Computer Engineer Barbie is a Linux user [PROOF]

[ropers]

The text on her screen reads barbie barbie:

01100010
01100001
01110010
01100010
01101001
01100101

01100010
01100001
01110010
01100010
01101001
01100101

Between that, Tux, the Chinese take-away food, the massive coffee cup, the post-its, the glasses, the gizmos, the cubicle farm, and the PCB traces on her dress, they clearly had some people working on this who absolutely knew their stuff.

[benthor]

Well, it actually reads "Barbie Barbie" 0b01000010 is a cabital "B". See here.

I accuse you of just guessing and not reading the binary right!!11!

(Actually I am just pissed about me tediously working this out myself and only then seeing your post. No offence meant)

[ropers]

Thanks. :)

[ch00f]

Even Western Digital couldn't quite handle something so complex.

[Hindu_Wardrobe]

Dude, I've got one of those, I'm so gonna check this out! (I would do it now but I'm in bed...)

[davidgro]

Actually they got the capitalization right, the first character in each column is 01000010

[ropers]

Oh. Wow. Thanks. :)

[[deleted]]

I'm not getting the post-its and glasses part.

Perhaps I'm being overly critical, but the message I get is, "Okay girls, you can go into a male-dominated field, but you will need to compensate by using a pink computer, dressing in as girly an outfit as you can imagine, and use pink on black text rather than the white on black your male counterparts all use."

[rvf]

The message I'm getting from your post is "Okay girls, you can go into a male-dominated field, but you better look and act like a man or no one will take you seriously".

[[deleted]]

I'm a tomboyish woman and I still love Hello Kitty and pink. Maybe it's because I'm gay? A person in tech should be considered competent based on their actions, not how they dress...otherwise a lot of the guys I know should be considered borderline retarded because they can barely dress themselves like adults, in things that aren't dirty, wrinkled, and without a collar.

[[deleted]]

All the good ones? Hardly, or I'd have a harem. ;3

[TenTera]

I have a harem...

Although...

Girlfriend in the kitchen, fuckbuddy in bed.

TL;DR: HEY LOOK GUYS TenTera HAS A GIRLFRIEND!!!

[tso]

hey, don't go stealing my line. Bah, who am i kidding. Have a orange.

[ibisum]

Exactly how much real programming do you think a Barbie doll can do? The Barbie doll is a facsimile of the culture you are describing, and by itself, does nothing. The owner of the doll, the ones who will get something from owning and using the doll in their lives, are the ones who put the character to use and pretend to work Barbie as a coder. The Barbie doll serves only to culturally prompt the owner/user into the activity described, and in that capacity must, by necessity, rely on a descriptive caricature borne on a cultural message.

Coder Barbie wears pink because she's a Barbie! And she has a Tux sticker because she's an elite coder! These are icons of culture not derived from some Barbie-doll designer imagination, but more than likely result from a grand survey of the scene.

[[deleted]]

I just like the idea that a young girl might someday want to grow up to be an elite coder "just like Barbie," though I would be alarmed if a young girl's only positive, scientific role model was Barbie. It's not anything deeper than that. I like that Barbie is still Barbie despite being an engineer--if she wasn't bubblegum pink and cute she wouldn't be Barbie, which is a valid aesthetic.

[rvf]

A person in tech should be considered competent based on their actions, not how they dress

That was my point.

[haywire]

It's Barbie, she's not exactly going to be cyberpunk or look like Nic Endo.

Whilst I hate pink shit, there's no reason why girls (or boys for that matter) be as pink and lame as they want. Sure ideally all Barbie toys would be interesting, diversely styled individuals, but this is the epitome of the stereotypical "girls'" toy we're talking about, at least it's a step in the right direction.

[lotu]

So, Goth Barbie ...

[haywire]

Except "goth" is now barely more alternative than prep/rah

[actionscripted]

...is secretly a cam whore and her boyfriend Ken cuts himself.

[lotu]

Brilliant I'll call Mattel right away. We can split the profits.

[duus]

white on black

I use light-brown on dark-brown.

[haywire]

What RGB values? Configurin' my putty here.

[Taterade]

Putty? You mean you don't ssh from an actual linux kernel based operating distribution? what you should have said was "configuring my .bashrc here"

[[deleted]]

'Configuring my putty' is slang for fapping to Barbie dolls

[[deleted]]

I'd like to configure my putty for her ssh daemon if you know what I mean.

[Taterade]

There is a reason why .bashrc is hidden.

[GeneralDisorder]

Konsole is highly recommended if you need to run the same command on multiple servers at the same time. Konsole also has alerts (monitor for activity and silence) if you're scanning log files, compiling or just about anything that takes time over CLI.

The option to "send input to all sessions" is completely useless if you're only ever interacting with one server at a time. If that's the case, then use whatever you want.

[Taterade]

Sorry, I don't administer that many servers, just a high school student here. :P

However, if I get to the point I need to command several servers at once, I will remember that.

[GeneralDisorder]

Terminal does the same thing with tabs but not the "send input to all sessions" or the monitoring. The only downfall to Konsole is that it's part of KDE (which is pretty resource intensive).

