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User #5825 here. Here are a few of my favorites: The whole anti-Microsoft movement on /. Thy were the evil empire and Google was saintly. It’s funny how ti

User #5825 here. Here are a few of my favorites: The whole anti-Microsoft movement on /. Thy were the evil empire and Google was saintly. It’s funny how times change. The weather station we sent you in hopes of doing a promotion for our weather equipment site, weathertools.com. OOG THE CAVEMAN. He was DevOpsBorat at least a decade before Twitter. The launch of Mac OS X and the launch of the first titanium PowerBook. That CPU startup that Linus was a part of. Most disappointing build-up ever. LOL

Isamu 9y ago
> That CPU startup that Linus was a part of. Most disappointing build-up ever. LOL Yeah, Transmeta. That whole "stealth mode" startup mystery kept the buzz going. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta Re Microsoft the evil empire: it was deserved at the time. But it's nice to see they have a better reputation these days.
- organsnyder 9y ago
  My college laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046) had a Transmeta Crusoe chip, running at 800 mhz. It was slow as molasses, but could easily do 15 hours of battery life (screen on) with the drive-bay and extended batteries, all in a sub-note form factor. It was a perfect note-taking machine (all of my real dev work was done on desktops or via SSH/telnet). Transmeta may have had a short lifespan, but I think they played a big part in jumpstarting Intel's movement to focus on power consumption (remember, this was the Pentium 4 era).
  - housel 9y ago
    I was still using my Transmeta-based Sony Vaio Picturebook as a router running FreeBSD up through January 2016. Before that in the early 2000s it made a great, extremely portable hacking laptop. The attention Transmeta got on Slashdot was probably instrumental in my buying it.
    - organsnyder 9y ago
      Slashdot was definitely instrumental to me buying mine. I never would have heard of Transmeta otherwise, and I found out about the Fujitsu through Transmeta's site.
peatmoss 9y ago
#5648 - We probably signed up the same month!

Isamu 9y ago

> That CPU startup that Linus was a part of. Most disappointing build-up ever. LOL Yeah, Transmeta. That whole "stealth mode" startup mystery kept the buzz going. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta Re Microsoft the evil empire: it was deserved at the time. But it's nice to see they have a better reputation these days.

organsnyder 9y ago
My college laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046) had a Transmeta Crusoe chip, running at 800 mhz. It was slow as molasses, but could easily do 15 hours of battery life (screen on) with the drive-bay and extended batteries, all in a sub-note form factor. It was a perfect note-taking machine (all of my real dev work was done on desktops or via SSH/telnet). Transmeta may have had a short lifespan, but I think they played a big part in jumpstarting Intel's movement to focus on power consumption (remember, this was the Pentium 4 era).
- housel 9y ago
  I was still using my Transmeta-based Sony Vaio Picturebook as a router running FreeBSD up through January 2016. Before that in the early 2000s it made a great, extremely portable hacking laptop. The attention Transmeta got on Slashdot was probably instrumental in my buying it.
  - organsnyder 9y ago
    Slashdot was definitely instrumental to me buying mine. I never would have heard of Transmeta otherwise, and I found out about the Fujitsu through Transmeta's site.

peatmoss 9y ago

#5648 - We probably signed up the same month!