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  1. I Don't Even Know... -- WRONG!! on Interactive Fiction Competition 2001 Results · · Score: -1

    I do it wrong

    Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.

    Massaging my nutsack she....

    WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

    Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

    "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

    I DO IT WRONG!!!!



    I feel compelled to reply to all of Wil Wheaton's posts, what is wrong with me???
  2. I DO IT WRONG on Iron Chef USA debuts Friday · · Score: -1

    I do it wrong

    Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.

    Massaging my nutsack she....

    WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

    Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

    "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

    I DO IT WRONG!!!!

  3. poop -- WRONG!! on Combining Nanotech and Radiology · · Score: -1
    Play with THIS!!

    I do it wrong

    Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.

    Massaging my nutsack she....

    WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

    Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

    "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

    I DO IT WRONG!!!!

  4. Linux Shortcomings -- WR...RIGHT!! on Combining Nanotech and Radiology · · Score: -1
    I agree, I have also run XP since Beta 2, I have had zero troubles.

    your queer little OS won't be the reigning desktop champion anytime soon.

    I do it wrong

    Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.

    Massaging my nutsack she....

    WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

    Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

    "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

    I DO IT WRONG!!!!

  5. fp -- WRONG!! on Combining Nanotech and Radiology · · Score: -1

    I do it wrong

    Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.

    Massaging my nutsack she....

    WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

    Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

    "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

    I DO IT WRONG!!!!

  6. WRONG Hoo!! on 802.11g Approved By IEEE 54 mb/s on 2.4 gigahertz · · Score: -1
    What's sad is that you are pretending to be a troll imposter, when you are the real thing...

    Wesley saves the day...

    I do it wrong

    Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.

    Massaging my nutsack she....

    WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

    Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

    "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

    I DO IT WRONG!!!!

  7. WRONG Hoo!! on 802.11g Approved By IEEE 54 mb/s on 2.4 gigahertz · · Score: -1

    I do it wrong

    Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.

    Massaging my nutsack she....

    WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

    Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

    "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

    I DO IT WRONG!!!!

  8. WRONG!! on 802.11g Approved By IEEE 54 mb/s on 2.4 gigahertz · · Score: -1
    I violate like no one else. That second-rate captain could not possibly violate like I violate!

    He just said fuck too...

    I do it wrong

    Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman.
    I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching
    dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping
    the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to
    lick the grits off my achy piece.

    Massaging my nutsack she....

    WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

    Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her
    gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

    "OH BIG ASS SPORK, err, OOOHHHH BANNED IP!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!!
    Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

    I DO IT WRONG!!!!

  9. I DO IT WRONG on New Star Wars Episode II Trailer Out · · Score: -1

    I do it wrong...

    WRONG I SAY!!




    Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman.

    I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and
    aching

    dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts
    lapping

    the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and
    starts to

    lick the grits off my achy piece.




    Massaging my nutsack she....




    WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!




    Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to
    her

    gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]




    "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good.
    DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!!

    Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"




    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"




    I DO IT WRONG!!!!






    Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has
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  10. Re:WRONG!! DOS rewls! on FreeBSD Training Classes and Daemon Crossing · · Score: -1

    GODDAMNIT!!!

    fucking forgot the evils of HTML :(

    fucked up my dramatic representation of the youth hacking culture...

    I b pissed!

    WRONG!

    I dO k-RaD sH1T oN mY 8088! i |-|a><oRz sHit wIt eDl1n, dIr /a, and DEBUG!

    I use it to change my video game scores...

    I wIlL |-|a><oRz j0o!!

  11. WRONG!! DOS rewls! on FreeBSD Training Classes and Daemon Crossing · · Score: -1

    I dO k-RaD sH1T oN mY 8088! i |-|a> DEBUG!

    I use it to change my video game scores...

    I wIlL |-|a>0Rz j0o!!

  12. Remember the 80s (bbbaaaaaa, baaaaaaa)? on The Internet Under Siege · · Score: -1

    Everybody Wang Jimbo tonight,
    [Everyone have funbo tonight]
    Everybody Wang Jimbo tonight,
    [Everyone have funbo tonight]
    ...
    [Unmemorable lyrics here]

    WRONG WRONG WRONGWRONG WRONG WRONGWRONG WRONG WRONGWRONG WRONG WRONGWRONG WRONG WRONGWRONG WRONG WRONGWRONG WRONG WRONGWRONG WRONG WRONGWRONG WRONG WRONGWRONG WRONG WRONGWRONG WRONG WRONGWRONG WRONG WRONGWRONG WRONG WRONG

    and yep: WRONG

  13. Remember the 80s (bbbaaaaaa, baaaaaaa)? on Email Trial In China Begins · · Score: -1

    Everybody Wang Jimbo tonight,
    [Everyone have funbo tonight]
    Everybody Wang Jimbo tonight,
    [Everyone have funbo tonight]
    ...
    [Unmemorable lyrics here]

