Slashback: Crusher, Satellites, Silence 241
That fetid odor continues to rise. cconnell writes "In September, Slashdot and Developer.com were kind enough to publish an article I wrote titled Most Software Stinks!. The article generated 748 comments on slashdot, making it one of the most active stories in recent months. Here is a follow up piece I wrote which responds to some of the comments."
Silence, fool! The Panther! writes "Here's an article I wrote that shows step by step how to achieve some measure of silence in my home office. It's different from most in that it approaches damping existing hardware rather than buying new. Some ideas were suggestions of Slashdot readers from a previous article. Lots of photos for the reading-impaired." Hemos may have been going for a rather normal-looking but quiet PC, but The Panther sure isn't.
Step 39: With your dremel strapped to the hamster, gently nudge the billiard ball ... Now that the famous pencil trick isn't an option for would-be AMD overclockers, more complicated means have been found to unlock and reclock. Carlos writes: "I saw that you have a scoopage on the unlocking of the Athlon XP by Tom's Hardware and there is a better and more reversible way by VR-Zone."
200 years is a long time even for a Congressman. Michael H. writes "Woohoo! Congress has given a $30 million shot in the arm to the Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission, previously feared canceled. CNN story here. There's still no guarantee that it won't be canceled later, but at least Congress is listening to the fact that it would take ~200 years for the next window if we missed this one."
Hey, that guy's too old to be a kernel maintainer -- we'll make him an actor. bahamat wrote yesterday: "I'm hanging out in Wil Wheaton's chat room (#rfb on undernet) and he's just announced that he's going to be making a cameo as Wesley Crusher in the new Star Trek X." Apparently, the news hit quite a few readers, too -- and for those who haven't, check out our interview with Wil. Maybe he'll get to be on The Tick, too.
Silence is Golden... (Score:4, Funny)
This article takes me back to a previous job and one of my co-workers. He was fanatic about removing all 'noise' from his office. His PC being the most evil of all noise makers.
He went to the trouble of locating a 6V power source in the PC and then rewiring the fans from their 12V source to the lower power.
The PC was also wrapped in various forms of egg crate foam to reduce vibration and further dampen noise.
When he started complaining about the flourescent lighting in the building we had to warn him that no re-wiring was allowed!
Wil Wheaton (Score:3, Funny)
Wesley's dead, dude.
The Tick (Score:2, Funny)
While most characters have only a few great lines that have double meanings, everything he says will be a stream of double and tripple ententres (sp?).
Re:Star Trek X (Score:4, Funny)
I take it that you haven't installed XP yet.
Re:Star Trek X (Score:3, Funny)
Re:software stinking (Score:2, Funny)
Of course not, that wouldn't be civil
The Pencil Trick (Score:5, Funny)
If you draw a pentagon on the surface of the chip with a pencil, then your processor becomes invincible, and runs at 666 GHz. This is also known as the "pentagram of protection" trick.
Re:Star Trek X (Score:3, Funny)
Depending on how successful Spiner is in his negotiations, maybe the the movie will open with Data's severed head on a table.
They tried that. [startrek.com]
It didn't work. [startrek.com]
:-P
That's so cool (Score:2, Funny)