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  1. Re:ahhh.... you obviously want... on Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down · · Score: 1

    I play War with only 52 cards.

  2. Bodhi Linux on Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down · · Score: 1

    I needed a fairly high performance up to date distro that would also run on hand-me-down machines, nice GUIs for the noobs, decent repositories, and would fit on a CD so I could give them away. Bodhi is...getting there.

  3. Re: with frickin' lasers! on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 1

    They called that the Widowmaker, due to its unpredictable aerodynamics caused by the small wings.

  4. Re:The victory of hydrogen over batteries inevitab on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    Puitting refueling stations everywhere for gasoline vehicles is equally impractical.

  5. Re:Who is the core audience for Windows? on Falling Windows RT Tablet Prices Signify Slow Adoption · · Score: 1

    If grandma wants a thin client, why not buy a Chromebook?

  6. Re:This is exactly the problem. on Falling Windows RT Tablet Prices Signify Slow Adoption · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he's the mayor of Detroit.

  7. "Congratulations. You have reached the end .... on Fairy Penguins Send First Email · · Score: 1

    ...of the Internet. Shut off your computer and go outside in the sun."

  8. Actually, this is a great idea on YouTube's Ready To Select a Winner · · Score: 1

    I mean, the part about deleting all the present videos. So they can start over, keeping only the best million or so.

  9. So, I just wanna know... on First Petaflop Supercomputer To Shut Down · · Score: 1

    How many FLOPs has it flipped over its career?

  10. Re:Hydrogen fuel cells are a dead end on New Catalyst Allows Cheaper Hydrogen Production · · Score: 1

    And if they figured out how to make cheap biobutanol, we could keep driving the cars we have now on it.

  11. Old hard drives? on Major Find By Japanese Scientists May Threaten Chinese Rare Earth Hegemony · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just collect the magnets out of old hard drives? I have a ton of them...OK, not that much...yet.

  12. Arduino + Ethernet = Nanode on Ask Slashdot: Why Buy a Raspberry Pi When I Have a Perfectly Good Cellphone? · · Score: 1

    After looking around for exactly what I wanted for a solar heater controller/logger, I bought a Nanode from Wicked Devices in Ithaca, NY, which has the network adapter right on the board. $40 kit.

  13. Are Aussies just stupid?? on Adobe To Australians: Fly To US For Cheaper Software · · Score: 1

    The price of Ubuntu, LibreOffice and Gimp is the same there as here.

  14. Re:More facetime on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: 0

    Ariana Huffington?

  15. Re:The problem with most environmentalist ideas on Why Earth Hour Is a Waste of Time and Energy · · Score: 1

    You only have one light bulb? And it's a CFL?

  16. XP? OK, then.... on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Set Up a Parent's PC? · · Score: 1

    Linux is your option. Probably Mint or Zorin. End of problem. Ten minutes instruction time, then see you at Thanksgiving, mom.

    Put Team Viewer on it, just in case.

  17. Re:Canonical swirling down to irrelevance. on Canonical Announces Mir: A New Display Server Not On X11 Or Wayland · · Score: 1

    Tried it, but "quickly fixed" also means "always a little broken".

    Back to regular Mint.

  18. Re: stranger than it sounds on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 1

    My asparagus only has to be shipped 30 meters. And I don't use a bike to ride out to the garden.

  19. Re:Tech Angle on Florida Sinkhole Highlights State's Geologic Instability · · Score: 1

    You can use ground penetrating radar or resistivity probes to find big voids. I've used both. The resistivity probe found 4 distinct layers of soil and rock, and the GPR went down 150feet to find mine tunnels and do a 3 dimensional image of them.

    Unfortunately, the builders lobby in Florida has outlawed requirements to scan before building, I'm told.

  20. Re:This is not news on Boeing Touts Fighter Jet To Rival F-35 — At Half the Price · · Score: 1

    And poutine.

  21. Re:Translation: We Don't Have Gigabit Fiber on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    I've been there, and they don't have traffic lights because they've been shot out. Got the hell out of there quick.

  22. Re:Supply-side fraud on 'This Is Your Second and Final Notice' Robocallers Revealed · · Score: 1

    We need to forward their address to every NRA member in central Florida and let the free market work.

  23. Re:Same old same old on How Sequestration Will Affect Federal Research Agencies · · Score: 1

    When a city wants more tax revenue, they threaten to close a fire station. When a school wants more money (e.g., for another vice principal or two), they threaten football.

  24. Re:FFS on Windows 7 Still Being Sold On Up To 93% of British PCs · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu 13.04 will be out before then.

  25. Re:Avoid the mess, use Ubuntu! on Windows 7 Still Being Sold On Up To 93% of British PCs · · Score: 1

    For the recent Windows escapee, Zorin or Mint might be better, to avoid traumatic shocks to their delicate psyches.
    Puppy, if you're converting an old XP machine.
    Bodhi or x/lubuntu, for the middle-aged Vista machine.