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so64
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Posts: 12548Timestamp: Mon Jun 16, 08 1:29 PM
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| NativeTJ wrote: | | so64 wrote: | | BigNig wrote: | I seem to have an abundance of hard drives...
1 x 160GB
2 x 80GB
1 x 4GB
And I'm buying a 200+GB hard drive for the lulz. |
Hey dude. Can you suggest a good external hardrive for me to get for my birthday? I'm looking for a cheap 1 TB one and saw some cheaply price on the internet.... |
90% of 1TB externals are $200+
Plus why do you need that much space? |
1.I know that. Cheapest I found was 199.99 >_>
2.Err....no reason....<_<
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NativeTJ
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Posts: 12102Timestamp: Mon Jun 16, 08 1:22 PM
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| so64 wrote: | | BigNig wrote: | I seem to have an abundance of hard drives...
1 x 160GB
2 x 80GB
1 x 4GB
And I'm buying a 200+GB hard drive for the lulz. |
Hey dude. Can you suggest a good external hardrive for me to get for my birthday? I'm looking for a cheap 1 TB one and saw some cheaply price on the internet.... |
90% of 1TB externals are $200+
Plus why do you need that much space?
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BigNig
Level 43: Monk
Posts: 20776Timestamp: Mon Jun 16, 08 1:10 PM
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Sorry, can't. I have no need for 1TB of space, so I haven't looked into it.
However, I'd go with a familiar brand name, like Western Digital.
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so64
Level 38: Crackdown
Posts: 12548Timestamp: Mon Jun 16, 08 12:26 PM
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| BigNig wrote: | I seem to have an abundance of hard drives...
1 x 160GB
2 x 80GB
1 x 4GB
And I'm buying a 200+GB hard drive for the lulz. |
Hey dude. Can you suggest a good external hardrive for me to get for my birthday? I'm looking for a cheap 1 TB one and saw some cheaply price on the internet....
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My DA story hub thingy
BCWriter's workshop Board
| Quote: | | If I must be a god to obtain all the knowledge of everyUniverse, then a god I shall become... |
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BigNig
Level 43: Monk
Posts: 20776Timestamp: Mon Jun 16, 08 11:01 AM
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I seem to have an abundance of hard drives...
1 x 160GB
2 x 80GB
1 x 4GB
And I'm buying a 200+GB hard drive for the lulz.
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| Quote: | | I've always loved bugs. Used to catch caterpillars and train them to Lvl 10 so they evolved into Butterfies and Moths. |
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Jumpin' Jack Flash
Level 27: Master Sword
Posts: 4153Timestamp: Thu Jun 12, 08 6:29 PM
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| BigNig wrote: | | Jumpin' Jack Flash wrote: | | BigNig wrote: | | Jumpin' Jack Flash wrote: | | BigNig wrote: | | Arch Linux? Never heard of it. Is it a derivative of one of the major distributions, or is it it's own thing? |
It's it's own thing.
Basically, you only have on your system what you really need. During install, you specify your modules, manually edit your .conf(s), and install all your needed apps.
Its very fast, and very small: you can have a full system in around 400 MB. Which makes it awesome. |
Interesting.
That would come in handy when I'm setting up Wine and ndiswrapper. |
Lol. Is ndiswrapper such a chore on whatever distro you're running? Arch is the only distro that had wireless working out-of-the-box for me, so you might wanna give it a try.
And I hate Wine. It's nice, but it has little or no support for games. Which means you go get a torrent of Cedega. :D |
Linux drivers haven't been written for my card for any distro. Lazy driver writers.
I don't use Linux for games, I have a partition with WinXP for that, but Wine helps me run the little things. |
Well, when you have a tiny hard drive, and can't stand Winblows (I.E. me), then you get Linux + Cedega.
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BigNig
Level 43: Monk
Posts: 20776Timestamp: Thu Jun 12, 08 6:16 PM
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| Jumpin' Jack Flash wrote: | | BigNig wrote: | | Jumpin' Jack Flash wrote: | | BigNig wrote: | | Jumpin' Jack Flash wrote: | | If I had enough disk space, I'd run 3 OSes too (probably Arch Linux, OS X and XP). However, at the moment, I'm stuck with an old gen Macbook with 78 GB of disk... |
Arch Linux? Never heard of it. Is it a derivative of one of the major distributions, or is it it's own thing? |
It's it's own thing.
