Well that's just great. Now I have that rolling around in my head in Jamie's voice.

I find the Medic's Blutsagher (+HP from damage done) to be an improvement over the syringe gun myself, as not being able to crit (especially with the low damage on the weapon itself) isn't that bad of a tradeoff for draining HP from your enemies.

Upper-level undergraduate course at my university, which is not MIT.

Yeah, there's a upper-level undergraduate course that does single-board computers with a 8088 MPU and some supporting hardware. It's a mess and I personally believe that the course should be changed to give a "interfacing with reality" bent to it, as a single MCU can be tuned to do the same (external memory bus, etc) and you can go beyond the "look I made a light blink" to "Look I can actually do something useful with this thing".

(if you're on an open source OS and not using blob drivers, odds are that it's compiled using code that I worked on)

<obligatory>Hey, I use an S3 ViRGE, you insensitive clod! </obligatory>

My university charges per-credit hour up to 15, after which it stays at the 15 cr. hour price. Now, taking 15+ in a semester can be pure pain.

More specifically, the State of Illinois hasn't paid out all budgeted funds to any of its state universities (to be completely fair here, this is because there is no funds to allocate, not any particular mustache-twirling).

State universities are responding by cutting their own budgets. University of Illinois imposed "furlough days", which amount to "don't come in on these days, you're not getting paid for it". Southern Illinois University, where I attend, has tried to do the same thing and is in a nasty fight with the various unions representing faculty (tenure track and non-tenure track), civil servants and even the graduate assistants. That's an entirely different story, though: the unions are claiming that the administration isn't playing fair and is basically using the budget hell to be authoritarian (evil mustache-twirling, which is an odd though when you consider that our new chancellor is a woman).

I think most people try to forget the Virtual Boy.

So it looks like CDE then? I still have CDE on some Solaris 10 Ultra45 workstations and a few aging Blade150s (as their gnome-based "java" desktop system runs terribly on old SPARCs).

CDE is ugly.

So you want to ping God?

We use science because it works...

...bitches .
(original reference)

I didn't think there were any keybindings not used by Emacs.

I did a "nuke the site from orbit" job on my sister's machine which had gotten infected from something she did to it. Spotting limewire on the machine, I uninstalled it and told her if it happened again (ie, her machine is loaded with malware and she's got crap like limewire installed), she'd have to pay me to clean up after her.

Oracle's fix going forward is probably to say "Everything will only run on Oracle Solaris, now piss off."

I remember that power brick -- saw one attached to the ill-fated inspiron model that used a prescott P4 (I believe it was the 9100) a few years ago.