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Oh, one other thing. I own 4 backpacks. ALL of them are black and at least two have skulls on them - stop the presses!

http://www.jinx.com/home.aspx

Black is probably THE most common color for a backpack....

I have Ubuntu running on three systems at home and as my primary platform at work. I am generally happy with it... except when it comes to upgrading. It seems incapable of managing even simple customizations. The lowest hanging fruit that needs to be plucked is network configuration. At both work and home I am using static IPs. The network management wizard (or whatever it's called) keeps trying to overwrite the interfaces file; I eventually remember how to suppress this via google but it's usually an hour wasted. Worse, during transition to a new version, Ubuntu thoughtfully notes that a variety of configuration files have changed (eg gtetris or some such) proffers a diff, and asks if I want to keep the old one or use a new one. Then it merrily runs off and overwrites all the network configuration information without so much as a how-do-you-do. I was upgrading from 9.04 to 10.04* this morning, and had to recover nameserver and gateway info from a colleague - all I had was loopback setup.

Video and audio always seems to be an issue, too. I had to do a fresh install at home because the system couldn't cope with a change from Nvidia to ATI video chipset, and stopped running anything with OpenGL. Tomorrow I'm wiping the work system with a fresh 10.10 because the Nvidia drivers (pick one of several) are now not being recognized, and even if I get X up with generic drivers the mouse and keyboard are no longer functional in an X session (such that I can't even get out to a shell with Ctrl-Alt-F1), even though the KB is fine prior to X. The last time I ran through an upgrade I had been able to get twinview working after spending a profanity filled day, but audio was somehow collateral damage, even though I didn't muck with anything obviously related to it. I could spend another day pasting bits of my logs into google but would rather spend half a day installing cleanly and restoring my home directory. Ironically I was feeling smug about my Linux platforms having just done this a month ago as a matter of routine Windows maintenance.

* My plan was to stick with 9.04 but I really need Thunderbird 3 to use a javascript filter plugin to compensate for the horror that is our corporate spam "filter", and the non-standard TB3 install suddenly got upset over an updated flash pluggin "shared" (??) with Firefox. I naively thought it would be easier to just bite the bullet and upgrade to a version where TB3 was part of the default install.

I saw these a while back: adult toilet version and baby version

I saw these a while back: adult toilet version and baby version

They've got those now? Crap, I need to get to the auction house. WTS green linen shirt!

Wait... *sniff* *sniff* ...never mind, it must be bind on equip.

That's why you need the proper attire.

...how much is /. being paid to sell Jinx merchandise?

That shirt (or at least one relatively similar) is/was sold on jinx

What happens when it goes away? Does it go to a happy farm for always like Fluffy did when mommy was crying and the neighbor kept washing his fender?

No, Dr horrible will live on. We intend to make it available for download soon after it's published. This would be for a nominal fee, which we're hoping people will embrace instead of getting all piratey. We have big dreams, people, and one of them is paying our crew.

Well what I would have to say is that if you support this latest exploit, buy a t-shirt or something. At least you have a good idea where the money is going. (... unless it's not the official merch... I have no idea myself)

http://www.jinx.com/men/shirts/video_games/jesus_saves.html

someone should setup a fake RIAA fund. You know, think of the lawyers.

Because there's no patch for human stupidity. http://www.jinx.com/men/sweatshirts/geek/social_engineering.html

I'll just keep saying it... Fuck the RIAA.

Nah, we need a more common enemy of the public than that. Try this:

http://www.jinx.com/other_swag/other/geek/riaa_toi let_paper_1_roll.html

I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. I even wear the t-shirt. Fuck the RIAA.

See this: http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=628

I would be wearing one of these ... h0\/\/ l33t x0rs !!

The F-22 is so superior to any other fighter because it actually is like a ninja, unseen.

If you don't like team chat in a FPS, please for the love of god don't start a Horde character in World of Warcraft -- you'll become suicidal after a brief 5 min exposure to Barrens Chat.

On the other hand, if you survive due to copious amounts of Zoloft, you can wear this shirt as a badge of honour!

but right now, i'm wearing an iPood tshirt

http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=456

I have a hacking permit.

What an experience to go through. Someone needs to buy this guy an iPood shirt http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=456

What is wrong with you people? Don't you see the foot icon, the ha-ha funny icon? All this where-God-meant-the-control key-to-be and CAPS LOCK being an abomination except when programming in FORTRAN.

Don't you know that, and I quote, CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME.

Sheesh.

Good ol' Jack... If you don't know him, he's an attorney and activist determined to squelch violent video games. He has been quoted saying, "[Video Games are] dangerous physical appliances that teach a kid how to kill efficiently and to love it." Sounds like someone was pwned too much when gaming as a kid. If you ever see his gamertag online, let him win a match so he stops crying.

