Yeah. I've put Knoppix on 4 computers and each one has fully identified and setup all hardware. One was a POS laptop (300Mhz, 64 MB RAM). It ran slowly until I installed it to the hd, but it all worked. Others are a Micron POS desktop (600 Mhz, 128 MB Ram), Dell desktop (2.6 Mhz, 512 MB RAM), and a home made behemoth (Dual 600 Mhz Xeons, 1 GB RAM) using some funked up hardware- video and audio. External CD/DVD burners, a digital camera, 2 different printers and a scanner.
I'm not saying that it will work on every piece of equipment out there, but it has worked admirably on all of mine. On the laptop, I did need to use the atapicd startup switch, but on all the others, it worked using all defaults.
All in all, I'd say that it is a great way to start someone off with Linux
I fully agree with you, but consider that as our tech increases, we will (obviously) be aware of the new tech. Thus, once we come up with the next groundbreaking communications method, we can start looking for that as well. So now, we are looking for radio waves, maybe in 20 years, we'll all be communicating with psions or something, and someone will make a telescope that can look for those, too. Then our range of possible encounters will balloon. As we continue to develop new tech, we will continue to attain the ability to find those others out there using that as well as the older stuff.
What happens when you get a plant tuned up just how you like it, and it dies? I mean, I have been using my old-fashioned Sony speakers for like 15 years now, and they are still working. Unless you hook it up to a bonsai tree with some staying power, how useful is it if you need to change your speakers every time they die?
Also, a large percentage of/. comments involve things like TCP/IP, MPAA, *nix, boxen, and other such words that the average word processor doesn't know. It will obviously give us lower scores on spelling and such when it simply doesn't know that they are actually real words.
I actually did RTFA and it has an error. It states that the address for Comcast subscribers (like me) to go to http://www.comcast.com/gamesondemand. That page doesn't exist. The correct address is:
You've got to be kidding me. Just because you haven't heard of any abuse of the PATRIOT act hardly means that it hasn't happened.
Also, in order to see what the repercusions of a law are, you have to think it through to the extremes. It is easily possible to abuse this rule. When I was younger, I was interested in all sorts of things. Like the Anarchist's Cookbook and others that contained recipes for bombs and other lethal items. Now, I am a good person who doesn't blow people up. But I wouldn't want to be hauled into jail without a trial and without even a search warrant because I had something that Ashcroft doesn't like. And since I was a minor at the time, my parents would have had to face all sorts of legal repercusions as well.
I mean is it really that hard to get a warrant? A phone call to a judge and they can do whatever they want legally. That is part of the checks and balances that this country is founded on. No part of the government can be prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner. At least that is how I was lead to understand it in civics class.
if you don't want to be spied upon, then don't do suspicious things
I don't want to be spied on and I don't do suspicios things. I do attend the local library. That hardly makes me a terrorist, but apparently it is enough to flag the PATRIOT boys into thinking that I am more worthy of attention than my illiterate friends.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but that was listed as a pet peeve, in that he has a problem with sites whose home page links to itself. And, in general, that is pretty silly, but in some examples, it is important. Let's take the example of out beloved/. for instance. The Slashdot logo at the top will link to the homepage (including the one on the home page), but it is nice to have it there because it is an easy way to refresh the screen and see if any new articles have been posted.
Mr. Nielsen needs to realise that even though his "correct" websites (which to my eye are extremely ugly) use nothing more high tech than early 1990's HTML, there are other technologies out there which can be used to make a website pretty and useful which don't adhere to his silly laws. C'mon, there is PHP, CSS, and lots of others.
It is getting slow now, so in case of/.ing, here is the text:
How-To Tuesday: Make your own Pirate Radio Station with an iPod
Posted Jun 15, 2004, 11:07 AM ET by Phillip Torrone
Related entries: Portable Audio, Wireless
This was going to be "How-To increase the range of your iTrip mini". But after playing around with the new iTrip mini, the FM broadcasting accessory for the iPod (our review here) our little minds got working on some ideas. We thought we might be able to make the range of Griffin's iTrip mini a little better if took it apart and exposed the antenna, turns out we could. And then we thought, hey- we could use a couple iPods to broadcast something we wanted to get out there, perhaps not "should" that is, but could. So that was our motivation, and here's the How-To.
