Re:Which'll be the first to go up in flames...
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Pxtl
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To be fair, parent is sfw and on-topic, if very, very sick and wrong. Too bad there's no mod "unfunny". That's worse than the suspicious-looking tunnel in UT2k3.
Re:Which'll be the first to go up in flames...
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Anonymous Coward
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OMG.
Re:Which'll be the first to go up in flames...
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gearry
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So, does someone want to tell me what those are supposed to be? Maybe my imagination is just not working today. I was guessing some stage of mitosis but judging by the other comments I am wrong. Is it a confectionary reference to goatse.cx?
-- like g-a-r-y, only different
Re:Which'll be the first to go up in flames...
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teslafreak
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Did you by any chance read the name of the picture file, where it out right says it is a reference to goatse? I didn't know what it was until I saw that.
Re:Which'll be the first to go up in flames...
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MegaHyster
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very, very sick and wrong
That's a mild understatement...
-- All good things...
Re:Which'll be the first to go up in flames...
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MegaHyster
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Living, breathing, eating computers...
-- All good things...
Just add Slashdot!
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xsupergr0verx
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Although, at look what it's running. Only good for eating and shitting out.
--
Waking Up - There must be a better way to start the day.
Re:and the laptop
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gameboyhippo
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I asked for the recipie, but when I baked it mine BSOD (Brown Screen of Death) in the oven!:( Anyway, I decided to patch it with Service Pack 12 and it gave me food poisoning. *sigh*
C Is For Cookie
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halcyon1234
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· Score: 5, Funny
"Dear Tech Support,
In accordance to the terms of my computer's warranty, I am formally requesting onsite service. Please send any and all technicians you have named Hansel and Gredel.
I will guess Natalie Portman's left grit that most of them are just reloading slashdot.
Or, trying to figure out why when a type a URL into Firefox, it sorts most recent sites to the bottom instead of the top. WTF? That is retarded. Nice try, open sores hippies.
In reality, I am a 38 year old woman pretending to be a girl. Some days I do better than others. Getting slashdotted has made me pretty giddy; I feel about 16 today.:-)
Getting Slashdotted makes me feel like... a) getting mugged in a dark alley b) a driveby shooting c) a black friday sale d) i'm a proletariat being taken advantage of by the bourgoisie e) an iraqi in baghdad 18 months ago f) a marine in mosul now G) a 16 year old girl
-- A planet where apes evolved from men?
Long live the apes.
How much RAM have you got? It's a 10kx10k image so once the browser decompresses it to bmp so it can display it it'll be ~200MB assuming it's a 16b image, or ~400MB if it's a 32b image...Linux will just kill off the program if it runs out of memory...meh. I've got 762MB + 1G swap, but by the look of it firefox is only using ~33MB (well, there are 5 processes of it each with 33MB, so I guess you could say it's using 165MB) meh, who knows.
Bah, no need to even scroll anywhere. Just zoom out in your favourite image viewer.
-- True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
Re:Hmm....
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Chris+Mattern
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> you sig is evil...
Took me a while to figure out what you meant when I called it up. A plain tan jpeg didn't seem very evil to me, even if was large. I take it that inferior browsers have some sort of difficulty with it due to its size. Konqueror handled it without breaking stride.
Yeah, and it's not even the worst one. I just put it in there for users of text to image, because I keep telling one of the developers that he needs to put in a check so that it doesn't attempt to render really large pictures.
(There is an 18000x18000 picture that ruins people even with high-end machines using text to image.)
First, crystals are excellent oscillators. If you apply a small enough metal oxide to them, you can also make semiconductors. Sugar makes excellent crystals. I've not tried, but I can't see any obvious reason why you couldn't make a sugar-based transistor.
This would seem to suggest it may be possible to build the ENTIRE computer (motherboard, chips and all) out of confectionary.
-- It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Re:What else? What else!
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Anonymous Coward
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No kidding. You know, some people don't get wrapped up in the bullshit holiday stuff. Some of us just work hard like we should through the holidays rather than using it as a time to be full of ourselves and take take take.
Re:What else? What else!
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Randy+Wang
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What else are geeks doing this Christmas?
Not making another Twinkle Tux, thankyou. Coal, I find, is far too crunchy.
