Apple's Colossal Disappointment Updated: 06-19-2005 Submitted by: Michael Robertson
I heard a rumor last week that Apple would announce they are switching to Intel chips. My first thought is that I hoped that Steve Job's success selling iTunes to the other 95% of the world - Microsoft Windows users - would embolden him to take a strategic step that could shake up the PC business as we know it. I was hoping that he would catch the openness wave sweeping the technology world and apply it to his business. I would love to see Apple's PC market share reverse its downward trend. Few people know it, but I started my tech career as a Macintosh user, ran a consulting company specializing in Macintosh, and even wrote my first commercial application, Network Security Guard, for the Macintosh.
Unfortunately, I was disappointed with Apple's actual announcement on Monday, which revealed not a bold strategy embracing the openness movement but confirmation that Apple is still a company locked in the time warp of the go-it-alone '70s. Apple agreed to switch from processors made by IBM to special processors made from Intel over the next two years - that's it. This is only slightly more significant than Apple choosing to change the hard disk or memory supplier it puts into its computers.
Instead of a brilliant strategic maneuver, it's a step necessitated by IBM's inability to keep pace with Intel. It seems Apple was tired of losing the gigahertz competition to the PC world. Apple had been promising faster computers for some time and had not been able to deliver them. In addition, they were frustrated at IBM's inability to produce a fast low-powered chip for laptops.
Mac users will eventually see the benefit of this move, but will first have to suffer through a period of uncertainty and forced upgrades. Eventually, this switch will enable Apple to offer speedier machines more in line with PC performance. Until then, however, customers will have to make a tough decision - purchase a new computer that is guaranteed to be made obsolete or wait two years for machines to be released and software to be natively working.
My disappointment was captured by an Apple spokesman who commented on what the switch does not mean: "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac." Future "Mactel" computers will have specially designated Intel chips, not generic x86 compatible chips found in common PCs. My sources say that Jobs is going to use Intel's cryptographic technology called LaGrande to make sure OS X will only boot on Apple-branded hardware. This is a similar technique to the one that Microsoft used to make sure Linux could not be loaded on Xbox.
The bottom line is that PC buyers will unfortunately not have the option to install and experience OS X. There will be no low-cost laptops from budget-minded Taiwanese manufacturers. There will be no generic AMD or Via white boxes sold by the millions capable of running OS X. Apple will not be reaching the 95% of the world buying Intel-compatible machines.
I'm sure Jobs remembers a failed experiment in the '90s when Apple embraced a more open strategy. During that time, other companies were permitted to build Mac clones. Those companies targeted the most lucrative customers, siphoning off the high-end users who wanted the fastest machines. Apple depends on those customers to pay top dollar and uses those profits to fund their significant r
From the Google cache of pages 1, 2, and 3:
Apple's Colossal Disappointment
Updated: 06-19-2005
Submitted by: Michael Robertson
I heard a rumor last week that Apple would announce they are switching to Intel chips. My first thought is that I hoped that Steve Job's success selling iTunes to the other 95% of the world - Microsoft Windows users - would embolden him to take a strategic step that could shake up the PC business as we know it. I was hoping that he would catch the openness wave sweeping the technology world and apply it to his business. I would love to see Apple's PC market share reverse its downward trend. Few people know it, but I started my tech career as a Macintosh user, ran a consulting company specializing in Macintosh, and even wrote my first commercial application, Network Security Guard, for the Macintosh.
Unfortunately, I was disappointed with Apple's actual announcement on Monday, which revealed not a bold strategy embracing the openness movement but confirmation that Apple is still a company locked in the time warp of the go-it-alone '70s. Apple agreed to switch from processors made by IBM to special processors made from Intel over the next two years - that's it. This is only slightly more significant than Apple choosing to change the hard disk or memory supplier it puts into its computers.
Instead of a brilliant strategic maneuver, it's a step necessitated by IBM's inability to keep pace with Intel. It seems Apple was tired of losing the gigahertz competition to the PC world. Apple had been promising faster computers for some time and had not been able to deliver them. In addition, they were frustrated at IBM's inability to produce a fast low-powered chip for laptops.
