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  1. Pinball -- Rules by doon · · Score: 1 · on Portrait of The Last Remaining Pinball Wizard
    Being a die hard pinhead (no not that pinhead), i can Say pinball rules. I miss the old days of being able to go into an arcade and merrily drop quarters into machines. Now that pinball is being removed from most arcades (the ones that are left are mostly redemption machines and DDR), it is getting harder and harder to play, a lot of us are starting to collect them. There is a pretty active discussion on all things pinball at Rec.games.pinball . Where all of the things in this article and the resulting discussion have be brought up and beat to death.

    That being said here is a picture of my humble collection, once we upgrade from apartment 0.5 to house 1.0, we are building a pinball arcade in the basement and this number will grow. My Machines One skill that reading rec.games.pinball has shown me is important is fixing them. Part of the reason pins are leaving arcades it that they require maintenance. Changing balls, new rubbers, waxing. Whereas regular games you windex the screen and empty the coin box. I guess it is the engineer in me, and my sucking really bad at video games, that says I hope pinball never dies.

  2. Re:Be careful what you tattoo... by doon · · Score: 1 · on FreeBSD Announces Contest To Replace Daemon Logo

    I have it on my leg... I can start the story to my grandkids, yeah back when Operating Systems where cool... So Was I.

    Ok so I was never cool... But isn't it a grandparents job to fill their grandkids head with stories? I know it was my Grandpa's job.
    My Tat in case you are interested.

  3. A search for my name brings up my site by doon · · Score: 1 · on MSN Search Has Arrived

    Not that crappy actors :)

    Probably because I mention Bill Gates on my homepage, in reference to My Meeting Bill Gates Photo.

    It is the little things in life..

  4. Re:Winders by doon · · Score: 1 · on Google Keyhole, Google Scholar
    How many times have you encountered a similar situation - "Darn, it's only for Winders"?

    Sadly not enough as BillG and company would hope for. I do have access to Windows if I "NEED"/"WANT" it. While looking at Sat Pictures is neat, it is still not neat enough to get my to install windows. That and the majority of the hardware I have isn't physically capable of running windows natively. 17" Powerbook, Sun Netra's , Sgi O2 and Octane. I guess my vaio laptop could run it, but why ruin a perfectly good OpenBSD box to install windows which would probably crawl (PII 366 128MB ram).

    My main workstation at home ran windows @ 1 time in a partition, and it might run it again at some point. Any game that might get me to Use windows normally has too high hardware requirement so I would have to Upgrade my boxes to use it anyway and My other hobbies are where my money goes nowadays.. this being one of them

  5. Re:What Your Choice of BSD Distro Says about You by doon · · Score: 1 · on What Your Choice of Linux Distro Says about You

    Forgot about the tattoo on My Leg

    They're coming to take me away.. HaHa, HeHe. They're comging to take me away...

  6. Re:Eudaemonia means by doon · · Score: 2, Funny · on U of Chicago Scavenger Hunt List - 2004

    I win :)

  7. Re:Curious by doon · · Score: 5, Informative · on FreeBSD 5.2 Released
    Who uses it? Lots of People (Like Yahoo!).

    How exactly is it licensed It is licensed under a BSD license.

    Should I consider Running it? Short answer: Yes (but I am biased)

    Long Answer: It depends on your applications. FreeBSD is a rock solid Operating System, also it is distributed as an entire operating system, as opposed to GNU/Linux where you have the Linux Kernel and then what ever utils/programs $VENDOR has built around it. We run it on 20+ servers here and have been really happy with it. I run it on Multiple boxes at home also. Then again the 2 of us here are kinda FreeBSD bigots. Here is my leg to prove it so my opinion might be biased.

    Depending on your application, you really should run the best Operating System for the Job. I haven't found the one perfect OS yet. For instance if you are running Java app servers you might want to look at Linux for that as it's java implementation seems to be better( but FreeBSD's is getting there quickly). The nice part is it free and you can just grab The ISO's and try it out on a spare machine.

  8. Re:The author installed the wrong version of FreeB by doon · · Score: 1 · on Linux Users Try FreeBSD 5, Windows

    Yeah 5.0, the base install is a little rough. 5.1 is a much better install. A newcomer coming to FreeBSD, installing 5.0 is assine. I mean, the website clearly states Advanced Technology Release. 4.8 would have been a much easier starting block. I still have a 5.0 and patches laptop, that runs great. Although I am not a newbie to FreeBSD by any stretch See here for proof :) . I also have a 5.1 server @ home now, and I must say it is a much cleaner release, install, setup and make world/buildkernel went well, and it is sitting nicely in the corner, just quietly chuggin away.

  9. Re:I'm not using the iLoo... by Tighe_L · · Score: 1 · on What's Microsoft Up To?

    I would too, it would be fun to piss on M$, a friend of mine go to do something even more fun.