Yes, as a researcher here at [insert important-sounding college with "tech" in the name here], and I must say, it did take us quite a while to figure out how to get the snail in the envelope.
This new technology, the "hammer" they call it, is getting more snails in the mail, more efficiently.
PLEASE, whatever you do, just don't optimize it for any specific browser.
Slashdot readers use perhaps the most varied array of operating systems of any news site, and I can bet you that if our Linux, Mac, Solaris, BSD, UNIX, BeOS, etc. users could not access the web site because they had no access to the latest version of IE, that it would be quite a mess.
New York, New York:
A new era in ultra-low-cost computer is being ushered in. In September 1998, a startup company calling themselves "eMachines" decided to rise to a challenge only Tandy had previously been able to truly accomplish: set the minimum for all computers produced from their inception on. Today, however, Wal-Mart announced that they will indeed be creating their own ultra-low-cost microcomputers also. This is a shocking announcement that has truly rattled the industry, and eMachines has released a short press statement for all of its concerned investors:
Wayne Inouye, President and CEO of eMachines, has clarified our goal even further with this most recent announcement by rival mass producer of cheaply manufactured goods Wal-Mart: "We will NOT be fazed by this ridiculous move by such a terrible, monstrous, top-grossing company like Wal-Mart! They cannot rival us, for our features at the lowest cost we can possibly churn them out at profitably are just unbeatable! For example, our newest eMachines laptop, yes, it is cheap too, comes STANDARD with USB 1.1! Over 1.1523 times faster than USB 1.0! In addition, you can easily purchase one of our wonderful value monitors in a bundle deal, which we guarantee has no more than 519 dead pixels! C'mon, folks, forget Wal-Mart, just run to Best Buy and pick up an open-box returned eMachines(for even cheaper!)." Further, we plan to release new machines in the spring. A new high-end feature may be AGP expansion slots, so stay tuned to the eMachines corporate investor newsletter for more on this groundbreaking announcement.
Wal Mart is already on the defensive, claiming that the new laptop computers will be "...the first stylish computers under $800 to include a smily face logo somewhere on the machine."
Incredibly, Wal-Mart says it may even venture to include an "...awesome, stunning, 11" XGAVGAVWGVA screen that provides more pixels(a full 480 by 320!!!) for a lower price and more letters!" The company also reportedly plans to offer a 15-inch model for slightly more, upping the resolution to a finely grained 640 by 480.
And in related news, SCO has released a statement that the aforementioned XGAVGAVWGVA screen may somehow have something to do with UNIX, and therefore they have filed a suit for 1,000,000,000,000 dollars, with Darl McBride drunkedly commenting "We's a' gon' takes dem' 'thar economy downs wit' us!"
The new machines will be offered the first quarter of 2004 for an as-yet undetermined price, not to exceed a price which would have at least 75% profitability, sources say.
This makes me wonder if such a configuration might find its way into ordinary extreme performance desktop/laptop computers.
Especially with the new wave of Media Center based PCs...small small machines that are very powerful....is THIS the future of servers? Perhaps in a few years my web pages will all be served up from something like a handheld PC, with several processors and always-on WiFi? The possibilities are endless, but I see this DEFINITELY making it into laptops of some creed...those ultra-high-performance ones that nobody seems to buy.
What SCO is essentially doing is filibustering of the business world--they are holding out on numerous lawsuits with many companies that they can't really win against, all for their own sick gain.
The best way to get at these spammers, is not to use a spam filter, because even the best aren't always reliable.
What you should do if you are serious about getting on the nerves of some spammers is create an extra e-mail address for yourself that you send responses to spammers with, and get replies(maybe) in. Eventually, you could take all of those spam messages in that email box to a judge somewhere and win yourself a considerable amount at the pocket of a crass spammer somewhere.
Every country to implement this makes me ever more certain that if every major civilized country in the west implements this sort of a law, there may eventually be some sort of a UN mandate in the vein of the DMCA...
...This is just another hopelessly idiotic example of the music industry using their coercion tactics to force people into complying with their own rules, not the rules necessarily of the state, the government, nay, the music industry's rules.
I don't even see how this was illegal:
The website, www.mp3s4free.net, was alleged to contain MP3 audio files which infringe upon the copyrights of the record labels, but is in fact a collection of links to other websites on the Internet, and other MP3 files distributed by permission of the Copyright holders.
