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Considering how vocal /.ers are with the edit of certain movies, the overall content of others, and the dasterdly characters in one in particular- I would think a collabauthored script by the whole of /. would turn out okay.

Start one up! Relentlessly post for ideas, and use your journal to suggest a plot outline - invite twists and geeky stuff.

My own contribution? That the geek hero is caught trying to lift a hot chicks skirt with one of these while his geekier friend gets all hyper because he just got this thing up to 1 million rpm. Oh - and she should be wearing these - and geek 1 should use the expression "That, my friend, if fuckin' bitchin'"

Considering how vocal /.ers are with the edit of certain movies, the overall content of others, and the dasterdly characters in one in particular- I would think a collabauthored script by the whole of /. would turn out okay.

Start one up! Relentlessly post for ideas, and use your journal to suggest a plot outline - invite twists and geeky stuff.

My own contribution? That the geek hero is caught trying to lift a hot chicks skirt with one of these while his geekier friend gets all hyper because he just got this thing up to 1 million rpm. Oh - and she should be wearing these - and geek 1 should use the expression "That, my friend, if fuckin' bitchin'"

ThinkGeek has the answer to this problem.

I find it hard to believe that the "open source community" could be responsible for this DDOS against SCO.

Note to aforementioned putz:
Why do you think SCO has been using inflammatory language? You're being played. Buying a bumper sticker from Thinkgeek doesn't make you part of the Linux community or anything else worthwhile. If you think you're coding skills are so hot, get out of your mom's basement and try playing with the big boys for a while. Go to Source Forge, pick a project that you can help and do something worthwhile for a change.

Just my humble opinion.

here sheesh.. is HTML really that hard to write?

I always thought the Slashdot 'nerd' was someone who was good with computers, a hacker, a programmer, a sysadmin, someone with computer science chops.

In my vocabulary, that would be a geek. I find 'geek' to be a compliment and 'nerd' an insult. If you look these up on dictionary.com they both share the same basic meaning, but I think our culture has made a distinction between them.

I hate to reply to myself, but there's also ThinkGeek.

I think all keyboards are the same. I have never stumbled upon a keyboard that really made a any difference practical.

For esthetic considerations and cool factor you can always buy that glowing keybord on think geek.

...when I can buy it on ThinkGeek.

There is no Slashdot community, just a bunch of ooooooh-and-aaaaaaahh-ers who think they are intellectually above the rest of the world.

They actually might photocopy some protestation tract once per year in their company if they hear Star Treck is in danger but no one of these motherfucking nerds actually ever cared about what is right :
What is right, what will make their real life karma better is to protect Free Speech, regardless how disgustingly it is (ab)used.

What is right is to stand for equity and Freedom, not for self-proclaimed "geeky" shit.

Michael and Taco are indeed censors, the most dangerous of these : those who think they are not censors but instead act for the wellfare of humanity by politically-correctly protecting their own "still well-being" so that they can buy DRM'ed shit whenever they feel like consuming.

a company could allow users to use most any PC for access.

Which would cover the software sniffers but not hardware, which is pretty cheap and easy to get.

watercooled systems. Though it makes me nervous to have fluid and electrical components sharing such a small space together, its a quiet (and affordable) alternative to trying to insulate a case that's stuffed with fans.

You should run Counterstrike, etc tournaments every once in a while. Helps bring in the people. And people are going to be hard on equipment, so standardize. Select a good gaming system, and buy a lot of them. When you do this, call around. If Dell, Gateway, HP know that you're standardizing on their equipment, they might give you a discount, because their name is going to be all over the place. Take one computer, install what you want on the hard drive, then Ghost the installation to all the other computers. If a computer happens to get a virus or something, just reGhost it.

There was a /. article a while back about a failed tourny, learn from it's failures. Numero uno, cache server. If you're running Steam or something and it needs updates, download the update to a local cache server, then have the client machines "pull" it from the cache server. Two, huge pipeline to the Net. Games like CS can take up a LOT of bandwidth.

