Comment Re:beliefs (Score 1) 366

by zumajim on Sunday March 18, 2018 @01:50PM (#56280233) Attached to: DIY Explosives Experimenter Blows Self Up, Contaminates Building

At least we can be sure that Mr. Morrison believed in something that ended up flying in his face.

Comment Quick, someone check his browser history (Score 1) 822

by zumajim on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @03:18PM (#51950225) Attached to: Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis'

Herbert is clearly too dumb to even know about incognito mode.

Comment That's not flying (Score 1) 53

by zumajim on Friday March 04, 2016 @09:42PM (#51641213) Attached to: DARPA Moves Ahead With Radical Vertical Take-Off Aircraft

Ducted fans, huh? That's not flying, that's just beating the air into submission.

Comment So stoked, dude (Score 1) 198

by zumajim on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @03:38PM (#47930641) Attached to: Wave Power Fails To Live Up To Promise

Surfers the world over are happy that the threat of power plants hogging their tasty waves isn't quite as gnarly now.

Comment You insensitive clod... (Score 1) 318

by zumajim on Thursday November 21, 2013 @08:24PM (#45486539) Attached to: On the subject of robots ...

I AM a robot.

Comment You insensitive clod! (Score 1) 309

by zumajim on Friday October 11, 2013 @01:32AM (#45098835) Attached to: My productivity peaks between...

You insensitive clod! I live outside of time.

Comment Re:Personally I like (Score 1) 284

by zumajim on Monday March 26, 2012 @06:05PM (#39479065) Attached to: Getting the Most Out of SSH

And since this post was originally about SSH, why not add '-e ssh' to tunnel rsync over a secure connection?

Comment Re:pointless (Score 1) 125

by zumajim on Wednesday January 25, 2012 @06:26PM (#38823153) Attached to: States Using Cloud Based Voting System For Overseas Citizens

The folks at Diebold are probably pissing themselves right about now.

Comment Gnome 3 made me do it (Score 1) 249

by zumajim on Monday June 06, 2011 @09:10PM (#36358146) Attached to: The last time I switched my usual GUI:

Just upgraded to Fedora 15 on this ancient ThinkPad R40, but its integrated video lacks the horsepower to run Gnome 3. I've reluctantly switched to the bloated KDE 4, which has the most annoying toolbar ever conceived. I'll switch back to Gnome when this box finally conks out.

Designer Builds Coffin For Xbox's Suffering RROD 118

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @12:34PM from the rust-in-peace dept.

angry tapir writes "The Xbox 360 RROD coffin was created by Aussie designer Alexis Vanamois, and it does exactly what it says on the tin. It's the ultimate final resting place for 'bricked' Xbox 360 consoles that have suffered the Red Ring of Death; it even has a cavity for your controller!"

Comment Re:Still? (Score 1) 195

by zumajim on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @01:37PM (#28268423) Attached to: Fedora 11 Is Now Available

Yeah, really. I stick with it because my office is a Redhat shop and this lets me stay close to the Redhat layout and such but still have the option to update and install new stuff to keep my own systems bleeding edge. That said, I think Ubuntu deserves its first-place standing and I get tempted to switch. We'll see how F11 goes. If it wipes out my grub loader (again), I might just jump ship...

Journal Journal: How quaint!

Journal by zumajim on Friday January 09, 2009 @03:17AM

Today while cleaning out an obscure desk drawer at home, I set aside a stack of old 1.44" diskettes, wrapped in a rubber band. My 11 year old son wandered in and picked them up. He studied them for a few moments before inquiring what they were. I explained as best I could but couldn't demonstrate them because none of the machines in my home now have diskette drives. Could it be that time is moving by that fast? Maybe I ought to dig up some old 5 1/4" floppies and really blow his mind...