<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">BillK</b> <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
As you have discovered, the quote is now part of pop culture.<br><br>I think the origin lies in HP Lovecraft's story "At the Mountains of Madness".<br>Full text here:<br><<a href="http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/mountainsofmaddness.htm">
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/mountainsofmaddness.htm</a>></blockquote><div><br>Shucks, and here I thought those nasty penguins were associated with people trying to get their Linux configurations "just right" [1]. There is an argument that the nice thing about "closed source" software is that it is very very difficult to look under the hood "too" much.
<br><br>Robert<br><br>1. The latest adventure involved trying to get Xgl+Compiz working under Gentoo on Intel 915 graphics hardware... :-( After ~4 weeks of off and on effort I'm close but not quite "there" yet.
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