Comment so close! (Score 5, Funny) 313

by quaketripp on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @05:15PM (#38656794) Attached to: The Doomsday Clock Is Moved Closer To Midnight

A few more minutes and we can start playing "2 minutes to midnight" by Iron Maiden!

Comment I knew I recognized a fellow Vermonter! (Score 1) 154

by quaketripp on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @02:05PM (#36231152) Attached to: Draft Horses Used To Lay Fiber-Optic Cable

Being from Vermont I instantly recognized this man as a fellow Vermonter - token horse and container of chaw in his shirt pocket.

Darth Vader Robs Long Island Bank 190

Posted by samzenpus on Friday July 23, 2010 @08:35AM from the I-find-our-lack-of-funds-disturbing dept.

Apparently the destruction of the second Death Star has stretched the Galactic Empire's coffers so thin that Lord Vader himself is robbing banks. From the article: "Impotent Rebel Alliance security forces tell Newsday (paywall) that Vader marched into a Chase bank in Setauket around 11:30 a.m. today. Brandishing a completely unnecessary handgun — as he had the power to choke the oxygen out every teller's throat — the fallen Jedi demanded cash."

Comment The Non-Book Book (Score 1) 517

by quaketripp on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @01:46PM (#26214307) Attached to: Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books?

Some of the college courses I learned the most from didn't even have text books, but rather I created a "book" from the pages and pages of notes I took from the professor's lectures. I still have most of these compilations of notes -- my favorite being on Theory of Programming Languages featuring OCaml.

Comment Re:tiny step in right direction (Score 1) 605

by quaketripp on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @01:36PM (#26214127) Attached to: Microsoft Extends XP To May 2009 For OEMs

Vista Ultimate and Business OEM license holders already have implicit downgrade rights to XP. If you order a machine from Dell with either of those on it, they will try and charge you $99 for an XP "downgrade installation". This is more or less bogus and just a convenience charge to have it come with XP pre-installed -- you can just run the XP restore disc it comes with and zap it back to XP.

Comment WOW! (Score 5, Funny) 281

by quaketripp on Wednesday March 05, 2008 @01:10PM (#22652490) Attached to: Internet Explorer 8 Beta Features Revealed

First they introduced tabbed browsing, now they've upgraded the context menus and integrated feeds! I just don't know how anyone can keep up with them. OMG and they're integrating group policy options to block sites! finally! that was impossible to do on a firewall! viva la revolution!