Ubuntu & Coffee

[defkewl]

What does Ubuntu has got to do with coffee? Can anyone explain to about this matter?

[oVerCaffeinated]

I think the developers really like coffee :-P

[lao_V]

Colour of coffee = brown = colour of ubuntu theme

[ubuntu-geek]

We just wanted something different and the coffee idea was mentioned people liked it so we went with it :)

[jwb]

Hehehehehe....... Starbucks will come out with a new flavor called "Ubuntu Supreme" or sumfin' like that. :-)

[kassetra]

Hmmm... maybe for the Hoary launch we could convince Peet's coffee (which is my favorite favorite favorite coffee) to make a real Ubuntu blend...

Gotta call the customer service rep for the business account and see if it's possible... heh. ;)

[lao_V]

That's really funny jwb!!!

Mocha Ubuntu?

[Buffalo Soldier]

What does Ubuntu has got to do with coffee? Can anyone explain to about this matter?

I guess this is where it all started -> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=15378

[rwabel]

coffee makes me always think java....well if that's positiv or negativ I won't judge :-)

[jdodson]

it should be burritos or maybe glasses of water:) but mugs of coffee is still cool, it is more astetic that the default star.

[jdodson]

coffee makes me always think java....well if that's positiv or negativ I won't judge :-)

:grin: i will always have a special place for java in my heart. it is the language i took my intro to programming classes in. i would not chose to program in it to save my life, but it is still a cool language.

[kassetra]

WAAAH! jdodson you just made me feel really, really old.

My intro to programming was gw-basic.
then pascal
then c
then c++
then vb
then vc++
then java

ok ugh. I feel terribly outdated. heh.
wait! I'm learning python! that's cool and hip right?

[jdodson]

WAAAH! jdodson you just made me feel really, really old.

My intro to programming was gw-basic.
then pascal
then c
then c++
then vb
then vc++
then java

ok ugh. I feel terribly outdated. heh.
wait! I'm learning python! that's cool and hip right?

i didn't say that was the first language i used :-) my first "class" was in junior high and it was using apple basic. before that i was exposed to commodore 64 programming with whatever language they used, i forget. it was mostly coping the code from a C64 magazine and running the program(i think one was a horserace betting program). i mostly changed around the names so it was "jons horse race program" and made my horse always win, etc :-) my parents first computer i tinkered on was a vic20. though i was pretty young, however facinated by it.

my order of learning:
C64 language
Apple basic
gw basic
q basic(then i got a compiler!!!!)
perl
java
c++
python
sql
php

now i mostly use sql, python and php. and yes, python is hip :grin:

[kassetra]

jdodson: my first class was gw-basic... but my first experience was in fourth grade... I changed our little "math test" program on the apple to make it so that whenever I put in my name, I got anywhere from 96% to 100% ... heh.

They found out years later when they were upgrading the software... they didn't know whether to punish me for "cheating" ... or advance me for "technical skills"

LOL

[jdodson]

jdodson: my first class was gw-basic... but my first experience was in fourth grade... I changed our little "math test" program on the apple to make it so that whenever I put in my name, I got anywhere from 96% to 100% ... heh.

They found out years later when they were upgrading the software... they didn't know whether to punish me for "cheating" ... or advance me for "technical skills"

LOL

thats funny. i always got in trouble for doing things like that.

[BWF89]

I don't like coffee. Could we mabye change it to green tea instead?

[jdong]

thats funny. i always got in trouble for doing things like that.

Go bigger... Once I was using Knoppix @ school, playing around with NESSUS, launched an audit. Somehow, it ticked off all the printers, which immediately started spewing pages of garbage -- nonstop.


*walk...out...quietly.....*

[jdodson]

Go bigger... Once I was using Knoppix @ school, playing around with NESSUS, launched an audit. Somehow, it ticked off all the printers, which immediately started spewing pages of garbage -- nonstop.


*walk...out...quietly.....*

HA! that is hilarious.....

[kassetra]

BWF89: just assume that those little cups are full of darjeeling ....

jdong: LOL

this will kind of date me here, but when I was first attending college we had terminals attached to the mainframe...

Well, one time I was in the stack to run one of my programs on the mainframe ... only I somehow had overlooked a giant pointer error. When the mainframe got to this one line, to the best the entire IT department could tell, the pointer was set to RANDOMLY point to places in memory that it should never have been able to get to, but somehow it DID, and of course wrote over anything at those memory locations on the harddisk ...

Needless to say, my program only finished 3/4 of the way through because by then the entire system was severely corrupted and could no longer function.

I knew something was odd when ALL OF THE TERMINALS in the entire computer science lab went blank at the same time and the room went dead quiet.

Of course, luck has it that the wonderful printer attached to the mainframe prints out the header information before it runs any job... so there was my name, the last in the list...

yeah, not one of the highlights in my computing career.

[az]

Ubuntu is to Debian what Espresso is to coffee.

