Submission + - Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out (ecogeek.org)

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hankmt

on Sunday November 11, 2007 @04:49PM

hankmt writes: "About a week ago Wal-Mart began selling a $200 linux machine running on a 1.5 ghz Via C7 processor and 512 megs of RAM. While the specs are useless for vista, it works blazingly fast on Ubuntu with the Enlightenment Window Manager. The machine is now officially sold out of their online warehouses, and the product sales page at WalMart.com is full of glowing reviews from new and old linux users alike."

Comment The Gold Dream of the Slashdot Reader (Score -1) 91

by 0x54524F4C4C on Tuesday June 14, 2005 @04:51PM (#12817270) Attached to: Nokia and Intel Group Up To Develop WiMax

It starts with the reader (TR) sitting in a Virgin Galatic ship, going to visit the moon. Having his Apple x86 iTablet patched to run Fedora Core 17 connected via hi-speed WiMax, he can see his own ship launch be ascii/unicode broadcast live through one of his nerdy friends Vlogs, while peeking at some online pr0n stuff and downloading the latest Michael Jackson album from BitTor. In the way to the moon, some nanomechanisms spawn from his computerized clothes designed at the MIT by Negroponte himself take care of his personal hygiene (since he can't do it himself being busy with Wanda and Lara, which are actually 2 truck drivers that impersonate booby girls in the IRCng channels). While playing Katamari-Rollback with his ps3 supercomputer, he blogs his impressions about the trip using a mind control apparatus that fires ultrasonic waves into his brain. With a sup of tutti-frutti Kool-Aid, he reloads Slashdot to read some more dupes and FPs and Trolls.

Journal Journal: Let's do this again 2

Journal by No More Trolls on Monday September 27, 2004 @10:37AM

My foes list has a bunch of trolls on it. Some are new. If anyone has suggestions for names to add or names to take off, please post a comment here. Oh and please link to examples of why it should change. Thank you.

Comment Re:Electrovaya (Score -1) 751

by Captain Goatse on Tuesday August 03, 2004 @06:38PM (#9873005) Attached to: Laptops with the Longest Battery Life?

Those crazy japanese have something with quite a battery time, http://www2.strangeworld.org/uedakana/sahra1354.ht m for some information and http://210.150.243.7/cgi-bin/netabbs/03/imgboard.c gi for more images of it.

Journal Journal: Grr... stupid email filtering...

Journal by Captain Goatse on Thursday May 06, 2004 @02:25AM

I like Gentoo more than Slackware :/

Journal Journal: All right! I'm a certified Slashdot troll!

Journal by Captain Goatse on Wednesday May 05, 2004 @01:32PM

Yay, one of my base -1 comments got modded for Trolling, that must mean that I'm a troll for real! Link here. The comment isn't really a troll as everything is true, Offtopic, yes, but Troll... maybe.

Journal Journal: No more 2 post per day limit for me?

Journal by Captain Goatse on Tuesday February 10, 2004 @03:42PM

It seems as I can post more than the old boring 2 comments per day right now, this should be my fourth today, for example. It might be because my previous posts actually got modded up, some nicer trolling actually pays off after a while :) And doing it in the first post too, of course. It also helps a lot to actually know what is being said in the news article.

Journal Journal: First Posts 3

Journal by Captain Goatse on Sunday November 09, 2003 @11:32AM

This is a list of my latest FPs.

Journal Journal: Terrible

Journal by Captain Goatse on Friday October 17, 2003 @05:45PM

I finally reached Terrible karma. A rather nice stepping stone into the worlds of Trolling. It's time to write some more exiting Captain Goatse stories. I know you all want to know what I found out about the legend of loopback(Warning: Might be offensive to some non-pirates).

Journal Journal: Banned already

Journal by Captain Goatse on Sunday October 12, 2003 @12:21PM

Captain Goatse writes: "I was banned after just 15 minutes of membership, doesn't this suck? Yes, I know that the ban is only temporary. But, how are you supposed to get your karma down enough if your right to free speech is taken from you?

On my ship we have 100% free speech and 100% gay sex. I wish the rest of the world would learn. I've been thinking about releasing some of our brats to let them spread our message. Is is a good idea or not?

Comment Re:You're being a bit overzealous, don't you think (Score 1) 18

by No More Trolls on Tuesday August 27, 2002 @04:18PM (#4151565) Attached to: Suggestions are always welcome

This is pretty typical Flamebait and Troll both:

You nimrods. (Score:-1, Flamebait) by Wakko Warner on Tuesday August 27, @04:00PM (#4151400) Why is this story such a big deal?? How many of you wolf-crying 'tards have ever paid a dime for your MP3 encoders? Fraunhofer has been charging a license fee for them since the very beginning, but I don't ever remember having inserted a quarter into the coin slot on my PC when I ran LAME. Do you honestly think you're gonna start having to pay for your copy of XMMS? Of mpg123? Do you think the copies you have now are gonna quit working in a few days? Stop acting like such irrational little 12-year-olds... Moderation Totals: Flamebait=2, Overrated=1, Total=3.

(It is flamebait for sure and I think it is Troll because it didn't take very long for Google to find out he was just being stupid.)

You might be right about FortKnox. I have not decided yet.

I took /dev/trash off the list.

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