What the frack is a drum alarm?! I just started seeing this ad pop up on my site all the time with the image of a blue barrel and a little white keypad thingy on it and i can’t help but wonder what it is!!!

“Linux - We don’t recommend it.” — uttered by a Dell Customer Service Representative, one of those that helps you “build” your computer as you speak to them over the phone.

I’m doing all my python development in Eclipse using the pydev plugins.  At random and without warning, Eclipse keeps freezing on me!  WTF.  Here’s what I get when I kill it:
JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/bin/gij
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-Dosgi.sharedConfiguration.area=/usr/lib64/eclipse/configuration
-jar /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-showsplash
-launcher /usr/lib64/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse

-startup /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar
-exitdata 838010
-vm /usr/bin/gij
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-Dosgi.sharedConfiguration.area=/usr/lib64/eclipse/configuration
-jar /usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar
This happens on Fedora 8 and … –launcher.library /usr/lib64/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.0.0.v20070606/eclipse_1017a.so

Video lookup on YouTube accounts for a fourth of all Google hunting queries in the United States. If it were a standalone, YouTube would be the 2nd largest lookup railway locomotive after Google. More searches are through YouTube than many other search engines combined.

It was a free space-themed action MMO, but not like those cheap web based hacks that are complete garbage.  It had PVE and plenty of PVP.  Ok, it wasn’t all that great, and I only played a little, but it was the only MMO I liked.  I can’t stand World …