http://www.amazon.com/Asus-4G-Galaxy-Mobile-Internet-Preloaded/dp/B000Y33CVM/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1197768237

and if you can wait until the 15th of January, the everex cloudbook.

everything the eee is, plus a real fucking harddrive with 30gb of delicious space. oh, and a better graphic chipset and a better proc.

Toshiba Satellite series.

Seriously consider them for thier durability.

Toshiba Satellites can be a decent price. I'd personally recommend some HP laptops, since they are becoming quite cheap and have a lot of extras.

For example, mine has webcam, 2 gigs ram, 1.5 dual core, 250 gig hdd, remote, multimedia buttons, lightscribe, etc. and it was only $1000. For the same price today you can get 3 or 4 gigs of ram plus another .2 ghz in a dualcore processor.

>>2

Your high right? Those things are crap for rich people who don't know any better. They do the internet and poorly at that.

You must welcome your new Chinese Masters!

And this one for the hell of it

Thinking Machines were the best looking supercomputers ever

Both are suitable for the average desktop, but I much recommend Ubuntu. Its packaging system is easy, the Ubuntu community is helpful, and if you run into a problem with your hardware or whatever it has probably already has been noted on a forum. I'm sure Fedora has a helpful community/forum (I don't keep up with Fedora) but Ubuntu's has been quite reliable.

If you're really curious you could just install both by splitting the 10gb partition into two Linux partitions and a /home partition.

Ubuntu holds your hand until you become familiar with linux. After that, I would go with Debian, not Fedora.
(Ubuntu is very heavily based on Debian.)

I consider one of linux's biggest downfalls is incompatibility with games, however, this is not linux's fault. Every one makes their games for windows only 90% of the time. Linux is actually superior.

Unfortunately, two of the people living here use vista, so I always have to fix any problems they have. I was hoping never to have to bother with winblows again.

Oh well. I'm going to go party now. Bye.

Eh, Linux would beat out windows if only they could consolidate. Just have ONE or TWO versions of Linux with a wide community and base. Then company's could work with Linux and make games and more hardware compatible with Linux.

Game/Software/Hardware companies have limited resources and time. They simply don't have the time and or resources necessary to make things compatible with the near endless amounts of Linux's distros there are.

So its all about community and working together and trying to defeat Windows by giving one or two stellar OS's rather than 20-50 that are only 55% completed.

However as far as your question goes. I would say go with Ubuntu. They have a good support site, and they seem like they will be around for a while(a few years at worst).

>>8
The drivers are surely not the problem. If they are open-source (which is the best and sometimes only practicable solution) and of good quality (even this is no must because the community will most probably improve them, projects like ALSA even offer free driver development for companies at no cost), all major distributions will integrate them. On the driver level, there really are almost no differences between the distros (yeah, of course there are some that include more drivers than others etc. but if a driver is solid basically all distros will support it)

Arch Linux. Can't recommend it enough.

>>8
I think you've forgotten the nature of linux.

Linux has the stereotype of being the OS for 'geeks', i.e. those who like to tinker with their computers, instead of doing things with them. Coupled with the fact that it's not exactly created with the first-timer in mind (I tried an experimental install of Ubuntu once, and the installation of such was a pure nightmare, and using it was WORSE! I had no choice but to reformat the HD & reinstall Windows XP. Ironically, the experimental install of the beta of Vista was almost EMBARRASSINGLY easy). That, and the lack of software (and finding device drivers for Linux, compared with Windows).

And now you know why Windows has dominance of the OS market, and not just because it's preinstalled on off-the-peg PCs ), otherwise, people would be reformatting the HD & installing Linux en masse. Until Linux is as easy to install as Windows, drivers are as easy to find as Windows, there's as much software available as Windows, and is as easy to use as Windows (i.e. eliminating the need to use Command Line), then Linux might start eating into Microsoft's monolithic presence & thus it's profits. But it has to overcome that 'geek'-y image, and extremely steep learning curve & lack of drivers/software.

Pic very related.

You don't need to install device driver for Ubuntu or Fedora. Though, I notice some computers from the big name vendors are not Linux friendly.

>>12

"There is another."

>>4
i looked at that pun 3 different times at least a week apart before i got it. and it sucked. i hate you.

>>2
>>4

The sight of the LHC gives me a 'hadron', if you know what I mean.

What about this, then?

Ah - the good old rotten Reaganite times!

>>9

TRON <3

Latest on the LHC

http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=0&sessionId=11&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=28775

>>11
So are they going to get to collidin' some of them large hadrons anytime soon? (or do they need some vc:hilp with it.)

At Peter Woit's blog we read that we shall see some low-power fireworks in late summer.

"Robert Aymar, the Director General of CERN, has announced that the LHC will operate when it starts up this year at an energy of 5 TeV per beam (10 TeV total center of mass energy), rather than the design energy of 7 TeV per beam. To operate the LHC magnets at the highest current and get to 7 TeV requires a time-consuming sequence of powering tests and quenches, so the decision was made to put this off until the winter shutdown. With this decision, the process of beam commissioning can start soon after all sectors have been cooled down, and this is now scheduled for mid-June. Beam commissioning should take two months, with first physics collisions thus scheduled for late summer."

>>12
Not if a filthy Hawaiian botanist has anything to say about it...

>>12

Lol. Gaussian force distribution..

>>14

US has no jurisdiction in Switzerland, But he's too stupid to realise that. Or merely jealousy on his part, that it wasn't built in America?

Moar like cause your problems amirite?

>>4

You are rite my good sir. Norton is aids. It is worse then some viruses and people pay for that garbage.

norton adds like 10-20 extra processes and slows systems down, on top of that it seems to tolerate viruses that free av software (avast!) spots and removes. having said that i have earned a fair bit of money over the years sorting the mess that norton creates. shipping 6 month subscriptions with new laptops is a security risk too as there are lots of lapsed subscriptions out there not getting updates.

All you need is The Shield Pro antivirus software. Easy to use, and fast (it goes through your drives like industrial-strength Ex-Lax). And it rapes all viruses, worms, spyware & generally any malware to death. My drives have never been cleaner.

how much development time did they waste making those custom gui widgets?

It's the Death Star Defense Computer! Luke's Win had nuthin' to do with any "Force".

At first I thought it was some kind of a frayed tarp.

It looks like the cooling system of this server room needs some cleaning?

>>3

And if you looked at pics of Jun & Bridget on that computer, it'd be a tarp, I'm a frayed.

...I'll get my coat.

>>1
'Now disconnect the yellow wire. Just the yellow one.'
'...I will kill you.'

Hey son whats going on in here HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THIS!

sniff they should of sent a poet.

i can only hit alt+F4 so fast...

That's why you have Windows+M

>>5
GTFO my iichan

Questions go here: http://4-ch.net/tech/kareha.pl/1125953617

I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually getting answers to questions on this board.

This is an imageboard not an answerboard.

>>1 But aren't all OS's Unix based??

>>10
lol no

Gotten off an article on "The Register"

I never read those Intharnets.

>>5
#tomatoz

Dat's sum Gundam X right durr

delete system32, etc.

god dammit

>>1
Try this...
Start, Run, Type 'CMD', Type 'CHKDSK C: /F /R', Allow it to reboot to do this, if necessary.

Hope it works. :)

knnopix

You need a version of WINXP PRO!
Once you get that look up on how to edit file privileges

Cyber Plague... Thats just mean. Don't tell him to format his HD via command prompt.

>>7
that was several months ago, i'm sure >>1 would have already done that by now if he's dumb enough to.