All this site was doing was referring to other websites, which may have been illegalt themselves, but a links page that refers to them is not illegal!
Hell, there are sites out there that tell you how to build bombs, sites with "art" that is really just child pornography, sites claiming to be legitimate businesses which scam people out of their money for all kinds of items, and they are going after a page of links?
Let me repeat, a links page is not illegal. This is yet another example of the music industry throwing out ridiculous propoganda to spread the word on their "illegal music crackdown". Stupid.
....something like 13 or 14 years ago, when Japan was starting to make a technological comeback in the world from an industrial society, they came out with a plan that almost parallels this....on a much different scale. Japan had plans to buid many, I think in fact 20-something, "science cities", which rapidly accelerated them into the 21st century.
What's happening here is important, because the U.S. could use a serious technological R&D upgrade, in my opinion. Moving to Linux is one thing, and I suppose, particle-physics and dark energy, along with a "massive supercomputer" are another.
So long as they stay within the budget...
...that most hackers are just out to do good. The stereotype that hackers have gotten is ridiculous, and largely due to a few notable individuals who do malicious things(steal credit card numbers, etc.), and I believe that hackers are a primary security measure of the society of the internet.
Think of them as citizen-cops, they find the bad things and patch them, report them, these are the guys who we should praise, not put down. God Bless the white hat hacker.
This doesn't seem quite sound...this guy will get shut down. Hell, his own website contradicts him. He says this:
Tunes is mainly meant to be used as a music manager and means of purchasing music online. However, in addition to purchasing music, one can listen to any of the music shared by others on a network. So, for example, if another person on your network has iTunes and decides to share their music, you can listen to it. iTunes does not allow you to save this music to your hard drive.
MyTunes lifts this restriction by allowing you to save music from other computers to your hard drive.
Then he says, down at the bottom, something of a "disclaimer" which, although I am not a legal specialist, does not sound like it has any legitimacy:
If you plan on stealing music, do not download this software. If you plan on infringing upon copyrights, do not download this software. Only download this software if you plan on acting responsibly.
Warranty: There is absolutely no warranty of any kind whatsoever with this software. The software is provided to you "AS-IS", and all risks and losses associated with its use are assumed by you. In no event shall the author of this software, Bill Zeller, be held accountable for any damages or losses that may occur from use or misuse of the software. Use at your own risk.
And remember, copyright infringement is illegal. If you have any question whether what you're doing constitutes an infringement, visit the RIAA's great anti-piracy website.
He also links to Apple's iTunes website, which has to have some sort of legal implications, seeing as this is a program which can (potentially) be used in malignant ways.
It'll be interesting to see if Apple tries to do an "over-the-internet auto update" like Microsoft does with its patches, for this, or if they try to guise a fix for this as a "feature upgrade". If they do, they better have some new features. This is exactly what iTunes update to 4.0.1 did for Mac users, when it was discovered people could share music with other exact IP addresses.
I doubt this will affect Red Hat, the company, in any way. It will very insignificantly affect Red Hat, the Linux development team. This is, as is said, just a test bed.
Look at Lindows, it took 3 previous incarnations to get to a version that was even worth paying anything for, version 4.0(that's still arguable).
What I'm saying here, is that let's just give Fedora a little bit of time, and it'll definitely mature, because Red Hat knows what they're doing.
Nokia's stock(NYSE: NOK) would surge from its current stable of around 17 bucks a share to something in the 20s range if this actually happened. And possibly along with it would surge all of the telecommunications companies with stakes in the Symbian OS for their mobile phones, like Sony-Ericsson and the others.
This is an exciting development to keep an eye on...
Done a good job of imitating the CGI Graphics of the Matrix on a low budget? Maybe the original Matrix was superb, but look at the second one--for example, the fight scene involving Neo rising up with many Agent Smiths around him--this is one of the (many) scenes in Reloaded where they actually used modified graphics from the video game, and thus the graphics were terrible in some parts of the movie.
I certainly hope that they'll do better CGI work in Revolutions which I haven't seen, because it seems like they rushed it to market just to take advantage of the first two's success.
