[Eug-lug] funny...

[Max Lemieux]

I read that story a while back, laughed till I cried. I noticed just now 
it has over 5000 comments! Possibly the most successful troll I've ever 
seen. :D

-Max


Linux Rocks! wrote:

>This led me to this:
>
>http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
>
>Which also was pretty funny! 
>
>On Friday 07 January 2005 04:03 am, Linux Rocks! wrote:
>: So, im reading some posts on a forum, someone posts the question, what is
>: linux. this was one of the responses:
>:
>:
>: BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker
>: operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos
>: Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program
>: called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These
>: programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems
>: to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's
>: stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a
>: notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as
>: "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet
>: without using a telephone.
>:
>: As funny as that was, this was under his avatar...
>:
>:  Even as much of the internet has grown to become a quiet, well policed
>: suburb, a little known place called IRC remains the wild, wild west.
>:
>: BTW, Im having weird mousing issues with remote x sessions (like this one,
>: im running kmail across a network), when I click, often it scrolls up super
>: fast... impossible to control. anyone know what im talking about? solution?
>:
>: Jamie
>
>  
>