Comment Re:How much data? (Score 1) 89
Exactly correct, or enough data to fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools. If stored on stacked floppy disks, it would reach the moon!
Comment Re:Units (Score 1) 113
I believe "acres of green chile" is the appropriate unit for a New Mexico reference.
Comment But can it run Linux? (Score 1) 170
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Comment Re:As opposed to actual Model Ms which are still m (Score 1) 298
To connect a PS/2 model to USB, an adapter that does signal conversion works best: http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/items.main/parentcat/11298/subcatid/0/id/124184. I've been using these with three Model M's for years. I wish all of my equipment was as rugged as these keyboards. My favorite "Space Saver" Model M (no numeric keypad) has outlived many computers and will probably outlive me.
Comment Prior Art (Score 1) 113
It's a humongous Cray X-MP. Where are the cushions?
Comment Re:Lance Armstrong is gonna be pissed (Score 1) 629
... but he still gets to use this bitchin' communication system supplied by The Shack for talking to the team director during a race (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3247541). They'll tuck it in the rear of his time trial helmet.
Decent DVD-Ripping Solution For Linux? 501
supersloshy writes "I'm a user of Ubuntu Linux and I have been for a little while now. Recently I've been trying to copy DVDs onto a portable media player, but everything I've tried isn't working right. dvd::rip always gets the language mixed up (for example, when ripping 'Howl's Moving Castle,' one of the files it ripped to was in Japanese instead of English), Acidrip just plain isn't working for me (not recognizing a disc with spaces in its name, refusing to encode, etc.), Thoggen is having trouble with chapters (chapter 1 repeated twice for me once), and OGMRip has the audio out of sync. What I'm looking for is a reliable program to copy the movie into a single file with none of the audio or video glitches as mentioned above. Is there even such thing on Linux? If you can't think of a decent Linux-based solution, then a Windows one is fine as long as it works."
Comment Re:Nerdy? (Score 1) 17
Hello and World!
Comment More importantly... (Score 1) 608
Does he use vi or emacs?
