Any platform requirements would have been useful in the original question. On Linux, USB gamepads can make xinput events. I only ever cared about it for the sake of disabling it, but the discussion in this Ubuntu bug may help get started on the right track. Basically you'll need xserver-xorg-input-joystick installed and may need to do some xinput set-props work (see starting around comment 24 there.)

I installed Windows 95 OSR2 on a machine without a CD-ROM drive over Interlink and a null modem cable. Took about fifteen hours, but did the trick. It's probably the best least-common-denominator option.

Same deal for 7.

Most DVDs aren't DRM-free, either. They may well be restrictions you can live with, but they are encumbered.

Somebody figured we were missing the Jon Katz days. (Although I actually kinda liked his articles.)

Hi kids!

This is the book of the blog Python Module of the Week, so you can get a look at the content there.

Thank you...and thanks to your governments for opening the back road through Rendija again. I bailed to Albuquerque Sunday night; not much to do now but follow the news and hope I have a house when we go back.

And the Pentium one was obviously a joke on the FDIV bug...

Reading that page in context, he's delivering a talk entitled "An Earthshaking Announcement". That doesn't necessarily mean he's making an earthshaking announcement.

Thank you for sparing me that :) We've had "slashdot is dead" thread drift ever since the "what's this slashdot BS, I miss chips & dips" babble died down.

I think it works better if you don't divide by six...

Directing people to a third-party service which doesn't provide source counts as a "proprietary solution" to me. I understand more and more where Debian's apparent fanaticism about "freedom" comes from, slippery slope and all that.

Agreed, in spades. Wasting ten (or more) minutes of the seventy on violence-against-women "jokes" seriously undermines an otherwise solid argument. NSFW tag is one thing, what about a trigger warning?

Note the name of the Wikimedia counsel...I have to wonder if it's that Mike Godwin.