And, I bet you, these Waichovski, or whatever they are, these guys are in it to make moolah--soon we will be hearing about "The Matrix Beginnings" and some story will come out to precede the original story of the Matrix. Just watch, it'll happen. They're doing it with LOTR, the Hobbit will be released after the Trilogy is complete, and then from there they may release further titles, and even I've heard rumors of fan-fiction based movies being released.
Same thing will happen to the Matrix saga, and it will become a giant, commercialized, consumerist-mushy mess.
I have seen Bryce before, and even demo'ed it a few times. It's a great program. I could learn 3d, and it wouldn't kill me to, because I'm interested in learning it eventually anyway. However, for the time being, I just want a bare bones package that can let me put together simple 3d objects like spheres and cubes, to make custom buttons and looks for the advanced needs of some of my different clients.
Learning 3d is on my list of things to do, though, and I will at some point in the future, for sure.
Someone needs to create some 3d software which is INCREDIBLY simple...I mean, something even I could use(I am a web designer). If I could create quick 3d objects for use in images on the fly, that would be awesome.
So why can't the 3d software development companies create something for a guy like me, who just needs basic features and simplicity? I use a Mac, so I expect simplicity from my software anyway...
In fact, we did blackout the home page as a war protest in March, and we blackened the whole website, after Apple used the DMCA, but we have never actually taken it off line. Fortunately, the situation has never warranted taking the package collection off line, which would be an even more drastic step, and our actual users have never been affected by these actions. In fact, we received many orders and messages of support as a result of our activism.
While I realize that MOST of the supporters of Darwin may in fact be politically liberal...this is not fair for the [conservative and otherwise] users that are not. I'm not looking to start a flame war, but I believe that inserting his political beliefs into his work project is less than elegant.
Google will be an immensely popular stock-selling only 2 billion in shares will create a gigantic demand, with a smaller supply, and thus I'm wondering if Google's going to just open up their shares for trade on an exchange like most companies do...
Something I certainly see as being possible is that Google could put up shares for sale in public auction. Think about it, why wouldn't they? It would make sense-the shares would be worth more because of the supply/demand aspect, and in addition, it would be dually serving eBay, which I believe Google has some ties to(as they do to most web companies).
In addition, Google could put up shares for charity--what a better opportunity for them to showcase themselves, and benefit some organization at the same time?
The most important thing to remember about Google's IPO is that they are worth quite a bit, and they may just sell their shares in a most unusual way.
PDA's are only going to get smaller, and more powerful, as time marches on, much like microcomputers did in the 1980s and early 90's, and now we're at a point where they are all equally diminuitive.
The same thing will essentially happen with PDAs...soon, we will all have PDAs which we can watch movies on, play music on, surf the web via our phone or WiFi on, or perhaps even it may be a phone as well, and etc. These will fit into a slot in our wallet for credit cards...and they may even dually serve as credit cards. Especially with the coming of OLED displays and nanotechnology, this all looks very certain to happen some time. Exciting!
You wouldn't think the guy who was able to combine "The instability of Windows, with the complexity of Linux"(or was it the other way...) would be able to even have any ground on which to speak of Linux.
Lindows has not been all it was once hyped up to be, and this guy isn't a Linux guru.
Bah, he has no place to talk.
Sun has to get this sort of support, but from larger governments and organizations, if the stock market is to ever look upon Sun's stock(SUNW) as positive and solid ever again. Once upon a time, many may forget, but there was indeed a time when Sun was well over 60 dollars a share, and the stock market was beaming with joy at the little server company that could. Then, the econonomic bubble exploded, (or imploded, you could say), and Sun started to decline in spite of small innovations, their competitors became too heavy. Sun's new offerings, specifically the Java Virtual Desktop System, are very good looking, and I am a Sun investor at 4.07(now at 3.55), and I hope others may buy into Sun's [lucrative] price.
The future is now, because NOW, you not only get 50% less screen real estate because of the fancy clock and sidebar, but IN ADDITION, you get a small dancing paperclip singing Michael Bolton every time your computer crashes.
w00t! All hail Longhorn!
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Yes, as a researcher here at [insert important-sounding college with "tech" in the name here], and I must say, it did take us quite a while to figure out how to get the snail in the envelope.
This new technology, the "hammer" they call it, is getting more snails in the mail, more efficiently.
PLEASE, whatever you do, just don't optimize it for any specific browser.
