Maybe a lot of them already have bought the Windows version (perhaps before they converted to Linux!), and can't bother themselves to pay for the game twice?
Agreed, except you can get the Binaries for Quake 3 and for Unreal Tournament for Linux for free. They are avalible for download, so you can use your windows versions.
This is not the fault of TransGaming Technologies, but their voting page has some strange games on it. Since you can suggest games, and then vote on suggested games the community as a whole gets to choose what they like. Still, I find myself wondering just who is voting?
Half-Life and its derivatives are high on the list. I agree 100%. But so are:
Unreal Tournament (ported by Loki, free download)
Quake 3 Arena Quake 3 Team Arena (The team addon will upgrade the Linux version)
Starcraft (has run under wine for some time)
I just can't see why Linux users would vote for these (I guess that they do not know that they work under Linux?)
If you like Linux and you like gaming, you should check out Linuxgames now and again. You will be surprised at what you find.
(Now someone is going to argue a point on those games, but I see it as a waste of time to fix something that is not broken. Unreal Tournament for Linux will run faster on Linux than Unreal Tournament for Windows through Wine on Linux any day.)
Heh, when I was posting I had stileproject open in another window, I looked at it, thought if I had it on a T-shirt it would be funny (but tastless) and opted out of inculding the link.
I know my male friends would find it funny, but I bet I would be crucified by my female friends (and they are the ones who are more important to impress!:)
I love to wear one of my Linux shirts from Copyleft there is a small picture of Tux on the front, and a quote from Torvalds on the back: "The Linux Motto is 'Fear no danger.' Oops, wait, 'Do it yourself, that's it.'"
I was surprised by the reaction to the shirt, it went over very well even among non-geeks.
I had been looking for one with the following quote: "Software is like sex, its better when its free." I can't find one anywhere so I think I will have to make my own. (Do it yourself, that's it!)
As I look up on my bookshelf, amongst no less than 30 O'Reilly books (geek bragging:) I have Using Samba. If you take a look at that link you will notice that there are two links off of it, one in HTML and the other in PDF format. This should not be a surprise to most/.ers. O'Reilly has been big on this for some time.
Still, I began reading Using Samba online, and after reading much of it I grabbed the book because it was so useful, sure, I can load it into my palm pilot, but that is a pain in the ass. I suppose I could print it out too, but I prefer dead-tree form.
The other advantage to this is of course that when I am working on a server I don't have the book with me on location, so I fire up a browser and read.
I also purchased The Unix CD Bookshelf. I already have Unix Power Tools in dead-tree format, but being able to search the HTML version is very handy. Sure, I know where to get the warez version of this CD, and maybe the purchased edition comes with Unix in a Nutshell as a bonus, but I bought the set because it was valuable to me, and I support O'Reilly. Does having books online increase readership? I certanly think so, my friend who has both of the O'Reilly CD compilations that he got from Warez Ftp has not read them, well, he claims he read Building Internet firewalls, and TCP/IP Network Administration. But then again, he also claims that he read Running Linux in one day and grokked it all (yet he can't seem to use a bash prompt very well...)The truth is, he hardly got anything out of the online versions, I do, but I mainly use the online material for reference, not for general reading.
There is no doubt in my mind that O'Reillys decision to place some of their books on the web for download (or in plain HTML on CD) has greatly increased my purchase of their books.
There was a previous story on Slashdot about the Sydney Olympics and how the IOC would not allow the events to be web cast. I remember something else too about the IOC trying to ban ALL internet webcasting of Olympic content for the next 10 years or so, but I could not dredge up links on that.
Its amazing how fast they can perform an about face on this issue. Sadly, I would have thought that webcasting is the best solution to the Olympics. There are multiple sports at multiple times, and the sports that I like to watch are not always broadcast on TV, which sucks. (Whitewater Kayaking for example, I got to see *NONE* of it.)
I always thought that the olympics were about Sports and competition, and that you should be able to watch the athletes or countries or sports that you like, and not be spoon-fed the "important" events by the major networks. I guess I was wrong.
Maybe Yahoo broadcasting this will change things, but somehow I doubt it.
(Not that I actually know what "w00t" is refrenced from, I have seen it on IRC and quake so I will use it here...)
This makes my day. Cool cool. Now if AMD will only get the SMP Athlon chipset out the door my year will be made!
