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record and playback tv, stream live tv (so I can pause it). all with mplayer and all at the console.
Drive halfway across the country with a notebook, gps reciever, wireless phone and GPSdrive mapping software. Downloading detailed maps on the fly is just _too_ cool, albeit a little slow at 9600bps.
Built a netbootable workstation out of a MicroITX board. No local drives at all, just PXE booting from the server and running blackbox.
Mail, web, and webmail servers.
I just love building software RAID arrays. I know there's a 12-step program for it, but I don't have a problem.
Offsite backup. Gotta love it.
...and it looks like i'll be poking around with eclipse soon. looks interesting, mac.
Going on a nostalgic arcade playing frenzy and giggling madly because THIS time, I have unlimitted quarters to play with and I can try em all
(I'd like to publicly thank my fiancee for patiently putting up with my silly *ss that whole weekend).
The NEXT coolest thing will be watching DVDs if I can ever get all the problems worked out.
Edit 2003-03-31: DVD playback now works on my laptop!!! Woohoo!! I still have some problems with the Xvideo function but Mdk 9.1 and Xfree 4.3.0 have increased performance enough that I can use the slow x11 driver and its good!
Distribution: Redhat 8.0, Immunix 7.0 a few others
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By far the coolest thing is getting Linux to run on a really old piece of hardware. Especially since they've long since lost their Windows software that came with it.
Guess the coolest thing I've done is set up a LAMP webserver and started serving my website from my home. Is that cool? Getting all traces of M$ off my box was cool...
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