I wrote an experimental javascript blackjack prog where if I type in "upupdowndownleftrightleftrightBASTARD" I always win. Seemed like a good, easy to remember input combo. :)

Arrr! May you come to see the light and be touched by his GNUdley appendage.

I quite like referring to it as arranging a meeting with "the board of education"

You kids are lucky with your newfangled HighHo MegaZip drives. I lost all my data when my wax tablet accidentally got flashed next to the fireplace where I was cooking dinner. I lost a fortnight's worth of work and literally had to start from scratch.

Blah blah kids [mumble] lawn!!!

And yes, I just realized you had a lower slashdot ID than I. Sorry, grandpa, I was just having some fun on these things you like to call a series of tubes. :)

Hey, I think I saw this guy at a healthcare townhall meeting!

>> she has to call me to ask what program she needs to do X

just to incite a flamewar, what do you recommend to do X -- kde, gnome, or xfce? :)

In other news, I've scrounged up some old hardware and can't seem to get it running properly with the latest kubuntu. It's one of those Hauppauge PCI PVR things that is said to be supported. I was eventually able to get audio but no video yet. Even then, I had to do some CLI-thing to make component the default input. KDE goes unusable when I turn on desktop effects (flashes off and on, slows down the machine) with an HIS Radeon HD4850 and the proprietary drivers from the ubuntu repos. I've had to do the Alt-Shift-F12 thing to have a shot at disabling it. I also have an old Canon scanner E3000 or something like that which SANE lists as unsupported.

I've been running Linux now in one form or another for quite a bit. Went from Red Hat to Mandrake to Ubuntu/Kubuntu spanning 3 different machines. I've put up with having to fsck with wireless drivers and finding out certain products (same name, different chipset...bad Linksys!) just weren't supported. I still like it better than the alternatives, for the most part. Right now, though, if I have to scan pictures or record/transfer VHS video to my HDD, I have to boot to XP.

It's not exactly the "your grandma" experience and I guess I take some of the blame by not doing as much research and just hoping that parts I had laying around would work effortlessly. I still likes teh Linux...now if I can get those things to work, that'd be great.

CowboyNeal Reads Slashdot Stories To Me (and also does my math): 40.33%

From a bit of goog: in the Roman calendar: the 15th of March or May or July or October or the 13th of any other month So aside from March, all the other months will be equally screwed...and that brings its own debate -- should February be taxed the same as December? Hmmm, the way things are going, it may be time to get used to the Chinese calendar anyway.

Working at a library's local history room, I always fancied myself a necromancer because we symbolically re-animate the dead. I think, though, that this archivist class would be so much more awesome! Yes, no blood golem, bone spear, iron maiden, decrepify, bone spirit, and a cool shrunken head, but c'mon, you get Lore-nado and Shush!!! I can't wait to ask each monster their birthdate, line them up in descending order by age, then proceed to systematically lore-nado each one, writing down the exact time and location of each kill to be filed later in the Zakarum archives. Mmmmm, paperwork!

Well, Stallman and I would tell you that given those two options, rock may be a better format. Hmmm, make that GNU/rock.

Frodo, is that you? http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0063182/

So, for my daughter's account, which doesn't have much to lose, I set all her "enhanced security" questions to the same passphrase, (you will never guess it, don't even try)

1234 what do I win?

I'm not disagreeing with the NHL's lack of popularity but I can't say the NHL is full of whiny bullies...for the same reason that they have what you call a 'punch the guy out' subtext.

Think about it -- the NBA is full of whining millionaire prima donnas who leave a game with a hangnail. NFL has its share of whiners too, just look at the league's wide receivers. Players get hit but are much more well padded, and the offense usually doesn't dish out as much punishment as the defense does. And egos are much much larger. MLB -- if you want to discuss whiny, it's a grown man arguing with an umpire about a called strike three. Also, especially in the AL where a pitcher can throw at someone's head and not have to face retribution since they don't come up to bat.

In hockey, if the referee doesn't call it, someone usually takes care of the "problem" -- you don't get that in those other sports. Hockey has a set of unwritten rules -- stuff like always hit clean, don't bump the goaltender, and don't take shots after the whistle. When those unwritten rules get violated, hockey players don't whine, they show their displeasure in a more cathartic way.

Not even McDonalds remembered to sudo make that sandwich... Obligatory XKCD Reference: http://xkcd.com/149/

This is all the evidence we need.