Does anyone out in Slashdot land have an idea on when the SMP Athlon chipset will come out? AMD keeps mentioning it but I have yet too see a projected release date.
I see these constant Slashdot references to Cowboy Neal and the only real-world relevance I can seem to find is a Neal Cassidy who was an author of somekind. (At least that's what I find with Google)
I wish I knew enough to have an opinion about Cowboy Neal.
I use a Matrox Dual Head G400 Max (Yes, its AGP so its not affected by the bug) with two 17" monitors. I use Multiple desktops in Linux, and now I can use Multiple desktops in Windows as well. Still, what is the big deal right? this is the big deal. Take a look at those UT screenshots on FIVE monitors. Sure, I have the ability to use the dual with my 17" monitors, and I do (like the shots of Quake 1 and 3 below), but five? Not yet, but you can be damn sure I am thinking about it. I have enough monitors and cards to do it too.
So, the "big deal" is that this bug prevents me from doing what I would like.
In a related note Segan's "Deamon Haunted World", published a few years before his death, is wonderful.
"Wonderful" is clearly the understatement of the year. The book took me 3 months to read, and its not all that long of a book. It took me some time because the book does what few can, and it actually makes you think.
The chapters that are my particular favorites are "The Baloney Detection Kit" and "Dragon in my Garage" The Baloney Detection Kit can be found on the internet as well here is one link. Anyone whom I respect has a grasp of the kit and how it works, while they may not know of the kit directly, they use its rules just the same.
I was shocked when I went into Costco here in Canada yesterday. There are some CD/MP3 players on the shelf for $140 Cdn. They play CD/CD-R/and CD-RW. I have never heard of (nor can I remember) the company that makes them, but it looks to me like the wave of them is just about to arrive. The only reason I did not buy one is that I currently use a pentium 120 Laptop as my MP3 player for my car, and the player at Costco plays 32-128 bit encoded MP3's, and I like my MP3's at at least 160 bit.
Looks like the wave is going to come down, if these things are in Costco now, they will be everywhere in the next 3 months.
I agree. MS dislikes piracy because it chokes a stream of their revenue, and, lets face it, like MS or not pirating their software is hardly "right". Still, at the same time piracy helps MS get thier products into markets just like you said. If support or legit work, or, if MS decides to audit your buisness, you need a real copy.
MS would like to get $$$ from each person who pirated thier software, but ultimately, the pirates who (often claim they do it because they hate MS, yet still use the products.... (???)) So, I agree, MS factors piracy in as a segment of the marketing machine. Every pirate of MS software is still USING MS software.
It disgusts me that a corporation (film/music industry) can become so powerful as to place limits on me that I _MAY_ break, but have not yet. I agree on the principle of copywrite and protection, but not on this method. Not at all.
From the register article it mentions that one meg of the hard drive (similar to the MBR?) that is not "normally" user accesable would contain the encryption ID and keys. I don't know about the rest of the people out there, but if this takes hold I wonder how long it is before a hack comes along that disables this "feature". I am not talking about disabling this "feature" for the purposes of pirating software/movies/MP3's I am reffering to the fact that these drives won't be compatible with current non-protected drives.
Are people going to buy these things? Hell, even Microsoft opposes the idea (and I don't even want to think about the tech-support issues involved).
The Register always has interesting information but I will believe that the industry is going this way when I see it. And if it does happen, a hack is not far behind.
If you're a hardcore Tolkein fan, or just somebody who's very interested in the creative process, it's fascinating to see how the stories developed over time. What is particularly interesting is the way in which elements that were minor and trivial in the earliest versions gradually became more important, and vice versa.
Although if you do read those books you will probably be shocked to find out that Strider was originally called "Trotter" and "Trotter" was a Hobbit and not a Numenorian. An incredible read, for the hardcore fan, but it does put a little ding in the magic...
No argument here. Of course, IMO The Silmarillion is a stinker; It's more like an intellectual exercise than anything else to me, using the "Holy" Bible as sample material, with a bunch of Begats and whatnot. About as exciting as watching flies copulate. Your mileage may vary, of course. Anyway, I have hopes (though perhaps not high ones) for the LotR movies coming out, which at least seem to have the heart in the right place.
Tolken never actually finished the Silmarillion. If I remember correctly he actually wrote it _BEFORE_ LOTR and then after writing LOTR he thought the Silmarillion to be inaccurate and not meriting up to LOTR. It is interesting when you look at it in context though;
The Hobbit: A Childrens story, quite an easy read.
