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Big Money.Sounds very promising if this does indeed come to pass. I wonder why the EUV LLC (which consists of Intel, AMD, Micron and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories among others) seem to be waging their bets on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography instead of looking at these new technologies? This new Lithography process is supposed to give us 10Ghz chips in the not so distant future. Then again, maybe these won't cost $15 a piece, so that could be the reason right there.
Angry Penguins practice UltraViolent Lithography! The Linux Pimp
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Tell me.I hope this doesn't mean that when all these Direct Marketers get Slashdotted with bricks and sheetmetal in their envelopes they stop sending out envelopes but start calling me. I hate junkmail, but I really hate tele-marketers.
Penguins a go-go. The Linux Pimp
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Oh those crazy government projects....the ability to atomically snapshot file systems...
This sounds horribly dangerous, I hope Linux never gets this "feature".Geiger counters be damned! The Linux Pimp
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Illegality of it all?I was thinking about this a while back, and unfortunately, I believe it may be illegal, according to many EULA's, (end user license agreements) for money to change hands when playing many popular video games. I know you can't charge people to play certain videogames, and I think some licenses extend that to gambling as well. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of any gaming EULA in front of me at the moment. Could someone confirm my thoughts on this...
Penguins play for keeps. The Linux Pimp
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And in other news...The majority of prison inmates say "I didn't do it."
Penguins and jailbirds. The Linux Pimp
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Express my dissatisfaction."In November the group approved seven suffixes:
The majority of these names make no sense to me. I know what each name represents, but my question is why? Do the members of ICANN actually use the Internet? I thought for sure they would approve a
Penguins run around naked everyday! The Linux Pimp
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Rhythm hackers."Fukumoto says users can send multiple commands
to the wristband by tapping their fingers in various rhythms.How am I gonna explain this to the FBI when I start
playing air guitar to Limp Bizkit and I accidentally break into the Pentagon.Penguin phone home. The Linux Pimp
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Stop SPAM from home!Hate SPAM? Dont we all! Well now you can actually do something to prevent spamming! That's right, but this offer won't last forever, so act now before it's too late. For the introductory low, low price of only $19.95, you can rest assured that you will never receive another SPAM email again. Simply send your Visa or Mastercard number to this address. Hurry, before it's too late!
Penguins love Salmon, but hate the taste of SPAM. The Linux Pimp
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NauseauI am sorry to say that anything
related to Yahoo now offends me greatly,
I demand that all traces of "Yahoo"
be removed from the Internet.Smelly fish don't offend Penguins. The Linux Pimp
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This could be very bad.I realize that this can be countered somewhat by proper shielding, but a powerful Electro Magnetic Pulse weapon could effectively send a nations military back into the stone age, or at least the WWI and WWII era. This could drastically effect modern warfare as we know it today. This site has a great overview and discussion of EMP technology.
I think if this type of weapon were exceptionally effective, it would force humans to basically bring back good ole trench warfare or at least rethink our current mechanized strategies which rely heavily on centralized command and information dissimination and analysis. While no war is a good war, modern tools of destruction, such as laser guided "smart" bombs have certainly helped to reduce casualties of civilians and other non-miliarty personnel. This could be a very powerful weapon indeed for the country that perfects it.
Hoards of mechanized penguins at your command! The Linux Pimp
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My thoughts.I'll make this short and sweet (like my ex-girlfriend). Being a Geek does not in any way make you unpopular, it never has. I consider myself to have been "born Geek"(started programming BASIC in 6th grade), but I was always very popular in school (voted best personality senior year, toot! toot!, and even played College football for a Division 1 school). Anyhow, it's the stereotypical traits that some geeks have (anti-social, fearing parties, bad dressing, etc...) that make them unpopular with the masses, or perhaps they make themselves unpopular because of these traits. The important thing to remember, is that not all geeks have these traits (I'm shy, but not necessarily anti-social. I sit in front of the computer for 12 hours a day, but I also like playing golf and funneling beer).
I think what makes a person a Geek is, perhaps, above average intelligence, and more importantly, genuine curiousity about the world that surrounds them. I'd also add to that an internal need to discover how things function and how to make those functions function better or differently. Looking back on my definition, that sounds a great deal like the definition of a scientist. Luckily for us Geeks, scientists are "valued" by society.