Ingredients:
* 1 iPod mini
* 1 iTrip mini
* Optional: Addition iPods, iTalks and iTrips
Getting Started
First, to become your own pirate broadcast station you'll need to increase the range and signal of your iTrip mini. Turns out, there is an antennae built inside the iTrip mini. All you need to do is remove the top sticker-like protection which hides the antennae and then using tweezers or your fingernail, pull the antennae out. We've found a 20% to 30% increase of range on average. This likely voids the warranty, so there, we said it.
Next up, if you're using the iTrip mini, then you know that you can install all the stations on the dial to broadcast on. At first we we're really sure we'd ever use them, but now we have good reason. So make sure you've installed all the stations, on the go you might need them to switch to. Remember, the iTrip is a FM broadcasting device, intended to broadcast 10 to 30 feet to a FM radio.
Next, choose your broadcast, it can be any song or a spoken word MP3, don't worry we have a few suggestions. A lot depends on the situation you're in.
Pirate Broadcasts
We usually keep a couple tracks of silence ready to go, ever get stuck at a stop light for like 10 minutes and the dude in the next car is blasting the radio? With the super easy iPod interface you can quickly get to the station he's on and send over whatever you want, a couple gentle ocean waves or birds usually works out great.
If you've ever gone to the Gym, or starred in to one from the outside- you'll notice the TVs are muted and set to broadcast on specific FM frequencies, folks then tune in their radio headsets to whatever station to listen to the audio as they exercise. Now we're not suggesting you go around and broadcast over CNN or anything, but we think broadcasting "Aliens have landed today, the President and UN will be making an announcement immediately" could be quite fun. We'll be trying this out with our gym pals who are usually up for a good gag.
There are other times where you simply need to broadcast back. Let's say you're at the park, enjoying a nice quiet day with your family- then comes along someone blasting the radio. We've found broadcasting a silent track tends to work nicely, sure you need to be within 30 to 40 feet, but no one will even suspect that their FM broadcast is getting usurped by you.
Advanced Pirate Radio Broadcasting techniques
We've also discovered another fun example. If you use the iTalk, Griffin's voice recorder accessory with 2g/3g iPod you can record your pirate broadcast on the fly, pop in the iTrip and start broadcasting. Usually pretending to be an omnipotent being and asking folks to build a water proof car, drive across the English Channel with two of every gadget gets some interesting reactions.
Now, if you really get in to this- you could easily increase the range even more, google around for ways to do this- we're working on a few and will let you know too. You can additionally use multiple iPods, when you're broadcasting something like a silent track, you and a pal can cover more area and really surround the FM receiver. And finally, there are also a lot of other things which use FM that you can discover and broadcast to, happy hunting.
This concludes our broadcast. Send comments and ideas to torrone@gmail.com
1) Mozilla is the bloatware version. Firefox is a standalone browser-only. Mozilla contains a browser, email client (much like thunderbird), IRC client, dishwasher, calendar, and everything else. Firefox is fast loading and simple
2) If you set Firefox to be your default browser, it will open when you type an address in the Run box. When you install or use firefox, it will ask you if you want it to be your default. Answer 'Yes'
3) Yes, the download manager is still there, but it works better than old versions
Also, if you want to update your Windows system without Windows Update, you can go to microsoft.com and download the "network install" of any/all of the updates and run them locally.
Ooooh CoolWebSearch really pisses me off. I have had to clean it off of several co-workers computers recently. Nothing seems to fix it! Until... There is a new utility that I found recently that is specific to this malware. It is called CWShredder.exe. It will fix all known variants of CWS. You can get it from:
I don't know what sort of distro you are on, but I think this will work on any of them... you can go to the KDE menu, then Settings, Desktop Settings Wizard and that will walk you through optimizing KDE for a slower machine. Particularly, the bit about "Eye Candy". Then at the end of the wizard, it will let you get into the Control Center where the rest can be tweaked.
Oh yes. The Three Stigmata would make a great movie. When I first read it, that was, in fact, my 1st thought. I'm surprised that no one has done it yet. I feel that it is the most visual and easy-to-understand-by-the-masses while still being totally mind fucked. In fact, it even lead me to this/. username...
