[csail-related] GSB Tonight: GUN/Lunix

[luke.hutch at gmail.com (Luke Hutchison)]

The full and correct name is GNI/Lunix. Give credit where it's due.


On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Andrew "Jamoozy" Correa <
jamoozy at csail.mit.edu> wrote:

> Someone pointed me here:
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTXV1pP_hI4
>
> For those of you not interested in using Flash to view a movie, I'll
> explain.  This is an excerpt from TechTV's "The Screen Savers" that reviews
> this article:
>
>  http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
>
> For those of you not interested in using a web browser to read an article,
> I'll explain.  The page is allegedly written by a man who thinks his son is
> a "computer hacker" (a cracker or "black hat hacker" for those in the know).
>  He makes all sorts of wild claims about the warning signs for your son (or
> daughter) being a cracker.  One of these signs is (from the article):
>
>  8. Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"?
>
>  BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an
>  illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet
>  computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the
>  Russians lost the Cold War. ...
>
> I goes on, but "Lunix"?  The TechTV guys lol'd; I got worried, then lol'd;
> lols were had, but hopefully no one pays him much credence ...
>
> The article got me looking around the net for references to "Lunix".  I
> found this article, that is SO SO SO SO NOT SAFE FOR WORK ... but I read it
> anyway:
>
>  http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Lunix
>
> Follow the link at your own risk.
>
> Let's discuss the evils of using GUN/Lunix (or---for those in the
> know---lets discuss how not to get caught using Lunix) at this week's:
>
>          +-                                                  -+
>             girl scout benefit -+-  5:30 pm  -+- 32-G9 lounge
>          +-                                                  -+
>
>              For those coming from elsewhere: Building 32 is
>               <http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32>
>          Once you are in 32, just take the G-elevator to the 9th
>      floor and we will be in the lounge that you will be looking at
>                    <http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb>
>
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