You probably won't make too much money off the computer and game usage; make the most money off refreshments, etc. In the hours that gamers are gone (school) perhaps turn it into a Net Cafe. And atmosphere is key. A little on the dark side, toned down colors, flashy lights, etc. And remember, sell Bawls. This stuff is so full of caffeine I know gamers who live off it, and think nothing of drinking 6-7 of them in one sitting.

Nitpick, but I think the generally accepted acronym for shut the fuck up is STFU, as evidenced here.

The DoubleSight Dual 15" LCD Display from Thinkgeek. How about a good old fashioned side-by-side dual LCD mounting arm?

The DoubleSight Dual 15" LCD Display from Thinkgeek. How about a good old fashioned side-by-side dual LCD mounting arm?

One wonders why these literal rocket scientists didn't just get a software programmable Linux or PalmOS based wrist-computer and hack together a Mars-time display application into it?"

To bash an old quote:
Its the total geek factor stupid

It the difference between geek and UBER geek. Making a program or something else that is dependant on another device is too easy and while it does rate a little on the geek factor scale, its no where near the geek factor in a dedicated device.

Look at the binary clock, yea sure it could be done using an interface like java, dedicated device is WAAAAAY Cooler, and you don't have to switch screens to use it.

Head... about... to... EXPLODE!!!

Not there example. The lights shown would only be appropriate as 'mood' lights or at a night club. Bright/direct light is the one important thing I didn't see an example of (although I was viewing a mirror..so..). Dont get me wrong, some of them look beautiful and remind me of Mathmos' lights as seen on thinkgeek.com and I'm glad some designers are taking a new approach to good old lighting.

Revolution? Paaah!

Hopefully this will work better for me than knoppix. I could never get my laptop(dell latitude lt, P1 233 mmx, 64mb ram, 4Gb HD) to boot to knoppix. I'd like to switch to linux, patrly because they're dropping support for win98 this week, and i really only need web, e-mail, IM etc. but i need support for a pcmcia cd-rom drive and my wireless card as well as my watch.

Wear a watch that beeps when there is an internet connection nearby, and stop and check out email?
Well for wardriving you could use
1.Use a zaurus(or any other PDA with wi-fi)
or
2.use This device
or
3. us this directory to find free hot-spots

"I'm going to walk around in the same jacket... only mine will say Fuck you, R.I.A.A"

That's this one?

Grand idea.

Absolutely! Air cooling can only go so far, air is not a very good conductor. Even if you had a big heatsink made of silver and the big fast fan, a less volume moving water cooled system would out perform it.

Think geeks
ThermalTake Aquarius II CPU Cooler $119.99 and is great quality.

I would like to start seeing more commercial/module use of water cooling, where you had a large choice of radiators, reservoirs, pumps, blocks, and tubes, that are all interchangeable and at local pc shops. Most of the commercial ones you see are kit for single cpu , 1 harddrive and a video card.

Oh, and some other places with cases and modules:
xoxide
FrozenCPU

The Harvard researchers have been following well over 100,000 health professionals for many years now. The participants provide the researchers with detailed reports on weight, fitness level, lifestyle, exercise, diet, and illness. While I wouldn't necessarily infer causality (it _might_ not be the coffee that reduces the risk of Type II Diabetes), there is certainly a very solid correlation between drinking lots of coffee and not coming down with diabetes.

One more thing: The headline was highly misleading. The press release clearly states that there is also a benefit from decaffeinated coffee, although it seems to be less beneficial than caffeinated coffee. So don't think you need to double your Jolt intake or stock up on Penguin Mints. It's the coffee that's possibly helping you, not the caffeine.

Maybe I'm just jealous because I quit caffeine for New Years after 25 years hooked on the stuff. That headache will be fading any day now. At least I sure hope it will.

Julie Townsend copes by wearing two watches: one on her left wrist set to Earth time, a second, specially modified, on her right running on Mars time.

