Legends wasn't Open Source. It was a re-write of Tribes 2 with licensed Tribes 2 code, with the mechanics of Tribes so you know, it was fun. I know this because my Debian box was used by a friend to test build it during college (yes, Linux support was a goal). I've looked to see if the source tree was still in my backups, but I think I lost it. Oh well, shouldn't really have had it anyway.

Are you like the one guy in the whole world that thought T2 was better that Tribes? Or did they fix a lot in the last 7 years?

Oh. When did they add that feature to slashdot?

It was a Futurama quote. I can't remember which one or even the speaker, honestly. Hope that narrows it down. Also, thank you for being funny by accident.

Did you change your sig to make another on-topic joke?

If not, have you been waiting to make the first joke for years now?

That's an interesting idea and maybe it will happen one day, but hardware virt hasn't trickled down that far yet. It' still at the mid-range server level, except a few power users, developers, and engineers. Cards now how have dynamic virtual memory mapping, which might just make this possible, but certainly not simple.

In the Land of UNIX Where Everything Works you can send GLX over the network for 3D graphics where ever the card lives, whether it's a VM host or a cluster headnode. That's probably more useful than emulating the 25 year old VGA BIOS and umpteen stupid extensions.

I've never seen a 6400 in the wild, so I had to look it up. Looks like an oddball. Even the All-in-one Performas could be opened easily. The PowerMac 7x00 desktops could be opened by grabbing two handles and lifting. Shortly after this era came the clamshell towers, which were extremely accessible (although the hard drives had to be screwed to metal plates, wtf).

I know what you mean, but I bought a white MacBook a little while ago, before they went nVidia, and was pleasantly surprised when I could play HL 2 with CrossOver Games about as well as I could on my old Athlon 64. OK, so HL 2 is probably considered "old" now, too, but you don't need all the sliders to the right to enjoy a game.

It's not always a burp.

It means free of cost, at least, initial cost. Free beer has been used as an enticement to bring people to a place or event where they are likely to pay for something that will net more benefit to the person who paid for the beer and is now giving it away. So, it does have some subtle undertone, but it basically means what "gratis" means in many languages.

Where do you live? I'd seriously consider moving there.

Part of your point, that telcos are lazy and negligent, is exactly why this is enticing. Maybe if the telcos didn't have to install new hardware on private property, the cost to roll out broadband would be cheaper. Of course, without the opportunity to gouge the customer on that new hardware, the enticement might be gone. This could also open the possibility of third-party bandwidth providers like WISPs, and not being pigeon-holed into one of 3 delightfully crappy plans.

it's a little slow, but I wrote a one-liner to do this. It's posted above, but I'll post it again here:
du -s * | sort -n | awk -F "\t" '{print "\"" $2 "\"" }' | xargs du -sh

du -s * | sort -n | awk -F "\t" '{print "\"" $2 "\"" }' | xargs du -sh

only tested in GNU/Linux. awk should proabably be gawk. Prints human readable sizes in size order.

Not exactly the same, but I once named a file the backspace character. This was under IRIX, fwiw. How do I delete that? I really can't remember how I created it.