I tried Ubuntu, briefly, on CD. Purty, but the sound of my drive in terminal thrash mode didn't inspire confidence. (Older hardware with limited ram, but it runs Slackware on HD or Knoppix on CD just dandy, thanks.)
The original rules and the suppliments (Greyhawk, Blackmoor, etc) all had Hobbit. I don't think they started stripping it out until the first Basic Set or AD&D. (Tolkein's estate was doing a periodic legal flexing, I think.)
Surely no one has tried a peanut butter suit since the Human Sh-t debacle many year ago? (1. peanut butter oils embed themselves in the skin. 2. It quickly goes extremely rank and nasty. 3. It rubs off on anything you brush against. 4. weapon of mass destruction against the peanut intollerant.) It's on the same Do Not Want list as using hot-melt glue to attach costume bits to flesh.
"Gremlins! Gremlins! I'm not imagining it, he's on the LAN! Don't look, he's not out there now. He swaps out whenever anyone might stat him, except me."
But it was all open system, a team of passengers would call up a development environment, find and patch the bug... ("Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking, is there a hacker on board?")
And backing that up, a hardware watchdog timer that'll force a reset/state recovery if not fed regularly.
That system probably started in the development pipeline a number of years ago, but these days, I'd question any system that used one central processor for all the consoles. An ARM9 Linux-onna-chip for each one shouldn't bump the unit cost much in quantity, and would be more rugged with much less complex network cabling (a major cost/safety issue on planes). There'd be network code involved rather than one fat problem^w program, but that's all off the shelf. Fly Beowulf!
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Just wait until they get it all setup for a run, go to lunch, and come back to find that Schrodinger's Cat might have been in the room!
Don't tell AOL about this. I, for one, do not welcome all the envelopes full of "starter" bacteria.
Pass me a bottle of that Gobi Gob, willya?
Too bad! We could probably figure a way to run cars on a giant reservoir of K-Y Jelly or Baby Oil.
The Finance Police did the whole black uniform bit, and I think the RTC's Inspector General Network carries on that tradition.
I tried Ubuntu, briefly, on CD. Purty, but the sound of my drive in terminal thrash mode didn't inspire confidence. (Older hardware with limited ram, but it runs Slackware on HD or Knoppix on CD just dandy, thanks.)
Just ship them with a Knoppix CD in the coffee-cup holder. No one will know the difference!
The original rules and the suppliments (Greyhawk, Blackmoor, etc) all had Hobbit. I don't think they started stripping it out until the first Basic Set or AD&D. (Tolkein's estate was doing a periodic legal flexing, I think.)
If they discover the holes at the poles to Pellucidar or have to attack the Nazi UFO bases, then it could happen--Better test them all!
Surely no one has tried a peanut butter suit since the Human Sh-t debacle many year ago? (1. peanut butter oils embed themselves in the skin. 2. It quickly goes extremely rank and nasty. 3. It rubs off on anything you brush against. 4. weapon of mass destruction against the peanut intollerant.) It's on the same Do Not Want list as using hot-melt glue to attach costume bits to flesh.
I thought that was already present in YIFF.
Time to update your laser pointers! The old ones only melt plastic, light matches and pop balloons.
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Are you sure that they didn't just customize the CE blue screen code to display that instead?
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Crashing the in-flight games?
That's a paddling."Gremlins! Gremlins! I'm not imagining it, he's on the LAN! Don't look, he's not out there now. He swaps out whenever anyone might stat him, except me."
But it was all open system, a team of passengers would call up a development environment, find and patch the bug... ("Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking, is there a hacker on board?")
And backing that up, a hardware watchdog timer that'll force a reset/state recovery if not fed regularly.
That system probably started in the development pipeline a number of years ago, but these days, I'd question any system that used one central processor for all the consoles. An ARM9 Linux-onna-chip for each one shouldn't bump the unit cost much in quantity, and would be more rugged with much less complex network cabling (a major cost/safety issue on planes). There'd be network code involved rather than one fat problem^w program, but that's all off the shelf. Fly Beowulf!
And when you compile the code in release, where is your friend now?
Maybe it's an ommminous hummmm?