I remember that my dad got me a utility for my C64 that copies floppies from one disk to another (as if i need to explain how that works here:)
Well, it was a basic run of the mill program where you insert the source disk, format the destination disk and let it write there. I forgot to remove the source disk and it formatted that instead of the new disk.
The ironic part? I was trying to make backup copies of that program which I just nuked.:)
I remember I tried installing linux one time on this computer and I decided to let the installer run on its own, I went to check on the process and the damn thing was shooting text based error messages all over the damn screen. I was freaking out, going "what the hell?!"
Turns out, the genius that I am, I planned to use a 3GB "root" partition, but I inadvertently allocated my 150MB "boot" partition for that instead:)
Also, I remember using some CD Writing utility in linux and I inadvertently used the root of my windows 98 system as a "temp file storage" and of course there was a "clear all temp files" button and naturally I wiped out anything and everything to do with my Windows installation. Man, did I feel stupid HAHAHAHA:)
ROLAND The combination is (hesitates) 827ccb. HELMET 827ccb. SANDURZ 827ccb. (writes) ROLAND 0eea8a. HELMET 0eea8a. SANDURZ 0eea8a. (writes) ROLAND 706c4c. HELMET 706c4c. SANDURZ 706c4c (writes) ROLAND 34a1689. HELMET 34a1689. SANDURZ 34a1689. (writes) ROLAND (hesitates) 1f84e7b. HELMET 1f84e7b. SANDURZ 1f84e7b. (writes) HELMET So the combination is 827ccb0eea8a706c4c34a16891f84e7b (lifts mask) That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life. That's the kinda thing a fucking n00b would have on his Windows box.;)
While we're on a simpsons quoting kick, I suggest the following gem:
Homer at his imagined Gasohol station.
Homer: *fills car* One for you! Homer: *fills himself* One for me! Homer: *fills car* One for you! Homer: *fills himself* One for me! Homer: *fills car* One for you! Homer: *fills himself* One for me! Ad Infitium
as a yahoo mail user (you can tell;), I recently discovered YahooPOPs in an attempt to backup my email and leave enough space for new mail, only to find out a couple months later I got 100MB of storage for nothing.
Of course, imagine the email I would have to maintain if I let 100+MB worth of emails accumulate.
You can have a webpage stating how much you have George Bush and it will be perfectly legal. If you then start planning on said webpage an attempt to assassinate him... then it's a crime.
So saying that you kidnapped him for ransom is legal? Cool!!:D Oh no wait, it isn't...:P
If I recall correctly, didn't MS have Anti-Virus software bundled with some odd version of DOS (I remember having it bundled with 6 and Win 3.1)?
Of course, it could've also been another company's software that they rebranded. I might have to look into that.
Anyway, getting back to the age of computers that we're in, as someone already cited, it would be a conflict of interest, considering a lot of their security holes are the very reasons viruses are so prominent between the hosts and the Internet.
I agree that selling all of them at once would be conveinent, but how hard can it be to set up separate auctions or sales for each system, or at the very least sell them in lots for a more reasonable "up-front" price.
Haha, I second that notion. I would also like to nominate that guy who installed 36+ OSes on his machine. Sheesh, I'd need beers and chicks to calm me down after installing windows 2000 let alone other OSes. Oh and those guys that made C64s play movies should be on that list too.
Granted it isn't wise for them to have slashdot checking out the web server all at once, I have to say that's pretty cool. Now im waiting for a webserver written in Flash (yes I am a demonic bastard >:)
Actually, if you read that properly, you'd see that I was playing a trick on the poster. I was saying if you have 1GB of RAM, and you set up a ramdisk for swap space to go ahead and make 2GB worth of hard drive space, poking fun at the old convention on how swap space is calculated.
It isn't funny when people overthink jokes like that:(
By definition, a RAM disk is kept in RAM. Therefore, you'd be swapping out of RAM... into RAM. It's the same as if you would put a divider in a storage shed because you were running out of room. You can move stuff on either side of it, but in the end, you still only have a fixed amount of space.
Except that the original poster was saying that in a case scenario, he might have enough ram to spare for a ramdisk. For example, if he has 1GB of ram installed and allocated 256MB for the ram disk, he would still have 768MB of RAM, not too shabby. However, I will agree with you and your parent poster as far as questioning whether it'll do any good in practice.
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Duh! See, that's what I get for posting late at night, I don't even think of obvious shit like compression.
Anyway, I'm assuming that DiskDrake took into account that you were only using that space for swap space, as opposed to storing it in hibernation. I'm not too sure how ACPI is implemented on linux, due to the fact that my computer is old:)
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Yeah, because God forbid you should have to use the SAME amount of disk space as the ram you have installed to save a few seconds to bring the laptop up:P
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Well there IS a City of Ontario in California, USA
:)
Granted while it a little out of scope, it indeed proves that there IS another Ontario anywhere else in the world
I remember that my dad got me a utility for my C64 that copies floppies from one disk to another (as if i need to explain how that works here :)
:)
Well, it was a basic run of the mill program where you insert the source disk, format the destination disk and let it write there. I forgot to remove the source disk and it formatted that instead of the new disk.
The ironic part? I was trying to make backup copies of that program which I just nuked.
I remember I tried installing linux one time on this computer and I decided to let the installer run on its own, I went to check on the process and the damn thing was shooting text based error messages all over the damn screen. I was freaking out, going "what the hell?!"
