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Merry Christmas Everyone
So I'm wandering off to my rapid-fire trio of family festivities today, but I figured before I hit the road I'd wish my slightly more extended family a Merry Christmas (or kurt@thepope.org or Annual Gift Giving Day or whatever the hell else you choose to celebrate or not celebrate around this time of year). Hope you get a day (or at least a few hours) off, and that you don't get snowed in (especially if you live in California). Hope Santa leaves you a wearable PC that is capable of running Linux, or an Aibo, or maybe a shiny new DIMM under your tree... or for the more paranoid, 600 gallons of pure drinking water and lots of ammo!
Best wishes to all of you (except the flamers: may you get a lump of coal).
Merry Christmas To All
Web Developer
i missed it my microseconds, I'll never get it. NEVER!
Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy Hannamus if you're into that sort of thing........look out, Y2K is fast approaching!! (thank God) Ciao!
For Annual Gift Givibg Day, I'm giving everyone plenty of Givibgs! Um, what is a givibg anyway? :) I'm off of work in an hour, so I guess I'll have a Merry Sleepmas! Hope you all are going to enjoy your day. :)
Deosyne
ditto
Best wishes to all of you.
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Merry Christmas to all. =)
Best wishes to all in coding, and life in general.
=)
Be kind. There are too many mean people out there already.
I wish a hearty Bah! Humbug! to all, but in an age when even folks on alt.gothic.parenting are posting the infamous 'Is there a Santa Claus' letter, I can find precious little support for not celebrating the holidays.
I've resisted for four years now, perhaps it is time to face the inevitable and be assimilated.
HO HO HO! Hope you got lots of toys under your tree, a bunch of kids ripping paper everywhere, and the kitty cats having a ball with the torn up paper, or dogs, or whatever you have around the house! Thanks for the cookies and milk! Yum, yum!
Santa was here! hehehe...
(don't forget to log out!)
Merry christmas to everyone that makes this page the best!
The readers, the writers, the posters, the people who supplied the servers, and andover.net.
I wish all of you good luck in the new year, and i hope you have a great time today!
Tyler
Yay!!! It's Xmas day! Happy whatever you celebrate. Happy severely belated Chanukkah to all. And on and on and on. If anyone has a new board or processor they'd like to put in my stocking, feel free. :)
"The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is allev
A few days late for Solstice, but what the heck.
Talented as I am, I managed to develop an acude case of bronchitis sometime on Wednesday, and haven't slept since, but hey, we needed an excuse not to go see the inlaws.
I hope everyone else is having a better time than me - it'd take a huge amount of talent to do worse!
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
Just kidding... Merry Christmas, Best Wishes, and happiest of holidays to all of you and yours (well, most of you)... May your segfaults be quick and painless, and your core dumps be merry.
To those of you running Win**, may your BSODs be just a shade brighter, and your security holes be just a little smaller.
Once again, happy holidays (applicable to whatever you celebrate).
May your holiday season be filled with happiness, family and love. May your socks never develop holes in the back part commonly known as the heel, and may your computer chair never become as uncomfortable as mine has. (Ow, ow, ow... SANTA, HELP!!!)
Seriously, besides the copyright infringement that I hope Hallmark doesn't notice (or I'm in a world of hurtin), I want to wish all of you slashdotters a very Merry Christmas... don't forget your Y2K vows (never underestimate stupid people) and remain calm and happy.
doc
This is a sig. It is like every other sig in the world, except that it is mine, and it is different.
Have a good one all of you...
The next millenium will be GPL'd or won't be.
-- It's always darker before it goes pitch black.
I hope someday we'll see a tech star Christmas special. Ballmer, Gates, Jobs, Bezos could all write and act in their own holiday sketchs. I guess I can dream.
Thanks
Have a happy and safe New Year.
Free Unix? Free Windows. http://www.reactos.com
Among the many things I'm thankful for this holiday season is.
1) A warm, caring loving family ;)
2) Faith
3) Open source hitting major media.
