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  1. Re:What about some drinks like ... on Linux-powered Mobile Cocktail Mixer · · Score: 1

    Actually, there was an open source soda (OpenCola) once upon a time, but it was a marketing tool and the source has since disappeared. I had a pdf of it at some point.

  2. Missing Link? on The Rise of Cyber Bullying · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How come there's no link to these so called "invasive pictures"?

  3. Re:while they're at it on Lindows Announces Nvu - Frontpage For Linux? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you could make a Clippy with GDesklets. :o

  4. Re:I've done this... on Skittlebrau · · Score: 1

    Forgive me if I don't feel the need to imbibe something tasting akin to urine to prove the presence of my gonads. Heaven forbid I should actually *enjoy* my libations.

  5. I've done this... on Skittlebrau · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But not with beer. It actually goes really well with
    Smirnoff Ice. Does that color fizzy thing. You also get the white pebbles. They aren't crunchy though. Just really, really non-chewy. Hard. Me and my buddies used to get a six-pack (or a case, in some cases) and a bag of skittles, then pick our color.

  6. Re:This part needs a correction... on Magnatune - a Non-Evil Record Label? · · Score: 1

    Then, to be truly leet, you can do this:

    cat songlist.m3u | xargs wget

    (I got several hours of music from some site via this method.)

  7. Re:Mandrake on Gnome 2.4 Release(d) · · Score: 1

    If you're going to go that route, it should really be called ia32. (Since that is the official platform name. What, you think they just pulled IA-64 out of thin air?)

  8. Re:what about Gentoo? on Windows Is 'Insecure By Design,' Says Washington Post · · Score: 1

    Not hard, but it sure does take a long time. How about:

    apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

  9. Re:Central Boston not affected on Power Outages Strike East Coast · · Score: 1

    "the outage cascaded (whatever that means)."

    It means that if you have 100 generators, which can't handle the output demanded, they start to go down. Now you've got 90 generators trying to handle something that 100 couldn't. Hence, a cascade.

  10. Re:Sad.. on One Last New Episode of Futurama · · Score: 1

    That was an incidental, rather than restrictive, clause. Please, sir, learn English before bothering to post in it.

  11. Re:sad but on One Last New Episode of Futurama · · Score: 1

    Incidently, that episode was named "Homr"... kinda like "Charly" or whatever from a certain book. *cough*

  12. Hmmm... on ZigBee Low-Power Wireless Networking · · Score: 1, Funny

    Will ZigBee nodes be known as "Zigs"?

    TAKE OFF ALL ZIGS

    *ducks*

  13. Sphere on Scrolling Game Development Kit 1.4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    A while back, I used to work on the linux port of a 2d game engine/ide called Sphere. It's GPL, and has a whole crapload of features. It was originally intended for an RPG, but the engine is quite open-ended. (Someone wrote a 3D demo in it, I've done some mockup sidescrolling engines in it, etc.) There are also others in a similar vein like VERGE and Ika. Ika recently got a linux port.

  14. A Boycott Would Be *Bad* on Would a Boycott of the MPAA/RIAA Help Matters? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the boycott were at all successful, their sales would fall. If sales fall, whither the first blame? Pointing out the boycott as a reason would go ignored, they'd downplay the effectiveness. They could then point to the declining profits as an excuse to forward more DMCA-like evils.

    The power of the (RI,MP)AA derives from controlling the vast, vast majority of content. The only way to do away with it, or ever to lessen its hold is to get content creators to simply find ways to do without the corps. The internet can be a big help in this. Support non-RIAA artists! It may take a while, but their hold will lessen.

  15. Re:How about Berlin? on picoGUI: An X Alternative? · · Score: 1

    "it doesn't look like much has changed since February."

    That's because it's not Berlin anymore. It's Fresco. Last I heard, they were planning a new release of Fresco for this week.

  16. Why berlin? on picoGUI: An X Alternative? · · Score: 1

    We have Fresco! ;)

  17. Re:Printer on fire on Gnarly Error Messages · · Score: 1

    I remember when I was still using the BeOS, there was a function in the Be API: "bool is_computer_on_fire()"

  18. Re: real BSOD on Gnarly Error Messages · · Score: 1

    How did they get a screenshot of their computer crashing hardcore? ;)

  19. Wallops on #debian & IRC Politics · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Last I checked, the donation shit was on Wallop. Don't like it? /mode -w

    Simple as that.

  20. Re:Finally on NWN Linux Screenshots · · Score: 1

    COuld be be a misconfigured Wine? I can barely run StarCraft in Wine on a PIII-866 with 256MB of RAM.

  21. Toilet Tunes on Franklin's Glass Armonica · · Score: 1

    Once upon a time, I wanted to invent a musical instrument that would work by pouring water into a pool of varying depths, after noticing that one could make different tones by pissing in a different place of the toilet bowl.

  22. 1TB won't be anything ten years from now on One Terabyte On a 12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm Disk · · Score: 1

    It wasn't more than 10 years ago that I had my DOS 5 install on an 80MB HD. Back then, the thought of a HD actually being multiple GB was just insane. Now I sit here with my 110GB of HD, and terabyte storage doesn't seem so insane, in light of the past.

  23. VNV Nation on Electronic Music 101? · · Score: 2

    rules all! Awesome lyrics, awesome sound. I don't even really like electronica, but VNV makes my soul smile.

  24. Re:Using the Debian packages on GNOME 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I can't install nautilus. =( libnautilus2 complains that it can't find some gconf2 backend.

  25. And 5%... on Warcraft III Gone Gold · · Score: 1

    Will wonder how powerful a beowulf cluster of suns would be. ;D