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Re: RE: Re: RE: Back from my Sabbatical

Postby RobC » Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:28 pm

Aadje wrote:Nice to see so money replying!

Things are fine, I graduated and found a job. I took some time to assemble the Speedster, but now I am enjoying its coffee.

Linux is working great now. I stuck with Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric and Gnome 3.2 and in combination with Virtual box - for people who insist getting word-files - this is a great solution. I just love the Gnome 3 user interface.


Aadje great work, graduated and pretty much straight into a job - must take time to hunt down details on the Speedster - forget somewhat what it was all about.

Played a little with Ubuntu for recovery purposes only, never tried Gnome but taken a quick look and it looks quite tasty - might throw it on something when I get chance, mostly I use Windows 7, toying with Windows 8 on a netbook modded to a tablet dual boot with OSX 10.6.7, on my main laptop Windows 7 64bit quad boots with Win 7 32bit, OSX 10.6.3 and OSX 10.7
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Re: RE: Re: RE: Back from my Sabbatical

Postby RobC » Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:30 pm

lukas wrote:Thanks Rob, much appreciated. There's not much atm to be impressed of, we don't even have the roastery yet. It's all quite draining on the energy front, but I really really look forward to the moment of igniting the flame beneath the roaster :)

/me is also a fan of the new Gnome!


It will seem like an uphill struggle at the start, you will get there though - just keep positive - eventually it will all fall into place.
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Postby Aadje » Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:55 am

quad boot . . . I already find dual boot trickey :D
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Postby motoman » Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:26 am

Several high profile celebraties have had serious accidents on Quad Boots. Ozzy Osbourne has brain damage from from switching operating systems so please take care.
I always wear my tinfoil helmet when switching from XP to Win 7, I would love to use Gnome but he is too busy fishing and my netbook gets very wet in the garden.

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Postby Aadje » Tue Nov 22, 2011 5:19 pm

One can never wear enough tin foil helmets . . .
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Postby RobC » Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:39 pm

I prefer my armadillo helmet, keeps out all those icky government mind waves

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Postby CakeBoy » Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:26 am

Talking of Linux, been impressed enough with Mint on an old machine.
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Postby Aadje » Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:25 am

Mint is nice, and according to distrowatch you're not the only one :)

You could consider Lubuntu, it's supposed to be even lighter.
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Postby geedee » Fri Nov 25, 2011 2:36 pm

Can we use a language that I understand please :? :?
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Postby Aadje » Fri Nov 25, 2011 4:30 pm

Coffee is nice, and you're not the only one who thinks that, according to this site :D

Better?

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Postby CakeBoy » Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:01 am

Aadje wrote:Mint is nice, and according to distrowatch you're not the only one :)

You could consider Lubuntu, it's supposed to be even lighter.


Puppy is super light and really effective, barely a footprint.
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Postby RobC » Sat Nov 26, 2011 9:27 pm

Because the Quad boot wasn't quite geeky enough, I can also boot a VM from Lion using Parallels and run my main Windows 7 64bit within Lion 64bit - it's a computer running inside a computer - freaky!
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Postby Aadje » Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:25 pm

you can do the same with virtual box, and that's free :)
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Postby bruceb » Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:44 pm

Hmmm, sounds like I might be missing out on something with my DR-DOS and Win 3.2 here. Maybe I should upgrade to NT. :?
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Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Back from my Sabbatical

Postby GreenBean » Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:00 am

bruceb wrote:Hmmm, sounds like I might be missing out on something with my DR-DOS and Win 3.2 here. Maybe I should upgrade to NT. :?

I don't think you are missing out on much Bruce. I am still working with shoe boxes full of punched cards and find them adequate for my needs. :wink:
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