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Re: [News] Roundup of Linux Success Stories; Microsoft Resorts to Comedy

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____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 25 August 2008 22:59 : \____

> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron
> <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxx>
>  wrote
> on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:58:52 +0200
> <g8v6ep$pk2$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> "Moshe Goldfarb." <brick_n_straw@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:37:58 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Oh looky, looky. This is like the 10th time that everyone has seen this
>>>> story. Yes... Microsoft hired Jerry Seinfeld to do some commercials for
>>>> them. But make sure you repeat this post a dozen or so more times.


Gremlins! You surely haven't followed the link (hint: it's not about Microsoft
and Seinfeld). Even the subject lines says what it's about.


>>>> And better yet - you managed to post this from the future because
>>>> you're too stupid to set your system clock.
> 
> NAME
>        ntpd - "Network Time Protocol daemon"
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        ntpd [-dSs] [-f file]
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        The  ntpd daemon synchronizes the local clock to one
>        or more remote NTP servers, and can also act as an
>        NTP server itself, redistributing the local time.
>        It implements the Simple Network Time  Protocol
>        version 4, as described in RFC 2030, and the Network
>        Time Protocol version 3, as described in RFC 1305.
> 
> (You might as well fix this, Roy; it'll give them one
> less issue for them to take cheap potshots at. ;-) )
> 
>>>
>>> Schestowitz isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.
>>>
>>> However, watching him make a fool of himself daily is priceless.
>>> Much funnier than Seinfeld.
>>
>> Peter Koehlmann is funnier than Seinfeld.
>>
>> http://www.german-jokes.com/
> 
> Well, now that you've both gotten that all out of your
> system, perhaps either of you can tell us how Linux can
> capitalize on all this?
> 
> Or how Vista will benefit so hugely from Jerry Seinfeld's
> shilling that all of Linux, FreeBSD, and FreeDOS will
> die horrible deaths, scuttle into a corner, and never be
> seen again?
> 

- -- 
                ~~ Best of wishes

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