a good way to evaluate Ubuntu if you want more than the LiveCD can offer
How is the multimedia experience? I've burned a liveCD of Ubuntu before, but it wouldn't play mp3 files OOTB, and I couldn't view videos, so I've refrained from installing it because there was no way to evaluate audio and video performance from the desktop. Had I known it was crippled, I would've used the CD and d/load time for Mint.
And for some strange reason, the techs wearing the lab coats look like those drawings from Gary Larson's The Far Side. Wait...they're cardboard cutouts! It's a trap!
You do know, that had this been an entirely different forum, the Chiefs of Staff in THAT alternate universe would have started the war as you've ordered, Mr President. I'm soooo glad I found you here. Now, take your medicine...
We have detected a nongenuine install of Windows Vista. We will turn on all the bells and whistles of Aero that will suck up all your resources and hog all memory, even the USB sticks you have in your drawer. We will open all ports to the internets (oh wait we have a few of those opened already), whatever we have left unopened. We will abduct your firstborn. BTW we will also give you a Black Screen of Darkness, but if you want to cut to the chase, just turn off your PC now to see what it would look like, and leave it off until you have taken a shower.
Note the quotes for OFF. They require you to wave two fingers in the air, wherever you say the word OFF, even if you were a customer rep explaining the concept to someone on the telephone.
That the pilot was wearing adult diapers in her cross country flight in a last ditch attempt at reuniting with an old flame? And that she would use 'whatever she had onboard' to win him back?
Glad you clarified what Lumpy was, or who, otherwise, I was thinking, was there a mutant Ubuntu released just recently that I wasn't aware of?
Seriously, though, go AMD! Don't forget us ATI Radeon 7000-series users! I'm sure your development team of 1 won't be too distracted by updating those drivers as well. (But if you make them open, that team of 1 can easily become 100 or 1 dozen...)
Honestly, selling the unlock has to be illegal in so many ways.
Unless somebody higher up the ladder walked in on this developers' meeting and threw in the line, What are you goinna do, go on CNN or sell them on eBay?, covers mouth in feigned shock, then proceeds elsewhere after dropping the not-so-subtle hint. Throws in a 'Kids nowadays! What can you do?' for added effect.
I don't think having your router accomodate it is the solution; it's merely a band-aid. Think of it as (warning: car analogy approaching) driving around town with the spare tire on, but not fixing the flat tire which you still carry in the trunk.
And given the amazing coding skillz of some Russians, all it takes is for one of them to 0wnz teh Voyagers, have it start transmitting in their language, and proclaim, with a shaking fist: Hah! Sure you were first on the moon, but now we are first to reach the heliopause! The Soviets have won the space race! We have waited decades for this! Take *that*, America!
they could make money off the temple, and got people to live there and act like them,
The brochures for the local wax museum and Home of the World's Biggest Ball Of Noodle, available at the lobby, were a giveaway. Yup, tourist trap, yessirreebob.
The PC option, at least with this crowd, would be to also give him an Ubuntu CD, whilst saying, BTW take off the desktop background on this one, it's got naked chix on it.
'Excuse me, what was that?'
'Nothing. Hey look, is that a roomba vacuum cleaner? Make it go in the closet!'
Be sure to tune in again next week when we visit the 11 year old in his basement to see which OS led him to the downward spiral.
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Put a warning label weighing 50 micrograms that says:
WARNING: Measurements are approximate
Problem solved.
We do, but most of them have declined to comment on this development. Some would blame envy at their "former friend's" makeover.
a good way to evaluate Ubuntu if you want more than the LiveCD can offer
How is the multimedia experience? I've burned a liveCD of Ubuntu before, but it wouldn't play mp3 files OOTB, and I couldn't view videos, so I've refrained from installing it because there was no way to evaluate audio and video performance from the desktop. Had I known it was crippled, I would've used the CD and d/load time for Mint.
And for some strange reason, the techs wearing the lab coats look like those drawings from Gary Larson's The Far Side. Wait...they're cardboard cutouts! It's a trap!
You do know, that had this been an entirely different forum, the Chiefs of Staff in THAT alternate universe would have started the war as you've ordered, Mr President. I'm soooo glad I found you here. Now, take your medicine...