The Lord Of The Rings: Far more graphic and epic in construct than the Hobbit. (JRRT had to re-write about 15 pages of the Hobbit to make it work with LOTR)The language has more influence from Old and Middle English than the Hobbit by far.
The Silmarillion: Like you said, a rewrite of the Bible for Middle Earth, based very strongly on Old and Middle English, a far tougher read.
I have always been a huge fan of Tolkein, but I always had trouble getting into the Silmarillion, it was just too boring for me. Then I had to read Beowulf (and not one of the newer translations that are really easy to read), and after that, I picked up the Silmarillion and found that it read like a cheap pulp novel. I read the damn thing in one sitting, and I had never managed to finish it before.
You can lambast JRRT's work in some areas like character development (LOTR needs more) and general constrution (Silmarillion was unfinished), but JRRT's ability to write within the framework of Old/Middle English, is IMO, unmached.
As discussed in the book Cracking DES chips specifically made to handle the DES algorithm are much faster than Alpha or X86 chips at cracking (brute force) the DES code. I don't know if this method applies to DNA, but my guess is that it might.
Using a similar method as outlined in the book, I suspect that chips that are custom built to understand DNA and how it acts (or at least the inherant algorithms that will be used in studying DNA)are possible to build. Ironically, they probably will not be built until we understand genes and DNA better than we currently do. Once machines like this start to be built, how far off will we be from the machines described in Michael Chritons book Jurassic Park? Some scientists have purposed that it will take 100 years to understand the human genome (or other genomes) perhaps, but I think we are closer than that.
Well, hey, this guy hijacked an unsecured server and sent spam, therefore we should hold him for 5 years without trial. (Remember to use Gestapo techniques to get him to wave his rights first).
You have to be careful of people like this, I bet this spammer can whistle into a telephone and take over all the sendmail servers world wide. Heck, keep him away from a AM/FM walkman too, because he could break into the wardens office and start sending spam with the walkman and the wardens computer!!!
(For those of you about to slap me with a -1 Offtopic rating, you may want to read a little about Mitnick and realize that I am not offtopic.)
Perhaps, but if you have ever run nmap on a Open BSD machine you will see that the TCP sequence prediction comes back scrambled. Nmap cannot make an OS detection, only an OS guess.
I can't see them investing the time in creating an entirely new (read, untested) operating system from scratch. It makes far more sense to re-use code because it is faster to write, and any potential exploits on old code are likely to have been discovered already.
New and untested code could be vunerable in ways that they never considered, this is why I thought that they would use Open BSD or a spinoff of some open system as a starting point. I am not suggesting that they use an out-of-box BSD install, but rather used BSD as a starting point to build on top of.
The article does not say what OS(s) they use, only that they dropped Solaris, and they dont use anything by Microsoft or Netscape (now AOL). (Heh, it would be rather funny if they used AOL to connect to the internet... But I digress.)
I wonder what the odds are that they use something like Open BSD? Its similar enough to Solaris (Only BSD init as opposed to sysV) and they have the source code. Still, the article says that they don't use any "commercial" products, does that mean that they code thier own, including the operating system? I doubt it, while they might have their own in house apps, I bet that the OS is open source and widely avalible, I am willing to bet that its Open BSD. It would have been great to ask Theo on the Ask Slashdot that was here recently, but then, I doubt if Theo would know if the DoD is using his little BSD system anyhow...
This reminds me of the kernel patch that is out that allows you to use your joystick to properly shutdown your system in the event of keyboard/network lockout.
I wonder if this is in the Dreamcast kernel?
Bob: "Hey, you have to see this great combo I mastered for Ryu!"
Bill: "Ok, fire away!"
Bob: "Ok, Up, Up, Down, Down-Left, Back, A+B"
Linux: "This system is going down for a reboot NOW!"
Bob: "Err, oops."
Slashdot Mirror
For a group of people who are calling it quits, we slashdotted that server really quickly.
Damn Linux zealots, taking out the messenger with their last gasp!!!
(In case you did not notice, that is a joke. Anyone have a mirror?)
Maybe a lot of them already have bought the Windows version (perhaps before they converted to Linux!), and can't bother themselves to pay for the game twice?
