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kastein said:
haha I said pretty much the same thing... I don't know much about anything that has a price below 5 figures these days. I know zip about gaming/video performance, hate windows, and little about the relative quality of common laptop manufacturers at the moment. If you want to know how the system actually works on a very low level, I can explain that, but I haven't the first clue what laptop to buy from what company.
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I'm a bit outdated as well but I still know if I were to buy a laptop it wouldn't be from any chain store and it wouldn't be a dell or sony etc. A computer from anyone of those stores/companies will come loaded with so much crap it's like getting half of what you paid for. Also look to see if it comes with a legit windows cd. I kind of don't think anyone gives you one anymore but it's hella handy when it comes time to reformat or you have problems. After that point it's just a matter of comparing prices with customer reviews and also against the recommended system requirements(try to go as much above the required as possible). Then you can't go wrong.
 
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cmelo said:
Also look to see if it comes with a legit windows cd. I kind of don't think anyone gives you one anymore but it's hella handy when it comes time to reformat or you have problems.
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Xamillion.

No one hands those out with the machine anymore, which is ultra stupid in my opinion. But I run FreeBSD on anything I own so this doesn't really affect me much.

My brother runs linux on almost everything, he copied an image of the entire system drive off his new laptop when he bought it, having never even booted it up. When he had to return it on warranty he copied an image of his linux install off the machine and then restored the image of the never-booted OEM Windows install. I can only imagine what the tech thought when they started it up to check for functionality and discovered it had "never even been booted."

ktm racer 419 said:
curbs are merely a suggestion
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yeah but show cars aren't :shocked:

I'd hate to run my 2500 dollar truck over some guy's 50k restored vehicle or POS riced honda and get my ass in trouble.
 
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kastein said:
Xamillion.

No one hands those out with the machine anymore, which is ultra stupid in my opinion. But I run FreeBSD on anything I own so this doesn't really affect me much.

My brother runs linux on almost everything, he copied an image of the entire system drive off his new laptop when he bought it, having never even booted it up. When he had to return it on warranty he copied an image of his linux install off the machine and then restored the image of the never-booted OEM Windows install. I can only imagine what the tech thought when they started it up to check for functionality and discovered it had "never even been booted."



yeah but show cars aren't :shocked:

I'd hate to run my 2500 dollar truck over some guy's 50k restored vehicle or POS riced honda and get my ass in trouble.
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i'll spot ya

lol
 
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kastein said:
Xamillion.

No one hands those out with the machine anymore, which is ultra stupid in my opinion. But I run FreeBSD on anything I own so this doesn't really affect me much.

My brother runs linux on almost everything, he copied an image of the entire system drive off his new laptop when he bought it, having never even booted it up. When he had to return it on warranty he copied an image of his linux install off the machine and then restored the image of the never-booted OEM Windows install. I can only imagine what the tech thought when they started it up to check for functionality and discovered it had "never even been booted."
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I would be really tempted to going back to linux if I bought myself a computer again. Not too mention that most of the need to use the command line has been fading away with just about everything nowadays having a GUI interface. My file server still runs an older fedora core and I love it.
 
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cmelo said:
I would be really tempted to going back to linux if I bought myself a computer again. Not too mention that most of the need to use the command line has been fading away with just about everything nowadays having a GUI interface. My file server still runs an older fedora core and I love it.
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I am a huge fan of the command line.

There are three reasons I have a GUI - web browsing, because I can get more terminal windows on screen at a time in GUI mode, and so I can use the mouse for copy/paste between terminal windows.

EDIT four reasons... PCB design also. I'll come in again.

Four reasons for the spanish inquisition... web browsing, terminal windows, ...
 
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KDE and Gnome(either one) is better and a much better use of monitor space than windows has ever or will ever have. Not too mention I love using package managers instead of scouring the internet for some simple program. I use my computers for watching movies and going on the internet therefore have little use for the command line besides using the package manager which I'm quite sure now has a GUI.
 
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The package manager I use on FreeBSD is the ports collection, which is entirely text based :D

also a gnome user though. Good point on the movies... five reasons... I'll come in again.
 
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cmelo said:
KDE and Gnome(either one) is better and a much better use of monitor space than windows has ever or will ever have. Not too mention I love using package managers instead of scouring the internet for some simple program. I use my computers for watching movies and going on the internet therefore have little use for the command line besides using the package manager which I'm quite sure now has a GUI.
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absolutely.

my home computer has a dual boot with ubuntu and XP Pro and my normal computer at work is XP. the one i use for engineering i run redhat on. i use gnome mostly too. i tried kde out for a while but i did a hack-job of an install (read: app-get KDE :gee:)
 
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I used to dual boot and then I realized it was pretty silly to waste the hard drive space on a Windows install since I hadn't even rebooted in 6 months.

Only thing I'll be using a Windows boot for is burning EPROMs and EEPROMs, since I can't find open source software that'll talk to a BPMicro EP-1140 programmer, and I'm fairly certain I will be doing that using a virtual machine with the parallel port forwarded to it. A Pentium 120 laptop with 64MB of RAM running Windows 95 is enough to do that job.
 
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Why the hell do you have to burn EPROMS?
 
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Plus you do it backwards, you have the old computer run unix/linux and the new run windows. That way they run at comparable speeds.
 
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cmelo said:
Why the hell do you have to burn EPROMS?
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I'm an electrical engineer both as a profession and as a hobby. I've got an entire 8088 based computer that I breadboarded in a weekend with no schematic sitting here right now, it runs custom firmware I wrote, assembled, and then burned to an EPROM and stuck into the breadboard.

:compwork:
 
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That's nuts, i had to google the 8088 since it's far before when I started getting into computers(I didn't build computers in elementary school). Not sure what applications something like that would have but definitely interesting.
 
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cmelo said:
Dear Colin,

I just wanted you to know I think you should buy ORIs. I know very little about them but they look pretty cool. You would also be a pretty major dude if you had them on your jeep, i'm pretty sure.

Slamcerely,
Captain Slam-O(AKA Carmelo)

PS- Wamma Slamma Jamma Wamma Dabba Do
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I've debated it.

Maybe I'll change my mind in the near future, but I want to wheel really bad right now.
 
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MoparManiac said:
I've debated it.

Maybe I'll change my mind in the near future, but I want to wheel really bad right now.
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It's my understanding that if you're going to ever have have coilover/struts it's best to do it from the beginning. Again, from my very fundamental understandings coilover/struts are far better equipped to do space ship landings than your standard coil and shock setup(read:what you need). This all comes from my standing of if i'm going to bother having a link suspension, might as well go all out. They will also compliment your 440 quite nicely.
 
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wow all this nerd computer speak wishes I could bribe one of you to figure out why my laptop stopped starting up the other day. :( something apparently wrong with the amount of memory available or some crap, just randomly decided to not work.
 
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