-- ---
Egads, I glow in the dark!
Re:What else? What else!
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Anonymous Coward
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Ebenezer, is that you?
Re:What else? What else!
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ockegheim
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I've been giggle inanely at that for ten minutes...
Merry Christmas!
-- I’m old enough to remember 16K of memory being described as “whopping”
Please, wait, slashdotting is in progress...
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lastberserker
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The amount of pointless crap in this article is pathetic. I have to state, Slashdotters just get dumber over the holidays or something, every day we get closer to the holidays the spam+crap gets worse.
That's all I really have to say, however, I wish you'd grow up, now to go set my rating cap so that nothing under 3 is shown....
Re:This isn't funny guys.
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sven_eee
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Only if it then runs for 8 days on 1 days worth of power.
Re:I'm Jewish....
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Anonymous Coward
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No more like, the computer has a day of rest every 7th day.
Re:I'm Jewish....
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Anonymous Coward
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Maybe a dreidal computer!
You could use this as a starting point! (No guarantee it'll keep working after a few whirls though...)
Re:I'm Jewish....
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builderbob_nz
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Build it into a menorah?
Why not, hey why not make a beowulf cluster out of it, 9 stands for 9 computers. Make them out of P4s and you won't even need to light it, just let the CPUs spread the glow of the warmth. Perfect gift for the holidays for our brothers of the jewish faith.
Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas and for those who happen to be on the road this year, remember that it only takes one lose nut in a car to crash it... so keep you head screwed on straight! {grumble grumble tourists not knowing road rules grumble grumble}
--
Karma? Hey I just call it as I see it.
Ooh
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Anonymous Coward
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Let me ruin this thread by making every possible joke:
Looks like their server is made out of gingerbread.
You could accompany that with an official TubGirl (TM) milkshake. Comes in a TubGirl-shaped container, squeeze it and try to get it in your mouth as it comes out.
Don't even *think* what flavor that's meant to be...
Merry Christmas!
-- "Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
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Nobody thinks about the /. victim
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Singwolf
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Really, are the moderators who passed the bread news on portrait in spiritual peace with themselves after what they have done? Don't you think it would be better to call up the victim previously to the/.ing? (So he can cancel the host provider contract, or get charged for 10000x your usual bandwidth).
I don't know what the joke is about for slashdotting their bread server and turning their phone line into butter.
Does it Run Linux? And will they making a beowulf cluster of Gingerbread CPUs out of YOU! in Soviet Russia, or do only old people do that in Korea, you insensitive CLOD!
With the way my tower sucks up cat hair, the thing would be inedible within mintes..
Server is not dead
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oaklid
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...but the bandwidth is maxed out. Be patient and it will load.
Our 8 megabit DSL nearly melted down, but the kindness of (mirroring) strangers has helped out quite a bit.
I'm chuffed that the little server we run is surviving a/.ing. All credit goes to my husband, the wizard admin.
Re:Server is not dead
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SenseiLeNoir
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maybe putting a lower res version, with a clicky to a highres version, may have helped with the bandwidth, after all, Slashdotters never go past the first page!
-- Have a nice day!
IMB Thinkpad 20M
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Kusunose
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Japan IBM already did it.
Last year, IMB created Thinkpad 20M, special model celebrating its twenty million shipments of Thinkpads. Its development concept is, in contrast to normal Thinkpad, to make bulky, thick Thinkpad with half-day warranty. It's made of nearly 100% natural materials and tastes good.
Note: linked article is written in Japanese.
Yeah it's nice and all
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_Hellfire_
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But I reckon the motherboard is a bit sparse on features. I mean, come on, no SATA RAID:(
-- "And then I visited Wikipedia...and the next 8 hours are a blur..."
Re:Yeah it's nice and all
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Idarubicin
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I mean, come on, no SATA RAID:(
Actually, what you need to worry about is the SANTA RAID. Please remember to back up your data to a non-edible format.
-- ~Idarubicin
Doing something different.....
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Chicane-UK
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"What else are geeks doing differently this Christmas?"
Taking a shower, and going out socialising!
I kiiiiid, I kiiiid;)
-- "Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
Season's Beatings
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teamhasnoi
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for all the puns in this thread!
I thought this story would be sweet, but it is so overdone.
