On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 09:39:12AM -0700, Russ Johnson wrote: > >>- Enjoys Slashdot > > > >Nope. > > > Slashdot has become less and less enjoyable... Too many people with too > many far out ideas of what "should" be. > > Whatever happened to "live and let live"??
Corporate ownership and an army of trolls happened, I think. I still occasionally hear about people blathering about having a five digit slashdot ID. I don't get the big deal. (Of course, I have a three digit ID, 537, and the only reason it's not 100-something or lower is that it took two weeks for Rob to make Slashdot's then new account system to work with Lynx--the only browser I used back then..) I rather missed the people posting as Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, back when it was a small site. ;) > >>- Likes recompiling the Linux kernel > > > >Always thought it was silly to recompile everything because I plugged in a > >USB camera. > > > > > That's why I use a distribution that this stuff comes pre-built... :) > > But I know how... So do I. I just prefer not to do so for every little thing that comes along. When there's an upgrade, I could see it. When you're setting up a new system, I could see it. But when you get home with a new camera? I can't see that. > >>- Puts black lights in their PC cases > > > >More silliness. > > > Why? What's wrong with it? My son enjoys fixing up his case as much as > fixing up his car. It's a hobby and that's a good thing. > > Just like some are good with writing code, some are good with hardware. > Some even go on to DESIGN hardware, and they gotta start somewhere. That's silly in cars too. Besides, it's not the same as rebuilding a car for performance or anything like that. Consider, there are two kinds of case mods out there. The more rare kind is not actually a case mod, but a case replacement. Some of these are pretty impressive bits of mechanical engineering. A lot of the mini-ITX projects are in this category (though not all of them..) The others seem to be lacking in style and class. How many times can you see a case with a big hole ripped in the door and replaced with plexi, a bunch of fans, cold cathode lights, and a paint job that is anything but elegant? How about any random object with a bunch of coarsely dremeled holes in it for the ports of a mini-ITX board? (We've seen vintage macs, game consoles, what have you..) The former set of hacks usually involve precision and creativity. The latter set, while perhaps novel some years ago, does have an amatuer feel to it. And watching the average casemodder go nuts over this kind of mod has the same feel as watching adults get excited about using clothespins to hold playing cards in the spokes of a bicycle because it makes it makes the bike sound more like a motorcycle. At nine, that's kind of cute. At nineteen, I'd wonder what's wrong with them. =) That said, I have been known to drill out the stock sheet metal fan grilles in PC cases, replace them with wire guards, and added internal cable management. I do this kind of case mod to ensure better cooling performance, not to improve the appearance of my system. (Who'd notice anyway? My entire work area looked like a machine room..) > >>- Has a Linux bumper sticker > > > >Haven't got a car. =) > > > That's another sign. Many nerds/geeks/etc that I know espouse cars and > bike or mass-transit everywhere they go. As it is, I don't know how I > would get everything I do done without my own vehicle. Believe me that I'd have one if I could drive it. Busses are fine in Eugene during the day, but forget it after 7pm. > Nobody has shown me any study that doesn't say, "A diet exclusively of > aspartame..." > > I've also read studies that show breathing to lead to death. > > Life and death happen. You make choices. I could produce some in response to your first statement here, however your second demonstrates the value you would assign to any such study, so it's not really worth digging up. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
