Someone screwed up at the plant where I worked. About seven years ago, we used to use ky jelly (water soluble) in our laser drilling operation to mask certain areas of the item to be drilled. Someone accidentally ordered a *skid* of KY in 8 50-gallon drums.
That is 400 gallons of america's slitheriest water-based lubricant. Even Mr. Goatse would be overwhelmed.
Within a few weeks they switched to a wax based system. We still have the KY.
I lucked out and got the full compliment of phlanges, and I _still_ don't like wheelmice. I have hoarded a mess of old PS/2 Mouseman ergo-mice from Logitech. I have thought seriously about gutting a newer USB led mouse and sticking it's innards in one of my Mouseman bodies, but fear that chimera would be a pain to get working.
I have purchased a Happy Hacking Keyboard to go with the Mouseman and have had many fewer cases of RSI flareups. (Wouldn't be much help to anyone not living in vi all day!:-)
The Mouseman narrows considerably toward the base of the palm and has large buttons that follow the contours of your hand at rest. You might want to give one of them a try if your unusual finger configuration gives you fits.
True. I have a 64mb JumpDrive that has survived repteated washings (and dryings!) to no ill effect. The hardest thing I've ever had to do with it is type "mount/dev/sda1/mountpoint" to get it working. Mandrake sees it immediately.
Same with my new Nokia 3300 phone. It seems that usb storage is usb storage is usb storage. A definite Good Thing. (Now if I could just find the name of the standard so I stop sounding like a dork....)
Not unlike pretty people paid to talk up "malt beverages", clothes etc. in trendy bars.
Or perhaps the article is the ad, trying to astroturf concupiscent sharing of a stranger's music as the founding hippies of Apple once shared bodily fluids and doobage.
I think the Funky (Funky Fantom / Phunky Phantom) Phantom also used that as a tag line. (I beleive that he and snag were both done by Daws Butler...
(clickety clickety)
Yep.
Yup. Cheap shampoo and "Cream Rinse" contain stearyl alcohol, and desperate alkys will *definitely* drink it. An old GF of mine was a social worker in Madison, WI for 10 years. She told me of the cream rinse trick, as well as sucking the alcohol from medical waste (think cotton balls).
AT&T:Sauron. They created The One Ring (Unix), tried to use it to exert a hold over thousands of licensees, but lost it inadvertently (to the public domain and the valiant Berkeley).
SCO:Gollum. They got a hold of the Ring, they're convinced it's "My Preciousss..." and will make their lives wonderful, yet they are essentially unable to do anything powerful with it. They are also schizophrenic, having one happy Caldera personality that wants to be friends with Linux users and one evil The SCO Group personality that wants to kill them all.
Torvalds:Wizard. RMS would fit here too- Perhaps Linus as Gandalf and RMS as Radaghast the Brown- equally powerful, but one concentrating on hobbits and the other on birdies.
Red Hat:Humans you aren't sure you can trust.
BSD:Dwarves that can kick anyone's ass but are more content with chillin' in the mountains.
Ibm:Elves that you're pretty sure are on your side...
Mac OS:Hobbits. You think that you know them, that they're "mostly harmless" cuddly and cute, and serves no real purpose; but then, one day one goes off and steals from a dragon.
I humbly submit that this be called the XaoRoyMne Theory of Unix Races.
about SCO was not evident at the Novell/IBM/SuSe/Ximian meet I attended in Indy yesterday.
As a group the reps seemed a little too professional to actually descend into snorts of derision, and it was interesting to see the old-timey Novell guys in the audience actually entusiastic for a change.
We have both the 4NT shell and cygwin utilities installed by default on the W2k boxes at *ENORMOUS CORPORATION*. 4NT is head and shoulders above CMD, what with it's command completion, multi-tasking etc... but I still prefer the bash shell: more flexible.
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Wow! That would look uber-cool mit der sprite tubes!
Someone screwed up at the plant where I worked. About seven years ago, we used to use ky jelly (water soluble) in our laser drilling operation to mask certain areas of the item to be drilled. Someone accidentally ordered a *skid* of KY in 8 50-gallon drums.
That is 400 gallons of america's slitheriest water-based lubricant. Even Mr. Goatse would be overwhelmed.
Within a few weeks they switched to a wax based system. We still have the KY.
Hi Jason,
I got an unresolved hostname from your link. Added "www" and connected.
I would wager that these mice are super comfortable, being so ugly and all! :-)
"With a name like 'Painful Rectal Itch' it's gotta be good!"
