From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   rbowman wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:01:53 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
   >   
   >>    Sorry, but I'm a Deb-o-Phile .....   
   >   
   > I was a real Deb-o-Phile in college... When my father saw her he asked   
   > 'Who is the little weasel?'  He wasn't being cruel since she was small,   
   > thin, and had pointed features. Unluckily for her it stuck and she became   
   > The Weasel.   
   >   
   >    
      
   Heh heh, took me a few seconds to grok that. In grade school we   
   had a similary-featured guy we called The Rat.   
      
   Anyway, my first distro was the old RedHat 6. Then I bought a   
   no-name laptop with Windows NT on it, and used that for awhile.   
   Then I tried to install RedHat. Partway through the screen would   
   blank and a weird glow would appear. (I later learned it was some   
   issue with the AMD K6 CPU.)   
      
   So I download Debian and burned an install CD. We were on a road   
   trip, so I spent a lot of time in the passenger seat getting it   
   installed, getting familiar with dselect, and getting the GUI   
   running. It was very absorbing.   
      
   I didn't try any other distro until Gentoo years later.   
      
   --   
   A guy walks into a bar, orders a beer, carries it to the bathroom and dumps it   
   into a urinal.  Over the course of the next few hours, he goes back to the bar   
   and repeats this sequence -- several times.  Finally the bartender got so   
   curious that he leaned over the bar and asked him what he was doing.   
   Replied the customer, "Avoiding the middleman."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)