looking for a linux flag

I am Spartacus spartacus at home.aafp.org
Mon Jun 10 16:00:40 CDT 2002


One of my fellow programmers has "PERLGUY" on his plate and our senior 
Macintosh technician has "MACTECH" on hers.  A consultant I once knew 
had "IH8UNIX" on his plate... but we no longer speak with him.

"Marvin \"GodfatherofSoul\" Bellamy" wrote:

> Completely OT, but does anyone have a customized computer geek license 
> plate.  I was thinking of getting one, but wasn't sure if I was being 
> just too geeky.
>
> Duane Attaway wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 mbsmith at dstsystems.com wrote:
>>
>>> I have one from an AS/400 guy in the office here who got it from an IBM
>>> shindig he went to.  It's from their "Peace, Love, Linux" campaign, 
>>> black
>>> with small peace sign and heart and a larger Tux upper torso and 
>>> head in
>>> the middle.  It's nice because it doesn't have corporate logos all 
>>> over it
>>> You may want to call an IBM rep and see if they have some.
>>>
>>
>> Also, if you live in Kansas, I believe the DMV only gives you one 
>> license
>> plate for your car unlike Missouri.  That means you need one of those
>> fancy front license plate logos to compete with all the other 
>> motorheads.
>> Well, Compaq gives away A TON of plates modeled after New Hampshire's
>> license plate with the logo "LINUX live free or die"  The Open Group has
>> commissioned a bunch of these plates with UNIX.
>>
>> So where do you get these gems?  The opengroup's UNIX offering is 
>> just $12
>> US Dollars (what a steal!)
>>
>> http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/catalog/n900.htm
>>
>> Now, if you want the Linux plate, the Compaq booths at any Linux
>> convention are famous for giving them away.  They don't appear to be 
>> sold
>> as I haven't seen anyone have any luck finding a vendor.  I have one of
>> these coveted Linux plates, but since I live in Missouri...you can't 
>> steal
>> it off my car.
>>
>> :<
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