  14. More info on Wang Jimbo on Email Trial In China Begins · · Score: -1
    The Complete History of Wang Chung
    Part III -- WRONG
    Pages: [PREV]1 2 3
    Bobbi Enderle with Jack Hues
    Polaris Amphitheater, July 2000
    • 2001
      - February 2001 - Nick Feldman was an A&R manager for Warner Music UK Limited (WEA Records in London), promoting fine new bands such as Arturo, The Screaming Orphans, The Webb Brothers, and ARKARNA. However, in February 2001 WEA A&R manager Nick Feldman left the company ahead of an expected reshuffle, prompted by the pending Warner/London Records merger. By March 2001, WEA Records and London Records finally merged, resulting in departures from both companies.
      - Summer 2001 - Wang Chung once again plans on touring across the United States this summer (check the 'main' page for more details)! Wang Chung will have the same personnel this year. However, this season's tour will be smaller, as they are only going to play selected dates. It seems that Jack Hues is producing a couple of things at the moment, and this way of working enables him to continue with work in the UK, rather than disappearing for 3 months at a time.
      - May 03, 2001 - Nashville, TN - The Playroom at 12th & Porter
      - May 04, 2001 - Lake Charles, LA - Contraband Days at the Lake Charles Civic Center
      - May 05, 2001 - Chicago, IL - Park West
      - June 21, 2001 - Oshkosh, WI - WaterFest at Riverside Park
      - June 23, 2001 - Cincinnati, OH - P & G Pavilion Park
    TODAY, all four original members are still working hard within the music industry:
    • Jack Hues is still busy writing music and producing on his own, being responsible for such projects as the 1990 film soundtrack to William Friedkin's "The Guardian", among others. Recently, Jack has just co-produced and co-written the new ARKARNA album for Warners. He is looking for very musical projects which need a big writing/arranging input.
    • Nick Feldman is now working for Sony Music with David Massey, who was Wang Chung's manager back in the 1980's! Nick and Jack are also founding investors in Graeme Pleeth's great project called Studio EncycloMedia, an on-line directory of worldwide professional recording studios and the focal point for the professional recording industry.
    • Darren Costin (aka "Darwin") is also busy as an engineer, producing and editing various projects for the likes of U2, Bjork and Pavarotti. Darren is reportedly now involved with a new band named "LOBE", with an album in the works.
    • David Burnand (aka "Hogg" Robinson) is the Head of Music Technology, Head of the Centre for Screen Music Studies, and a Principal Lecturer at the Royal College of Music. He composes electroacoustic and film scores, including music and sound design for: Hoi Polloi (BBC, 1990), Acumen (C4, 1991), Smart Alek (BFI, 1993), Là Bas (BFI, 1994), Gallivant (BFI/C4, 1996). The Gallivant soundtrack is available on CD (TS CD001).
    This is based on many sources.
    Please notify me of any corrections or inconsistencies!
  15. What, is your head up your ass? <-- WRONG on Linux Yopy Handheld Preview · · Score: -1

    NOPE. My head is deep in your ass...

  16. You all can suck my left nut -- WRONG on (Mostly) Confirmed: New Mersenne Prime Found · · Score: -1
    This is the discussion you were looking for.

    The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. a shout out to my homies (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, @03:37PM (#2565475) i'd like to ask who the fuck cares? i certainly don't.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] Zaurus (Score:0, Flamebait)
    by Russ Nelson on Wednesday November 14, @03:38PM (#2565483)
    (User #33911 Info | http://russnelson.com/) Who cares about the Yopy? Sharp is shipping the Zaurus to developers (at least some of us anyway).
    -russ
    It's a crime [quaker.org], not a war. If you want a reply, log in. [ Reply to This | Parent Re:Zaurus (Score:2)
    by A Commentor on Wednesday November 14, @03:45PM (#2565534)
    (User #459578 Info | http://www.garlanger.com/) Yopy had shipped many Developer versions already... Back in Jan. 2001 they sold the developer version, it was expensive (~$700 or $800) but it was available(sold-out now). I seen quote a bit of discussions from people that had purchased them. They just seem REALLY late in getting the final consumer version out.

    Just-in New Buy.com Coupons [garlanger.com] .

    [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Zaurus (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, @03:46PM (#2565542) Go Russ! [geocities.com]
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] It will be a success (Score:0, Flamebait)
    by jmerelo on Wednesday November 14, @03:38PM (#2565485)
    (User #216716 Info | Last Journal: Thursday September 06, @02:05AM) If people does not have to care whether it's got Linux, PalmOS or symbian, that is, if it works well enough that people take it for whatever it is, disregarding the OS it's running.
    [ Reply to This | Parent Re:It will be a success (Score:1)
    by wheel on Wednesday November 14, @04:00PM (#2565624)
    (User #204735 Info) if it works well enough that people take it for whatever it is, disregarding the OS it's running.

    This poster has a really good point -- usability is what really counts to the consumer. Does your mom really care what processor her cell phone uses? Does she care it can run Java? No. She cares that she can afford it, and it does what she requires. Therefore it is a successful product.

    Now, please mod the parent as insightful or something.



    Please type "Yes I understand that this is a very bad idea" to continue. -- apt

    [ Reply to This | Parent ] FP (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, @03:40PM (#2565505) FP [goatse.cx]
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] Attention (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by SlaveTroll on Wednesday November 14, @03:40PM (#2565506)
    (User #535702 Info | http://purplesplash.com/cdpb) This is not a first post.
    [ Reply to This | Parent Attention -- WRONG (Score:-1)
    by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @04:03PM (#2565649)
    (User #446856 Info | http://www.goatse.cx) This is a first post.

    I am claiming it. You may have posted first, but I am posting best. Quality over rapidity.

    ---
    All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it... [ Reply to This | Parent ] Too bad Taco can't afford one! (Score:-1)
    by tt2k1 on Wednesday November 14, @03:40PM (#2565507)
    (User #532907 Info | http://www.geocities.com/trolltuesday2k1/) Unfortunately, buying a YOPY requires MONEY. The Slashdork crew is unfortunately "low" on money, due to the fact that they are untalented wannabes eeking by on modest banner-advertisement revenue. The stock options which they once thought would be their tickets to success are now worthless -- and rightfully so; it is preposterous that such lazy losers should make money without doing any actual work.

