Broken computer and idiot friend.

[jenai]

Originally Posted by Kandyapple

I have a friend like this. Unfortunately she is my best friend so she gets more then three strikes.
So far she has blown up a plate in my kitchen, put popcorn in the microwave for 22 minutes, and broken numerous parts in my car. (It's still a mystery how though.) She just touches things and they destruct.

I just always seem to be in the other room or looking the other way when I hear "oh no!".
I know how you feel, you just want to deal out a good boot fucking.

Serenity Now!

there's a female version of OP's friend? Sweet!

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by jenai

That friend needs a tiny Puppy Linux installation on a P1 computer at 233MHz with a 15 GB hard drive, 10mbp NIC, 4x CDROM and 128MB ram. This is an essentially trivial matter and would be worth every penny of the $150 for it.

At home nobody gets to use my HP e-Vectra; if they have to use a computer, I have a 700 MHz P2 tower with 512MB and a AGPx2 Matrox card but a 12GB HD and a crappy Intel MB running XP slowly. Even with XP it is slower than my HP.

No, it's not nuts to give away a crappy computer with Linux on it. Think of it as a loaner until he fixes his computer.

Usually I'm good at translating nerd to english.

I'm just baffled by this post.

[Grapes]

Lol it's like a different dialect or something

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by Revolver

nah man jims pretty solid,at least everytime we've shared a drink or two..

ya thats when jim is best at computers though.

haha its funny that people are actually defending jim here. i just picked a random friend of ninjaboy that would be able to read it.

don't worry jim, i think you're awesome at computers.

[ppcock]

Originally Posted by Gusto

haha its funny that people are actually defending jim here. i just picked a random friend of ninjaboy that would be able to read it.

don't worry jim, i think you're awesome at computers.

ya, i noticed that too.


dont worry jim.. i still think you smell like hippie.

[cubed]

you guys are warming the cockles of my heart, maybe even deeper to the sub-cockle area.

[jenai]

XP is for people who are accidents waiting to happen, but Linux on a shit computer is only good for such people.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by jenai

XP is for people who are accidents waiting to happen, but Linux on a shit computer is only good for such people.

Dude, I'm probably the biggest linux zealot on the board, but your assessment of XP is awful.

XP SP2 is the best operating system that Microsoft has put out, hands down. It's stable, it's reliable, it's fast (when you turn off the defaults) and just about every windows-based application in circuit today is XP compatible.

Where it lacks: Memory management (starts lagging around the 5th or 6th app opened), 3D desktop (which they were supposed to fix with Vista but failed miserably) and working mostly in the administrator userspace makes it easier for software exploits to do serious damage to the computer (again, something they tried to fix in Vista and just ended up creating more headaches). Oh, and the countless spyware and virus apps that are available for windows. But that's also because it's the most prominent system for non-security minded people and therefore just propogates the culture, not just because of shoddy security design (though that is a part of it).

XP is the industry standard currently for desktop OS, and even though Vista is crippling Microsoft's ability to maintain that title in the future, XP still reigns supreme thus far.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by cubed

you guys are warming the cockles of my heart, maybe even deeper to the sub-cockle area.

What about the kidneys? Or the colon?

[jenai]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Dude, I'm probably the biggest linux zealot on the board, but your assessment of XP is awful.

XP SP2 is the best operating system that Microsoft has put out, hands down. It's stable, it's reliable, it's fast (when you turn off the defaults) and just about every windows-based application in circuit today is XP compatible.

[edits out propagabda]

XP is the industry standard currently for desktop OS, and even though Vista is crippling Microsoft's ability to maintain that title in the future, XP still reigns supreme thus far.

In short, even stupid people can use it, though my best friend uses win98 because his P2 system will bog down on XP.

Linux has gone GUI so much so Ubuntu Linux came out, and in 7.10 surpasses WIN98 and is almost neck and neck with XP, sometimes outperforming it.

Even so, I've seen people so used to XP's point and click that when X Windows crashes, think the computer is broken and is in need to a reinstall, only to turn it on three days later to find Xorg is back up with whatever Desktop GUI they got, be it Gnome, KDE or XFCE4.

If the GUI crashes on XP, then it's almost BSOD time.:worried:

[rawb]

I THOUGHT SOCIALLY RETARDED PEOPLE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD AT COMPUTERS WTF o

[Revolver]

jeeebus fuck jenia...

you are just awful...

go away please.

[P.A.R.T.Y]

^written at 4am^ reminds me of my youth.

[NinjaBoy]

Originally Posted by jenai

In short, even stupid people can use it, though my best friend uses win98 because his P2 system will bog down on XP.

Linux has gone GUI so much so Ubuntu Linux came out, and in 7.10 surpasses WIN98 and is almost neck and neck with XP, sometimes outperforming it.

Even so, I've seen people so used to XP's point and click that when X Windows crashes, think the computer is broken and is in need to a reinstall, only to turn it on three days later to find Xorg is back up with whatever Desktop GUI they got, be it Gnome, KDE or XFCE4.