I read somewhere that the guy who adapted (and I use that term loosely) I, Robot is working on a Foundation movie. That would be really hard to do, since there are so few continuing characters. I mean there is Hari Seldon (deceased), but the rest of the books span such a broad time frame and there are sooo many characters that it would be hard to do all of the character development involved in figuring out who a person is and what part they play before the story progresses 100 years and you need to start all over again. The setup for each character or situation is briefed in a few pages in the books, but in movie time, there would need to be at least 15 minutes or so just to get into the mood of the era. Then, once you get comfortable, you jump ahead to after the character aged many years and continues a storyline. Personally, I think the Foundation saga would make a better mini-series (especially if they could bind it in with the Galactic Empire and/or robot serieses). If done well, that would be fabulous!
Plutonium is commonly referred to as "the deadliest substance known to man" and for good reason.
That is great. I hadn't heard that common referral before, so I googled the quote. Just to check their facts. I did the I Feel Lucky search. Lo and behold, I did find an article about the deadliest substance known to man. Apparently, it is not plutonium as is commonly referred. It is in fact dihydrogen monoxide
No cameramen or best boys or grips or lighting technicians or any of those people.
They do have cameramen and lighting technicians. In fact, if you read the closing credits of any 3-D film, there are more people dedicated to those tasks than in regular feature film. Sure they don't handle a physical camera or light, but the camera moves in 3-D and the lighting & shading take a whole lot of people pulling a whole lot of paychecks.
They also tend to have to travel around a lot if they are doing a scene that takes place in a foreign city. In Finding Nemo, for instance, they sent the directors and animators over to Australia to get the look and feel right.
In regular films, they have lots of B-roll. If they need to scrap a scene, they can pretty easily fill the time with a shot of something else. In the fully animated movies, they don't have this buffer to fall back on. If they take out a 15 second scene, then they can't cover it up by using a few seconds of different reaction shots that were filmed by the backup camera. Someone needs to start modeling, texturing, animating, and rendering something totally new. And that rendering time can kill a production.
My favourite is a problem I had with ZoneAlarm. It kept locking up (in task manager, the zapro.exe application was showing CPU usage of 99), and all network activity was disabled. So I tried to reinstall it, but it said setup couldn't run because it is already installed. And it wouldn't uninstall because it came up with another error. I tried upgradeing it to a newer release, but it still wouldn't work. Finally, I gavce in and emailed their tech support (from another computer of course) listing all of the things I had tried and their results. I got back an email with a knowledge base article stating that I needed to reinstall the program. So I emailed them back asking them to perhaps read my email more closely, particularly the bit about how I tried reinstalling it but it wouldn't. So I got back another technote saying that perhaps I should uninstall it first. Once again, I replied that if they read my email again, they would see that I can't do that. Then I never heard anything back from them.
In the end, I wiped the hard drive and installed Debian. Problem resolved.
I totally agree with you, but I would expect that there is some sort of check or balance in place where an actual human would at least glance at the A paper and perhaps lower the grade if it looked like:
A11 0f U R Ownz0red by My 1337 sK1lls @t t3rm p@P0rz. Th1s skr1pt ru1ez. U w1ll g3t an A e@zy.
I haven't tested out this specific software, but if we can take it at face value, it looks as if the way to "beat the software" is to write a grammatically correct paper. If it can at the very least check spelling, sentence structure, etc. then perhaps all the time that people spend trying to beat it will, in fact, get them to write a more correct paper. I personally doubt that it can understand the content of the paper in any real way, but I can't even count how many papers I've written where I know the teacher couldn't follow what I was writing about, so I was being graded more on correctness of Works Cited and parenthetical documentation.
You had best be careful of this one- I hear that if you get infected, you'll be getting a letter from old Darl asking for $699. Better keep you virus definitions up to date, or this one could get expensive!
Never did anyone say that all games are art. But some games are. No, I wouldn't say that a standard chess game is art, but I have played some PC chess-type games that had very interesting rulesets, strategies, concepts, and animations that would qualify. Remember the old game called Archon? This was back in the day- I think I played it last in 1986 or so..., before all this new-fangled 3D art (before color monitors were even popular). It was sort of like chess where you had different pieces that each had different modes of movement, but each time you tried to take one of the opponents pieces, you had to actually fight for it. There was a great deal of strategizing to be done by the players, and conceptually, I think the game was very artistic. For the time, it had great graphics.
Alternately, games like Myst are (to me) no-brainers. That is pure visual art. Myst even had a great soundtrack and the game was creative in many other ways. Yes. I think it was Art.