    Rob Malda, the wannabe hacker and latecomer otaku, will soon be out on the streets, begging for spare change by the traffic light. He will spend his nights in a local shopping center, rubbing his ass against the shopping carts for kicks.

    Jeff Bates, the wannabe scientist, will be forced to pimp out his little wifey -- amusing, because she's been an amateur whore for so many years already. Bates's primary customer will be Malda, whose Quarter Cartel shall make him one of the most prosperous bums in shopping center.

    Gay Nik, although never really part of the Slashdork crew, will join this merry gang of homeless beggers, too, because what questionable BSD "skills" he many have are worthless in this day and age, a day and age in which *BSD is dying. (OpenBSD will never lose any users, though, because the only users it ever had were Theo "The Rat" De Raadt and his canine lover, Farmer.)

    Jon Katz, a man who couldn't write an interesting article to save his life but whose knowledge of Microsoft Word's "spell check" facilities makes him a twerp among lamers at the Geek Compound, will make his living by designing the Slashdork crew's "Homeless, five children, please help, godbless" signage. Interestingly enough, the signs prove more of a challenge to Katz than any of the meaningless drivel that he ever spewed while leeching off of Slashdot.

    CowboyNeal would be able to subsist on his own fat stores for approximately fifty years, if he weren't destined to be harpooned and eaten by a gang of minority squirrels.

    Timothy Gaybone, Michael "Censorship NAZI" Himmler, Jamie "Gay Nights Online" McCarthy, Emmett "Stupid" Galacticon, and Krow the Wannabe DBA will also reside in the shopping center, and provide blowjobs on demand to the local "nerdcore" [geocities.com] fetish group.

    Fuck you.

    Troll Tuesday 2001. [geocities.com]

    --The Messenger

    [ Reply to This | Parent Re:Too bad Taco can't afford one! (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, @03:54PM (#2565592) lol.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    • FUCKING AC -- Wrong!! (Score:-1)
      by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @04:01PM (#2565634)
      (User #446856 Info | http://www.goatse.cx) lol lol lol lol lol lol lol ROFL lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol hehe ROTFLMFAO lol lol lol

      Shut the fuck up, bitch!

      ---
      All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it... [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    I hope it does... (Score:0, Flamebait)
    by Phaze3 on Wednesday November 14, @03:41PM (#2565513)
    (User #197763 Info | http://www.higheriq.com/) I am so sick of my palm. Looking foward to a Linux powered hand held that is actually worth something. A keyboard would be a nice edition and a lot easier than toting around my happy hacking keyboard
    ----
    FearLinux.com [fearlinux.com]
    [ Reply to This | Parent I am so sick of my palm -- WRONG! (Score:-1)
    by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @03:59PM (#2565620)
    (User #446856 Info | http://www.goatse.cx) I am so sick of my palm. Looking foward to a Linux powered hand held that is actually worth something. A keyboard would be a nice edition and a lot easier than toting around my happy hacking keyboard

    get a ppk, beeaaattcchhh!!

    Anyways, fess up, you know damn well you will never get tired of your palm. Ease of use can't be BEAT (heh, get it?). Just lube and go (TM). Errr, I have to be alone now, BRB...

    ---
    All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it... [ Reply to This | Parent ] Linux ? (Score:0, Flamebait)
    by GdoL (pedro_pi@aeiou.nospam,please.pt) on Wednesday November 14, @03:42PM (#2565514)
    (User #460833 Info | http://www.gazetadolinux.com) They use what of Linux?
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] slick (Score:2, Insightful)
    by nate1138 (nathanm@NOSPAMprogressive-sys.com) on Wednesday November 14, @03:42PM (#2565518)
    (User #325593 Info) That's one slick looking unit. Much better than the I-paq. Has anyone had any experience porting KDE apps to a portable like this (one that uses QT-embedded I assume)? The article didn't mention a JVM (at least not that I saw), but that could be a big way to drive application development for PDA's in general. If you could write one simple little app in java, and have it run on PocketPC 2002 (Via the Geode JVM), on the Yopy, and on the new unit from sharp. That's really the only stumbling block I see to Linux PDA's doing great things is applications. Nice pretty user-friendly applications, and lots of them.
    insert clever comment here [ Reply to This | Parent Re:slick (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by nate1138 (nathanm@NOSPAMprogressive-sys.com) on Wednesday November 14, @03:48PM (#2565551)
    (User #325593 Info) Flamebait??? You fuckwad moderators, how the hell is that flamebait?? Fuckers.
    insert clever comment here [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    • Nate, come to the dark side... (Score:-1)
      by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @04:05PM (#2565661)
      (User #446856 Info | http://www.goatse.cx) You know you want to.

      ---
      All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it... [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Can it run Mozilla? (Score:0)
    by SolidCore on Wednesday November 14, @03:43PM (#2565522)
    (User #250574 Info | http://www.fearlinux.com/) Can it run Mozilla [tuxia.org] there is an intersestin article on about that project at Linuxdevices.com [linuxdevices.com]
    FearLinux.com [fearlinux.com] [ Reply to This | Parent ] The Geek PDA (Score:2)
    by connorbd on Wednesday November 14, @03:43PM (#2565525)
    (User #151811 Info | http://www.geocities...riangle/Station/2266) Simple idea: make me a PDA that includes the following:

    -A BIOS that handles power management and screen taps, as well as a fairly safe routine for handling flash functions
    -Easily swapped OS
    -Versatility of an iPaq, batteries of a Palm (rechargeable is best
    -USB cradle

    Put that out as an OEM device. You can even ship it with WinCE if you like (PalmOS 5/ARM would probably be a better choice of course), but make sure the world knows you can hack it.

