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General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 1-8-2010	Nick: Linux has thoroughly invaded the mobile market. Palm has WebOS, Google has Android, there's OpenMoko, Bug Labs, Limo... / Nick: WebOS and Android are somewhat restricted, but you can get the source code if you know where to look. Others like OpenMoko are wide open, letting you hack both software... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100108.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 1-11-2010	Ki: Well? What did you finally get? / Fooker: It's an Android box. Can't remember what the phone's called, but that doesn't matter. / Fooker: I looked at all the other options you mentioned, Nick. OpenMoko really piqued my interest, but I can't get one by Sharon's deadline. The Pre felt like a... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100111.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 1-13-2010	Nick: Fooker, I thought you should know... / Fooker: Nickster! Lookit this! / Fooker: I've been messing with Android's source. I can understand why Google did things a certain way, but I tweaked the kernel and increased efficiency 65%. Wish they did that from the start, though... / Fooker: 'Course,... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100113.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 1-15-2010	Fooker: I tell ya, Dex. I'm lovin' this little gadget. Have I mentioned that? / Dexter: Only six times in the last hour. / Fooker: I don't know why I resisted this for so long. If I knew all the things I could do with one of these, I would have gotten one years ago. I think I'll completely rewrite... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100115.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 1-18-2010	Sharon: There you are. I've been calling you all day. After I got your number from Ki. Why haven't you answered? / Fooker: I turned the ringer off. / Sharon: And just why did you do that? / Fooker: Aw, c'mon, hot stuff. You know I hate talking on the phone. Just text, IM, or e-mail me. Now I'm... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100118.html

General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 1-20-2010	Ki: Your attitude's changed since I last saw you. Is Fooker answering his phone now? / Sharon: Nope. He's checking his balance. / Sharon: He told me to text or e-mail him rather than call but then told me refused the required data plan for a "pay as you go" deal. / Ki: Ye cats. With all the stuff... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100120.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 1-22-2010	Nick: So Sharon tells me you didn't get a data plan with that spiffy new phone, and you've racked up quite a bill paying as you go. / Fooker: Yup. / Fooker: I talked to customer support and they let me renegotiate my contract to get the data plan. But I've still got to pay the previous balance. ... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100122.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 1-25-2010	Fooker: So it's sister powwow night again? / Sharon: You don't have to be here. I know you're uncomfortable around her. / Fooker: I'd feel more comfortable knowing you're not... you know... / Sharon: Alone with her? I know you still don't trust her. She's not the Trudy you once knew, you know. / Fooker:... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100125.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 1-27-2010	Trudy: So... The Diederich pharmaceuticals link is officially dead. / Sharon: As a doornail. / Sharon: The FBI dismissed the link in January 2000. I went there in May. By the time I thought to look back into it in 2008, the company had folded and sold its assets to Merck. No one's seen "Elsbeth... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100127.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 1-29-2010	Trudy: What's wrong? You look like your floppy drive did something... un-floppy. / Sharon: I... was just thinking... if things had gone differently... / Sharon: What if she never put me up for adoption? If I had grown up there, with all that money and corruption, with her negative influences...... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100129.html

General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 2-1-2010	Sharon: Maybe we need to take a different approach. What if we stop looking for Mom and start looking for someone around her? / Trudy: What do you mean? / Sharon: There was this dark haired woman who claimed to be Elsbeth Diederich. She was a little younger than us, so she obviously wasn't Mom.... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100201.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 2-3-2010	Trudy: That girl Sharon mentioned doesn't sound familiar. She must be relatively new to Mom's "harem". Sharon could be on to something. / Trudy: I could probe some of my old underworld contacts, but that might raise suspicions with the UGA, who thinks I'm the "other" Trudy, and the last thing I... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100203.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 2-5-2010	Trudy: We're having some success, if you must know. / Fooker: Ah, good. I'd hate to hear you were lying about. / Trudy: I beg your pardon? / Fooker: Sorry. Did I inadvertently insinuate duplicity on your part? How fraudulent of me... / Fooker: I'm afraid I keep confusing you for someone who obviously... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100205.html
GPF Archive: Monday, February 8, 2010	Trudy: Stop beating around the bush, Fooker. If you have something to say, just say it. / Fooker: OK, how about this... / Fooker: I've had my eye on you ever since we came back from that "alternate universe." I tried to give you the benefit of a doubt. I really did. But nobody's more suspicious... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100208.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 2-10-2010	Sharon: Is everything OK? I heard you two talking in the kitchen, but couldn't make out what was going on... / Fooker: Oh' t'weren't nothin', hot stuff. Just catching up on old times, reliving old memories. That sort of thing... / Fooker: Only those were someone else's memories, weren't they?... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100210.html