Pimps are Geeks too. The Linux Pimp
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Mandrake is good for one very special reason.I've been a RedHatter for years now, but I recently decided to give Mandrake 7.2 a chance on a dual celeron machine I have. The installation went very well, but the main thing I was impressed with was the inclusion of a journaling filesystem. That's right, ReiserFS is included with Mandrake 7.2. You can create and format a partition with journaling goodness right out of the box. I loved this. I ended up needing it too, cause I had to hard reboot my box about 25 times due to a bad motherboard. Anyhow, I never lost any data, and I didn't have to wait an eternity for FSCK to do the hokey pokey after all those reboots. I'm hooked on journaling...
Penguins keep very good journals. The Linux Pimp
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That could be very dangerous.As another poster mentioned, I believe you would be much worse off using the bank card method, because of liability issues. With a credit card, it's pretty easy to protect yourself from fraud. If your card gets stolen or used improperly, all you are liable for is $50.00 maximum usually. However, with a bank card, there are more stipulations to the $50.00 limit, so if you were charged $7000 and you only had $100 in the bank, this could possibly put a serious hurting on your credit rating. I've enclosed some relevant laws I found on this site.
- The Equal Credit Opportunity Act says that you can limit your risk when your credit card is lost or stolen and that you can correct errors without damaging you credit rating.
- The Fair Credit Reporting Act sets the procedure in clearing and correcting the errors on your credit record.
- The Fair Credit Billing Act sets up the procedures for creditors to promptly correct the billing mistakes. It allows you to withhold payments on defective purchases and limits the risk of your lost or stolen credit cards. The law defines a billing error as any charge: -- for something you didn't buy or for a purchase made by someone not authorized to use your account; -- that is not properly identified on your bill or is for an amount different from the actual purchase price or was entered on a date different from the purchase date?
- Truth In Lending limits your liability in Lost or Stolen Credit Cards. You do not have to pay for any unauthorized charges made after you
notify the card company of loss or theft of your card. So keep a list of your credit card numbers and notify card issuers immediately if your card is lost or stolen. The most you will have to pay for unauthorized charges is $50 on each card.
- The Electronic Fund Transfer Act provides protection for ATM, debit or check cards. Your liability for an unauthorized withdrawal can vary: -- Your loss is limited to $50 if you notify the financial institution within two business days after learning of loss or theft of your card or code. -- But, you could lose as much as $500 if you do not tell the card issuer within two business days after learning of the loss or theft. -- If you do not report an unauthorized transfer that appears on your statement within 60 days after the statement is mailed to you, you risk unlimited loss on transfers made after the 60-day period. That means you could lose all the money in your account plus your maximum overdraft line of credit. (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1993)
Penguins with perfect credit ratings. The Linux Pimp
- The Equal Credit Opportunity Act says that you can limit your risk when your credit card is lost or stolen and that you can correct errors without damaging you credit rating.
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Storage mediums in space.Sounds like they've had a bad case of "If something can go wrong, it will." Anyhow, the writeup states"...its RAM corrupted every 1 or 2 days in orbit as it crosses radiation belts..." This made me curious as to the major storage medium being used in space? If RAM can be so easily corrupted, it seems that most electronic storage would be just as problematic a storage medium. Do harddrives and/or CDROM storage have this same problem? Is heavy shielding a solution for this? Just curious.
Penguins have lots of non-volatile RAM. The Linux Pimp
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I have a solution.I've got 100 acres of property that I'm not doing anything with. If any of you guys wanna get together and build an "Open"-minded hardware/software/Internet facility, I'll donate the property to the cause. It's in the middle of nowhere, but it'd give us plenty of room to grow (no light pollution either, so it could double as a decent Observatory
Copy protection schemes simply don't benefit the consumer; until they do, there will be no reason for consumers to support the products that contain these schemes over products that don't. We just need to make sure that consumers do have a choice.
Would you like to pet my Penguin? The Linux Pimp
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Sounds good.I have about 5 linux boxes all using the Voodoo3 3000 cards. I have not had a single problem with these cards, running the latest versions of Mandrake and RedHat. I would highly recommend these as a cheap solution with good performance.
Penguins mothers are never bored. The Linux Pimp
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FinishMy best friend and I were successful in at least flipping Asteroids on the 2600, way back 1986 or so. That's a good enough ending for me. If you're feeling nostalgic now, you can play some really cool Nintendo games right in your Java enabled browser. You can find a link to the site here.