There are certainly a great deal of games that are not in any way artistic. There are also a lot of paintings that are not artistic. My personal view is that Jackson Pollock was crap and his "Smear a bunch of paint around" techniques, while groundbreaking for their time, were as artistic as a hot lump of fresh dog shit.
Well, in conclusion, Art is in the eye of the beholder. Some people (like myself) feel that video games can in some circumstances transcend beyond being a mere game and be Art. But in the end, who really cares? If it is a good game, then enjoy it. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Just as not all that is done with paint is considered art, not all video games are. But, like some work that is done with paint is considered art, it is equally logical that some video games can be seen as art. There are those who consider movies art. Lets take, for instance, Toy Story. That is definitely art, in my opinion. Now, lets take a video game like Diablo II. Have you watched the movies that play when you beat a level? Are those any less deserving of being called Art? If so, why do you draw a distinction between one animation that is played on a big screen vs one that is on your computer? Are the 3D models of the monsters any more or less art than the models used in Toy Story?
Actually, I have done this. A deaf acquaintance of mine used to call me all the time and we would try to see how far we could go before the operator would stop translating. Sometimes, we'd get someone who would enjoy it.. Sometimes, we'd get the uber-prim-and-proper type. Those were by far the most fun.
And I thought I was the only one... The 1st computer I ever built was Arthur, then I made a dual-processor machine named Zaphod. I have 2 laptops (Pinky and Benji) and what was (when I bought it) a new and sexy machine named Trillian. then I got the much more powerful HeartOfGold. Ford is my router.
Slashdot Mirror
Through the Gnutella network, I have millions of close friends.
I'm not saying that it will work on every piece of equipment out there, but it has worked admirably on all of mine. On the laptop, I did need to use the atapicd startup switch, but on all the others, it worked using all defaults.
All in all, I'd say that it is a great way to start someone off with Linux
I fully agree with you, but consider that as our tech increases, we will (obviously) be aware of the new tech. Thus, once we come up with the next groundbreaking communications method, we can start looking for that as well. So now, we are looking for radio waves, maybe in 20 years, we'll all be communicating with psions or something, and someone will make a telescope that can look for those, too. Then our range of possible encounters will balloon. As we continue to develop new tech, we will continue to attain the ability to find those others out there using that as well as the older stuff.
Actually there are quite a lot of them- go to sourceforge and do a search of P2P. It will list quite a few.
What happens when you get a plant tuned up just how you like it, and it dies? I mean, I have been using my old-fashioned Sony speakers for like 15 years now, and they are still working. Unless you hook it up to a bonsai tree with some staying power, how useful is it if you need to change your speakers every time they die?
Also, a large percentage of /. comments involve things like TCP/IP, MPAA, *nix, boxen, and other such words that the average word processor doesn't know. It will obviously give us lower scores on spelling and such when it simply doesn't know that they are actually real words.
http://www.comcast.net/gamesondemand/
You've got to be kidding me. Just because you haven't heard of any abuse of the PATRIOT act hardly means that it hasn't happened.
Also, in order to see what the repercusions of a law are, you have to think it through to the extremes. It is easily possible to abuse this rule. When I was younger, I was interested in all sorts of things. Like the Anarchist's Cookbook and others that contained recipes for bombs and other lethal items. Now, I am a good person who doesn't blow people up. But I wouldn't want to be hauled into jail without a trial and without even a search warrant because I had something that Ashcroft doesn't like. And since I was a minor at the time, my parents would have had to face all sorts of legal repercusions as well.
I mean is it really that hard to get a warrant? A phone call to a judge and they can do whatever they want legally. That is part of the checks and balances that this country is founded on. No part of the government can be prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner. At least that is how I was lead to understand it in civics class.
I don't want to be spied on and I don't do suspicios things. I do attend the local library. That hardly makes me a terrorist, but apparently it is enough to flag the PATRIOT boys into thinking that I am more worthy of attention than my illiterate friends.
Mr. Nielsen needs to realise that even though his "correct" websites (which to my eye are extremely ugly) use nothing more high tech than early 1990's HTML, there are other technologies out there which can be used to make a website pretty and useful which don't adhere to his silly laws. C'mon, there is PHP, CSS, and lots of others.
