Dell Financial Services sells computers on Ebay with No-OS and they are factory refurbished to like-new condition. Many still have an original extended warranty which is transferrable!
DFS Ebay Store.
Consider this. What is your hourly rate? Ok multiply it times the number of hours you've spent trying to get around the "windows tax" well, congratulations, you've lost money in the long run. Now-a-days the major OEMs get keyed copies of Windows that only work on their brand. So really your only option would be to attempt to sell it as an unactivated copy for Dells only or whatever brand you bought. Why buy a non-major brand laptop that has questionable support under linux, when you can buy a major brand that can be very well supported by the community?
One other option, in the Dallas area there is a free computer magazine that you can find at most computer stores or book stores that features local computer store ads. I've seen many BTO laptops in there. You'd have an easier time convincing a smaller company to dump windows for a sale anyway.
Linux, Solaris...etc. I bought some used Sun workstations that had both prom passwords and root passwords. Both were easily overcome with pulling the prom (giving it a null password) then booting from a solaris cd, remove the root password from the shadow file, plug the prom back in, use the eeprom command to nullify the password burned into the rom. SGI's are even easier, just use the reset password jumper on the motherboard. Laptops are a bit harder, the password is burned into a surface mounted chip. (Don't bother posting links to circumvent laptop passwords. I don't advocate it.)
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They may have a good vector unit, but if you just want to dump your code into another architechture's compiler and not optimize, x86 is a pretty good choice. Now, for finely tuned, hand-crafted non portable code, G4's would be very good.
I've never seen solaris yet on p2p networks. I have a legal Solaris 9 x86 non-commercial license that I obtained from Sun, so I should legally be allowed to download it from p2p networks and use it.
Hey dere, you took the site down, great jerob! - Coach Z
Oddly engough I found out about this site as a result of of the Sircam virus. I got an "e-mail" from strongbad to which I replied (before knowing that it sends e-mails from your address book) to get a Virus scanner, to which Strong Bad's auto reply, replied back in the Strong Bad fashion to which I told him to go F himself. I then got a reply from the creator asking for more information about the virus. I now check the site every week. They are the only flash site that has something new every so often. Unlike oh...Joecartoon?
I bought a used Shinobi and got it working, the power supply was putting out +16v on the +12v side and +8v on the +5v but there was a manual adjustment "screw" that I used to lower the power down to 12v and 5v and it worked great after that. Later I converted it into a PC/PS2 based arcade system. My website about it
Anyone remember the movie Space Camp? There was a scene near the end where the woman flying was struggling to keep the shuttle at a certain angle to keep the heat on the tiles and not any other part of the orbiter. If you went outside of the range, unprotected areas of the shuttle would be exposed to 3000 degree temps and instantly incinerate, compromising the shuttle integrity and essentially just turn into a fire ball. Current reports from NASA was the orbiter was at about 207,000 feet and just over Mach 18.
Where I was, I recall visiting a building where they had to keep a large room cooled over the warm summers. To do this, they cut out a huge block of ice from a nearby lake and hauled it into the building, and kept the room very cold by good air circulation all summer.
How did they keep the block of ice from melting? Sorry, I've lived in Texas all of my life and the thought of getting a block of ice in the winter and keeping it till summer just astounds me.
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Dell Financial Services sells computers on Ebay with No-OS and they are factory refurbished to like-new condition. Many still have an original extended warranty which is transferrable! DFS Ebay Store.
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Consider this. What is your hourly rate? Ok multiply it times the number of hours you've spent trying to get around the "windows tax" well, congratulations, you've lost money in the long run. Now-a-days the major OEMs get keyed copies of Windows that only work on their brand. So really your only option would be to attempt to sell it as an unactivated copy for Dells only or whatever brand you bought. Why buy a non-major brand laptop that has questionable support under linux, when you can buy a major brand that can be very well supported by the community?
One other option, in the Dallas area there is a free computer magazine that you can find at most computer stores or book stores that features local computer store ads. I've seen many BTO laptops in there. You'd have an easier time convincing a smaller company to dump windows for a sale anyway.
Linux, Solaris...etc. I bought some used Sun workstations that had both prom passwords and root passwords. Both were easily overcome with pulling the prom (giving it a null password) then booting from a solaris cd, remove the root password from the shadow file, plug the prom back in, use the eeprom command to nullify the password burned into the rom. SGI's are even easier, just use the reset password jumper on the motherboard. Laptops are a bit harder, the password is burned into a surface mounted chip. (Don't bother posting links to circumvent laptop passwords. I don't advocate it.)
MMMM. Gyro...
Well, it's got "Wings"! Always!
But most of the Centrises I've seen had a 68LC040 VS. a 68040, so that goes along with Intels "new" lesser chip.
Is this the project formerly known as FreeMWare? Formerly part under Mandrakes broken wing?
For more Tanuki hilarity, try the Anabuki Co. commercials. (Featuring dancing forest animals with big boobs and big nuts) Anabuki Construction
Click on the quicktime link.
And for the Europeans among us, News Corp owns Sky.
They may have a good vector unit, but if you just want to dump your code into another architechture's compiler and not optimize, x86 is a pretty good choice. Now, for finely tuned, hand-crafted non portable code, G4's would be very good.
does any other manufacturer use the PS/2 keyboard cord?
SGI does.
It is a 50Mhz SparcStation running OpenBSD. It handles my encryption needs just fine. :)
do the work of the devil. Good thing he is keeping himself busy. You know what happens when preists get bored. (Well some preists) Good for him!
I've never seen solaris yet on p2p networks. I have a legal Solaris 9 x86 non-commercial license that I obtained from Sun, so I should legally be allowed to download it from p2p networks and use it.
It works fine for me.. Google!
Its just an OS, for goodness sake, its not the second coming.
True. BTW, I hear that only happens with women.
Why oh why didn't ye catch on? :(
The best version I've heard was posted on the Red Meat Construction Set RMCS
Hey dere, you took the site down, great jerob! - Coach Z
Oddly engough I found out about this site as a result of of the Sircam virus. I got an "e-mail" from strongbad to which I replied (before knowing that it sends e-mails from your address book) to get a Virus scanner, to which Strong Bad's auto reply, replied back in the Strong Bad fashion to which I told him to go F himself. I then got a reply from the creator asking for more information about the virus. I now check the site every week. They are the only flash site that has something new every so often. Unlike oh...Joecartoon?
The Challenger astronauts were recovered mostly intact from the ocean and later buried.
I bought a used Shinobi and got it working, the power supply was putting out +16v on the +12v side and +8v on the +5v but there was a manual adjustment "screw" that I used to lower the power down to 12v and 5v and it worked great after that. Later I converted it into a PC/PS2 based arcade system. My website about it
Anyone remember the movie Space Camp? There was a scene near the end where the woman flying was struggling to keep the shuttle at a certain angle to keep the heat on the tiles and not any other part of the orbiter. If you went outside of the range, unprotected areas of the shuttle would be exposed to 3000 degree temps and instantly incinerate, compromising the shuttle integrity and essentially just turn into a fire ball. Current reports from NASA was the orbiter was at about 207,000 feet and just over Mach 18.
It is also proven that dihydrogen oxide is lethal to everyone ingesting it
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Water? Well I guess it is lethal to breathe it.
Where I was, I recall visiting a building where they had to keep a large room cooled over the warm summers. To do this, they cut out a huge block of ice from a nearby lake and hauled it into the building, and kept the room very cold by good air circulation all summer.
How did they keep the block of ice from melting? Sorry, I've lived in Texas all of my life and the thought of getting a block of ice in the winter and keeping it till summer just astounds me.