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ThinkGeek has the perfect solution for this. Just get this T-shirt [ThinkGeek.com] and your vacation will go smoothly. :-)

Oh, I remember the good ol' days when all I needed was a boot disk with PC-Tools and Norton utilities/Disc doctor. :-)

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Namely, this one. :)

Not to toot my own horn, but I knew about the GP32 long ago. They've been selling it on Lik Sang for a while now.

The site is great because they offer all kinds of unusual gaming-oriented Asian stuff and, like TG it's always a blast to go there and check out the weird/interesting stuff they have to offer. I know I sound like an advertising bot, but it's a really great site (you may have heard of them because they got their ass sued to the moon by MS a little while ago for selling X-Box modchips).

I think that we should develop this as infra-red, then release open-source plans to the enemy in green then go out in the field and pick em off one by one. The green lasers would point out the location of every enemy when they fire. :)

Unless it's green

I mean if Rob keeps posting it maybe there's some truth to it? It's not like a credible linked news source like Slashdot would propogate false information right? I mean maybe Microsoft or some other security concious company requested it's addition. The net would certainly be a better place if everyone sending and packets would just be nice enough to tell you if they were sending a nice packet or mean packet. Sorta like "warm fuzzies" and "cold pricklies"...
All this talk is making me hungry... I can't wait till my grill gets in!

While at Thinkgeek I'm ordering me a: Shrinter
and a Executive Atom Collection

Check out their other new products at Thinkgeek.

While at Thinkgeek I'm ordering me a: Shrinter
and a Executive Atom Collection

Check out their other new products at Thinkgeek.

While at Thinkgeek I'm ordering me a: Shrinter
and a Executive Atom Collection

Check out their other new products at Thinkgeek.

This is an attempt by the beleaguered BSD community to consolidate, postponing BSD's inevitable death.

I think this is an excellent idea. Consolidation will reduce re-invention and focus developers. Other projects/programs I'd like to see consolidated:

MacOSX and YellowDog Linux
Linux and WheatoniX
bash and ksh
Gnome and KDE
KnomeDE and Enlightenment 1.0
Windows 2003 Server and BackOrifice
Metal Gear, Tomb Raider, and Tetris
GIMP and MSPaint
Slashdot and The Onion... oh, wait. Never mind.

Shrinter is something that might have been a hot item for Enron and other fallen companies.

Shrinter is something that might have been a hot item for Enron and other fallen companies.

Thinkgeek has a whole slew of 4/01 products on their main page.

Thinkgeek main page

My favorite is probably the atom collection ;)

The technology works by placing a thin acrylic panel over the computer display. This is attached at the edges to a couple of exciters.

These moving coil motors make the acrylic screen vibrate to produce the sound.

Yikes. That's really confusing. To define stuff: 1. Ramdrive-a virtual memory drive created in RAM
2. /home/$yourname/ -It's where you store your stuff in unix/linux
3. USB memory stick-something like one of these
4. CD-R: CD-recordable- it's write only, meaning you can only change it once by burning something to it. Compared to the CD-RW, which is a CD-rewritable, which can be written more than once.
6. Boottime-when the computer starts up.

Did they really give those away as prizes?

I was there, but donated $20 to OCLUG and they gave me a copy... it wasn't a prize so much as an incentive to donate $15 or more (anything less than $15 (IIRC) and you didn't get the DVD).

And I think the version that /. is talking about is the "bonus" 2-DVD set, such as found here.

I prefer the regex version... /(bb|[^b]{2})/

To the regex-ignorant... the above matches two B's or not-B twice ("to be or not to be").

There's even a t-shirt :)

Will someone please clarify exactly what a patent covers? I thought a patent covered a particular implementation of something.

For example, can I not create my own online ordering system that allows a purchase with only one click? So long as I don't have the same object model or database schema as Amazon, I thought I was fine.
I also thought it was fine for me to create a system that charges toy race cars using magnetic inductance. Just because the Candela Rechargable Lamps use a "patented" magnetic induction charging system doesn't mean I cannot do something similar. I just need to be careful if I make lamps, since if my design matches theirs then I am infringing.

I have my name on a patent filed by my employer, but our patent has full object models and design docs. I thought that was because patented that particular design/implementation, not the concept of what the system does. All responses are appreciated.

Reminds me the Linux kernel map... :-)

(BTW: FirstPost !! :-))

Charging by magnetic induction. They say, "like magic or something"... Har har. Kinda cool:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf5/

(I'm not trying to sell you these, I'm not affiliated with ThinkGeek, yadda yadda...)

-- Bander

Imagine a beowol....ahhhh forget it.

If you really wanted a cool flashlight you'd get one of these from thinkgeek and support OSDN! :-)

Imagine a beowol....ahhhh forget it.

If you really wanted a cool flashlight you'd get one of these from thinkgeek and support OSDN! :-)

Just imagine what you could do with one of these!

Why, you could set it to blink green to notify you when ThinkGeek gets these things back in stock!!!

It would seem as though this person is trying to make their own version of this ThinkGeek toy.

Good luck to him/her. ThinkGeek is out of stock until June, and even then it will be expensive ($200 I think).

