Buy an HP… Really

Maybe I am a bit jaded. I have spent far too many hours digging around in Dell laptops…that might make a guy sort of jaded. Maybe it is the fact that I am tired of all of the Dells sitting around my garage; time for a new toy, perhaps. Regardless of the root cause, I’ve been taking note lately to the HP discounts hanging around out there, and I really want one.

Case in point. Last week at work, my home slice bjordan and I were talking about Unity, and how Ubuntu might be dropping the ball on their netbook OS. I suggested that it was pretty much designed to be run on a tablet, and that it (was) getting good reviews from some power users, even though I hate the term “power user.” Long story short, we both decided that perhaps our netbooks needed upgrades…a la touchscreens. There are kits available to upgrade the Mini 9’s screen to a touch…but, why do that, when this bad boy is on the market:

hp image
FTFY = Fixed That For You, FYI

The HP TouchSmart units are awesome. Especially the TouchSmart tm2t series. Imagine that bad boy, WITH WINDOWS TOSSED STRAIGHT THE CRAP TO DEV NULL, running Ubuntu 10.10 with Unity…perfect. No hardware issues, with a slick touchscreen interface. I would love to get my hands and fingers on that sucker…swivel touch swivel awesome. For the win, of course.

unixkcd easter eggs

I had a creeping suspicion that the best xkcd of all time might be integrated into unixkcd…turns out I was on to something

sudo-make-me-a-sandwich
sudo FTW!

This made my day. Especially, since /. is utter garbage with all of the “funny” stories…pretty retarded.
***Note: sudo rm -rf * does nothing…I tried.***

Oblig unixkcd

Every nerd’s favourite webcomic was extra nerdy today, April Fool’s Day…

randall get out of my head
randall get out of my head

(hit the pix link for full-sized)

I need to view the source and figure out how Randall managed to emulate a fricking terminal on xkcd, but mad props nonetheless.

***bonus points for the lame “top command” joke***