If any of you have ever used an Amiga, then the image above will send rage through you. You've probably encountered it more than you'd like to admit and even though it didn't quite work that time, there's something you probably forgot to do– and you tried and tried again. It became a passion; a labor of skilled love that you endured until it accomplished the task. You were then exhausted but satisfied.
For those of you that don't know, this image is comparable to the Windows blue-screen-of-death. Basically, it's caused by faulty software that ultimately brings the machine down. In earlier versions, it didn't say “Software Failure” instead relying on “Guru Meditation” alone to convey it's message. Your choice was to either reboot (most did) or to attach a debugger and figure out why it failed (I never did this).
This screen capture was grabbed from the UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator) for the Mac (excuse the German) in which, yes, it even crashes in emulation. Please, hold your applause until the end.
The reason I've posted this is because I've pulled my Amiga from the basement and have been copying my old floppies to images and ultimately storing them on CD-ROM as I fear the oxide on the discs will cause them to be unreadable (some already aren't readable now).
A spellbinding trip back into time when the phone system was a playground and learning tool for a select few with the skills to do so.
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While in California, we picked up the Miglia TVMini HD. It's a USB ATSC tuner that is capable of picking up digital television signals from terrestrial antennas and from cable (assuming they are “Clear QAM” which means unencrypted). The included antenna is more of a toy than anything else. It's much to small to receive more than one channel in this area. The old fashioned yagi antenna should do much better. 
This one explains itself, yet explains nothing. It's so absurd you have to wonder if the girl featured on the Maury show is being paid enough to humiliate herself. What exactly is the correct –phobia term for this? How does she feel about cucumbers? What about zucchini and squash?
I bought Jim and myself one of these each for our cars. It's a small plastic flexible fresnel lens that enables you to see objects above the top of the windshield with ease. Both of our vehicles tend to hide the over-intersection lights here so this helps tremendously. Under $15 shipped.
Line Rider started as a programming project of Bo