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FourHead: One PC, Four Users
LoganGD writes "A reseach group from UFPR university in Brazil, C3SL has managed to make one Linux box run four terminals at the same time. That means four mice, keyboards, displays and users with just one CPU. The way they managed to do that can be found at the FourHead project webpage. The fact that one computer science laboratory can suport up to 60 users whit only 15 PCs is really attractive for low-resource groups and countries."
Breaking news: The ECFA (Euthenasia for Canus Familourous Association) has completed a hostile takeover of the GNAA (G** N***** Association of America). Both the ECFA (Euthenasia for Canus Familourous Association) and the GNAA share one common goal - A HAPPIER MANKIND! Members of the combined group, which will be called ECFA, will not be required to change their skin color or practice homosexuality as previously required to be members of an EVIL ORGANIZATION. The motto of the combined ECFA will work to protect our oxygen supply, clean up our streets and sidewalks, and curb noise pollution.
/. to join our club. If you have MOD POINTS and would like to support the ECFA, moderate this post UP.
About GNAA:
The GNAA has a vast membership of slashdot trollers who claim to have dark complexion and have a perverted sexual lifestyle. By harnessing the powers of the GNAA, the ECFA will be able to spread its message throughout slashdot much more effectively.
Are you G**, Are you a N*****, Are you a G** N*****? If you answered "yes" or "no" to any of the above questions, the combined organization is for you!
About ECFA:
The ECFA would like you to do one thing - KILL A DOG. By KILLING A DOG, you will ELIMINATE one USELESSLY RESPIRATING animal from this planet. Are you TIRED of having your TAXES increased? Humane Societies cost our country over $100 million annually. By eliminating DOGS, this money can EDUCATE OUR KIDS. OVERPOPULATION of DOGS is RAPANT in this country. Take a stand! Help rid this INFESTATION. KILL A DOG TODAY!!!!
Have you ever stepped in DOG DOO-DOO
Are you MAD?
Do you KILL DOGS?
Are you a MAD DOG KILLER?
If you answered "YES" to any of the above questions the ECFA (Euthenasia for Canus Familourous Association) is for you! Why change your sexual lifestyle or change your skin color to join an EVIL ORGANIZATION when you can simply INCREASE OUR SUPPLY OF O2! Did you know that DOGS turn BENEFICIAL O2 into CO2 simply to gain their energy to bark, drool, and howl? They LITERALLY BURN OUR OXYGEN SUPPLY!!! One dog can waste 2 moles of O2 PER HOUR! This country has MANY UNWANTED, ABANDONED DOGS that WE ARE PAYING MONEY TO KEEP ALIVE. We are FEEDING them our food supply while making the homeless STARVE! By using a Dog Killing Gadget, a dog can be turned into beneficial food, helping us all. We let children go hungry yet feed our **UNWANTED** dogs like royalty.
Save Our Oxygen! One dog can easily use the entire oxygen output of ten full size trees. One dog can output over 20 lbs of droppings daily. One dog can aggrivate the allergies of untold numbers of people with its fast growing hair. Kill a dog today!
Do you own a dog? Are you tired of its mess? Don't feel like planting ten trees and waiting 10 years for them to reach maturity? Then get it euthanized. Euthanasia is a painless way for a dog to... terminate. However, it can be too expensive to buy these drugs for the LARGE NUMBER of DOGS in the HUMANE SOCIETIES. It is thus proposed that these dogs be turned into food for the homeless.
We are proud to welcome the GNAA into our dog killing family!
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Not only is this a really basic hack, but people have been using many different methods of sharing computing power almost as long as there have been computers. They could have made this a lot less expensive by just getting some X-terminals from Tektronix or one of the other companies off of Ebay. This is not even difficult on Windows if you buy Terminal Server.
Slow news day I guess.