    /Brian
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] cool keyboard (Score:3, Funny)
    by shibut on Wednesday November 14, @03:43PM (#2565526)
    (User #208631 Info) especially if you have toothpicks for fingers. Maybe it's just me...
    [ Reply to This | Parent Re:cool keyboard (Score:2)
    by ichimunki (x@ichimunki.com) on Wednesday November 14, @03:56PM (#2565603)
    (User #194887 Info | http://www.ichimunki.com/) Presumably you will be holding the stylus in your hand, so yes, you have something with a sufficiently narrow, yet blunt end to poke the keys with. Considering it's not a QWERTY layout, your traditional touch typing skills are wasted anyway. Too bad they didn't license the Fitaly layout, though. That's more efficient, I think than a straight ABCDEFG... layout.
    --
    "...you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." -L. Flynt [ Reply to This | Parent ] Tech specs (Score:3, Informative)
    by mszeto on Wednesday November 14, @03:45PM (#2565537)
    (User #133525 Info) Some technical specs and more pictures are here [pdabuzz.com].

    Does that *really* say 206MHz ? Gah.
    [ Reply to This | Parent Re:Tech specs (Score:3, Interesting)
    by beme (bemeateberhardtdotnet) on Wednesday November 14, @03:56PM (#2565604)
    (User #85862 Info) That info is kinda stale.

    http://www.gmate.com/english/overview.htm

    -beme
    1971 [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Tech specs (Score:1)
    by KingKire64 on Wednesday November 14, @03:56PM (#2565609)
    (User #321470 Info) From the looks of this site The parent eluded to the final design and specs are far off from this (2000 show) specs
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Tech specs (Score:1)
    by SirLeNerd on Wednesday November 14, @03:57PM (#2565611)
    (User #21841 Info | http://www.netcolony.com/members/sirlenerd) Those are the original Yopy pics ...
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] Boil that dustspeck... (OT) (Score:1)
    by don_carnage on Wednesday November 14, @03:46PM (#2565546)
    (User #145494 Info | http://spookyworld.dnsalias.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday October 31, @03:45PM)

    I couldn't purchase anything with a name like "Yopy". It reminds me of the Doctor Seuss book, "Horton Hears a Who."

    YOP! YOP! Yop! yop! ...

    spookyworld.dnsalias.com [dnsalias.com]

    [ Reply to This | Parent ] non qwerty (Score:1)
    by sehryan on Wednesday November 14, @03:46PM (#2565547)
    (User #412731 Info | http://www.ncircles.com/) thats a dealbreaker right there. why go with a "calculator-style ABCDEFG" layout? odds are, anyone using a PDA is going to be familiar with normal sized computers, and normal sized computers usually have qwerty keyboards. i know personally that anything non-qwerty slows me down. sure, i could get used to it, but i am already used to qwerty, so why up the learning curve of the thing with something like that? just doesn't make sense
    -
    sean
    www.ncircles.com [ Reply to This | Parent Re:non qwerty (Score:1)
    by Blymie on Wednesday November 14, @03:54PM (#2565588)
    (User #231220 Info | http://L8R.net) You've hit the nail on the head there. My purchasing plans for PDAs used to be "no keyboard, no sale". I never envisioned that someone would be so moronic as to go with something other than querty, so I guess I'll have to amend that.

    YOPY designers, listen to me. NO QUERTY, NO SALE!
    [ Reply to This
  17. I DO IT WRONG on Linux Yopy Handheld Preview · · Score: -1
    This is not the discussion you are looking for

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.


    The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. a shout out to my homies (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, @03:37PM (#2565475) i'd like to ask who the fuck cares? i certainly don't.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] Zaurus (Score:0, Flamebait)
    by Russ Nelson on Wednesday November 14, @03:38PM (#2565483)
    (User #33911 Info | http://russnelson.com/) Who cares about the Yopy? Sharp is shipping the Zaurus to developers (at least some of us anyway).
    -russ
    It's a crime [quaker.org], not a war. If you want a reply, log in. [ Reply to This | Parent Re:Zaurus (Score:2) Yopy had shipped many Developer versions already... Back in Jan. 2001 they sold the developer version, it was expensive (~$700 or $800) but it was available(sold-out now). I seen quote a bit of discussions from people that had purchased them. They just seem REALLY late in getting the final consumer version out.

    Just-in New Buy.com Coupons [garlanger.com] .

    [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Zaurus (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, @03:46PM (#2565542) Go Russ! [geocities.com]
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] It will be a success (Score:0, Flamebait)
    by jmerelo on Wednesday November 14, @03:38PM (#2565485)
    (User #216716 Info | Last Journal: Thursday September 06, @02:05AM) If people does not have to care whether it's got Linux, PalmOS or symbian, that is, if it works well enough that people take it for whatever it is, disregarding the OS it's running.
    [ Reply to This | Parent Re:It will be a success (Score:1)
    by wheel on Wednesday November 14, @04:00PM (#2565624)
    (User #204735 Info) if it works well enough that people take it for whatever it is, disregarding the OS it's running.

    This poster has a really good point -- usability is what really counts to the consumer. Does your mom really care what processor her cell phone uses? Does she care it can run Java? No. She cares that she can afford it, and it does what she requires. Therefore it is a successful product.

