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  1. Imagine using your iPod... on Simple Route To Linux On The iPod · · Score: 1

    Imagine using your iPod and a regular old microphone to record studio-quality audio. No can do, this is slashdot. However, if you want, I can imagine a beowulf clusters of iPods.

  2. Darth Bush? on House Limits Patriot Act Rules on Library Records · · Score: 1

    Something like this?

  3. Re:He's gonna need all those fans... on PC Case Made Completely of Fans · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On the contrary. Want a quieter case? Use a fan with bigger blades. Like that, more air can be moved with lower rotational speed and noise will be reduced. With a case built entirely of fans, I imagine each fan only needs to rotate very slowly for good ventilation. This thing has the potential to be extremely quiet!

  4. Juggling molecules eh? on Juggling Molecules with Linux · · Score: 1

    ...and the article is written by Victor YODAiken. Coincidence? I think not...

  5. Re:It's a good thing he didn't download Eminem son on World's Biggest Hacker Held · · Score: 1

    Well, word goes the problem wasn't that he downloaded them. Problem is he *uploaded* some of them.

  6. Re:alt.spell.its.with.an.apostrophe.die.die.die on SCO Announces Q2 2005 Results · · Score: 1

    "It's" is spelled with an apostrophe if it's short for 'it is'. Nothing wrong there

  7. Re:I solved this problem another way on Poor Man's Kinesis Keyboard: The K'nexis Keyboard · · Score: 1

    And you use what finger to press ESC?

  8. Pinky on the ctrl? on Poor Man's Kinesis Keyboard: The K'nexis Keyboard · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I use the the 'ball' at the base of my pinky to press the ctrl-key. Leaves the pinky free for all the keys it was intended for: the q, a and z as well as capslock,tab and shift.

  9. Re:If you drive on the highway... whats an airplan on Airport Screeners could see X-rated X-rays · · Score: 1

    > Hmm what keeps someone from storing plastic explosive up their a$$?

    The Darwin Awards?

  10. "This device was developed... on Airport Screeners could see X-rated X-rays · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...for airport security, honestly!", Thus spoke the geek inventor of the device he affectionally calls "the incredible peepshow machine". "It took quite a bit of tweaking to get the part of the nipples and genitals outlines right though"

  11. Re:New collaborator on every paper on Dutch Academics Declare Research Free-For-All · · Score: 1

    Pick me, pick me --- ooh, pick me!!! *Bounce*

  12. Missing "Poll" option on Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Support. No, seriously. I've seen both proprietary software and open source software crash on me.

    With proprietary software, most home users will not be able to do much more than call a paid support phone number and hope their problem goes away in the next version. Those helpdeskers are usually helpdeskers for a reason- if they could develop, they would.

    Compare this with the level of support you often get with open source software. To open source developers, their project is often their baby. Not only do the developers not mind you reporting bugs, they actually seem grateful for it. I've seen "help it crashes!" being responded to by "ok let's fire up the debugger", resulting in a solution the same day. Now that's a kind of support I have yet to see in closed-source.

  13. Re:Buy Dry Ice? Can't I make it? on How to Cool Your PC with Dry Ice · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure. If your freezer goes to 11.

  14. Keep working there for a bit on How to Leave a Job on Good Terms? · · Score: 1

    Call in sick.

  15. Re:well... on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 1

    Match the noise with the camera pictures?

  16. Re:Concrete roads? on Researchers Make Bendable Concrete · · Score: 1

    ...which is more important than safety, especially on a rainy day.

  17. Re:And what do his friends have to say? on Kernel, Shell Boots on DS Linux · · Score: 1

    "Yes it can play Mario. Just wait a few more years until I get it to run MAME"

  18. Re:Needs silencing! on First 96-Node Desktop Cluster Ships · · Score: 1

    Your observation is correct, that obviously must be a mistake. Among sounds heard by humans, the firing of military rifles can reach 150 dB. Sounds this powerful can apparently break bones in the ear, and so I assume would have to be the loudest sounds that we can hear. 550 dB would be just ever so slightly over the line.

  19. Re:Cool . . . on First 96-Node Desktop Cluster Ships · · Score: 1

    Actually with this kind of power, what really matters is if it plays tic-tac-toe. Or a nice game of chess.

  20. Re:Everyone loves analogies on Lawsuit Says GPL is a Price-Fixing Scheme · · Score: 1

    Could you please lend me 3.3m euros?

  21. Re:Okay Will That Be ALL? on Dutch Pass iPod Tax · · Score: 1

    ... And as a Dutch, believe me, we rarely travel by taxi 'cause the rates are so ridiculously high.

  22. Re:Would it even be worth it? on MSN Search Engine Favors IIS · · Score: 1

    Well we could do a little poll here. I use Google. So that brings the grand total to 2 vs. 0. Now all we need to do is poll the rest of the people here :)

  23. Re:Broke? on Branden Robinson Lays Down the Law at Debian · · Score: 1

    Mean while back in middle America I open a 10 cent package of Raman Noodles Raw, I presume?

  24. Re:Tape is better than disk.... on The Institute for Backup Trauma · · Score: 1

    Of course there's this crazy little invention called RAID.

  25. Re:There is a drawback he reports ... on Hibernation on Demand · · Score: 1

    H2S is also the main smelly component in farts. Somehow nobody has volunteered for a human hibernation experiment yet. Now why would that be?