Mac users will eventually see the benefit of this move, but will first have to suffer through a period of uncertainty and forced upgrades. Eventually, this switch will enable Apple to offer speedier machines more in line with PC performance. Until then, however, customers will have to make a tough decision - purchase a new computer that is guaranteed to be made obsolete or wait two years for machines to be released and software to be natively working.
My disappointment was captured by an Apple spokesman who commented on what the switch does not mean: "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac." Future "Mactel" computers will have specially designated Intel chips, not generic x86 compatible chips found in common PCs. My sources say that Jobs is going to use Intel's cryptographic technology called LaGrande to make sure OS X will only boot on Apple-branded hardware. This is a similar technique to the one that Microsoft used to make sure Linux could not be loaded on Xbox.
The bottom line is that PC buyers will unfortunately not have the option to install and experience OS X. There will be no low-cost laptops from budget-minded Taiwanese manufacturers. There will be no generic AMD or Via white boxes sold by the millions capable of running OS X. Apple will not be reaching the 95% of the world buying Intel-compatible machines.
I'm sure Jobs remembers a failed experiment in the '90s when Apple embraced a more open strategy. During that time, other companies were permitted to build Mac clones. Those companies targeted the most lucrative customers, siphoning off the high-end users who wanted the fastest machines. Apple depends on those customers to pay top dollar and uses those profits to fund their significant research and development costs. Losing them was a painful experience and Jobs shut down the clone business when he returned to the corner office at One Infinite
E-Mail Snafu By Awards Group Sparks Spam Attack On Journalists
By Joe Strupp
Published: July 20, 2005 7:00 AM ET
NEW YORK -- An e-mail mistake by the Casey Journalism Center at the University of Maryland wrongly invited hundreds of journalists nationwide to the university's prestigious "Casey Medals" awards. The goof also launched a perpetual e-mail whirlwind as those who responded to the incorrect note unwittingly sent their feedback to everyone else on the recipient list.
The back-and-forth sparked a circle of never-ending responses that, in some cases, kept hundreds of e-mails filling electronic mailboxes over several hours on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. But, in an unexpected surprise, it also brought many journalists in touch with old colleagues, while forging a number of new industry connections through something of an online cocktail party.
"People started chit-chatting back and forth and inviting themselves to the awards," said Kim Platicha, editor and publisher of Parentwise Austin magazine in Austin, Texas. "It really evolved from there, it was hysterical. I have already started an e-mail conversation with a couple of folks."
The e-mail was an electronic invitation to attend the organization's annual board meeting and awards lunch in Washington, D.C. on Aug, 8, according to Carrie Rowell, conference coordinator. She said it was meant only to reach the center's 11 board members, who are invited to the event where 18 journalists will be honored with the press-related awards.
But, due to a mistake, the e-mail apparently went to hundreds of people on the Center's e-mail list of journalists, according to many who received the message and wrongly thought they may have won a medal. Rowell said she did not know how many people were affected, but did not dispute that it was likely hundreds.
"We unintentionally sent an e-mail intended for our 11 board members to a large number of the journalists in our database, who in turn started receiving mass e-mail replies from puzzled recipients," Rowell said in a statement, which also was posted on the center's Web site. "The database error has been corrected. We apologize for the miscommunication and for any inconvenience it caused."
That inconvenience was limited, for some, to just the original wrong e-mail and a follow-up sent by Rowell that explained the mistake. But for most, the first e-mail was just the beginning. When many of those who received the mistaken note responded to alert Rowell that they had received it, their responses went to every recipient on the list.
"It must have been 300, 400 e-mails," said Michael Marizco, a reporter at The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, who said he got the mistaken announcement Tuesday afternoon. "It annoyed me, but it is funny."
Rowell said she could not explain why so many responses, which were meant for her alone, would be sent to each person on the original message list. Because of that, some recipients ended up getting hundreds of copies, over several hours.
"It was a headache to deal with when I was working on a story," said Mark Luckie, a reporter at the Daytona Beach [Fl.] News-Journal. "I sent an e-mail back and they kept coming." Susan Keaton, a suburban editor at the Chicago Tribune, thought the incident was over when she closed the original e-mail. But a flood of e-mail came in about 20 minute later. "People were just sending to 'Reply All,'" she said. "Hundreds of them and a lot of out-of-office automatic responses and unable-to-delivers. It was hundreds of people."
