To all the Ubuntu Family

[KiwiNZ]

Its that time of year again, gee its come around fast. Many of us will be joining in the festive season , mine starts tonight , its Christmas eve down under.

Time to reflect

This year has been hard , with many a curve ball sent my way , as some may know.
It's easy to become self centered in adversity but its important to try to see others as well as your self when times are hard, Because for others it may well be harder. I can attest to that ,as sometimes I have become self centered and angry and forgot about those less fortunate than I .

So as you set about your holidays and have the fun you richly deserve , stop and pause a little and give some one else a little something. A “hello” , a smile is all that is needed in some cases.

I wish each and everyone of you a safe and wonderful festive season. And may your god be with you .

Best wishes

Mike

[chucky chuckaluck]

happy holidays, mike. ...ok, the rest of you, too.

[OutOfReach]

Merry Christmas :)

Virtual group hug? :o

[dannytatom]

:grouphugs

Happy Holidays to all. :)

[SuperSonic4]

Happy celebrations of an arbitraily chosen day :D

[forrestcupp]

Merry Christmas. I hope you can knock your curve ball out of the park.

[Icehuck]

Happy celebrations of an arbitraily chosen day :D

Wasn't it chosen to coincide with the celebration of Yule?

Anyway,


Happy Holidays :)

[Kernel Sanders]

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/BrumSumarin/HappyChristmas.jpg

*Joins the group hug* :KS

[myusername]

merry christmas/happy other holidays guys

[Chame_Wizard]

Merry Christmas :P

[Tigershell]

Have a good one guys

[some_random_noob]

In my opinion, every day is "giving stuff day". There are lots of people in need, so try to drop the materialistic garbage this year and help out (volunteer to cook for charity, donate a can of food, etc).

I want YOU, for the community! (holy crap, I should be an MP! :D )

[IsraeliHawk]

Happy Holidays everyone!

i may be a Jew, but I'm celebrating Hannukah too..

in anyhow, Merry Christmas!! :) :KS

[Joeb454]

As I said the other year to my entire family:

Seasons Greetings!!!


(Yes I do know I sounded like the front of a card)

[FuturePilot]

(Yes I do know I sounded like the front of a card)

Can you multiply yourself so I can hand you out to people?

More seriously, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. :)

[Lostincyberspace]

Merry Christmas!

Hey maybe next year we could do a fundraiser for something, at this festive time.


Maybe start it around Thanksgiving(the third thursday in november for all the non americans) and end on christmas.

[Eisenwinter]

Alright people, lets get drunk :D

[Joeb454]

Can you multiply yourself so I can hand you out to people?

Funny you should mention that... ;)

[Frak]

Merry Christmas

[-grubby]

I love all of you in your own special way.

[inxygnuu]

Happy holidays! ¡Feliz Navidad! 2009 is coming! and so is jaunty!:)

[kevin11951]

funny you should mention that... ;)

this is a family forum!

*screams* *continues to scream* *continues to scream* *continues to scream* *continues to scream* *continues to scream* *continues to scream* *continues to scream* *continues to scream* *continues to scream* *stops*

[Grant A.]

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/1712/merrychristmasde1.png

[Mazza558]

...and it's the UK's turn to get to Christmas Eve.

24 hours!

[Joeb454]

...and it's the UK's turn to get to Christmas Eve.

24 hours!

23 hours and 46 minutes actually (at the time of writing) ;)

[Grant A.]

Ah, I almost forgot to say this:

Les deseo un Feliz Navidad a ustedes! :)

[beercz]

Merry Christmas everyone!

[kostkon]

Happy holidays!

[OutOfReach]

Ah, I almost forgot to say this:

Les deseo un Feliz Navidad a ustedes! :)

Que tengan un feliz ano nuevo tambien!

[cybergal]

Happy Holidays, Everyone!

[WaeV]

Happy celebrations of an arbitraily chosen day :D

Actually, it was chosen to be around winter solstice so the pagan convertees would be more comfortable with it. :)

[Grant A.]

Apparently Santa can be tracked on Google Earth. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10128642-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5)

[MikeTheC]

KiwiNZ:

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, all the best, and may you steer your way to a complete recovery from whatever troubles have beset you in 2008.

Speaking of group hugs and talk about the "Ubuntu Family", I can think of no greater excuse er, occasion than this to quote the poet Tennyson: :p


Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.


Apparently Santa can be tracked on Google Earth. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10128642-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5)

+1 (And to think people still believe he doesn't exist... Geez...) ;)

[abhilashm86]

merry christmas to all people,enjoy!!!!!!!

i joined linux family(ubuntu) just 3 months back,it treated(forums) as its child and now i am independent flying bird(not a child)..........

thanks to all friends outta there who helped me.

group hug with ubuntu family!!!!!!!!!!

[-grubby]

merry christmas to all people,enjoy!!!!!!!

I joined linux family(ubuntu) just 3 months back,it treated(forums) as its child and now i am independent flying bird(not a child)..........

Thanks to all friends outta there who helped me.

Group hug with ubuntu family!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!11111one!!!1!!!111111!11eleventy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!11

[Cope57]

Politically correct Holiday Greetings (http://cope57.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/politically-correct-holiday-greetings/)

To all the Politically Correct out there:

“Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.

