March 1999, on an old Packard Bell with Pentium-83 Overdrive and 12MB of FPM DRAM. Installing it was an adventure, because the CD drive was on my Sound Blaster and boot-floppies didn't have/dev entries for (IIRC)/dev/hdf at that time.
Debian was the first OS I had that not only had a command-line MP3 player (FreeAmp) but it would run on such a slow machine without stuttering, which Winamp on Windows 95 couldn't do.
I promptly broke it by screwing around with chmod or something and reinstalled. Then I did something else and had to reinstall. By this point I was making dead-tree notes like a fiend and learned rapidly.
However, I had an earlier experience with Linux of sorts -- someone made a ZIP file containing "Speaker Doom", which had a minimal Linux distro, the Linux version of Doom + shareware wad, and a Linux driver for the old PC Speaker -- it was able to do a very low-fi version of the SoundBlaster sound effects, but out of the cheesy speaker, instead of speaker-pessimized effects like DOS Doom had. The whole thing was bootable from inside MS-DOS via loadlin.
It's one of those habitual things. Some English-speakers (not sure if this is American-specific) refer to certain countries with the definite article, like the Ukraine or the Sudan.
What does the worker's ionization level have to do with anything? I'll pick up a stray electron here and there, maybe some beta radiation from the coal plant, but that doesn't mean I'm a bad person!
The other reason he got so much done was because for his first six years, his party ruled Congress. The GOP is well known for its love of authority and sticking together to push its agenda. With those conditions, he would have to be... even dumber, to not get his stuff passed.
We're just wrapping up the longest war the US has been involved in since World War 2
lolwhut. Our involvement in Vietnam was longer than WW2 (1965-1972 for combat units, and advisors from 1950-1975). We've been in Iraq for six years and Afghanistan for seven, with no end in sight for the latter, so this misbegotten and mismanaged war is going to be the longest we've ever been in.
Especially when you consider the moment he steps on a scifi set he reeks of Chekov.
Oh no! I don't even think of Chekov when I see him (and I used to be a trekkie), I always think of Bester, and get a small feeling of loathing when I do.;-)
Hence why gin-and-tonic became popular amongst the British in tropical colonies. You need the tonic water for the quinine, but you also need the gin to make it palatable.
I once worked on a veterinarian's Xenix system. Came to us with a hard drive problem, IIRC. The fun part was that whomever installed Xenix decided that they didn't need man pages or any sort of documentation. Since my only *nix experience up to that point was Linux, it was... interesting.
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If someone wants to try out Speaker Doom, search for spkdoom.zip.
March 1999, on an old Packard Bell with Pentium-83 Overdrive and 12MB of FPM DRAM. Installing it was an adventure, because the CD drive was on my Sound Blaster and boot-floppies didn't have /dev entries for (IIRC) /dev/hdf at that time.
Debian was the first OS I had that not only had a command-line MP3 player (FreeAmp) but it would run on such a slow machine without stuttering, which Winamp on Windows 95 couldn't do.
I promptly broke it by screwing around with chmod or something and reinstalled. Then I did something else and had to reinstall. By this point I was making dead-tree notes like a fiend and learned rapidly.
However, I had an earlier experience with Linux of sorts -- someone made a ZIP file containing "Speaker Doom", which had a minimal Linux distro, the Linux version of Doom + shareware wad, and a Linux driver for the old PC Speaker -- it was able to do a very low-fi version of the SoundBlaster sound effects, but out of the cheesy speaker, instead of speaker-pessimized effects like DOS Doom had. The whole thing was bootable from inside MS-DOS via loadlin.
Yeah? You reinstall Vista on newish laptops and you'll have to hunt for a driver or two.
Actually I've never heard that particular usage.
In fifth or sixth grade, thinking how awesome my Apple //c was.
Parent isn't /funny/. He's being dead serious, that's how it was back in the late '90s.
It's one of those habitual things. Some English-speakers (not sure if this is American-specific) refer to certain countries with the definite article, like the Ukraine or the Sudan.
I'm not sure where that came from.
Too bad SandboxIE doesn't work with 64-bit Windows.
Is he German and does the rocket's flight path point towards London?
Then PC-BSD 7.1 is not for you. Good thing other operating systems work for you, isn't it?
I think the two companies have some excellent synergies*.
* Warning: Corporate buzzword!
Indeed. I'm afraid suicide may be the only way to save your honor.
What does the worker's ionization level have to do with anything? I'll pick up a stray electron here and there, maybe some beta radiation from the coal plant, but that doesn't mean I'm a bad person!
Oh aye? Then explain Bush pulling the experienced lawyers off the Microsoft anti-trust case about this early into his first term.
The other reason he got so much done was because for his first six years, his party ruled Congress. The GOP is well known for its love of authority and sticking together to push its agenda. With those conditions, he would have to be... even dumber, to not get his stuff passed.
We're just wrapping up the longest war the US has been involved in since World War 2
lolwhut. Our involvement in Vietnam was longer than WW2 (1965-1972 for combat units, and advisors from 1950-1975). We've been in Iraq for six years and Afghanistan for seven, with no end in sight for the latter, so this misbegotten and mismanaged war is going to be the longest we've ever been in.
Execution by firing squad is messy -- tends to leave blood and gore behind.
Won't be long before it starts being mentioned on conservative talk radio and websites, and that's the point.
Especially when you consider the moment he steps on a scifi set he reeks of Chekov.
Oh no! I don't even think of Chekov when I see him (and I used to be a trekkie), I always think of Bester, and get a small feeling of loathing when I do. ;-)
Too right. Walter Koenig will always be Bester to me now, because it was a wonderful character and he did a magnificent job at it.
That pattern may be broken, because the last even-numbered film sucked like an odd.
Might be Robert April if it's that early, if RA is actually canonical and not just for the novels.
Kind of hard to do that when the people shooting at you are mixed in with civilians and dressed like them.
Lies. RMS hasn't ever gotten Emacs to boot successfully.
Hence why gin-and-tonic became popular amongst the British in tropical colonies. You need the tonic water for the quinine, but you also need the gin to make it palatable.
I once worked on a veterinarian's Xenix system. Came to us with a hard drive problem, IIRC. The fun part was that whomever installed Xenix decided that they didn't need man pages or any sort of documentation. Since my only *nix experience up to that point was Linux, it was... interesting.