How-To Tuesday: Make your own Pirate Radio Station with an iPod
Posted Jun 15, 2004, 11:07 AM ET by Phillip Torrone
Related entries: Portable Audio, Wireless
This was going to be "How-To increase the range of your iTrip mini". But after playing around with the new iTrip mini, the FM broadcasting accessory for the iPod (our review here) our little minds got working on some ideas. We thought we might be able to make the range of Griffin's iTrip mini a little better if took it apart and exposed the antenna, turns out we could. And then we thought, hey- we could use a couple iPods to broadcast something we wanted to get out there, perhaps not "should" that is, but could. So that was our motivation, and here's the How-To.
Ingredients:
* 1 iPod mini
* 1 iTrip mini
* Optional: Addition iPods, iTalks and iTrips
Getting Started
First, to become your own pirate broadcast station you'll need to increase the range and signal of your iTrip mini. Turns out, there is an antennae built inside the iTrip mini. All you need to do is remove the top sticker-like protection which hides the antennae and then using tweezers or your fingernail, pull the antennae out. We've found a 20% to 30% increase of range on average. This likely voids the warranty, so there, we said it.
Next up, if you're using the iTrip mini, then you know that you can install all the stations on the dial to broadcast on. At first we we're really sure we'd ever use them, but now we have good reason. So make sure you've installed all the stations, on the go you might need them to switch to. Remember, the iTrip is a FM broadcasting device, intended to broadcast 10 to 30 feet to a FM radio.
Next, choose your broadcast, it can be any song or a spoken word MP3, don't worry we have a few suggestions. A lot depends on the situation you're in.
Pirate Broadcasts
We usually keep a couple tracks of silence ready to go, ever get stuck at a stop light for like 10 minutes and the dude in the next car is blasting the radio? With the super easy iPod interface you can quickly get to the station he's on and send over whatever you want, a couple gentle ocean waves or birds usually works out great.
If you've ever gone to the Gym, or starred in to one from the outside- you'll notice the TVs are muted and set to broadcast on specific FM frequencies, folks then tune in their radio headsets to whatever station to listen to the audio as they exercise. Now we're not suggesting you go around and broadcast over CNN or anything, but we think broadcasting "Aliens have landed today, the President and UN will be making an announcement immediately" could be quite fun. We'll be trying this out with our gym pals who are usually up for a good gag.
There are other times where you simply need to broadcast back. Let's say you're at the park, enjoying a nice quiet day with your family- then comes along someone blasting the radio. We've found broadcasting a silent track tends to work nicely, sure you need to be within 30 to 40 feet, but no one will even suspect that their FM broadcast is getting usurped by you.
Advanced Pirate Radio Broadcasting techniques
We've also discovered another fun example. If you use the iTalk, Griffin's voice recorder accessory with 2g/3g iPod you can record your pirate broadcast on the fly, pop in the iTrip and start broadcasting. Usually pretending to be an omnipotent being and asking folks to build a water proof car, drive across the English Channel with two of every gadget gets some interesting reactions.
Now, if you really get in to this- you could easily increase the range even more, google around for ways to do this- we're working on a few and will let you know too. You can additionally use multiple iPods, when you're broadcasting something like a silent track, you and a pal can cover more area and really surround the FM receiver. And finally, there are also a lot of other things which use FM that you can discover and broadcast to, happy hunting.
This concludes our broadcast. Send comments and ideas to torrone@gmail.com
2) If you set Firefox to be your default browser, it will open when you type an address in the Run box. When you install or use firefox, it will ask you if you want it to be your default. Answer 'Yes'
3) Yes, the download manager is still there, but it works better than old versions
Also, if you want to update your Windows system without Windows Update, you can go to microsoft.com and download the "network install" of any/all of the updates and run them locally.
Majorgeeks. there are other mirrors aound, too.
I don't know what sort of distro you are on, but I think this will work on any of them... you can go to the KDE menu, then Settings, Desktop Settings Wizard and that will walk you through optimizing KDE for a slower machine. Particularly, the bit about "Eye Candy". Then at the end of the wizard, it will let you get into the Control Center where the rest can be tweaked.
Oh yes. The Three Stigmata would make a great movie. When I first read it, that was, in fact, my 1st thought. I'm surprised that no one has done it yet. I feel that it is the most visual and easy-to-understand-by-the-masses while still being totally mind fucked. In fact, it even lead me to this /. username...