"There are some things I only know in Mars time," said Townsend, a mission avionics engineer.

Time to write another note to the folks at ThinkGeek: please add the Mars Watch to your Gadgets :: Watches lineup! I want a Mars Watch!

And please, be sure to have it modelled by Ms. Townsend. For me, she's a great role model for my daughters. For the rest of Slashdot: she's a girl geek! Cool!

Sounds like you could use this t-shirt..

No, I will not fix your computer.

'nuff said.

This one seems like it could be entertaining.

Excuse me?

Caffeine is hacker fuel! The major problem I have is how do I get MORE caffeine!

Right now my vector is the coffee bean. I drink two double lattes a day.. That's 4 shots of espresso!

The major problem I have is how do I get more caffeine into my diet. Coffee stains your teeth and it's just not very good for you. I'm also pretty picky about where I get my fix and I WON'T go to Starbucks.

The Coders guide to coffee is pretty good.


http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/25/13272/57 29


If you haven't had REAL espresso you have't lived. San Francisco and New York are the only places I've been where you can get decent coffee at a moments notice.

If you live in San Francisco head up to North Beach and you can't go wrong.

I've actually thought about taking caffeine pills with me when I leave SF or got to a conference. Either that or I can just take my own espresso machine and my own coffee and get my fix that way... hard to lug around though.

ThinkGeek also has a number of products that include caffeine:


http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/

I'm an addict, and I wear my addiction badge proudly.

• Segway -- Lots of hype for not a whole heck of a lot.
• Camera-phones -- Some people may love this invention. I think it's just plain silly.
• Smart ID WiFi Detector -- What use is this when it doesn't tell you if the AP is encrypted or not?
• TurboTax 2003 -- When Intuit decided to put key info. in an "unused" portion of the boot block area, causing all sorts of crashes for customers, many who have now sworn off TurboTax for good. Nice one.

When you can get me a DVD recorder/MP3 player that fits in my pocket, costs $100, and is super simple to use via iTunes, then sure, I'm all over it.

What is so wonderful about iTunes? I don't want to use any program to transfer songs to my MP3 player. I want it to mount as an external drive so I can transfer any song, MP3 or otherwise, onto the player. I don't see a reason to use iTunes. You certainly shouldn't encode with it. LAME is a far superior encoder.

The Archos and many other players do this. Although a $120 HD MP3 player is a killer deal, the current iPods are just beat out in features by the competition. A 20gb Archos AV 120 is slightly cheaper than an iPod, and it has a small but high resolution color LCD display. It can play back divx and xvid files at near dvd quality. It can even record divx video through RCA or composite. It also has TV-out. Quite a bit more features than the iPod. It also mounts as an external hard drive

I'd take a mini-dvd based MP3 player any day over an iPod. It would be tiny and hold a few hundred songs per disc. Transferring songs would be easy enough with Nero or something. I'm surprised nobody has done something like that.

Except that /. only got started in 1997...

Go away before I, replace you with a very small shell script!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/374d /

maybe from this tshirt

...most reporters with very small shell scripts...

I know I heard this phrase (loosely) before, but does someone know the name of the reference?

Well, after all, they (/. and thinkgeek) are owned by the same group::

"A month or so later we were Slashdotted. And promptly thereafter ThinkGeek was acquired by the good folks at Andover.Net who have since been acquired by the great folks at VA Software. Andover.Net then became OSDN which is the central entry point for the Open Source community's favorite web sites such as ThinkGeek (hey that's us!), slashdot.org, linux.com, sourceforge.net, and freshmeat.net. Pretty nice company to be amongst, eh? We're pretty proud of it!"

...for ThinkGeek

Looks like michael's trying to give the ThinkGeek guys a good Christmas haul...

This shirt?

