From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 30 14:32:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CE216A418 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:32:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vadim_nuclight@mail.ru) Received: from mx28.mail.ru (mx28.mail.ru [194.67.23.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09BD013C465 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:32:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vadim_nuclight@mail.ru) Received: from mx34.mail.ru (mx34.mail.ru [194.67.23.200]) by mx28.mail.ru (mPOP.Fallback_MX) with ESMTP id 0B84811811D for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:38:27 +0300 (MSK) Received: from [78.140.2.250] (port=57079 helo=nuclight.avtf.net) by mx34.mail.ru with esmtp id 1J8wUr-0006Vc-00 for advocacy@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:38:25 +0300 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:38:22 +0600 To: advocacy@freebsd.org References: <4359E35F-FB95-4B0E-BE9A-A14FE0DAD7FC@ixsystems.com> <459FC0A9-5FB8-4AEE-8234-F50A2CAA7CDB@ixsystems.com> <2fd864e0712291619l585083f6gb9a2282ccf8442d3@mail.gmail.com> <4CAE3DD3-C4A2-46DD-82D7-1C7C52379990@ixsystems.com> From: "Vadim Goncharov" Organization: AVTF TPU Hostel Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=koi8-r MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4CAE3DD3-C4A2-46DD-82D7-1C7C52379990@ixsystems.com> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (Win32, build 3865) Cc: Subject: Ukrainian President and KDE2 on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:32:28 -0000 30.12.07 @ 06:29 Matt Olander wrote: >> The first part, "Talk to my computer people.", shows a remarkable >> ammount of restraint. As anyone who has dealt with end users knows, >> often times, they will attempt many incorrect things, before talking >> to the "computer people". >> >> The second part demonstrates a clear understanding of what its like to >> attempt to patch, or for that matter, build, or even use KDE. I doubt >> anyone here would argue that it does not "mess with your head", so >> clearly, "use other software" is sound advice! > > > Haha, definitely neat. What I'm curious about is why this would be the > number one question for him. Does anybody know if the Ukrainian > government is using KDE/FreeBSD heavily? Alas, I think, no. This question to Ukraninan president was a result of flashmob, with ex-USSR sociocultural IT origins in it. Several years ago in one of russian IRC-nets there were a dialog at a fan channel of Japan animation: - Is this channel about Anime? - Yes. - How do I patch KDE2 under FreeBSD? The humor was in that at these old times Anime-fans were almost all technical geeks and spent their time talking about Unix-like OSes, not about Anime. With years this quote about Anime and KDE became very popular (in fact, a mem). So when Presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan organized their conferences with questions coming via internet-voting, question about KDE2 won the first place (along with other humorous questions), though was never answered. Now, the answer at last was given by Ukrainian President, although not too-technical, so fans made a picture with "right answer": http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8606/kde2vr1.png ;-) -- WBR, Vadim Goncharov