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Ubuntu Bug: apt-get moo doesn't look like a cow
bugs.launchpad.net — This is by far the most important bug facing ubuntu developers right now. Without an accurate depiction of his super cow powers, we're left with only regular cow powers.
CrucifiedEgo- 1314 diggs
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- dsn0wman, on 07/15/2008, -2/+62I believe it you mistype an apt command the cow will readily admit that he does not have super cow powers.
- allatti2d, on 07/16/2008, -3/+16Wow. You Linux people really are an interesting bunch.
I mean that in the nicest way, of course. My boy is one, so I should know. - clarionhaze, on 07/17/2008, -8/+1omg ubuntu, straight to the front page! whats the latest news on r paul? any new apple updates?
- allatti2d, on 07/16/2008, -3/+16Wow. You Linux people really are an interesting bunch.
- nubnub, on 07/15/2008, -34/+12 (__)
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/" /- shortyjacobs, on 07/16/2008, -0/+16jesus, it's like something from The Cell.
- Cenobite, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8Dali cow.
- arjie, on 07/16/2008, -1/+30That, my friends, is the source code to the cow. Put the parts together to compile.
- theaceoffire, on 07/16/2008, -0/+11...............(__)
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Is that what he meant? - fas2, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2This is just a too funny fail to bury.
- alperea, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7Did your cow get hit by a truck?
- mctom987, on 07/15/2008, -15/+6Cowabunga!
- fmlive, on 07/15/2008, -18/+7This is overwhelming proof that ubuntu developers have really become lazy!
- Ademan, on 07/16/2008, -26/+3Are you effing kidding me? This bug is old as hell, and is definitely not newsworthy, this is crap i send my friends when I'm bored... (Don't ask me how someone that sends launchpad bugs to people actually has friends, I have no idea)
- fudged71, on 07/16/2008, -2/+25... I'm not your friend
therefore, I have not seen.
thought it was funny - CrucifiedEgo, on 07/16/2008, -1/+18Actually, yes. I posted this for the sole purpose of kidding you, Ademan. Now that you've found out my plan, Everyone should undigg this article. Bury it even. Because in no way would I want anyone else that hasn't seen it (me) before to get a light chuckle out of something that's supposed to be serious. That would be terrible.
- Murdats, on 07/16/2008, -0/+14"this is crap i send my friends when I'm bored"
and that is exactly what digg is for, just on a larger scale, but not just crap, cool ***** and wierd stuff aswell. - mrtrevin, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Your mom is old as hell.
- fudged71, on 07/16/2008, -2/+25... I'm not your friend
- 3242130193, on 07/16/2008, -12/+69Sounds like Gentoo is the superior distro. Joder.
- nerdzero, on 07/16/2008, -9/+23Ha! Awesome easter egg! I never knew you could do this!
- yuanzhoulu, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4now i'm going to write a super-awesome application called 'moo' that is so awesome they will have to include it in the apt repositories. then let's see what happens.
kind of how 'rsync' used to be a command in Gentoo's emerge so that 'emerge rsync' synchronised the database instead of installing the software called 'rsync'.- AmaDaden, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7Nice idea but it's not gonna work. 'apt-get install moo' would be how you install it and it would work just fine. moo is really a hidden command for apt-get not a package that you are trying to get. The old UNIX guys would start bitching if this Easter egg had a chance to get in the way of any real package.
- DarkDx, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Lol have you ever tried this easter egg anyway?
If I wanted to install your application: "apt-get install moo"
If I wanted to see the ascii cow: "apt-get moo"
See? - SteveMax, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2"emerge moo" in Gentoo actually prints the cow, then searches portage for a "moo" package. You won't break this precious feature anywhere with your "moo" package :)
- yuanzhoulu, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4now i'm going to write a super-awesome application called 'moo' that is so awesome they will have to include it in the apt repositories. then let's see what happens.
- BOFH139, on 07/16/2008, -29/+5Another reason to not use ubuntu, if you even need another.
- cheesecake42, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5it's not just ubuntu. plenty of distros use apt
- bloggerster, on 07/16/2008, -10/+1U what?
- tdreyer1, on 07/16/2008, -5/+20Have you mooed today?
- hamGrenade, on 07/16/2008, -17/+8I think linux is a pretty cool guy. eh makes ascii cows and doesn't afraid of anything.
- pavelmah, on 07/16/2008, -4/+123The supercow is better than a bunch of masturbating monkeys.
- alisiacam, on 07/17/2008, -1/+1how did you come up with that?
- corelist, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2"I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys" -Linus Torvalds
- alisiacam, on 07/17/2008, -1/+1how did you come up with that?
- Hervard, on 07/16/2008, -12/+79apt-got milk?
- imneat, on 07/16/2008, -3/+63greatest bug report of all time
- waxcrash, on 07/16/2008, -9/+4Clarus the Dogcow is amused.
- paulsmith288, on 07/16/2008, -10/+5...."Have you mooed today?"..
