I have two IBM Ultranav standalone PS-2 keyboards I use with desktops. They're essentially T43 keyboards with feet and cables. The lack of a solid base makes the feel considerably different from the real thing, but I like 'em. Lenovo makes a newer USB version without the trackpad, but I've never used one.
Oh yeah, I also replaced the LCD, which was insanely easy as long as you don't take the hardware manual seriously (they want you to disassemble the whole machine, including removing the keyboard -- why?).
Ubuntu 10.04 on a T60 runs fine, and it's the last decent version Ubuntu produced. I got my T60 refurbished, w/ a docking station, for less than $200. Clean, only moderate wear, upped the RAM. It's a dream to type on.
I'm betting these kids were dosed with behavior mod drugs (Adderall, SSRIs, etc.) as soon as they could walk. Chemically disabling an annoyance/impediment was probably a family tradition.
At least they didn't go all Menendez Brothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menendez_brothers) with shotguns and stuff.
Lemme save you some time: NONE OF THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. SOME TWISTED ATTENTION WHORE MADE IT ALL UP. And he's not real good at makin' stuff up, hence the huge friggin' holes in the story. The author is not "stupid," he's just nowhere near as bright as he thinks he is.
One good question is why the Guardian chose to print this with absolutely no verification. The guy claims to have called the cops twice. There would be a record of that. And so on. Of course, the fact that the earliest known mention/promotion of this story on Twitter came from a Guardian reporter poses interesting possibilities. Paging Jason Blair....
Apart from the implausible IP tracking to house-level, the whole story itself screams fake. As someone said, it's a Lifetime movie. Do you really believe that a 17-yr old would put together a box of ashes with a note about Auschwitz as a way to terrorize his parents' friend? Most kids that age, sadly, have never heard of Auschwitz. Why is there no online record of the author's "bait" to the kid (web page, blog, whatever)? He claims to have been driven off twitter, but his twitter acct is a week old. Where's his old acct? What was the handle? Everything is mysteriously unverifiable, even though none of it would reveal the kid's identity.
IT"S ALL BULLSHIT, and half the friggin net has fallen for this stupid fairytale.
But wait, it gets better. I first saw Traynor's story in a link pushed on twitter by a Guardian reporter in Ireland. I asked him if he could vouch for its veracity. No reply. A day later, Traynor's essay was reposted as a personal essay in... the Guardian. It got several hundred comments, only a few of which were skeptical. From personal experience in the comments thread and the comments of a few other readers it was apparent that the Guardian was deleting at least some comments that cast doubt on Traynor's story.
At this point I strongly suspect that that Guardian reporter is either the real author or is working with "Traynor" to boost his career.
There are a lot of people arguing that this whole story is a fable; the IT guy the author presents to defend his account is a feckless bullshitter. Basically it's a case of two guys who don't know that they don't know the technical difficulties in what they claim to have done. The whole thing is embarrassing and annoying.
I've been a member since ~1994. I drive by about once a week, get into a conversation every few weeks. It's like the general store that somehow survived the mega-mall built next door. Conversations tend to be very sane, with a complete lack of the idiotic noise you get in places like this.
Yeah, I know it's pox-on-both-your-houses schadenfreude, but I love these little security spats those folks get into. Of course, I'm not sure I trust Mr. Shuttleworth so much anymore...
I jumped to Linux 8 years ago, but I own computers that came with Windows 7. The few times I've used it, I've nearly gone mad trying to find major things like Windows Update. The menus make no sense; they're a utter jumble with nothing where a reasonable person would expect to find them.
I gave both Unity and Gnome Shell a fair chance; I'm now fiddling with Mint/Mate. But I do all my real work (writing) in Ubuntu 10.04 (added Libre Office). It's not broken.
Slow news day much? This article is devoid of news, consists solely of "Duh!" opinions rendered in awkward sophomoric prose, and is all too typical of the low standards of fourth-tier tech sites. "The leader in technology news and commentary"? Maybe at your particular high school.
That news item is strikingly short on details on the commercially-available drone capable of being launched from a ship and searching hundreds of square miles of open ocean.
I support Sea Shepherd, but I think y'all's been punked. This is guerrilla PR of great imagination, but no substance. I'd be thrilled if I were proven wrong, but at this point, pictures or it didn't happen.
I double-dog dare this guy to do this with the latest Harry Potter and try to sell the result. It would make for an interesting court case ("Your Honor, my client simply carved his own novel out of a mound of gibberish").
Just as soon as Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama stops all the wars. Hint--if you're left of center, you tend to win prizes from left of center organizations.
That explains Kissinger's prize. But yeah, it's bullshit, and the Obama thing is the nadir of a very sleazy history.
If he were in the US, the DEA would have kicked in his door after a week.
I agree, though, that he would make an excellent hedge fund manager; greedy, solipsistic and anti-social. Here's an idea: get together with your pals and sell derivatives based on your awesome income stream. You can lie about it -- nobody cares. You can bribe Moody's to give your crap AAA ratings. Then buy default insurance on your own crap. When your neighbors, landlord or the law pull the plug, collect!
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Two words: scroll bars. Seriously, I write on it. For money. That's it. There's nothing 12.04 does that 10.04 doesn't that I really need.
I'm sure there are people out there who think M-series Leicas are ugly cameras, too.
I have two IBM Ultranav standalone PS-2 keyboards I use with desktops. They're essentially T43 keyboards with feet and cables. The lack of a solid base makes the feel considerably different from the real thing, but I like 'em. Lenovo makes a newer USB version without the trackpad, but I've never used one.
