Liam Proven wrote:
> [...]
> Embarrassingly, for a one-time biologist, it took me years to work out
> /why/ Microsoft became "Vole".
>
> The British common field vole, you see, is technically called
> /Microtus agrestis/.
> [...]
Hello, Liam.
Well, I'm a biologist turned bioinformatician and I
2009/3/12 Rob Beard :
> Yep two quality applications from the Mozzarella Foundation. It's what
> the Inquirer call Mozilla. Microsoft is known as the Vole, Intel as
> Chipzilla and AMD as Chimpzilla.
>
> There's a full list here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inquirer#Nicknames_and_terminolo
Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
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> mac wrote:
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>> Some of you may already have seen this heartening story. (Let's hope
>> the lads at the Met have, too!):
>>
>> Gendarmes saves cash with Ubuntu
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/388/1051388/g
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mac wrote:
> Some of you may already have seen this heartening story. (Let's hope
> the lads at the Met have, too!):
>
> Gendarmes saves cash with Ubuntu
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/388/1051388/gendarmes-saves-cash-ubuntu
>
> mac
>
Particularly like the bit about 'open sauce' [sic]
Chris
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:16:09 +
> From: ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk
> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Zut, alors!
>
> Some of you may already have seen this heartening sto
mac wrote:
> Some of you may already have seen this heartening story. (Let's
> hope the lads at the Met have, too!):
>
> Gendarmes saves cash with Ubuntu
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/388/1051388/gendarmes-saves-cash-ubuntu
>
I immediately sent an email (and link) to my three loca
2009/3/12 mac :
> Some of you may already have seen this heartening story. (Let's hope
> the lads at the Met have, too!):
>
> Gendarmes saves cash with Ubuntu
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/388/1051388/gendarmes-saves-cash-ubuntu
If you follow that link thought to the original article
Some of you may already have seen this heartening story. (Let's hope
the lads at the Met have, too!):
Gendarmes saves cash with Ubuntu
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/388/1051388/gendarmes-saves-cash-ubuntu
mac
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