    Now, please mod the parent as insightful or something.



    Please type "Yes I understand that this is a very bad idea" to continue. -- apt

    [ Reply to This | Parent ] FP (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, @03:40PM (#2565505) FP [goatse.cx]
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] Attention (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by SlaveTroll on Wednesday November 14, @03:40PM (#2565506)
    (User #535702 Info | http://purplesplash.com/cdpb) This is not a first post.
    [ Reply to This | Parent Attention -- WRONG (Score:-1)
    by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @04:03PM (#2565649)
    (User #446856 Info | http://www.goatse.cx) This is a first post.

    I am claiming it. You may have posted first, but I am posting best. Quality over rapidity.

    ---
    All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it... [ Reply to This | Parent ] Too bad Taco can't afford one! (Score:-1)
    by tt2k1 on Wednesday November 14, @03:40PM (#2565507)
    (User #532907 Info | http://www.geocities.com/trolltuesday2k1/) Unfortunately, buying a YOPY requires MONEY. The Slashdork crew is unfortunately "low" on money, due to the fact that they are untalented wannabes eeking by on modest banner-advertisement revenue. The stock options which they once thought would be their tickets to success are now worthless -- and rightfully so; it is preposterous that such lazy losers should make money without doing any actual work.

    Rob Malda, the wannabe hacker and latecomer otaku, will soon be out on the streets, begging for spare change by the traffic light. He will spend his nights in a local shopping center, rubbing his ass against the shopping carts for kicks.

    Jeff Bates, the wannabe scientist, will be forced to pimp out his little wifey -- amusing, because she's been an amateur whore for so many years already. Bates's primary customer will be Malda, whose Quarter Cartel shall make him one of the most prosperous bums in shopping center.

    Gay Nik, although never really part of the Slashdork crew, will join this merry gang of homeless beggers, too, because what questionable BSD "skills" he many have are worthless in this day and age, a day and age in which *BSD is dying. (OpenBSD will never lose any users, though, because the only users it ever had were Theo "The Rat" De Raadt and his canine lover, Farmer.)

    Jon Katz, a man who couldn't write an interesting article to save his life but whose knowledge of Microsoft Word's "spell check" facilities makes him a twerp among lamers at the Geek Compound, will make his living by designing the Slashdork crew's "Homeless, five children, please help, godbless" signage. Interestingly enough, the signs prove more of a challenge to Katz than any of the meaningless drivel that he ever spewed while leeching off of Slashdot.

    CowboyNeal would be able to subsist on his own fat stores for approximately fifty years, if he weren't destined to be harpooned and eaten by a gang of minority squirrels.

    Timothy Gaybone, Michael "Censorship NAZI" Himmler, Jamie "Gay Nights Online" McCarthy, Emmett "Stupid" Galacticon, and Krow the Wannabe DBA will also reside in the shopping center, and provide blowjobs on demand to the local "nerdcore" [geocities.com] fetish group.

    Fuck you.

    Troll Tuesday 2001. [geocities.com]

    --The Messenger

    [ Reply to This | Parent Re:Too bad Taco can't afford one! (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, @03:54PM (#2565592) lol.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    • FUCKING AC -- Wrong!! (Score:-1)
      by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @04:01PM (#2565634)
      (User #446856 Info | http://www.goatse.cx) lol lol lol lol lol lol lol ROFL lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol hehe ROTFLMFAO lol lol lol

      Shut the fuck up, bitch!

      ---
      All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it... [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    I hope it does... (Score:0, Flamebait)
    by Phaze3 on Wednesday November 14, @03:41PM (#2565513)
    (User #197763 Info | http://www.higheriq.com/) I am so sick of my palm. Looking foward to a Linux powered hand held that is actually worth something. A keyboard would be a nice edition and a lot easier than toting around my happy hacking keyboard
    ----
    FearLinux.com [fearlinux.com]
    [ Reply to This | Parent I am so sick of my palm -- WRONG! (Score:-1)
    by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @03:59PM (#2565620)
    (User #446856 Info | http://www.goatse.cx) I am so sick of my palm. Looking foward to a Linux powered hand held that is actually worth something. A keyboard would be a nice edition and a lot easier than toting around my happy hacking keyboard

    get a ppk, beeaaattcchhh!!

    Anyways, fess up, you know damn well you will never get tired of your palm. Ease of use can't be BEAT (heh, get it?). Just lube and go (TM). Errr, I have to be alone now, BRB...

    ---
    All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it... [ Reply to This | Parent ] Linux ? (Score:0, Flamebait)
    by GdoL (pedro_pi@aeiou.nospam,please.pt) on Wednesday November 14, @03:42PM (#2565514)
    (User #460833 Info | http://www.gazetadolinux.com) They use what of Linux?
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] slick (Score:2, Insightful)
    by nate1138 (nathanm@NOSPAMprogressive-sys.com) on Wednesday November 14, @03:42PM (#2565518)
    (User #325593 Info) That's one slick looking unit. Much better than the I-paq. Has anyone had any experience porting KDE apps to a portable like this (one that uses QT-embedded I assume)? The article didn't mention a JVM (at least not that I saw), but that could be a big way to drive application development for PDA's in general. If you could write one simple little app in java, and have it run on PocketPC 2002 (Via the Geode JVM), on the Yopy, and on the new unit from sharp. That's really the only stumbling block I see to Linux PDA's doing great things is applications. Nice pretty user-friendly applications, and lots of them.
    insert clever comment here [ Reply to This | Parent Re:slick (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by nate1138 (nathanm@NOSPAMprogressive-sys.com) on Wednesday November 14, @03:48PM (#2565551)
    (User #325593 Info) Flamebait??? You fuckwad moderators, how the hell is that flamebait?? Fuckers.
    insert clever comment here [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    • Nate, come to the dark side... (Score:-1)
      by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @04:05PM (#2565661)
      (User #446856 Info | http://www.goatse.cx) You know you want to.

