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Using The Gyration Media Center Remote With Linux

Bruce Perens writes "The Gyration Media Center Remote is a radio keyboard and mouse with 100-foot range. The mouse uses an accelerometer rather than a mouse wheel, and thus has the unique feature that you can make mouse gestures in the air. The mouse should be perfect for a public speaker who wants to move around during a speech, without giving up control of his laptop. It would also make a nifty remote for a Linux PVR user, since it has VCR controls and channel and volume buttons. But does it work with Linux?" Bruce Perens tried it out and says the answer is a qualified Yes.

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  1. GNAA announces Xanga-dotting of Something Awful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    GNAA announces Xanga-dotting of Something Awful

    NEW ORLEANS, LA. (GNAA) - Radium, the hapless administrator of Something Awful, today concedes defeat to a bunch of Korean teenagers with weblogs, thanks to the award-winning and enterprise standard synergy-enabling solutions provided by GNAA.

    While overweight Best Buy employees are temporarily prevented from reading hentai reviews, we'd like to thank several communities for their help in crafting this ultimate takedown.

    Using our distributed Windows 98 deployment, GNAA was able to maximize total cost of ownership of the worthless Something Awful front page for nearly 24 hours. We'd like to thank the easily trolled simpletons of the worldwide Jewish weblog network "Xanga" for both being complicit in WTC and overloading SA's pathetic server cluster with thousands of search requests embedded in their blogs. Without the assistance of these hapless Hebrews, SA may not have been able to effectively fail it.

    We would also like to thank the dimwitted lotharios of the Something Awful Forums for faithfully failing to notice anything at all for hours, since even the most sycophantic had all but given up on reading the dry, recycled "humor" of the front page enough to be denied service.

    The open source architecture powering Something Awful also failed it, causing esteemed gay nigger Blaadokz to laugh maniacally. Newly christened gay nigger tehdely also remarked "ROR@LUNIX" and then attempted to spam the GNU Public License and flooded off. GNAA recommends Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Server-powered solutions for best reducing the total cost of ownership of your web-enabled data center.

    Having brought the long-lost cousins Xanga and Something Awful together at last, the Gay Nigger Association of America is finally free to pursue its ultimate goal of a circlejerk orgy of well-hung Africans celebrating the removal of female and Jewish life from the planet. Those interested are encouraged to read the following:

    About Something Awful:

    Something Awful is a website and forum dedicated to providing a place for overweight PHP programmers to pirate movies, music, and pornography.
    Through its years of existence, Something Awful has consistently scored first in the nation in amount of superiority delivered per dollar paid.
    Something Awful's webmaster, Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka is a world-renowned expert at rehashing expired 3-year-old gamer comedy and wittily responding to fake legal threats.
    Zachary Parsons, the primary editor for Something Awful, is the author of last year's best-seller "How to find fame and success through running failed webzines".

    About GNAA:
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  2. Re:Not for presentations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Congrats, you got a Redundant mod for a first post - the Holy Grail of retarded moderation. Keep up the good work morons!

  3. Sweet, sweet Christmas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ah. Just had two extra large Big Macs with fries and extra mayo and two large cokes.

    I'm lovin' it!

  4. HAHAHA! GNAA HAS LOST ITS WEBSITE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ahahahahaha!

    Looks like the GNAA jerks have lost their website to the rightful owner.

    1. Re:HAHAHA! GNAA HAS LOST ITS WEBSITE! by timecop · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The GNAA website is at http://www.gnaa.us/ and it's always been there, you insensitive clod!

      Where the fuck are you getting the idea it was ever on a .ORG site?

      - gnaa president

  5. GNAA member revealed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Check out the parent poster!

    He forgot to select the "Post Anonymously" button!

    1. Re:GNAA member revealed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      OH NO, its not like it isn't public knowledge already!
      You have been Trolled, you have lost! - gnaa president