Ubuntu has the strongest chance to take Linux mainstream

Interview with Samba's Jeremy Alliso

"Jeremy Allison's contributions to the free software world are legion, and yet the project he's best known for continues to be Samba, the open implementation of some of Microsoft's most important networking protocols.

Linux Format magazine asked him about KDE, NAS, LSB, DCs and other acronyms, and now his answers are here for your TLA titillation…"

Read it here.

NO SEX TONIGHT!

[Christmas Post]
[Credit goes to the original writer]

I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so
much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have
never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.

FOR EXAMPLE: One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into
bed.

Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel
like it, I just want you to hold me."

I said "WHAT??!! What was that?!"

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear...
"You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me
to satisfy your physical needs as a man." She responded to my puzzled look
by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in
the bedroom?"

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with
her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big
unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on
several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to
take so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to
compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We
went onto the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond
earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was
one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because
she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play
tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey."
She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement.
Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all
dear, let's go to the cashier."

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel
like it."

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled
WHAT?"

I then said "honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're
just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy
your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she
was going to kill me, I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and
not for the things I buy you?"

Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either.

The "I'm Linux" Video Contest

Yes you read it right.

After I'm Mac and I'm Pc now there is going to be I'm Linux.
"While the Linux Foundation would love to spend millions promoting Linux on TV, it's simply not our style (or in our budget). Even more importantly, Linux isn't a top-down, commercially controlled operating system. It's a grassroots product of mass collaboration. That's why we're sponsoring a community contest to create a Linux video that showcases just what Linux means to those who use it, and hopefully inspires many to try it."

"The winner will receive a free trip to Tokyo, Japan to participate in the Linux Foundation Japan Linux Symposium in October 2009."

http://video.linuxfoundation.org/category/video-category/-linux-foundation-video-contest

Linux is for your wife

I read couple of blogs claiming Linux is ready because his/her wife or old granny was able to use it without any problem.

Here is my view on this.

First of all, what are the general work your wife or old granny do on the computer?

1. Surf net
2. Chat
3. Listen Music
4. Maybe little of word processing

So you say Linux is ready because it can do above mentioned work nicely?

Linux was able to do such work since last decade. Instead of judging the maturity of Linux with less tech savvy wife and granny, it should be compared with technocrats who wants his/her computer to do everything, try new gadgets, always play with new software and so.

Does your new printer or you ipod work with Linux?
Does your brand new laptop behave well?
Is you printer recognized and you can use free wifi?
Can you name few games you have played on your Linux box?
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.
.
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and the list can go on.

So is the Linux ready?

Brightness reversed?

If your brightness function keys are reversed then here is the simplest solution you could possibly have.

Go to

• System, Preferences, Power Management
• Set "Set Display brightness to:" to zero (0)

That's it.

Exit status code and Meanings

Exit Code Number	Meaning	Example	Comments
1	Catchall for general errors	let "var1 = 1/0"	Miscellaneous errors, such as "divide by zero" and other impermissible operations
2	Misuse of shell builtins (according to Bash documentation)	empty_function() {}	Seldom seen, usually defaults to exit code 1
126	Command invoked cannot execute		Permission problem or command is not an executable
127	"command not found"	illegal_command	Possible problem with $PATH or a typo
128	Invalid argument to exit	exit 3.14159	exit takes only integer args in the range 0 - 255 (see first footnote)
128+n	Fatal error signal "n"	kill -9 $PPID of script	$? returns 137 (128 + 9)
130	Script terminated by Control-C		Control-C is fatal error signal 2, (130 = 128 + 2, see above)
255*	Exit status out of range	exit -1	exit takes only integer args in the range 0 - 255

Source and more reading: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exitcodes.html