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Batch o Quickees

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cleaning-out-the-bin dept.

First off, various website and software announcements: Rik van Riel wrote in to say that the The Linux Memory Management home page, including the More than 1GB Faq, as moved. Jennifer wrote in to tell us that eterm now has its own domain. Rak wrote in to send us a link to a new site aiming to keep up with GNOME Development. chrism wrote in to say that Brian Paul of Mesa Fame is looking for a new home for said software. Email if you can help. Now that the straight stuff is out of the way, some fun stuff: kweiheri tron wrote in to send us a link to a telescope that you can control online. Eli sent us a link to the Bonsai Potato. It's just crazy. Jamie Wilkinson sent us a link to www.retards.com. It's not what you might think it is. A couple of other folks have written in recently and mentioned Smartass.org. It's a nifty site. Check it out.

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  1. retards.com by Mathieu+Lu · · Score: 1

    The name of the domain brought up a good point. It took me more than 5 minutes to realise that they were just pointing me to microsoft.com. I was even reading the copywright and I was lauging out loud. Then I realised it was the true (c) of m$ :)

    Oh well, worth the laugh. Greets to the author.

  2. Bansai potatoe couldn't be .... by The+Curmudgeon · · Score: 1


    Because the potatoe only devoloped in central and south America. I believe the Zen sect of buddhism started before such tubers were transplanted by our ancector-eco-terrorists.

    Does this mean I'm humor impaired?

  3. Try both retards.com and www.retards.com by MichaelKVance · · Score: 1

    Man, that's hilarious. There used to be a great collection of 404 pages laying around on the web... I wonder where it went. Hmm... Google time.

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  4. Can they do anything? by Millennium · · Score: 1

    Legally, that guy owns retards.com and can do whatever he wants with it. If that happens to mean redirecting all URL's to M$, I don't think even Billy can stop him from this expensive prank.

  5. better-than-ever-before VM system? by AMK · · Score: 1
    As far as I can tell, it's not a massive rewrite from the ground up, or anything like that, just lots and lots of little tuning tweaks: a change to how priority is calculated here, swap out pages slightly differently there. Most of the improvement seems to be from smarter swapping; one person reported a compile in 128MB going from 280sec down to 119sec. Poking through the list archives at the Linux-MM page will produce lots of info.

    But yes, it is surprising that it's being done this late, at the 2.2pre stage. I suppose the potential improvement is so significant that Linus feels that getting it in for 2.2 is worth the risk.

  6. uhhhhh by Pengveen · · Score: 1


    I don't see what the point of either of these sites are- I didn't see anything at www.retards.com that was that vicious (except the name) and retards.com was just..... retarded. Am I missing something or is this it.

  7. You made me go to microsoft.com! by Sinner · · Score: 1

    You bastards!

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  8. Too bad! by Mako+Lee · · Score: 1

    It's really too bad the retards.com guy/guys made themselves so hard to track down! I was about to write fanmail. That is the coolest thing to do with a fun domain and no comment. It sure beats, "Hi may name is X, and I go to X." Pretty awesome.

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  9. Bonsai Potato by cluening · · Score: 1

    I got one of these for Christmas! I plan to plant it next week when i go back to school. Let me know if anybody wants me to post regular updates on a web page somewhere. (cluening@hotmail.com)

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  10. retards.com by JerkBoB · · Score: 1

    That's pretty funny.

    Wonder how long until MS finds out about it?

    Do MS-drones read /.?

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  11. Wilbur Smith by martian · · Score: 1


    Wasn't Wilbur Smith the protagonist in Orwell's "1984"?

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  12. Bonsai potato site front page makes you wait by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 1

    and talks about those who haven't the time for waiting. Is this an example of potato zen at work?

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  13. retards.com by Poopdbq · · Score: 1

    Flame me if I'm wrong, but isn't this just a fancy link to Micro$oft's site?

  14. Bonzai Potato by slashpot · · Score: 1


    I gotta get one of these....I don't buy much junk but this idea kicks Cha Cha Cha Chea Head's ass.


  15. start redirecting porn domains! by dangerboy · · Score: 1

    young billy will be quite surprised when trying to visit www.hotnastynerdgirlswhosuckstuff.com =]