Weird indeed. American programs on TV are often so annoying when all the "F-words" are bleeped out. Whenever someone strikes his finger with a hammer or whatever you can hear a bleep from three rooms away. Yeah sure now we'll never know what he said and our poor souls are saved from this profanity. It gets even funnier when the mouth is also blurred out.
If i may butt in: Yes. Many times with clients too. Just this week I was in a meeting with project managers and consultants from GE, Honeywell, Prysmian and Schneider electric and it was as if everyone was trying to one up each other on the 'fuck' count.
My employer is both realistic and pretty hard nosed as it happens. It is the customers. And their parents. I'm a teacher.
A story: Try Googling "The Naked Violin" (not violinist) and you should find a page with free MP3 downloads put up by Tasmin Little, a fairly well known (and extremely respectable) soloist in the UK. She decided to do her bit for getting kids to listen to classical music. And gave it a name that guarantees every school and college firewall in the UK will block access. So I continue to point students at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's music library (15GB of free classical mp3s).
PS: The Nouveau driver for Nvidia graphic cards under Linux is improving with each release. For almost all of my activity on my old Xeon desktop, it is fine, and the fonts look OK. I'm prepared to cut the coders a bit of slack in their comments...
I suppose it was more of a "This is interesting. While we are here..." addition to the data.
I didn't mean to insult your intelligence regarding Tux. I just know that I would rather people not assume that I know things, especially when responding on the Internet.
I never understand the condescension towards swearing.
I accept it as a thing because the States can get so puritanical, but not swearing - other than in the presence of children - strikes me as one of those self-perpetuating norms that serve no real purpose other than proving you can conform to arbitrary norms. Similar to any other way of judging you on appearance like haircut, piercings, tattoos or dress.
Sure there is value in being able to navigate those and get the advantages they confer, but why actually care about it? Or am I being obtuse and you're just playing along and perpetuating them for their own sake?
For me, it's about deferring to the parent rather than having any actual objection to it. It's their job to decide how their child is introduced into the world. Including how swearing gets contextualized for them. It's a caveat to what I said only as far as its a courtesy to avoid going down the path of telling parents how to raise their kids (or putting their kids into an environment they'd object to). I'm not interested in stepping on that rat's nest, and I wouldn't be rushing to put my pre-teen in a cussy environment either. (The "for the children" censorship/restrictions is a different tangent I have things to say about too, but was trying to sidestep that because it diluted from the point in my previous post.)
I once worked with a system controller that was suppose to work in both big and little endian. Too bad it just ignored the endian setup bit and would just truck along in little endian mode. These are the things I have nightmares about.
In the ensuing hunt through the Linux sources, I discovered that there is a device called colloquially "Happy Meal Ethernet". I'm very amused to see a driver file [1] where the prefix to everything is happy_meal.
The Happy Meal is a very well known type of Sun Ethernet card found on just about every Ultra branded system with 10/100 interfaces. Under Solaris they're registered as hme devices.
I noticed the word "fuck" when looking at some code comments in the LibreOffice codebase, and submitted a patch to remove it. I guess I was curious to see if they would accept it. They did!
Torvalds speaks Finnish and Swedish, he is from a bilingual family. But the Swedish language has a very limited vocabulary in profanities so Linus curses in Finnish.
But I'm pretty sure that, while Torvalds' mother tongue is Swedish, he also speaks Finnish, not having been born in a Swedish-speaking part of Finland.