Agreed, except you can get the Binaries for Quake 3 and for Unreal Tournament for Linux for free. They are avalible for download, so you can use your windows versions.
Previously on slashdot: Dreamcast Runs Linux.
Oh, and it runs games or something too. So I have heard.
This is not the fault of TransGaming Technologies, but their voting page has some strange games on it. Since you can suggest games, and then vote on suggested games the community as a whole gets to choose what they like. Still, I find myself wondering just who is voting?
Half-Life and its derivatives are high on the list. I agree 100%. But so are:
Unreal Tournament (ported by Loki, free download)
Quake 3 Arena Quake 3 Team Arena (The team addon will upgrade the Linux version)
Starcraft (has run under wine for some time)
I just can't see why Linux users would vote for these (I guess that they do not know that they work under Linux?)
If you like Linux and you like gaming, you should check out Linuxgames now and again. You will be surprised at what you find.
(Now someone is going to argue a point on those games, but I see it as a waste of time to fix something that is not broken. Unreal Tournament for Linux will run faster on Linux than Unreal Tournament for Windows through Wine on Linux any day.)
Heh, when I was posting I had stileproject open in another window, I looked at it, thought if I had it on a T-shirt it would be funny (but tastless) and opted out of inculding the link.
:)
I know my male friends would find it funny, but I bet I would be crucified by my female friends (and they are the ones who are more important to impress!
I love to wear one of my Linux shirts from Copyleft there is a small picture of Tux on the front, and a quote from Torvalds on the back: "The Linux Motto is 'Fear no danger.' Oops, wait, 'Do it yourself, that's it.'"
I was surprised by the reaction to the shirt, it went over very well even among non-geeks.
I had been looking for one with the following quote: "Software is like sex, its better when its free." I can't find one anywhere so I think I will have to make my own. (Do it yourself, that's it!)
As I look up on my bookshelf, amongst no less than 30 O'Reilly books (geek bragging :) I have Using Samba. If you take a look at that link you will notice that there are two links off of it, one in HTML and the other in PDF format. This should not be a surprise to most /.ers. O'Reilly has been big on this for some time.
Still, I began reading Using Samba online, and after reading much of it I grabbed the book because it was so useful, sure, I can load it into my palm pilot, but that is a pain in the ass. I suppose I could print it out too, but I prefer dead-tree form.
The other advantage to this is of course that when I am working on a server I don't have the book with me on location, so I fire up a browser and read.
I also purchased The Unix CD Bookshelf. I already have Unix Power Tools in dead-tree format, but being able to search the HTML version is very handy. Sure, I know where to get the warez version of this CD, and maybe the purchased edition comes with Unix in a Nutshell as a bonus, but I bought the set because it was valuable to me, and I support O'Reilly. Does having books online increase readership? I certanly think so, my friend who has both of the O'Reilly CD compilations that he got from Warez Ftp has not read them, well, he claims he read Building Internet firewalls, and TCP/IP Network Administration. But then again, he also claims that he read Running Linux in one day and grokked it all (yet he can't seem to use a bash prompt very well...)The truth is, he hardly got anything out of the online versions, I do, but I mainly use the online material for reference, not for general reading.
There is no doubt in my mind that O'Reillys decision to place some of their books on the web for download (or in plain HTML on CD) has greatly increased my purchase of their books.
There was a previous story on Slashdot about the Sydney Olympics and how the IOC would not allow the events to be web cast. I remember something else too about the IOC trying to ban ALL internet webcasting of Olympic content for the next 10 years or so, but I could not dredge up links on that.
Its amazing how fast they can perform an about face on this issue. Sadly, I would have thought that webcasting is the best solution to the Olympics. There are multiple sports at multiple times, and the sports that I like to watch are not always broadcast on TV, which sucks. (Whitewater Kayaking for example, I got to see *NONE* of it.)
I always thought that the olympics were about Sports and competition, and that you should be able to watch the athletes or countries or sports that you like, and not be spoon-fed the "important" events by the major networks. I guess I was wrong.
Maybe Yahoo broadcasting this will change things, but somehow I doubt it.
(Not that I actually know what "w00t" is refrenced from, I have seen it on IRC and quake so I will use it here...)
This makes my day. Cool cool. Now if AMD will only get the SMP Athlon chipset out the door my year will be made!