Indeed. THe warning should read:
ATTENTION
We have detected a nongenuine install of Windows Vista. We will turn on all the bells and whistles of Aero that will suck up all your resources and hog all memory, even the USB sticks you have in your drawer. We will open all ports to the internets (oh wait we have a few of those opened already), whatever we have left unopened. We will abduct your firstborn. BTW we will also give you a Black Screen of Darkness, but if you want to cut to the chase, just turn off your PC now to see what it would look like, and leave it off until you have taken a shower.
The Samuel L Jackson version of the iPhone manual:
Chapter 2 "The Basics" (page 14) how to turn the iPod motherf***** off.
How could you miss it? The settings:
ON -- "OFF"
Note the quotes for OFF. They require you to wave two fingers in the air, wherever you say the word OFF, even if you were a customer rep explaining the concept to someone on the telephone.
...for us basement dwellers...
my setup of a dual boot with Vista, Mepis and Kubuntu.
Perhaps this is a new definition of 'dual' that they happen to be unfamiliar with
What do you think could be the worse story?
That the pilot was wearing adult diapers in her cross country flight in a last ditch attempt at reuniting with an old flame? And that she would use 'whatever she had onboard' to win him back?
Yes but you get the all exclusive Tshirt that saysYea, but I bought mine REFURB!!' And on the back, 'In your face, early adopters!!'
Any luck with Beryl.Compiz, or AIGLX? Or you didn't bother? I was thinking of upgrading soon...
What distro and which driver are you using? Just curious...
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Glad you clarified what Lumpy was, or who, otherwise, I was thinking, was there a mutant Ubuntu released just recently that I wasn't aware of?
Seriously, though, go AMD! Don't forget us ATI Radeon 7000-series users! I'm sure your development team of 1 won't be too distracted by updating those drivers as well. (But if you make them open, that team of 1 can easily become 100 or 1 dozen...)
How is the wifi support, out-of-the-box worked fine? Is it a built-in card?
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Nice to see LIghtscribe works in Linux too: gallery http://www.lightscribe.com/ideas/labelgallery.asp
Personally with so many discs, I'd probably use that to remember what was on each one.
Honestly, selling the unlock has to be illegal in so many ways.
Unless somebody higher up the ladder walked in on this developers' meeting and threw in the line, What are you goinna do, go on CNN or sell them on eBay?, covers mouth in feigned shock, then proceeds elsewhere after dropping the not-so-subtle hint. Throws in a 'Kids nowadays! What can you do?' for added effect.
I don't think having your router accomodate it is the solution; it's merely a band-aid. Think of it as (warning: car analogy approaching) driving around town with the spare tire on, but not fixing the flat tire which you still carry in the trunk.
And given the amazing coding skillz of some Russians, all it takes is for one of them to 0wnz teh Voyagers, have it start transmitting in their language, and proclaim, with a shaking fist: Hah! Sure you were first on the moon, but now we are first to reach the heliopause! The Soviets have won the space race! We have waited decades for this! Take *that*, America!
omg flamebait?
We've run into some serious Ubuntu tribes here, men! And that ain't failsafe graphics either, that's warpaint they're wearing!
they could make money off the temple, and got people to live there and act like them,
The brochures for the local wax museum and Home of the World's Biggest Ball Of Noodle, available at the lobby, were a giveaway. Yup, tourist trap, yessirreebob.
All it needs is a Branson to drop down in one of his press conferences to tell you that it's arrived, for those with the cash.
If the authorities are in line when they do come out, then the Bladerunner vision of the future is almost here! Can't wait!
Lucas should buy one, just for the novelty of having one on Skywalker Ranch.
...and now AT&T is taking that number away from me *sniff*
IIRC Mint is an Ubuntu derived distro that can do #5 quite well. Of course if it detects the HW/audio/sound properly that is...
bright 11 year old an XP CD and said 'go for it'
The PC option, at least with this crowd, would be to also give him an Ubuntu CD, whilst saying, BTW take off the desktop background on this one, it's got naked chix on it.
'Excuse me, what was that?'
'Nothing. Hey look, is that a roomba vacuum cleaner? Make it go in the closet!'
Be sure to tune in again next week when we visit the 11 year old in his basement to see which OS led him to the downward spiral.
...I'd say let the kid do whatever the f*** he wants.
spoiled brat...