Penguins love Dig-Dug. The Linux Pimp
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FinishMy best friend and I were successful in at least flipping Asteroids on the 2600, way back 1986 or so. That's a good enough ending for me. If you're feeling nostalgic now, you can play some really cool Nintendo games right in your Java enabled browser. You can find a link to the site here.
Penguins love Dig-Dug. The Linux Pimp
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Hindenburg?Interesting article. The author makes reference to "..the hydrogen that filled the Hindenburg." While it's true that this certainly couldn't have helped the situation, I have heard that the demise of the Hindenburg was actually caused by its highly flammable skin coating. Anyone have any more information regarding this?
Hydrogen filled Penguins tend to explode violently. The Linux Pimp
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DVD with Serial Digital Interface OutputThis article discuses some hacks that have
been done that adds SDI output to the Pioneer 626D DVD player.
It's really odd to think that you have something capable
of exceptional video output, but it can't be utilized to its full potential.Penguins love a good fish documentary on DVD. The Linux Pimp
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Close to home.I live within 10 miles of three power plants. One is coal powered, the other, natural gas, and the last one is nuclear powered. They are in the process of doing a $90 million upgrade to the closest one to my house (natural gas). It's been interesting to watch the construction process at least. It's unfortunate that there isn't a way to store electricity somehow, and this is in fact why the improvements are taking place. It'll allow them to start generating electricity in a short amount of time, whereas currently it can take nearly a whole day for the steam powered turbines to come up to speed.
On a more somber note, there are sirens all around the area where I live that are used to indicate a problem at the nuclear plant. Problem is, if I ever do hear the sirens, I guess it'll probably only give me enough time to realize I will be dying soon. I'll probably be able to sue for lots more money if I die though
Penguins hate radiation exposure. The Linux Pimp
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Encrypted mail servers.This was a great interesting piece,
I wish more people would embrace the easy
to use encryption technologies that are readily
available today. In fact, I just posted a quick
and easy to follow tutorial on The Linux Pimp
which shows you, step by step, how to
encrypt your Linux POP3 servers.
It's very easy to do.Penguins love encryption. The Linux Pimp
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Encrypted mail servers.This was a great interesting piece,
I wish more people would embrace the easy
to use encryption technologies that are readily
available today. In fact, I just posted a quick
and easy to follow tutorial on The Linux Pimp
which shows you, step by step, how to
encrypt your Linux POP3 servers.
It's very easy to do.Penguins love encryption. The Linux Pimp
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The 2nd piece of email ever sent...Subject: Your Christmas Present 28181
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 07:44:31 -0500
From: cindy697319@777.net.cn
To: Undisclosed.Recipients@mydomain.comYou have seen it on TV! Hard Copy, Howard Stern, Extra, Inside Edition, Etc...
You have heard about it from friends!
Now go and see for yourself!
Click http://1082394634/hardcore_celeb/index.html
The site they don't want you to see.
The site that they want shut down, but the first amendment protects us!
Click http://1082394634/hardcore_celeb/index.html
If link does not work, cut and paste in your browsers window.
remove 98572kelly@ucs.com.tw-
I wonder if they had any idea what they were starting.
Penguins love fish, but hate SPAM. The Linux Pimp -
LawsWhile the above article deals more with censorship than with SPAM, per se, I find it interesting that even though there are already many federal and state laws dealing with unsolicited email you rarely hear of spammers being prosecuted. You would think that either the government or individuals would pursue this. What's the reasoning for this? I've never tried it, but are spammers really that hard to trace down?
We hate spam. The Linux Pimp
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Actually, I'm not a karma whore.I most certainly am not a karma whore. I'm just trying to relay a little historic information to my fellow Slashdot readers. Is that so wrong?
Speaking of Karma, did you know that the entymology of the word karma is Sanskrit. Not only that, but the word itself only dates back to 1827. The word whore, as you can imagine, dates back much earlier than that, however.
The yin and yang of Penguins. The Linux Pimp
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Background on the Sons of LibertyThe full title of the game is Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization formed in the American colonies to protest the Stamp Act of 1765. They were organized by merchants, businessmen, lawyers, journalists, and others most affected by the act.
The Stamp Act was a law passed by the British Parliament requiring publications and legal documents in the American colonies to bear a tax stamp. The act was vehemently denounced, and organizations formed to resist it. The Stamp Act Congress, Oct. 1765, adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, which declared the tax unconstitutional because the colonists were not represented in Parliament. The Stamp Act was repealed in 1766.