"You are in the middle of working and you keep getting flooded on your computer," said Richard Bilotti, publisher of The Times of Trenton, N.J. "It was very annoying." But not everyone took it as a hardship, as some respondents said side e-mail chats developed among some recipients, while others acknowledged getting in touch with old colleagues and friends.
Marcos Martinez, program director at KUNM public radio in Albuquerque, said that the ma
U.S. puts Canada in time crunch American move will extend daylight time Businesses fear being out of sync will cause chaos TONY WONG AND SUSAN DELACOURT STAFF REPORTERS
Canadian business leaders fear major economic disruption if this country does not get in step with an American move to extend daylight saving time.
Yesterday, the U.S. Congress quietly adopted a provision to extend daylight hours by two months after proponents argued the scheme would help curb energy use by cutting back on the need for artificial light in the evening. Under the legislation, part of a sweeping energy package, daylight saving time across most of the United States will now start on the first weekend in March and run through the last weekend in November. Daylight time now runs from April through October in Canada and the U.S.
"There is potential for huge confusion here, and we need to be vigilant, to look at the range of implications," said Len Crispino, president and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.
The change, expected to take effect this fall, would mean clocks in Canada and the United States would be out of sync in March and November, causing scheduling headaches for travellers and TV viewers.
And should Canada decide to follow the American lead, farmers and rural schoolchildren, who already get up in the dark, would face even gloomier mornings.
But as things now stand, the implications for business are serious because the economies of the two countries are so integrated, said Crispino.
Businesses such as airlines, transportation and even Ontario's auto sector could be affected, since many automotive manufacturers use "just in time" delivery systems to get car parts to plants, Crispino said. And the Toronto Stock Exchange, for instance, would open and close one hour after New York's markets.
While business is waking up to the risk, the issue seems to have sneaked under the political radar in Canada. "This has not been an issue that Canadians have debated at any length," Prime Minister Paul Martin's spokesperson Scott Reid said yesterday.
"We'll monitor how the issue unfolds in the Congress with an eye to implications for Canadians and our industry. While most people -- excepting vampires -- favour more daylight there are serious issues of concern to the aviation and other industries."
(The Canadian Press reported this afternoon that Premier Dalton McGuinty says the province doesn't want difficulties with its main trading partner, but there are business, environment and social issues to consider before the province follows suit.
( "What are the environmental ups and downs of this? What are the business pros and cons? And then what about life for families? Does it make it more or less difficult?" McGuinty said.
( "We're going to have to take a look at it obviously. We're not anxious to have a disconnect between us and our chief trading partner.")
The Prime Minister's Office was still trying to figure out yesterday which department or minister would be most concerned about the time discrepancy.
In fact, though many Canadians may think we're overgoverned, the potentially significant matter of who goes along with daylight time -- moving the clock ahead an hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall -- is largely left up to individual provinces, even to local municipalities, mostly on a voluntary basis. Saskatchewan, for instance, has always been a daylight time holdout, as have several communities in British Columbia and northern Quebec.
While Crispino agrees the move to extend daylight hours could lead to energy savings, his bigger concern is the additional costs for business.
Gillian Bentley, spokesperson for Calgary-based WestJet airlines, said the time change could be problematic for the carrier, especially for passengers on connecting flights, or if the airline flies into airports with night curfews.
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Maybe she'd be better off using those spare computer parts to build a new server.
Deleted scene from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith:
[after Daniel kills Tux the Penguin] Daniel Robbins: What have I done? Supreme Chancellor Gates: [in Emperor voice] You're fulfilling your destiny, Daniel.
Slashdot Mirror
That link seems very slow... Here's the Coral Cache link.
Has Netcraft confirmed this as of yet?
They should add warning labels...those work great on smokers. ;)
Okay...here are some ideas:
WARNING!: Mobile phones emit radiation. Use with caution.
WARNING!: Using a mobile phone when pregnant or nursing may harm your baby.
WARNING!: MOBILE PHONES KILL!