      ---
      All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it... [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Can it run Mozilla? (Score:0)
    by SolidCore on Wednesday November 14, @03:43PM (#2565522)
    (User #250574 Info | http://www.fearlinux.com/) Can it run Mozilla [tuxia.org] there is an intersestin article on about that project at Linuxdevices.com [linuxdevices.com]
    FearLinux.com [fearlinux.com] [ Reply to This | Parent ] The Geek PDA (Score:2)
    by connorbd on Wednesday November 14, @03:43PM (#2565525)
    (User #151811 Info | http://www.geocities...riangle/Station/2266) Simple idea: make me a PDA that includes the following:

    -A BIOS that handles power management and screen taps, as well as a fairly safe routine for handling flash functions
    -Easily swapped OS
    -Versatility of an iPaq, batteries of a Palm (rechargeable is best
    -USB cradle

    Put that out as an OEM device. You can even ship it with WinCE if you like (PalmOS 5/ARM would probably be a better choice of course), but make sure the world knows you can hack it.

    /Brian
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] cool keyboard (Score:3, Funny)
    by shibut on Wednesday November 14, @03:43PM (#2565526)
    (User #208631 Info) especially if you have toothpicks for fingers. Maybe it's just me...
    [ Reply to This | Parent Re:cool keyboard (Score:2)
    by ichimunki (x@ichimunki.com) on Wednesday November 14, @03:56PM (#2565603)
    (User #194887 Info | http://www.ichimunki.com/) Presumably you will be holding the stylus in your hand, so yes, you have something with a sufficiently narrow, yet blunt end to poke the keys with. Considering it's not a QWERTY layout, your traditional touch typing skills are wasted anyway. Too bad they didn't license the Fitaly layout, though. That's more efficient, I think than a straight ABCDEFG... layout.
    --
    "...you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." -L. Flynt [ Reply to This | Parent ] Tech specs (Score:3, Informative)
    by mszeto on Wednesday November 14, @03:45PM (#2565537)
    (User #133525 Info) Some technical specs and more pictures are here [pdabuzz.com].

    Does that *really* say 206MHz ? Gah.
    [ Reply to This | Parent Re:Tech specs (Score:3, Interesting)
    by beme (bemeateberhardtdotnet) on Wednesday November 14, @03:56PM (#2565604)
    (User #85862 Info) That info is kinda stale.

    http://www.gmate.com/english/overview.htm

    -beme
    1971 [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Tech specs (Score:1)
    by KingKire64 on Wednesday November 14, @03:56PM (#2565609)
    (User #321470 Info) From the looks of this site The parent eluded to the final design and specs are far off from this (2000 show) specs
    [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Tech specs (Score:1)
    by SirLeNerd on Wednesday November 14, @03:57PM (#2565611)
    (User #21841 Info | http://www.netcolony.com/members/sirlenerd) Those are the original Yopy pics ...
  18. Nate, come to the dark side... on Linux Yopy Handheld Preview · · Score: -1

    You know you want to.

  19. Attention -- WRONG on Linux Yopy Handheld Preview · · Score: -1

    This is a first post.

    I am claiming it. You may have posted first, but I am posting best. Quality over rapidity.

  20. FUCKING AC -- Wrong!! on Linux Yopy Handheld Preview · · Score: -1

    lol lol lol lol lol lol lol ROFL lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol hehe ROTFLMFAO lol lol lol

    Shut the fuck up, bitch!

  21. I am so sick of my palm -- WRONG! on Linux Yopy Handheld Preview · · Score: -1

    I am so sick of my palm. Looking foward to a Linux powered hand held that is actually worth something. A keyboard would be a nice edition and a lot easier than toting around my happy hacking keyboard

    get a ppk, beeaaattcchhh!!

    Anyways, fess up, you know damn well you will never get tired of your palm. Ease of use can't be BEAT (heh, get it?). Just lube and go (TM). Errr, I have to be alone now, BRB...

  22. FP?? WRONG!! on Convert Movies From R to PG13 to PG On The Fly · · Score: -1

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

    BBBEEEEAAAATTTTCCCHHH!!

  23. 'Cuckoo's Nest' author Kesey dead at 66 on Would You Pay A Penny Per Page? · · Score: -1

    'Cuckoo's Nest' author Kesey dead at 66
    Ken Kesey, who railed against authority in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and orchestrated an LSD-fueled bus ride that helped immortalize the psychedelic 1960s, died Saturday. He was 66.

  24. OLD Taco Snotting FAQ IS WRONG! on Slashback: HETE, HP, Regression · · Score: -1
    DOH!!!

    I am so ashamed...

    THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13, @11:31PM (#2561559)
    By The WIPO Troll [slashdot.org]

    What is "Taco-snotting?"

    "Taco-snotting" is a term used by one Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda [cmdrtaco.net] owner of the popular technology website Slashdot [slashdot.org] to refer to the practice of sucking off a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual; CmdrTaco doesn't care) and blowing the semen back out his nose onto his pertner's (or victim's) face or body. Usually a long, bubbly stream of semen is left on CmdrTaco's face, dribbling out of his nose down his cheek: hence the term, "Taco-snotting."