We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2009, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.”

To Everybody Else:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[magmon]

Apparently Santa can be tracked on Google Earth. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10128642-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5)

Merry christmas, but uhh...

Santa statistics
No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are roughly 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified. While most of these are insects and germs, this does not rule out flying reindeer - though Santa and my uncle Ralph, in his drinking days, are the only people who've ever seen one.
There are two billion children (small people under the age of 18 ) in the world. But since Santa doesn't (appear to) handle most non-Christian children, that reduces the workload to about 15 per cent of the total (roughly 378 million according to the Population Reference Bureau). At a rate of say, 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good kid in each.
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west. That's 822.6 visits per second. For each eligible household, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, put presents under the tree, eat any snacks, kiss mommy when available, get back up the chimney, hop in the sleigh and move on.
Assuming each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth, we're now talking about 0.78 miles per household - a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting stops to let Santa and the reindeer do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours.
This means Santa's sleigh moves at 650 miles per second, or 3,000 times the speed of sound. The fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles a second (a conventional reindeer, by the way, can run 15 miles per hour, tops).
Assuming each child gets nothing more that a medium-sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting overweight Santa. Conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting flying reindeer could pull 10 times the normal amount, Santa would need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload (not counting the sleigh) to
353,430 tons, or four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth II.
353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles a second creates enormous air resistance, which would heat the reindeer to incandescence in the same fashion as spacecraft or meteors entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing
the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms. The entire team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second.
Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500.06 gravities. A 250-pound Santa (a wee bit of an underestimate) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
The Internet originator's conclusion to the above: "If Santa ever did deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now."

The above is from my website, www.nickspics.9f.com

[scragar]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone(and if you don't celebrate christmas(I kinda don't, I mean I swap presents, but other than that I keep out of it, only reason I trade presents is because no matter how much I tell people not to buy me anything they still do, I can't take it off them and give nothing back can I) I want to wish you a happy holiday period anyway).

[zmjjmz]

Happy ChrismaHanuKwanza.

[MikeTheC]

Politically correct Holiday Greetings (http://cope57.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/politically-correct-holiday-greetings/)

To all the Politically Correct out there:

“Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.

We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2009, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.”

And here I thought Philadelphia lawyers were bad... :p

[abhilashm86]

!!!!11111one!!!1!!!111111!11eleventy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!11

whatz this?????is it a binary representation of group hug!!!!!!:lolflag:

[Rocket2DMn]

Merry Christmas everybody! If you're working on Xmas Eve, come let us know what you're up to - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1020460

Cheers, and stay safe!

[xpod]

Lang may yer lumbs reek.

[alienexplorers]

Happy Holidays to all and thanks for all the help over the past year.

[roelpeeters]

Happy Holidays to everybody and as said before: thanks for all the help this year! May the next year even be better than this!!

Ho ho ho!

[Dragonbite]

Happy Holidays.

Don't forget to stop and count your blessings.

If each of my blessing was a coin then scrooge would be satisfied!

~Drew

[notwen]

Happy & safe holidays to everyone. =]

*cheers*

[Mazza558]

Lucky NZ and Australia get Christmas day early...

Well, the tradeoff is that they don't really get a christmassy feel, given that it's the height of summer over there.

[chucky chuckaluck]

Lucky NZ and Australia get Christmas day early...

Well, the tradeoff is that they don't really get a christmassy feel, given that it's the height of summer over there.

how do you know the warmer weather doesn't put santa in a better mood?

[darrenn]

Merry Christmas Everyone!

[smartboyathome]

Its still not christmas here! 4 hours remaining. And the Ausies have probably already finished their up. :p

[OutOfReach]

Yep, 4 more hours here (California) too. :/

[TBomBM3879]

14 minutes here (New Hampshire)

[Frak]

1 hour left here (Oklahoma).

[Dragonbite]

11 Minutes ago! Merry Christmas everybody (now it's time to go to bed)

[OutOfReach]

Well, it's officially Christmas here on the Western side of the U.S. of A.

Merry Christmas everyone. :)

[Giant Speck]

It won't be Christmas here in Alaska for another 42 minutes.

But I want to say that I wish everyone on UbuntuForums a Merry Christmas, regardless of their religious or non-religious persuasion. May today be a day of family togetherness, and for those who don't celebrate, may it be just a really good day. :)

[Frak]

Was Christmas 2 hours ago. Only 22 more to go 'till it's over...

My Christmas is the same as any other day, so I've nothing to look forward to until New Years.

[pp.]

how do you know the warmer weather doesn't put santa in a better mood?

It is a well documented (http://www.toonhound.com/briggsfcgoh.htm) fact that Father Christmas doesn't like warmer climates. I would think it somewhat likely that this applied to santa as well.

Ah, and merry Christmas and a happy new year to all.

[Swagman]

http://www.upload3r.com/serve/251208/1230209373.jpeg <--- Merry Christmas from Peterborough, Uk.

The dinner is cooking and making me VERY hungry !!

We don't like Turkey so its a large leg o Lamb