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    • CommentAuthorgarry
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2008 edited
     
    I know I'm a bit late posting this, but for people who didn't know, work on Ubuntu Christian Edition has been suspended indefinitely. While I may smile at the fact that our nemesis has been defeated, I do feel a bit sad that we have no one to take the piss out of any longer. Oh well, they may resurrect themselves sometime in the future and the ancient battle can continue.

    Actually, their demise is a pretty funny story. Let me summarise...

    Jereme, the creator of CE, was doing a good deed by rummaging through the trash of hit apartment looking for old computers to salvage and give to good causes. He found a laptop, although the only working part was the hard drive. The temptation was too strong; he took a look what was on it. First mistake. Amongst other things he found some child porn. Oops. He let his conscience get the better of him and reported it to the Police. Second mistake. Instead of giving him a slap on the back they confiscated both the disk and his laptop. Double oops.

    To cut a long story short, they kept his laptop for a few months, preventing him from working on CE, then gave him the money for it. Now he can't get Linux working on his new laptop and CE is dead. He's a born again Vista user.

    If you don't believe me then hear it from the horses mouth. You couldn't make this stuff up:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=685387
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    Did you ever heard of Ichtux ?
    It seems this projet is also dead, I'll ask to a friend of mine who took part of the development ...
    That's sad.

    By the way, I found no reference to Vista in your link. I don't think anyone could switch from Ubuntu to Vista, especially someone who created Ubuntu CE :·D !
    • CommentAuthorgarry
    • CommentTimeJun 18th 2008
     
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5024946&postcount=69

    Quote:

    "I have been a devote Ubuntu users for almost 4 years now, but I am weary of dealing with the unfortunate reality of proprietary driver issues. Now, I am sure I will start to miss my Ubuntu and will get cracking on it eventually. However, for now I am using Vista since I just need a laptop that works."

    Sad but true.
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    So you were right.

    «For those who don't realize it, Ubuntu CE was the catalyst for Ubuntu ME, Jubuntu, and other niche distros.»
    Men, he is actually speaking about YOU !

    By the way, I asked my friend who worked for Ichtux, it seems that the guy that runned the project was a MOTU called Raphink.
    • CommentAuthorgarry
    • CommentTimeJun 19th 2008
     
    "Other niche distros". I guess that does refer to us. =;-)
    • CommentAuthorTchorix
    • CommentTimeJun 19th 2008
     
    They could have said "other sects" to be more precise.... he he he

    cheers
    \m/
    Tchorix
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    What a funny twist... poor Ubuntu CE... :)
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      CommentAuthorKinslayer
    • CommentTimeFeb 12th 2009
     
    So the lessons here are 'don't help others' and 'don't do the right thing'.
    • CommentAuthor6r00k14n
    • CommentTimeFeb 12th 2009
     
    WTF was he doing looking at the hard drive contents? Dumbass Christian. He got what he deserved.
    • CommentAuthorArdanbis
    • CommentTimeFeb 12th 2009
     
    I dont think he is a serious person. I mean, i am not a developer but i dont go around buying foxconn motherboards for examples. That makes you a dumb person.

    If you are going to spend a lot of money you might as well investigating and make a pc from diferent pieces that work together just fine, or if it is a laptop veify it doesnt have "friendly hardware"...

    Anyway ¿how come he found out porn on his own hard drive? and ¿why should police investigators confiscate the whole pc?

    This world is getting every passing day eben more fucked up.
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    i read what happend... its pretty shitty he was doing the right thing

    i wish him luck

    moral of the story FUCK THE POLICE

    garry if you find a labtop in the garbage just format it, and if you let curosity get the better of you dont call the police they are more evil then satan
    • CommentAuthorDavy Jones
    • CommentTimeFeb 15th 2009 edited
     
    I had my computer confiscated by the police before over the same thing. Here is my story:

