Why I love the /. crowd

// November 21st, 2006 // Uncategorized

Selected comments from this thread on SlashDot

“Portland, Oregon, non-profit Free Geek, which turns old PCs into Linux boxen, has been robbed of about $4500 worth of hardware. Portlanders are asked to keep an eye out for suspicious sales of Ubuntu laptops.”

“suspicious sales of Ubuntu laptops”

So, ANY sales of Ubuntu laptops?

I was playing in a band and we went on tour. We stopped in Birmingham, Alabama. After we played we were waiting for the follow up bands to finish and someone broke into our van and stole my laptop and someone else’s laptop. They stole 2 of our cell phones too. I figured wtf, I’ll call one of them. The robbers actually answered the phone and after about 30 minutes we convinced them to bring us the laptops back. We met in a dark alley and walked slowly with our hands in the air while on the phones to each other. I held up a couple 20′s with some 1′s and we did the swap. When I booted my laptop, it went into recovery mode as though someone turned it on, saw the linux boot up screen and thought, “wtf is this crap?! Jeez… I can’t sell this… Hmm… the phone is ringing.” and decided to try to get money for the crazy system from the owner.

walked slowly with our hands in the air

Did you then wave them around like you just didn’t care?

When I booted my laptop, it went into recovery mode as though someone turned it on, saw the linux boot up screen and thought, “wtf is this crap?! Jeez… I can’t sell this…

Nine out of ten thieves agree, Linux is not ready for prime time.

“Portland, Oregon, non-profit Free Geek, which turns old PCs into Linux boxen

Please stop using this boxen word. There is no such thing is boxen. The plural of box is boxes.

This madness must stop. Anytime somebody says boxen in real life to me gets a punch in the face.

Please stop using this boxen word. There is no such thing is boxen.
Allowing new words to the language embiggens us all. Besides that, it’s a perfectly cromulent word.