Linux Computers

Simulations are like miniskirts, they show a lot and hide the essentials.
                -- Hubert Kirrman

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Now look what you've gone and done!  You've broken it!

Slowly and surely the unix crept up on the Nintendo user ...

So you see Antonio, why worry about one little core dump, eh?  In reality
all core dumps happen at the same instant, so the core dump you will have
tomorrow, why, it already happened.  You see, it's just a little universal
recursive joke which threads our lives through the infinite potential of
the instant.  So go to sleep, Antonio, your thread could break any moment
and cast you out of the safe security of the instant into the dark void of
eternity, the anti-time.  So go to sleep...

Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run
like a staff function.
                -- Paul Licker

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more
"user-friendly".  ...  Their best approach, so far, has been to take all
the old brochures, and stamp the words, "user-friendly" on the cover.
                -- Bill Gates, Microsoft, Inc.
        [Pot. Kettle. Black.]

Some of my readers ask me what a "Serial Port" is.
The answer is: I don't know.
Is it some kind of wine you have with breakfast?

Some people claim that the UNIX learning curve is steep, but at least you
only have to climb it once.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
                -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982

Somebody's terminal is dropping bits.  I found a pile of them over in the
corner.