4) Open source hitting wall street.
5) micros~1 finaly recognized as a monopoly
6) Linus
7) The thousands of programers world wide that make this comunity grow and thrive.
8) A computer that just works (thanks to numbers 6 and 7)
9) Triple digit Karma
How about you ?
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awww, come on... it's [censored]! It's a time for forgivness and love. I suppose even the flamers and Natelie Portman Boy should have a bit of [censored] cheer!
They can go to hell tomorrow, today is just too good a day!
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Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
to everyone. may you all get the pants you always wanted this christmas.
But Santa forgot to leave a New Geeks in Space episode, maybe the Grinch got it.
I sent a letter to Santa for a SparcStation but all I got was a Packard Bell with Win98 preinstalled. Someone please shoot me? There's a copy of Win98 in it for you.
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Oscarfish.com: tropical fish with attitude. Way t
have compassion! after all it is [censored].
This week I was faced with the death of my grandmother and the death of a couple of friends. I guess I am starting to learn the value of friends and family. At the risk of sounding cliche...sometimes you really don't appreciate what you have until it's gone.
r s tell your family and friends that you love them. Tell them how much they mean to you. Don't waste a second you have with them. Don't panic for Y2K...Don't stock pile guns and ammo...Don't contribute to the hysteria. Don't take life for granted. Have a wonderful day today...and a wonderful week before the new millenium. See you all in postings.
I don't have a devote faith to any religion. I was raised Jewish by my step father. But by choice I am more a Humanist. I try to behave decent and morally without any expectation of reward or punishment in the after life. I have been doing a great deal of reflecting this week and next year I am going to start living more for the moment. I will try to appreciate what I have more, and never hold back the truth.
This Christams/Hannukah/Festivus/WinterSolstice/NewYea
Peace,
Jaxn
"Being alive is a crock of shit." --Kilgore Trout
Top 10 things I wanted for Christmas ... but didn't get :(
;)
/dev/null that gives - and not takes
1. triple caffeinated penguin mints
2. semis@slashdot.org
3. A Hemos action figurine
4. "Fear the Penguin" T-Shirt signed by bill.
5. one of them things from fufme.com
6. a new hotmail exploit on Bugtraq
7. my shell to say "Merry Christmas - jackass" when I logged in
8. "slashdot me, baby" boxers.
9. a
10. A Picachu voodoo doll
To Rob Malda, Jon Katz, Hemos and other people I don't remember who maintain Slashdot.org:
Merry Christmas (may it be joyful), and have a Happy New Year 2000!
Hopefully, when the Linux 2.4.x kernel is ready in a few months, Linux will finally get the mainstream success on the desktop it deserves.
Raymond in Mountain View, CA
Here's wishing everyone at slashdot/andover and all those who frequent /. a *very* merry christmas and a happy new year. I'd just like to thank you all for the hours of entertainment and sometimes thought provoking stories and comments. (thank god for /. ;-) Looking forward to another year of the same... Gord
I hope Santa was as good to all you slashdotters as he was to me.
Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est
From the snow covered land of Kentucky.....
May we all get a desktop loaded with penguins....
Or linux which ever you prefer.....
Happy y2k (or Armageddon which ever you believe)
Assw1p3
PS. Tried to post this using the Opera beta, but it crashed. It's probably a bit too early to be releasing it as a beta, but it's definitely a step in the right direction. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out when finished. Mozilla M11 was pretty good too, but it's becoming a bit of a bloated mess :-( It does at least render HTML 4.0 correctly, though, unlike most other browsers.
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
Kidding...
/.ers get to spend Xmas
I got almost nothing, but I gave. I gave my step-daughter a Playstation, cuz that's what she wanted. My daughter got a rocking panda, but she has no clue what she wants cuz she's only a year
old.
I hope some of you
with some children. It rocks.
Merry Xmas!
Never hurts to mention that today is, most importantly, Sir Isaac Newton's 357th birthday. "Eating apples (and dropping them) is popular." So merry Newtonmas to you all!
