yo_tuco - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Boar is the solution (Score 2) 499

by yo_tuco on Thursday September 29, @04:55PM (#37560238) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage?

Disclaimer: I'm the author of Boar, and I think that absolutely everyone who values their files should use it. Or something similar, although I haven't found anything else that fits my needs.

Current state
The project is in beta phase...

What do I need to run it?
Boar is written in Python and tested on Windows and Linux. You will need python 2.6 or higher. Also, you should know that boar is (so far) a command line tool and will require some basic command line skills.

It's beta, only tested on Windows and Linux and you need command line skills? It doesn't sound ready for Everyone just yet. You're going to need a GUI for the majority that's not reading your post here on /.

Comment: I have Imperical Data (Score 1) 58

by yo_tuco on Wednesday January 19 2011, @07:54PM (#34934752) Attached to: California Spam Law Upheld By Appeals Court

I know first-hand those augmentation pills don't work. Oh, wait, I mean...

Comment: Re:Logo (Score 1) 357

by yo_tuco on Monday August 16 2010, @01:06PM (#33266082) Attached to: Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad

"Does that mean that Geek Squad is Satanic?"

Only if you read the logo backwards.

Comment: Re:Browser market share (Score 2, Funny) 290

by yo_tuco on Tuesday August 03 2010, @11:44AM (#33125440) Attached to: Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe

"I was really hoping for an analogy using the metric system."

I, on the other hand, was hoping for a car analogy.

Comment: Re:It's easy to feel good about Apple's policies.. (Score 1) 422

by yo_tuco on Wednesday June 16 2010, @03:33PM (#32594668) Attached to: Apple Reverses Rejection of Ulysses Comic

"...I hate iProducts.... I hate.... I get angry... "

Take a chill-pill. Your "hate" over inanimate objects and anger over behavior you have no right to dictate is not healthy. Amazingly, if you just forget about it and move on, you'll have more time to deal with more important things in life.

Comment: Re:a democratic solution (Score 1) 364

by yo_tuco on Tuesday June 15 2010, @04:44PM (#32583846) Attached to: Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm

"crowd source it, let the people decide."

Actually, per the Wikipedia About ChatRoulette, a person can get banned up to 40 minutes if 3 people complain within 5 minutes.

Comment: Re:kill it (Score 4, Funny) 168

by yo_tuco on Thursday June 10 2010, @05:37PM (#32529412) Attached to: Judge Rejects SCO's Motion For a New Trial

"Will someone please squash this bug please."

Better yet, warm up your arm and be the first one to throw your best shot! Mulligans are allowed. My favorite McBride quote from a CRN Interview:

"
CRN: This lawsuit is very unpopular among many in the open-source community.

McBride: We're either right or we're not. If we're wrong, we deserve people throwing rocks at us..."

Comment: Re:Deficit reduction! (Score 1) 510

by yo_tuco on Tuesday June 08 2010, @01:38PM (#32499940) Attached to: RIAA Says LimeWire Owes $1.5 Trillion

I couldn't comprehend until, finally, the car analogy.

Comment: Re:Laptop Useage in Class? (Score 2, Insightful) 218

by yo_tuco on Thursday May 20 2010, @12:42PM (#32282200) Attached to: Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students

"In theory they're typing notes or recording the lecture or something.

In practice, I suspect it is more of a distraction than anything else."

Not much different than when we were bored with a lecture and played hangman on our HP41C calculators back in the 80's.

Comment: Re:Got my CD in the mail a few days ago (Score 2, Interesting) 143

by yo_tuco on Wednesday May 19 2010, @04:37PM (#32270436) Attached to: OpenBSD 4.7 Released

"I'm planning on making this one into some sort of automatics control for the house (turn the lights on, report temperature, I don't know, a bunch of lame stuff like this)."

OBSD has support for the 20 pin gpio header on a Soekris net4801 board out-of-the-box. With that you can easily make either digital or transistor switches to control things. The shell command is gpioctl which you may want to grab the source and mod it so its not reading command line arguments and can be put in your code without an os system call depending how frequently you are reading/writing the pin states.