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Jeff went out abroad one day, dark deeds upon his mind.
He ventured to an unusual site, to see what he could find.
Shovel in hand, a curious plan, to Digg his very own site.

The deed, he thought, would be e'sly done,
and traffic would abound.
Until he finished of his work,
and heard that awful sound.

Captcha! Captcha! the hounds did bay,
filling his soul with dread.
Captcha! Captcha! His heart recoiled,
his feet were filled with lead.

The beast was fifty pixels high,
and more than that acros't.
Its challenge echoed through the air,
and Jeff was surely lost.

Nethack is a fun text-based dungeon crawler. In it, you attempt to retrieve something called the "amulet of yendor" from a dungeon. I believe this amulet is located somewhere around level 100 of the dungeon. I have yet to get beyond the single digit levels. The following is an real-live blow-by-blow account of my sad, sad attempts to play nethack today. I really ought to get out more.

Characters #1-5

Made a new character. Killed and remade said new character roughly five times before figuring out how to move. Felt quite accomplished.

Linux VS Your Grandmother

Linux is free!
Your Grandmother is, umm, free..

Linux has lots of useful tools.
Your Grandmother has lots of useless brick-a-brac.

Linux can run on various different hardware architectures.
Your Grandmother thinks a hardware architecture is a very strong building.

Linux is very stable.
Your Grandmother has put up with your Grandfather for longer than your parents have been alive. She is stable

Linux is flexible.
Your Grandmother is not.

There are many different flavors of Linux.

Ok, so you know grep, awk and sed. You can ls and cd your way anywhere on your computer. You can even eject your cdrom by typing several letters instead of pressing one button. But here's a fresh*,new**, and perhaps even slightly humorous take on several of your all time favorites.

10. mplayer

Here are a few basic signs that it might be time to go outside for some fresh air.

You become very, very confused when pressing the "tab" key does not fill in the rest of what you were typing.

The phrase "man mount" does not strike you as particularly odd.

You spill a glass of milk and look about in confusion for the "undo" button.

When on your Windows partition, you want to play a game, so you open up a command prompt and start typing "wine C:\Pro..."

You are surprised at the blank look your boss gives you when you attempt to tell him, "sudo give me a raise".

Redhat

Redhat would be a gorgous, expensive hooker. She'd do whatever you
wanted, and do it well. You'll be left satisfied, but you'll have no
idea how she did it. If you needed help with her, there are many paid
phone numbers you can call to chat about her.

Fedora Core

Fedora Core would be just as good as Redhat, but wouldn't cost you a
dime.

CentOS

CentOS would look just like Fedora Core, except... Except it would look
just like Fedora Core.

Suse

Suse would be a moderately hot hooker. She wouldn't be quite as good as