Anyone know a place to get an OEM model of this? I don't buy retail boxed anything. I have no use for and will not pay for the M$ stuff, cables, manuals or pretty box they force you to pay for.. I just want the bare drive for my Linux box...
The article said the CPU is a 666mhz chip, " the computer being recorded is a no-brand box using a PC Chips M754LMR motherboard, an Intel Celeron 666MHz CPU"
They pirate a total, absolute POS OS such as Winbloz Xtra Pathetic when they could have LEGALLY downloaded a TOTALLY FREE OS from http://distrowatch.com/ and would have never have to put up with the bullsh*t or having their computers hijacked by asshole little pukes that cause chaos and jam the internet up for the rest of us that use REAL OS's....
I have ZERO sympathy for anyone that pirates winbloz. And I have even less sympathy for anyone dumb enough to pay hard earned money for such absolute trash..
I was glad to see a photo of someone else's CD's because it confirmed what I was unsure of.
This problem is worst on CHEAP CD's that I have, the extremely cheapy types (piss poor quality to begin with) are eating away like ants eating a cake at a picnic.
It started when my A/C went out two summers ago and I went all summer with the windows open. 99% humidity and temps average around 96-100 indoors. I had no idea what was going on, I though I had spilled toner on the discs (because I open a toner cart) and thought that the toner ate the discs but I couldn't find any toner spilled anywhere.
This pisses me off and it worries me, as I have LOTS of old CD's that I want and need to keep. I need to calculate how much hard drive space I need to store them all on HDD, dump what I can to hard drives and put the hard drives away in a safe. I've got old hard drives that are 20 years old that I can STILL fire up and read the data after all these years. I've got CD's that are f*cked beyond salvage that I can ill afford to lose that are less than 2 years old..
Screw CD's..... I'm terminating my love afair with this SHITTY technology starting right now...
I think it's a ridiculous waste of mental energy. Calling a boat or plane "her" and all or countries "the motherland".... How assinine can it get.
I guess it has something to do with archaic ritual of paying tribute to an ivisible being that live in the sky and counts the hair on people's heads..
It's amazing the things that people will believe in.. It's even more amazing how people waste so much mental effort believing in things that don't exist when they could expend that energy in bettering their mental abilities and capacities. The average person probably wastes 10 years of their life consumed in such thought processes..
Why must people assign names or gender to machines??
How perverted is that? What's next? Robot dating? Robot sex?
Get a life. A machine is a machine. It's a dumb machine. The engine in your car is a machine. Your toaster is a machine. Your cell phone is a machine. So is your freaking computer...
Since you name your computer, why not take a photo of it and carry it in your wallet, show it off to your friend, like a baby picture? Or take a picture of your "female" robot and show that to your friends as your "girl friend"..
and I still have trouble figuring Gimp out.. 1.2 is just flat out clumsy, 1.3 is a touch better and 2.0 is even more improved. But still, they are all tough to figure out. I don't use it every single day, maybe once or twice a week at most but it sure could be more user friendly.
I've seen some work that other people have created with Gimp so I know it's a powerful program that can do mind numbing stuff but I'll be damned if I can get the hang of it.
I used to use paintshop pro 6 back when I was using windows, because it was simple to understand, cheap, fast and it took care of my limited needs.
I wouldn't mind having Paintshop pro 6 run on Suse 9.x pro...
1. install Smoothwall 2.0 (smothwall.org) 2. install adzapper into smoothwall (sourceforge) 3. activate squid proxy in smoothwall
No more ads. ALL systems plugged into you lan are now protected. I don't care what they are, javascript, flash, gif, jpg, whatever.
The very few that do sneak through are easily tweaked out in adzapper settings. On top of that Konqueror takes are of the strays that may sneak through pretty well.
It's damn rare that I see an ad for anything on my lan...:)
This is starting to look a lot like a typical windows discussion.. Why go through all this, why not just use windows?
We use Linux because we want the freedom of the GPL and the freedom to download and compile OS apps and not get locked into restrictive licenses for proprietary codecs and applications.
Not to mention were basically a bunch of cheap bastards that like free shit... At least I am....
