It's ironic really - I'm hearing lots of people jumping from Windows to Linux recently....just as a bunch of Linux people are jumping to BSD.

I'm still Linux - but only because BSD doesn't support my chipset.

Kingdom Of Loathing.

The Grim Fairytales are not part of the main quest though - you need to purchase (with in game pretend money - not real money) an item to play it. If you do play, you need to buy a grimstone mask from the Mall. At the time of writing, the cheapest seller has 48 in stock for 2,400 meat limited to one per day. You can earn this in about 20 turns for a brand new player, or a single turn if you're an old player.

On the other hand, the whole game is like that, so you don't need to wait until you can afford extra content.

Quote:I forgot to renew my domain, so my quote machine is broken, and I can't get into a shell from here to select one manually either

-- Me

The Sega System 16 had an OPM - that's the magic behind Golden Axe, Altered Beast, and all the classics.

Quote:I once taped a Golden Girls episode with only implyed oral permission and not expressed written permission

(sic)

-- Guilty

Quote:Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

-- Oscar Wilde

You really shouldn't do that on a laptop - the password will be stored on an EPROM, and it'll become unbootable.

Anyway, if you want to look, here is the source. It's surprisingly simple program actually - I knew it existed (because I use some of their other software), but had never read it until now. It's worth reading the doco (cmospwd.txt) if nothing else.

MrDDL wrote: perform quite nicely for different needs

If you put DSL on a Pentium 3 and fire up the browser so they can't see busybox, the average user can be convinced it's a new machine.

The one in the video is the 7th, but there have been 12 so far, or 18 if you include special one off episodes in comic relief/50th anniversary. If you do include those, Hugh Grant is probably the most internationally famed, but he lasted about thirty seconds, IIRC.

True enough - but if you're getting a laptop for $20, chances are you're going to have to open it up sooner or later anyway if you want to get any sort of lifespan out of it. Service manuals are usually available online

Quote:I'm not capable of giving you a word because I'm crying.

--Jean-Christophe Péraud

Sorry, was still on the first cup of caffeine. That's the wrong value of "hack" - what you want to do is crack the BIOS.

This is normally pretty easy - most BIOS come with a jumper you can use to reset the password, or you can kill the battery. Once you have physical access to a machine, all bets are off.

More importantly, a carefully selected laptop can run from solar - just check the voltage before you buy. A desktop can too, but converters are wasteful, and for solar to be viable, you need it to be efficient.

If you're running from solar and have unlimited bandwidth (real unlimited, not marketing speak unlimited), everything you do is profit...albeit, with a long term view. Setup is expensive.

On the flip side, laptops can't do liquid cooling (well, they can, but not well), so you'll still need a desktop for the server unless you're going to setup a rack. Or just pay somebody else for a server. Most people do that.

Quote:A : You cant hack the bios

*cough* Libreboot project *cough*

The BBC only does the televisuals. Big Finnish do the audio.

You don't have to be tech savvy to use Linux. Android is Linux. It's a Linux we try to disown, but it's a Linux.

Not all Linuxes are created equal - that's why there's so many of them. I have political issues with my preferred distro at the moment, so I don't even really know which to recommend, but I can tell you that you probably won't even get Gentoo installed - even hackers fail sometimes - or you can stick a Mint live CD in and install in the background while you're actually using it, and you can find everything in between

There's a wide range of distros for a wide range of users, is the point. If you find something hard, and can't get any help, trying a different distro is a perfectly sensible strategy. Doubly so if you're relying on proprietary drivers.

He's still going. There were four new audio dramas out in June.

Just don't watch the TV Movie. If you watch the TV Movie, he died 20 years ago.

Quote:If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.

-- John Rich

It's about time they got him for something. It's a shame writing terrible software isn't a crime in it's own right.

If you get paid on a Friday, and then spend all weekend complaining there are no offers on a weekend anyway, and you can't reach the checklist bonus, and therefore can't cashout on Monday anyway, you can't cashout on Monday.

This is clearly a greater threat to humanity than climate change. Anyone who can't see that is insane in the mind.