"Dear Myspace Tom,

No, you are not my "friend."

Posting on /. is not enough, Tom is a damn persistant buddy.

Try wearing appropriate shirt?

hell yeah... where do i get them... will look great next to my jinx stickers http://www.jinx.com/scripts/stickers.asp?affID=-1
on my boxen

i went to loftninjas.org which is on the sticker and didn't see any links to them...

...there is no patch for human stupidity.

Most users just don't know better, despite best efforts to educate them otherwise, or make the scams obviously fradulent. Ever seen that 'MSN will never ask you for your password!' type banner on things? Know how many people retain it? Very few.

Related to my life.
A few times, going into Walmart wearing my "Your Company's Computer Guy" shirt, I was asked for assistance, because of the way Walmart employees wear those vest-like things. Sure, it's a totally different shade of blue, and a different style, but that didn't stop them. ;)
And yes, I did help them even though they realized mid-question that I don't work there.

But if I played a female character, how would I tea-bag?

I also find it difficult to take him seriously.

This http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=624 might have something to do with it.

There's more you can do than just boycott RIAA labels. Here's some ideas:

1. Write your congressman - you can even do it via email. Follow this link for a really simple way to do that. Will they listen? If enough of you complain they will. (Don't be negative and say democracy doesn't work.)

2. When you talk to your friends, let them know this is going on. Believe it or not, a lot of people don't know about this issue. The more people you tell, the more this becomes an issue.

3. This stuff is making the mainstream news. When you see this issue come up in a newspaper, write a letter to the editor about it. More people read letters to the editor than articles in the paper. Tell people the ideas in this message to get them to not support RIAA.

4. Complain on artist websites and give artists bad press. Not planning on buying the latest Bruce Springsteen CD? Why don't you write him and tell him you're not doing it because he's on a RIAA label. Big artists are not "victims" of decisions by their labels.

5. Buy indie labels and let people know you're buying indie labels.

6. Buy a t-shirt about this. Here's some to choose from:
#1, #2, and #3

Your other alternative is to not give a fuck like everyone else. Everyone has to have their issue and maybe this one isn't yours. Hopefully I've given you some ideas for getting involved about something though.

Not clear enough?

Acoording to a Jinx Forum Post entitled "I'd like to kick Otto Z. Stern in the balls "https://www.jinx.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=417 30: All i can say to desribe this guy, is he is just a rat bastard. I'd like to fight him, and show him how 'tuff us "geeks' ARE. Throw him through a g0dd@/\/\n window.

So, he is universally loved by all.

As an aside, I found the piece sarcastically funny.

So anyone who gets infected automatically qualifies for this t-shirt

Whoever said: Can you just discuss things like normal people? We get it. You're women. OMG. Stop discussing how dumb women are in games. Stop discussing the 'female point of view'. Just talk about the games like other columnists. It's women like this that are alienating themselves from the culture, not the other way around. I dont think it could have been put much better, and I would never join a clan called PMS anything. Those women also make it *so* much harder for ones like me that just want recognized as a female gamer. No, I dont think most female gamers are lesbians, or transgender, a good % yes, more than 50% I doubt it. I am neither, but when I am online, I hardly use the talk feature, I dont specify Im female b/c thats not the point of the game. And yes, the girlie girls that are all 'ooo look at me' do ruin it for the rest of us. I still am female, I just dont broadcast it (and most never know the differance), I dont go 'O look I killed it' or 'eww thats nasty'. I dont flirt or expect a game area to be a chatroom base. I dont get freaked out if I break a nail when playing, and I dont just say I game to get points with the male gender. I game to game, to kill, & win. Said best: The player with the most frags wins. For the visual learners: http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=201

http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=122

http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=456

Some I like.
http://www.cafepress.com/thewhitehouse.17851468
http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=389
http://www.fcukjp-onlineshop.com/womenswear/tshirt s/60174590.shtml

In the mean time this should do well...

J!NX Hackwear

chown -R us ./base

http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?productID= 226

the marketing writes itself...

http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=406

Homie, don't right click!

nah, jinx still has 'em.
http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=275
grab one while they're left?

IM NOT A GEEK! i'm a level 12 paladin.

This t-shirt comes to mind...

Live in your world. Get pwned in mine.

On the 10:th this month I happened upon jinx.com, courtesy of a slashdot discussion. Decided I wanted some t-shirts. Said and done, I started to place my order, just to find out that I had to use PayPal to pay for it because, horrors of horrors, I'm not an USian. If you're not an USian, then you don't get to pay using your VISA directly (anyone can tell me why? I thought this shit was global). Anyhow...