[kassetra]

azz: I *love* that analogy!! \\:D/

[ZeFroG]

I love Coffee and I love Ubuntu \\:D/


Ubuntu is to Debian what Espresso is to coffee.
Superb metaphor ^^

[TravisNewman]

In the school computer screw-ups department, I never did anything major, besides getting around the VERY terrible security in my high school. You could literally access everyone's grades. Very messy. I never touched the grades, but others did and were caught.

This was on a Windows network running Novell on the server

But one of my friends actually managed to get access to the server and corrupted a lot of stuff, and then to clean his tracks formatted the hard drive of the pc he was on. When they got it fixed, he decided to do something more widespread. There was a program that ran at bootup that put everything back the way it was, so that anything students installed or put on the hard drive or whatever were deleted. Well, it accessed the server to get the rules, and then ran it. He set it up so that on the next boot it would run a deltree c:\*.* and boy were they confused. They NEVER caught him, ever. It's very odd.

Another friend changed the bootup menu (which I don't even know what it did anymore) so that it would have more options and so that it took out a few redundant steps to be more efficient-- AND HE WAS EXPELLED. They overturned the decision after his dad (a very large man) made quite a fuss over it, so he got 2 weeks suspension instead.

[gajeghst]

I know this comes a bit late, but I REALLY love the coffee thing, being a java-lover myself.
Great work to all at Ubuntu for keeping it fun.
John

[defkewl]

Oh I suppose one of Ubuntu developer drank coffee and inspired by it just like how java is inspired by a cup of coffee?

[mark]

WAAAH! jdodson you just made me feel really, really old.

My intro to programming was gw-basic.
then pascal
then c
then c++
then vb
then vc++
then java

ok ugh. I feel terribly outdated. heh.
wait! I'm learning python! that's cool and hip right?
Old? That's not old (speaking of python, here comes the Monty routine)...why, when I learned to program it was 8080 assembly language...and then, some guy named Gates came out with a BASIC compiler that would run on either an 808x or a Z80 - so long as it was running the CP/M OS...

[akurashy]

you guys are BADDD BADDDD!
now i have a urge to drink coffee <_< (actauly i do ) <_<

[kassetra]

Oh I suppose one of Ubuntu developer drank coffee and inspired by it just like how java is inspired by a cup of coffee?

No, but I *was* having a latte fit when I thought of it.

[Wardhog]

In the school computer screw-ups department, I never did anything major, besides getting around the VERY terrible security in my high school.
.
.
.
. He set it up so that on the next boot it would run a deltree c:\*.* and boy were they confused. They NEVER caught him, ever. It's very odd.


My high school thought they were pretty clever by setting the autoexec.bat (This was MS-DOS 3.3 days) to launch some menu that wouldn't let you exit - thus stopping you from installing/running whatever you brought in on a floppy disk. A quick Ctrl-Break later, autoexec.bat modified to launch straight into glsparkle or whatever it was that played primitive video files on an endless loop, run out the room giggling.
Because the file being played was a porno. Very graphic closeup of the bits that touched.

Come back an hour later, "Teacher! There's a problem with my computer!"

"This computer has a virus! Use another one!"

"This one's doing the same thing!"

"My God, it's an epidemic!"

[lordofkhemenu]

Hmmm... maybe for the Hoary launch we could convince Peet's coffee (which is my favorite favorite favorite coffee) to make a real Ubuntu blend...

Gotta call the customer service rep for the business account and see if it's possible... heh. ;)
Yanno, that's not such a bad idea; it was done for Mozila's benefit (http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3599).
Since Linus is living here in Beaverton (working as a Fellow at the Open Source Development Labs (http://www.osdl.org/)), perhaps a local coffee roaster could be persuaded....

[Jad]

coffee is good, but I think it would be cool if we can have something related to ubuntu or linux in general
maybe
U
Ub
Ubu
Ubun
Ubunt
Ubuntu
after reaching the Ubuntu s/he can add a custom one
I may go with
Arabuntu

[woodhead]

Oh... you must know this:) Do you know waht is a programmer???? This is a human, which convert's (compiles) coffe or tee into PROGRAMS. Who disagree?? 8-[

[HungSquirrel]

Hey guys, I haven't been to the forum in a while. What's this 'Contributor' thing under my name mean? I don't recall having contributed anything important. :P

[Jad]

then someone has to remove it or replace it with
useless-Contributor
helpless-Contributor
:D

[lordofkhemenu]

Hey guys, I haven't been to the forum in a while. What's this 'Contributor' thing under my name mean? I don't recall having contributed anything important. :P
Yeah, but you've made 317 posts. that's a contribution. :mrgreen:

[Jad]

indeed

[Dragonfly_X]

No, but I *was* having a latte fit when I thought of it.
A Double Espresso :lol:

[defkewl]

Perhaps one of the developer drank African Coffee?