Oh yeah, I also replaced the LCD, which was insanely easy as long as you don't take the hardware manual seriously (they want you to disassemble the whole machine, including removing the keyboard -- why?).
Ubuntu 10.04 on a T60 runs fine, and it's the last decent version Ubuntu produced. I got my T60 refurbished, w/ a docking station, for less than $200. Clean, only moderate wear, upped the RAM. It's a dream to type on.
I'm betting these kids were dosed with behavior mod drugs (Adderall, SSRIs, etc.) as soon as they could walk. Chemically disabling an annoyance/impediment was probably a family tradition.
At least they didn't go all Menendez Brothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menendez_brothers) with shotguns and stuff.
Maybe it was the FL dateline that did it, but I initially read the summary as "getting together with other Slashdot readers in prison."
Lemme save you some time: NONE OF THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. SOME TWISTED ATTENTION WHORE MADE IT ALL UP. And he's not real good at makin' stuff up, hence the huge friggin' holes in the story. The author is not "stupid," he's just nowhere near as bright as he thinks he is.
One good question is why the Guardian chose to print this with absolutely no verification. The guy claims to have called the cops twice. There would be a record of that. And so on. Of course, the fact that the earliest known mention/promotion of this story on Twitter came from a Guardian reporter poses interesting possibilities. Paging Jason Blair....
Apart from the implausible IP tracking to house-level, the whole story itself screams fake. As someone said, it's a Lifetime movie. Do you really believe that a 17-yr old would put together a box of ashes with a note about Auschwitz as a way to terrorize his parents' friend? Most kids that age, sadly, have never heard of Auschwitz. Why is there no online record of the author's "bait" to the kid (web page, blog, whatever)? He claims to have been driven off twitter, but his twitter acct is a week old. Where's his old acct? What was the handle? Everything is mysteriously unverifiable, even though none of it would reveal the kid's identity.
IT"S ALL BULLSHIT, and half the friggin net has fallen for this stupid fairytale.
But wait, it gets better. I first saw Traynor's story in a link pushed on twitter by a Guardian reporter in Ireland. I asked him if he could vouch for its veracity. No reply. A day later, Traynor's essay was reposted as a personal essay in ... the Guardian. It got several hundred comments, only a few of which were skeptical. From personal experience in the comments thread and the comments of a few other readers it was apparent that the Guardian was deleting at least some comments that cast doubt on Traynor's story.
At this point I strongly suspect that that Guardian reporter is either the real author or is working with "Traynor" to boost his career.
There are a lot of people arguing that this whole story is a fable; the IT guy the author presents to defend his account is a feckless bullshitter. Basically it's a case of two guys who don't know that they don't know the technical difficulties in what they claim to have done. The whole thing is embarrassing and annoying.
I've been a member since ~1994. I drive by about once a week, get into a conversation every few weeks. It's like the general store that somehow survived the mega-mall built next door. Conversations tend to be very sane, with a complete lack of the idiotic noise you get in places like this.
It already was ready, for most uses. Then came Gnome 3. Then came Unity, which was worse.
Yeah, I know it's pox-on-both-your-houses schadenfreude, but I love these little security spats those folks get into. Of course, I'm not sure I trust Mr. Shuttleworth so much anymore...
I jumped to Linux 8 years ago, but I own computers that came with Windows 7. The few times I've used it, I've nearly gone mad trying to find major things like Windows Update. The menus make no sense; they're a utter jumble with nothing where a reasonable person would expect to find them.
I gave both Unity and Gnome Shell a fair chance; I'm now fiddling with Mint/Mate. But I do all my real work (writing) in Ubuntu 10.04 (added Libre Office). It's not broken.
1) Decade? Optimist.
2) Awww. That was the NRA/Hallmark channel movie of the week, right?
Seadog 19 will feature Matey, the DE that comes with a talking parrot (but doesn't support 3D).
Slow news day much? This article is devoid of news, consists solely of "Duh!" opinions rendered in awkward sophomoric prose, and is all too typical of the low standards of fourth-tier tech sites. "The leader in technology news and commentary"? Maybe at your particular high school.
I was honestly not aware that Windows doesn't have "virtual desktops." Stunning. It's like a TV with one channel.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
The Nook Simple Touch lets you read ePub books -- the Kindle doesn't (unless you convert them).
That news item is strikingly short on details on the commercially-available drone capable of being launched from a ship and searching hundreds of square miles of open ocean.
I support Sea Shepherd, but I think y'all's been punked. This is guerrilla PR of great imagination, but no substance. I'd be thrilled if I were proven wrong, but at this point, pictures or it didn't happen.
I double-dog dare this guy to do this with the latest Harry Potter and try to sell the result. It would make for an interesting court case ("Your Honor, my client simply carved his own novel out of a mound of gibberish").
Just as soon as Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama stops all the wars. Hint--if you're left of center, you tend to win prizes from left of center organizations.
That explains Kissinger's prize. But yeah, it's bullshit, and the Obama thing is the nadir of a very sleazy history.
If he were in the US, the DEA would have kicked in his door after a week.
I agree, though, that he would make an excellent hedge fund manager; greedy, solipsistic and anti-social. Here's an idea: get together with your pals and sell derivatives based on your awesome income stream. You can lie about it -- nobody cares. You can bribe Moody's to give your crap AAA ratings. Then buy default insurance on your own crap. When your neighbors, landlord or the law pull the plug, collect!