I know it's not a word. But sometimes people sometimes use it when being sarcastic,
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ain%27t&r =67 "But despite all the attempts to ban it, ain't continues to enjoy extensive use in speech. Even educated and upper-class speakers see no substitute in folksy expressions such as Say it ain't so and You ain't seen nothin' yet. "
I was using it in such a manner. I know it's no only poor English, it's not even horrible English, it's just not English. But people still use it none the less...
Still works after almost 2o years. Only changed the batteries ONCE and I use the hell out of it.. I wish I still had the original manuals though, the ex threw them out just to be mean..
<flame>People that refer to computers by name or think of them as male or female or think that the computer "hates me" or whatever, are of lower IQ and are afraid of the computer.
It's a F*CKING MACHINE people.
It can't think, It can't reason, it's not out to get you, it doesn't hate you. It only executes commands.
When you assign human qualities to a machine you are equating the machine with human life and intelligence. It has no life, it has no intelligence, Johnny Five is NOT alive.</flame>
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Wait! There it is, the sound of a big giant FLOP!!
Anyone know a place to get an OEM model of this?
I don't buy retail boxed anything. I have no use for and will not pay for the M$ stuff, cables, manuals or pretty box they force you to pay for.. I just want the bare drive for my Linux box...
XP, or anything else from Dr. E.V.I.L.(tm)..
Nice try Billy boy but no sale here...
Jeezuz Fn christ! Do you mods even RTFA??
The article said the CPU is a 666mhz chip,
" the computer being recorded is a no-brand box using a PC Chips M754LMR motherboard, an Intel Celeron 666MHz CPU"
Who ever modded parent off topic is a RETARD...
That damn 666 CPU....
There you have it, the EVIL bit at work....
They all should suffer for being idiots.
They pirate a total, absolute POS OS such as Winbloz Xtra Pathetic when they could have LEGALLY downloaded a TOTALLY FREE OS from http://distrowatch.com/ and would have never have to put up with the bullsh*t or having their computers hijacked by asshole little pukes that cause chaos and jam the internet up for the rest of us that use REAL OS's....
I have ZERO sympathy for anyone that pirates winbloz. And I have even less sympathy for anyone dumb enough to pay hard earned money for such absolute trash..
Suffer on baby....
I was glad to see a photo of someone else's CD's because it confirmed what I was unsure of.
This problem is worst on CHEAP CD's that I have, the extremely cheapy types (piss poor quality to begin with) are eating away like ants eating a cake at a picnic.
It started when my A/C went out two summers ago and I went all summer with the windows open. 99% humidity and temps average around 96-100 indoors. I had no idea what was going on, I though I had spilled toner on the discs (because I open a toner cart) and thought that the toner ate the discs but I couldn't find any toner spilled anywhere.
This pisses me off and it worries me, as I have LOTS of old CD's that I want and need to keep.
I need to calculate how much hard drive space I need to store them all on HDD, dump what I can to hard drives and put the hard drives away in a safe. I've got old hard drives that are 20 years old that I can STILL fire up and read the data after all these years. I've got CD's that are f*cked beyond salvage that I can ill afford to lose that are less than 2 years old..
Screw CD's..... I'm terminating my love afair with this SHITTY technology starting right now...
I think it's a ridiculous waste of mental energy. Calling a boat or plane "her" and all or countries "the motherland".... How assinine can it get.
I guess it has something to do with archaic ritual of paying tribute to an ivisible being that live in the sky and counts the hair on people's heads..
It's amazing the things that people will believe in.. It's even more amazing how people waste so much mental effort believing in things that don't exist when they could expend that energy in bettering their mental abilities and capacities. The average person probably wastes 10 years of their life consumed in such thought processes..
What a tragic waste of time and life..
Why must people assign names or gender to machines??
How perverted is that? What's next? Robot dating? Robot sex?
Get a life. A machine is a machine. It's a dumb machine. The engine in your car is a machine. Your toaster is a machine. Your cell phone is a machine. So is your freaking computer...
Since you name your computer, why not take a photo of it and carry it in your wallet, show it off to your friend, like a baby picture?