    That's disgusting. Have you ever been Taco-Snotted?

    Unfortunately, yes. I first met CmdrTaco at an Open Source Convention [geocities.com]. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake, but when I got to there, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, stripping me. He performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, sucking me to orgasm then snotting my own jizz back onto my face, in my mouth, then again on my belly.
    CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, "Open Sauce" -- man sauce) Convention buddies over to continue the snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his "monolithic kernel," and Anal Cox used his "network stack" in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice in my body.
    How did I finally escape? After about 16 hours of nonstop homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my helpless body, they all finally went to sleep. I was left there, covered in jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with fat, pasty white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my entire body worked wonderfully as a lubricant; I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. I'm just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads -- I could've easily been drowned!

    Why am I always receiving emails from CmdrTaco asking me if I would allow him to Taco-snot me?

    I'm guessing you've received an email similar to the following:
    From: malda@slashdot.org [mailto]
    To: wipotroll@hotmail.com
    Subject: Hey, baby - jion me in a taco-snott! :)

    Hey, baby!

    Ever done a taco-snotting with anothar fellow geek? Its more fun then trolling Slashdot, trust me! all that talk you troll with about homasexual incest and stuff got me all horny and hot for you! Is it serius? Please tell me that itt is! If you want to get with me and my Slashdot bois, drop me an emale!

    ps- Please replie to me at horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com. I'd rather the guys at VA Linux are not seen this. :) :)

    --
    CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org)
    You most likely forgot to uncheck the "Willing to Taco-snot" checkbox in your preferences. Whenever CmdrTaco gets bored (and who wouldn't, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the Slashdot database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy being Taco-snotted. And this time, he found you. Lucky you.
    CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad; there's no escaping a geek in heat, so it's probably too late... but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTaco's sites, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to "Willing to Taco-snot."

    I can't stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

    Probably not. If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, he might end up tying you up in his basement and using you as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk while using you as his sex pony in a "circle-snot"). It very nearly happened to me.

    What is a "Circle-snot"?

    A "circle-snot" is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk: when CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and Taco-snot each other repeatedly with their gooey, hot, sticky cum, spooging all over each other's faces and pasty-white bodies until they're covered head to toe with man juice. Roblowme usually provides the extra lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease.
    To complete the perverted orgy, Michael, Timothy, and Jamie sometimes join in, dressed in black Gestapo uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The whole group then proceeds to snot each other's spunk and whip each other's asses with riding crops and cattleprods until their pasty-white geek bodies are exhausted from all the passionate, homosexual revelry.

    Ew. Does Jon Katz get involved in this? I thought he was a paedophile, not a homosexual.

    Actually, Jon Katz a homosexual paedophile. He's also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesn't involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called "Katz juicy-douching" with his harem of little-boy slaves: a vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of little-boy urine (forced out of them with a pair of pliers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boy's chained-up and naked bodies. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them for the rest of their lives.
    As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys aren't enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a goat's anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goat's small, bean-like turds.

    ...Are you getting hard writing this?

    Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot? I promise I won't try and rape you or kidnap you and make you my sex slave or anything. I'm not like CmdrTaco or Mr. Katz; I only enjoy snotting on willing partners.

    What's that screaming I hear coming from your basement?

    Oh, that's just my little sister; I got her chained up down there. In fact, I just finished snotting all over her body. You should see her squirm when I spooge on her belly, lick it up, and snot it all over her face! She's such a feisty little 14 year-old bitch. Of course she's my sex slave, she's my sister. What else would she be good for? So, join me in a WIPO-snot?

    No, thanks. I'm already CmdrTaco's boi toi.

    ________________________________________

    $Id: tacosnotting.html,v 1.5 2001/11/12 22:13:22 wipo Exp $
  25. Re:Slightly OT but... WRONG on Using 3D Game Engines in Architecture? · · Score: -1
    This is not the discussion you are looking for.

    Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 13, @05:50PM
    from the deathmatch-in-the-foyer dept.
    Mentor asks: "Recently, a very promising young architect asked me to give her some ideas for a design presentation she has to do concerning a new building in Germany. Instead of making another dull non-interactive flyby-drivethrough 3dmax-movie, I suggested using the Halflife or Quake engine to precreate the whole building, and let visitors of the exhibition experience the building firsthand, being a player in it, and interacting with the building (without any actual weapons of course :)). I was wondering whether this has been done a lot already . Does anyone have any tips?" I would think that most 3D engines have evolved enough where something like this might actually be practical. Thoughts?

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    Are There Risks in Sharing Firewall Logs? Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 13, @02:33PM
    from the looking-before-leaping dept.
    FireballDWF asks: "What are the risks in sharing my personal Firewall logs with others? I ask as helping to put a stop to detect and stop attacks at their source by becoming an agent for MyNetWatchman sounds easy and appealing, but I am concerned about the possible risks." The MyNetWatchman service is designed to take a pro-active approach to network security. A network agent sits on a users firewall and forwards log entries to a central server that analyzes the data and warns the user if suspicious activity occurs. Sounds like a good plan, but what dangers (if any) will the users of this service be exposing themselves to by providing such access to their machines, even if they are just log files?

