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Make it green, too. Those totally freak professors out, they have no idea what they've just seen (everyone gets so used to seeing the red ones).

Check out Thinkgeek's fine selection of wares.

Caffiene is always good to have around -

This thing looks cool as a low-cost portable solution to the stereo system -

And don't forget the general gadgets -

Check out Thinkgeek's fine selection of wares.

Caffiene is always good to have around -

This thing looks cool as a low-cost portable solution to the stereo system -

And don't forget the general gadgets -

Check out Thinkgeek's fine selection of wares.

Caffiene is always good to have around -

This thing looks cool as a low-cost portable solution to the stereo system -

And don't forget the general gadgets -

You're right. That's not exactly what drives us crazy. The latest version of IE does nothing for women. Mozilla, on the other hand, is very sexy. Of course, that's not all you need. Chicks dig lightstrips too.

You can already buy them on thinkgeek.

My first post is far more important than all of yours.

What looks cool to us geeks does not look cool to the hot chicks that we try to pick up.

Hah. Tell that to the hot chyk that bought me a thinkgeekT-shirt for my birthday...

Ole

Actually, written passwords can be better, as they're more secure against brute-force and dictionary attacks. (especially if you remember the last word and write the rest in your wallet)

Talking of which, take a peek at ThinkGeek's latest gadget for storing passwords. It fits on a keyring, stores loads of passwords, and even has a mode to delete them all if you type the wrong entry-sequence.

I've already heard of several companies mass-implementing the EBP Lites. I'm getting one next month to keep some of my S/Keys around with me all of the time.

man, those little kids are gonna be so screwed up it's not funny. U poor linux losers are gonna have them type in at a bash shell just to play reader rabbit. And what cool games does Linux? SENDMAIL? APACHE? Find the buffer overfollow? And don't mention that POS tuxracer.

Kids shouldn't be playing computer games anyway. This "Linux in the Classroom" business is a conspiricy to get kids playing outside again.

swear. if some of u would just get some sweet pussy, u could see how much that dirty hippie OS of your sucks.

Are you kidding? How do you think I get laid, anyway? Chicks dig Linux!

Well I got the ones from ThinkGeek and they are ok. Good output, but the range is only about 20 feet. They also seem to loose the freq just a little bit every time you turn them off and on and you have to do a little minor ajustment to the knobs...nothing wrong with a little knob wiggle. Ok, where was I, ho yea. They are pretty good but are a bit on the heavy side and can start to droop. They are also only for people with somewhat larger bennies. Put these on your typcial 115 pound girlfriend and your more likely to hear Jewel on the speaks instead of the headphones, which if like me was the reason you got the damn things in the first place.

Sony has some that seem to be just a tad bit better, lighter, longer range.

enjoy.

I don't know about you, but I don't like black t shirts one bit. Maybe it's all in my head, but lighter colors make me feel cooler (temperature). Kind of a shame that most cool geek prints are done on black (or really dark) shirts. What's wrong with white?

Most decent flat-panel monitors have a handle in the back (my 17" IBM does). Combined, it would make a very good LAN gaming machine. However, if you're using a CRT monitor, I recommend a GearGrip-CRT Monitor Carrier.

The Terrapin Mine is much cooler, unless you need all those pixels and/or want to pay the Microsoft tax, and you don't want a hard drive.

Maybe I don't need a hard drive. I hope WalMart comes out with Linux iPAQs.

However, I think the Terapin Mine Handheld is far superior to a five gallon bucket full of iPAQs, Pilots, Newtons, and more than a few models of cell phones.

And I think that woman in charge of HP has put more engineers out of work in order to get some short-term cash in her own pocket than anyone in history. I would hate to be any of the faculty members who signed her business school diploma right now. Can you imagine the sheer embarassment of that? Too bad we didn't get Lew Platt back; he knew how to deliver a great platform with an even better development environment. I hope the karma comes around with as much corrective force as it went around.

You're describing a Photon Light. You can buy them at ThinkGeek!

I love them. I keep 2 on my keychain at all times. You just never know when you might need one. The last CAT5 drop I was doing, the power went out (I was working in a thunderstorm). Thanks to my Photon Light, I was able to finish the drop with no problem at all. 2 White LEDs and I had more than enough light to keep working for over an hour straight.

Wow, and unlike Andover's childe, Peru didn't have to be hosted by the same company as /. for all of this exposure...

Ok, here it is... :P

You're welcome Rob...

You've gotta be kidding me...ThinkGeek hasn't bought it yet?!?

But alas, while the Environmental Protection Agency would grant the Hawaii Department of Agriculture emergency temporary waivers to use caffeine as a pesticide, the EPA required that the infestation sites be monitored before and after application of the super-coffee, which had to be administered by trained, certified pest applicators.