I read somewhere that the guy who adapted (and I use that term loosely) I, Robot is working on a Foundation movie. That would be really hard to do, since there are so few continuing characters. I mean there is Hari Seldon (deceased), but the rest of the books span such a broad time frame and there are sooo many characters that it would be hard to do all of the character development involved in figuring out who a person is and what part they play before the story progresses 100 years and you need to start all over again. The setup for each character or situation is briefed in a few pages in the books, but in movie time, there would need to be at least 15 minutes or so just to get into the mood of the era. Then, once you get comfortable, you jump ahead to after the character aged many years and continues a storyline. Personally, I think the Foundation saga would make a better mini-series (especially if they could bind it in with the Galactic Empire and/or robot serieses). If done well, that would be fabulous!
That is great. I hadn't heard that common referral before, so I googled the quote. Just to check their facts. I did the I Feel Lucky search. Lo and behold, I did find an article about the deadliest substance known to man. Apparently, it is not plutonium as is commonly referred. It is in fact dihydrogen monoxide
They do have cameramen and lighting technicians. In fact, if you read the closing credits of any 3-D film, there are more people dedicated to those tasks than in regular feature film. Sure they don't handle a physical camera or light, but the camera moves in 3-D and the lighting & shading take a whole lot of people pulling a whole lot of paychecks.
They also tend to have to travel around a lot if they are doing a scene that takes place in a foreign city. In Finding Nemo, for instance, they sent the directors and animators over to Australia to get the look and feel right.
In regular films, they have lots of B-roll. If they need to scrap a scene, they can pretty easily fill the time with a shot of something else. In the fully animated movies, they don't have this buffer to fall back on. If they take out a 15 second scene, then they can't cover it up by using a few seconds of different reaction shots that were filmed by the backup camera. Someone needs to start modeling, texturing, animating, and rendering something totally new. And that rendering time can kill a production.
In the end, I wiped the hard drive and installed Debian. Problem resolved.
I haven't tested out this specific software, but if we can take it at face value, it looks as if the way to "beat the software" is to write a grammatically correct paper. If it can at the very least check spelling, sentence structure, etc. then perhaps all the time that people spend trying to beat it will, in fact, get them to write a more correct paper. I personally doubt that it can understand the content of the paper in any real way, but I can't even count how many papers I've written where I know the teacher couldn't follow what I was writing about, so I was being graded more on correctness of Works Cited and parenthetical documentation.
You had best be careful of this one- I hear that if you get infected, you'll be getting a letter from old Darl asking for $699. Better keep you virus definitions up to date, or this one could get expensive!
Alternately, games like Myst are (to me) no-brainers. That is pure visual art. Myst even had a great soundtrack and the game was creative in many other ways. Yes. I think it was Art.
There are certainly a great deal of games that are not in any way artistic. There are also a lot of paintings that are not artistic. My personal view is that Jackson Pollock was crap and his "Smear a bunch of paint around" techniques, while groundbreaking for their time, were as artistic as a hot lump of fresh dog shit.
Well, in conclusion, Art is in the eye of the beholder. Some people (like myself) feel that video games can in some circumstances transcend beyond being a mere game and be Art. But in the end, who really cares? If it is a good game, then enjoy it. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Just as not all that is done with paint is considered art, not all video games are. But, like some work that is done with paint is considered art, it is equally logical that some video games can be seen as art. There are those who consider movies art. Lets take, for instance, Toy Story. That is definitely art, in my opinion. Now, lets take a video game like Diablo II. Have you watched the movies that play when you beat a level? Are those any less deserving of being called Art? If so, why do you draw a distinction between one animation that is played on a big screen vs one that is on your computer? Are the 3D models of the monsters any more or less art than the models used in Toy Story?
Actually, I have done this. A deaf acquaintance of mine used to call me all the time and we would try to see how far we could go before the operator would stop translating. Sometimes, we'd get someone who would enjoy it.. Sometimes, we'd get the uber-prim-and-proper type. Those were by far the most fun.
And I thought I was the only one... The 1st computer I ever built was Arthur, then I made a dual-processor machine named Zaphod. I have 2 laptops (Pinky and Benji) and what was (when I bought it) a new and sexy machine named Trillian. then I got the much more powerful HeartOfGold. Ford is my router.