No. I have had two IBM Thinkpads and a Toshiba and one of the Thinkpads had to go back to IBM once because the case was cracked and the Toshiba had to go back to Toshiba because the battery wouldn't charge (the problem wasn't the battery). In both cases I only had to pay shipping which I believe was like $30.00 and in both cases I got the notebooks back in less than a month.
So I personally don't agree with what you said. My experience has been that both IBM and Toshiba were very good about honoring their warrantys in a timely manner. And both of them fixed the problems. Without the warrantys I never would have been able to fix the cracked Thinkpad, maybe put some epoxy on it but that would be ugly as hell. I also could not have fixed the Toshiba.
Yes but having owned many laptops I can tell you that one of the most important parts of your laptop is the warranty. When a workstation breaks it is faster and easier to fix yourself, when hardware on a laptop breaks it can be a nightmare.
Having this Linux laptop being supported by HP I might actually buy one. Buying a walmart laptop and throwing linux on it may be cheaper but I am sure that it voids the warranty and when the cheap ass thing breaks you are up shit creak.
I always scrape off all the tomatoes and lettuce and crap so that it is just meat on a bun. Then I put a bunch of french frys... Oops, I mean Freedom Frys on it, put the bun back on and smoosh it down with all of my weight until it is like 3/4 of an inch thick and then I eat it. And I also drink a coke with this.
Yeah I know. But then it wouldn't be a 1984 reference it would be a 2600 reference. If you talk about Jello Biafra are you referencing the old lead singer for the Dead Kennedys or are you referencing a food that Bill Cosby eats and a small starving African nation?
I wouldn't buy this Windows media player crap but I wouldn't buy an ipod either. Apple is not the cool hip post-hippie company that people make them out to be. Apple has a long history of bringing lawsuits against people for stupid reasons just like every other big company does.
I can understand many geeks alliegence to free software, Linux, etc. But I could never understand why so many geeks have such an allegience to Apple. If you think their products are cool then that is one thing but the company itself sucks.
Imagine the first people to fly to Europa. It would be exciting for the first, say, month. After that, you'd start to get bored and wig out.
No way. I can stay in my little studio apartment for days at a time only being forced to leave to go to work. If I could I would live in that apartment 24/7 like my cat does. Many geeks are like me and would make great astronauts for long voyages cooped up aboard a small spaceship.
Just give me a big collection of video games, books, software development tools, pr0n and have the space ship set up so that it recycles my piss into Code Red Mountain Dew and recycles my shit into Chilli Cheese Fritos and I'll be set for the long haul. When the ship finally gets to Europa I probably wouldn't want to get off!
FWIW, my boss drives a brand new Acura and it has one of the old style rainbow Apple stickers on it. Since the car is new he must have been able to get that sticker somewhere recently. So someone must still be making them.
If you didn't know what Word documents are like to Linux users, you do now:-)
I have never come across a word document that I couldn't view on Linux. I am sure that you could create one but I don't think that most people use the really flaky complex features of Word that all the Linux equiv of Word cannot handle.
XMMS has been included in SuSElinux since at leats 8.2.
I think that like every single linux distro that I have ever used came with XMMS. As far as SuSE is concerned, I have a SuSE 7.3 install DVD and it has XMMS on it and I am sure that every earlier version does as well. XMMS is probably one of the most common nonessential pieces of software included with most distros when you really think about it.
Because of my bad luck and the fact that my family was cursed some generations ago, I work as a windows sysadmin. Therefore the only usage that I get out of *BSD, Linux and Solaris is playing around with systems at home and with a couple of internal FTP servers running Redhat here at work. So I have never heard of this whole Xfree86 -Configure thing. Sounds pretty cool though. I am very surprised that nobody told me about that earlier when I was having so much trouble with X.
I am too lazy to go look on bugtraq but I seem to remember a while back there was a root level exploit for systems running XMMS. So nothing is perfect, although XMMS probably still is better than winamp.
You'd think you'd get hit, but generally unless the guy is drunk or crazy nothing will happen. You see, assault is a crime.
The only problem is when you say the wrong thing to the wrong person and as you are walking away he shoots you in the spine with a 9mm and puts you in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. It happens.
has an Apple static sticker on it (one of the cool old rainbow ones)
Wow. That rainbow apple logo is one of the things that always kept me from using apple computers. It looked to much like a gay pride logo. I am not homophobic or anything it is just that I have a hard enough time getting chicks as it is without making them think I'm gay by putting a gay pride apple sticker on my car.
