I was thinking more along the lines of payback for including native PDF reading, so that nobody on OSX has to go download their stupid slow Acrobat Reader.
I once had a Linux livefloppy distro that fit onto a 1.6MB floppy. It gave you tools to format to 1.6 and everything, and it worked fine on all the computers I tried it on. Of course, this was a bit before CD burners became widespread.
What are you talking about? I have Slackware Linux 9.1 running on this 486DX2 at 66MHz. The hard drive is only 486MB big, with only 10MB of space free, but this machine still runs fine (No X, though, but I doubt the hardware would support it anyway). It even works as a fully functional (10BaseT) NAT router.
I got an iBook G4 a few months back, and I have to say: It's one of the quietest machines I've ever owned. I can only hear it if I'm in a completely silent room and put my ear directly up to it. So much quieter than my PC...
If you wanna try out dual weapons, go into an arcade and play one of those random two-person shooter games, paying for two players and holding both guns. Sure, it's expensive, but it's still fun to do every once in a while.
I tried upgrading from 2.6.0-test9 (I got lazy at some point ant stopped caring) remotely not too long ago.
I decided to, in case I screwed up, (which I probably would), to add a script at startup which waits ten minutes, undoes any damage I did, then reboots. This way, if it worked, I could SSH in and disable it, or it'd reboot eventually and I could try again.
Guess what ends up happening? I leave the script as non-executable, so it never runs, and the kernel I compiled doesn't work properly. I had to wait until I got home to fix it.
I think my favorite hack was when I installed a new phone up in my room. I didn't feel like laying any extra cable (not to mention that I was in a hurry, and I don't think I even HAD any phone lines that long.) So, what I did instead, is cut open the cat-5 cable leading to my computer upstairs at two parts, and cut the brown twisted pair, which is unused in 100BaseT ethernet (it's used in gigabit ethernet, though, so proceed at your own risk if you try this at home). Then, I took a phone cable, cut it in half, and wired in one half downstairs where I could plug it into the phone line, and then wired in the other half in my room so that I have a phone right next to my computer.
I think a good commercial would having hackers trying to break into a computer, and then a big "ACCESS DENIED" error shows, and one of the hackers exclaims, "No good, they've got the latest AMD CPU!"
And then some announcer says something like, "With the latest CPUs from AMD, your computer executes only what YOU want it to, not what THEY [flash over to image of frustrated hackers] want!"
> They don't want transactions that aren't going to work happening over their system, simply because that'd undermine the trust people have in their system.
Why not just leave a negative feedback?
Sure, a couple of Live CDs for PPC are listed there, but nearly as many as x86 has. I tried downloading some version of Knoppix that I could run on my iBook, and it ran awfully. No trackpad support, X wouldn't start up (hated my video card, a Radeon 9200), and it didn't recognize Airport Extreme. All I wanted was to see KDE... (I've only used wmaker, to be honest.) Oh well, I've got the KDE packages for Slackware downloading over on one of the other computers at school.
Well, the problem is: If they're not using Windows, what WILL they use? I don't even want to THINK about having to help some of the people I know with Linux...
"Okay, now type in 'cd/usr/src/linux' so that you can compile your kernel." "What does cd do?" "It changes directories." "I don't have directories, all I have are these folders. And can't I just use the source code without compiling it?"
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I was thinking more along the lines of payback for including native PDF reading, so that nobody on OSX has to go download their stupid slow Acrobat Reader.
Yeah, but then DivX threw spyware into their program at the last second. Take a look for yourself.
Of course, there's always 3ivx, etc.
Or does that headset look like the one that Doc sticks on Marty in Back to the Future? I just hope it'll work better...
"You want me to... make a contribution to the coast guard!"
Great, michaelscomputers.com is slashdotted already. Now how am I supposed to get the world's fasted laptop!?
Ha! +5, Informative! You've failed again!
(Disclaimer: I'm Joking)
Hmm, maybe I should become a spammer...!
You're both right! You should continue to use NDISWRAPPER, while complaining about it every chance you get.
I once had a Linux livefloppy distro that fit onto a 1.6MB floppy. It gave you tools to format to 1.6 and everything, and it worked fine on all the computers I tried it on. Of course, this was a bit before CD burners became widespread.
Or it could force them to go out and buy Mandrake or a Mac. ;p
What are you talking about? I have Slackware Linux 9.1 running on this 486DX2 at 66MHz. The hard drive is only 486MB big, with only 10MB of space free, but this machine still runs fine (No X, though, but I doubt the hardware would support it anyway). It even works as a fully functional (10BaseT) NAT router.
I got an iBook G4 a few months back, and I have to say: It's one of the quietest machines I've ever owned. I can only hear it if I'm in a completely silent room and put my ear directly up to it. So much quieter than my PC...
If you wanna try out dual weapons, go into an arcade and play one of those random two-person shooter games, paying for two players and holding both guns. Sure, it's expensive, but it's still fun to do every once in a while.
I wasn't expecting to be the winner, I was expecting a tie. =P
Who cares if your legs are broken if you have a machine to move for you?
If it's the pain you're worried about, haven't you ever played Max Payne? Just take a few bottles of pain-killers and you're health'll be full again.
A Macintosh. ;)
I tried upgrading from 2.6.0-test9 (I got lazy at some point ant stopped caring) remotely not too long ago.
I decided to, in case I screwed up, (which I probably would), to add a script at startup which waits ten minutes, undoes any damage I did, then reboots. This way, if it worked, I could SSH in and disable it, or it'd reboot eventually and I could try again.
Guess what ends up happening? I leave the script as non-executable, so it never runs, and the kernel I compiled doesn't work properly. I had to wait until I got home to fix it.
I think my favorite hack was when I installed a new phone up in my room. I didn't feel like laying any extra cable (not to mention that I was in a hurry, and I don't think I even HAD any phone lines that long.) So, what I did instead, is cut open the cat-5 cable leading to my computer upstairs at two parts, and cut the brown twisted pair, which is unused in 100BaseT ethernet (it's used in gigabit ethernet, though, so proceed at your own risk if you try this at home). Then, I took a phone cable, cut it in half, and wired in one half downstairs where I could plug it into the phone line, and then wired in the other half in my room so that I have a phone right next to my computer.
I think a good commercial would having hackers trying to break into a computer, and then a big "ACCESS DENIED" error shows, and one of the hackers exclaims, "No good, they've got the latest AMD CPU!" And then some announcer says something like, "With the latest CPUs from AMD, your computer executes only what YOU want it to, not what THEY [flash over to image of frustrated hackers] want!"
This will be the year of sloppy coding.
> They don't want transactions that aren't going to work happening over their system, simply because that'd undermine the trust people have in their system. Why not just leave a negative feedback?
Sure, a couple of Live CDs for PPC are listed there, but nearly as many as x86 has. I tried downloading some version of Knoppix that I could run on my iBook, and it ran awfully. No trackpad support, X wouldn't start up (hated my video card, a Radeon 9200), and it didn't recognize Airport Extreme. All I wanted was to see KDE... (I've only used wmaker, to be honest.) Oh well, I've got the KDE packages for Slackware downloading over on one of the other computers at school.
Well, the problem is: If they're not using Windows, what WILL they use? I don't even want to THINK about having to help some of the people I know with Linux...
/usr/src/linux' so that you can compile your kernel."
"Okay, now type in 'cd
"What does cd do?"
"It changes directories."
"I don't have directories, all I have are these folders. And can't I just use the source code without compiling it?"
Better yet, his email address is on there, let's start signing him up for some mailing lists.
They tried that once, and all they accomplished by doing that was some talking paper clip.
Yep, it appears to be the same font.