| 00:00.03 | mzb | == nasty! ;) |
| 00:00.43 | mzb | (I've had a few months of battling bastards trying to screw me over with Paypal) |
| 00:04.38 | mzb | oh .. and we're getting a new balcony ... hopefully this year! |
| 00:04.53 | mzb | what have you been up to? |
| 00:10.04 | mzb | oh ... had some major (ebay) victories too ... check these out for killer prices: |
| 00:11.23 | mzb | http://www.ebay.com/itm/180911880667 |
| 00:11.38 | mzb | (normally $50) |
| 00:12.24 | mzb | http://www.ebay.com/itm/271012762021 |
| 00:12.49 | mzb | dome and bracket retail for about $300! ... *AND* he had to pay $34 to ship it to me! |
| 00:13.13 | mzb | (super nice guy ... very honorable and matter-of-fact about the whole thing) |
| 00:54.55 | flypiper | sorry, didn't fall asleep, installing Debian on a tablet I bought for $150 |
| 00:55.05 | flypiper | e-bay special also |
| 00:56.08 | mzb | haha |
| 00:56.44 | mzb | which one? I'm just in the process of buying an Ainol Flame/Fire for myself, and Ainol Crystal for Mum |
| 00:56.55 | flypiper | the Debian installer figures the wrong gateway with the IP address provided, really fun |
| 00:57.19 | flypiper | I bought a Compaq tc1100 1.2ghz processor |
| 00:57.32 | flypiper | I don't buy the new stuff !! |
| 00:57.34 | mzb | oh ... a slate-pc kind of thing? |
| 00:57.39 | mzb | hehe |
| 00:57.45 | flypiper | I buy old dependable stuff |
| 00:57.48 | flypiper | cheap |
| 00:58.47 | flypiper | I had one for 10 years and it finally gave me a problem, at startup the display would flicker. about 3 or 4 times of on-off, it would look good and be up all day. |
| 00:58.48 | mzb | I've tried to get Mum a computer for decades ... already tried hand-built systems ... I figure Android 4.1 will be easier for her |
| 01:00.15 | flypiper | I installed Debian on an eeePC last week.. that is a nice unit |
| 01:00.21 | mzb | actually the tc1100 might be the sort of thing that Dad needs |
| 01:00.56 | mzb | managed to get him to buy an eeepc 701 when they first came out ... but he's finally announced that it's too small and fiddly ;) |
| 01:01.35 | mzb | so the second I confirm the tablet with Mum he starts saying "Yeah .. hmmm ... wouldn't mind a tablet myself" ;)) |
| 01:01.37 | mzb | *sigh* |
| 01:01.46 | flypiper | I like mine because of the size, run Debian on it with a Duhs VM of w2k |
| 01:02.04 | mzb | ah |
| 01:02.28 | flypiper | my equipment still needs duhs, so I plug in a serial dongle and usb key.. boom works |
| 01:02.32 | mzb | 2GB RAM isn't too bad |
| 01:03.27 | flypiper | It's so old that when I open it in a customers office... it's like a MacPro.... they are awed with it...LoL |
| 01:03.48 | mzb | haha |
| 01:06.53 | mzb | I'm guessing it'd probably scream with an SSD drive in it |
| 01:08.44 | mzb | well ... relatively ;) |
| 01:13.34 | mzb | I'm to the point now ... having so much memory ... that I'm experimenting with copying stuff into tmpfs to execute it |
| 01:14.07 | mzb | ie: with vm's and large games (I've been collecting games for the girls to play by buying 'HumbleBundle' Linux games) |
| 01:15.47 | mzb | running XP in a window from a ramdisk is pretty funny ;) |
| 01:16.52 | mzb | (I like to test some things against IE6 on occasion) |
| 01:20.05 | mzb | even more incredible when you realise that the RAM is running in dual channel at 1866MHz ... and that's the NORMAL speed ... it's not overclocked! |
| 02:11.49 | flypiper | I don't touch anything duhs unless I absolutly have to. It took me 2 days to get Win7 off the eeePc, and then I had to put up with the updates at shutdown every time.. it was really aggggy |
| 02:12.33 | mzb | hehehe |
| 02:14.03 | flypiper | I'm old and don't like to do that silly crap unless I have to! |
| 02:14.47 | mzb | *cackle* |
| 02:16.10 | flypiper | speaking of "old" I need to do some serious batch processing, Great talking to you, have a good day |
| 02:16.22 | mzb | u2 .. sleep well! |
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