Slashdot readers use perhaps the most varied array of operating systems of any news site, and I can bet you that if our Linux, Mac, Solaris, BSD, UNIX, BeOS, etc. users could not access the web site because they had no access to the latest version of IE, that it would be quite a mess.
Please, please, support web standards that can make web sites available to everyone.
New York, New York:
A new era in ultra-low-cost computer is being ushered in. In September 1998, a startup company calling themselves "eMachines" decided to rise to a challenge only Tandy had previously been able to truly accomplish: set the minimum for all computers produced from their inception on. Today, however, Wal-Mart announced that they will indeed be creating their own ultra-low-cost microcomputers also. This is a shocking announcement that has truly rattled the industry, and eMachines has released a short press statement for all of its concerned investors:
Wayne Inouye, President and CEO of eMachines, has clarified our goal even further with this most recent announcement by rival mass producer of cheaply manufactured goods Wal-Mart: "We will NOT be fazed by this ridiculous move by such a terrible, monstrous, top-grossing company like Wal-Mart! They cannot rival us, for our features at the lowest cost we can possibly churn them out at profitably are just unbeatable! For example, our newest eMachines laptop, yes, it is cheap too, comes STANDARD with USB 1.1! Over 1.1523 times faster than USB 1.0! In addition, you can easily purchase one of our wonderful value monitors in a bundle deal, which we guarantee has no more than 519 dead pixels! C'mon, folks, forget Wal-Mart, just run to Best Buy and pick up an open-box returned eMachines(for even cheaper!)." Further, we plan to release new machines in the spring. A new high-end feature may be AGP expansion slots, so stay tuned to the eMachines corporate investor newsletter for more on this groundbreaking announcement.
Wal Mart is already on the defensive, claiming that the new laptop computers will be "...the first stylish computers under $800 to include a smily face logo somewhere on the machine."
Incredibly, Wal-Mart says it may even venture to include an "...awesome, stunning, 11" XGAVGAVWGVA screen that provides more pixels(a full 480 by 320!!!) for a lower price and more letters!" The company also reportedly plans to offer a 15-inch model for slightly more, upping the resolution to a finely grained 640 by 480.
And in related news, SCO has released a statement that the aforementioned XGAVGAVWGVA screen may somehow have something to do with UNIX, and therefore they have filed a suit for 1,000,000,000,000 dollars, with Darl McBride drunkedly commenting "We's a' gon' takes dem' 'thar economy downs wit' us!"
The new machines will be offered the first quarter of 2004 for an as-yet undetermined price, not to exceed a price which would have at least 75% profitability, sources say.
This makes me wonder if such a configuration might find its way into ordinary extreme performance desktop/laptop computers.
Especially with the new wave of Media Center based PCs...small small machines that are very powerful....is THIS the future of servers? Perhaps in a few years my web pages will all be served up from something like a handheld PC, with several processors and always-on WiFi? The possibilities are endless, but I see this DEFINITELY making it into laptops of some creed...those ultra-high-performance ones that nobody seems to buy.
Vivan los pocos!
What SCO is essentially doing is filibustering of the business world--they are holding out on numerous lawsuits with many companies that they can't really win against, all for their own sick gain.
Darl McBride is ridiculous.
This is an old, but very good, article that helps point out SCO's stupidity very well.
SCO will just end up being another failed company.
The best way to get at these spammers, is not to use a spam filter, because even the best aren't always reliable.
:-)
What you should do if you are serious about getting on the nerves of some spammers is create an extra e-mail address for yourself that you send responses to spammers with, and get replies(maybe) in. Eventually, you could take all of those spam messages in that email box to a judge somewhere and win yourself a considerable amount at the pocket of a crass spammer somewhere.
So long as we can outthink them, we can win.
Every country to implement this makes me ever more certain that if every major civilized country in the west implements this sort of a law, there may eventually be some sort of a UN mandate in the vein of the DMCA...
...that's a very worrisome thought indeed.
...This is just another hopelessly idiotic example of the music industry using their coercion tactics to force people into complying with their own rules, not the rules necessarily of the state, the government, nay, the music industry's rules.
I don't even see how this was illegal:
The website, www.mp3s4free.net, was alleged to contain MP3 audio files which infringe upon the copyrights of the record labels, but is in fact a collection of links to other websites on the Internet, and other MP3 files distributed by permission of the Copyright holders.
