[gabriel_007]

I have an idea for a great program for men, that will help them pick up girls. It's very simple - it activates itself about five seconds after we load into a KDE or whatever window manager we are using.
It generally... pretends to break everything down. Completely. I mean - total linux/kernel panic armageddon.
than it displays a message:

"only a REAL man can fix me".

Than it just does stuff (displays scary messages about kernels, compiling, networks, abbrevations - abg is not gdf with kdm etc) and after some time brings everything back to normal. In the meantime - a user can pretend to take care of it, by editing fake text files, typing something in the console.

So what do you guys think?

[Indefatigable]

The equivalent program for women would hide all the error messages. Even if you tried to debug things it would tell you there aren't any problems to debug. You've got evidence from other places that the system isn't doing what you got it for, but you still never see a single error. Finally you just don't see the point in trying to fool with it anymore, and decide you were better off without it.

[jnev]

Originally Posted by Indefatigable

The equivalent program for women would hide all the error messages. Even if you tried to debug things it would tell you there aren't any problems to debug. You've got evidence from other places that the system isn't doing what you got it for, but you still never see a single error. Finally you just don't see the point in trying to fool with it anymore, and decide you were better off without it.

thats what i like to call windows.

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by gabriel_007

I have an idea for a great program for men, that will help them pick up girls. It's very simple - it activates itself about five seconds after we load into a KDE or whatever window manager we are using.
It generally... pretends to break everything down. Completely. I mean - total linux/kernel panic armageddon.
than it displays a message:

"only a REAL man can fix me".

Than it just does stuff (displays scary messages about kernels, compiling, networks, abbrevations - abg is not gdf with kdm etc) and after some time brings everything back to normal. In the meantime - a user can pretend to take care of it, by editing fake text files, typing something in the console.

So what do you guys think?

Yeah, because I can't remember how many times I've impressed a girl with my mad "fix a computer running an OS they know nothing about" skills.

[PsypherPunk]

Originally Posted by gabriel_007

I have an idea for a great program for men, that will help them pick up girls. It's very simple - it activates itself about five seconds after we load into a KDE or whatever window manager we are using.
It generally... pretends to break everything down. Completely. I mean - total linux/kernel panic armageddon.
than it displays a message:

"only a REAL man can fix me".

Than it just does stuff (displays scary messages about kernels, compiling, networks, abbrevations - abg is not gdf with kdm etc) and after some time brings everything back to normal. In the meantime - a user can pretend to take care of it, by editing fake text files, typing something in the console.

So what do you guys think?

Wouldn't be of use here, either. Every time my girlfriend sees any kind of error message onscreen she blames me and demands to know what i've been tinkering with.

Okay, half the time she's right but...

[smolloy]

Originally Posted by PsypherPunk

Wouldn't be of use here, either. Every time my girlfriend sees any kind of error message onscreen she blames me and demands to know what i've been tinkering with.

Okay, half the time she's right but...

Sounds familiar to me

[petergriffin]

Originally Posted by gabriel_007

I have an idea for a great program for men, that will help them pick up girls. It's very simple - it activates itself about five seconds after we load into a KDE or whatever window manager we are using.
It generally... pretends to break everything down. Completely. I mean - total linux/kernel panic armageddon.
than it displays a message:

"only a REAL man can fix me".

Than it just does stuff (displays scary messages about kernels, compiling, networks, abbrevations - abg is not gdf with kdm etc) and after some time brings everything back to normal. In the meantime - a user can pretend to take care of it, by editing fake text files, typing something in the console.

So what do you guys think?

That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.... but it did make me LMAO

Well done gabriel_007

[Indefatigable]

Originally Posted by jnev

thats what i like to call windows.

Windows does give error messages, but they're so generic and non-specific that you can't actually use them to figure out what's wrong.

Okay, that works too.