To the editors: your English is as bad as your Perl. Please go back to grade school.
will be out soon - with fully articulating arms! And if you pull the string I'll say: "Nanotechnology - to infinity and beyond!"
Yeah, I'm that guy.
I did NOT ask Santa for a lump of coal :) Merry Christmas, all!
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It's OK to be social, just don't tell anyone about it.
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AHA! I knew it! Newton really is the true Messiah! No one believed me when I said that someone who could singlehandedly figure out all the laws of mechanics (within one frame of reference, yes...but still), invent higher math, and still have time to insert razors in his eye has to have some sort of divine intervention.....
I wish all a happy holiday season and prosperous New Year (sorry, the Millinium starts in another year). And would like to thank all the posters and story submiters for the education, I have been out of this for a few years and need your updating. Now I'm headed home to spend the day with my wife and daughter, working on holidays .....
Its so nice *not* to be told "Happy Holidays" (how boring). Merry Christmas to all.
I'm still working on a clever footer.
hey, i *did* get a shinny new dimm! you must be some kinda psychic or somthing :) happy holidays everyone.
Season's Greeting to everyone.
...and the time will have come. And the name shall be known... The Kylrathi Viper Clan.
Merry Christmas to everyone, including Bill Gates and family, and to all the hard working people writing non-GPL'ed software.
Pagans, it's Pagans... *sigh* :)
;)
Blessed be
On that note, I'm off to pick up a carless stepdaughter and her small children. Our living room will soon be a storm of small bodies, discarded wrapping paper, and food, food, food.
(My wife is a chronic holiday cook who always makes 10 times as much as we can actually eat...)
So Merry (your holiday here). Hope yours is as warm and joyful as ours.
- Robin
And Happy Holidays to all you intelligent posters out there.
(Hey Sony! I'd like an AIBO for Christmas!!!)
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon? :P)
(If you can't figure out how to E-Mail me, Don't.
dont forget the CHEESE GRITS!!!
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http://gammatron.weblogger.com
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For fun, I signed up a co-worker. I made an order in his name and address for one of each model :-)
;-)
The site never asked me for a credit card number. My co-worker claims to never have received any email from them (yeah, right
Christmas is worthless! It's not open source! and the technology that santa uses to serve billions of presents in one night is patented. Why, it's perfectly obvious how to make a sled move at millions of KPH. I think that we should sue Sant a for violating the GPL. And whil we're at it, let's flame N2H2 for the failure of their censorware to censor pictures of Santa pouring hot grits down Natalie Portman's pantss.
(I'm sorry. I know it's the Nth post of this type on slashdot. I couldn't help myself. Askama naked and pertified! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!)
Every Who
Down in Who-ville
Liked Christmas alot...
But the Grinch,
Who lived just north
of Who-ville,
Did NOT!
...Have a
Merry Christmas...
if you like that
sort of thing.!
--- Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas
I thought I would share some cheer, or at least laughter with all of you. I know many Slashdot readers have already found Strenua Inertia, but if you haven't, I suggest reading the current story arc.
The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.
Maybe there's hope for this planet after all?
Or maybe the flamers are just sleeping in? Hope not..
Merry Christmas all! Make it a good one...
Ender
Nothing to see here
Isaac Newton!!
To celebrate, I'm going up to the tallest tower I can find and drop large and small bowling balls off of it to reconfirm that all objects fall at the same rate!!!
P.S. Who is this Jesus shmoe that everyone is talking about? Never did anything for me.
P.P.S. Shabbat Shalom (Good Sabbath) and have a nice loooong Shabbos nap (the best type of nap there is) :-)
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
Festivus! A happy Festivus to all! May you survive the feats of strength and emerge victorious.
It turns out that the Norse God Thor is one of the sources of that complex sentance that we now call Santa Clause. And he used to give a lump of coal to stir the fires of imagination in those who needed it. That's the last thing we need from the ACs...or maybe it is a good thing...
ttyl
Farrell
A token Celt in an almost all Norse ADF Grove!