All this site was doing was referring to other websites, which may have been illegalt themselves, but a links page that refers to them is not illegal!
Hell, there are sites out there that tell you how to build bombs, sites with "art" that is really just child pornography, sites claiming to be legitimate businesses which scam people out of their money for all kinds of items, and they are going after a page of links?
Let me repeat, a links page is not illegal. This is yet another example of the music industry throwing out ridiculous propoganda to spread the word on their "illegal music crackdown". Stupid.
....something like 13 or 14 years ago, when Japan was starting to make a technological comeback in the world from an industrial society, they came out with a plan that almost parallels this....on a much different scale. Japan had plans to buid many, I think in fact 20-something, "science cities", which rapidly accelerated them into the 21st century.
What's happening here is important, because the U.S. could use a serious technological R&D upgrade, in my opinion. Moving to Linux is one thing, and I suppose, particle-physics and dark energy, along with a "massive supercomputer" are another. So long as they stay within the budget...
...that most hackers are just out to do good. The stereotype that hackers have gotten is ridiculous, and largely due to a few notable individuals who do malicious things(steal credit card numbers, etc.), and I believe that hackers are a primary security measure of the society of the internet.
Think of them as citizen-cops, they find the bad things and patch them, report them, these are the guys who we should praise, not put down. God Bless the white hat hacker.
This doesn't seem quite sound...this guy will get shut down. Hell, his own website contradicts him. He says this:
Tunes is mainly meant to be used as a music manager and means of purchasing music online. However, in addition to purchasing music, one can listen to any of the music shared by others on a network. So, for example, if another person on your network has iTunes and decides to share their music, you can listen to it. iTunes does not allow you to save this music to your hard drive. MyTunes lifts this restriction by allowing you to save music from other computers to your hard drive.
Then he says, down at the bottom, something of a "disclaimer" which, although I am not a legal specialist, does not sound like it has any legitimacy:
If you plan on stealing music, do not download this software. If you plan on infringing upon copyrights, do not download this software. Only download this software if you plan on acting responsibly. Warranty: There is absolutely no warranty of any kind whatsoever with this software. The software is provided to you "AS-IS", and all risks and losses associated with its use are assumed by you. In no event shall the author of this software, Bill Zeller, be held accountable for any damages or losses that may occur from use or misuse of the software. Use at your own risk. And remember, copyright infringement is illegal. If you have any question whether what you're doing constitutes an infringement, visit the RIAA's great anti-piracy website.
He also links to Apple's iTunes website, which has to have some sort of legal implications, seeing as this is a program which can (potentially) be used in malignant ways.
It'll be interesting to see if Apple tries to do an "over-the-internet auto update" like Microsoft does with its patches, for this, or if they try to guise a fix for this as a "feature upgrade". If they do, they better have some new features. This is exactly what iTunes update to 4.0.1 did for Mac users, when it was discovered people could share music with other exact IP addresses.
I doubt this will affect Red Hat, the company, in any way. It will very insignificantly affect Red Hat, the Linux development team. This is, as is said, just a test bed.
Look at Lindows, it took 3 previous incarnations to get to a version that was even worth paying anything for, version 4.0(that's still arguable).
What I'm saying here, is that let's just give Fedora a little bit of time, and it'll definitely mature, because Red Hat knows what they're doing.
Well big deal. Whether you lose 30 cents on a parking spot or on the iTunes Music Store, does it really matter? It's just 30 cents.
Nokia's stock(NYSE: NOK) would surge from its current stable of around 17 bucks a share to something in the 20s range if this actually happened. And possibly along with it would surge all of the telecommunications companies with stakes in the Symbian OS for their mobile phones, like Sony-Ericsson and the others.
This is an exciting development to keep an eye on...
Done a good job of imitating the CGI Graphics of the Matrix on a low budget? Maybe the original Matrix was superb, but look at the second one--for example, the fight scene involving Neo rising up with many Agent Smiths around him--this is one of the (many) scenes in Reloaded where they actually used modified graphics from the video game, and thus the graphics were terrible in some parts of the movie.
I certainly hope that they'll do better CGI work in Revolutions which I haven't seen, because it seems like they rushed it to market just to take advantage of the first two's success.
