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Recycling Parts From Dead Motherboards
An anonymous reader writes "I had this dead motherboard on my hands and I wanted to see what would happen if I cut out the clock generator and used it stand-alone. So I removed the Winbond chip from the motherboard (I cut out the section of PCB with a hacksaw), powered it up and it was still working. Add a display, a microcontroller and two switches, and I got a cheap frequency generator. Here's my progress so far. Be kind to my Web skills, I'm really just a hardware monkey.
It's not completed yet, but I just wanted to get the idea out there."
-- HG Pennypacker, wealthy industrialist and philanthropist
Hi,
:)
I've always used Windowz and I consider myself an exceptional Visual
Basic programmer, so I know computers pretty good. In fact I got an A-
in my programming class last term. But I'm a little wary of how much
power Microsoft has in the computer field. Many of my friends use
RedHat and I've recently installed it on my machine at home. Although
I haven't had as much chance to play with it as I'd like, I've been
greatly impressed.
This weekend I gave some thoughts to the things that are wrong with
Linux. I hope no one minds having some flaws pointed out. I'd like to
help make RedHat stronger so it can conquer MS. Hopefully RedHat will
hear this (crossing fingers) and address these. I think with a little
effort, RedHat's Linux can defeat Microsoft's Windows!
To begin with, there are too many different flavors of RedHat.
Browsing a list on Amazon, I saw they made varients under the
codenames of Mandrake, Debian and Slackware, just to name a few. I
know that I'm very new to RedHat so maybe this is obvious but it seems
like RedHat should just sell a few different flavors of its operating
system. Perhaps one for the desktop and one for a server? Could
someone explain why RedHat produces dozens of different versions of
Linux?
Secondly did you know that anyone can view the source code to Linux! I
think that RedHat shouldn't make its code available. After all, what
keeps Microsoft from stealing RedHat's ideas and putting it into
Windows? My friend says that FreeBSD stole the TCP/IP stack from DOS a
long time ago and Microsoft is always looking for revenge for that.
Plus it seems to me like RedHat is just giving away its ideas for
free. And what keeps hackers or terrorists from tampering with the
code and putting a virus in every computer?
On a related note, why doesn't RedHat write Linux in assembly? My
friend says that's what Microsoft does for Windows, and that's why
Windows is faster and more stable than Linux.
Next RedHat definitely should kill -9 (ha, ha!) the command line.
Microsoft finally gave up DOS when Windows 2000 came out. I'm suprised
that RedHat hasn't migrated away from...whatever its version of DOS is
called (Bash, I think?) But maybe this is planned for a future
release?
Finally Linux needs games! RedHat will never be successful in the home
without games. They should also tell M$ to release a version of Office
for Linux too. And Internet Explorer!
Have a nice day! Go Linux!!
I'm not Seth.
Among the hilights:
- 6 million in revenue
- 3 million cost of revenue
- 3.6 million net loss
The revenue was leftovers from the hardware business (181,000), software revenue (671,000), and online revenues (5,185,000).Software revenue was sourceforge enterprise edition (10 new sales at 65,000 plus some additional licenses), and the online revenue is banner ads, /. subscriptions, and thinkgeek shit, etc.
Clearly, betting the company on sourceforge was a mistake. If VA Linux is to survive, sourceforge must die. Interestingly, the only parts of VA Linux with any potential are the pieces bought from Andover.net, and they'll be the only thing left when VA is out of the hardware and sourceforge business.
More interestingly, though, is that total assets dropped from 66 million to 51 million. That's 12 million more than than the 3.6 million loss they reported, and the loss of goodwill and equipment depreciation doesn't explain it.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
back from a date with a real girl!
What did YOU do tonight.
Lol! Is this is the best troll I've ever read. A+
omg, that rules. i'm off finding some little linux board and post it there NOW!
The credit for this one goes to USian Pie, posted on April 18th 2001. The damned thing still makes me laugh to this day. Alas, I've had to modify the punctuation and spacing a little because of the minimum-avg-characters-per-line rule. The stupid filters aren't stopping the trolls anyways, you know... they're just as clever as you.
..." but it wasn't worth the trouble to submit
A long, long time ago
I can still remember how
the trollers used to make me smile
And I knew that if I had to boast
that I could try to get first post
and maybe I'd be happy for a while
But moderators made me shiver, with every minus they'd deliver
DoS scripts couldn't stop it -- they scored them all "Offtopic."
I know that it's cheap crack they smoke, and meta-moderation's broke,
At first I thought it was a joke... The day that trolltalk died
Chorus: [2]
Bye, bye, MEEPTy, OOG, and Grits guy
Drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*
Those Steve Woston posts that we all knew were a lie
Wonder what became of girls petrified?
What became of girls petrified?
Did you write a bunch of Perl, and did it make you want to hurl feces at the wall?
Can you believe these lame-ass polls? Do you post big stretched-out assholes?
Can you make the goatse.cx link not show?
Well I know you think that Siggy sucked -- Will the real Bruce Perens please stand up?
The bots don't have a clue. Man, I dig those trolls from Shoe!
I was a rabid Free Speech advocate, with a Red Hat T-shirt and a Free Beer gut
Bought my Sony laptop working Pizza Hut, the day that trolltalk died...
-- Repeat Chorus --
It's been two years since the IPO, and LNUX sinks to all-time lows, but that's not how it used to be
When Spiral showed how it was done, trolling as Jon Erikson, who worked for NPO Technologies
Oh, and while they tried to filter posts, somebody rooted Slashdot's host.
"Crack Slashdot? That's absurd!" Better go change your password...