Does anyone out in Slashdot land have an idea on when the SMP Athlon chipset will come out? AMD keeps mentioning it but I have yet too see a projected release date.
We all think Cowboy Neal is a big dick.
I see these constant Slashdot references to Cowboy Neal and the only real-world relevance I can seem to find is a Neal Cassidy who was an author of somekind. (At least that's what I find with Google)
I wish I knew enough to have an opinion about Cowboy Neal.
I do.
I use a Matrox Dual Head G400 Max (Yes, its AGP so its not affected by the bug) with two 17" monitors. I use Multiple desktops in Linux, and now I can use Multiple desktops in Windows as well. Still, what is the big deal right? this is the big deal. Take a look at those UT screenshots on FIVE monitors. Sure, I have the ability to use the dual with my 17" monitors, and I do (like the shots of Quake 1 and 3 below), but five? Not yet, but you can be damn sure I am thinking about it. I have enough monitors and cards to do it too.
So, the "big deal" is that this bug prevents me from doing what I would like.
In a related note Segan's "Deamon Haunted World", published a few years before his death, is wonderful.
"Wonderful" is clearly the understatement of the year. The book took me 3 months to read, and its not all that long of a book. It took me some time because the book does what few can, and it actually makes you think.
The chapters that are my particular favorites are "The Baloney Detection Kit" and "Dragon in my Garage" The Baloney Detection Kit can be found on the internet as well here is one link. Anyone whom I respect has a grasp of the kit and how it works, while they may not know of the kit directly, they use its rules just the same.
I was shocked when I went into Costco here in Canada yesterday. There are some CD/MP3 players on the shelf for $140 Cdn. They play CD/CD-R/and CD-RW. I have never heard of (nor can I remember) the company that makes them, but it looks to me like the wave of them is just about to arrive. The only reason I did not buy one is that I currently use a pentium 120 Laptop as my MP3 player for my car, and the player at Costco plays 32-128 bit encoded MP3's, and I like my MP3's at at least 160 bit.
Looks like the wave is going to come down, if these things are in Costco now, they will be everywhere in the next 3 months.
Its about damn time.
I agree. MS dislikes piracy because it chokes a stream of their revenue, and, lets face it, like MS or not pirating their software is hardly "right". Still, at the same time piracy helps MS get thier products into markets just like you said. If support or legit work, or, if MS decides to audit your buisness, you need a real copy.
MS would like to get $$$ from each person who pirated thier software, but ultimately, the pirates who (often claim they do it because they hate MS, yet still use the products.... (???)) So, I agree, MS factors piracy in as a segment of the marketing machine. Every pirate of MS software is still USING MS software.
It disgusts me that a corporation (film/music industry) can become so powerful as to place limits on me that I _MAY_ break, but have not yet. I agree on the principle of copywrite and protection, but not on this method. Not at all.
From the register article it mentions that one meg of the hard drive (similar to the MBR?) that is not "normally" user accesable would contain the encryption ID and keys. I don't know about the rest of the people out there, but if this takes hold I wonder how long it is before a hack comes along that disables this "feature". I am not talking about disabling this "feature" for the purposes of pirating software/movies/MP3's I am reffering to the fact that these drives won't be compatible with current non-protected drives.
Are people going to buy these things? Hell, even Microsoft opposes the idea (and I don't even want to think about the tech-support issues involved).
The Register always has interesting information but I will believe that the industry is going this way when I see it. And if it does happen, a hack is not far behind.
If you're a hardcore Tolkein fan, or just somebody who's very interested in the creative process, it's fascinating to see how the stories developed over time. What is particularly interesting is the way in which elements that were minor and trivial in the earliest versions gradually became more important, and vice versa.
Although if you do read those books you will probably be shocked to find out that Strider was originally called "Trotter" and "Trotter" was a Hobbit and not a Numenorian. An incredible read, for the hardcore fan, but it does put a little ding in the magic...
No argument here. Of course, IMO The Silmarillion is a stinker; It's more like an intellectual exercise than anything else to me, using the "Holy" Bible as sample material, with a bunch of Begats and whatnot. About as exciting as watching flies copulate. Your mileage may vary, of course. Anyway, I have hopes (though perhaps not high ones) for the LotR movies coming out, which at least seem to have the heart in the right place.
