then please give us the source to that dialer so we can port it to *bsd so we can have a real system.

real men use su. even for shutting down a laptop.

So if you were to tie this to xinerama and vnc you whould have something like dmx? Altough I never got dmx to work, maybe because I'm a little lazy...

allright, kvm. it still uses qemu for the non-cpu hardware.

How do you run games in a vm? or do you mean non-3d games? I've never got it to play nice...

A friend of mine put a rounded neodynium magnet on top of his laptop, right over the hard drive. he liked how the magnet started to spin on top of his laptop, he didn't like how his laptop was unusable after. He destroyed about 10% of his drive's sectors completely. So my suggestion is open the hard drives, get the magnets out. power the drives up and drop the magnets onto the drive.

One of the strangest failures I've ever seen is a drive which will work perfectly when held vertically and do nothing when horizontal. I still use it, as a backup of backups... Just for fun.

But then you are still dependent on someone else. I prefer to host all my software on my own metal, so I have the control over my own data. I know this isn't possible for everyone but the only way I like SaaS is SaaStM, Software as a Service to Myself.

seconded, the rants are the reason for me to read slashdot!

You murderer!

echo ''sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude -y upgrade' > update.sh; chmod +x update.sh
./update.sh

only repeat the last step. more efficient in the long run.

after having finished portal 2 yesterday, that sounds like an awesome idea. obviously you'd need a wiimote like controller for the portal gun. i'd really want that.

I have no lawnmower! now get out of my lawn!

That may be your opinion, but I think you should read some more.

There is a simple solution, use noscript. The first days might be a pain to get it to work for you, but it makes firefox run good. The only problem is that you are now stuck with firefox.