Javascript uses a form of OOP called prototype-based. Just because it's not class-based doesn't mean it's not OOP. Now please go ahead and look it up if you still have doubts. After a bit of reading it should become quite clear that you've been misinformed about what exactly is OOP.

The first rule about DNF is you don't talk about DNF. The second rule about DNF is you do not talk about DNF!

That's quite true. Personally, I like music while working (perhaps not all the time, because I like silence too, but that can be hard to come by without ear plugs.) When I was choosing headphones to buy for work, I only considered closed headphones. I would have really liked to get a pair of Grado SR60i's or SR80i's, but strongly decided against it because they're open by design and sound will leak. The headphones I ended up getting for work, some Sennheiser HD 202's, leak a bit, but not very much. There are two reasons I decided on closed headphones. First, I didn't want my coworkers to be distracted by my choice in music. Second, I didn't want to have to forcibly expose my coworkers to my choice of music. If they want to know what style(s) of music I listen to, they're free to ask.

Have you ever actually used CD's as coasters? I imagine they'd work in some cases, but in the case of cold liquids that have almost any condensation, look forward to it going right through that hole in the center, around the sides, etc. Then it will just sit in water till it evaporates.

A better use for them might be a shim under a bookcase, or under the short leg of a chair. I wonder how well they'd work on the bottom of chairs as to not scratch up the floor. Perhaps they could be used as a self defense weapon? Maybe they could be used to decorate? Or how about attach about a hundred to your clothes as if it where sequence.

I really want one of these to replace my current 1.3GHz Celeron/128Mb RAM (makeshift) server I have sitting next to me. At $250, I'm very tempted to save the money up to get one. I've already had a bit of uboot experience with playing with an OpenMoko NeoFreerunner. So I'm not terribly worried about uboot issues :) I think it would be a great (smaller size & probably lower powered) replacement for the aforementioned machine.

A new open source *nix server for PSO was unofficially released today (I think BlueCrab will mame me if I say too much more :P)

Really they probably should have said something like the BBA. It's typically hard to find one for under $200 (Though there is only one on ebay ATM for a buy now of $159 which is quite a deal!)

Sure it did, but there wasn't a (public?) exploit for all 8 years either was there? Not to mention if they weren't crawling the code looking for it they may not have ever just stubled upon it (or maybe they would have.) Either way, having the source code available at least allows for this kind of scrutiny.

That's what I get for thinking I didn't need to preview I guess :P

Anyone else find it iron on page 93 they talk about their benifits to their open design with over half the page blacked out (page 93 for those interested)

You could start with making a Qt version of The GIMP.

A lot of people don't know this, but GTK stands for 'The GIMP Toolkit', and Gnome used this toolkit. Not the other way around! :-)

I think that's what would make it funny. GIMP switching toolkits... Genius!

Then why don't we have viable 3d open source 3D drivers for graphics cards? I could waste my time naming lots of other examples.

I can't tell if you're being serious or if you just don't know. The reason for the lack of viable open source 3D drivers have always been not having the specs and having to reverse the 3D chip to get some (often halfway) usable specs to write code from.

With the fairly recent contributions from companies like AMD and Intel either offering specs or an open source driver, you will see better open source 3D support. With the case of AMD's specs, it takes time for the open driver to mature even with the specs.