by Carla Schroder

Managing Editor

Funniest

"Who gave you permission to invade my website and block me and anyone else from accessing it??? Please remove your software immediately before I report it to government officials!! I am the City Manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma."

In a followup news story in the Tuttle Times, it is obvious that Mr. Taylor, who claims 22 years of computer experience, didn't learn much: City manager misunderstanding prompts international response

"This is just a bunch of freaks out there that don't have anything better to do," he said. "When I came in to work Monday morning, I had about 500 e-mails, plus anonymous phone calls from all the geeks out there. [CentOS is] a free operating system that this guy gives away, which tells you how much time he's got on his hands."

Most Expensive

"This was the one we worked hardest to get. Knowing the importance of his letter, I assigned this story to Dee-Ann, who skillfully tracked down Congressman Villanueva and set up an international translated interview. (This story, by the way, holds the current all-time record for most expensive, once all the fees for the phone calls and translators came in.) "This interview offered us all a first glimpse at the man who wrote the now-famous letter to Microsoft Peru, and let us see that he was the genuine article."

Best April Fool: Linus Resigns

"Fellow hackers, "For some time I have felt unappreciated by some members of the Linux community. Far too many of you like to whine and cry, saying "My patches aren't being accepted by Linus, but they are by Alan or Michael!" It seems that some of you are too stupid to follow the simple instructions that I have made clear on more than one occasion. This, combined with the fact that today is my last day at Transmeta, has prompted me to consider rediscovering that balance I had in my life before you all took my hobby and made it into a mass movement. I have not decided who should take over maintenance of the kernel myself..."

All-Time Number One

"But what really made things bad was when Apple decided to keep some future-release features secret. Braun writes: ""As time went on, and Mac OS X got closer to release, Apple decided they wanted to keep some things secret. Some new features needed to be worked on, but couldn't be in the live cvs repository, or it wouldn't be a secret anymore. Some things leaked out, which caused no end of fuss, and gradually projects were removed from the live cvs repository. Eventually, so little was left in the live cvs repository and processes already needed to be in place to do periodic source drops, the live cvs repository was abandoned.""

Excellent "Wonderful World of Linux" Series

First-ever Linux Today Story

We hardworking LT staff get a nice Memorial Day holiday break. The weekend queue will have fresh stories and Talkbacks as usual, so please enjoy and we'll see you next Tuesday!