Silver Fox Grove, ADF
CAN-CON 2019 - Ottawa's only book oriented Science Fiction Convention! October 18-20, Sheraton Hotel, Ottawa, Canada h
from santa (open source man) and his elves (copyrighted undistributable open source natalie portman and open source drew barrymore, fat-time charlie, lubie and burgermayer), merry christmas. may your favorite hot young actresses be open sourced and your midgets all lubricating.
This year Santa left me a new IBM Aptiva under the tree. 500 PIII / 128 / 17 / 17" / 6x DVD / 4x4x8x CD-RW. Wow.....this is my best Christmas ever :)
Anyway, I'm celebrating the end of the world. I'll be spending Jan. 1, 2000 underground in my refournished Nuclear Bunker with my new computer, AK-47 and a bunch of Mountain Dew. I wonder what will come out of it.....
--Justin Mitchell
"2nd Place is a fancy word for losing" --Bender (Futurama)
what's up with the cheese man? people are gonna start thinking i started posting AC or somethin.
We at DoLinux.org want to wish all you slashdotters a Merry Christmas. 0ur present to you is the The Memory-HOWTO 1.0 which we just released. It discusses memory training techniques such as remembering names/faces, long-digit numbers, playing cards. It even shows you how to calculate rapidly the day of the week for any day in history..all in your head. :) Enjoy...
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Celebrate the finer things in life
Hope you all had a lovely night ;)
if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans
Hey! Flamboyant gays need love too! :P
Moderators: This is intended as a lighthearted joke. Before you -1 (Flamebait) me, think about it.
The best thing about this holiday is that it can trancend all faiths and walks of life.
It's really about the best human virtues:
Charity
Giving of oneself
Sacrifice for the sake of others
Loving you fellow human, no matter thier situation or short comings
All the Season's Best to all. Life is the best gift all of us are given. Go in Peace. God bless us all.
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
Did anyone else notice, or did Rob just refer to us as family. *sniff*
I love you guys.....
-Andy Martin
-Andy Martin
If y'all don't like me, blow me.
My gf who I had dated for 6 months and planned to marry broke up with me a few days ago, and started going out with some new guy the day after. She's spending Christmas with him now. Please add your own Christmas feel-sorry-for-yourself story. Misery loves company. :-)
Six days vacation
Non-stop kernal hackery
Two point four released soon
Have a great holiday season everyone!
Best of the season and the new year to all!
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Don't like it? Respond with words, not karma.
A hammer and a box of smurfs... ;-)
Or a couple new computers would be nice...
coincide is the word.
~anal retentive AC
Merry Xmas to you guys (and gals) too!
But I'm just 17 so I am still on the receiving end. I have another year of being a bum so I'm making the best of it.
Right now I am feeling awfully proud of this free software revolution... of what it has accomplished since 1986 (or whenever the exact year is). If there is anything like Christmas it would be the Free Software Movement. Sharing and caring for geek toys: software.
Santa has been good to me this year. With gnu/linux systems going mainstream and all... Hey, I used some of my Christmas money and bought a gnu/linux distribution... at Wal-Mart of all places. Especially in my town out in the middle of no where. A linux distribution in Wal-Mart... there may be hope of World Domination yet.
Well, these are my Christmas wishes for next season:
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope all of your Christmas wishes come true. I certainly hope so for mine.
Hahaha, those computer generated images of peple having intercourse with their computers is pretty amusing!
:)
... well?? They cant be serious about this can they?
Maybe we should raise some issues withe the company. Personally I would have thought the devices would be more convenient in their portable state, though this may compromise leverage.
Also, what about gay/lesbian models?
AI to control things and give a more random aspect?
What about if you cannot afford a connection to the internet, or dont have a partner? Can you elect to go it alone and leave things up to the software AI, or maybe control it with your keyboard?
How about support for an orgy? Follow the online tutorial to configure the software exactly the way you want it...what goes in whos mouth... the professional version even has support for one-to-many relationships! One mouth/orifice serves two or more... or vica versa!
