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12 Ubuntu Derivatives You Should Consider - PCWorld Business Center It's no secret that Ubuntu 10.10, or Maverick Meerkat, is one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions of all time for business and home users. What many people don't realize, however, is that there are several other Linux distributions out there that are also based on Ubuntu and offer many of the same advantages. Some are focused on a specific niche; others are simply variations on the same general theme. If you're already a fan of Ubuntu or simply want to experience what the excitement is all about, consider the following alternatives for what just may be an even more perfect match with your business's needs.

The sci-fi spirit You know what you need? Geeky cocktail recipes. There are a million reasons! Maybe you’ll have your friends over to watch the Doctor Who Christmas special, whenever the BBC decides to air it. Maybe it’s getting close to convention time in your neck of the woods and you want your after-hours hotel room revelry to be fully on theme. Maybe you’ve got some kind of sci-fi-centric art opening coming up in Atlanta next Friday—I mean, who even knows?

Hack your pandigital E-Reader into an Android tablet! NOTICE 02/01/2013: due to the nature of this instructable and the many failures that have been had by many fellow makers, i will no longer be providing support for you if you mess up your pandigital tablet. i have now in the last year alone not even have owned one of these silly things, so let it be made known, if you continue, your on your own!, so sucsess of failure will be determined on your comprehension and exact execution of these instructions. so it occured to me yesterday that this stupid pandigital e-reader was actually a super locked down version of andriod that lacked the regular interface, i mean Heck, it said it ran on android right on the side of the box! but since it was supposed to be a "e-reader" the manufacture locked down the front end of the system (not cool guys) so it would preform one task and one task only, but were gonna change that and this is how: btw: your gonna need a sd card:]

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Fuzzy percentile dice We’ve seen plenty of fuzzy dice for geeks, but the set we’ve always wanted is the “percentile” dice set– two 10-sided dice, one labeled 00-90 by tens, and one labeled 0-9. So: Here’s how to make your own. The pattern also includes lettering (well, numbering), which can be converted to iron-on lettering through techniques that we’ve discussed in the past. Letters like these can be tedious to cut by hand, so you might also consider what we did for our first d12 bag project, and pick up some iron-numbers at the local craft store. You can download the pattern file as a PDF here, or as an Inkscape SVG file here. First step is cutting out the pieces.