Attention Slashdot administration, this is your cue to insert a helpful banner ad here.

You're welcome.

But I thought that chicks dig Unix...?

<sarcasm>
Well, it had to come.

*smirks* Why, just the other week, my neighbor stopped in during a game and noticed that my great new remote let me quickly change channels during TV commercials.

He of course pointed out that it was theft to do so, and that "when the revolution comes" I'd be hung for it.

Strange, I'd never noticed it before, but come to think of it, he does have an AOL email address at work.

*sighs* To think of it, all this time, when men get the "itchy remote finger" during commercials (don't worry, I know we all do), we're being bad little thieves. Now this, this I like.
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You mean, like this?

Open Cola

It may not be GNU, but it *is* open...

Why do you people use crapware on Microshaft Windows anyway? It serves you right if the companies fuck with your stuff. You practically beg them to using that lame ass OS anyway.

Save your money for the hookers or a some great stuff at Think Geek

Sure, I could do that, but as I click the catch on my Delta Shockproof Lighter, I look down at my You are dumb v2 t-shirt, briefly ponder whether I should have worn one of the other 6 ThinkGeek shirts today and come to the conclusion that supporting Slashdot the old way, you saw what you were getting beforehand :-)

I don't really think it's asking a lot to know how much Slashdot wants from me...

Sure, I could do that, but as I click the catch on my Delta Shockproof Lighter, I look down at my You are dumb v2 t-shirt, briefly ponder whether I should have worn one of the other 6 ThinkGeek shirts today and come to the conclusion that supporting Slashdot the old way, you saw what you were getting beforehand :-)

I don't really think it's asking a lot to know how much Slashdot wants from me...

Sure, I could do that, but as I click the catch on my Delta Shockproof Lighter, I look down at my You are dumb v2 t-shirt, briefly ponder whether I should have worn one of the other 6 ThinkGeek shirts today and come to the conclusion that supporting Slashdot the old way, you saw what you were getting beforehand :-)

I don't really think it's asking a lot to know how much Slashdot wants from me...

Sure, I could do that, but as I click the catch on my Delta Shockproof Lighter, I look down at my You are dumb v2 t-shirt, briefly ponder whether I should have worn one of the other 6 ThinkGeek shirts today and come to the conclusion that supporting Slashdot the old way, you saw what you were getting beforehand :-)

I don't really think it's asking a lot to know how much Slashdot wants from me...

Sure, I could do that, but as I click the catch on my Delta Shockproof Lighter, I look down at my You are dumb v2 t-shirt, briefly ponder whether I should have worn one of the other 6 ThinkGeek shirts today and come to the conclusion that supporting Slashdot the old way, you saw what you were getting beforehand :-)

I don't really think it's asking a lot to know how much Slashdot wants from me...

Sure, I could do that, but as I click the catch on my Delta Shockproof Lighter, I look down at my You are dumb v2 t-shirt, briefly ponder whether I should have worn one of the other 6 ThinkGeek shirts today and come to the conclusion that supporting Slashdot the old way, you saw what you were getting beforehand :-)

I don't really think it's asking a lot to know how much Slashdot wants from me...

Sure, I could do that, but as I click the catch on my Delta Shockproof Lighter, I look down at my You are dumb v2 t-shirt, briefly ponder whether I should have worn one of the other 6 ThinkGeek shirts today and come to the conclusion that supporting Slashdot the old way, you saw what you were getting beforehand :-)

I don't really think it's asking a lot to know how much Slashdot wants from me...

Sure, I could do that, but as I click the catch on my Delta Shockproof Lighter, I look down at my You are dumb v2 t-shirt, briefly ponder whether I should have worn one of the other 6 ThinkGeek shirts today and come to the conclusion that supporting Slashdot the old way, you saw what you were getting beforehand :-)

I don't really think it's asking a lot to know how much Slashdot wants from me...

Sure, I could do that, but as I click the catch on my Delta Shockproof Lighter, I look down at my You are dumb v2 t-shirt, briefly ponder whether I should have worn one of the other 6 ThinkGeek shirts today and come to the conclusion that supporting Slashdot the old way, you saw what you were getting beforehand :-)

I don't really think it's asking a lot to know how much Slashdot wants from me...

Sure, I could do that, but as I click the catch on my Delta Shockproof Lighter, I look down at my You are dumb v2 t-shirt, briefly ponder whether I should have worn one of the other 6 ThinkGeek shirts today and come to the conclusion that supporting Slashdot the old way, you saw what you were getting beforehand :-)

I don't really think it's asking a lot to know how much Slashdot wants from me...

Pros:
* No disk to buy
* 20 megs of ram, so about 17 minutes of anti skip
* Good quality (up to 320 Kbps)
* Holds 2730 or 5461 minutes of music (at 256 Kbps)
* No copy protection
* Change the music on it, even use it as a portable hard drive
* Firewire, so you can upload to it fast. About 10 minutes to fill the entire 5 gigs.