Ack, wrong formatting option. Here's the article again, correctly formatted this time:
From the Google cache of pages 1, 2, and 3:
Apple's Colossal Disappointment
Updated: 06-19-2005
Submitted by: Michael Robertson
I heard a rumor last week that Apple would announce they are switching to Intel chips. My first thought is that I hoped that Steve Job's success selling iTunes to the other 95% of the world - Microsoft Windows users - would embolden him to take a strategic step that could shake up the PC business as we know it. I was hoping that he would catch the openness wave sweeping the technology world and apply it to his business. I would love to see Apple's PC market share reverse its downward trend. Few people know it, but I started my tech career as a Macintosh user, ran a consulting company specializing in Macintosh, and even wrote my first commercial application, Network Security Guard, for the Macintosh.
Unfortunately, I was disappointed with Apple's actual announcement on Monday, which revealed not a bold strategy embracing the openness movement but confirmation that Apple is still a company locked in the time warp of the go-it-alone '70s. Apple agreed to switch from processors made by IBM to special processors made from Intel over the next two years - that's it. This is only slightly more significant than Apple choosing to change the hard disk or memory supplier it puts into its computers.
Instead of a brilliant strategic maneuver, it's a step necessitated by IBM's inability to keep pace with Intel. It seems Apple was tired of losing the gigahertz competition to the PC world. Apple had been promising faster computers for some time and had not been able to deliver them. In addition, they were frustrated at IBM's inability to produce a fast low-powered chip for laptops.
Mac users will eventually see the benefit of this move, but will first have to suffer through a period of uncertainty and forced upgrades. Eventually, this switch will enable Apple to offer speedier machines more in line with PC performance. Until then, however, customers will have to make a tough decision - purchase a new computer that is guaranteed to be made obsolete or wait two years for machines to be released and software to be natively working.
My disappointment was captured by an Apple spokesman who commented on what the switch does not mean: "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac." Future "Mactel" computers will have specially designated Intel chips, not generic x86 compatible chips found in common PCs. My sources say that Jobs is going to use Intel's cryptographic technology called LaGrande to make sure OS X will only boot on Apple-branded hardware. This is a similar technique to the one that Microsoft used to make sure Linux could not be loaded on Xbox.
The bottom line is that PC buyers will unfortunately not have the option to install and experience OS X. There will be no low-cost laptops from budget-minded Taiwanese manufacturers. There will be no generic AMD or Via white boxes sold by the millions capable of running OS X. Apple will not be reaching the 95% of the world buying Intel-compatible machines.
I'm sure Jobs remembers a failed experiment in the '90s when Apple embraced a more open strategy. During that time, other companies were permitted to build Mac clones. Those companies targeted the most lucrative customers, siphoning off the high-end users who wanted the fastest machines. Apple depends on those customers to pay top dollar and uses those profits to fund their significant r
From the Google cache of pages 1, 2, and 3: Apple's Colossal Disappointment Updated: 06-19-2005 Submitted by: Michael Robertson I heard a rumor last week that Apple would announce they are switching to Intel chips. My first thought is that I hoped that Steve Job's success selling iTunes to the other 95% of the world - Microsoft Windows users - would embolden him to take a strategic step that could shake up the PC business as we know it. I was hoping that he would catch the openness wave sweeping the technology world and apply it to his business. I would love to see Apple's PC market share reverse its downward trend. Few people know it, but I started my tech career as a Macintosh user, ran a consulting company specializing in Macintosh, and even wrote my first commercial application, Network Security Guard, for the Macintosh. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with Apple's actual announcement on Monday, which revealed not a bold strategy embracing the openness movement but confirmation that Apple is still a company locked in the time warp of the go-it-alone '70s. Apple agreed to switch from processors made by IBM to special processors made from Intel over the next two years - that's it. This is only slightly more significant than Apple choosing to change the hard disk or memory supplier it puts into its computers. Instead of a brilliant strategic maneuver, it's a step necessitated by IBM's inability to keep pace with Intel. It seems Apple was tired of losing the gigahertz competition to the PC world. Apple had been promising faster computers for some time and had not been able to deliver them. In addition, they were frustrated at IBM's inability to produce a fast low-powered chip for laptops. Mac users will eventually see the benefit of this move, but will first have to suffer through a period of uncertainty and forced upgrades. Eventually, this switch will enable Apple to offer speedier machines more in line with PC performance. Until then, however, customers will have to make a tough decision - purchase a new computer that is guaranteed to be made obsolete or wait two years for machines to be released and software to be natively working. My disappointment was captured by an Apple spokesman who commented on what the switch does not mean: "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac." Future "Mactel" computers will have specially designated Intel chips, not generic x86 compatible chips found in common PCs. My sources say that Jobs is going to use Intel's cryptographic technology called LaGrande to make sure OS X will only boot on Apple-branded hardware. This is a similar technique to the one that Microsoft used to make sure Linux could not be loaded on Xbox. The bottom line is that PC buyers will unfortunately not have the option to install and experience OS X. There will be no low-cost laptops from budget-minded Taiwanese manufacturers. There will be no generic AMD or Via white boxes sold by the millions capable of running OS X. Apple will not be reaching the 95% of the world buying Intel-compatible machines. I'm sure Jobs remembers a failed experiment in the '90s when Apple embraced a more open strategy. During that time, other companies were permitted to build Mac clones. Those companies targeted the most lucrative customers, siphoning off the high-end users who wanted the fastest machines. Apple depends on those customers to pay top dollar and uses those profits to fund their significant research and development costs. Losing them was a painful experience and Jobs shut down the clone business when he returned to the corner office at One Infinite
"But I just bought an iBook two months ago! This just isn't fair!"
