| nhaines | Ooh, I picked up a 850MHz PIII today. I'm throwing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on it as soon as I DBAN the drive. | 04:40 |
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| nhaines | No Windows ME today. | 04:40 |
| Torikun | nice | 04:57 |
| nhaines | Whether I can get Ubuntu, Lubuntu, or some minimal Debian on there or whether I just have to LTSP it, should be fun. | 04:58 |
| pleia2 | if nothing else, I hear they make decent space heaters | 05:01 |
| nhaines | Probably! | 05:04 |
| nhaines | This thing has a fax modem in it. | 05:04 |
| pleia2 | lol | 05:04 |
| nhaines | Apparently, modems were digital to acoustic modulators/demodulators which could be used to communicate over a technology called a phone line. A fax device could use that technology to send facsimile copies to a remote location. | 05:05 |
| nhaines | pleia2: it's a wonder anyone survived. | 05:06 |
| * pleia2 chuckles | 05:06 | |
| nhaines | I wonder if I could harrass Microsoft to get a downgrade license to Windows 98 SE. | 05:07 |
| pleia2 | win2k forever | 05:07 |
| blitz | win2k infinity | 05:08 |
| pleia2 | but really, I am quite enjoying lubuntu on my G4 PowerBook | 05:08 |
| pleia2 | started doing iso test this week on it too :) | 05:08 |
| nhaines | I would probably run on this. I'm hunting down a keyboard now for first power up, but I'm fairly certain I doubled the RAM. (Says 128MB, but I know I didn't put WinXP on this for my aunt and uncle with only 128MB.) | 05:09 |
| nhaines | pleia2: yorba sockets are highly overrated. :) | 05:09 |
| pleia2 | hoory for early-in-the-cycle-before-they-break-things trusty | 05:09 |
| pleia2 | yeah, who needs 'em | 05:09 |
| nhaines | So far trusty's looking great.... (on my phone.) | 05:19 |
| pleia2 | it's mega tempting just to buy a non-work phone to put ubuntu on and have a plan | 05:20 |
| pleia2 | but I think I'll wait until next year and see about snagging a pre-installed one | 05:20 |
| nhaines | Let's see. VGA, keyboard, Ethernet, and power. I think this might be ready to fire up. | 05:20 |
| nhaines | pleia2: but think of all the Mir crashes you'll miss. :) | 05:20 |
| pleia2 | hah | 05:21 |
| nhaines | I want my next phone to be a Nexus 5 at the moment, but I'm holding off until either my Galaxy Nexus's screen completely dies or until I can get a preinstalled Ubuntu phone. | 05:21 |
| nhaines | Ooh, that's a nice power supply. Also, this already just has Ubuntu on it. | 05:22 |
| nhaines | This should be fun. | 05:23 |
| nhaines | Ooh, it's karmic! 9.10. | 05:24 |
| nhaines | Quite brown. | 05:25 |
| pleia2 | hehe, remember brown | 05:25 |
| nhaines | I think I set this up for them because occasionally Windows would die and they were comfortable using this to get banking and stuff done without worrying about viruses. | 05:25 |
| nhaines | Plus WinXP took 15 minutes to boot to desktop and this took more like 3. | 05:26 |
| pleia2 | lol | 05:26 |
| nhaines | Then another 30 to run Thunderbird. They were much happier this way. Hmm, wonder if it really still knew the time or if Ubuntu snarfed it via NTP. | 05:27 |
| nhaines | 384 MB RAM! That means it can handle computing! | 05:32 |
| pleia2 | hehe | 05:32 |
| pleia2 | we're currently in the middle of doing min spec requirements testing for xubuntu | 05:33 |
| nhaines | Need help? :P | 05:33 |
| pleia2 | if you do end up installing xubuntu, your feedback would be appreciated: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2013-November/009468.html | 05:33 |
| darthrobot | Title: [Update of the minimum requierements] | 05:33 |
| pleia2 | my proposal there is for testing on VMs, but that's only because no one has old computers anymore ;) | 05:34 |
| pleia2 | obviously testing on real computers is much better | 05:34 |
| nhaines | I'm probably not going to get anything real done on this one. I'm sure I could do a Xubuntu pass. | 05:35 |
| pleia2 | much appreciated | 05:36 |
| nhaines | I'll bet this computer plays a mean game of nethack. | 05:39 |
| nhaines | Also! It is too dark to see. If you continue, you may be eaten by a grue. | 05:40 |
| pleia2 | I learned to carry a flashlight in my purse from Zork | 05:40 |
| nhaines | :) | 05:40 |
| pleia2 | serves me well | 05:40 |
| pleia2 | humans can't see in the dark, it's a problem | 05:40 |
| nhaines | Unlike cats with their taptum that reflects light back into their stupid retinas. So they can judge us even in the dark. | 05:42 |
| pleia2 | fortunately they mostly just sleep | 05:42 |
| nhaines | Sleeping is my cat's hobby. Sleeping and biting. | 05:42 |
| nhaines | Yay, I got it to boot past immediate hard lock upon kernel selection. | 07:17 |
| nhaines | Because these BIOS changes made a 12.04 LTS CD bootable, and also because I have poor decision-making skills, I am going to try the 13.10 mini ISO. | 07:19 |
| nhaines | Which, doesn't work. And wow, 12.04 is really slow until it finishes loading. Snappy after that. Will be interesting to see if the installed system follows suite. | 07:32 |
| nhaines | Trivia time. Guess what hates software rendering a blur filter over a 1440x900 display? | 08:03 |
| nhaines | No hints, but it's initials are "850MHz PIII processor" and "with no graphical accelerator and 1MB allocated to onboard VRAM." | 08:03 |
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