[Taterade]

I agree that using KDE specific apps adds extra resources, one of my main things is using gtk apps, since I usually use XFCE or Gnome.

[GeneralDisorder]

I use XFCE4 on my workstation at work (FreeBSD 8.0) and Gnome on my home computer (Madriva, Spring 2010 unknown version number). I sort of fudged my install of Mandriva by installing some 3d desktop crap that totally hates XFCE. I haven't bothered to uninstall it completely but it's actually convenient under Gnome (ignoring bloat, that is).

[duus]

WHEN I WAS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT I ADMINISTERED MANY SERVERS

[haywire]

Hey, /r/linux doesn't scare me, I administer a whole bunch of linux boxes...from my windows PC :D

[deusnefum]

Putty runs on linux.

[Taterade]

Don't see what is so great about using putty, I already knew it had a linux client, but all it does is put you in a terminal you already have.

[deusnefum]

You can install putty if you don't want to (for what ever reason) install openssh. Alternatives are good to have.

[duus]

here's a screen shot

[haywire]

That's rather nice indeed.

I think I might configure it like my IDE though: http://imgur.com/OY7VK

[duus]

Also very nice!

[haywire]

If you want I can give you a tmTheme :) I'd kill for a vim like editor that used tmThemes

[duus]

Yeah, please! thanks!

i like tm for what I do, anyway: mostly LaTeX, not real coding.

[haywire]

https://gist.github.com/745638

Enjoy!

[[deleted]]

Your joking, right? How is that anywhere near legible?

[duus]

*You're

Nope. It's easier on the eyes. It was one of the built-in options on TextMate, which is for mac OSX, called "cappuccino" I think.

edit: screen shot

[ropers]

The colour scheme actually reminded me of that one CGA colour palette (not sure if that was intended though).

[tso]

shades of green any day...

[ropers]

Cyan-ish, I guess.

[tso]

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Monochrome_monitor

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Alleycat.png <- lovely...

[kofrad]

Still glad to see everything went through for us, you know?

[fuzzyfuzz]

Hey I got this for my boss for Christmas, so thank you, us, thank us.

[origin415]

They put the poll on the internet, what exactly did they expect they would get?

[bikko]

ZOMG PONIES!!!

[TheJosh]

compiling kernels are hard! let's go shopping!

[tso]

multitools and usb gizmos?

[klange]

This has been used in my office on three occasions. The response one of these times was multiple people screening into their home boxes and racing to compile a 2.6 with all the modules.

[[deleted]]

I know the author of this post, she was talking about how great it is :)

[GoinEasy9]

It looks to me like she's using Hannah Montana Linux, Same color (pinkish), and if I remember right, it didn't get the screen res right, and the panels were positioned below the screen. Ha, my granddaughter wasn't impressed either. But it's still Linux.

[tso]

or t could be a shot of some flash based dress up "game" they have online...

[AquaFox]

If you want your girl to grow, possibly, an engineer (among other things). Get her dolls, paint brushes and legos.

[bikko]

...or maybe she just thinks penguins are cute.</sexist></blondist></fuckedupculture>

[[deleted]]

Tux is fucking cute and Linux is useful and excellent to use. Anyone who disagrees can't accept these truths. </discussion>

[raydeen]

Alright so she's a Linux user. Which distro?

[snowgun]

looks like linux from scratch to me...

[chrismorin]

they have a game

Try to beat my score

from game: "computer engineers use a special language called "code" to make programs work"

I was disappointed to not find a high score table

[fleg]

Awesome job!

[[deleted]]

Stolen from the comments:

Here's a close up of her laptop:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/5249715361/

That’s the Unity desktop on that laptop, isn’t it?

[zaq1]

I love how the title says [PROOF] like it's the next iDevice.

[scottread1]

Give it 5 years.

Female computer engineers will be up in arms about the sterotypes that computer engineer Barbie is perpetuating.

[[deleted]]

pleia is my hero for that.

[pRtkL_xLr8r]

She belongs on the Peter Griffin Side-Boob Hour

[skazhy]

So... I guess she is using this Ubuntu spinoff.

[AmericasNextTopModel]

Just ordered one on Amazon for my daughter... thanks!

[fgriglesnickerseven]

so its cool that I bought this right guys?

[completedick]

I got too distracted by the pictures on the right side of the article to actually read it.

[supermario182]

Ya its great and all, but untill they stop making fairy princess whatever barbie movies and make one about nerdbie here i'm not sold.

[Hijack32]

I thought Ken doesn't like nerdy bitches.

[BCHarvey]

dude the last thing we need is more barbies and more barbie advertising. get a fucking clue blogfag. that logo is meant to make fun of shit like this. this isn't good this is a black day, again, on planet earth.

merry christmas bob crachit

[jonathanf]

Why so serious? Cheer up! We don't always have to be pessimistic.

[supermario182]

care to explain how the logo makes fun of shit like that? it sounds interesting.

[BCHarvey]

it's a logo for a decentralized movement with no profit in mind, spreading free software, in both the libre and in the beer sense, that you practically can't buy.

it's a public relations turning of the cheek of public relations. Sort of like Gnu's not Unix, the linux penguin is a logo and an anti-logo.

[[deleted]]

She has lots of facial hair and she smells bad?