Throwaway line

In a huge blog post on Lobby4Linux, which mentioned the Mint Fedora project and was full of all sorts of other drivel:

"Tux is going to take over a town of 1200 for an entire month this spring.  That's right...an entire town.  TV coverage, the whole bit.  The town is going to use Linux for an entire month and we're planning, arranging and documenting the whole thing.

Watch this space for the official announcement after the first of the year."

Now *that* sounds a bit more like it! A much better plan than Tux500, this is going to be immensely invaluable. We'll be able to point to this as an example of "Ordinary people are ready for Linux". The TV coverage will spark interest in Linux. We'll also benefit from the documentation - knowing what to expect with a large migration.

And that will be 1200 less computers to transmit viruses!

I got sent a virus today through MSN. The person whose computer sent it to me knew that they had this virus, but they continued to stay online! I finally sent an SMS to them telling them to fucking disconnect their computer from the internet and not to come back on until their Windows was fixed or it had been booted with a Linux live CD. After all, viruses don't just spread and that be their sole activity. They send spam, join botnets, spy on their users, host illegal websites, open ports in the computer's firewall for other malware to come in, and general cause all sorts of havoc.

Lately I've been feeling really lonely. I'm not in a relationship and I don't have any prospects of being in one in the near future. This sucks. And so many people are ignoring me, it's not funny.