Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 14611
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1998/9/16 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:14611 Activity:high
9/16    linux install-fest 2-nite!  all you win95ers should come.
        \_ Where?  And isn't there something like this in the
           southbay at some company?  Does anybody know about
           the southbay one?
        \_ Is this really your idea of fun?  A linux install fest?  Can't
           you do something a bit less geeky for kicks?  Geeze... I'm really
           not ragging you on; I feel sorry for you though.  Try to find a
           girlfriend outside the CSUA or something.  You only live once.
           These truly are the best years of your life and you're throwing
           them away on a "linux install-fest".
           \_ or you could waste them being critical of others! -nick
           \_ mmm...someone who religiously reads the motd on a machine only
              possibly through the knowhow and TIME of geeks they spurn.
              how pathetic.  --dbushong
               \_ In defense of the motd flamer, a motd flame takes about
                 two minutes, and can be done at work.  REading the motd
                 can also be done at work and takes about a minute.  So
                  you really aren't wasting alot of your own time doint it.
                  The install fest is probably for losers...
                  \_ Well, let's see.  The original flamers definition of
                     loser is one who spends their free-time messing with
                     computer stuff, apparently.  Yet anyone who spends lots
                     of time messing with it wouldn't need to go to an install
                     demo.  They'd already know how to do it.
                     Q.E.SomethingOrAnother  --dbushong
                        \_ No, moron, the original person who thinks a linux
                        "install fest" is a sad waste of human life thinks
                        that anyone who goes to a "linux install fest" is a
                        loser.  Don't put in words that weren't there.  And
                        yes I'm at work and got paid to write this.  It took
                        less than 1 minute.
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