I'm not sure, but I"ve heard that babies partake in it some 18 hours a day.
E-Mail Snafu By Awards Group Sparks Spam Attack On Journalists
By Joe Strupp
Published: July 20, 2005 7:00 AM ET
NEW YORK -- An e-mail mistake by the Casey Journalism Center at the University of Maryland wrongly invited hundreds of journalists nationwide to the university's prestigious "Casey Medals" awards. The goof also launched a perpetual e-mail whirlwind as those who responded to the incorrect note unwittingly sent their feedback to everyone else on the recipient list.
The back-and-forth sparked a circle of never-ending responses that, in some cases, kept hundreds of e-mails filling electronic mailboxes over several hours on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. But, in an unexpected surprise, it also brought many journalists in touch with old colleagues, while forging a number of new industry connections through something of an online cocktail party.
"People started chit-chatting back and forth and inviting themselves to the awards," said Kim Platicha, editor and publisher of Parentwise Austin magazine in Austin, Texas. "It really evolved from there, it was hysterical. I have already started an e-mail conversation with a couple of folks."
The e-mail was an electronic invitation to attend the organization's annual board meeting and awards lunch in Washington, D.C. on Aug, 8, according to Carrie Rowell, conference coordinator. She said it was meant only to reach the center's 11 board members, who are invited to the event where 18 journalists will be honored with the press-related awards.
But, due to a mistake, the e-mail apparently went to hundreds of people on the Center's e-mail list of journalists, according to many who received the message and wrongly thought they may have won a medal. Rowell said she did not know how many people were affected, but did not dispute that it was likely hundreds.
"We unintentionally sent an e-mail intended for our 11 board members to a large number of the journalists in our database, who in turn started receiving mass e-mail replies from puzzled recipients," Rowell said in a statement, which also was posted on the center's Web site. "The database error has been corrected. We apologize for the miscommunication and for any inconvenience it caused."
That inconvenience was limited, for some, to just the original wrong e-mail and a follow-up sent by Rowell that explained the mistake. But for most, the first e-mail was just the beginning. When many of those who received the mistaken note responded to alert Rowell that they had received it, their responses went to every recipient on the list.
"It must have been 300, 400 e-mails," said Michael Marizco, a reporter at The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, who said he got the mistaken announcement Tuesday afternoon. "It annoyed me, but it is funny."
Rowell said she could not explain why so many responses, which were meant for her alone, would be sent to each person on the original message list. Because of that, some recipients ended up getting hundreds of copies, over several hours.
"It was a headache to deal with when I was working on a story," said Mark Luckie, a reporter at the Daytona Beach [Fl.] News-Journal. "I sent an e-mail back and they kept coming." Susan Keaton, a suburban editor at the Chicago Tribune, thought the incident was over when she closed the original e-mail. But a flood of e-mail came in about 20 minute later. "People were just sending to 'Reply All,'" she said. "Hundreds of them and a lot of out-of-office automatic responses and unable-to-delivers. It was hundreds of people."
"You are in the middle of working and you keep getting flooded on your computer," said Richard Bilotti, publisher of The Times of Trenton, N.J. "It was very annoying." But not everyone took it as a hardship, as some respondents said side e-mail chats developed among some recipients, while others acknowledged getting in touch with old colleagues and friends.