- TwoKill, on 07/16/2008, -2/+13That was great because I didn't have to know anything about Ubuntu to enjoy it. : )
- Koppie, on 07/16/2008, -2/+28"apt has Super Cow powers. Super cows do not look like normal cows." kthxbye
- jubalj, on 07/16/2008, -3/+11 ____________________________________
/ perhaps they should use the cow from
cowsay? (sudo apt-get cowsay) /
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ok.. the cow gets munted up when i try post it.. but try apt-get cowsay.. or click here if you dont have linux http://linuxgazette.net/issue67/orr.html- m1zl3d, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3zane@Marvin:~$ sudo apt-get cowsay
E: Invalid operation cowsay
- m1zl3d, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3zane@Marvin:~$ sudo apt-get cowsay
- phatboye, on 07/16/2008, -7/+15More proof that Gentoo rules.
(Not that Ubuntu isn't good, but Gentoo amazing).- jpaolini, on 07/16/2008, -0/+9Gentoo is awesome for the experienced user - rock solid, I really like it as well.
But you can't even compare it to the ease of Ubuntu for the average Linux user.- PaulRay, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4I'm not good enough to tackle Gentoo... Yet.
So I use ubuntu... But, the truth is. The Gentoo is a much better looking beast.
- phatboye, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3I never could understand why people think using Gentoo is hard. Not to talk down to anyone but IMO Gentoo isn't hard to use at all. I am not the brightest star in the sky, yet I was able to get Gentoo working on my first try. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to run Gentoo just someone who is willing to read a bit of documentation (well written documentation I might add) and who is patient and willing to learn something new.
In fact once you get Gentoo up and running it's much easier to use than most binary distros. I work with my professor at school and I see him pulling his hair out trying to figure out how to get things working in Fedora that would be simple to solve on Gentoo. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4@phatboye: I never understood why Gentoo required me to read a bunch of documentation when Fedora just let me start using my computer again.
I'd also point out that I find it hard to believe a problem in Fedora is harder to solve than it would be in Gentoo. Just because your professor doesn't know what he's doing in Fedora doesn't mean there is something wrong with Fedora anymore than my not knowing what I'm doing in Gentoo means something is fundamentally wrong with Gentoo.
They are different. I don't use Gentoo because I already spend enough time fiddling with Linux, and I just don't have the patience to read through tons of guides and docs to do things others have an automated solution for. It feels like I'm reinventing the wheel. You obviously enjoy that sort of thing, and more power to you. But I refuse to believe one is really better than the other.
- PaulRay, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4I'm not good enough to tackle Gentoo... Yet.
- jpaolini, on 07/16/2008, -0/+9Gentoo is awesome for the experienced user - rock solid, I really like it as well.
- raublekick, on 07/16/2008, -10/+33With bugs like this, Linux will never be ready for the desktop...
::rolls eyes::- beowabbit, on 07/16/2008, -0/+36With bugs like this, Linux will never be ready for the pasture.
- roarus, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Once they get this bug fixed, the following year WILL be the year of Linux!
- Matt2k, on 07/16/2008, -4/+12Now now, this bug is just as important as a remote root escalation exploit
- Sairgem, on 07/16/2008, -3/+49How could this go unnoticed for so long?!
- santixar, on 07/16/2008, -3/+52It's better than a dancing paperclip, for sure.
- killerbox, on 07/16/2008, -13/+15Ubuntu FTW
- willynilly, on 07/16/2008, -3/+4Wow, you spelled "WTF" backward! So clever! No one has done that before.
- aasukisuki, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6FTW = For The Win
Tardbaby. - hungryduck, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8I find it awesome that until today every time you saw FTW you thought they were spelling WTF backwards.
- feignNU, on 07/17/2008, -0/+3hahahahaha. You sir, are amazing.
- LeviTheSmith, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1You're not from around these parts are ya boy?
- aasukisuki, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6FTW = For The Win
- willynilly, on 07/16/2008, -3/+4Wow, you spelled "WTF" backward! So clever! No one has done that before.
- addicted68098, on 07/16/2008, -3/+5Wow it looks more like an obese reindeer to me,
- PaulRay, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Yeah! AND?! Ummm... Not that I'm sensitive about it... or anything.... SHUT UP!!! *sob*
- fofo412, on 07/16/2008, -11/+2nUbuntu 8.04 RELEASED!!!!!!!
http://digg.com/linux_unix/nUbuntu_8_04_Alpha_Rele ... - clickwir, on 07/16/2008, -8/+1wtf.... it's ascii art.... how close can it come to looking like a cow? It looks fine to me.
- PaulRay, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Errr... It's a joke. Just a little joke. not serious, but a joke.
- diadem2, on 07/16/2008, -2/+14manbearcow
- dubbaj, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8Ahh of course...half man, half bear, half cow.
- 1timeuser, on 07/16/2008, -4/+21/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 = 3/2.
