http://www.xkcd.com/349/

Observe the ALT text on the comic.

Haven't seen a PR on that one...

In response to the comic.... after recently coming back to OpenBSD after
many years of not using it often, I found it refreshingly simple and easy to
install compared to the average Linux stuff out today! Dual-boot,
single-boot, etc... it's all very straight-forward with some of the best man
pages anywhere! Quickest install of any Unix-like OS... I can do it in 2 - 5
minutes with my eyes closed... how the comic strip dude ended-up ruining two
systems and being threatened by sharks is beyond me... I think the chick
needs to get a new boyfriend :)

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What do they mean by this?


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Best Regards

Edd

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Its a joke, I think everyone experienced at least once to some extent 
installing another OS and ending up in a mess. OpenBSD is used only for
the ``only security issue'' part hinting at our slogan.

xkcd is one of the best comics that I am aware of.

Is there OpenBSD actually mentioned anywhere?

Regards,
David

Yes read the alt text of the picture.

Hmm, I see. Not all browsers display properly. Source always helps. It's a 
title, not an ALT, btw.

Regards,
David

in the browsers I have within easy reach here (Konqueror, Firefox and
that Microsoft thing) the text only displays on mouseover

-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.

The Lynx displays only 'alt', not 'title', texts. Old Netscape Navigators
display only alt text on mouseover and no title, too. Quite likely others.
Some do, some don't. I saw only BSD in the cartoon, nothing about OpenBSD
anywhere. My fault, sorry. We are getting off-topic now.

Regards,
David

Salut,


That behavior is actually correct since title= is for annotations to the
image while alt= is for the case when the image cannot at all be displayed.
(I'm sure that's not really OpenBSD related though.)

				Tonnerre

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that's what title= is for...

a botched dual install, making the artist suffer,
and voila we have art.  disk partitioning legacies
will be humankind's downfall eventually.


but can't call yerself a unix guru if havent fu*ed up
dual boot at least once :]

-f
-- 
if you have to travel on a titanic, why not go first class?

never fucked up a dual boot. Only tried it two times and both times it
worked. Dual boot is for sissies who can't get a second machine.

//art

[...]

Never knew that "non-dualboot=>non-sissy" folks carry around multiple
machines with them. ;-)

-Amarendra

One possible theory is you need to be a non-sissy in order to be able
to lug them around

-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.

No, dual boot is for sissies who can't commit to a real OS.

(Now how do I hide those mail headers...)

dual booting is having two kernels. bsd and bsd.working.

Oh.. I've fucked up that many times.

Always amusing. I once even had a kernel named:
bsd.do_not_remove_this_art_really
that Bob put there after the third time I had to borrow a dock from him to
reinstall my laptop.

//art

I've always found the immutable bsd.rd to be a safe bet.

-- 
Travers Buda

hahahah, nice.

that being said as a complete newbie with just the help from the FAQ
and a calculator I never messed up a dual boot.


-- 
Ticketmaster and Ticketweb suck, but everyone knows that:
http://ticketmastersucks.org
http://lodesertprotosites.org
Dethink to survive - Mclusky

single boot is for sissies who drag around 3 notebooks with themselves :p


-f
-- 
unicorns aren't myth, virgins are!

I guess you've never hacked the kernel seriously and gotten annoyed by the
music stopping when you need to reboot a new kernel.

//art

Yeah, but people think you're uber-leet when you bust out three
machines in a coffee shop and use them all at the same time.

Yes, I do have six hands.

-- 
Travers Buda

doh!
i have more than one and i dual-boot most of 'em (:
cu
-- 
    paranoic mickey       (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)

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Either you knew everything then or you got incredibly lucky. Lots of
times, you aren't lucky even if you knew it all. Maybe if it all went
wrong, you'd have lost all partitions and would be to blame. We all
learn from mistakes and there is absolutely nothing "wrong" about
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If we define "Guru" as one who knows the wisdom of the creator, Art is
no guru.

He's a creator. :)

Nick.

Ya but... Art imitates life. ;-)

jcr

no, the "wrong" part is in actually trying. :)

//art

W/ "recent" changes to bootloader why _shouldn't_ you dualboot
i386 and amd64 on your amd64 laptop? ;-P


Regards
Johan M:son Linfman

Because then I'd spend more time booting and less time hacking. :)

//art

i did fu*k up a fair amount of dual boots but i've not reached guru
status yet ;-)

Gilles

-- 
SCHNEIER FACT #128:
  Bruce Schneier's skin has no pores. Pores are vulnerabilities.

poor dude pbly cannot do adding proper in his disklabel...
MATH WORKS BITCHES!
cu
-- 
    paranoic mickey       (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)

The 'poor dude' is known for posting smart, mathy, and generally
insightful comics. Try browsing through his comics some.

As for me, the comic was perfectly timed. Last weekend I decided that
rather than doing any of the actual work that I was supposed to be
doing, I would set up my home workstation to dual-boot Windows and
OpenBSD. It's got two physical hard drives on it, so piece of cake.
I'd be done in a few minutes...

Except, for some reason, at some point during the install -- almost
certainly my fault, though I retraced my steps and can't figure out
where -- the OpenBSD installer trashed the disklabel on the Windows
drive.

The MBR was still intact, NTLDR would come up, but then it couldn't
find anything to boot. Even better, I didn't have a usable Windows
disk to perform a repair on the file system (it's a second-hand
system).

The workstation was using a WG111 for its network interface, which
OpenBSD doesn't have support for yet because Netgear are punks
sometimes. Wouldn't've been a big deal, except I'd just donated my
last five feet of cat5 to a job last week, and I didn't have the $$
for a network cable that weekend.

It went on like that for a while and I ended up enjoying a very
restful weekend instead of getting any work done.

Monday morning, I was greeted by that XKCD comic.

- R.

'poor dude' probably never even tried... did you actually read the comic?
meh. I find it more interesting that "BSD" appearently defaults to
OpenBSD and not FreeBSD here.

-Nick

That's because FreeBSD _is_ linux, with perhaps a bit more mature
codebase. =P

-- 
Travers Buda

it's for the massses.  still more people know "bsd"
than any of the bsd's by name.

or perhaps the fear that all the ./ crowd will stop reading
the comics if the author sees the openbsd light...

i hope i will live to see the day when openbsd is in penny arcade :]

-f
-- 
anything is possible, unless it's not.