It backfires. Some unknown stranger reads it and says, "Oh! You fix computers!, Well, when I click...." then the voices in my head drown out the rest of what they say.

Thinkgeek has the answer Yeah, it's your mom, but you gotta draw the line man.

You mean this one?

I'm personally a fan of this one since most people don't even know they're being insulted. Plus, you can quickly find the geeks in the room as they'll be the ones giving you an understanding grin...

You mean this one?

I'm personally a fan of this one since most people don't even know they're being insulted. Plus, you can quickly find the geeks in the room as they'll be the ones giving you an understanding grin...

Ok, but the WORST part about family tech support is when they start telling their friends, neighbors, etc, that they have a son (or daughter) that can help them too...

Oh, man, I feel your pain. Imagine getting a phone call with an unknown caller id that goes: "Hello, you don't know me but my name is XYZ and I'm a friend of ABC (roommie, girlfriend, uncle...) and he told me you could fix my PC so he gave me your *cellphone* number...". Of course, it is kind of implied that I'll do it for free.

I don't answer calls from unknown caller id's anymore. I'm thinking of getting one of those t-shirts from Thinkgeek.

No kidding, Children are a lot like computer programs, Input affects output, but in the end its the programmer ( parents ) that direct the nature out the output,

For the ones who need a visual to understand such complex ideas.

What about C.H.I.M.P.?

That last one currently retails for ~$1,500USD.

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We're looking for programmers (C++,PHP,Windows programming experience is good). We're a small but growing startup. Flex-time and a beautiful place to live over the summer are part of the package.

We like Slashdotters--Hey, you can even buy our product on ThinkGeek.com Send resumes to hr@streamzap.com

Look forward to hearing from you!

That link again: Linux Kernel Poster

Sony has LONG since tackled the issue of harrasing customer phone calls with their customer service program, "Operation: Go Fuck Yourself". Sony believed that if you truly just stopped giving a shit, eventually your customers would pick up on this and quit asking for help. It's a beautiful, horrifying behemoth of a program that paid off big time in their favor. Grats to them.

Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script.

Damn I love ThinkGeek.

You should have a look at Think Geek...they have many posters and gadgets that should fit very well in a room like yours...as it fits in mine :)

...you don't just pop in a CD and stare at pretty pictures for 30 minutes, then reboot straight into X and start browsing the web.

• Good
• Easy

4" long robots, communicate via IR, sound familiar?

I took one look at the video server sitting on the other table in my room, taking up all that space, and wished I could get something in a laptop type form factor that was only a keyboard/monitor/mouse.

It's not a laptop, but if you add a LCD panel, keyboard, and mouse to this, your footprint problems should be 90 percent solved.

Latte.

Another couple of caveats: hella expensive, video is crappy onboard SIS Vampire Video with no way of swapping it out.

here's one from thinkgeek... nearly 2 feet

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5c7c/

-Tre Altrix

It would be so helpful now to have that hearing, especially when my boss walks to my cubicle ;)

That's when you get one of these.

ok, i'll weigh in:

scripters rool because "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" sounds kewler than "Go away or I will replace you with a heavy memory intensive java applet"

it's all about meta baby... and scripters are more meta than coders... disagree? what KIND OF website are you reading right now? hint: rhymes with beta.

meta is all about the next level. in every aspect of life. scripting the building blocks is a level above building the blocks. reading the meta site is a step above browsing the websites. life is more peaceful in the airplane at 20,000 feet than it is in the office tower at 2,000 feet. drinking the beer is better than drinking the water and eating the barley and snorting the yeast... er... you get my drift. ;-P

Jebus, a wall paper, with all the stuff in either you could cover a lot more then that. How about a compiled Linux 0.01 kernel binary, in binary, for a wallpaper, or maybe somthing a bit newer (1.0?) Its not a bad idea either way, im sure someone from think geek will see it.

What we need is a set of remote control devices, so you can set up a fleet...

A few destroyers, a few subs, and an aircraft carrier....

With the carrier you could launch remote control helicopters, and possibly even a plane.

Who wants to set up the launch ramp, and, more importantly, the tail-hook mechanism for catching model planes without tearing them apart?

Of course, an aircraft carrier would need to be the size of a desk at minimum, but at that size, you could have all kinds of fun. Get some micro RC cars and mod 'em to look like Jeeps to drive around on the deck...

You could even have a transport ship and carry a few of the Mini-Rovers set up as tanks...

Maybe I'm going too far...

reminds me of this fool

Well if you've used a SUN recently (I have one on my desk at work), you'd probably know they have a full 8-something extra buttons. These include cut, copy, paste, stop, volume, and other such nonsense like that. To be honest, I don't use them, except for STOP. The new ones have USB connections on the back, so they're actually somewhat nice because they plug into anything. Having extra buttons can be fun if you like to play with your keyboard mapping.

If you want to go the other direction, the whole wearables scene has come up with some good ones, especially the twiddler.

And finally, if you're interested in other keyboards that might be questionably functional but still look cool, you can find virtual keyboards, a lit keyboard, and a rollable keyboard. But I think in your situation, you might find the twiddler the best bet for "cool and useful item".