Addicted to installing Ubuntu

[gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen]

so, what we need is a windows look-alike - KDE or gnome based, say - GUI  
and a cron job to randomly re-boot every few hours :-/ (with apologies to  
userfriendly.org for stealing their idea)

On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:26:58 +1000, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> It could be like a form of protest, taking over a Windows computer lab
> for a few hours with a box of ubuntu live CDs. I expect people would
> be very confused.
>
> On 6/6/06, Chris Neary <hello at poetofcode.org> wrote:
>>
>> That's all well and good if the people in charge of your IT department  
>> don't
>> ignore the CD drive on booting, and have a password protected BIOS.
>>
>> Bah.
>>
>>
>> On 06/06/06, Jeremy J. Swarm <screaminike at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> i did that back when i got my 5.10 cds.... *blush*
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>  From: Adam Lafayette <atomlbomb at yahoo.com>
>> To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>  Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 20:05:23 -0700 (PDT)
>> Subject: Re: Addicted to installing Ubuntu
>> Hey this discussion makes me want to go into the
>> college computer room and throw different versions of
>> ubuntu (ubuntu, xubuntu, edubuntu, kubuntu, runubuntu,
>> meubuntu, youubuntu, uubuntu, sammydavisjunorubuntu,
>> atombunutu, wait I'm a little obsessed too) in to all
>> the CD drives and leave them there for people to
>> unexpectedly boot into ubuntu.
>>
>> I'm not in college anymore...
>>
>> --- Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 18:48 -0700, Harold Johnson
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Is it possible to get addicted to installing
>> > Ubuntu?  I mean, if one's
>> > > finds themselves endlessly installing Ubuntu on
>> > system after system,
>> > > just for the fun of it (or even when it's not fun
>> > anymore), can that
>> > > be called addiction?  Is it dangerous?
>> >
>> > :-))  It's only dangerous when people in your family
>> > begin to want to
>> > hit you on the head with a frying pan because their
>> > computers boot into
>> > Ubuntu all the time. :)
>> >
>> > Another potentially worrying psychological issue I
>> > discover in myself is
>> > that I experience kind of a post-natal depression
>> > now that Dapper is
>> > finally released and I'm not greated with 100MB
>> > worth of updates every
>> > day.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Chanchao
>> >
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