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[Nexus]

he was just speaking in third person lol

Nexus will refer to himself in whatever person he pleases.
I think ill try second...

you will refer to yourself in whatever person you please.    ...?

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[Fredulus]

um so
how cheaply could i build a desktop running ubuntu? pretty cheap yeah?

[UncleNinja]

um so
how cheaply could i build a desktop running ubuntu? pretty cheap yeah?

Depends on your desktop environment. If you're using KDE (which is basically Vista ported to Unix ), the computer will have to be quite powerful.

LXDE is not nearly as power hungry. I once ran it on a machine with 128mb of ram and a pentium 2. It wasn't pretty, but it did work.

Nexus will refer to himself in whatever person he pleases.
I think ill try second...

you will refer to yourself in whatever person you please.    ...?

wut

[Sheath]

I ran XFCE using Xubuntu on an iBook Clamshell. It was speedy after a slow startup and before you opened anything lol.

[MackTheHunter]

I ran XFCE using Xubuntu on an iBook Clamshell. It was speedy after a slow startup and before you opened anything lol.

My dad had an iBook Clamshell in blue once, but he dropped it down the stairs a few times and the backspace, space, shift and capslock keys didn't work. The battery was also terrible for no reason.

Also



uh oh

[Miga]

Mack broke a Mac!

...oh man I've been waiting to say that for such a long time.

[MackTheHunter]

Mack broke a Mac!

...oh man I've been waiting to say that for such a long time.

BAH-DUM TSHHH

I didn't break it, my dad bought a USB BlueTooth dongle for it and it's been kinda stuffty. When I woke up this morning, the bluetooth keyboard/mouse weren't waking the Mac up from sleep mode, so I pressed the power button. It woke up, but as soon as I flicked the switch on the mouse to sync it with the Mac again, BAM, kernel packet.

loving Macs...

[Fredulus]

loving hella old Macs...

fixed lol.

[ase]

"what you are referring to as linux is in fact the kernel, gnu..."
"what you are referring to as a xerox machine is in fact a copy machine, xerox..."
"what you are referring to as aspirin was a brand owned by the Bayer corporation prior to world war I, the correct name is acetylsalicylic acid..."
"what you are referring to as an escalator was originally a trademark of the Otis Elevator Company, what you mean to say is a staircase-like conveyor-based pedestrian transport system..."

please kill me now

im missing the joke

[Sheath]

The battery was also terrible for no reason.

Clamshell batteries won't have much life in them anymore, I still have an Indigo one and its battery is messed up. But its now over a decade old. Also, I can think of another reason the computer had troubles...

he dropped it down the stairs a few times

 

[MackTheHunter]

Clamshell batteries won't have much life in them anymore, I still have an Indigo one and its battery is messed up. But its now over a decade old. Also, I can think of another reason the computer had troubles...

 

Intense bump of 9 pages.

I'm ordering a new Clamshell online soon, BECAUSE I CAN.

[HelplessNobb88]

fixed lol.

g4 imacs were discontinued in 2003 idiot.

Not that old.

[Fredulus]

g4 imacs were discontinued in 2003 idiot.

Not that old.

I was just working on a g3 from 2003
Trust me bro, 8 years is hella long time when it comes to macs, and computers in general.
And why you calling me an idiot, what did I do wrong?

Edit: oops I typed g3 instead of g4. I was working on a g4.

[Sheath]

I'm ordering a new Clamshell online soon, BECAUSE I CAN.

Ha ha win. Avoid the Tangerine and Blueberry editions, they are slower and don't have firewire. I love Indigo because it was my first one ever-- alternatively, you could get a sweet graphite one OR pay extra for the rare but visually perplexing Key Lime version.

I recommend 10.3, Panther. You could install a PPC Linux edition, but eh, it'll be questionable in performance.

[MackTheHunter]

Ha ha win. Avoid the Tangerine and Blueberry editions, they are slower and don't have firewire. I love Indigo because it was my first one ever-- alternatively, you could get a sweet graphite one OR pay extra for the rare but visually perplexing Key Lime version.

I recommend 10.3, Panther. You could install a PPC Linux edition, but eh, it'll be questionable in performance.

Tempted to throw Karmic on it for the stuffs.

But most likely I'm gonna install Cheetah or Panther, seeing as it's a Mac...