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Intel pwns AMD with Core 2, plus AMD (and ATI) are very lacking in support for open-source. *Shudders at memories of ATI graphics cards and linux*.

My advice is to go Intel (not quad-core if you're gaming -- there is very little support for multiple CPUs among games) and get a good nVidia card.

Why does no one talk about VIA processor which are very energy efficient.

Mainly because no-one will care about VIA until it becomes big enough to seriously compete with Inet and AMD.

Well, I'm not entirely knowledgeable on the subject, but I did do a Google search.

 

I found an interesting website/forum that had a guy who I suppose did what you are trying to do.

 

You can find the website here:

 

U3 on NON U3 Drive

 

 

The only problem I can see with this is that it requires that you already have a U3 drive (possibly defeating the entire purpose).

But, it may still be good for you to read.

 

 

- ArceRC

- Van

Yeah... I do have a drive that works like U3 (which a friend gave to me), but it seems that it is like, "fake" U3 and isn't recognised by universal customizer as featured in that article.

Go Europe! (Sheffield, UK)

I have a SanDisk Sansa e140 (at least I think it is 140...)

 

Ipods are made by Apple. Microsoft is the devil incarnate. Apple is Microsoft's evil twin. That is why I will not use iPods

w00t! agreed.

Creative Zen MicroPhoto 4GB

I have a SanDisk Sansa e140 (at least I think it is 140...)

 

Ipods are made by Apple. Microsoft is the devil incarnate. Apple is Microsoft's evil twin. That is why I will not use iPods

w00t! agreed.

Creative Zen MicroPhoto 4GB

I think it sucks because other people get money for free if they have kids.

and...

I run a 1 meg processer and 256 of ram and my son uses it for the internet and a bunch of online games. It is old but it seems to work well, I think if you are looking at a deal the $200 walmart computer might work but you will need to put on Xp unless linux would play the games you use. This is a really low in machine though.

A 1 meg processor? Hmm...

no srsly though, can we have some feedback (error messages etc.)

If you are getting a kernel panic (absolutely nothing happening -- screen frozen etc, sometimes lights on keyboard flashing) it is probably a problem wiht hardware: try unplugging all usb devices and booting, and then pugging them back in one by one until you hit the one that was causing the error.

Have you checked your cd for defects? It might be that it is damaged/corrupted in some way, in which case you'd need to re-download/re-burn or order a free copy from ubuntu via ShipIt. Make sure your motherboard, chipset, graphics/sound card, drives etc are supported (just google their name with "linux" and have a look what comes up).

I had one and I just wanted to use it without any extra features. Don't remember exactly but I just deleted everything on it, reformatted it, and then it worked. Don't take my word for it though, I probably did something stupid and was lucky it worked.

That's not what I want, I want to make a NON-u3 drive so that it has u3 on it, not to get rid of u3 on a u3 drive (why would you do that?!)

Hi all,

Does anyone here know how to make a normal non-U3 USB pen/drive/whatever into a U3 drive? (Check wikipedia and hak.5 if you don't know what U3 is) I got the impression from various forums on other sites that it involved doing something with the boot sector but I didn't really understand what.

I don't know quite what you mean. If you wwant to make a flash movie I'd recommend Adobe Flash. If you don't want to pay a load of money for it I'm sure there are pirated versions loose on t3h interwebs (not endorsed or supported in any way).

i think ill try and do that some day

http://www.cipher.maths.soton.ac.uk

I use php, mainly because I run linux and honestly don't think I could face the prospect of installing and configuring asp.net onto my computer (which is what I use for testing)

I would go for ubuntu, because it's the easiest to use. If you want to try something more challenging, I recommend fedora or opensuse, then even more challenging are slackware and gentoo.

Could anyone tell my why ubuntu 7.10 will not run on my dell vostro 200 will a 2.6 dual core processor?

Possibly because it's a dell.

Metacrawler. Need I say more?

I use vnc (realvnc atm but after reading that and remembering ultra vnc I will upgrade at some point) and openSSH when I'm on linux

24-25 hours a week

I'm 15 and considered "l33t" by my more-geeky circle of friends. awsomejoe is right though, my parents would never pay for hosting (come to that, neither would I, when there are sites like this around). I mainly need a server for testing and a bit of hosting and I would run it from my computer at home but I have a dodgy wireless card that cuts out every ~2-3 hours.

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?

WITN ESS: N o.

ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?

WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.

ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?

WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law

pwned!

That one was my fav.

If I can understand hexadecimal, and dead people can also understand hexadecimal, how many people altogether can understand hexadecimal?

I used to play, but then got bored quite quickly.

I would like to enter, plz

EDIT:

For those people who cannot read:

 

I AM NOT RUNNING THIS AT THE MOMENT.

 

Are we clear on that?

oops...

Hi, nice to meet you.

 

Not exactly 25 posts, because there are always contests you can win to get 250 points =) But yes, the hard way would be 25 posts, but that isn't so hard.

What sorts of "contests" would these be?

His Dark Materials (again). Trying to get the [bleeped!] film out of my head.

All people must live in peace?

That is far away from now my freind, as long as we have countries and conflicting beliefs there will always be war. you can see some conflicts that will arise in the future, such as Christian idiots, Cina, Meixican immigration here. Some of things are actually quite disturbing.

Maybe far away from now, but we live in hope.