Who do I miss? I miss all the UKCT guys, who I've been too lazy/busy/whatever to keep in touch with since I went to Uni. It sucks...

BTW, if anyone from UKCT reads this, gimme the TS details in a PM or something! :P

Quote from Jakg :

I hatez j00

I borrowed one from work and I love it sooooo much - but I had to give it back and I can't go on a contract for another month Can't wait for mine to come - all I have to decide is black or white, already got the contract ready...

I've done a you and rooted it. I could now overclock it if I really wanted to, but it'd eat through the battery...

Got meself a G1. Damn it's nice

Not bad at all, although I see that screenlet still has the bug where the uptime overlaps the process list. I'd use it if not for that

Hopefully this should teach Niko one of two lessons:

1: Do not get so drunk in future.
2: If that fails do not go on PC while drunk.

I think the Twitter app does that job. At least, it used to for me...

Been prodding at this for the past couple of hours and it's getting to a stage of me actually liking it...

(Apologies for the bad editing on the left, need to blank out people's names, yanno?)

Spice Girls - 2 Become 1

Yes, I'm embarrassed about it myself.

Quote from [BeatR] Tmiothy :

you have to buy Fraps, and I do not have the money to get it.

No you don't. There are freeware recorders out there.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

So we both agree that Windows sucks?

Good

No, actually. Windows has its place. OS X has its place. Solaris has its place. {Open,Net,Free}BSD have their places. Hell, even AROS has its place. What I've been trying to say (and this has been ignored by everyone so far) is that choice is king.

It's great that I can update my OS by...oh...wait, doing nothing other than letting a cron job complete that takes all of 20 minutes max. Nice eh?

Quote from Jakg :

I hate to break it to you, but Sam isn't the only mod, nothing is stopping Bob from banning him if he wants...

Not only that, but Sam is not biased and cannot be if he is to be an effective mod. If somebody is acting up, then they need dealing with no matter who they are.

Here's something much less likely to get certain people excited...I've got into KDE4, it's really nice, much more stable and usable than it used to be, so here it is. Only issue is the drives showing 0B used/free, they're the partitions in my mdadm raid0 set

Quote from bunder9999 :

on a machine that hasn't been updated in months...

74 packages. started at 4pm, finished at 9:30pm. using -j3 and niced to +15. running on "one cpu" of a prescott 3.0e (ht)

5 hours can hardly be called more than one day.

My Arch box has over 200 packages installed. KDE gets updated in its entirety every week or so. Anyway, this is all pointless bickering, horses for courses and all

Quote from bunder9999 :

oh, it's not that bad... unless you're still using a p1...

Okay then, days

Quote from bunder9999 :

arch, the wannabe gentoo.

Not at all - we don't wanna spend weeks updating

I still can't get myself to use any RPM-based package manager. I'm sorry, but the dependency resolution still isn't properly there and it's...well...slow!

Of course, this is coming from an Arch user, so I'm used to speed and simplicity with pacman

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

I can do everything better than your ancient PC can.

You're not quantifying *anything*. Until you can do that with reasonable proof you'll just be a fanboy, pure and simple.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

VMWare can virtualize Windows faster than any Quad-Core PC out there, on a single core Mac. Because Mac's are more powerful.

I beg to differ. And here I shall provide some things to try on a single core Mac to compare against my quad core PC.

1: Encode me some video. Go on, I dare you to encode video faster on your single core Mac than I can on my quad core PC.

2: Do some folding. Not only do I have a 3-core advantage on you, I also have the option of folding natively on my graphics card if I so wish.

3: I fancy running a few VMs at the same time. Can your Mac do that without losing tons of performance?

And it's not "Mac's". It's "Macs". Grammar is important, you know that.

Muse - Thoughts of a Dying Atheist

Well there's an effort to get Linux booting on an iPod Touch. Last year they got the basics going (kernel, framebuffer, serial over USB etc). Not sure how far the project has been progressing since then though.

There is at least one VNC app for the iTouch, not sure how well they work with the latest firmwares though and to be blunt I'm not really interested, but they're there, at least. Worth a go if you really want it

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Too bad you can't do anything useful in linux, because it doesn't run any application.

Mac OS at least has a few applications.

"Doesn't run any application"? The most popular Linux distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuSE to name a few) will run plenty of applications. Perhaps not the eye-candied up crap you get on a Mac, but applications all the same. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that there are more applications (taking the definition very literally here and including CLI stuff) for Linux than there are for OS X.

However, it is all a matter of choice. People use what they want to use and always have done. There was the whole Amiga vs Atari ST thing back in the 80s. ATi vs nVidia with regards to graphics cards on PCs, AMD vs Intel with regards to CPUs. None of it can truly be quantified as better for every purpose, therefore people choose the one they like most. Oh and Dustin, If you like OS X so much why do you use Windows too? Choice, that's why

Quote from morpha :

Oh and before Shadowww does it: Linux is just a kernel, GNU/Linux is what the option should be

+1, although most people aren't so pedantic as to point it out

That's conky, should be in most Linux distro's repositories

EDIT: It needs a fair bit of config, but that's the beauty of it, can have it exactly how you want it!

WINE Is Not an Emulator. And LFS runs just fine, you may be lacking FFB if you use a wheel, however.