I've heard of brownouts, but this is ridiculous!
So if I run Firefox and refuse cookies, does my computer explode?
I don't know if I have a virus, or food poisoning.
I'm partial to the Mary Ann mod.
I'd like a new video card, but I don't have enough bread for that.
Thank you, thank you - I'll be here all week. Or until the booze runs out.
You couldn't overclock it too much, lest your processor caramelize.
No obvious reason?
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elgatozorbas
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First, crystals are excellent oscillators. If you apply a small enough metal oxide to them, you can also make semiconductors. Sugar makes excellent crystals. I've not tried, but I can't see any obvious reason why you couldn't make a sugar-based transistor.
Actually, I don't think crystal oscillators are in the critical path of making computers from candy. They offer a high resonant frequency and good enough stability, but you could as well run a PC from an LC-oscillator. Yes, one cycle may be longer than another, but that's not critical.
You have no obvious reason why you couldn't make a sugar-based transistor? Well transistors are made from semiconducting material. I am no materials specialist, but I highly doublt sugar is a semiconductor. And even if a small FET-operation would be detectable by applying a gate, I doubt it would be capable of amplification - the first requirement for making your crystal oscillator run.
Moreover, because of the low conductivity I attribute to confectionary, you cannot even make the wiring. Let alone complex circuits. A nice idea, but no-go, as far as I know.
Z
Re:No obvious reason?
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Anonymous Coward
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You're right. Sugar is not even close to a semi-conductor. It's an organic molecule (not even a polymer) and those are usually very good insulators. GP should open a book on physics before opening his mouth.
Now I just need some del.icio.us bookmarks to go with that!
What else are geeks doing differently?
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dep01
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"What else are geeks doing differently this Christmas?"
i'm planning on bathing.. i thought it'd be something neat to try around the holidays... what the heck, you know?
-- "hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
Original URL for the pictures in the blog.
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tlund
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The pictures in the blog are originaly taken from this page.
Sad to see the way people steal, modify and re-post pictures like this without giving out credits.:(
Nice work on the cookies monixa (and friends!), see you soon and sorry for getting your webpage slashdoted:)//tlund
Re:Original URL for the pictures in the blog.
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oaklid
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I think you'll see that I did give credit to Monica and her crew. I linked back to the original images, too, though I continued to host the ones I displayed. And when mediatinker got slashdotted, I mailed her to warn her about it.
I've been around the Internet a pretty long while and try to be a good citizen. So please read carefully before you accuse.
Love, Kristen
I would like to volunteer ..
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The+MESMERIC
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I suppose I should have taken a picture of it, but I made a gingerbread Apple IIgs back in '97. The most interesting feature (innovation?) was the use of jolly ranchers as the screen: melted in the oven to form a smooth, consistent screen.
If you were fortunate enough to be attending Vanderbilt University at the time, you could have seen it displayed at the Vanderbilt Computer Store (now out of business).
...to find the combined talents of computer geek and pastry chef. Most haxx0rs notion of baking is the unwrapping of ring-dings (or ho-hos, Suzy-Q's, snowballs, or twinkies). Hmmmm. I smell a poll.
-- "No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
I made a White Trash Gingerbread family
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Beek+Dog
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... the motherboard, or my culinary restraint.
He bakes the case, we bake the server.
Click here for a free picture of an iPod!
yummy, though I would fear my cats would lick my computer case away.
here
Although, at look what it's running. Only good for eating and shitting out.
Waking Up - There must be a better way to start the day.
I think someone's been working at EA too long if this is their outlet
Le français vous intéresse?
In accordance to the terms of my computer's warranty, I am formally requesting onsite service. Please send any and all technicians you have named Hansel and Gredel.
Sincerely,
A Hungry Witch"
UTF-8: There and Back Again
I will guess Natalie Portman's left grit that most of them are just reloading slashdot.
Or, trying to figure out why when a type a URL into Firefox, it sorts most recent sites to the bottom instead of the top. WTF? That is retarded. Nice try, open sores hippies.
You can always tell when a site is being /.ed on dialup. . .
What will happen when we /. them? Will their computer just fall apart?
It's still on the bread board.
Well, if Windows ever crashes you can still eat your computer.
Looks like someone already ate it!
.. is slashdotted. Isn't opening!
