donotlizard - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Fuel-Saving? (Score 1) 572

by donotlizard on Monday December 27, 2010 @07:52PM (#34680890) Attached to: Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System

I enjoy "wasting" fuel. It makes me feel like a big man, like when I yell at children who walk past my girlfriend's house. Oh wait, I don't have a girlfriend.

Comment Re:Waste of time (Score 1) 132

by donotlizard on Sunday December 19, 2010 @09:00AM (#34606558) Attached to: Make Your Own DHS Threat Level Display At Home

Oh no. I only have a Roland MDX-520 CNC mill. CAPTCHA: I hate it when people post their CAPTCHAs.

Comment SNPP (Score 1) 207

by donotlizard on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @06:29AM (#34544410) Attached to: Ukraine To Open Chernobyl Area To Tourists

No thanks. I've watched The Simpsons. I know what a nuclear power plant looks like.

Comment Re:There's a really useful aspect to these. (Score 2, Interesting) 298

by donotlizard on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @06:33AM (#34484800) Attached to: A Peek At South Korea's Autonomous Robot Gun Turrets

Those things remind me of the robot sentry units in the Special Edition of Aliens.

Comment Re:He threw up after a few laps (Score 1) 168

by donotlizard on Sunday November 28, 2010 @07:11PM (#34368898) Attached to: iRacing World Champion Gets a Shot At the Real Thing

I threw up after looking at that nerd. He has the whitest skin I've ever seen. Sunlight deprivation must be unhealthy.

Comment Re:Wait a minute... (Score 2, Funny) 78

by donotlizard on Saturday November 27, 2010 @11:49AM (#34357942) Attached to: Symbian Foundation Sites To Close

My girlfriend will have to get off manually. Oh wait, I don't have a girlfriend.

Submission + - Geeknet Joins Open Invention Network (groklaw.net)

Submitted by donotlizard on Saturday November 20, 2010 @08:49AM

donotlizard writes: If you had started to worry about patent sharks going after Linux and Open Source distribution sites, you will be interested to hear that Geeknet, which owns SourceForge, freshmeat, Geek.com, ThinkGeek, and Slashdot, has just joined Open Invention Network as a licensee.
From the press release:
"Geeknet is a leading resource for open source software development and distribution," said Scott Collison, Chief Product Officer of Geeknet. "We believe that by becoming an Open Invention Network licensee, we encourage further open source development and promote innovation in a technical community that benefits everyone."
Once again, we see OIN doing what it has set out to do, try to protect the Linux ecosystem. When you are swimming with sharks, it helps to be inside a protective cage, which is why you have seen a lot of folks joining recently, including Fluendo.

Comment Re:Early Submissions... (Score 1) 66

by donotlizard on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @11:37AM (#32579074) Attached to: Guggenheim To Showcase YouTube Videos

Grape Lady Boom goes the dynamite I didn't link the videos. Go find them yourselves.

Comment Re:How retarded. (Score 1) 96

by donotlizard on Saturday May 01, 2010 @07:57PM (#32059912) Attached to: The Data-Driven Life

"Superintelligence" known as the cloud?

There's not even any need to read such tripe. In fact, I hate everyone who read that story after seeing the word "superintelligence" linked with "cloud."

There is no bound to the contempt writers of pieces like this should be shown, nor to all of the idiots who were involved in reposting it here.

Awesome! Also, I'm not sure anyone has the time and/or desire to analyze their daily routines, including coffee consumption.

Comment The Rifleman (Score 1) 244

by donotlizard on Saturday October 03, 2009 @02:15AM (#29624537) Attached to: The Pirate Bay Sails To a New Home

Holy crap! I'd better download the entire series ASAP! What would Chuck Connors do?

Comment FORTRAN 77 (Score 1, Interesting) 875

by donotlizard on Thursday September 17, 2009 @02:51PM (#29457159) Attached to: Old Operating Systems Never Die

I'm currently involved in a project for one of our refining customers. They have a complex program called UNIPOL, developed by Union Carbide, written in FORTRAN 77. It's running on an ancient UNIX-based proprietary Honeywell OS. Not sure what the computer looks like, but it's probably never been turned off since its installation in the 1970s. The project involves converting the FORTRAN to good, old Visual Basic to run on super reliable Windows Server 2003.

Comment No subject (Score 0) 688

by donotlizard on Monday August 31, 2009 @07:59PM (#29268249) Attached to: OS Performance — Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10

I can't wait until I can download Windows 7 illegally and bypass Microsoft's activation. Awesome!

Comment Re: Me too, and I tried... (Score 1) 429

by donotlizard on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:06AM (#28691307) Attached to: Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey

My company actually skipped over XP and went from 2000 to Vista x32, which sucks balls on our D820 laptops. It sucked so bad I eventually spent $2500 on my own Thinkpad, which rocks Vista x64. We'll likely skip Windows 7 completely, which is just as well because it doesn't seem business friendly at all.

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