10 (Ten) things a Linux Guy or Girl should do to become a geek and show off he is becoming a new groovy (I have coined this in the same tone as savvy).
1. Linux Guy (means both s / he) should be able boot at any moment day or night. Should be able to boot out or weed out Linux of Microsoft as soon as possible (any dual facility of booting is taken as sign of weakness or of a transvestism).
2. Should be able to root at any moment especially at night to look at the nocturnal misbehaviour of a server platform or your computer.
3. Should be able to flame a war with any vendor who is dishing out and venturing into virtues of New Windows 7 (which is 4 years old now anyway).
4. Should be able to flame a war with any neighbour who is using any windows without a screen cover. All windows should have curtain cover so that you should not be seeing what your neighbour's daughter is doing or up to.
5. Should carry a mini (business type) card or a Pendrive with at least Puppy Linux or Knoppix installed (this is a new addition to becoming a savvy-carry minimum of luggage in person).
6. Should have a old computer resurrected from an attic and used as a mail server educating newbies and flaming them with fire if they cannot boot or root instantaneously or as a dedicated seeding plot (seed potato type to germinate at any given time and not as a Microsoft couch potato type) with at least 20 to 30 hacked (means used many times) distributions for dissemination by K-torrent running 24 / 7 schedule.
7. Advocates running the computer 24 hours a day non stop (for seeding distributions to natives hitherto unknown with pidgin languages) for doing Cron jobs and midnight commander. If you tell this to a Microsoft Gut / Girl s/he will get a heart attack or they will be doing virus checking every half an hour.
8. Should be able to do short cuts with any combination of all 12 x F (function ) keys, Tab, Alt, Ctr. Shift (should never use the window key even with a sterile screen on top of it-why the hell it is there I still do not know in the key board) and any other alphanumeric key to do a simple jobs not understood by a kid or newbie. When you do that with the last touch of the key on F-12, a word presto should pop out for a second and a pause and then ask what next please (really you should write a mini shell script for above and assign it to the 12th Function Key nobody seems to be using it nowadays. Linux never extended it beyond 8 in my time. Or else you must design a few Cron jobs yourself and assign them to F9 to F12
If nobody is impressed at least your girl friend or boy friend will be impressed by this activity.
9. Should be able to work with virtual keyboard even when the normal keyboard has coffee or tea spilled all over it by a kid while watching your antics.
10. This is a new one again since Microsfties think that Linux guy cannot play games. You must use the guitaristX (new distribution in Linux) key to play a game or two while stringing some music with John Lenon or Paul McCartneyin in the background.
11. This is an extra for a Sri-Lankan guy to show off that you can do Linux now in Sinhala and that is you say "you are an eternal Distressed-Distro-Hopper". You like plain hoppers, egg hoppers, Linux hoppers, jaggery hoppers or hoppers from heaven (in any case it looks like food is coming down from heaven when one look at the prices).
Important
I am happy to report that Debian 6 is available with Sinhala graphical installer.
1. Linux Guy (means both s / he) should be able boot at any moment day or night. Should be able to boot out or weed out Linux of Microsoft as soon as possible (any dual facility of booting is taken as sign of weakness or of a transvestism).
2. Should be able to root at any moment especially at night to look at the nocturnal misbehaviour of a server platform or your computer.
3. Should be able to flame a war with any vendor who is dishing out and venturing into virtues of New Windows 7 (which is 4 years old now anyway).
4. Should be able to flame a war with any neighbour who is using any windows without a screen cover. All windows should have curtain cover so that you should not be seeing what your neighbour's daughter is doing or up to.
5. Should carry a mini (business type) card or a Pendrive with at least Puppy Linux or Knoppix installed (this is a new addition to becoming a savvy-carry minimum of luggage in person).
6. Should have a old computer resurrected from an attic and used as a mail server educating newbies and flaming them with fire if they cannot boot or root instantaneously or as a dedicated seeding plot (seed potato type to germinate at any given time and not as a Microsoft couch potato type) with at least 20 to 30 hacked (means used many times) distributions for dissemination by K-torrent running 24 / 7 schedule.
7. Advocates running the computer 24 hours a day non stop (for seeding distributions to natives hitherto unknown with pidgin languages) for doing Cron jobs and midnight commander. If you tell this to a Microsoft Gut / Girl s/he will get a heart attack or they will be doing virus checking every half an hour.
8. Should be able to do short cuts with any combination of all 12 x F (function ) keys, Tab, Alt, Ctr. Shift (should never use the window key even with a sterile screen on top of it-why the hell it is there I still do not know in the key board) and any other alphanumeric key to do a simple jobs not understood by a kid or newbie. When you do that with the last touch of the key on F-12, a word presto should pop out for a second and a pause and then ask what next please (really you should write a mini shell script for above and assign it to the 12th Function Key nobody seems to be using it nowadays. Linux never extended it beyond 8 in my time. Or else you must design a few Cron jobs yourself and assign them to F9 to F12
If nobody is impressed at least your girl friend or boy friend will be impressed by this activity.
9. Should be able to work with virtual keyboard even when the normal keyboard has coffee or tea spilled all over it by a kid while watching your antics.
10. This is a new one again since Microsfties think that Linux guy cannot play games. You must use the guitaristX (new distribution in Linux) key to play a game or two while stringing some music with John Lenon or Paul McCartneyin in the background.
11. This is an extra for a Sri-Lankan guy to show off that you can do Linux now in Sinhala and that is you say "you are an eternal Distressed-Distro-Hopper". You like plain hoppers, egg hoppers, Linux hoppers, jaggery hoppers or hoppers from heaven (in any case it looks like food is coming down from heaven when one look at the prices).
Important
I have now with me all the Debian (386) Live and Installable CDs /DVDs for spreading the message of Linux in Sinhala. It can be installed in Tamil Telangu and English too for Linux Lovers in the Indian Subcontinent.
Currently downloading 64 bit versions.
I would initiate a mechanism to make it available initially in Kandy and the University where I work does not permit me to access public directly.
Please log at this particular writing (two more above) and make comments.
There is another alternative to Drop it at Droppbox but that will be lot of work for me. A paper advertisement in another alternative.
Please do not contact me (no emails accepted) other than this portalCurrently downloading 64 bit versions.
I would initiate a mechanism to make it available initially in Kandy and the University where I work does not permit me to access public directly.
Please log at this particular writing (two more above) and make comments.
There is another alternative to Drop it at Droppbox but that will be lot of work for me. A paper advertisement in another alternative.
I am happy to report that Debian 6 is available with Sinhala graphical installer.