I think you mean half man, half bear-cow. - shortyjacobs, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1It was simply a punctuation error. He meant "half man, (half bear, half cow)"
- 1timeuser, on 07/16/2008, -4/+21/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 = 3/2.
- dubbaj, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8Ahh of course...half man, half bear, half cow.
- thrikulam, on 07/16/2008, -9/+1You guys are so lame...
- silfiriel, on 07/16/2008, -2/+7it's true ubuntu's cow looks more like satan...
- dejanigma, on 07/16/2008, -3/+2If you do sudo apt-get moo you get the correct animal.
- condeh, on 07/16/2008, -6/+3Yes, but does it look like a cow in CS3? No?
No wonder Ubuntu sucks :P- alpha88, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Don't know why you're being dugg down, it's true.
- condeh, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2it was also a joke, but nevermind.
- davidkeithjones, on 07/16/2008, -2/+3When I install Ubuntu on my toaster it starts to smell funny about 40 seconds into the install, is that normal?
- ConradDanger, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2try
sudo apt-get install toastzilla
OM NOM NOM NOM - Dyyhpys, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Have you tried turning it on and off again?
- ConradDanger, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2try
- Undiculous, on 07/16/2008, -2/+1But regular aptitude moo doesn't seem to have a much a sense of humor
- agentlame, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5OR so it would have you think.
[neil@lx-dt:~]$ aptitude moo
There are no Easter Eggs in this program.
[neil@lx-dt:~]$ aptitude -v moo
There really are no Easter Eggs in this program.
[neil@lx-dt:~]$ aptitude -v -v moo
Didn't I already tell you that there are no Easter Eggs in this program?
[neil@lx-dt:~]$ aptitude -v -v -v moo
Stop it!
[neil@lx-dt:~]$ aptitude -v -v -v -v moo
Okay, okay, if I give you an Easter Egg, will you go away?
[neil@lx-dt:~]$ aptitude -v -v -v -v -v moo
All right, you win.
(EDIT: I have no idea how to do this, so here: http://www.eeggs.com/images/items/483.full.jpg%29
[neil@lx-dt:~]$ aptitude -v -v -v -v -v -v moo
What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course.
- agentlame, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5OR so it would have you think.
- xspinkickx, on 07/16/2008, -4/+1how about replacing the cow with admiral ackbar instead??? :p
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- iamafatguy, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2............................................________
- TheFounder, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Freaking hilarious... Look... if you can have a debate raging about the type of cow.. then you know for sure all the major bugs have been worked out.. and Ubuntu is perfectly valid OS for the desktop.... (I say this typing from Ubuntu right now).
- cornell77, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1For those that are curious ... aptitude doesn't support moo. Heh
jeff@debian:~$ sudo aptitude moo
There are no Easter Eggs in this program.- 23bpg, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3bryant@nfkb:~$ aptitude moo
There are no Easter Eggs in this program.
bryant@nfkb:~$ aptitude -v moo
There really are no Easter Eggs in this program.
bryant@nfkb:~$ aptitude -vv moo
Didn't I already tell you that there are no Easter Eggs in this program?
bryant@nfkb:~$ aptitude -vvv moo
Stop it!
bryant@nfkb:~$ aptitude -vvvv moo
Okay, okay, if I give you an Easter Egg, will you go away?
bryant@nfkb:~$ aptitude -vvvvv moo
All right, you win.
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bryant@nfkb:~$ aptitude -vvvvvv moo
What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course.
bryant@nfkb:~$
- 23bpg, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3bryant@nfkb:~$ aptitude moo
- Evolutuon, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Alt-F2
free the fish- serenityflexed, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2In case you're wondering...
Alt+F2
killall gnome-panel
= bye-bye wanda!
- serenityflexed, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2In case you're wondering...
- ralphthemagi, on 07/16/2008, -3/+0"I know its not a cow but any chance we can get admiral ackbar instead??"
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- synik, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IT'S A TRAP!. . .
- kilin, on 07/16/2008, -0/+0This is indeed a horrible problem in desperate need of repair. It looks more like the BSD devil down on all four legs, rather then a cow.
- aquafire, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2
CooLMaN wrote 7 hours ago: (permalink)
Very bad, I am truly disappointed with the quality of this feature.
Please fix ASAP! - UltamateAddict, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1OH NO!!!!
- cdrz, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1this is one of the better stories I've seen submitted lately lol
- notwizt, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1 ZenGuy wrote on 2008-03-07: (permalink)
I hate to be the bearer of bad news on this issue, but cows don't have horns. Bulls do.
Jordan Mantha wrote on 2008-03-07: (permalink)
ZenGuy, I hate to be the bearer of even more bad news, but many cows actually do have horns and some bulls don't. It's not a gender-specific feature, but rather breed-specific.
Toma wrote on 2008-03-07: (permalink)
In theory, cows can not speak either. Which is probably why they're so tasty. Nom Nom Nom
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