And, I bet you, these Waichovski, or whatever they are, these guys are in it to make moolah--soon we will be hearing about "The Matrix Beginnings" and some story will come out to precede the original story of the Matrix. Just watch, it'll happen. They're doing it with LOTR, the Hobbit will be released after the Trilogy is complete, and then from there they may release further titles, and even I've heard rumors of fan-fiction based movies being released.
Same thing will happen to the Matrix saga, and it will become a giant, commercialized, consumerist-mushy mess.
I don't know much about Delphi, but I know a good deal of Java, and it seems that the "new thing" for Linux is Java.
I'm sure there's a market for Delphi, but why not just use C or C++?
Nigerians are such good runners(that's Kenyans, you fool!) that you would think this guy would've gotten away from the police.
Wait a minute...
I have seen Bryce before, and even demo'ed it a few times. It's a great program. I could learn 3d, and it wouldn't kill me to, because I'm interested in learning it eventually anyway. However, for the time being, I just want a bare bones package that can let me put together simple 3d objects like spheres and cubes, to make custom buttons and looks for the advanced needs of some of my different clients.
Learning 3d is on my list of things to do, though, and I will at some point in the future, for sure.
Someone needs to create some 3d software which is INCREDIBLY simple...I mean, something even I could use(I am a web designer). If I could create quick 3d objects for use in images on the fly, that would be awesome.
So why can't the 3d software development companies create something for a guy like me, who just needs basic features and simplicity? I use a Mac, so I expect simplicity from my software anyway...
From the site:
In fact, we did blackout the home page as a war protest in March, and we blackened the whole website, after Apple used the DMCA, but we have never actually taken it off line. Fortunately, the situation has never warranted taking the package collection off line, which would be an even more drastic step, and our actual users have never been affected by these actions. In fact, we received many orders and messages of support as a result of our activism.
While I realize that MOST of the supporters of Darwin may in fact be politically liberal...this is not fair for the [conservative and otherwise] users that are not. I'm not looking to start a flame war, but I believe that inserting his political beliefs into his work project is less than elegant.
Google will be an immensely popular stock-selling only 2 billion in shares will create a gigantic demand, with a smaller supply, and thus I'm wondering if Google's going to just open up their shares for trade on an exchange like most companies do...
Something I certainly see as being possible is that Google could put up shares for sale in public auction. Think about it, why wouldn't they? It would make sense-the shares would be worth more because of the supply/demand aspect, and in addition, it would be dually serving eBay, which I believe Google has some ties to(as they do to most web companies).
In addition, Google could put up shares for charity--what a better opportunity for them to showcase themselves, and benefit some organization at the same time?
The most important thing to remember about Google's IPO is that they are worth quite a bit, and they may just sell their shares in a most unusual way.
Besides...it's Google!
PDA's are only going to get smaller, and more powerful, as time marches on, much like microcomputers did in the 1980s and early 90's, and now we're at a point where they are all equally diminuitive. The same thing will essentially happen with PDAs...soon, we will all have PDAs which we can watch movies on, play music on, surf the web via our phone or WiFi on, or perhaps even it may be a phone as well, and etc. These will fit into a slot in our wallet for credit cards...and they may even dually serve as credit cards. Especially with the coming of OLED displays and nanotechnology, this all looks very certain to happen some time. Exciting!
You wouldn't think the guy who was able to combine "The instability of Windows, with the complexity of Linux"(or was it the other way...) would be able to even have any ground on which to speak of Linux. Lindows has not been all it was once hyped up to be, and this guy isn't a Linux guru. Bah, he has no place to talk.
Sun has to get this sort of support, but from larger governments and organizations, if the stock market is to ever look upon Sun's stock(SUNW) as positive and solid ever again. Once upon a time, many may forget, but there was indeed a time when Sun was well over 60 dollars a share, and the stock market was beaming with joy at the little server company that could. Then, the econonomic bubble exploded, (or imploded, you could say), and Sun started to decline in spite of small innovations, their competitors became too heavy. Sun's new offerings, specifically the Java Virtual Desktop System, are very good looking, and I am a Sun investor at 4.07(now at 3.55), and I hope others may buy into Sun's [lucrative] price.
The future is now, because NOW, you not only get 50% less screen real estate because of the fancy clock and sidebar, but IN ADDITION, you get a small dancing paperclip singing Michael Bolton every time your computer crashes. w00t! All hail Longhorn!