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I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Can GIMP save to svg?
strestout1: SVG is a vector graphics format.
strestout1: GIMP manipulates bitmaps.
Yes rindolf, I know.
I just thought itd be nice to have one app for everything
instead of having to use inkscape for svg and gimp for
everything else.
It could do 3d too.
And Audio processing...
And Audio mixing...
And word processing...
And it gotta have a kitchen sink!
So, the real question might be: is there an image editing mode
for Emacs? ;)

#gimp

Rusty Russell's signature:

Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot.
-- Rusty Russell

I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.

-- Unknown

Baby making is owned by SCO. Linus's mother never payed royalities.

Also, having a name is a SCO trade secret. By giving Linus a name,
they again ask for being fined.

Best regards,

Iztok

(p.s.: Iztok is owned by SCO, and phrase "Best Regards" as well.
LWN is owned by SCO.)

An LWN comment in regards to the SCO ownership claims of
Linux Kernel code.

The more I think about it, the more I think I should think about it some
more.

Clarissa in "Clarissa Explains it All"

> > "It's not because they have suddenly converted to Stallmanism."

> Anyone else misread that as "Stalinism"?

The word "Stalinism" is deprecated, the correct term is "GNU/Communism".

Spotted on Slashdot

> Should Perl do the same? [= Drop SCO Support]

Absolutely not. Perl supports defunct operating systems, buggy
operating systems, commercial operating systems, and poorly marketed
operating systems. It would be inappropropriate to drop SCO just
because it happens to be all of the above.

Kurt Starsinic
http://www.mail-archive.com/advocacy%40perl.org/msg01815.html

To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.

Eric S. Raymond in "How To Become a Hacker"

"God is Dead"

Neitzsche

"Neitzsche is Dead"

God

( writing on a toilet's wall )

Personally, I'd have a far better time writing scripts if I had some more
creative shells to script in...

ASMsh: The Assembly shell. Commands include MOV, SHL, SHR, JNE, etc.

shellTM: Turing machine shell. Only four commands. Read, write, move left,
move right. Capable of producing any programming language imaginable, given
enough time and nerves of steel.

GeneSH: Four commands. G, A, T, C. Need I say more?

Qsh: Only uses one environment variable, which contains all possible values
simultaneously. Method of scripting: isolate the universe in which the
desired result is already accomplished, and intersect with it.

Of course, I never said they'd be easy to use. But then, if these shells
existed, and I knew a sysadmin who used any of them, you can believe
Sysadmin Day would be a far more celebrated holiday.

The Night Watchman on a Slashdot Comment

The Shibber Factor

Keep all the grades of the students who passed the test as is, and
convert the grades of all the students who failed to 54.

The difference between a bad student and a good student is that a bad
student forgets all the material five minutes before the exam, while a good
student five minutes after it.

You should learn several new words everyday--eventually you will forget how to
speak so others can understand you.

Yaakov on Freenode's #perl

Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good
with ketchup.

Source unknown.

The First Law of Thermodynamics: A system with a constant energy, volume
and pressure behaves in any way it wants.

The source of my intention
really isn't crime prevention
My intention is prevention of the lie.

Scatman John
"Scatman's World"

[21:10] *** dazjorz changed nick to We
[21:10] * We are the Borg.
[21:10] *** We changed nick to Lower
[21:10] * Lower your shields and power down your weapons.
[21:11] *** Lower changed nick to We
[21:11] * We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
[21:11] *** We changed nick to Resistance
[21:11] * Resistance is futile.
[21:11] *** Resistance changed nick to __You
[21:11] * __You will be assimilated.
[21:11] *** __You changed nick to dazjorz

Version 7? [of Vim]

GNU Emacs is at version 21.4. Can we really trust such an immature
editor?

"yet another coward" in a Slashdot comment for the announcement
of the release of Vim version 7.
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185216&cid=15286781

>That's the nice thing about UNIX, it gives you so many
>ways to shoot yourself in the foot. :)

At least it does allow you to shoot yourself in the foot.
It doesn't say "shooting feet isn't supported"
Or you can shoot yourself in the foot by writing a management console plugin
that will pass the data to Word using VBA and then call Excel via com to split
it into columns and then write an activeX control to get the columns back as
..........

Martin in http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.351421.