Penguins love history too. The Linux Pimp
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Excellent news.A guy I work with here has been trying to grab a defunct domain from NSI for many, many months. They will not release it. I will notify him immediately, as I'm sure he'll be interested in participating.
More fun than eating raw salmon. The Linux Pimp
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Tasty and delicious.Being a Systems Administrator myself, this books sounds perfect. I currently own Learning Perl, Perl Cookbook, Advanced Perl Programming, as well as Learning Perl/Tk. While all of these O'Reilly books are pretty good, they lack the programming focus that I think this book should fill nicely.
Penguins postulate Perl programming. The Linux Pimp
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Ouch...thrown off a five-story building, submerged for hours, run-over by an 18-wheel truck, beaten with a hammer, used as a hockey puck, thrown across a room and stepped on countless times.
The mouse may survive, but what about the user?Penguins love mice. The Linux Pimp
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Silly salaries, money is for management.
You can find a link to the 1999 SANS (System Administration, Networking, and Security) salary survey right here. You can give them an email address to receive the survey (.pdf) by mail. If you don't want to give them an email address, I've posted a copy on The Linux Pimp, which you can view right here.
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Silly salaries, money is for management.
You can find a link to the 1999 SANS (System Administration, Networking, and Security) salary survey right here. You can give them an email address to receive the survey (.pdf) by mail. If you don't want to give them an email address, I've posted a copy on The Linux Pimp, which you can view right here.
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Everyday.I was the Systems Admin for a special effects company in Los Angeles for the past 5 years or so, and I used to back up the sessions from the Silicon Graphics Onyx Infinite Reality they had onto tape all the time. The software they used, (Discreet Logic Flame) could back up to a number of tape formats, including D1 and Digital Betacam. I would also backup the filesystem to a Sony DTF machine. This machine used a variation of the Digibeta format to store the data to tape. The DTF drive actually used the same transport as the Digibeta VTR, so it was pretty reliable. The specs said it could do about 12MB/sec sustained transfer, I never could get it to go that fast, but it was much faster than any other tape device I've used.
Anyone wanna hire me, I'm very bored at my present job. The Linux Pimp
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More about the author.Mr. Granade has actually written a few games of his own.
Sourcecode, and general info can be found
on his personal page, located right here.Penguins love to play games. The Linux Pimp
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Old technologyConsidering that the first transistor was created in late 1947, I guess we've come along way. But have we? Really the only thing we've been able to do is decrease the size of the transistor, so we are able to pack more into the same amount of space. This may be an issue for laptops, and PDA's, but I'm not really all that concerned about the size of the PC sitting under my desk. I think it's about time for a major computing breakthrough, something that really catapults computing into a new era, not unlike the invention of the transistor itself.
Mechanical penguins love transistors. The Linux Pimp
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The future is looking Bright.I've never used their services, and I don't own stock or anything, but I saw recently that a company called Brightmail offers services to ISP's and Corporations to severely limit the amount of SPAM that gets trafficed through email servers. You can find out more about their anti-SPAM services here. One of the things they do, is to actually to to attract SPAM, by using a type of "honeypot" system. You can find out the specifics of that on this page.
Penguins don't always have to play nice. The Linux Pimp
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Oh boy.Different sound for every hit on the server?
Makes me wish I was a Sytems Administrator
at one of them "adult" web-hosting companies.
My server room never sounded so good!Would you like to pet my Penguin? The Linux Pimp
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Re:You know what happens when you can be anonymous...could you imagine if the entire internet was like that?
It already is.
Penguins need privacy too. The Linux Pimp
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Dollars and sense.I think this was touched on by someone else, but it's worth repeating...any company that can afford to purchase and put into place 90,000 machines is going to have the capital necessary to staff a competent IT department to support said machines. Their IT department could also purchase software support contracts from any number of vendors. RedHat has a wide selection of Enterprise support services. Supplemental support contracts could also be put into place, such as the one from QuestionExchange. And if that's not enough, I can be had for a resonable hourly fee
Would you like to pet my Penguin? The Linux Pimp
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OthersI found this link at the bottom of the linked page to be rather interesting as well. It lists many other "sharing" projects, several of which I was unfamiliar.
