Slashback: Cooperation, Gravity, Petite

Slashback with more (below) on KDE/GNOME cooperation (hint -- they're not renaming it "GNOMKDE"); the desert parachute nuts, a tiny P4 machine, and another chance to Ask Kevin Mitnick, at least if you're near Pittsburgh. Enjoy!

This is only making my biggest case look even bigger. Andrew Pakula of StealthPC writes: "A little while ago you posted about our Pentium 3 little pc, the size of a CD-ROM. ... Many of emails people sent us however were for people looking for a Pentium 4 little pc but at the time we didn't have anything to offer them with that power.

Well now we do have a Pentium 4 version, slightly taller than the Pentium 3 version it is still very, very small. You can take a look a look at it here. There are several pictures of it there as well as on the images page."

Just don't tell him your full real name. If your question didn't rise to the top of the recent Kevin Mitnick interview, here's your chance: Arvonn Tully points to this site (an activities listing for Carnegie Mellon University) writes "If you look at the bottom of the page you will see that Kevin Mitnick will be coming to Carnegie Mellon and lecturing on March 18th."

Those two are really joined at the XML! JP Schnapper-Casteras of the Free Desktop Accessibility Working Group writes about the post last week titled "KDE And Gnome Cooperate On Interface Guidelines," to clarify the extent of that cooperation: "We're going to co-locate, NOT combine the documents. This means that means there will be separate guidelines for GNOME and KDE in different chapters / sections of the same document. The current overview implies that KDE and GNOME will become stylistically similar, which is not the case. We're simply creating one site and mailing list where HIGs for all desktops can reside."

Lucy in the sky with a junker that's just begging to be dropped. Last September, we mentioned the fellows who like to abuse technology by dropping unusual things (manned automobiles, for one) from the backs of cargo planes for skydiving thrills. If that interested you, you will enjoy (and boggle at) the group's DVD documentary/video montage Good Stuff. I watched it with jaw unhinged; if this doesn't make you want to skydive, nothing will.

Comments

If they can drop automobiles?

[$$$$$exyGal]

Why can't scientists drop bowling balls ?

--naked

Re:If they can drop automobiles?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or Anvils *Loony Tunes Theme*

Re:If they can drop automobiles?

[FFFish]

I've been hiking in the backcountry where some stupid mfer was rolling boulders down a mountain thinking no one was around.

Oh, shit, I'm sorry, man. I've always worried about that. A little. After it's too late.

Re:If they can drop automobiles?

[meringuoid]

Unless you know exactly where you are dropping things and have scoped things out, dropping things from a plane isn't too smart.

United States Air Force, are you listening?

Re:If they can drop automobiles?

[stefanlasiewski]

They rolled it down the street to hit a curb where it would fly high up in the air - much to their amusement. They did this about 6 times until it smashed through the curb, flew off into the air and went through someones roof.

I've been hiking in the backcountry where some stupid mfer was rolling boulders down a mountain thinking no one was around.

No, I knew you were down there.

After all, I have been stalking you since you ... I mean, your "friend" smashed a bowling ball into my car!!!

I mean, who do you think you are? Bowling Girl???

Re:If they can drop automobiles?

[transient]

Unless you know exactly where you are dropping things and have scoped things out, dropping things from a plane isn't too smart.

Not just dumb, but illegal. Unless you have made every effort to ensure that no people will be hurt, and no property will be damaged (other than your own, I suppose), you're in violation of FAA regs.

Of course, if you know everything's safe (relatively), then you are legally allowed to drop stuff out of planes! I have to admit I've been tempted to launch squadrons of plastic army men with little parachutes from a Cessna.

Re:If they can drop automobiles?

[child_of_mercy]

except for when their allies are in the region of course.

WWII Saying:

"When the Germans bomb, the british duck,
when the British bomb, the germans duck,
when the Americans bomb, everyone ducks."

Re:Dedicated Servers

[WIAKywbfatw]

Those "little pc's" would be great for a bunch of dedicated servers in a compact space...

Hey, you don't mean a Beowulf cluster do you?

Nah, you can't mean that. Not on /....

Case modder's dream.

[dwdyer]

Nah, get one of these little PCs, stick it in a tower case, then you've got the whole damned thing for cold cathode lights, improbable-looking water cooling systems, etc.

-W-

Re:KDE and GNOME, combined documents??

[bstadil]

WTF, IMHO a common HIG would be great Fewer acronyms would be a good start.

Re:Who the fuck cares about Kevin Mitnick?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Mitnick: you're a goddamned criminal. Rot in hell."

Michael:

Please stop posting all this negative shit anonymously. If you've got a problem then let's meet and talk. Perhaps at 9:00 tonight at Vino's? You've got plenty of gas in your tank, and your Outlook says your free so I'll pencil you in. Please wear something else 'though, that red sweater you've got on makes you look like a tomato.

-me

If not bowling balls, why not Silly Putty?

[Xandar01]

Silly Putty Physics Experiment

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/putty/index.cf m

Re:KDE and GNOME, combined documents??

[Anonymous Coward]

You're crazy!!

Let me tell you about our project. We strongly believe that Okay buttons should be blue, with 5 pixels of padding between them and the window border.

I understand there are some misguided people in this world who tolerate and even support white Okay buttons and.. it hurts to say it.. 3 pixels of padding.

Now, you know, and I know, these people are MORONS who deserve nothing less than FLAMING HOT DEATH, but still, they get together in their little "cliques" and plot new ways they can sneak their white 3-pixel agendas into the mainstream.

I want no part of it.

That's why it's best if we simply write our own documents, and not contaminate them with the festering ideas of these addle-brained mouth-breathers. If they are smart, they will simply drop their inferior competing project, which serves no purpose and crashes often, and join ours, with its blue 5-pixel perfection.

The choice is clear.

Combined

[Shadow Wrought]

So Kevin Mitnick loaded both Gnome and KDE onto a Stealth Pentium 4 Little PC only to drop it out of an airplane?

Cool;-)

Of course they're not...

[Exiler]

They're renaming it KGNOMKDE

Re:Skydiving

[Nick Driver]

Getting out of bed in the morning used to be fun too, but since there's too many accidents, I think I'll just sleep in tomorrow.

Re:A "Six Pack"...

[Monkeyman334]

Finally, what I've always wanted... A Six Pack [littlepc.com] that won't make me more attractive to women.

I don't get it. Who exactly is drinking the six pack to make you more attractive?