Heh... I'm building a netbsd system on this athlon XP laptop with 512mb ram. It feels like i'm building a system from two years ago. apm (vs acpi), xfree86 (vs xorg)... Actual programs seme to be fairly up to date, but their infrastructure is antequated. I mean, I guess if it works, it works. But I feel like I shouldn't have to re-learn these old ( Read more... )

Here's to you Microsoft...

What gorgeous pictures...

I just learned that someone in my group was laid off. Someone who's had many years more experience than I, and knows our business much better than I do. I wasn't so worried before, but NOW I am. I mean if someone who's obviously more fit for the job than I got laid off, am I next ( Read more... )

Before you all msg me about it, No, we are not going to be MS Yahoo. We told them to take a hike.

I put this in a comment to someone's post, but decided it deserved its own post.

Today was the most beautiful Sunday ever. Not too hot, not too cold.

You know how you always think of a great rebuttal long after it's relevant? Well, I wish I'd told that lawyer that I didn't feel comfortable with her using my goof-off time for legal backing. How stupid is that??

Remember:
The difference between "I think that's mine" and "That's mine. Give it back."

Usually there is none.

Venous hum is a benign medical condition where 20% of the blood flow travels to the brain and back to the heart. Due to the large amount of blood it can move quite fast causing the vein walls to vibrate which can create a humming noise to be heard by the patient.

Got there from here.

Dyloot is <3

I have a fault. I have this thing I do whenever I see some kit built computer on a website, or whenever I get a bee in my bonnet, or whenever I get a new game that doesn't play perfectly on my computer.

I price out a new gaming system. And by "new" I mean bleading edge.

In this case, I priced out HP's Blackbird 002 system as I would order it to ( Read more... )