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A woman who works at my favorite bookstore recently told me about her boyfriend's reaction to the large intricate tattoos adorning her shoulders. "He said they make him think of prostitutes and biker chicks. I've never even been on a motorcycle. So I said, 'but this is me. You know me.' But he says he needs time to get over the connection." My bookseller's struggle with the disjunctive identification occasioned by her tattoos is not unusual. Tattooed women register on many people's radar screens for the first time either as circus side-show acts, "the tattooed lady," hippies, prostitutes, or "biker chicks." The rebellious politics and performances of these "types" of women seem easily identifiable: they are physically transgressive, rootless, loose, troublemakers. Less discernible has been the discomfort caused by their speaking bodies that exceed the protocols of simple body language. As symbols demanding to be read, tattoos on women produce anxieties of misrecognition. Masculine tattoo connotations--brave, heroic, macho--slip off the skin of women. The stories behind sailors' tattoos are not women's stories. In a culture built on women's silence and bent on maintaining silence as a primary part of the relationship between women's bodies and cultural writing, the rules have been simple. The written body may only speak from a patriarchal script that tries to limit women's voices and bodies to supporting roles and scenery. So on a woman's body any tattoo becomes the symbol of bodily excess. When a woman's body is a sex object, a tattooed woman's body is a lascivious sex object; when a woman's body is nature, a tattooed woman's body is primitive; when a woman's body is spectacle, a tattooed woman's body is a show. It would seem that whatever manifold meanings women attach to their tattoos are culturally written over to simply and only punctuate meanings already attached to their bodies within a larger cultural domain.
Whatever women have wanted to demonstrate with their tattoos--a rejection of those supporting roles, perhaps, or an embrace of the heroics those roles require--their tattoos have been always already culturally re-marked to hold them at stable symbolic borders. But does the choice to become tattooed denote only scripted excess, or are there other remainders here as well? While we may seem culturally well-equipped to read women's skin, feminists know that women aren't necessarily interested in simply maintaining and punctuating their roles as the workhorses of the culture's symbolic, inhabiting the overdetermined constituent in gendered pairings: mother to father, wife to husband, desirable to desiring, victim to perpetrator, and also as nature to culture, emotion to logic, and beauty to beast. Language and power make and re-make us into entities that both breathe and have representative meaning. And while we may know this intellectually, where we really feel it is in our guts. The body has become a site for commentary and resistance to these scripts. This essay is about w
Their next invention is the cock that can penetrate four assholes at once. I hear /.'s editorship has them preordered. Michael's idea, I think.
'Crappy' art has critics holding their noses
... it's futile," St-Laurent said.
CTV.ca News Staff
A contemporary art gallery in Ottawa is raising a stink with an exhibition dedicated to excrement. The show opens Thursday but already critics are dumping on it.
The five-week exhibition at the SAW Gallery is called Scatalogue: 30 years of crap in contemporary art.
It's an examination of all things excremental and tackles art's "last remaining taboo," according to co-curator Stefan St-Laurent.
"It's certainly a unique show in Canada," said the Moncton-born performance artist, who came up with the idea along with his twin brother Jason to celebrate the gallery's 30th anniversary.
The show features everything from a wooden Brian Mulroney statue holding a turd in his outstretched hand to cow pie clocks to genuine soiled trousers.
But because the artist-run gallery is supported by federal tax dollars -- $72,000 over two years -- it's being pooh-poohed.
And who better to comment than a member of the Canadian Alliance? The official opposition briefly called themselves the Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance, or CCRAP.
"I don't think taxpayers will say this passes the sniff test," said Alliance Heritage critic Chuck Strahl.
Government officials point out, however, that no federal money was specifically earmarked for Scatalogue.
"This is an operating grant which is there to contribute to the gallery's operations and not one particular exhibition," said Donna Balkan of the Canada Council for the Arts.
The curators claim there's a serious message behind all the doo-doo.
"We chose Scatalogue: 30 years of crap in contemporary art to reach a wider public that would have this misconception about contemporary art that it's crap
The exhibit features work from 25 national and international artists, including filmmaker John Waters, whose play Hairspray won a Tony award. He once tried to introduce the concept of 'Smellovision' with one of his movies -- and you can guess what smell.
Belgium artist Wim Delvoye's work is also featured. He recently sold out his edition of freeze-dried, vacuum-packed "completely biologically correct" excrement at $1,500 US per baggie.
With reports from CTV's Joy Malbon and Canadian Press
I'm also seeing several Ebay auctions for Xterminals, currently going for $1 each. Nice.
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