Basically, you only have on your system what you really need. During install, you specify your modules, manually edit your .conf(s), and install all your needed apps.
Its very fast, and very small: you can have a full system in around 400 MB. Which makes it awesome. |
Interesting.
That would come in handy when I'm setting up Wine and ndiswrapper. |
Lol. Is ndiswrapper such a chore on whatever distro you're running? Arch is the only distro that had wireless working out-of-the-box for me, so you might wanna give it a try.
And I hate Wine. It's nice, but it has little or no support for games. Which means you go get a torrent of Cedega. :D |
Linux drivers haven't been written for my card for any distro. Lazy driver writers.
I don't use Linux for games, I have a partition with WinXP for that, but Wine helps me run the little things.
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| Quote: | | I've always loved bugs. Used to catch caterpillars and train them to Lvl 10 so they evolved into Butterfies and Moths. |
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Jumpin' Jack Flash
Level 27: Master Sword
Posts: 4153Timestamp: Thu Jun 12, 08 5:24 PM
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| BigNig wrote: | | Jumpin' Jack Flash wrote: | | BigNig wrote: | | Jumpin' Jack Flash wrote: | | If I had enough disk space, I'd run 3 OSes too (probably Arch Linux, OS X and XP). However, at the moment, I'm stuck with an old gen Macbook with 78 GB of disk... |
Arch Linux? Never heard of it. Is it a derivative of one of the major distributions, or is it it's own thing? |
It's it's own thing.
Basically, you only have on your system what you really need. During install, you specify your modules, manually edit your .conf(s), and install all your needed apps.
Its very fast, and very small: you can have a full system in around 400 MB. Which makes it awesome. |
Interesting.
That would come in handy when I'm setting up Wine and ndiswrapper. |
Lol. Is ndiswrapper such a chore on whatever distro you're running? Arch is the only distro that had wireless working out-of-the-box for me, so you might wanna give it a try.
And I hate Wine. It's nice, but it has little or no support for games. Which means you go get a torrent of Cedega. :D
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| BOATS wrote: | | My penis explodes with delight you ignorant chicken fucker. |
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BigNig
Level 43: Monk
Posts: 20776Timestamp: Thu Jun 12, 08 10:25 AM
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| Jumpin' Jack Flash wrote: | | BigNig wrote: | | Jumpin' Jack Flash wrote: | | If I had enough disk space, I'd run 3 OSes too (probably Arch Linux, OS X and XP). However, at the moment, I'm stuck with an old gen Macbook with 78 GB of disk... |
Arch Linux? Never heard of it. Is it a derivative of one of the major distributions, or is it it's own thing? |
It's it's own thing.
Basically, you only have on your system what you really need. During install, you specify your modules, manually edit your .conf(s), and install all your needed apps.
Its very fast, and very small: you can have a full system in around 400 MB. Which makes it awesome. |
Interesting.
That would come in handy when I'm setting up Wine and ndiswrapper.
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| Quote: | | I've always loved bugs. Used to catch caterpillars and train them to Lvl 10 so they evolved into Butterfies and Moths. |
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Jumpin' Jack Flash
Level 27: Master Sword
Posts: 4153Timestamp: Thu Jun 12, 08 5:10 AM
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| BigNig wrote: | | Jumpin' Jack Flash wrote: | | If I had enough disk space, I'd run 3 OSes too (probably Arch Linux, OS X and XP). However, at the moment, I'm stuck with an old gen Macbook with 78 GB of disk... |
Arch Linux? Never heard of it. Is it a derivative of one of the major distributions, or is it it's own thing? |
It's it's own thing.
Basically, you only have on your system what you really need. During install, you specify your modules, manually edit your .conf(s), and install all your needed apps.
Its very fast, and very small: you can have a full system in around 400 MB. Which makes it awesome.
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| BOATS wrote: | | My penis explodes with delight you ignorant chicken fucker. |
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