While JonKatz wrote a Hellmouth book by using posts he simply took
And we flamed him till he was cooked, the day that trolltalk died
And we were singin...
-- Repeat Chorus --
10 grams. Inchfan. Didn't log out, goddamn -- the mods will find the sid real soon, man.
You can't hide if you aren't AC...
Your bud (George here) tried BSD, a dead streetlawyer's tips were free
And WIPO helped letsriot turn Nazi
70 made his percents up, while 80md warned "liberals suck"
The moon does not exist, it's just a liberal myth!
Oh, and as Taco tried to take a nap, we forced him to invoke bitchslaps
Do you recall the flood of crap the day that trolltalk died?
We started singin...
-- Repeat Chorus --
Oh and then we were wearing out "All your base"
and started posting monospace, the better for our penis birds
So come on, be a zealot, be a dick, you don't think Anne Marie's a chick?
Because lying's all we do about HURD
So go and push for BSD, and say GPL isn't free
Slow down, cowboy! The limit is one post every minute!
Now tell the right wing facist slime infringing on Your Rights Online that they can't censor all the time
The day that trolltalk died...
-- Repeat Chorus --
I met a troll they called The Rev and asked him if CD BREAK HEAD. He said, "That's old. Get over it."
And with all the courage I could muster, "Imagine what a Beowulf cluster
The karma caps are just plain jive, and everyone's moved to K5
The steelcage has grown rusted. and Geekizoid is busted
And the three sites I don't see for weeks: Segfault, kernel, and Comp-u-geek
Code is not art. This ain't Freshmeat. The day that trolltalk died
-- Repeat Chorus --
On that note, I wonder why there haven't been any stories about NVidia claiming that Futuremark is lying and trying to smear their name... funny how things have changed from the days where everyone cheating on benchmarks was just a given. But then, ATI seems to be cheating on 3DMark03 too -- they just didn't do nearly as thorough of a job as NVidia.
I proudly proclaim a new era in trolling, when people throw ducks at balloons, and nothing is as it seems.
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Le coeur de cette région se compose de 2 municipalités bien imbriquées l'une dans l'autre: Ste-Agathe-des-Monts et Ste-Agathe-Sud. Si bien bien imbriquées ensemble qu'elles ont fusionnées. Mais pour les gens de l'extérieur, ces divisions administratives ont peu d'importance: on vient passer ses vacances à Ste-Agathe!
Cette région est bien garnie en infrastructures de tourisme et Ste-Agathe peut se vanter d'avoir accueilli des générations de villégiateurs et de touristes. Quels que soient vos besoins, Ste-Agathe peut se vanter de pouvoir les combler sur place. L'hôtellerie et la restauration y tiennent une place de choix.
Le train ne passe plus à Ste-Agathe? Qu'importe! On rénove la gare et on transforme le chemin de fer en piste cyclable, un concept unique en Amérique du Nord. Fruit d'une concertation de la région touristique des Laurentides le parc linéaire "Le p'tit Train du Nord" traverse des dizaines de villages tout au long de ses 200 kilomètres. Vous pouvez l'utiliser le plus facilement du monde à partir de Ste-Agathe, au site de l'ancienne gare, par les différents moyens adaptés aux saisons: motoneige, ski de randonnée, cyclisme et randonnée pédestre. Ce parc est probablement l'une des plus belles réalisations touristiques des Laurentides.
Dans cette grande région, les sports et les activités d'hiver n'ont rien à envier à celles de l'été. L'hiver en Nord, grande fête de l'hiver à Ste-Agathe, permet de bien apprécier les splendeurs de l'hiver. L'été apporte également son lot d'activités: plage, natation, motomarine, bateau, voile, cyclisme, randonnée pédestre, et encore plus...
Quel que soit votre séjour dans la grande région de Ste-Agathe, nous pouvons vous assurer que vous en partirez enchanté. Et que vous y reviendrez!
now in babelvision
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In English:
The great area of Ste-Agathe is made up of several municipalities: Ste-Agathe-of-mounts, Ste-Agathe-North, St-Adolphe d' Howard, Ivry-on-the-Lake; one can even regard the municipalities of Lantier and Ste-Lucie as belonging to this great area. The heart of this area is composed of 2 quite overlapping municipalities one in the other: Ste-Agathe-of-mounts and Ste-Agathe-South. So well quite overlapping unit which they amalgamated. But for people of outside, these administrative divisions have little importance: one comes to spend his holidays to Ste-Agathe! This area is well furnished in infrastructures with tourism and Ste-Agathe can praise herself to have accomodated generations of holiday makers and tourists. Whatever your needs, Ste-Agathe can praise capacity to fill them on the spot. Hotel trade and the restoration hold a place of choice to with it. Doesn't the train pass to Ste-Agathe any more? What imports! One renovates the station and one transforms the railroad into cycle track, a single concept in North America. Fruit of a dialogue of the tourist area of Laurentides the linear park "the p' tit Train of North" crosses tens of villages throughout its 200 kilometers. You can most easily use it of the world starting from Ste-Agathe, with the site of the old station, by the various means adapted to the seasons: motoneige, ski touring, cycling and pedestrian excursion. This park is probably one of the most beautiful tourist achievements of Laurentides. In this great area, the sports and the activities of winter do not have anything to envy those of the summer. The winter in North, great festival of the winter with Ste-Agathe, makes it possible to appreciate splendours of the winter well. The summer also brings its batch of activities: beach, swimming, motomarine, boat, veil, cycling, pedestrian excursion, and even more... Whatever your stay in the great area of Ste-Agathe, we can ensure you that you will leave there magic. And to how will return you there!
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