New Black Slackware Tee Shirt - what does all the writing mean?
 

Hello:

What does all the writing mean on this tee shirt?

http://connie.slackware.com/~volkerd...shirt-back.png

Thanks,

Looks like a kid on crack designed it...

my 133t isn't great, but of course the main title in the middle is slackware
on the right:

os selection
slackware 13.37
The Interocitor (maybe ???)
(have no idea)
guardian
mother
(have no idea)

on the bottom:
Select an OS to Boot, or hit <tab> for a lilo prompt

os selection
slackware 13.37
teh interocitor
colossus
guardian
mother
hal 9000

:D

What happened to Hactar and Deep Thought?

samac

Thank you.

What do the last 5 mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...onal_computers

The implication being that Slackware-13.37 is better than these others because it is the default choice.

samac

COLOSSUS was the computer used during WWII to crack German teletype ciphers. HAL 9000 is the insane computer from the movie 2001. Guardian i think was the OS/virus in "The Net". not sure about the other two, but surprised SkyNet and VIKI weren't included.

Colossus could also be making reference to the Forbin project, which was a movie about an evil super computer. :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interocitor

Didn't know that one.

And Mother is the computers name in the Alien movie.

Thanks samac - great link!

Marking as SOLVED.

How could they not include the Multivac on the shirt =(

Don't forget the meta-Slackware-reference: "Mother" is the ship's computer in the film "Dark Star". :)

i thought it was CEH instructor :)

My fault :( Seems like Alien already referenced that one five years later. That computer was obviously called MU-TH-R...