Comment Kenny Everett would say: (Score 1) 527

by Trull on Thursday January 08, 2009 @04:05PM (#26376137) Attached to: "Smash Your Hard Drive" To Fight Identity Theft

Round 'em up
Put 'em in a field
And bomb the bastards!

Comment Re:And don't forget Robert Plant! (Score 1) 366

by Trull on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @07:33AM (#26278521) Attached to: Terry Pratchett Knighted

Alas your 4digit /. number gives you away sir, you must be conversant with Fortran 77? I'm but a whippersnapper with a 5digit...

Comment Also Sir Chris Hoy (Score 1) 366

by Trull on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @06:22AM (#26278143) Attached to: Terry Pratchett Knighted

Most notable to be honoured is the Scot Sir Chris Hoy - triple Olympic medal winning, World Champion and all round good egg.
And I've been overtaken by him on the track at Meadowbank many many years ago...

Comment Re:It's pirate-proof. (Score 1) 94

by Trull on Sunday December 21, 2008 @06:23AM (#26190199) Attached to: How To See In 3D On Your iPhone

Ye be fine land lubber....

Aye aye!

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here 284

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 13, 2008 @08:30AM from the who-needs-office-anyway dept.

SNate writes "After a grinding three-year development cycle, the OpenOffice.org team has finally squeezed out a new release. New features include support for the controversial Microsoft OOXML file format, multi-page views in Writer, and PDF import via an extension. Linux Format has an overview of the new release, asking the question: is it really worth the 3.0 label?"

Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? 1114

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 12, 2008 @06:57PM from the practical-interest-here dept.

vile8 writes "With the high gas prices and ongoing gas gouging in my hometown many people are trying to find a reasonable way to save gas. One of the things I've noticed is people driving exceptionally slow, 30mph in 45mph zones, etc. So I had to take a quick look and find out if driving slow is helpful in getting better mileage. I know horsepower increases substantially with wind resistance, but with charts like this one from truckandbarter.com it appears mileage is actually about the same between 27mph and 58mph or so. So I'm curious what all the drivers out there with the cool efficiency computers are getting ... of specific interest would be the hemis with MDS; how do those do with the cylinder shutoff mode at different speeds?" Related: are there any practical hypermiling techniques that you've found for people not ready to purchase a new car, nor give up driving generally?