GeekishYogi - Slashdot User

Comment Sure we can do it. (Score 1) 990

by GeekishYogi on Monday August 29, 2011 @03:46PM (#37245614) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones?

It might be a little more tricky to remove time zones from the entire planet than it was to convert the US to the metric system but we were able to pull that off relatively easily... err... never mind.

Comment Re:Still Could Be Pretty Useful, I Say. (Score 1) 249

by GeekishYogi on Thursday July 01, 2010 @05:15PM (#32764012) Attached to: What To Do With Old 802.11b Equipment?

Thank you flippy. It's the end of the day and this made me smile.

Recommendations For C++/OpenGL Linux Tutorials? 117

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @08:31AM from the no-you-guide-me dept.

QuaveringGrape writes "After a few years of Python I've recently been trying to expand my programming knowledge into the realm of compiled languages. I started with C, then switched over to C++. A friend and longtime OpenGL programmer told me about NeHe's tutorials as a good step after the command-line programs started to get old, but there's a problem: all the tutorials are very Windows-based, and I've been using Linux as my single platform for a while now. I'm looking for suggestions for tutorials that are easy to learn, without being dumbed down or geared towards non-programmers."

Food Activist's Life Becomes The Life of Brian 165

Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 22, 2010 @03:34PM from the you-are-all-individuals dept.

krou writes "After food activist and author Raj Patel appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his latest book, things seemed to be going well, until he began to get inundated with emails asking if he was 'the world teacher.' In events ripped straight from The Life of Brian, it would seem that Raj Patel's life story ticks all the boxes necessary to fulfill prophecies made by Benjamin Creme, founder of religious sect Share International. After the volume of emails and inquiries got worse, Patel eventually wrote a message on his website stating categorically that he was not the Messiah. Sure enough, 'his denial merely fanned the flames for some believers. In a twist ripped straight from the script of the comedy classic, they said that this disavowal, too, had been prophesied.'"

PA Laptop Spying Inspires FSF Crowdsourcing Effort 135

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 13, 2010 @09:37AM from the inspiration-comes-from-many-places dept.

holmesfsf writes "Creeped out by the Lower Merion School District's remote monitoring of students? Check out the Free Software Foundation's response to the laptop spying scandal and help build a wiki listing of school districts that provide students with laptops, so that the FSF can campaign against mandatory, proprietary laptops."

China To Tap Combustible Ice As New Energy Source 185

Posted by timothy on Friday March 12, 2010 @06:00AM from the undra-the-tundra dept.

lilbridge writes "Huge reserves of "combustible ice" — frozen methane and water — have been discovered in the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. Estimates show that there is enough combustible ice to provide 90 years worth of energy for China. Burning the combustible ice may be a far better alternative than letting it just melt, releasing tons of methane into the air."

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