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Mord

As is typical with most stuff like this that I post, I'm probably 10-15 behind the curve and everyone else has seen it already. If so, enjoy it again.

http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/switchlinux3.swf

In other news, the balance of power has shifted in my household as my ex-laptop cum kitchen computer has been wiped and I plan to re-install its OEM copy of Windows. Linux ran fine on it, but running "emerge world" only to have both the wireless card and integrated sound completely break due to changes in the software is a bit too much for me. I made a token effort at repairing them, but I refuse to fix the problems more on principal than anything else.

There's still a chance for an install of Ubuntu or Fedora as long as the floppy boot slash network install procedure works as advertised (as the DVD ROM is borked in it). But most likely I'll just do a networked install of Windows XP and be done with the bloody thing. Besides, I want to see if WoW will run on it. (It's doubtful, despite being a Celeron 1.8Ghz, the video card is a Radeon Mobility but only 16MB of RAM).

On the bright side, the track pad is working again, once again making it a viable laptop (although nearly 3 years old). I had thought that it too had fallen to hardware malfunction (it was not working and I couldn't fix the bloody thing). Guess I'll just chalk it up to another linux problem (probably of the Gentoo variety as well).
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lewis · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:05 am Post subject:

I'm regretting the way I partitioned my laptop's disk. 20G for Windows, 40G for Linux... so much out of space on Windows I've had to turn hibernation off*, so much free space on Linux I can't even touch the sides.

*What is the deal with the size of hiberfil.sys? It makes a file the size of my RAM, so two gigs, which doesn't help, but I swear it doesn't use all of it since it used to hibernate way faster than that would imply. Does NTFS have sparse-file support where bits of files you don't actually use don't take up space? It would be nice. I suppose it might be the end of the world if you ran out of battery and it couldn't hibernate but STILL.

OTOH it took me an entire day to figure out how to get Linux to even sleep and I have to kill my X server and it breaks hotplugging, and I can't hibernate to disk because I don't have any swap partitions. Oops.
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OscarWilde · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:09 am Post subject:

lewis · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:11 am Post subject:

Evidently.

I am using slackware-current, but equally I do somewhat know what I'm doing.

nVIDIA's drivers allegedly support sleeping but I couldn't get it to work. In fact I panicked the kernel several times trying.
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Mord · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:38 am Post subject:

lewis · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject:

My Linux setup boots to a console login in 14 seconds.

GNOME takes a fucking age to haul its bloated ass off disk, but you don't have to start that, depending on what you're doing, so I can be checking mail in 20 seconds.
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Magus · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:52 pm Post subject:

So. DOS boots in seconds... Very Happy

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Wilde is a 4' chinese man in a bright pink tutu, lime green pimp hat with peacock feathers, and a purple feather boa, wearing tissue stuffed snakeskin combat boots, holding a gun bigger than he is, smoking a cigarette in the parking garage, trying to look menacing while pouting and head banging to Godsmack I stand alone

HitScan · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject:

lewis · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject:

Well pencil, paper, and books don't even have power buttons!
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Mord · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject:

FondueDaredevil

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject:

supersmamillian?
super arch-smvillian?
smamvillian?

AYB can't seem to integrate that term into the smam, help!

Surprised

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Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:52 am Post subject:

My laptop is five years old, and it's a Mac, which adds an extra 2-3 years to its agedness right there. Very Happy

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HitScan · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject:

Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:41 pm Post subject:

I believe the Mac Portable was steam-powered, no?
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"Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries."
-- Carl Sagan

"Its not a rule. Its just something I noticed. Several of us have more than one sig." - Mord

"No, you are a troll, and I should have never let you back to Ars in after the first 16,000 bannings." - Caesar, to He Who Shall Not Be Named