-doesn't support screen rotation

have you tried xrandr (and some parameter that escapes me)

It's just I have a machine setup in the garage with it's monitor on it's side, so I can play vertical arcade games - it works flawlessly!

Yep, life is imitating art here. I remember a silly (fake) article in the Viz comic, that was basically this exact same thing. In the article it stated that Paul McCartney demanded royalties as someone was heard walking down the street whistling Penny Lane or something.

Brilliant stuff.

Perhaps PRS need to properly define "Public Performance"? I think it's fair that if someone is making money from performing someones elses music, the original artists should get a cut of it. If, it's a very low-key event making little money I really think it harms society.

Heh, my 5 year-olds favourite game is James Pond II: Robocod. He plays on a Sega Emulator on my Gameboy advance. Makes me proud he does :-)
So, there's one young boy who appreciates classic gaming!

**Top Tip**

I watch full screen youtube, except I use the zoom function of the compiz desktop thingy. Much better than flash fullscreen!

I just wish the cursor would become invisible when in zoom mode...some hacking may be in order!

Yeah, but I really enjoyed wiring up my house, with the drilling and the cabling and the screwing. It made me feel like a real man.

I later added wireless to the network, purely for my WII because it didn't have an ethernet port on it!

How about this:

1. attach lots (and lots) of these together
2. send them all a small portion of a film (the picture not different parts of the film!)
3. then stick them all together, ensure they play in sync (somehow).

Hey presto! Huge hi-res LCD display...for free (I mean, all the left over magazines will be useful...maybe make a paper mache housing for your new 'TV')

Scary. You've just described myself to a 'T', especially with the completely unfounded superiority complex...

To make matters worse, it seems that 'the older generation' are being convinced into purcahsing lesss secure operating systems. Case in point: I built my mother in law a debian based desktop machine (she only wanted to use facebook). Yet, somehow she was convinced to purchase a laptop (she only uses the machine at a desk) with Windows Vista. She now has 'a virus' and has had to pay PC World money to fix it.

Idiot. And to think my son shares genes with her...don't tell my missus I said that.

That is quite possibly the most brilliant idea I've ever read on one of these, far too frequent discussions, on piracy/TPB. Well done!

"Oh, geez, not the ridiculous "free advertising" argument again. Let's throw out the other Slashdot cliches too, like "obsolete business model," "cultural revolution," and "MAFIAA.""

Just because they are often repeated cliches, does not neccesarily mean they are untrue.

Or by, erm, I dunno, wearing a pair of dark glasses? And if the system can recognise shades then simply wear a pair of crazy Dame Edna Everage style dark-glasses!

I wonder what sort of penetration the P Nes might get?

I think a lot of people are just slaves to consumerism. Here's my story:

My wifes mother wanted access to this 'Facebook' that everybody's talking about. However, she didn't have a phone line and didn't want to be tied to ANY contract or anything of course she didn't want to have to payout loads of cash either. So, I put together a PC for her from bits I had lying around, a very decent Pc as it happened: P4 1.8Gighz, 1Gig ram, Nvidia Gforce4 graphics. I installed Ubuntu with the netbook remix interface (she had never used a PC of ANY kind before but had used a mobile phone). I also bought her a 3 Mobile broadband Pay As You Go dongle. Set it all up, away she went.

A week goes by, she checks facebook, find recipes on google etc. Great, I think, a job well done and another linux user (who doesn't even know it). Great, until she announces that she's buying a laptop because "the computer is too bulky" (meaning the CRT and base unit is too big - even though she has a huge room and even bought a new desk to accomodate the PC!).

So, there you go, even though I had provided her with a perfectly working PC the lure of consumerism was too much and the 'need' to spend some money will create another Windows user!

Well, I'm not doing windows technical support so she can forget that...