I'm not overly big on news, so I don't generally go out looking for what's out there. I've been using an RSS reader for years, to aggregate it all together so I can look through the headlines to determine what I want to read further. For the longest time I used newsbeuter, but then switched to newsboat a few years ago, and I don't see any need to change that.

Same here. My wife and I each carry one of those combo tools. She also keeps a can of pepper spray on hers as well ;)

What's on my key chain (besides keys)? A combination window punch/seat belt cutter. Because I live in Florida ;)

I bought two Raspberry Pi's in October. One of them is currently doing duty as an IRC server inside of one of my Broadband-Hamnet mesh nodes (formerly HSMM-MESH), the other is for use as a backup, and for experimenting.

http://www.hsmm-mesh.org/

All things being relative, this is a government contract/project, so I guess we should feel lucky it wasn't open port 23 telnet with a null password. Therefore, they'll probably get a reward for using that newfangled SSH encryption stuff (circa 1995, but who's keeping score?)

Yahoo! wanted to drop it's workforce without a layoff. This was the cheapest and easiest way to do it. Plain and simple.

The kind that does not allow WiFi for security reasons.

From Rustlers' Rhapsody:

Rex O'Herlihan: You're not a good guy at all!
Bob Barber: I'm a lawyer, you idiot!

I found that programming for a living does tend to take away the passion I used to have for it. To compensate, I tend to code for myself on my off time. I'd like to get into an open source project one of these days, but for now, I just write my own programs and enjoy the process.

You could get into an open source project, see if that might re-kindle your passion for programming. Make sure you check you company policy for code you write after work, you wouldn't want to run afoul of that.

I wish I had mod points, that made me laugh! :D

I don't know what "UNIX" you use, that has bash as the standard shell, but the two "UNIX" variants we have at work... Solaris and AIX, both use the Korn shell (ksh) as the default and standard shell.

One solution to this is simple; do you feel buckeyballs (which is a very loose trademark considering the name has been around more than 20 years) is abusing the DMCA and being anticompetitive? If so, then go to http://zenmagnets.com/ and buy a small set of magnets (which are cool by the way). I did! Support the little guy and vote with the dollars you spend! Tell your friends on Facebook about the cool magnets you just bought and that they should buy some too! Let word of mouth get around. Let your actions be the PR and send the message to buckeyballs.

Hey slashdot, tell ThinkGeek to carry ZenMagnets and drop buckeyballs instead.

Hey Oracle, you and Larry Ellison can kiss my hairy ass. It will be a cold day in hell before I use any of your products again.

As a friend of mine is fond of saying, "if you want an argument, pick another subject".

I'm just providing one potential solution to the submitter's question.

Well, you could get your Amateur Radio license, then you could use Winlink 2000 to send and receive emails while at sea.

http://www.winlink.org/

Of course, I personally despise Winlink 2000, because of the robots that never listen to see if other stations are transmitting, before they transmit, but that's just my personal opinion.