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New laptop!
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:56 am
by Ishmayeck
compaq Presario C700
2GB RAM
dual core 1.8GHz Intel Pentium Something
160GB HD
I'm trapped using Vista Home Premium for a few days, until I have the time to set this thing up properly... that is, with Linux, XP and maybe keep Vista on a little partition...
So far Vista runs fine. It strikes me as odd how the interface miraculously now more resembles the KDE/Linux interface I've worked so long with than Windows XP ever did... just the subtle little things, that were never part of windows before, but are there now... things only an Insane Linux Russian like myself would notice
Vista is actually not all bad... SP1... works fine, for now... then again I'ven't looked at CPU or memory usage 
But whatever... more in-depth analysis and better setting up to come soon...
Also this means I'm now back to actively playing SGW. Feel free to mass me, id 21616
~+Ishmayeck+~
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:39 am
by Fear Of The Duck
4 GB RAM
Intel Core 2 duo T8300 2.40GHz
500GB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB
Screen 17" 1920x1200
NumPad
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:40 am
by Biscuit
random as ever
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:06 pm
by semper
Corran Horn wrote:4 GB RAM
Intel Core 2 duo T8300 2.40GHz
500GB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB
Screen 17" 1920x1200
NumPad
mine is the same..save the HD IS 250GB, and I have no knowledge of num pad...
it has light scribe though and a finger print scanner...
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:59 pm
by Fear Of The Duck
meh.. mine has a webcam with retina scanner built in...
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:11 pm
by semper
Corran Horn wrote:meh.. mine has a webcam with retina scanner built in...
mine has the webcam and microphone built in.
As for retina scanner...I presume you mean the wireless scanning system, not the actualy scan ones eye technology.
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:02 pm
by Solus
Ishmayeck[KDE4] wrote:compaq Presario C700
2GB RAM
dual core 1.8GHz Intel Pentium Something
160GB HD
I'm trapped using Vista Home Premium for a few days, until I have the time to set this thing up properly... that is, with Linux, XP and maybe keep Vista on a little partition...
So far Vista runs fine. It strikes me as odd how the interface miraculously now more resembles the KDE/Linux interface I've worked so long with than Windows XP ever did... just the subtle little things, that were never part of windows before, but are there now... things only an Insane Linux Russian like myself would notice
Vista is actually not all bad... SP1... works fine, for now... then again I'ven't looked at CPU or memory usage But whatever... more in-depth analysis and better setting up to come soon...
Also this means I'm now back to actively playing SGW. Feel free to mass me, id 21616
~+Ishmayeck+~
2 things.
1, trying to install XP or anything other than vista on the same HDD in a different partition..... will spaz out vistas boot loader, you need to install winXP/linux etc THEN install vista fresh.
2, i can has old laptop? i needs laptop...... *cries*
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:03 am
by Ishmayeck
This is actually Lappy IV
Lappy III is still working fine, it's just immobile because if I breathe on it wrong the power jack will go out and kill it.
Lappy III has 1920x1200, it is nice 
I used to not remember that it was that, confusing it for other similar combinations of numbers. But then I took a razor and I carved "1920x1200" into my left arm, and now it's there and I don't not remember and forget it anymore, knowing it and having it remembered, known and having ammed are to it now.
Lappy II has crappy touchpad problems... I can overcome them by patching the Linux drivers for the touchpad, but with windows on it that system is basically unuseable...
Lappy I is really really old, and laying in pieces on my desk and chair and floor and shelves and maybe some of it under my bed. It suffered from the same power jack problem before I took it apart...
Lappy I was a Compaq presario of ancientness though, Lappy III was a Dell Inspiron 9100...
Lappy II was an Inspiron 4100, a good system... her only flaw was the passthrough eraser-tip pointing device in the middle of the keyboard; gets stuck and wreaks havoc on the pointer. Other than that she still runs fine...
But no, Waxy, sorry, you don't get Lappy III I still have use for it... as long as I don't make any sudden movements...
~+Ishmayeck+~
It's 2 AM, I have to be up in 4 hours to drive several hundred miles, and I haven't properly slept for a while now. Also I feel like crap. So, goodnight
EDIT: As for the vista bootloader I was thinking of just copying it with dd or something... that might not work though... maybe a repair CD or some such... there was a fixmbr utility in XP repair CDs...
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 1:00 am
by Solus
Ishmayeck[KDE4] wrote:As for the vista bootloader I was thinking of just copying it with dd or something... that might not work though... maybe a repair CD or some such... there was a fixmbr utility in XP repair CDs...
NEGATORY!!!! i have experimented with it. fix disks etc dont work. you need to install other OS's
BEOFRE vista. you can trust waxy. i is computer guy. like jim carey but i fixity teh compies.
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:39 am
by Fear Of The Duck
Semper wrote:Corran Horn wrote:meh.. mine has a webcam with retina scanner built in...
mine has the webcam and microphone built in.
As for retina scanner...I presume you mean the wireless scanning system, not the actualy scan ones eye technology.
ah.. i have microphone too...
man. i'm a spammer so when ya mentioned the fingerprints i couldn't stop myself. so apart from retina scanner there's that li'l pocket. ya place a hair on it and it analyses dna.
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:03 am
by Ishmayeck
My laptop has a little port on it where you can plug it into an air force base and it takes over guidance systems of nukes...
>_>
~+Ishmayeck+~
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:18 pm
by Nimras
Lol Actually you can install Vista first if you like the bootloader wont be **Filtered** if you then install Linux last. correct XP cant be last but beside that Vista and Linux can handle it for the rest in the test i have done.
Beside that Vista EWWWWW Linux, Mac or XP YES lol.
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:41 pm
by Solus
Nimras wrote:Lol Actually you can install Vista first if you like the bootloader wont be **Filtered** if you then install Linux last. correct XP cant be last but beside that Vista and Linux can handle it for the rest in the test i have done.
Beside that Vista EWWWWW Linux, Mac or XP YES lol.
well i havent tried linux yet in this setup. and as ive said elsewhere, vista =/= ewwww.......
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:34 am
by Ishmayeck
vista == meh
no windows platform suits the way I work I need keybindings for every possible action... among other things...
Still haven't gotten around to putting Linux on here, been busy as hell the past few days >_<
~+Ishmayeck+~
Re: New laptop!
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 10:54 am
by Nimras
.:VOID:. wrote:Nimras wrote:Lol Actually you can install Vista first if you like the bootloader wont be **Filtered** if you then install Linux last. correct XP cant be last but beside that Vista and Linux can handle it for the rest in the test i have done.
Beside that Vista EWWWWW Linux, Mac or XP YES lol.
well i havent tried linux yet in this setup. and as ive said elsewhere, vista =/= ewwww.......
Linux set up right is the ultimate OS sadly not many games work on Linux lol awfull.
All my servers and PC's are linux or Mac, The gaming machine is XP would not even install Vista EWW. But i do tho have 3 Vista Machines to test and work and improve it and find all the errors there is and laugh lol.
Ishmayeck[KDE4] wrote:vista == meh
no windows platform suits the way I work I need keybindings for every possible action... among other things...
Still haven't gotten around to putting Linux on here, been busy as hell the past few days >_<
~+Ishmayeck+~
Hehe XP with the right setup keybindings wont be a issue but tbh we need a prober OS hehe and a prober Browser ohh reminds me Firefox
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