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Humorix Stories
- Jargon Coiner (#13)
An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon
that we've just made up
NINETY-NINERS: In 1849, a horde of people ("Forty-niners...
- Please please please don't use Word,
It really makes you look absurd
The Dancing Paper Clip is crappy,
Use something else...
- Treaty of Helsinki Signed
HELSINKI, FINLAND -- A cease-fire in the flame war between Linux and
FreeBSD has been reached
A group of two dozen Linux and FreeBSD zealots
met...
- ERIC S. RAYMOND: I'd like to introduce Eric Jones, a disadvantaged member
of the geek community who has been forced to live in a homeless shelter
Eric? Come on out here and tell us about yourself....
- This telethon isn't just about helping disenfranchised geeks
We're
also here for the betterment of mankind through...
- Programming for money sucks... you have to deal with PHBs
16 hour days,
and spending the night in your cubicle...
- OPPRESSED GEEK: Everybody keeps blaming me for the Y2K problem
the
Melissa Virus, Windows crashes... you name it....
- Do-It-Yourself IPO
You too can get rich quick by translating an existing Linux
distribution into one of the following untapped markets
Babylonian
- Hittite
- Ancient Egyptian (hieroglyphics...
- Bill Gates Passes Turing Test
LONDON, ENGLAND
Microsoft proclaimed that they have passed the Turing...
- This is excellent news! I haven't thought about remedies yet
well, you
know, I can think of one thing the court...
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