If the GUI crashes on XP, then it's almost BSOD time.:worried:

Yeah yeah yeah, I know. Everyone knows at this point.

Whenever someone mentions anything about windows some Linux freak comes on, throws a bunch of technical jargon around and basically tries to act superior to everyone.

First off, it's a hardware problem, I've figured out what it is, and now it's just getting the part and reinstalling.

Second, not everyone wants to install linux. My computer is used for the occasional recording, listening to music and surfing the net. I use it maybe an hour a night, along with my roomate who is learning to use computers for the first time in her life.

Linux is not for me. I've tried using it years ago. I'm sure it makes you feel better, but linux is not the be all and end all of computers.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by jenai

In short, even stupid people can use it, though my best friend uses win98 because his P2 system will bog down on XP.

I'm sorry, but the pentium 4 has been out for more than 5 years. The P2 has long been obsolete.

Linux has gone GUI so much so Ubuntu Linux came out, and in 7.10 surpasses WIN98 and is almost neck and neck with XP, sometimes outperforming it.

Performance isn't the issue. The issue is support. Ubuntu has gotten better, but it's DEFINITELY not grandma-ready yet. I wouldn't say idiots can use it, because frankly they can't. They get frustrated and give up after around the third install because they can't get their ATI video card's tv-out to work (or whatever).

Even so, I've seen people so used to XP's point and click that when X Windows crashes, think the computer is broken and is in need to a reinstall, only to turn it on three days later to find Xorg is back up with whatever Desktop GUI they got, be it Gnome, KDE or XFCE4.

If the GUI crashes on XP, then it's almost BSOD time.:worried:

OH NO, YOU HAVE TO REBOOT YOUR COMPUTER, WHATEVER WILL YOU DO? (funny how you have to do that in both examples you listed there)

People don't mind restarting their computer every once in a while. Sure, with linux you can always just ctrl+alt+bkspc but sometimes even that doesn't work.

Ubuntu has made things easier. And if you know enough about computers to properly ask for help (basically, if you're an intermediate computer user) then you should be able to use Ubuntu.

But it's still not for beginners.

[jenai]

Originally Posted by NinjaBoy

Yeah yeah yeah, I know. Everyone knows at this point.

Whenever someone mentions anything about windows some Linux freak comes on, throws a bunch of technical jargon around and basically tries to act superior to everyone.

First off, it's a hardware problem, I've figured out what it is, and now it's just getting the part and reinstalling.

Second, not everyone wants to install linux. My computer is used for the occasional recording, listening to music and surfing the net. I use it maybe an hour a night, along with my roomate who is learning to use computers for the first time in her life.

Linux is not for me. I've tried using it years ago. I'm sure it makes you feel better, but linux is not the be all and end all of computers.

Yes, Linux is for the tech-savvy. Tho I know of a Ubuntu newb who lives in a 300-dollar rooming house converted from one of those pre-1970 3-story houses, which are as physically solid as any new 3-story monster houses made by one of my Punjabi friends today. I think his computer and his cellphone are the only pieces of technology in his humble abode.

If he had to fork out for XP, then I'd think he'd be making ends meet after coughing up $630 for rent and internet like the Boston Pizza waitress I met the other day.

Linux is not only better than XP; it's cheaper and can still get you on the net even without a desktop gui atop Xorg. Tho Puppy Linux with busybox and surfing with Dillo is probably ok on the cheap computer I mentioned earlier.

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by jenai

If he had to fork out for XP, then I'd think he'd be making ends meet after coughing up $630 for rent and internet like the Boston Pizza waitress I met the other day.

:|

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[Gusto]

jenai, stop telling us stuff.

[jenai]

Originally Posted by Grapes

:|

...

Windoze user like to pamper themselves

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by jenai

Windoze user like to pamper themselves

:oh:



:|



:S

[NinjaBoy]

Originally Posted by jenai

Yes, Linux is for the tech-savvy. Tho I know of a Ubuntu newb who lives in a 300-dollar rooming house converted from one of those pre-1970 3-story houses, which are as physically solid as any new 3-story monster houses made by one of my Punjabi friends today. I think his computer and his cellphone are the only pieces of technology in his humble abode.

If he had to fork out for XP, then I'd think he'd be making ends meet after coughing up $630 for rent and internet like the Boston Pizza waitress I met the other day.

Linux is not only better than XP; it's cheaper and can still get you on the net even without a desktop gui atop Xorg. Tho Puppy Linux with busybox and surfing with Dillo is probably ok on the cheap computer I mentioned earlier.

Sorry, I don't even know what to say about this. You really need to learn how to argue your point.

[crookedking]

Originally Posted by jenai

Windoze user like to pamper themselves

i use soap when i wash.

therefore it's obvious that i use windows.

[impure]

Originally Posted by jenai

Windoze user like to pamper themselves

yes sensei yes.