Marcos Martinez, program director at KUNM public radio in Albuquerque, said that the ma
The sleep patterns of Slashdotters will be messed up... Oh, wait a minute...
Coral cache link to the PDF.
When will Slashdot release theirs?
When Netcraft confirms that *BSD is DYING for old people in Soviet Russia thanks to Natalie Portman's hot grits. That's when.
Does it play ogg?
NO!
Jul. 20, 2005. 04:39 PM
U.S. puts Canada in time crunch
American move will extend daylight time
Businesses fear being out of sync will cause chaos
TONY WONG AND SUSAN DELACOURT
STAFF REPORTERS
Canadian business leaders fear major economic disruption if this country does not get in step with an American move to extend daylight saving time.
Yesterday, the U.S. Congress quietly adopted a provision to extend daylight hours by two months after proponents argued the scheme would help curb energy use by cutting back on the need for artificial light in the evening. Under the legislation, part of a sweeping energy package, daylight saving time across most of the United States will now start on the first weekend in March and run through the last weekend in November. Daylight time now runs from April through October in Canada and the U.S.
"There is potential for huge confusion here, and we need to be vigilant, to look at the range of implications," said Len Crispino, president and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.
The change, expected to take effect this fall, would mean clocks in Canada and the United States would be out of sync in March and November, causing scheduling headaches for travellers and TV viewers.
And should Canada decide to follow the American lead, farmers and rural schoolchildren, who already get up in the dark, would face even gloomier mornings.
But as things now stand, the implications for business are serious because the economies of the two countries are so integrated, said Crispino.
Businesses such as airlines, transportation and even Ontario's auto sector could be affected, since many automotive manufacturers use "just in time" delivery systems to get car parts to plants, Crispino said. And the Toronto Stock Exchange, for instance, would open and close one hour after New York's markets.
While business is waking up to the risk, the issue seems to have sneaked under the political radar in Canada. "This has not been an issue that Canadians have debated at any length," Prime Minister Paul Martin's spokesperson Scott Reid said yesterday.
"We'll monitor how the issue unfolds in the Congress with an eye to implications for Canadians and our industry. While most people -- excepting vampires -- favour more daylight there are serious issues of concern to the aviation and other industries."
(The Canadian Press reported this afternoon that Premier Dalton McGuinty says the province doesn't want difficulties with its main trading partner, but there are business, environment and social issues to consider before the province follows suit.
( "What are the environmental ups and downs of this? What are the business pros and cons? And then what about life for families? Does it make it more or less difficult?" McGuinty said.
( "We're going to have to take a look at it obviously. We're not anxious to have a disconnect between us and our chief trading partner.")
The Prime Minister's Office was still trying to figure out yesterday which department or minister would be most concerned about the time discrepancy.
In fact, though many Canadians may think we're overgoverned, the potentially significant matter of who goes along with daylight time -- moving the clock ahead an hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall -- is largely left up to individual provinces, even to local municipalities, mostly on a voluntary basis. Saskatchewan, for instance, has always been a daylight time holdout, as have several communities in British Columbia and northern Quebec.
While Crispino agrees the move to extend daylight hours could lead to energy savings, his bigger concern is the additional costs for business.
Gillian Bentley, spokesperson for Calgary-based WestJet airlines, said the time change could be problematic for the carrier, especially for passengers on connecting flights, or if the airline flies into airports with night curfews.
"Obviously we would have to adjust our sch
FP?
All the more reason to get a Macintosh.
Overweight? The Internet is obese and Steve Ballmer is the online equivalent of Richard Simmons.
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Unable to connect to database server!
Maybe she'd be better off using those spare computer parts to build a new server.
[Insert Beowulf cluster joke here.]
Going all the way?
Can that run Linux?
I didn't know trolls could sing and dance. :)
That's a lot of MP3s and pr0n...
Did anyone else think that the project had broken down?
No, but if this were Microsoft's project, Steve Ballmer would have broken it down long before it even started.
Time to stop paying $4 a song and start pirating music again!
Deleted scene from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith:
[after Daniel kills Tux the Penguin]
Daniel Robbins: What have I done?
Supreme Chancellor Gates: [in Emperor voice] You're fulfilling your destiny, Daniel.