If it were me, I'd be looking for a new job as soon as I thought my company was on it's way out, or entering morally dangerous territory. But I would NOT up and quit, unless I could afford to. My kids eating and having clothes and shelter morally justifies far more for me than merely working for a rat bastard company. I wouldn't hold the rank and file responsible for managaments actions. I've worked at plenty of companies where managements decisions were disagreed with by most people actually doing the work.

PS, I'm wearing the ANTI-SCO Tux shirt from Thinkgeek... and boy do I look stylin'

Oh, and like my sig says, I run Linux... on my laptop, desktop, work computers, servers I manage at work, etc etc...

After deciding that my Apachecon-Europe totebag really wasn't suitable for lugging my Vaio around any longer (due to a complete lack of padding, and the fact that there wasn't enough room to carry my glasses around in it as well), I spent a while looking and turned up the Targus Sport Deluxe Backpack, which I got from ThinkGeek because Targus inexplicably refuse to sell it in the UK...

It's enormous, but as long as you don't mind that, it's great. Enough room to carry books, folders, lunch, etc. in a separate compartment to the laptop. Plenty of pockets for accesories, cables (and my fsck'ing glasses). And I have no worries about the straps going.

VA Software thanks you for your patronage. Have you considered a Slashdot subscription to go with your fine bag you ordered from ThinkGeek.com? For a lover of slashdot such as yourself it offers many benefits, including the piece of mind that comes from supporting a service you like.

Thinkgeek Backpacks

Only DVD-R? Bah. No respectable 10-year-old would want a system with a drive that can ONLY burn DVD-R! Today's modern DVD burners can burn everything, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW and even light cancer sticks.

Modify the Ambient Orb so that the Internet access doesn't change the light, but triggers a robot to plug in your PC (and flick the power switch, or make turn-on automatic after plug-in somehow). Make a startup script that connects PPPoE.

There are, to my knowledge, no other hard drive based music players using 1.8" hard drives...they all use giant, powerhungry 2.5" models like a laptop. Therefore, there are no other models that are truly handheld, no other models with are really pocket sized.


Ipod dimensions- .78 inches x 2.43 inches x 4.02 inches

Archos AV120 - 4.3" x 3.1" x 1.1"

The Archos is much chunkier as you can see. There are hard drive MP3 players that are actually smaller than the iPod.

But the Archos is not that much larger. Most of the larger size is due to the rubber things on the corners. But, the Archos seems to be the most feature laden product. At $359, the 20gb Archos it is cheaper than a comparable 20gb iPod.

But the iPod only plays MP3s. The Archos not only plays MP3s, but WMA and Ogg. It encodes MP3, as well.

But the really impressive thing is that it can play video. It also has a color LCD display that can play divx or xvid. It can encode divx from a video input, thus it functions as a PVR, which is completely beyond the capabilities of the iPod. It also has video out, so you can connect it to a tv.

It seems that the cheaper Archos is the better, more versatile player.

I just thought I'd write in with my personal experience with another MP3 device, the Archos Jukebox Studio 20. Now, don't think I'm trolling on an "Apple Sucks, Archos Rocks" trip, because I'm not. If I had the money, I'd definitely get myself an iPod, as the on-device interface thoroughly kicks the ass of my 2-line text display (although much love goes out to the hackers at Rockbox for making the Jukebox orders of magnitude more elegant and usable), and a firewire connection is certainly prefferable to USB 1.1 (and it is my understanding that both devices are now supported in Linux, so there you go).

With all of that said, I have to say that Archos' support has been first class. I'll be honest, I used to charge my Jukebox in a rather precarious position. It was prone to getting its cord yanked, and thus falling several feet to the floor. Amazingly, the unit survived this punishment many times. After about 18 months, however (interesting timeframe, eh?), the hard drive began failing. Bad sectors and the like. I called up Archos, who were content with nothing more than my confirmation page from Thinkgeek as a reciept, and gladly replaced my harddrive (for all I know they sent me a new unit, actually) for FREE. Since that time (which was the summer before last), I've continued using the Jukebox with no ill effects (although I learned my lesson to be more gentle with it).

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