Is it Open Source?
This would seem to suggest it may be possible to build the ENTIRE computer (motherboard, chips and all) out of confectionary.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
What else are geeks doing differently this Christmas?
We're whacking off with our left hands, rather than the usual right hand.
A mouse made out of cheese.
What else are geeks doing this Christmas?
Enjoying my piece of coal, you insensitive clod.
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit
And another one bites the dust
My other Beowulf cluster is... er...
Let's give it a speed boost.
That was a pathetically short post, but I guess when there is nothin' else to say......
It's neat, the USB Christmas Tree's are neater though.
MIRROR
Who ate the gingerbread computer? because it is no longer online...
time is a perception of a being's consciousness
time is your 6th sense, the wierd ones are 7+
The amount of pointless crap in this article is pathetic. I have to state, Slashdotters just get dumber over the holidays or something, every day we get closer to the holidays the spam+crap gets worse.
...
That's all I really have to say, however, I wish you'd grow up, now to go set my rating cap so that nothing under 3 is shown.
My host would kill me.
I hate stupid rules... Rules that make sense I don't mind... But the stupid ones just really bug me!
This is more delicious
Click here or a puppy gets stomped!
Should I try to make a computer using latkes? Build it into a menorah? Maybe a dreidal computer!
"Some fight for law. Some fight for justice. What will you fight for? One day, you will see."
Looks like their server is made out of gingerbread.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
But does it run Linux?
I think I'm getting the blue frosting of death.
Step 1: make computer out of gingerbread
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
But is it kosher?
I'd hit it!
So delicious its all been eaten up already :/
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Really, are the moderators who passed the bread news on portrait in spiritual peace with themselves after what they have done? Don't you think it would be better to call up the victim previously to the /.ing? (So he can cancel the host provider contract, or get charged for 10000x your usual bandwidth).
I don't know what the joke is about for slashdotting their bread server and turning their phone line into butter.
Does it run Linux??
just to let u know mini-itx.com has an article about a realy computer covered in gingerbread http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/gingerbreadvillag e/
What else are geeks doing differently this Christmas?"
I celebrate the Winter Solstice you insensitive clod!
If you build it, nerds will come. Soylentnews.org
http://www.mediatinker.com.nyud.net:8090/blog/arch ives/008798.html#008798
...one too many times. That setup was so overclocked, his motherboard was cooked.
..looks like the whole mother board to me. ;)
run linux?
Just goes to show how many people must try to read the article before posting :).
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/gingerbreadvillag e/
The original image was posted here: Original
Personally, I've decided to start wearing pants when I leave the house. I've been getting a lot of complaints.
Keeping in the Christmas theme... that went down faster than Dads special eggnog he makes out of bourbon and icecubes.
Merry christmas you assholes.
nice job rucas
I think you would get a lot of hardware problems if you had to share a office with someone on the munchiees or a small child.
but is it digitally signed....how can we be sure its safe....
gingerbread computers are the next ipod killer!
Netcraft confirms that gingerbread is dying.
I for one, welcome our gingerbread computer creating overlords.
All your gingerbread are belong to us.
here
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The scary thing is it works.
Really, I know what I'm doing...Ohhhh, look at the shiny buttons!
But does it run Linux?
Does it Run Linux? And will they making a beowulf cluster of Gingerbread CPUs out of YOU! in Soviet Russia, or do only old people do that in Korea, you insensitive CLOD!
My Favourite Meme
With the way my tower sucks up cat hair, the thing would be inedible within mintes..
...but the bandwidth is maxed out. Be patient and it will load.
/.ing. All credit goes to my husband, the wizard admin.
Our 8 megabit DSL nearly melted down, but the kindness of (mirroring) strangers has helped out quite a bit.
I'm chuffed that the little server we run is surviving a
Last year, IMB created Thinkpad 20M, special model celebrating its twenty million shipments of Thinkpads. Its development concept is, in contrast to normal Thinkpad, to make bulky, thick Thinkpad with half-day warranty. It's made of nearly 100% natural materials and tastes good.
Note: linked article is written in Japanese.
But I reckon the motherboard is a bit sparse on features. I mean, come on, no SATA RAID :(
"And then I visited Wikipedia
"What else are geeks doing differently this Christmas?"
