Randall Fails, /prog/ celebrates

http://blag.xkcd.com/2009/04/03/what-happened-to-my-laptop/

Stop begging for attention on /prog/, Randall.

most people have these types of things and just deal with them.
you feel the need to write it all down so people can read about your low level troubleshooting 1337ness.
go back to trying to be funny, Randall.

most people would just nuke it from orbit, reinstall ubanto, and restore their files from a backup.
sane people would nuke it from orbit and install desktopbsd.

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>>3
Most people probably wouldn't go harassing random unrelated people with bug reports just because they suck at computers. I'd be very surprised if anyone read that blog post and didn't come away thinking Randall was sort of a sad loser instead of a 1337 troubleshooter, even with his fanbase being what it is.

(No, I haven't read the comments, for the sake of my faith in humanity.)

With all the money he does by drawing romantic stick figures, he should buy a mac

Ubanto

(づの‿の)づ

>>7
GET OUT OF MY /prog/ AND OUT OF MY INTERNETS

>>10
GET OUT MY LAMBDA KNIGHTS NAO

>>1
This my friends, is what you don't use linux.

God damnit Randall!

I notice my Firefox is out-of-date, and decide that it might be a quirk of this version of Firefox+Ubuntu.

Firefox+Ubuntu

Randall

Reasons for failure

9. I go to edit the cookies file in emacs,
at first, i stopped reading there. but i happened to see...
and get a message that emacs can’t start.
then i lol'd.
then i stopped reading.
sage.

HOLY SHIT! 10Years^??[/u]
This makes me feel _Old.

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http://xkcd.com/566/

>>15
i [...] i [...] i [...] i
www.usingenglish.com

>>17
There's nothing wrong with liking yourself.

>>18
There's
Theirs everything wrong with not capitalizing the pronoun 'I'.

>>19
This meme should'f been forgotten a long ago.

>>19
modern english requires no capital letters or punctuation

>>21
Modern English require's no capital letter's or punctuation.
Fixed that for you, back to /school/ please.

>>22
letter's
letters'

>>15
I wondered about that too... Maybe he's running a really ancient version of Fx... because it's been a long time since the cookies file is a sqlite database.

Next thing you tell me is that emacs can edit sqlite databases, right?

In any case filing out bug reports such as "90% of Google doesn't work (tested just on my machine with a single profile)" is pretty retarded, you'd think they'd notice or something.

Anyway and to fuel the flames I never undestood this package stupidity - the method of having a base system and then completely separate applications seems much better, even of you duplicate some rare library here and there. Much more versatile and less error-prone, plus you don't depend on retarded package managers (both the programs and the persons).

>>24
Your problem isn't with package managers, then, but with dynamic linking.
The problem with systems without package managers is upgrading and patching. Eventually you end up with something like Windows, where most applications end up with unpatched published vulnerabilities, or every application runs its own daemon to take care of its own upgrades like Google Chrome or iTunes.

>>24
Next thing you tell me is that emacs can edit sqlite databases, right?
I regularly use M-x sql-sqlite, if that counts.

>>24
even of you duplicate some rare library here and there
Seems like duplicating common libraries all the time would be the more pressing issue.