I used to always get beat up in highschool. To retain some sense of sanity and self esteem I would leave class saying that I needed to use the restroom and then I would break into all the bullies lockers and get all their books etc and throw them up on the schools roof and then go back to class as if nothing had happened.
Does anyone else hate that phrase the terrorists. It sounds way to much like Joe Mcarthy talking about The Reds. I am not saying that there are not terrorists or that there weren't communists. I am just saying that constantly hearing "OOOoohhh the terrorists this the terrorists that" has gotten really old. Maybe people should start calling them "Al Qaeda sympathizers" or "Muslim Extremists" or anything else. Anything would be better than constantly hearing about the terrorists.
I overheard some fat suburban housewife in line at the grocery store talking about how she thought that the people living down the street from her were terrorists and the woman she was talking to said something about how the power in her neighborhood had gone out for a few hours the night before and how her and her hsband thought that it was the terrorists doing. Fucking christ...
there is nothing anyone can say to me to make me hit them.
Thats good. I worked with a guy who went to prison (not jail, prison) for six months for getting in a bar fight and having the guy he fought press charges. The guy I knew admitted that he threw the first punch and the judge threw the book at him.
There is this holdover from high school that many adults have where they think that if you are in public and someone pisses you off that you can just beat them up. Many times though this results in assault charges which will drastically change the course of your life for the worse.
I wish that the installer was a little bit better. Just about every Linux distro that I installed found my video card and set up X perfectly. For some reason FreeBSD never could seem to automatically configure my video card corectly. It was a while ago and I cannot even remember what kind of card that it was but I do remember at the time having a total nightmare trying to get it installed. Going to FreeBSD newsgroups and IRC channels to get help but I never did get it to work right.
In game advertising? The Guns & Nachos magazine in Doom 3 was pretty cool as was the magazine with the Red Swingline stapler on the cover.
In Farcry the Playmerc magazine laying on the table was pretty cool. It would have been cooler if you could have picked it up and looked through it though.
Whatever happened to the Neo Nazi Pedophiles website? That site was hilarious. True comedic genius. I have heard that it was shut down by the Australian government and I also heard that the sites author was getting to many threats from real neonazi groups who were offended by his site.
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No. I have had two IBM Thinkpads and a Toshiba and one of the Thinkpads had to go back to IBM once because the case was cracked and the Toshiba had to go back to Toshiba because the battery wouldn't charge (the problem wasn't the battery). In both cases I only had to pay shipping which I believe was like $30.00 and in both cases I got the notebooks back in less than a month.
So I personally don't agree with what you said. My experience has been that both IBM and Toshiba were very good about honoring their warrantys in a timely manner. And both of them fixed the problems. Without the warrantys I never would have been able to fix the cracked Thinkpad, maybe put some epoxy on it but that would be ugly as hell. I also could not have fixed the Toshiba.
Yes but having owned many laptops I can tell you that one of the most important parts of your laptop is the warranty. When a workstation breaks it is faster and easier to fix yourself, when hardware on a laptop breaks it can be a nightmare.
Having this Linux laptop being supported by HP I might actually buy one. Buying a walmart laptop and throwing linux on it may be cheaper but I am sure that it voids the warranty and when the cheap ass thing breaks you are up shit creak.
I always scrape off all the tomatoes and lettuce and crap so that it is just meat on a bun. Then I put a bunch of french frys... Oops, I mean Freedom Frys on it, put the bun back on and smoosh it down with all of my weight until it is like 3/4 of an inch thick and then I eat it. And I also drink a coke with this.
Yeah I know. But then it wouldn't be a 1984 reference it would be a 2600 reference. If you talk about Jello Biafra are you referencing the old lead singer for the Dead Kennedys or are you referencing a food that Bill Cosby eats and a small starving African nation?
Maybe he was talking about Emmanual from 2600? This is a geek website after all.
I wouldn't buy this Windows media player crap but I wouldn't buy an ipod either. Apple is not the cool hip post-hippie company that people make them out to be. Apple has a long history of bringing lawsuits against people for stupid reasons just like every other big company does.
I can understand many geeks alliegence to free software, Linux, etc. But I could never understand why so many geeks have such an allegience to Apple. If you think their products are cool then that is one thing but the company itself sucks.
It was a 1940's detective story with a few 22nd century visuals
Sounds like a perfect description of William Gibsons classic Neuromancer.
Imagine the first people to fly to Europa. It would be exciting for the first, say, month. After that, you'd start to get bored and wig out.
No way. I can stay in my little studio apartment for days at a time only being forced to leave to go to work. If I could I would live in that apartment 24/7 like my cat does. Many geeks are like me and would make great astronauts for long voyages cooped up aboard a small spaceship.
