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(Message started by: fubar on Mar 19^th, 2004, 2:59pm)

Title: New laptop
Post by fubar on Mar 19^th, 2004, 2:59pm

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

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by thomas on Mar 19^th, 2004, 3:01pm

Did you get the carrying case? Lmao ;;D

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by fubar on Mar 19^th, 2004, 3:04pm

That's only for the playas

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by Charlie on Mar 19^th, 2004, 3:07pm

http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/Neet sign.png

Some kind of computer, I take it? ;;D

Can't beat it Fu. 8)

Charlie

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by FZfan on Mar 19^th, 2004, 3:08pm

That's one helluva perk! :o

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by Mark C on Mar 19^th, 2004, 8:07pm

Kewl!

http://dopey.de/flash/gamez/winrg.swf

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by Opus on Mar 19^th, 2004, 10:39pm

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

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by 9erfan on Mar 19^th, 2004, 11:09pm

Fu-Don't you have enough toys?? ;;D

PS: wanna sell the OLD laptop? I'm looking... ;)

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by cootie on Mar 20^th, 2004, 12:46am

HOLY CRAP......that's way too cool Mark !! I even managed to fuck it up......jus like home Pam

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by fubar on Mar 20^th, 2004, 2:12am

on 03/19/04 at 23:09:53, 9erfan wrote:

Fu-Don't you have enough toys?? ;;D

PS: wanna sell the OLD laptop? I'm looking... ;)

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.

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by Kirk on Mar 20^th, 2004, 3:18am

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

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by Miklos on Mar 20^th, 2004, 11:54am

I just KNEW that Kirk would not be able to resist.

Nice machine though.

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by fubar on Mar 20^th, 2004, 1:37pm

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...

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by Mark C on Mar 20^th, 2004, 1:42pm

on 03/19/04 at 22:39:56, Opus wrote:

edit, Mark, can you post the URL, for some reason I can't grabe it from the page.

Opus/Paul

Be glad to!

http://dopey.de/flash/gamez/winrg.swf

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by Opus on Mar 20^th, 2004, 6:38pm

Thanks Mark,
Another great site, thanks for the links.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: New laptop
Post by Kevin_M on Mar 20^th, 2004, 7:55pm

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.

Kevin M