:)
:)
Turns out, the genius that I am, I planned to use a 3GB "root" partition, but I inadvertently allocated my 150MB "boot" partition for that instead
Also, I remember using some CD Writing utility in linux and I inadvertently used the root of my windows 98 system as a "temp file storage" and of course there was a "clear all temp files" button and naturally I wiped out anything and everything to do with my Windows installation. Man, did I feel stupid HAHAHAHA
ROLAND The combination is (hesitates) 827ccb. ;)
HELMET 827ccb.
SANDURZ 827ccb. (writes)
ROLAND 0eea8a.
HELMET 0eea8a.
SANDURZ 0eea8a. (writes)
ROLAND 706c4c.
HELMET 706c4c.
SANDURZ 706c4c (writes)
ROLAND 34a1689.
HELMET 34a1689.
SANDURZ 34a1689. (writes)
ROLAND (hesitates) 1f84e7b.
HELMET 1f84e7b.
SANDURZ 1f84e7b. (writes)
HELMET So the combination is 827ccb0eea8a706c4c34a16891f84e7b (lifts mask) That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life. That's the kinda thing a fucking n00b would have on his Windows box.
I can see Homer now.
While we're on a simpsons quoting kick, I suggest the following gem:
Homer at his imagined Gasohol station.
Homer: *fills car* One for you!
Homer: *fills himself* One for me!
Homer: *fills car* One for you!
Homer: *fills himself* One for me!
Homer: *fills car* One for you!
Homer: *fills himself* One for me!
Ad Infitium
OH and I don't believe in compiling on different machines, so we'll let the installer run on my 486 ;)
Probably...much like how some knockoff appliances sell themselves as Sornys, Fridgeadoors, Panaphonics, or Magnetboxes.
as a yahoo mail user (you can tell ;), I recently discovered YahooPOPs in an attempt to backup my email and leave enough space for new mail, only to find out a couple months later I got 100MB of storage for nothing.
Of course, imagine the email I would have to maintain if I let 100+MB worth of emails accumulate.
You can have a webpage stating how much you have George Bush and it will be perfectly legal. If you then start planning on said webpage an attempt to assassinate him... then it's a crime.
:D Oh no wait, it isn't... :P
So saying that you kidnapped him for ransom is legal? Cool!!
Cool, how many CPS (characters per second) did you playing WC2 on your terminal? :)
If I recall correctly, didn't MS have Anti-Virus software bundled with some odd version of DOS (I remember having it bundled with 6 and Win 3.1)?
Of course, it could've also been another company's software that they rebranded. I might have to look into that.
Anyway, getting back to the age of computers that we're in, as someone already cited, it would be a conflict of interest, considering a lot of their security holes are the very reasons viruses are so prominent between the hosts and the Internet.
Sure, once I receive the funds, I'll be sure to send you all the P-P-Playstations and X-X-X-Boxes.
I agree that selling all of them at once would be conveinent, but how hard can it be to set up separate auctions or sales for each system, or at the very least sell them in lots for a more reasonable "up-front" price.
Oh yeah, I forgot the "He must be running his server with that code" and "In Soviet Russia..." jokes.
:)
Thanks for pointing them out
A jerk?! Guilty as charged! =) But that has NOTHING to do with having a LiveJournal, thank you :)
Dude, you need beer and chicks.
Haha, I second that notion. I would also like to nominate that guy who installed 36+ OSes on his machine. Sheesh, I'd need beers and chicks to calm me down after installing windows 2000 let alone other OSes. Oh and those guys that made C64s play movies should be on that list too.
is fucking wow.
Granted it isn't wise for them to have slashdot checking out the web server all at once, I have to say that's pretty cool. Now im waiting for a webserver written in Flash (yes I am a demonic bastard >:)
Ok everyone, get it out of your systems already! :P
"whoa 2 comments and it's already slashdotted"
"whoa dude, shouldn't have let slashdot post your server!"
"Imagine a beowulf cluster of these guys"
And i'm sure you can figure out more Slashdotisms people *smirks*
Seems pretty cool at any rate
All I know is that everytime I play Diablo 2 or another game, the Windows Key become the absolute BANE OF MY EXISTENCE! X(
Actually, if you read that properly, you'd see that I was playing a trick on the poster. I was saying if you have 1GB of RAM, and you set up a ramdisk for swap space to go ahead and make 2GB worth of hard drive space, poking fun at the old convention on how swap space is calculated.
:(
It isn't funny when people overthink jokes like that
By definition, a RAM disk is kept in RAM. Therefore, you'd be swapping out of RAM... into RAM. It's the same as if you would put a divider in a storage shed because you were running out of room. You can move stuff on either side of it, but in the end, you still only have a fixed amount of space.
Except that the original poster was saying that in a case scenario, he might have enough ram to spare for a ramdisk. For example, if he has 1GB of ram installed and allocated 256MB for the ram disk, he would still have 768MB of RAM, not too shabby. However, I will agree with you and your parent poster as far as questioning whether it'll do any good in practice.
Duh! See, that's what I get for posting late at night, I don't even think of obvious shit like compression.
:)
Anyway, I'm assuming that DiskDrake took into account that you were only using that space for swap space, as opposed to storing it in hibernation. I'm not too sure how ACPI is implemented on linux, due to the fact that my computer is old
Yeah, because God forbid you should have to use the SAME amount of disk space as the ram you have installed to save a few seconds to bring the laptop up :P
Yeah, just remember to allocate twice the amount of ram that you have installed! :)
At first I thought it was a Spanish version of Office:
El Office Grando.
Cue Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer with copies of El Office Grando in hand:
"But no one expects, the Microsoft Inquisition!!"