y i need a military colonel to run an OS??/

smeezekitty · 04-01-2010, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by MTK358

I think she just meant "kernel", as in this kind of kernel:

www.kernel.org

WTF are you talking about?
About who? GrapeFruiTgirl? the OP?

MTK358 · 04-01-2010, 01:05 PM

I was talking about the person referred to by the OP.

I thought it said "she" but I looked again and it says "he".

smeezekitty · 04-01-2010, 01:12 PM

^ Hehe oh well.

dixiedancer · 04-02-2010, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by orangesky

y i need a military supervisor to run an os?

It's the same way in Windows though. I remember getting this error message once:

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WARNING: General Failure reading Hard Drive

And I thought, "Who the heck is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive?!"

-Robin

MTK358 · 04-02-2010, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by dixiedancer

It's the same way in Windows though. I remember getting this error message once:

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WARNING: General Failure reading Hard Drive

And I thought, "Who the heck is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive?!"

Very funny!

floppywhopper · 04-02-2010, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by dixiedancer

And I thought, "Who the heck is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive?!"

-Robin

He is in charge of the NSA
he is looking for any excuse to send around the black limo

floppy

brianL · 04-03-2010, 06:32 AM

Private Parts, Corporal Punishment, Major Disaster, Colonel Panic, General Failure...what sort of army is that?

floppywhopper · 04-03-2010, 07:30 PM

Army ??? sounds like our Parliament

a bunch of dicks running around smacking themselves on their arses
borking things all over the place
frightening the citizens
and nothing works

floppy

Kenny_Strawn · 04-03-2010, 08:55 PM

This is ridiculous. It's "Kernel", with a K, and it is called so because it is at the heart of the OS. It's the very thing designed to take advantage of the hardware to allow the OS to start booting.

Think of it this way: A seed "kernel" is the part of the seed that stores the food and embryo in the seed, allowing it to sprout, right? Similarly, an OS kernel is the very set of applications and drivers that grows into the plant, the operating system. Without it, an OS would just be an application suite.

brianL · 04-04-2010, 03:54 AM

Thanks for that information, Kenny. But I think most of us are aware of the difference between a colonel and a kernel.

dixiedancer · 04-04-2010, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenny_Strawn

This is ridiculous. It's "Kernel", with a K, and it is called so because it is at the heart of the OS.

It's a PUN, Kenny! A play on words. Re-read the thread... and if that doesn't work,

Code:

apt-get install sense-of-humor

-Robin

floppywhopper · 04-04-2010, 07:23 PM

Sorry Robin
but with some people no package manager is ever going to find that app

floppy

icecubeflower · 04-07-2010, 08:48 AM

Aw that was good. Why didn't I think of that. Got promoted to General.

dixiedancer · 04-08-2010, 08:04 AM

Best error message ever:

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Press any key to continue or any other key to quit.

And best computer panic ever:

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Everybody BACK UP! He's got a magnet!

And best geek wisdom:

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There are 10 kinds of people: Those who understand binary language and those who do not.

-Robin

Sayan Acharjee · 04-08-2010, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by dixiedancer

Best error message ever:

And best computer panic ever:

And best geek wisdom:

-Robin

^^