The possibilities are endless! But somehow, I think for 599 + shipping and handling ill fall back on my right hand, as I have so many times before
PS: wow, that certainly is a prety amusing site. The things people will register domains for these days! But I suppose the domain creates the whole reality thing... it is all a spoof isnt it?
lol
Right back at ya pally.
__ While you sleep, I creep... gaining ground by the week.
Hey, there is nothing wrong with being a flamer. Flames can be amusing, thought provoking and sometimes even well written. Now spammers on the other hand... Screw them and the horses they road in on.
Of course, in my previous post I so foolishly forgot to address the one real important question:
:)
Is this device Y2K ready?
Wait, just as I wrote this I noticed that they indeed have done all the required testing for Y2K compliance of all their products.
BUT...The warrantly clearly states that:
"This warranty is void if:
....
c) if the device is subject to abuse, neglect, lighting strike, electrical fault, improper packaging, or accident;"
I guess I'll now have an excuse to buy that APC I've always wanted! When lightning strikes I'll be the one laughing... I wont have killed my $500 investment! (Though I could have lost allot more if I was actually using the device when the lightining hit
Ok I have bragging rights here and I intend to (ab)use them. I got a Palm V, a Got Root shirt, a Penguin polo shirt, 15 bucks for Borders (books n music, most likely oreilly), 5 for blockbuster (jackie chan flicks), and 145$ in cash, most likely going toward some dreamcast games and q3a linux, which I will install on freebsd 3.3-release http://www.freebsd.org/~3d/apps/games/ quake3 heres docs on it. I might be gettin a shweet GeForce card too to utterly kick MAJOR ARSE. JOO ALL FJEAR UNEEQ!
[w00t@freaky.bish]# rm
Can this 'Christmas' thing be Beowulfed? What would the performance benefits be. Has anyone patented it yet (they could be on to a gold mine!). Finally, is there an open source version of 'Christmas', I hear the Microsoft version has some odd bugs in it.
Well, I don't know how many of you are at work...maybe a few of you. But for money, right? To take care of someone perhaps, either way you are making some form of progress in the financial area. Me? I workin seven am to to seven am, twenty-four hours of my ass in a chairs typing away some random stuff on this computer. It'd be nice if I even had some work to do, but I'm just here to fill a slot. Those of you familiar with the military understand this and if you are a bitter ex-miltary, then don't degrade me for it. Sympathize, I plan on retiring out. Only 19 years and 3 months to go. Care to wager on it? Well, anyway, I loaned out all my money to various coworkers who needed to pay their phone bill to call their kids, or buy their kids a gift. I paid for the gifts. Register a van to go see your girlfriend, or buy the turkey she's been begging for...forget it, ill pay for the sixteen pound turkey. Damn, im out of cigarettes. Hey don't worry, owe me a carton. Out of gas, here's my coupon, out food, have this can of ravioli.... And I am the least paid in this battalion. Aw hell... ill live....who says i have to like it though....
Eisen ma sheisse.
May all have a Merry Christmas.
Resistance is futile. You will be commodified. Attack us with ideology and we will sell it as nostalgia.
so, i was lounging on the couch, flipping through the channels to see what i could find to watch. i happened upon msnbc, which was airing "time and again" - about star wars. after several minutes of interviews with george lucas, stories about people waiting in line, etc...
i beheld a vision...
i gasped...
an interview...
with...
NATALIE PORTMAN!
thanks, santa! wiping tear from eye
thank you.
To put a little light on the matter. Slashdot is not a .org never was!!! A couple of young jerks sucked a whole lot out of the OS community and then put it in their cocky little pockets. Then they sold out to this big Non-Open Source Company Andover.Net, who took their company public as a Linux Company and made good these so called gekky boys richer. So, it was a year when the king ran naked in the streets and we all applauded. These jerks are so cocky they still go around criticizing everyone else. The world has not changed, these guys just fooled a bunch of people, as BT Barnum said " There is a sucker born every day, and these dishonest hucksters are laughing on their way to the bank ! Rob-a special word for you!!! YOU SUCK!
