or skipped entirely, but I know how to reconfigure, rebuild, or anything else.)
- obsessively
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---and---- in inverse proportion to practical utility
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Originally Posted by Benson
It changed from LEE-nucks to LINN-icks.
I'm not sure what you mean? It's pronounced as in the sound file; that's canonical, and unchanged to my knowledge. What do you think it changed to?
Watch the video here
: http://suseroot.com/about-suse-linux...unce-linux.php
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Except that the .wav says LINN-ucks; the I is skewed a bit towards EE (on account of accent), but is still much closer to I than to EE; as for uks vs. iks, I'm inclined to agree with the author of that SuSE page that they're, in practice, indistinguishable.
I don't know how you, or the SuSE dude, would take that initial pronunciation as LEE-nuks; to me it's plainly LIN-uks, with a bit of an accent. But I guess we (you, me, and Linus) all agree now, so it's irrelevant...
I don't know how you, or the SuSE dude, would take that initial pronunciation as LEE-nuks; to me it's plainly LIN-uks, with a bit of an accent. But I guess we (you, me, and Linus) all agree now, so it's irrelevant...
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Originally Posted by penguinbait
Wish I read the whole post, I wrote a script to run fsck and have been running it a second time.
If you boot to flash, it will fsck all available ext2/ext3 partitions on all available SD cards and play wav when complete. The wav that plays Linus, pronouncing linux.
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This was so I did not have to manually run fsck each time I crashed, which is often, since I am always doing things, I probably should not be
I thought it would be handy for everyone else, I did document it in the post
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Originally Posted by TheGogmagog
earlier.....
Wish I read the whole post, I wrote a script to run fsck and have been running it a second time.
From several sources of rules for men:
"Christopher Columbus did not need directions, and neither do we"
"Linux sucks, Windows sucks, Linux sucks less".
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2008-06-06
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Wow. So, since 1992, i've been pronouncing "linux" correctly. I'd guessed it wouldn't have anything to do with how he pronounces his name. I'm so prophetic.
Maybe that's because i read manuals. For the record, i'm a guy.
There is some evidence that Columbus did his homework and knew the world was 25,000 miles in circumference. But Moses led the Israelites around and around for 40 years because he wouldn't ask for directions.
Maybe that's because i read manuals. For the record, i'm a guy.
There is some evidence that Columbus did his homework and knew the world was 25,000 miles in circumference. But Moses led the Israelites around and around for 40 years because he wouldn't ask for directions.
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Originally Posted by suitti
LOL at Moses comment.
There is some evidence that Columbus did his homework and knew the world was 25,000 miles in circumference. But Moses led the Israelites around and around for 40 years because he wouldn't ask for directions.
There's also evidence that Columbus had access to ancient maps that showed more than he was willing to let on. Another rule for men.
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Originally Posted by suitti
Linus Torvalds actually pronounces his name three different ways depending on which language he's speaking:
Wow. So, since 1992, i've been pronouncing "linux" correctly. I'd guessed it wouldn't have anything to do with how he pronounces his name. I'm so prophetic.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfHm6R5le0
The Finnish pronunciation of the name "Linus" is roughly LEE-noose, and in Finnish the word "linux" would be correctly pronounced "LIH-nooks". (Little bit of language trivia here, Finnish tends to emphasise the first syllable of its words, so for example you should say "HEL-sinki" and not "hel-SINKI").
However, Linus is from the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland, and he works mainly in English, so the situation is a little bit complicated. :-)
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Originally Posted by suitti
Actually he is Linus, and he pronounces it Lin-iss, not like Charley Brown's friend Lye-nuss
Wow. So, since 1992, i've been pronouncing "linux" correctly. I'd guessed it wouldn't have anything to do with how he pronounces his name. I'm so prophetic.
Maybe that's because i read manuals. For the record, i'm a guy.
There is some evidence that Columbus did his homework and knew the world was 25,000 miles in circumference. But Moses led the Israelites around and around for 40 years because he wouldn't ask for directions.
So it is the same as he pronounces his name.
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