Would you like to pet my Penguin? The Linux Pimp
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Uses?Possible uses for this as listed in the article:
- Routing voice and fax traffic over the Internet
- Enabling automatic reply to voicemail messages
- Delivering content to wireless devices
I'm not sure if I understand the need for this system. Routing voice traffic is already done on a daily basis (dialpad.com). Automatic reply to voicemail messages is certainly something that exists already, and it seems everybody I know has some sort of wireless content service on their cellphone or PDA already.
What a directory like this could more likely be used for is marketing. Every night of the week, right when I sit down for dinner, I get a pointless marketing call from some schmoe who wants to sell me aluminum siding, or give me a great deal on a home loan. Yeah, this is just what need, now all those marketing people will be able to page me and leave me voicemails as well.
Would you like to pet my Penguin? The Linux Pimp
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Conspiracy theories.Just saw this on the evening news last night. The segment I saw indicated that there is reason to believe that the power companies have artificially created this "power shortage" in order to increase their prices. This is a direct result of deregulation of the power industry, and has increased utility costs to some customers dramatically.
I have the pleasure of living within 10 miles of 3 powerplants. One is coal powered, the other gas, and the last one nuclear (yes that worries me). Anyhow, from what I understand, the powergrid in the US allows most any generating station to sell electricity to most parts of the US. However, I pass the gas powered generating station everyday on my way home, and it's only generating electricity 15% of the time (the turbines release lots of steam when it's generating). Funny thing, is that they are currently in the process of doing a $90 Million dollar upgrade to that plant, even though it seems to be rarely used.
Would you like to pet my Penguin? The Linux Pimp
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They can't even find theirselves!Nice concept and all, but I did a search for "theindex" on theindex.com and here's what I got:
Could not find any matches for your search terms.
Try broadening your search to category names or using more general terms.
New sites matching your search will be located and indexed as time and availability permit.
Thank you for using TheIndex.
Would you like to pet my Penguin? The Linux Pimp
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I wanna play too.Now, you too can join in on all the fun and excitement of having an automated home. Check out Smarthome. Lots of excellent geeky stuff.
Would you like to pet my Penguin? The Linux Pimp
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Funny story.There was a funny story I read a while back about a company in the US contracting out its electronics manufacturing to an electronics company in Asia. In the contract proposal, the US company specified a defect percentage of 5% for the manufacturing process. The Asia company shipped all of the required components off the the company in the US, and included was a box of broken parts with a note stating "We were not sure why you wanted 5% of the parts defective, but we shipped them to you anyway."
I don't remember the exact story, or where I first saw it, so I can't give proper credit, but that was the gist of it.
9.5 on the Pimp-O-Meter! The Linux Pimp
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Vapor?I contacted these guys about 3 weeks ago and asked if they had any connectivity in my location. They said they didn't have anything to offer me currently in Louisiana (my present location), so I asked about getting connectivity in Los Angeles instead (I have some servers there too). They took down my information and never called me back, when sales doesn't call you back, that is not a good sign. Could have been a fluke, but just thought I'd share my experience.
My mom says there's a lot of Penguins in Antarctica. The Linux Pimp
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All hail Corporatism.Heck, in 10 years, I may not even have a TV. Instead, I'll probably have a Gigabit connection to the "Frito's Internet". It's too bad I won't be able to watch the "Home Depot Olympics" on my "RCA" plasma display while sipping "Coca Cola" and eating "Kraft" macarroni and cheese dinners.
Puff the magic Penguin! The Linux Pimp
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Alternative.Yoda, a member of The Linux Pimp, featured a short review of Unbreakable sometime last week. To say his review differs from the one here would be an understatement. Now I'm just so confused, I feel the need to watch the movie, just so I can see who was right.
It's not how far you go, it's how go you far. The Linux Pimp
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Alternative.Yoda, a member of The Linux Pimp, featured a short review of Unbreakable sometime last week. To say his review differs from the one here would be an understatement. Now I'm just so confused, I feel the need to watch the movie, just so I can see who was right.
It's not how far you go, it's how go you far. The Linux Pimp
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Alternative.Yoda, a member of The Linux Pimp, featured a short review of Unbreakable sometime last week. To say his review differs from the one here would be an understatement. Now I'm just so confused, I feel the need to watch the movie, just so I can see who was right.
It's not how far you go, it's how go you far. The Linux Pimp