General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 2-12-2010	Sharon: I've compiled a list of companies that meet our various criteria. If we split them between us, we can go through them rather quickly. / Sharon: Some of these are long shots. I'm sure, but without much more to go on, I'm afraid it's all we've got. / Sharon: Still, anything we can cross... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100212.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 2-15-2010	Ki: Mrgh... Swha...? / Nick: Oh, sorry, sweetie. I had an idea for a program and couldn't sleep, so I thought I'd write it down before I forgot it. / Ki: Mrf mrm kill later... / Nick: That's ok, honey. Don't wait up on my account. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100215.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip - 2-17-2010	Ki: I had the weirdest dream last night. You were in the office... / Nick: Working on the computer. It wasn't a dream. Sorry. / Ki: You never came back to bed. You said you had an idea for a new program... / Nick: Yeah, I jotted down some details so I had something to work from later. / Ki: ... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100217.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 2-19-2010	Ki: What kind of idea had you up at oh-dark-thirty writing documentation and slinging code? / Nick: It's this idea I've had brewing for a while. / Nick: You know how the inventor's gene works. Inspiration strikes at any time. Well, that applies to code as well. The idea struck me as I lay there... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100219.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip	Ki: You wrote a whole application in the dead of night and you don't have a clue what it does? / Nick: Well, the source code's right here. / Ki: It's 6:30 on a Saturday! I haven't had my coffee yet, and you expect me to sit down and parse code this early just to figure out what-- / "O_O / It's... the most... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100222.html

General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 2-24-2010	Ki: I can't believe it. It's perfect. The logic is flawless. The code is efficient and elegant. Even your comments are concise yet thorough. This code belongs in a museum. / Nick: Aw, c'mon. It's not that special... / Ki: No, it's better. I've read your code. I know what it does. / Ki: Nick,... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100224.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip - 2-26-2010	Ki: Nick, you've built the ultimate "killer app". You can't keep a lid on this. What are you going to do with it? / Nick: I'm not sure... / Ki: GPF could package it and sell it. It could make the company millions. Heck, we could sell it ourselves. It will pay for itself a thousand fold. / Nick:... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100226.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 3-1-2010	Ki: Are you still considering releasing that program as open source? / Nick: I just finished setting up my Sourceforge site. / Ki: I don't want to talk you out of this, and I'll bet Fooker will be turning cartwheels once he finds out, but are you sure this is the right course? Opening up that code... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100301.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 3-3-2010	Nick (thinking): There. The site for my new open source project "zkrmfgq" is up and running. Now I wait for the community to coalesce around it. / So Nick dutifully waits.............. / and waits........................ / Nick (thinking): Yup. Any second now... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100303.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 3-5-2010	Ki: I keep meaning to ask. It's been a few days. How is "Project ZKRMFGQ" coming? / Nick: I was just checking before we headed out to work. / Ki: Hey! It looks like someone posted on your forum! / Nick: I wonder if it's a patch or support question... / Nick and Ki are incredulous as to what they... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100305.html

General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 3-8-2010	Days pass... / Nick (thinking): Finally! People are commenting on the "ZKRMFGQ" forum! / Wartortle (from on screen): Awesome app, Gort! But I think I found a bug in parser.c, line 342. You failed to initialize a variable before use. See the attached patch. Hope this helps. - Wartortle / Nick... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100308.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 3-10-2010	Nick's 'ZKRMFGQ" project is not going well... / Nick (typing): No, you can't iterate over the entire data tree. That negates all performance gains from the look-up hash and quadruples the size of the look-ahead buffer. - Gort / JDF (typing): But if you don't scan the whole tree, you can't compute... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100310.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 3-12-2010	Ki: What's wrong, sweetie? Problems with your "ZKRMFGQ" project? / Nick: I've been voted out. / Ki: You've been voted out of your own project? / Nick: I refused to expand it beyond its original scope. I was "holding it back. Stifling innovation. Not a team player. A closed source bigot". / Nick:... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100312.html
General Protection Fault - The Comic Strip - 3-15-2010	TV Announcer: And now the latest "Dancing With The Stars" rumors! / Nick (thinking): What the... / Nick: "Dancing With The Stars"? Don't tell me you two actually plan to watch that garbage... / Ki: Are you kidding? We love it! / Sharon: It's about the only reality show worth watching! It's fast... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100315.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 3-17-2010	Nick: I never would have pegged you two for "Dancing With The Stars" fans. / Sharon: It's probably our favorite show now. / Sharon: The competition is fierce and genuinely entertaining. Some of the stars are actually really good, and even those who aren't usually give it a really good try. There's... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100317.html
General Protection Fault--The Comic Strip 3-17-2010	Nick: I never would have pegged you two for "Dancing With The Stars" fans. / Sharon: It's probably our favorite show now. / Sharon: The competition is fierce and genuinely entertaining. Some of the stars are actually really good, and even those who aren't usually give it a really good try. There's... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20100317.html

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