Just give me a big collection of video games, books, software development tools, pr0n and have the space ship set up so that it recycles my piss into Code Red Mountain Dew and recycles my shit into Chilli Cheese Fritos and I'll be set for the long haul. When the ship finally gets to Europa I probably wouldn't want to get off!
How did it get zeroed?
Because it was posted by an AC. So it automaticaly scored zero.
FWIW, my boss drives a brand new Acura and it has one of the old style rainbow Apple stickers on it. Since the car is new he must have been able to get that sticker somewhere recently. So someone must still be making them.
If you didn't know what Word documents are like to Linux users, you do now :-)
I have never come across a word document that I couldn't view on Linux. I am sure that you could create one but I don't think that most people use the really flaky complex features of Word that all the Linux equiv of Word cannot handle.
XMMS has been included in SuSElinux since at leats 8.2.
I think that like every single linux distro that I have ever used came with XMMS. As far as SuSE is concerned, I have a SuSE 7.3 install DVD and it has XMMS on it and I am sure that every earlier version does as well. XMMS is probably one of the most common nonessential pieces of software included with most distros when you really think about it.
Because of my bad luck and the fact that my family was cursed some generations ago, I work as a windows sysadmin. Therefore the only usage that I get out of *BSD, Linux and Solaris is playing around with systems at home and with a couple of internal FTP servers running Redhat here at work. So I have never heard of this whole Xfree86 -Configure thing. Sounds pretty cool though. I am very surprised that nobody told me about that earlier when I was having so much trouble with X.
I am too lazy to go look on bugtraq but I seem to remember a while back there was a root level exploit for systems running XMMS. So nothing is perfect, although XMMS probably still is better than winamp.
You'd think you'd get hit, but generally unless the guy is drunk or crazy nothing will happen. You see, assault is a crime.
The only problem is when you say the wrong thing to the wrong person and as you are walking away he shoots you in the spine with a 9mm and puts you in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. It happens.
has an Apple static sticker on it (one of the cool old rainbow ones)
Wow. That rainbow apple logo is one of the things that always kept me from using apple computers. It looked to much like a gay pride logo. I am not homophobic or anything it is just that I have a hard enough time getting chicks as it is without making them think I'm gay by putting a gay pride apple sticker on my car.
I used to always get beat up in highschool. To retain some sense of sanity and self esteem I would leave class saying that I needed to use the restroom and then I would break into all the bullies lockers and get all their books etc and throw them up on the schools roof and then go back to class as if nothing had happened.
Does anyone else hate that phrase the terrorists. It sounds way to much like Joe Mcarthy talking about The Reds. I am not saying that there are not terrorists or that there weren't communists. I am just saying that constantly hearing "OOOoohhh the terrorists this the terrorists that" has gotten really old. Maybe people should start calling them "Al Qaeda sympathizers" or "Muslim Extremists" or anything else. Anything would be better than constantly hearing about the terrorists.
I overheard some fat suburban housewife in line at the grocery store talking about how she thought that the people living down the street from her were terrorists and the woman she was talking to said something about how the power in her neighborhood had gone out for a few hours the night before and how her and her hsband thought that it was the terrorists doing. Fucking christ...
there is nothing anyone can say to me to make me hit them.
Thats good. I worked with a guy who went to prison (not jail, prison) for six months for getting in a bar fight and having the guy he fought press charges. The guy I knew admitted that he threw the first punch and the judge threw the book at him.
There is this holdover from high school that many adults have where they think that if you are in public and someone pisses you off that you can just beat them up. Many times though this results in assault charges which will drastically change the course of your life for the worse.
I wish that the installer was a little bit better. Just about every Linux distro that I installed found my video card and set up X perfectly. For some reason FreeBSD never could seem to automatically configure my video card corectly. It was a while ago and I cannot even remember what kind of card that it was but I do remember at the time having a total nightmare trying to get it installed. Going to FreeBSD newsgroups and IRC channels to get help but I never did get it to work right.
In game advertising? The Guns & Nachos magazine in Doom 3 was pretty cool as was the magazine with the Red Swingline stapler on the cover.
In Farcry the Playmerc magazine laying on the table was pretty cool. It would have been cooler if you could have picked it up and looked through it though.
Whatever happened to the Neo Nazi Pedophiles website? That site was hilarious. True comedic genius. I have heard that it was shut down by the Australian government and I also heard that the sites author was getting to many threats from real neonazi groups who were offended by his site.
Issues much
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This is not crapflooding. Look it up.
dopey students loosing their lifes work
It is lose not loose that you are looking for.