Tolken never actually finished the Silmarillion. If I remember correctly he actually wrote it _BEFORE_ LOTR and then after writing LOTR he thought the Silmarillion to be inaccurate and not meriting up to LOTR. It is interesting when you look at it in context though;
The Hobbit: A Childrens story, quite an easy read.
The Lord Of The Rings: Far more graphic and epic in construct than the Hobbit. (JRRT had to re-write about 15 pages of the Hobbit to make it work with LOTR)The language has more influence from Old and Middle English than the Hobbit by far.
The Silmarillion: Like you said, a rewrite of the Bible for Middle Earth, based very strongly on Old and Middle English, a far tougher read.
I have always been a huge fan of Tolkein, but I always had trouble getting into the Silmarillion, it was just too boring for me. Then I had to read Beowulf (and not one of the newer translations that are really easy to read), and after that, I picked up the Silmarillion and found that it read like a cheap pulp novel. I read the damn thing in one sitting, and I had never managed to finish it before.
You can lambast JRRT's work in some areas like character development (LOTR needs more) and general constrution (Silmarillion was unfinished), but JRRT's ability to write within the framework of Old/Middle English, is IMO, unmached.
As discussed in the book Cracking DES chips specifically made to handle the DES algorithm are much faster than Alpha or X86 chips at cracking (brute force) the DES code. I don't know if this method applies to DNA, but my guess is that it might.
Using a similar method as outlined in the book, I suspect that chips that are custom built to understand DNA and how it acts (or at least the inherant algorithms that will be used in studying DNA)are possible to build. Ironically, they probably will not be built until we understand genes and DNA better than we currently do. Once machines like this start to be built, how far off will we be from the machines described in Michael Chritons book Jurassic Park? Some scientists have purposed that it will take 100 years to understand the human genome (or other genomes) perhaps, but I think we are closer than that.
I goofed up that #include... Damn HTML formatting...
*Sigh* thats what I get for trying to get an ontopic and funny first post.
(Yeah yeah, mod me down because you can, but you know it would be more ontopic to spam me than mod me down....)
To: Bob.C
From: GCC
#include
int main(void)
{
printf("Hello, spam!");
return 0;
}
Well, hey, this guy hijacked an unsecured server and sent spam, therefore we should hold him for 5 years without trial. (Remember to use Gestapo techniques to get him to wave his rights first).
You have to be careful of people like this, I bet this spammer can whistle into a telephone and take over all the sendmail servers world wide. Heck, keep him away from a AM/FM walkman too, because he could break into the wardens office and start sending spam with the walkman and the wardens computer!!!
(For those of you about to slap me with a -1 Offtopic rating, you may want to read a little about Mitnick and realize that I am not offtopic.)
Perhaps, but if you have ever run nmap on a Open BSD machine you will see that the TCP sequence prediction comes back scrambled. Nmap cannot make an OS detection, only an OS guess.
I can't see them investing the time in creating an entirely new (read, untested) operating system from scratch. It makes far more sense to re-use code because it is faster to write, and any potential exploits on old code are likely to have been discovered already.
New and untested code could be vunerable in ways that they never considered, this is why I thought that they would use Open BSD or a spinoff of some open system as a starting point. I am not suggesting that they use an out-of-box BSD install, but rather used BSD as a starting point to build on top of.
The article does not say what OS(s) they use, only that they dropped Solaris, and they dont use anything by Microsoft or Netscape (now AOL). (Heh, it would be rather funny if they used AOL to connect to the internet... But I digress.)
I wonder what the odds are that they use something like Open BSD? Its similar enough to Solaris (Only BSD init as opposed to sysV) and they have the source code. Still, the article says that they don't use any "commercial" products, does that mean that they code thier own, including the operating system? I doubt it, while they might have their own in house apps, I bet that the OS is open source and widely avalible, I am willing to bet that its Open BSD. It would have been great to ask Theo on the Ask Slashdot that was here recently, but then, I doubt if Theo would know if the DoD is using his little BSD system anyhow...
This reminds me of the kernel patch that is out that allows you to use your joystick to properly shutdown your system in the event of keyboard/network lockout.
I wonder if this is in the Dreamcast kernel?
Bob: "Hey, you have to see this great combo I mastered for Ryu!"
Bill: "Ok, fire away!"
Bob: "Ok, Up, Up, Down, Down-Left, Back, A+B"
Linux: "This system is going down for a reboot NOW!"
Bob: "Err, oops."