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fubar
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Well, being PF does have its perks...
I was able to help IBM out by appearing on one of their security-related commercials, and they said they'd give me something nice for the work I did (which I did not ask to get paid for, btw)
Well, I just got a box that included their top-of-the-line ThinkPad T41. Holy smokes Batman, this thing is loaded. 60 gig hard drive, super fast processor, built-in wireless and bluetooth... dang.
Now I have to load 500 Mbytes of fixes and security updates on it, but who's complaining? Not me. I got's me a new toy!
-Fu
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Did you get the carrying case? Lmao 
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #2 on: Mar 19th, 2004, 3:04pm » |
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That's only for the playas
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #3 on: Mar 19th, 2004, 3:07pm » |
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Some kind of computer, I take it?
Can't beat it Fu. 
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #4 on: Mar 19th, 2004, 3:08pm » |
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That's one helluva perk! 
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Mark C
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #5 on: Mar 19th, 2004, 8:07pm » |
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Kewl!
[flash=500,300]http://dopey.de/flash/gamez/winrg.swf[/flash]
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #6 on: Mar 19th, 2004, 10:39pm » |
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Fubar,
Great news, by the way which one, is it on their web site?
Mark,
I am sitting here reading a web page on GNU/Linux Mandrake, using netscape, and I here the windoze start up sound with the normal error sounds, I thought I had gone mad!!!! What a great flash, I can't believe that everything works, the bleeding paperclip is a riot, I haven't tried the reboot, I wonder if it is like the fake reboot that wine has?
edit, Mark, can you post the URL, for some reason I can't grabe it from the page.
Opus/Paul
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #7 on: Mar 19th, 2004, 11:09pm » |
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Fu-Don't you have enough toys??
PS: wanna sell the OLD laptop? I'm looking... 
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #8 on: Mar 20th, 2004, 12:46am » |
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HOLY CRAP......that's way too cool Mark !! I even managed to fuck it up......jus like home Pam
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fubar
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #9 on: Mar 20th, 2004, 2:12am » |
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on Mar 19th, 2004, 11:09pm, 9erfan wrote:Fu-Don't you have enough toys??
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Yeah, I think I might just sell the 'old' one, but it's not exactly old and not very affordable! It's a nice IBM Thinkpad T30, fully loaded. I think I paid about $3000 total for it (lot's of memory) and I have boatloads of apps installed on it. I doubt I'll get anything near what it's worth, but it's just going to sit here now that I'm moving off of it.
I guess it can't hurt to have a spare around.
And NO.
NO NO NO.
You can never have too many toys.
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #10 on: Mar 20th, 2004, 3:18am » |
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Hmmmm 500 fixes?
Why not just download three?
http://fedora.redhat.com
That would be the simple solution.
Nice machine by the way congrats.
All I got was a HP NC6000 W/SuSe 9.0
TTFN
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #11 on: Mar 20th, 2004, 11:54am » |
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I just KNEW that Kirk would not be able to resist.
Nice machine though.
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #12 on: Mar 20th, 2004, 1:37pm » |
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Kirk,
Not a bad idea at all... I think I'll load up the 'old' laptop with some incarnation of linux. I usually boot it with my knoppix cd anyway...
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Mark C
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #13 on: Mar 20th, 2004, 1:42pm » |
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on Mar 19th, 2004, 10:39pm, Opus wrote:
edit, Mark, can you post the URL, for some reason I can't grabe it from the page.
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Be glad to!
http://dopey.de/flash/gamez/winrg.swf
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #14 on: Mar 20th, 2004, 6:38pm » |
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Thanks Mark,
Another great site, thanks for the links.
Opus/Paul
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Re: New laptop
« Reply #15 on: Mar 20th, 2004, 7:55pm » |
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Man, am I behind on technology. I just stepped up to a Coleco from my Timex Sinclair. Have you got that kind of memory? If so, you got this thing beat. With additions, I hear I can install Super Pong.
I still have my basic programs I wrote from 1973. HP came out with an affordable calculator about then.
Ahead of his time, for '73, and still ahead of '73.
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