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  1. odroids on 64 Hacker Friendly Single Board Computers (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    I also have two Odroids (the U2 model) and agree that they are excellent. They are reliable (often get >100 days uptime between reboots for upgrades, and have had no problems over 2+ years), they run ubuntu (server), they idle at extremely low power/heat (2 cores powered, at 200MHz), but using the ondemand governor they scale up for higher workloads (4 cores powered, at 1700MHz). It's too bad that the U2/U3 is no longer manufactured (due to supply issues).

  2. Re:You forgot one on 64 Hacker Friendly Single Board Computers (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.up-board.org/

    UP board is AMAZING specs.

    "What's up-board?"

    "Eh, not much, yeah I'm kinda bored."

  3. Cool beans, dude! on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    But you probably don't want to go there (https://map.what3words.com/cool.beans.dude).

  4. Re:And? on Big Vulnerability In Hotel Wi-Fi Router Puts Guests At Risk · · Score: 1

    laugh and snicker at the luddites

    The Luddites will be just fine in these hotels of which you speak, readng their paperback novels and engaging in other analog activities.

  5. Re:Smart Cars = HiTech ??? on Smart Car Tipping Trending In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Is this another example of terrible Slashdot editorial comments distorting original story to "make news" as this alternative theory is not in the original source?

    Did you miss the Roland Hedley reference? Wooooooooosh.

  6. Grammar on Apple, Google, and Amazon's Quest For One Remote Control Is Futile · · Score: 2

    We will give up our remotes when they are pried from our cold dead hands.

    Somehow, I just cannot hear Mr. Heston using the passive voice to say that.

  7. Re:Dual interface ? on Intel Upgrades MinnowBoard: Baytrail CPU, Nearly Halves Price To $99 · · Score: 1
    http://utilite-computer.com/we...

    The "pro" model is a bit expensive ($220 or so, plus shipping), but it has 2xGbE, wifi, bt, quad ARM.

    Or you could just add a USB network interface to something like Odroid U3: http://hardkernel.com/main/pro....

    (I have both of above.)

  8. Re:system monitor: htop on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Have you tried Glances? In some ways it is like htop on steroids.

    Nice, but too many dependencies for my taste...

  9. Re:system monitor: htop on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1
    htop is great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Not just basic monitoring, you can send signals, pin processes to cpus, use strace.

    I do wish it were extensible (for example, to add a temperature monitor).

  10. sudo chrage -10 angryuser

    It could save the Internets!

  11. Re:Easy solution on Metadata On How You Drive Also Reveals Where You Drive · · Score: 1

    To foil the stop-point matching, just make random stops wherever you go. I'm sure my fellow motorists on the highways will understand.

    Also, no sandworms!

  12. Re:Why are nuclear fission systems too heavy? on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 5, Funny

    >it's

    Land-lubber.

    Twasn't an apostrophe, ye dog. It be the stray mark of a sharp cutlass.

  13. Re:Vogon Construction Marker on Spacecraft Measurements Indicate Shifting Interstellar Wind · · Score: 2

    It's actually a marker laid down by the Vogon construction fleet for the up coming Hyper Space Express Route.

    Nope. Eddies in the space-time continuum. ("And this is his sofa, is it?")

  14. The strategic maple syrup reserve... on Canadian Military Developing Stealth Snowmobile · · Score: 5, Funny
  15. a big ball of wibbly wobbly on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 1

    timey wimey stuff... it's a BBC specialty.

  16. Where's communication? on The Hacker Lifecycle · · Score: 2
    5. Communication

    So, you've built something, or at least you've learned something. Then you need to go to conferences, meetups, bars, whatever floats your social boat and explain what you did. Memorialize it in blog posts, articles, or documentation (please?). Even a failed project will spin off some small piece that stands by itself and fills a need somewhere.

  17. Re:Funny! on Sandy Island, the Undiscovered Country · · Score: 1

    FWIW, it's common for map makers and atlas makers to include some false streets and features. This is to enable them to prove that someone else copied from them. Perhaps this is one of those receiving publicity?

    Like "Geek Street" in San Francisco, a spurious feature like this is known as "bunny":

    http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1989_608868/phony-streets-protect-copyrights-on-maps.html

    http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mapmakers-sleight-of-hand-Cartographers-put-2889584.php

  18. Re:Heatsink on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 1

    Use the entire turkey as heatsink in a radically overclocked PC.

    Why can't you just overclock the turkey?

  19. Re:Headers on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 1

    Yeah but if someone gives you a bag containing 1000 pounds of (minced) beef, then you empty the beef out and some of the beef is stuck to the insides of the bag, and you throw the bag away you can't claim that you didn't originally receive 1000 pounds of beef.

    Is that like when some of the bytes stick to the inside of the series of tubes?

  20. Re:The great thing about first posts on HTML5 Splits Into Two Standards · · Score: 5, Funny

    In soviet Russia, the standard chooses you!

    In soviet Russia, the standard forks you!

  21. Imagine if Usain Bolt ... on Student Creates World's Fastest Shoe With a Printer · · Score: 1
    ... put a Beowulf cluster of these running shoes on.

    There. Fixed that for /.

  22. Re:Recursive? on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 0

    PHP itself is an acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.. But then what does "PHP" stand for?

    Programmers Hate PHP.

  23. Re:Good! on Ivy Bridge Running Hotter Than Intel's Last-gen CPU · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's twenty degrees celsius, which is quite warm where I'm from.

    That's twenty degrees of *WOOSH*, which is quite embarrassing where I'm from. ;)

  24. Re:The Department of Redundancy Department on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    Not another redundant Department of Redundancy Department redundancy!

  25. For once, slashdot readers... on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1
    ...will be able to look up into the night sky and say "that's no moon".

    Maybe we'll finally get that out of our system.