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An anonymous reader writes "WindowsForDevices has published a big article showcasing seventy-three consumer devices that were on display in Microsoft's device expo at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Each device runs Windows CE, Windows Mobile (Pocket PC, Smartphone, etc.), or Windows XP Embedded. A photo and brief description are provided for each. Some cool stuff!"
It's called 'Intro To Unix' and they're making us use vi and KDE. Does this tell me anything about the administration at my school? Should I drop the class?
Its almost drinking time again. Why? Cos whenever Geo Bush speaks, its so depressing one must either get totally fucked up, or jump off the highest bridge in town.
Here are some suggestions for State of the Union drinking games:
Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:17 PM
The George W Bush State Of The Union Address Drinking Game
What You Need:
A group of four taxpayers: including 1 white guy wearing a suit, 2 wearing normal clothes and 1 in semi- shabby clothes.
A shot glass per person (all bought in a second hand store)
100 tiny toothpicks with American flags wrapped around them.
A slab of soft French cheese, ie: brie.
A large stash of beer. The one in the ragged clothing gets the cheapest crap you can find, like Milwaukee's Best; the white guy in the suit gets to drink whatever import he wants; and the other two pick between Bud and Miller Lite.
Rules of the Game:
1. Whenever George W mentions the liberation of the freedom loving Iraqi people, the last person to grab his throat in a choking motion has to drink four shots of beer.
2. Whenever George W uses the words: "God," "America" or "jobs," drink a shot of beer.
3. Whenever George W mispronounces the word "terrorism" the last person to knock on wood drinks two shots of beer.
4. Whenever George W mentions the phrase "sanctity of marriage," take a shot of beer. The first time this happens, the last person to finish has to drink two more shots of beer and do the dishes during the Democratic Response.
5. Whenever the speech is interrupted by applause, the last person to stick one of the American flag toothpicks into the soft French cheese from a distance of two feet drinks two shots of beer. The white guy in the suit gets an extra chance each round.
6. Whenever George W smirks during a standing ovation, take turns drinking shots of beer until the audience sits down. Do it double time if his shoulders shake with silent laughter.
7. If the Vice President Dick Cheney or First Lady Laura Bush are caught on camera not paying attention and talking to somebody else while Puppet- Boy is still speaking, drink a whole beer.
8. If George W Bush mentions Halliburton, his inability to find the Weapons of Mass Destruction or Osama bin Laden, the white guy in the suit has to drink a shot of everybody else's beer out of their shot glass, and they get to wipe their glass clean on his jacket.
9. If George W Bush attempts to make a joke, anybody who laughs drinks three shots of beer.
10. Whenever George W Bush quotes the Bible or uses the word "evildoers" in a sentence, the last person to fall to their knees drinks two shots of beer. If he pulls a quote from the Bible about "evildoers," the last person to get prostrate, drinks an entire beer.
Extras:
1. The white guy in the suit gets to kick the person wearing the shabby clothes if George W uses a heartfelt story of an individual's grace and or courage under pressure to illustrate a point. He gets 15 seconds to kick everybody if that person is in the audience sitting next to an astronaut.
2. Everybody gets to kick the crap out of the guy in the suit for 15 seconds, only if Bush's teleprompter goes out and he begins to flail about mumbling nonsense about his days with the Texas Rangers.
Source [willdurst.com]
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
This might be off topic, but do you know any place where you can Zaurus in Canada? Or is it only in the USA? I went to Future Shop, Staples, Office Depot (Canadian), and London Drugs. All to no awail.
Cheers,
RoadkillBunny
SCO TO HELL YOU GAY NIGGER!
Intervideo is the company that makes WinDVD, InterVideo Home Theater, and a bunch of others. The story is at New Scientist. Basically it is an "InstantOn" PC with LinDVD (which is developed by InterVideo) that fits on a read-only memory chip. Linux handles TV, DVD, CD, MP3, radio. The twist to this product is that it also has a bootable MS Windows XP OS so you can run any of the MS Windows app that you still want/need.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
The year is 2025, White people HAVE become a MINORITY in America. On our streets hang Aryan men who refused to accept the "New Way," or perhaps they just looked too White. Perhaps they never thought MUD RULE would really come.
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And yet, some fight back! Alone or in small cells, Aryans...men and boys...but most of all women who stand the most to lose, since the decline of real men among the White Folk, strike back...at night and with any weapon near at hand.
How often do the hunted Whites think back to the "old days," when action and dedicated work, might have Reached, Educated and Organized enough of our folk, to have averted what now seems like a hopeless Hell. All the old excuses for not working for the Movement...My Job...My Money...My Friends...My Fun...My Beer, all gone. All the boasting, but never REALLY sacrificing for what they knew was coming, now it's too late, too late, TOO LATE. Are YOU a TALKER or do YOU make a difference now?
If so, you can contact us at:
ANP
P.O. Box 85942
Westland, MI 48185
staff@americannaziparty.com
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I've never had a blue screen on XP.
It just locks up with no error message.
CTRL-ALT-DEL and the power switch are useless.
I have to crawl under the desk to pull the power cord.
It makes me miss Windows 3.11.
My other box has an uptime of 44 days since the dog kicked the powerbar.
Hey Troll, you can disable the auto-restart if it is a recurring problem. Whether it restarts or not it still does a core dump and you can access it if you actually know what to look for.
Hmm. That didn't take long. Oh well, perhaps we can look forward to more of his invasive New Amerika! OOH YEAH! No permission slip necessary, you dirty foreingers!
Give me my cookie, and a few other dozen for the rest of my firm. It freezes, crashes, and just plain is horrible. Not sure if its so much the OS as it is the apps on it, but before I switched everyone over to Mozilla, their computers were easily crashing once a week. Now the only thing I really see problems with is PCAnywhere. But many apps will crash XP, i.e. ZoneAlarm is known for that as well as some versions of one of the big two Anti-Virus companies. Also, there was a glitch in the first service pack that caused many servers(including mine) to make the STORE.exe in Windows 2000 server use all of the ram in the system and completely freeze the server, it happened as often as every 3 days, but sometimes you could get 14 days straight with it. I had to write a script that will restart the Information Store and flush the ram daily to keep my server uptime over two weeks. I don't mind though, its really great for convincing the higher ups into switching everything over two Linux. In Decemeber I did a two week testrun with two employees and Liux as a desktop, the results were great. I suspect that 2004 is the year of Linux for my company.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Yea I know that the server isn't XP, but its a MS operating system and they've had similar problems with XP. I don't use XP(yes I'm a linux zealot), but have more then enough exposure and experience with it through work to know that you are full of it. A skilled user can keep it running for 88 days, but in the scheme of things most users aren't skilled.Also 88 days is nice, but I've had Linux up for years now on some computers.
We, the RBI (Really Bad Internetusers) have opened a new goatse.cx mirror on www.internetweber.de. Just click on the 'Gastebuch' link and enjoy!