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DIY linux-based MP3 player Appliance

An anonymous reader submitted "LinuxDevices.com has just published an interesting how-to article about converting a GCT-Allwell set-top box into a linux-based TV set-top MP3 player. As a helpful aside it does useful things like email and web browsing through your TV. Looks like a fun project. A related article shows how to turn the same set top box into a router."

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  1. YeeeFuckingHaaaw! by Cucumber_Fuckstick · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get it inya!

    (c) 2001 Spork_Testicle

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    cucumber_fuckstick, unpeeled, so the little scratchy hairlike growths protrude for her pleasure.

  2. muwahahaha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When the subject is "Apple MP3 Player", CmdrTaco appends the word "lame" to the article, when the subject is "Linux MP3 Player", he gives his approval!

    CmdrTaco, the king of trolls.

  3. Oh, to be hindered not by Jingle+Returno · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Friday evening, the Tacoma Dome was filled with 17,000 people, including thousands of young people looking for a fresh touch from the Lord. When Pastor Benny called the youth forward, they literally came running out of their seats, hungry for more of Jesus! As he prayed for many of the youth individually, many more were crying out to the Lord for His touch on their lives.

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  4. first gpl is dung post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Taken direct from RMS:

    If anything deserves a reward, it is social contribution. Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs...

    The real reason programmers will not starve is that it will still be possible for them to get paid for programming; just not paid as much as now...

    In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the post-scarcity world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living. People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid prospecting. There will be no need to be able to make a living from programming.

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    That's right, one of the goals of the gpv is the elimination of the professional programmer.

  5. Ne entre pas dans le Metro sans ticket by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know..

  6. Re:Someone forgot the closing italics tag.... by schtum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or a closing quotaton mark.

  7. Re:In regards to the Italics Tag by cymen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I didn't even notice he forgot the [/i]. Come on now... Lets bitch about something useful today. If you have been reading /. for years, even months, you should expect these types of errors on a regular basis. Instead of finding fault perhaps you should look at the beauty of human error. After all it is the subtle differences in an artists technique that enlivens art. Look for the errors and celebrate them as proof that our dear /. crew has not been replaced by robots.

    If you'd rather bitch feel free but I think there are much better things to bitch about like the unintentional duplicate stories. This reminds me of usenet where flames about spelling pretty much mark the man.

  8. His point by wiredog · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is that a missing shouldn't happen in a pay site. Especially as frequently as it does here. Admittedly, when I saw it, I had to double-check the author to see that it wasn't Timothy. He's the most common offender there. Taco usually just demonstrates that US public schools can't teach spelling.

    1. Re:His point by cymen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Personally I find it funny just because some people are so uptight they can't handle a missing . This site has been a pay site all along. Maybe you and I didn't pay for it but someone did. Just because /. is going to offer a pay version without ads doesn't suddenly mean they will have mounds of income to invest in spelling assistants.

      What I wonder is if the editors edit the stories in little textarea boxes like we do. If so I'm not surprised at all with the error rates. Now that /. has migrated to the new slashcode perhaps it is time for them to look at how editing is done. A simple parser for missing tags, a spell checker, an URL checker (in case of multiple stories), etc... For all the time we spend here and the number of people working on /. the slow speed of change is rather depressing.

      So in the end maybe I agree with you guys. But I still think you are weenies for getting excited over a missing tags and spelling errors...

    2. Re:His point by ctrimble · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      One way of looking at this is that it's not simply a matter of slashcode getting updated, but CmdrTaco & the lot upgrading their skills. If they're going to be hackers and keep upgrading slashcode and that's it, fine, they don't have to know how to spell, close tags, etc. On the other hand, if they're going to call themselves editors, then, perhaps, they should learn the editing trade. And mostly (for the purposes of slashdot) it's simply a matter of reviewing what you do before hitting the submit button. Nobody's asking them to carry a copy of Fowler's English and The Chicago Manual of Style wherever they go, much less use them. What it comes down to is coders code and editors edit. I've seen coding here, but I haven't seen much in the way of editing.

  9. Re:Congratz! by AdmlTroll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How did you manage to get that past the lameness filter?

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  10. "Her" point by Georgia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot has editors, right?

    What, per say, do these people do?

    BTW - the italics tag STILL hasn't been closed.

    Try making a comment w/o a closing italics flag. The /. system closes it for you. Why can't the articles borrow the same code?

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  11. MoFo Moderators!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod me the fuck down!!!

    Nice name Cucumber

    1. Re:MoFo Moderators!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      jXOpjCcq OafGJQ LajageFAFNoq

      That's Klingon for "Today is a good day to troll".

    2. Re:MoFo Moderators!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      HSAoiiaahH Oageqo Iagfefqa

      That's Klingon for "Bend over and take it from CmdrTaco"

    3. Re:MoFo Moderators!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Eat shit and die.

      That's American for "Eat shit and die".

  12. Re:First Nigger! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is it you who's giving Bill Gates a blow-job?

  13. Slashdot Puzzle Contest: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For all you puzzle solvers, here is a good one:

    The Purplexing Problem of the Published Passenger Lists

    Your answers are eagerly anticipated.

    Thank you.

  14. Gang Bangin is fun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Last night was especially good, as Rachael brought over like 5 of her friends and all we did all night long was fuck, fuck, fuck.

    It was fucking amazing, Rachael has a great pussy and her friend Jessica has an incredible rack.

    God I love fucking them

  15. Imagine.. by robvasquez · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a beowulf cluster of these.

    oh my.

  16. I got my dick stuck in my MP3 player! IT BURNS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    help me, billie! help me! i thought it was my wife's slot and i plugged my shnozzle into it and ZAP! roasted hotdog! barbequed sausage!

    |------|
    8=====| ==D | <--- MP3 player
    |------|

    ^ my broken dickhead