Cons:
* Firewire, don't work less you got it.
* Expensive, $399 for the 5 gig one, $499 for 10 gigs.

Since when did T-shirts become a politically sensitive product?

they both fit in a pocket comfortably, so from a consumer standpoint they are of the same value -- pocketable. As opposed to a CD player which isn't. That's the only real contrast that a comnsumer cares about.

Mini-CDR(W)'s are getting cheap these days.. about 50 cents per disc at compusa... That's about.. oh .. 1/24th of the cost of Dataplay's discs; though it's only 1/2 capacity, so more like 1/12 the cost. And it's not encumbered with copy protections.

The price is incredible, but what's even more incredible is that the card is very high quality. It has Coax, S-Video, and RGB inputs, plus an audio loopback to connect to your soundcard. The PVR software that comes with it is very good if you don't need advanced features. It records directly to MPEG-2, although the recording quality is not customizable enough for my tastes.

I personally wanted software that would record to MPEG-1 with custom bitrate settings so I could then use VirtualDub to convert my recordings to DivX. I bought a copy of InterVideo WinDVR for $99.95, and I'm extremely happy with the combination. WinDVR is extremely customizable, letting me choose between MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats, as well as giving me a ton of bitrate, audio, resolution, and other options. I highly recommend WinDVR as well.

Based on the review of Creative's card, I wouldn't go anywhere near it. It sounds like a horribly-designed product, and I think the AVerTV Stereo + WinDVR is a much better solution that can be had for about $150

Yet another alternative is the Terapin CD Video Recorder over at Think Geek

I want to get one so bad.

I'm on an incident response team, and I would love to be able to have these on hand. There have been times when I've already been sleep-deprived, only to have to jump on a plane and do 100 hours of high-pressure work over the next 5 days. I typically go through two entire tins of Warp mints during this...I'd really like something that doesn't feel quite so rough!

You've never tasted Water Joe. Caffeinated water with no bitter aftertaste. Brought a case in for the night shift and it disappeared pretty quickly.

Considering it's got a USB port you could even add this - even though it's a bit pricey.

Hell if you got the cash to lay down on this you can add the above and have it play your media while the 'PC' can work on downloading stuff or something.

I think the combo would be cool, even cooler if you got a deal of like 10 of the above and just hooked them all up.

I made a wallet-sized PDP-11 (see photo) using these tools.

I put the simh PDP-11 emulator and unix_v7_rl.dsk along with the following script onto a CF card formatted as a DOS FAT partition.

set cpu 18b
set rl0 RL02
att rl0 unix_v7_rl.dsk
boot rl0
#boot
#rl(0,0)rl2unix

You have to type those last two lines manually to the PDP-11's boot prompt.

I'm ready to roll with a PDP-11 in my wallet (or, if you include the $9.95 CF-USB (Linux driver) card, in my Penguin Mints container, which matches the black and yellow 48MB Lexar card I got on sale at Fry's for $19.95).

Total cost for a PDP-11 running Unix: $29.90, mints not included.

BTW, the default V7 "root" password is "root" (I ran John the Ripper and it took 0.00002 seconds).

I'm surprised thinkgeek hasn't started selling acne cream....

24fps is cinematic (big screen) frame rate. Unless you have just guzzled a case of Jolt Espresso, you probably aren't able to see the difference in a movie. 3D graphics sometimes need the extra kick to not look choppy, though.

And in some techie circles, it has caused great excitement because it runs on Linux, the renegade operating system that many techies worship.

The giant penguin image that stares right at me wants me to vindicate Linux by hacking into Walter Mossberg's email...

So far I've found it very intuitive and it's certainly not any more difficult to read than anything else.

Sure, it's certainly possible to write very clear, distinct perl code. It's also incredibly easy to write very obfuscated, near impossible to read perl code. Here's a good example of how bad Perl can get. It's a pretty picture though.

Okay, the Cyborg thing is cool, and I've been wanting to do that myself.

But $100,000 worth of hardware on your person, out of the research lab?? Please give your grants/donations to someone with an ounce of common sense.

Sure, i can understand where you'd want to have this around the house or even the workplace so you can see how it works IRL, but on an AIRPLANE?!? Dude, pack up your equipment in safe, padded crates, ship them with INSURANCE, and take a $600 laptop with you instead.

There's no way i'd ever have more than a couple thousand bucks worth of anything on my person outside of a controlled environment, EVER. I'm not even comfortable lugging around $3000 projectors for presentations!

The ugly truth is that airport security are little more than the FAA's version of BOUNCERS. Don't bring anything valuable on an airplane. Spend some money and ship it instead.