Or take a picture of your "female" robot and show that to your friends as your "girl friend"..
You people are pathetic...
Oh ok, gaming IS important to the world eh?......
Why would I want to run an M$ .net or any other M$ app on my Linux box??
Name me ONE good reason why I would need to do that...
we'll just put MP3Jon on it right away...
Bring it on...
and I still have trouble figuring Gimp out..
1.2 is just flat out clumsy, 1.3 is a touch better and 2.0 is even more improved. But still, they are all tough to figure out. I don't use it every single day, maybe once or twice a week at most but it sure could be more user friendly.
I've seen some work that other people have created with Gimp so I know it's a powerful program that can do mind numbing stuff but I'll be damned if I can get the hang of it.
I used to use paintshop pro 6 back when I was using windows, because it was simple to understand, cheap, fast and it took care of my limited needs.
I wouldn't mind having Paintshop pro 6 run on Suse 9.x pro...
Major karma whoring follows..
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I JUST printed the 2004.0 docs on my color laserjet needlessly, just hours before the release. Now I have to burn MORE paper and MORE color toner.
I wish they would pre-announce their announcements...
1. install Smoothwall 2.0 (smothwall.org)
:)
2. install adzapper into smoothwall (sourceforge)
3. activate squid proxy in smoothwall
No more ads. ALL systems plugged into you lan are now protected. I don't care what they are, javascript, flash, gif, jpg, whatever.
The very few that do sneak through are easily tweaked out in adzapper settings.
On top of that Konqueror takes are of the strays that may sneak through pretty well.
It's damn rare that I see an ad for anything on my lan...
Burn the cameras out with laser pointers.
$2 for a cheap laser pen at the 7-11 and no more camera problem..
Licenses and purchases of licenses and what-nots?
This is starting to look a lot like a typical windows discussion.. Why go through all this, why not just use windows?
We use Linux because we want the freedom of the GPL and the freedom to download and compile OS apps and not get locked into restrictive licenses for proprietary codecs and applications.
Not to mention were basically a bunch of cheap bastards that like free shit... At least I am....
I know it's not a word. But sometimes people sometimes use it when being sarcastic,
r =67
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ain%27t&
"But despite all the attempts to ban it, ain't continues to enjoy extensive use in speech. Even educated and upper-class speakers see no substitute in folksy expressions such as Say it ain't so and You ain't seen nothin' yet. "
I was using it in such a manner. I know it's no only poor English, it's not even horrible English, it's just not English. But people still use it none the less...
I asked /. this very same thing a month or two back and it was rejected..
2004-03-14 23:17:04 It ain't all just about megapixels! (askslashdot,hardware) (rejected)
Who's ass do you have to kiss around here??
Of course I'm preaching to the choir here but I want ANYONE to point out to me how the DMCA is a GOOD law and what benefits it provides to society.
It stiffles progress. MOST everything in existence is the result of people taking things apart and improving upon previous designs.
DMCA puts that practice to a dead halt.
The DMCA should be abolished ASAP....
With mine, the padded leather case is a BIG part of why it has survived this long. It's been dropped a *few* times over the years.
I would die if this thing ever crapped out on me, I would have to go to ebay and buy another one.
The best part of it all, mine was a gift from a friend..
http://www.systemrecycler.com/imag0184.jpg
http://www.systemrecycler.com/imag0183.jpg
http://www.systemrecycler.com/imag0182.jpg
Still works after almost 2o years. Only changed the batteries ONCE and I use the hell out of it.. I wish I still had the original manuals though, the ex threw them out just to be mean..
of lesser intelligence.
<flame>People that refer to computers by name or think of them as male or female or think that the computer "hates me" or whatever, are of lower IQ and are afraid of the computer.
It's a F*CKING MACHINE people.
It can't think, It can't reason, it's not out to get you, it doesn't hate you. It only executes commands.
When you assign human qualities to a machine you are equating the machine with human life and intelligence. It has no life, it has no intelligence, Johnny Five is NOT alive.</flame>
and don't forget "C'era una volta il West" (Once Upon a Time in the West) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/