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Build Your Own FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle

Durt_b1ker writes "Check this link out for a highly mobile FreeBSD computer with obligatory pics and video."

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  1. So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean you have to have the daemon on your back and be a hells screen prompt?

  2. Not Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, at least you won't be getting a blue screen of DEATH!

    1. Re:Not Windows by Mick+Ohrberg · · Score: 4, Funny
      Does it have to support SMP for a V-twin?

      Chuckle.

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  3. Looks like he used his motorcycle... by mOoZik · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...to host his web site. No comments and it has already crashed. Literally.

  4. Wait a minute... by metalligoth · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...since BSD is dying, this is one motorcycle I'd never want to ride!

    Mods: Have a sense of humor here. Seriously. I run a server with BSD at my company.

  5. Watching a live slashdotting by Twid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heh, I've never watched a friend get slashdotted live. Ben's trying to move the gallery links off to a static page right now! :)

    18:27 <@toast> ben: your machine can't hold up :(
    18:27 <@ben> go to slashdot
    18:27 <@toast> oh wait, it's on /. front page
    18:27 < twid> toast: nope
    18:27 <@toast> omfg you got mentioned on slashdot you are so cool!
    18:27 <@ben> yes.
    18:27 <@ben> its the top hit
    18:27 <@ben> on the front page
    18:27 < twid> OMG BEN
    18:27 <@toast> ben: CAN I BE YOUR FRIEND?!?!
    18:27 < twid> omg the site is down already
    18:27 <@toast> ben: your server lasted for like 3 seconds, GOOD JOB :)
    18:27 < twid> hahahahah
    18:27 <@ben> last pid: 47359; load averages:
    28.51, 20.60, 9.57 up 11+00:33:58 18:23:52

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    1. Re:Watching a live slashdotting by Toast · · Score: 4, Informative

      FWIW the reason the box died so quickly was due to gallery and uberperformanceful PHP. Once he got the images on a static page apache happily served up 40mbps. We have a NetScreen firewall in front of the box and it hasn't even blinked yet. 3% CPU usage and less than 1% of the sessions used. Is this the best slashdot has to offer? :(

  6. Wait... by dysprosia · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does this mean FreeBSD beat NetBSD to a motorcycle port? "Of course it runs NetBSD...except if it's a motorcycle"?

  7. This has been tried with MacOS X. by UncHellMatt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunately whenever they'd start the motorcycle it would bounce uncontrollably.

  8. why would i want a subject? by compwizrd · · Score: 4, Funny

    guess you have to be a member of the wheel group to mount it.

  9. FreeBSD - Born to be Wild by bXTr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Getcha kernel runnin
    Head out on the highway
    Hackin for adventure
    and whatever comes our way

    BORN TO BE WILD!

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  10. That's a shame... by Nimrangul · · Score: 5, Funny
    You know it's a shame they used a Motorcycle. You see, it's official now; Motortrend confirms it, Motorcycles are dying.

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered cyclist community when Kawasaki Motors Corp confirmed the motorcycle marketshare has dropped yet again, now down to less than 18 percent of Americans owning a motorcycle. Coming on the heels of a recent Motortrend survey which plainly states that motorcycles have lost marketshare, this news serves to confirm what we've known all along. Cycling is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent frontal impact test.

    You don't need to be David Hasselhoff to talk about motocycling's future. The piss is on the snow: cycling faces a dark future. There won't infact be any future at all for cyclists because the industry is dying. Things are looking very bad for cycling. As many of us are already aware, motorcycles continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a moon cycle.

    Harley-Davidson is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of the Easy Rider generation. The sudden and unpleasent departures of long time Harley users Ricky L. Phillips and Gerald Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Motorcycling is dying.

    ... Ok, I'll stop now.

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  11. Bikeshed? by Brandybuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    But what color is the bikeshed?

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  12. I wouldn't post those videos if I were him by Yonder+Way · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This guy epitomizes an inconsiderate motorcycle rider. He's cutting people off, running red lights, passing people on the inside during a turn. Riders like this make it that much harder for responsible riders to get along with the cars on the road.

  13. a lot of states that's 100% legal (on a bike) by caveat · · Score: 4, Informative

    "lane splitting" is legal in quite a few states (no, i'm not going to check...i do know it's ok in NY, it'd be insanity to ride the LIE otherwise). it's usually pretty safe to split two cars side by side, since the drivers won't go swerving at each other; trying to zigzag through a passing situation is much stupider, i knew a kid who got pasted on the LIE when the guy in the left lane cut right (in front of the other car) a little earlier than he was expecting...i guess the fall didn't hurt him that badly, but the bumper-to-bumper traffic going 45, well, that was a different story...

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