Arch Linux Magazine, April 2010

Ghost1227 · 2010-04-01 07:43:50

I promised the community that we'd be back to our standard format this month, and as promised, we are! Once again, ALM brings you an insight into the community that can be found nowhere else. As with anybody else, we had to pull an April Fools gag of our own... see if you can find it! Unfortunately, I don't had a spare netbook to donate to whoever finds it first... check out April Fools Challenge for more info.

Enjoy!

madeye · 2010-04-01 07:49:19

Nice. thought a bit hard to read

Acecero · 2010-04-01 07:51:32

Let me guess, the April Fools gag is the flipped letters and the article has to be read from right to left?

Allan · 2010-04-01 07:54:10

The text only link takes me to the pdf....

Ghost1227 · 2010-04-01 07:54:24

Well... you could find a way to flip it back (it's not really that hard) or....

madeye · 2010-04-01 08:10:36

I find it more fun/challenging reading it the way it is :-p

Blue Peppers · 2010-04-01 08:12:08

Text only link seems to be broken

my0pic · 2010-04-01 08:14:58

Ghost1227 wrote:

Well... you could find a way to flip it back (it's not really that hard) or....

or hilarious reading after a scoob

sHyLoCk · 2010-04-01 08:17:21

http://mytexttools.com/Reverse-Text-Generator.html

woo ArchBang logo looks cooler this way. [loki will have a heart attack, he is the one designed it. ]

Ghost1227 · 2010-04-01 08:18:55

Blue Peppers wrote:

Text only link seems to be broken

It's not broken... text only version will be released tomorrow (in an easier-to-read format)

SanskritFritz · 2010-04-01 09:13:42

Umm, stone me, but how can I mirror it in Windows. I'm at work, and all I have is adobe reader.

Lars Stokholm · 2010-04-01 09:29:08

Using ImageMagick:
$ convert ALM-2010-Apr-1.pdf -flop ALM-2010-Apr-1-not-fucked.pdf

tricqster · 2010-04-01 09:30:31

SanskritFritz wrote:

Umm, stone me, but how can I mirror it in Windows. I'm at work, and all I have is adobe reader.

just highlight the text in pdf, copy, paste into text editor.

SanskritFritz · 2010-04-01 09:33:06

I did that, but cmon, that sucks lol

beyecixramd · 2010-04-01 09:45:02

http://www.archlinux.ca/archcon2010/

the registration fee?

100$??? that has to be a joke xD

beyecixramd · 2010-04-01 10:00:03

Or.... the netbook as a gift for discovering what's the joke

ccc1 · 2010-04-01 10:43:26

someone had a similar idea :
http://www.kernel.org/

[vEX] · 2010-04-01 10:47:49

Can I assume that you will put up a PDF that is flipped correctly tomorrow? I'm way to lazy to download and fix it myself and epdfview can't do it. :-/

whacath · 2010-04-01 11:47:48

I hate april fools!

erick.red · 2010-04-01 12:51:25

Ohhh, man that's evil, been like an hour trying to get the pdf mirrored, really evil of you.

I tried the imagemagick trick from above but that left the pdf in a very bad shape, so don't....

hhuummm... >:

cool · 2010-04-01 13:05:37

I used a big fat mirror to read the magazine...lolz.Its much more fun this was. Good work:)

atriya · 2010-04-01 13:41:40

It looks like Russian.

Lars Stokholm · 2010-04-01 17:23:05

ccc1 wrote:

someone had a similar idea :
http://www.kernel.org/

These are exactly the reasons why I fail to take Linux (and it's community) completely seriously. You can't depend on anything or anyone. What would I have done if I was in a desperate need of some information on that site? Best case scenario would be minutes lost digging my way through that mess. Worst case would be hours trying to find another source. If kernel.org think of itself as unimportant enough to effectively close down for a day, just for the fun of it, why not close the site for good?

I too really, *really* hate april fools.

renato_garcia · 2010-04-01 17:38:49

Lars Stokholm wrote:

ccc1 wrote:
someone had a similar idea :
http://www.kernel.org/
These are exactly the reasons why I fail to take Linux (and it's community) completely seriously. You can't depend on anything or anyone. What would I have done if I was in a desperate need of some information on that site? Best case scenario would be minutes lost digging my way through that mess. Worst case would be hours trying to find another source. If kernel.org think of itself as unimportant enough to effectively close down for a day, just for the fun of it, why not close the site for good?
I too really, *really* hate april fools.

I think that you could simply click in "Normalize page" link (top righ) :-)

igfip · 2010-04-01 17:51:20

For those having trouble reading the magazine, this is what I did since the PDF
reader I use doesn't have a horizontal flip option. I converted the individual
pages to ppm files with:
for i in $(seq 1 8); do pdftoppm -f $i -l $i ALM-2010-Apr-1.pdf foo; done
Then I read the files using xv (any image viewer will do) after flipping them with 'h'.

Anyway, the last bit about Multixrulz lugging computers around Australia
for 17 months has the sense of an April Fool about it.

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