    ( Read More... | 11 comments )

    Rolling Your Own Laptop? Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 13, @10:37AM
    from the when-off-the-shelf-isn't-good-enough dept.
    rneches asks: "I've been looking around for a Linux friendly laptop, and I've found a couple of reasonable systems. However, there really aren't any laptops out there that really meet the needs of a Linux user. In particular, most laptops are, more or less, desktop replacements. As such, they are loaded with scads of nifty features, beefy processors, and so forth. This is great, I suppose, if you are running Windows or MacOS and want a desktop replacement. If you're a Linux user, and spend most of your time in emacs windows (er, frames), most of that fancy stuff is more of a liability than an asset. In other words, I'm talking about coders, admins and other Linux hackers more than I'm talking about the 'average user'." In short, rneches is looking to find a way to build his own laptop, and if the platform doesn't exist to be able to do this, he's looking for help in creating one. Interested?

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    Web Ads with Sound? Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 13, @07:30AM
    from the what-annoying-thing-will-they-think-of-next dept.
    Mina asks: "Just noticed that some sites, About.com in particular, started piping sound adds in their pages - one in particular (the Harry Potter themed CocaCola subsidized reading campaign from Reading is Fundamental). This isn't something that can easily be turned off - unlike popups, they can't just be clicked on or elminated by a nifty browser plugin. I'm interested in seeing how the Slashdot community deals with the new, more annoying ads that the more desperate companies are implementing now. Do you just live with them? Are there even niftier plugins to the browsers that I'm just not aware of?" And you thought pop-ups were the worst, now you can get sudden and annoying sounds played as well. Maybe browsers will have volume sliders bundled with them in the near future. God, I hope not, but if such ads become commonplace, it may be a good idea.

    ( Read More... | 35 comments )

    Buying Brandname Linux Desktops? Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 13, @04:21AM
    from the penguins-preinstalled dept.
    bobstaff asks: "I work for a company producing a highly technical product for export of which a Linux network is a significant part. Usually we build the Linux computers from components using some of the higher end options available (Dual 1Ghz Pentium III, SCSI disk,CD-RW,tape, 512Mb Ram, High End Video card, etc...). Occasionally we have a customer, however, who insists on having a brand name computer (eg. Compaq, HP, etc..) with support in whichever country they are from, regardless of the extra cost and decreased performance. In the past this has always caused problems, from Linux incompatible components to having to fight to get the pre-installed Windows distribution overwritten with Linux. What experiences do Slashdot readers have with buying brand name computers with international support and running Linux on them? Also can anyone recommend companies with international support producing Linux computers?"

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    Websites for Homebrew Electronic Projects? Posted by Cliff on Monday November 12, @10:25PM
    from the home-automation-projects-on-steroids dept.
    whiplash asks: "There are regular stories on Slashdot concerning neat homebrew projects, hardware doing things nobody expects it to. I think the homebrew niche is excellent reading and wonder if there are any sites devoted to just that? Archives of articles, HOWTO's, and related material devoted to those folks that are controlling their garage doors with old serial cards and other neat things."

    ( Read More... | 8 comments )

    What's It Like Working For Worldcom? Posted by Cliff on Monday November 12, @04:53PM
    from the extending-the-feelers dept.
    Tetch asks: "I work for a multinational IT company which seems likely to transfer its "network services" team to (MCI-)Worldcom under the terms of a business arrangement (Worldcom's gonna run our company network for us). I'm contemplating transfering from my current position to that network services team but would quite like to know more about Worldcom's corporate culture before taking the plunge (since it seems I'd become a Worldcom employee in fairly short order). Does anyone have any experience of life at Worldcom they could share?" It's always smart to try get an idea of the climate in a company before you you try and sign up.

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    Does Computer Journalism Have a History? Posted by Cliff on Monday November 12, @11:29AM
    from the following-the-paper-and-bit-trail dept.
    apanishev asks: "Hi to all /.'ters! I'm a beginner computer journalist in a Russian on- and offline magazine "PL-komp'yutery". One of the recent topics of my interest is: whether the computer journalism itself has a history? Sure it does, but my first investigations revealed nothing. I know there were some Amiga paper magazines and some BBS electronic bulletines before the Internet age, but what was the very first paper (and/or online) magazine about personal computers? About web design and professional computing? About PC games? I would be very grateful for any thoughts about the subject."

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    Standard Set of Network Diagram Icons? Posted by Cliff on Monday November 12, @08:25AM
    from the the-RIGHT-pictures-means-1000-words dept.
    Cerebus asks: "I'm taking over administrative and management functions for a network, and one of the tasks is, of course, providing accurate diagrams for the whole shebang. In playing with various tools for this (Dia, Visio, Kvivio, xfig, tgif, etc). I've noticed that each package has it's own idea about what abstract icon to use for various devices (what Visio would call "logical" icons). While there is some overlap, the meaning attached to an icon is sometimes different between applications, and what's worse is that (using the example of Visio) the same application has multiple different icons for the same type of device! Is there any kind of standard for network diagram iconography? Should there be?"

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    What Would You Load onto a Business Card CD? Posted by Cliff on Monday November 12, @03:20AM
    from the taking-your-critical-utils-with-you dept.
    tkrabec asks: "I have a few of the Business card sized CD-roms, and I have been toying around about what to put on them. I want to make a utility disk that has stuff I commonly use or would find helpful. These CD's will hold about 50 meg I primarily do work with Win32 but I would also like some helpful linux things. I will probably make 2 disks wo get all data/programs I want. I want to put: dos boot.img 1.4Meg for older machines, rawrite 14K to write .img's to floppy's, putty 695K for secure communications, memtest.img 75K for testing for bad memory, fdisk 65K for HD problems, Winzip 1.2Meg for unzipping things. These are just some idea's and I would like some more with some approximate sizes. Also are there any good references that I could put on there as well?"

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