    A few years ago, I come home from work and find my desktop computer missing with a little yellow piece paper in its place.
    Heres what happened: My girlfriend came over and was surfing the internet on my computer. She comes across a picture of little boy naked holding a TV remote in one hand and his privates in the other. She gets sick to her stomach and calls the police who quickly come and take away my computer.
    Of course no one tells me this. I am left to think I got busted for downloading music and movies using bittorent or something. I called my girlfriend who I suspected had came over to my apartment. She says "the police told me not to talk to you." So I call the police and get their story - "your girlfriend found child porn on your computer" WHAT?!?
    Knowing this was highly doubtful, I demanded an explantion from my girlfriend. I quickly find out what happened, and realize she is stupider than I thought.
    For one, the picture is on the internet. Say it with me...inter-net...
    not my computer. Accessible to anyone online. There's nothing to find on my computer, because it was never "on my computer" it was "on the internet"
    She didn't quite understand this concept, that there was nothing for the police to find on my computer and that the police needed to look on the internet to find the picture. I couldn't believe it, she couldn't understand that what she finds surfing the internet has nothing to do with me or my computer.
    I called my dad and had him spend a couple hours explaining this concept to her, she finally understood that the reason she saw the picture was because of her actions alone. Once she got a grasp on this, she realized she had made a horrible mistake. Several mistakes actually.
    My dad traced her footsteps, using his computer, went to websites she was surfing and found the picture in question. His Christian analysis:
    The picture was not porn, not even close. By itself the picture was cute, and something you expect to see in a family photo album sitting on grandmas coffee table. When placed into the context it was meant to, the picture was the punchline to a joke in a series of several other funny pics of people doing funny things. Just because a kid is naked in a picture does not mean it is porn.
    In my girlfriend's eyes I was redeemed. She calls the police and tried to get my computer back, she trys to explain that the picture was on the internet, not my computer, and that the picture wasn't porn. They say that once they start investigating a child porn case they cant stop.
    I ban my girlfriend from my apartment when Im not there, and from the internet in general. I tell her that her new goal in life is to get my computer back, and that she has some serious ass kissing to do now.
    One month later, I get my computer back from the police and get officialy deemed innocent.
    Under the advise of the local law enforcement and my friends, I dumped my girlfirend. She cries and begs me why? "Lets see here: You come to my house when Im not home and wreck my life. You accuse me of child porn, rat me out to the police, and get my computer taken away. I will never forgive you for that, and I will never trust you again."
    • CommentAuthorTchorix
    • CommentTimeFeb 17th 2009
     
    For Satan's sake! Davy Jones, where do you live? in the US? and by the way, after your girlfriend saw the picture, it was actually in your computer, in the cache of the web browser. If the police would have search over there, they would have find it immediately, without even being connected to the internet.

    cheers
    Tchorix \m/
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      CommentAuthorKinslayer
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2009
     
    She sounds like the sort of person who would call me up at 3AM--back when I was doing tech support--after screwing with Internet Explorer's settings and unticking the 'show on desktop' option. The calls went, "I accidentally deleted the Internet. Can you email me another copy?"
    • CommentAuthorgarry
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2009
     
    Hi Davy Jones,

    I had a similar thing happen to me at work. I made a few jokes when I was very drunk on a night out and the next thing I knew I was up on a sexual harassment charge. It turns out that a Greek girl who worked at our place didn't quite understand the English sense of humour. Anyway, the whole thing got way out of hand and we ended up having company-wide HR meetings discussing what was and was not acceptable to do on a night out with colleagues. I got away with a written warning (which I tore up and threw in the bin in front of my HR manager).

    Anyway, my point is that as soon as the terms "sexual harassment" or "child porn" are used things can get out of hand very quickly. You soon find out that your life can easily go down the toilet due to the misunderstandings of others.
    • CommentAuthorDavy Jones
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2009
     
    Amen to that.

    You're right, I live in the US, in the dark cold corner called the Great Northwest. Lots of trees, lots of rain, no sunshine, and very cold.

    I don't mean battle you in anyway, but to my knowledge the picture would not have been on my computer for the police investigator to find.
    You would normally be correct in saying that the picture would be stored in my cache. I for several reasons have firefox set to clear my cache every time it closes.

    Edit>Prefrences>Privacy>
    [] Always clear my private data when closing firefox
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    that is a good idea

    *done :P
    {*}presses buttion
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      CommentAuthornighthawk
    • CommentTimeMar 4th 2009
     
    A Christian Edition? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA... Like anybody who uses ubuntu would really want that?! Please...
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    My bible thumping mother liked it.
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    « A Christian Edition? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA... Like anybody who uses ubuntu would really want that?! Please... »
    I personally know some people that used Ichtux, another Christian-themed distro based on Kubuntu. And he is cool. And he is a metalhead ;·).
    http://www.ichthux.com/
    • CommentAuthorgarry
    • CommentTimeMar 6th 2009
     
    I'd rather have Christians using Ubuntu than Christians using Windoze.
    • CommentAuthor6r00k14n
    • CommentTimeMar 6th 2009
     
    I'd rather not have Christians or Windoze, but if I had to make a choice, I'd keep Windoze.
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      CommentAuthornighthawk
    • CommentTimeMar 7th 2009
     
    And why would you rather have Christians use Windoze, is it because it's easier to hack them when you have the same Operating System ROTFL
    Bahh Bahhh Bahhhh Oh No?! I'm hacked Bahhh Bahhhh
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      CommentAuthornighthawk
    • CommentTimeMar 7th 2009
     
    LOL Windoze or christians , ... windows ... rotfl
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    Christians. And I will keep also budhist if they could take MacOSX away too :·D.
 

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