From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA1966710 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:14:43 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id PAA4243488 for linux-list; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:13:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from dist.engr.sgi.com (dist.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.118]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA4155246 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:13:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from dataserv.detroit.sgi.com (dataserv.detroit.sgi.com [169.238.128.2]) by dist.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id PAA77764341 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:13:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from cygnus.detroit.sgi.com by dataserv.detroit.sgi.com via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/930416.SGI) id SAA12479; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:13:33 -0500 Received: from detroit.sgi.com (cx1.detroit.sgi.com [169.238.130.4]) by cygnus.detroit.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id SAA07510; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:13:29 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <351AE010.8C6359F2@detroit.sgi.com> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:09:04 -0500 From: Eric Kimminau Reply-To: eak@detroit.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ulf Carlsson CC: ralf@uni-koblenz.de, linux@dist.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Linux for Nintendo 64 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Ulf. Re-read my original message: > On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Eric Kimminau wrote: > I thought some of you might find this interesting. Note the date of > the article. > > http://www.ix.de/ix/artikel/E/1997/04/036/ "Note the date of the article" I apologize if you got suckered. Ulf Carlsson wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 09:26:21AM -0500, Eric Kimminau wrote: > > > > > Santeri Paavolainen wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Eric Kimminau wrote: > > > > > I thought some of you might find this interesting. Note the date of the > > > > > article. > > > > > > > > > > http://www.ix.de/ix/artikel/E/1997/04/036/ > > > > > > > > I'd guess that the iX magazine hits the newsstands in Germany on 1st of > > > > April.. > > > > > > > > Here's a quote from the text which should alert any reader: > > > > > > > > "According to their speaker, Luciano Aprilia, the Italian developers, > > > > are going to make the software available under the GPL, so it can be > > > > used free of charge." > > > > > > > > The article was very entertaining, though :-) > > > > > > > > -- > > > > santtu@iki.fi I have become death, destroyer of the worlds. > > > > > > Agreed and implied - Thats why I said to be sure and look at the date. > > > > Sigh... Quite a lot of people apparently don't know the special meaning > > of the 1st of April and mailed me about Linux for Nitendo. Some of them > > became very agressive and insulting when I told them the article'd be > > just hoax ... > > > > Ralf > > When did the 25th or March become the 1st of April? > > - Ulf -- ---------1---------2---------3---------4---------5---------6---------7 Eric Kimminau RTA/RSA eak@detroit.sgi.com Silicon Graphics, Inc Voice: (248) 848-4455 39001 West 12 Mile Rd. Fax: (248) 848-5600 Farmington, MI 48331-2903 VNet Extension - 6-327-4455 "I speak my mind and no one else's." http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/perl-rsa-sig.html When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" "I am the great supportfolio, do you have http?"