I wish the not-free OSes would do such a thing, but they'll never get there for all kinds of non-technical reasons.
You could make a bootable DOS CD....
runs away....
Just tryin' a little spicy talk.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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tommyrot - Feb 11, 2009 5:09:14 am PST #9129 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
amych - Feb 11, 2009 5:24:46 am PST #9130 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
You honestly think we don't have one somewhere around the house?
Calli - Feb 11, 2009 5:53:30 am PST #9131 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Just boot off the Ubuntu CD and see if wireless works. If it doesn't, then it is probably a problematic chipset.
Cool--thanks!
You honestly think we don't have one somewhere around the house?
I would not bet against it.
Polter-Cow - Feb 11, 2009 6:09:10 am PST #9132 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
search for olympus voice recorders on amazon. there are a few that get good ratings that aren't too expensive.
Yeah, my friend recommended Olympus too. I'm not sure what my budget is since I don't know what these things run. Probably twenty or thirty bucks? Definitely not more than fifty.
le nubian - Feb 11, 2009 6:43:44 am PST #9133 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
you can get some decent ones for under $50. check 'em out.
Laga - Feb 11, 2009 8:42:20 am PST #9134 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I just got that gmail server error someone was asking about earlier.
omnis_audis - Feb 12, 2009 6:50:05 am PST #9135 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I have an Apple Store question. Work is looking to buy a Mini, but I want to max out the RAM. Is that something I can buy at a local Apple Store? With the RAM already in it? They are not answering the phone, and I'd hate to drive all the way down there, just to order it online.
tommyrot - Feb 12, 2009 7:20:13 am PST #9136 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS
BobB-nw writes to tell us that Palm has decided to kill their PalmOS operating system and is instead betting their future on a still mostly unknown Palm webOS. Very little is known about the new Palm webOS, but it will supposedly support HTML5 and enable a local data store so that applications can be used both online and off. All of this is rolled into a Linux framework with a message bus based on JSON. Will be interesting to see where they take it.
tommyrot - Feb 12, 2009 8:35:28 am PST #9137 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
1234567890 Day, A Celebration of Unix Time
Tomorrow, Friday, February 13th at exactly 23:31:30 UTC the Unix timestamp will hit 1234567890 seconds from midnight January 1st 1970, the moment when time began on the Unix operating system (aka the Unix Epoch). 1234567890 Day events are being planned around the world to celebrate this historic occasion. Here’s the countdown clock.
Count-up, actually.
In San Francisco, the celebration takes place at 2:31 PST (1 hour early for drinks) at 21st Amendment.
Steph L. - Feb 12, 2009 11:00:18 am PST #9138 of 25501
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I have an Apple Store question. Work is looking to buy a Mini, but I want to max out the RAM. Is that something I can buy at a local Apple Store? With the RAM already in it? They are not answering the phone, and I'd hate to drive all the way down there, just to order it online.
I'd guess the ones in the Apple stores come with whatever amount of RAM is standard, and if you wanted more RAM, they'd probably tell you that you'd have to come back for it after they put it in.
IOW, ordering online is probably easiest, although getting extra RAM from Apple is way too expensive. It's much cheaper to get the CPU with whatever amount of RAM is standard, and then order the RAM from newegg or someplace and install it yourself.
Unless (1) your work needs it ASAP, or (b) the Mini is one of the models that the owner isn't supposed to open up to install RAM (i.e., it voids the warranty).