I lucked out and got the full compliment of phlanges, and I _still_ don't like wheelmice. I have hoarded a mess of old PS/2 Mouseman ergo-mice from Logitech. I have thought seriously about gutting a newer USB led mouse and sticking it's innards in one of my Mouseman bodies, but fear that chimera would be a pain to get working.
:-)
I have purchased a Happy Hacking Keyboard to go with the Mouseman and have had many fewer cases of RSI flareups. (Wouldn't be much help to anyone not living in vi all day!
The Mouseman narrows considerably toward the base of the palm and has large buttons that follow the contours of your hand at rest. You might want to give one of them a try if your unusual finger configuration gives you fits.
I had this image of a ufo zeroing in on a Super Target.
True. I have a 64mb JumpDrive that has survived repteated washings (and dryings!) to no ill effect. The hardest thing I've ever had to do with it is type "mount /dev/sda1 /mountpoint" to get it working. Mandrake sees it immediately.
Same with my new Nokia 3300 phone. It seems that usb storage is usb storage is usb storage. A definite Good Thing. (Now if I could just find the name of the standard so I stop sounding like a dork....)
So that would be a Buttcasm?
Insert obligatory goatse link here...
Perhaps it is.
Not unlike pretty people paid to talk up "malt beverages", clothes etc. in trendy bars.
Or perhaps the article is the ad, trying to astroturf concupiscent sharing of a stranger's music as the founding hippies of Apple once shared bodily fluids and doobage.
He should have changed his name to "John Cougar Humperdinck". That would have been better.
I think the "non cash" income the parent was referring to meant having some sort of traceable income that you could wave in the face of the IRS.
I.E. "I work 9 hours a week in a restaraunt, claim that I make $650.00 in tips, plus my $6.00 an hour. What can I say? I'm a helluva server!"
I think the Funky (Funky Fantom / Phunky Phantom) Phantom also used that as a tag line. (I beleive that he and snag were both done by Daws Butler... (clickety clickety) Yep.
Hear! Hear!
Yup. Cheap shampoo and "Cream Rinse" contain stearyl alcohol, and desperate alkys will *definitely* drink it. An old GF of mine was a social worker in Madison, WI for 10 years. She told me of the cream rinse trick, as well as sucking the alcohol from medical waste (think cotton balls).
Bleah.
AT&T: Sauron. They created The One Ring (Unix), tried to use it to exert a hold over thousands of licensees, but lost it inadvertently (to the public domain and the valiant Berkeley).
SCO: Gollum. They got a hold of the Ring, they're convinced it's "My Preciousss..." and will make their lives wonderful, yet they are essentially unable to do anything powerful with it. They are also schizophrenic, having one happy Caldera personality that wants to be friends with Linux users and one evil The SCO Group personality that wants to kill them all.
Torvalds: Wizard. RMS would fit here too- Perhaps Linus as Gandalf and RMS as Radaghast the Brown- equally powerful, but one concentrating on hobbits and the other on birdies.
Red Hat: Humans you aren't sure you can trust.
BSD: Dwarves that can kick anyone's ass but are more content with chillin' in the mountains.
Ibm: Elves that you're pretty sure are on your side...
Mac OS: Hobbits. You think that you know them, that they're "mostly harmless" cuddly and cute, and serves no real purpose; but then, one day one goes off and steals from a dragon.
I humbly submit that this be called the XaoRoyMne Theory of Unix Races.
Cardea looks like a Motie as realized by Gyro Gearloose. Friendly.
Guido in a thong. brrrr!
Check your spelling for crying out loud! I nearly benastied myself!
Whoa nellie! Is that blue thing in the forground someone's giant stomache? Hypertrophied smurf or summat...
It was a pretty good meet, although the realtors definitely had better food...
about SCO was not evident at the Novell/IBM/SuSe/Ximian meet I attended in Indy yesterday.
As a group the reps seemed a little too professional to actually descend into snorts of derision, and it was interesting to see the old-timey Novell guys in the audience actually entusiastic for a change.
Yipes. Someone should introduce the fine folks at Memory Hole to bittorent.
We have both the 4NT shell and cygwin utilities installed by default on the W2k boxes at *ENORMOUS CORPORATION*. 4NT is head and shoulders above CMD, what with it's command completion, multi-tasking etc... but I still prefer the bash shell: more flexible.
Actually the turing test would be a computer trying to convince a man that it is a woman.
Has anyone found an available .pdf of this book? The new laser printer with duplex unit made me ask.
Yeah, for a second I thought the review was by Alyson Hannigan. "It's really Linuxy... or is that too geekyandI'mshuttingupnow..."