;)
Taking a shower, and going out socialising!
I kiiiiid, I kiiiid
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
I thought this story would be sweet, but it is so overdone.
I've heard of brownouts, but this is ridiculous!
So if I run Firefox and refuse cookies, does my computer explode?
I don't know if I have a virus, or food poisoning.
I'm partial to the Mary Ann mod.
I'd like a new video card, but I don't have enough bread for that.
Thank you, thank you - I'll be here all week. Or until the booze runs out.
Those little orange and yellow circuits are cool.
...but can it run Linux?
.... Imagine a beowolf cluster of these! Yummie!
Just because you scream it doesn't mean it's true.
nice laptop
Not a single comment about MegaBites
Unbelievable.
-- Don't believe everything you read, hear or think
Hmmmm computer...
Pic 2 (Full)
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
a yummy cluster of those !
check it out
pepperkake recipe
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
How long before someone makes a computer out of Soylent Green ?
If you don't understand anything I post, please accept that I ate paste as a small boy...
"What else are geeks doing this Christmas?"
:P
i dont think i can answer that, but i know one, no one is getting laid
Going out with girls?
why does fp always get modded down? *sadface*
case-mod?
I'm waiting for one of the top casemodders out there to do a christmas mod!
I enjoy large posteriors and I cannot prevaricate.
If it run any games... Are we then allowed to play with the food?
Natty dreads on one of the guys. I would hate to get a hair in my cake from that guy, it would be bigger than the plate.
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
Wonder how they solved the cooling problem...
"linux" is a very common word and was not included in your search.
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/eeri/pipari2004/valmi s.jpg
http://www.aurinkokivi.net/muro/pipari/1.jpg
http://bulbasaur.ton.tut.fi/echramath/misc/piparit /ech-bukkake.jpg
http://www.muropaketti.com/pipari2003/ enjoy :)
This computer is SWEET!
:-)
It's funny. Laugh.
"Feel a glory in so rolling / on the human heart a stone" --E. A. Poe, "The Bells"
I'm offending my neighbors for christmas :)
http://www.legendarycode.com/xmas/xmasdecor.html
Here is another one from a while back
You couldn't overclock it too much, lest your processor caramelize.
First, crystals are excellent oscillators. If you apply a small enough metal oxide to them, you can also make semiconductors. Sugar makes excellent crystals. I've not tried, but I can't see any obvious reason why you couldn't make a sugar-based transistor.
Actually, I don't think crystal oscillators are in the critical path of making computers from candy. They offer a high resonant frequency and good enough stability, but you could as well run a PC from an LC-oscillator. Yes, one cycle may be longer than another, but that's not critical.
You have no obvious reason why you couldn't make a sugar-based transistor? Well transistors are made from semiconducting material. I am no materials specialist, but I highly doublt sugar is a semiconductor. And even if a small FET-operation would be detectable by applying a gate, I doubt it would be capable of amplification - the first requirement for making your crystal oscillator run.
Moreover, because of the low conductivity I attribute to confectionary, you cannot even make the wiring. Let alone complex circuits. A nice idea, but no-go, as far as I know.
Z
Now I just need some del.icio.us bookmarks to go with that!
"What else are geeks doing differently this Christmas?"
i'm planning on bathing.. i thought it'd be something neat to try around the holidays... what the heck, you know?
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
The pictures in the blog are originaly taken from this page.
:(
:) //tlund
Sad to see the way people steal, modify and re-post pictures like this without giving out credits.
Nice work on the cookies monixa (and friends!), see you soon and sorry for getting your webpage slashdoted
as a Beta tester :D
Beta Taster :D
Ants will pwn joo...
Be very afraid...
:-\
I hate to ask, um are they tastey?
I better post AC on this one
If you were fortunate enough to be attending Vanderbilt University at the time, you could have seen it displayed at the Vanderbilt Computer Store (now out of business).
...to find the combined talents of computer geek and pastry chef. Most haxx0rs notion of baking is the unwrapping of ring-dings (or ho-hos, Suzy-Q's, snowballs, or twinkies). Hmmmm. I smell a poll.
"No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
I called them the Gingerbread Crakers...
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Seriously...only one stick of RAM and no AGP slot.
But will it run linux?
All good things...