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- Ascendant, on 10/12/2007, -2/+77“Why did I switch? Because I was drunk off my ass and didn’t know wtf I was doing, and erased my whole hard drive in the process! It was great!”
Brilliant. Why didn’t Apple think of that for their “Switch” ads? - awhiteflame, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46M-m-m-my n-name is Brian.........and I'm an.....an.......uhhhhhhh........
- pdiddle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44LOUD NOISES.
Everyone knows caps lock is cruise control for awesome. - mikechml, on 10/12/2007, -9/+49SEE UBUNTU IN THE TITLE OF A FRONT PAGE STORY?
MUST REPLY WITH CLICHED COMMENT! - kingace, on 10/12/2007, -5/+46I LIKE CAPS
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -10/+48I DON'T KNOW WHY WE'RE SCREAMING!
- thegenome, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42Lol...thats great...I wonder what his username is that he set up?
username: aslkdfhj
password: klsdagj - eggstylin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41Blogspam. Real link: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=278178
Actually the whole post is just this:
I have heard many reasons for switching to ubuntu, but mine has to be the best.
After a rather fine night out on the town, I came home in a rather inebriated state. Put the live disc in, and recklessly choose to install Ubuntu, and did so by wiping the entire hard drive (previously XP). This sort of switch has sortof thrown me in at the deep end, but I have no regrets and has to be one of the best drunken decisions I have ever taken... - invader, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37@LucianSolaris
please remove sand from vagina prior to posting a comment
kthx - wilsonder, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31Brick, Where'd you get a hand gernade?
- trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMt2MK67-Qw
They pretty much did ;) - michaelyurechko, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Ubuntu, so easy to install/use you can do it when your drunk!!
- LiquidPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Mikkas brings up an excellent point.
"Hehe, even I talked about using Linux drunk in one of my 1st podcasts...
I was kinda trying to get across the point that... To understand how 'regular' users feel - try running things drunk (especially running new programs, or updating drivers etc). It's not the easiest.
Also, you'll want to do only a small amount of things. Ie.
Listen to music (way up!)
Browse the web
IM
...more?
Anyways, it's kinda funny trying to get these tasks to work (especially if you haven't set everything up yet) and, at least for me, brought a real new perspective to the annoyances (such as where your music is stored mnt.. dev.. sdab etc :S) VS the real drunken OS that is windows Xp."
This brings to mind my direct experiences. Some of my best code comes from nights when I'm either A) pissed off B) drunk C) exhausted or D) all of the above. It would've never occured to me to try being drunk when evaluating the UI. When people are drunk and awake, they're at their most primal. All total logic goes completely out the window.
I have tried designing UI's and letting my six year old kid try to use them, but they're more difficult to work with than a drunk person. - Hydraulix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19I would have been more impressed if he installed LFS.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+27http://www.duggmirror.com
- stormgren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16A prime example of what the bury button is for.
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17I think he might have got it from the internet?
- gstuartj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13A PC? Linux users use PCs too. A PC is an acronym that stands for Personal Computer, and is commonly used to describe the x86 hardware platform. It is not Windows-specific.
Also, what is Ubununtu? - RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -8/+21Yet another totally bogus Ubuntu story on the front page...
Let me guess - this guy got his live CD from a McDonalds in Iowa? - Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Proof that Digg needs a "Microsoft" section so people like RPharazon can go have wet dreams about Bill Gates and how Windows is the greatest OS on the planet.
- MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13It's a good thing he liked it. I would've been super pissed off if I was drunk and installed Fedora Core by cleaning my hard drive.
- bedlam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Ever heard of Ellen Feiss?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7872246776955336366&q=switcher
EDIT: damn you trogdoor... :) - Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12FC6 comes out tomorrow....and I intend on installing it on one of my boxes.
*grabs bottle of Maker's Mark* - b-dizzle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15If you want strictly news, you belong in the Reuters tech section, not at Digg.
- ptrcd003, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12What the hell? Thats it? A guy writes 2 lines, and calls it a "Story"? Ok, got drunk, installed an OS. Maybe some details? Honestly, why such low standards for "stories"? If its the best decision he made, maybe he should explain why.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9uboozetu
- gatorsrule21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@MrUnderbridge
You speak from experience?
;-) - Dempf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=278178
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14This isn't all that funny.
- dicerandom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Hm, this presents a problem for my method of choosing root passwords. I generally go by the rule-of-thumb "if I can type it correctly while drunk it isn't complicated enough". By choosing a root password while drunk you automatically negate this important safety feature.
Also, you might set your root password to something like "my glass is so empty" and not remember WTF it is the next day. Or, even worse, remember that you set it to "my glass is so empty" but not realize that you actually typed it as ",u g;ass os sp e,[tu". Twice. - gatorsrule21, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I'm sure there would be plenty of people willing to test your UI - assuming you provide the booze.
- gstuartj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Ah, flamers. Scum of the Internet.
- b0nemachine, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10http://www.duggmirror.com
- RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@hirak99
Then why are you commenting in an Ubuntu thread? - nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wow, that was me! :)
We might grab a few more listeners now for our podcast now -- I went to bed just after writing that comment (no i wasnt drunk). Couldn't believe it got dugg.
Nice. - subgeniusd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ah, flamers. Spice of the internet.
- subgeniusd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Final proof that I have too much spare time. Read the "story" plus this entire thread.
I think I'll just stare at my new screensaver for awhile now...... - mymate, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9from aysiu:
"Some do it for security.
Some do it on principle.
Some do it for customization.
You do it because you were sloshed one night." - skyhighrockets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Its also free as in BEER!
- fiver22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4From ubuntuforums:
"You know, you really are a nerd. I get hammered and wake up staring at a random woman, you get hammered and wake up staring at a random OS."
-Quote by ubuntu forum member Jerome Scuggs. - Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Friends don't let friends type drunk.
- rjg1021, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I made similar error once that has made me forever grateful to Linux. I came home one night wasted to one of those "Check My New Picseses" links on my gaim. As I was drunk, I clicked and within a millisecond shouted in horror. My girlfriend was like "WTF?" and then I shouted again in joy because I realized that I was safe because I was using Ubuntu. I have also posted this on the Ubuntu forums, just not less than 1 day ago.
- benplaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This comment was starting out so well, and then...
- tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Damn. I hate the stupid AIM Windows virus.
- inmatarian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ubuntu: OS of choice for drunken nerds everywhere!
- schotty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I started on Slackware. Oh lord ... back in 95 or 96. Got it out of one of those giantmonguously huge Que Linux Unlesashed books. I did it so I could have the closest thing to an Alpha at home (thats what a fellow student reccomended).
Now I am a Solaris and Red Hat whore (RIP DEC). - jackcall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Back when red hat was still free - about five years ago - that happened to me... I wasn't really able to install the bloody thing sober, but there I was, hang overs and a thought something a like "WTF? password? root? where did my 10gig of music go?"
Then I upgraded to windows ME ;-) - jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was sort of expecting a funny story... didn't realize it was _that_ short of a story.
Oh well, getting drunk and switching to Linux is fun. Using Linux while drunk is fun. Being drunk is fun. - ysmsr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This sounds like that vonage ad -
"People make stupid decisions - get vonage"
This is so lame. - GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1emerge --unmerge portage FTW.
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