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Can I change another key to be the any key? I can never find that darn thing.

You can't find it because it's sold separately. How the heck have you been using your computer all this time without one?

You could buy one of these. It doesn't look like a USB stick. How would they know? As a side note, I don't take responsibility if you are fired.

You mean these and these?

Hmm this sounds like a fun game. I'd like to see USB memory built into ... A lunch box? :-)

For example, if your laptop has composite in :
http://www.mittoni.com.au/catalog/product_info.php ?sID=850f57d9dcecfd14eedecbda29891c4d&currency=CAD &products_id=1791&sID=850f57d9dcecfd14eedecbda2989 1c4d
Also:
http://www.computergear.com/rollupkeyboard.html

You also need your favourite mouse, and you're set.

If you're not part of the solution, you're the precipitate.

...Microsoft taketh away!

Not only funny but true. Microsoft's future has always depended on new ways to squander compute resources. I think of my in-laws, who only use their PC for e-mail and solitaire. My brother in-law works for Microsoft, and comes in to fix his parents' computer every few months when it has ground to a halt from viruses and spyware. He dutifully upgrades them to the latest OS and service packs, only to find things in total disarray the next time he visits. Of course, I have endless entertainment as I get to bust his chops every single time! I've got his christmas present picked out already.

Seriously... In order for Linux to take over most of the home PC market, the Walmart Linux PC should have an "XP-like" desktop with two shortcuts: solitaire and evolution (ok, Mozilla too). Most people with home PCs use them for those three things. All of this home video editing, digital media manipulation stuff that requires powerful CPUs is way beyond the average joe. Let them play Solitaire in peace!

My little sister pulled out my old Nintendo at the beginning of the summer, and spent most of the time doing just that. It's hard to believe what we put up with just to save that damn princess again.

Sadly, I think her drive to play came more out of her extremely conformist nature (she saw the "Know Your Roots" shirts and decided she had to play Nintendo to be cool) instead of an actual appreciation of the system. :/

Hell, we could even have funny ones like an "any" key :D

Or even better, how about an RTFM key?

I don't see why keyboards can't just come with different caps that you press onto the keyboard.

I don't think you realize how insanely expensive plastic is these days.

Is there a way to bypass the conference go right for the swag?

Yep:

• Here or
• Here.

Of course, you may have to actually pay for the stuff this time . . .

You mean like this one ?

The "Any" Key

That is why if a webcomic gets popular enough, they can start selling merchandise (coffee mugs, t-shirts) with pictures of the characters on them. Not to mention book compliations of the comics

...everything I learned about being a supervillain I learned from this book.

- adam

P.S. WARNING: This company is in Redmond, thus any money you spend there might wind up getting funnelled through a business tax and eventually pay for a roadway lane painting that might be used to get an employee to Microsoft -- so use your best judgement.

Wood is nice, but it's no bling bling.

Mmmmm, our favorite penguin...

The Dragon Book (Compilers, principles, techniques and tools) by Aho, Sethi and Ullman

The Cricket Book (DNS and BIND) by Albitz and Liu

The Bat Book (Sendmail) Allman and co-conspirators

The BGP Book (Internet Routing Architectures) Sam Halabi

A whole bunch of William Stallings books (Cryptography and Network Security, High Speed Nets and ATM Design, SNMP)

The whole series of Roger L. Freeman's Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering.

Telecommunications Engineer's Reference Book, by Mazda

At home, I have the classics, Knuth's Art of Computer Programming volumes I to III, The Mythical Man Month, Godel Escher Bach, and many others I can't remember in this inebriated state.

For a lending library, I'd add the whole of the O'Reilly series, a bunch of Cisco Press, Dilbert and of course User Friendly

the AC

By the way...congratulations!

Well coffee or tea is always good, the more the marrier! Geeky clothes, this is a must for those who only change clothes when they go to ALS, LW, etc. I like some of the shirts available from Computer Gear. The "Dilbert Network" shirt is nice. "Any Idiot," "Stupid Computer," "Never Far," are all nice. "Resistance is futile" and "Man Pad" are funny! I really like the "UNIX" shirt, might have to ask for that one..

brought to you by rbf, who is using his trusty Alpha running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 with kernel 2.2.13.


LONG LIVE ALPHA!!!

Computer Gear is the best.