I've resisted PayPal until now, partly because of all the stories, partly because I understand that they're not a bank and wield a huge one-sided "EULA" to which I don't want to sign away my soul in blood. I don't want the drama, I don't want the redundancy -- I can pay perfectly fine using my normal internet BANK, thank you very much.

That is, I always could, until stores decided that PayPal was teh gr3atest evah! and denied my all other choices.

But damnit, I want those t-shirts. So I sign up. I get time-out's like crazy, having to retry page after page (which gets tedious after a while). Think "people put up with this shit? It's worse than I imagined!".

So, with some trepidation, I add my debit to the system. "When this is done, I hope I can erase it from their database", I think to myself.

I finally pay jinx. PayPal says "All OK!". I go to sleep.

In the morning, I check my bank. Sure enough, the funds been reserved. Check Jinx. "Awaiting payment". Hmm... "Well I hope it's drawn soon"

Loiter around, hoping my t-shirts will ship soon. I've got someones birthday to attend in just over a week, and I really need some fresh wear.

Today, two days later. Money still reserved at my bank. Jinx still "Awaiting payment". Unable to log into PayPal, but my account at PayPal said "all paid up, not problems here, no sireee" (paraphrasing) when I left them last time, so why would that change suddenly.

So, now what? Wait around?

Gawd damnedit. I just wanted my fucking t-shirts.

And that my friends, is my very first PayPal-story.

On the 10:th this month I happened upon jinx.com, courtesy of a slashdot discussion. Decided I wanted some t-shirts. Said and done, I started to place my order, just to find out that I had to use PayPal to pay for it because, horrors of horrors, I'm not an USian. If you're not an USian, then you don't get to pay using your VISA directly (anyone can tell me why? I thought this shit was global). Anyhow...

I've resisted PayPal until now, partly because of all the stories, partly because I understand that they're not a bank and wield a huge one-sided "EULA" to which I don't want to sign away my soul in blood. I don't want the drama, I don't want the redundancy -- I can pay perfectly fine using my normal internet BANK, thank you very much.

That is, I always could, until stores decided that PayPal was teh gr3atest evah! and denied my all other choices.

But damnit, I want those t-shirts. So I sign up. I get time-out's like crazy, having to retry page after page (which gets tedious after a while). Think "people put up with this shit? It's worse than I imagined!".

So, with some trepidation, I add my debit to the system. "When this is done, I hope I can erase it from their database", I think to myself.

I finally pay jinx. PayPal says "All OK!". I go to sleep.

In the morning, I check my bank. Sure enough, the funds been reserved. Check Jinx. "Awaiting payment". Hmm... "Well I hope it's drawn soon"

Loiter around, hoping my t-shirts will ship soon. I've got someones birthday to attend in just over a week, and I really need some fresh wear.

Today, two days later. Money still reserved at my bank. Jinx still "Awaiting payment". Unable to log into PayPal, but my account at PayPal said "all paid up, not problems here, no sireee" (paraphrasing) when I left them last time, so why would that change suddenly.

So, now what? Wait around?

Gawd damnedit. I just wanted my fucking t-shirts.

And that my friends, is my very first PayPal-story.

On the 10:th this month I happened upon jinx.com, courtesy of a slashdot discussion. Decided I wanted some t-shirts. Said and done, I started to place my order, just to find out that I had to use PayPal to pay for it because, horrors of horrors, I'm not an USian. If you're not an USian, then you don't get to pay using your VISA directly (anyone can tell me why? I thought this shit was global). Anyhow...

I've resisted PayPal until now, partly because of all the stories, partly because I understand that they're not a bank and wield a huge one-sided "EULA" to which I don't want to sign away my soul in blood. I don't want the drama, I don't want the redundancy -- I can pay perfectly fine using my normal internet BANK, thank you very much.

That is, I always could, until stores decided that PayPal was teh gr3atest evah! and denied my all other choices.

But damnit, I want those t-shirts. So I sign up. I get time-out's like crazy, having to retry page after page (which gets tedious after a while). Think "people put up with this shit? It's worse than I imagined!".

So, with some trepidation, I add my debit to the system. "When this is done, I hope I can erase it from their database", I think to myself.

I finally pay jinx. PayPal says "All OK!". I go to sleep.

In the morning, I check my bank. Sure enough, the funds been reserved. Check Jinx. "Awaiting payment". Hmm... "Well I hope it's drawn soon"

Loiter around, hoping my t-shirts will ship soon. I've got someones birthday to attend in just over a week, and I really need some fresh wear.

Today, two days later. Money still reserved at my bank. Jinx still "Awaiting payment". Unable to log into PayPal, but my account at PayPal said "all paid up, not problems here, no sireee" (paraphrasing) when I left them last time, so why would that change suddenly.

So, now what? Wait around?

Gawd damnedit. I just wanted my fucking t-shirts.

And that my friends, is my very first PayPal-story.