From what i understand, this is good only for older (1980s) VW/Benz diesels. I saw a picture of what happen to a guy's later-1990s VW TDi that he tried to run on grease. It made the turbo cylinder look like it was in a warzone. VW's official line is that they can take up to 5% biodiesel -- which is very different from grease/WVO/SVO. I have an '06 that ran like a dream on biodiesel, but it's become hard to get in reliable quantity for me.

I should say, we marred the surface. It was perfect and untouched, in my mind, prior to that. Sure, I'd seem the tracks behind the rovers in the films. But that wasn't seeing them from above. So why does it bother me now? I'm grateful for every probe we've sent out, whether it's left tracks on the Moon, on Mars, or even Venus. Though we probably wouldn't see it so much on Venus now.

Hey Rob, I think it's been over a decade since we've seen each other, probably at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. (Don't Fear the Penguins!) But I just wanted to say thanks. For /. actually helped make my recovery from that horrible car crash that I was in a lot easier. I still have the cards that people sent—the huge folder full of cards from around the world. Thanks to everyone who wrote in because of that. Whether you sent a card or just posted on here, you all helped. I remember coming home from the hospital, and after a few weeks, I fired up the computer. Slashdot was one of the first few sites I looked at... and that in turn gave me the confidence to try using vi again. And by golly, it worked—even after your brain gets used as a ping pong ball by a drunk driver. That's cool. But anyway, yes, thank you! Have a great life. I'll see you down the road a piece!

What would it be like to play Ultima IV on this thing?

I bet it can play Crystal Quest with a vengeance!

This doesn't tell us exactly which sort of financial troubles Loki encountered. Was it from low sales? Or an internal problem? Was it with the way they paid developers? Going to too many Linux conferences? (Please don't tell me it was from porting to LinuxPPC... we actually sold a fair number of Loki titles.) Please note that I'm not challenging the user icebraining, but rather the vague language of the summary. We were all saddened when Loki closed. I occasionally daydream of grabbing an on PPC box, installing LinuxPPC 2000 Q4, and having a go at it again..

So my brother Dave works at PopCap. I'll have to pick his brain on this some time. :-D

I find it funny that Rushdie was a Mac user back then, and used ClarisWorks. I actually liked that package a lot, as it did about enough for most people. I just think it's funny that he used it and Eudora at about the same time that I did.

While I smiled when I heard this on the radio, and thought it was very cool, we here in southeast Wisconsin also need to get the regional transit authority (RTA) bill passed. Bus service in Milwaukee County has been reduced by 20% over the past several years, and we're about to lose a full third more if this doesn't go through. With our incumbent county executive who's got a penchant for starving government, we won't see any progress without the RTA. As I doubt my state legislators are reading /., I'll be calling them instead of just posting on here and hoping it gets done.

Yeah. Remember this? Part of my recovery from the crash (now just over ten years ago) was learning to deal with having a damaged eye. Part of the damage that drunk f-head did to me was to jam my head through the windshield of my car. (This is what happens when huge SUVs hit tiny cars!) While the eye surgeon could save my left eye, they had to remove the lens to do so. So the eye still receives light, but it's all a blur -- literally. My peripheral vision and depth perception have been greatly reduced, though I've regained some depth perception over the past decade simply by living with it. (My life has been very good in the past five or six years, BTW. Not completely ruined by that calamitous night ten years ago.)

I'd like to see "Clash of the Titans," perhaps at the cheap seats, if only so that I can compare it to the 1981 "Clash" and complain about how much better movies were when I was a kid. ;-)