I've got the same damn thing, along with about 75% of the people I know. There is a really nasty flu like disease everyone around me is getting. I feel like complete shit.
...cause we're all gonna DIE come 12:01AM.
Down with christmas! Its all about making a busy shopping season during the usual off season. Half the crap will probably be returned anyways. i will buy my friends gifts when i FEEL like it, not because im guilted into it. All i want this year is coal. Im getting everybody else the same thing i gave them last year - NOTHING.
The only person who relentlessly prevents me from coding yet still doesn't piss me off -- my 1.5 yr old daughter.
Merry Christmas everyone.
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But penguins are damned cute anyway...And they're the Linux mascot, therefore they can do whatever they want. Blessed Be from me too. :)
-You're wearing...A bag? I have misplaced my pants.
*Galileo* did that experiment. This "schmoe" Jesus was the person who warned us about the "Children of Hell" and their dualistic ethics that allows them to do evil against the rest of mankind.
Happy Festivus!!!!!!!!
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When the y2k flesh eating zombies come out, aim for the head.
Where are my GPFs? I WANT MY GPFS!!
Looks like the moderators have some Christmas spirit after all! ;)
Merry Christmas and Joyous Holidays to all!
Gee, my house burnt down last nite. Ever seen the sight of 12 melted servers? Its a sad sight. I feel like a certain Slashdot member.
"Where is my mind?"
Oh my God... It's Christmas, and they (moderators) mark down a "Merry Christmas".
Trust me, this WILL show up in Meta, and if I see it, it WILL be marked unfair.
Just because you moderators don't celebrate Christmas doesn't mean we don't. This isn't a topic where we're flaming Linux over BSD. This is the season for Good Will To Men. Obviously the moderators here don't recieve much of that good will.
(Posting AC because I don't want karma for this post, either way)
Was Q3A!!!! And I got it. Thanks Fry's Sacramento!
Hmmn.. I am trying to figure out something worthwhile to share with you all before I just say Merry Christmas! oops. Anyhow lets see..
Begins to think
Hmmn. AHA Okay so this is not really cool but I got a kick out of it today. Chirstmas Dinner at my Grandmothers. Come down from school (Ga Tech for the curios minded!:-). Am sitting there and I have a hacker wanna-be for an uncle. He was telling me all of the 'cool' software he has.. NT 4.0 etc. etc. heh. I said. Oh yeah.. I have all things Microsoft.. I have Office 2000! "Whoa! You can burn me a copy of that?" lol. I said hmmn How about I send you a nice copy of Redhat 6.0. (Then mentally thinking to myself.. listen to your screams as you fry your hard drive.) Anyhow That just didnt have much of a point did it?.. Bleh.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, Even if I cant think of anything useful to say.
Jeremy Allen
jallen@idminc.com
Merry Christmas to Rob, Jeff, the crews at Slashdot, BSI, and Andover.net (obviously they got something nice in their stocking!), and everyone that contributes to making Slashdot great. And, for those that don't celebrate Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Ramadan, Happy Midwinter's Day, or whatever you choose to celebrate at this time of year.
And let's all do what we can to ensure that 2000 will be The Year of The Penguin!
Eric (and Pamela)
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"Free your code...and the rest will follow."
Be who you are...and be it in style!
I knew it was Christmas (yesterday) but I completely forgot to open my present. Better ring the parents and thank them.
What are you reading this for? The joke's over!
Go 'way!
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
maybe this is offtopic, but there's areally nice Linux inspired Xmas Newyear card at Ecard.kinetic.be ... go check it out ! send it to you favorite geek !
mvg,
Kris "dJOEK" Vandecruys
Exercise caution when modding this message up: the author acts like a jerk when his karma is excellent.
Goodwill and peace to all
...or, at least, a bearable depressive episode.
;) )
(I think that covers everyone...