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Sorry if these pics are awfully familiar :) but I managed to get better pics than in the last computer-pictures type thread. >_< and it seems I borked the post the first time. lol.

2 right now. Copy-pasting my specs from a similar thread on another forum: Homemade Comp 1 "Temari/Dionysus": WinXP Pro SP2 (on a 12gb disk), Ubuntu 5.10 (on a 6 gig), both sharing 40gb disk via captive (for now) 512mb pc2100 Rosewill DDR AMD Duron 1.8ghz (planning to overclock) PC Chips...

If you know what to shut off, you can run XP fine on machines even slower than yours. Look up on the services that come default with XP installs, shut them off, and just enjoy. There really isn't anything to worry about. My secondary computer is a Duron 1.8, and it runs XP sp2 fine, with just a...

Hey guys, I've been gone for a long time, but I'm back! And I figure this is the best place to post first. ...For some reason.

If you get the ultimate boot cd, it comes with memtest86, I think. Or download the mepis livecd, that also comes with memtest. I can find links if you need them.

Now that you think about it, horndude, that's something that's way too obvious to not have been thought of to begin with. That's insight right there. :P

Ahh, I see, I didn't even think of that, I thought he meant it was something applied on top of minix and then it was made its own kernel in time.

In the original post where Linus introduced the beginnings of Linux to usenet, he notes that Minix is required to run it. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/msg/2194d253268b0a1b You seem to be right on the "look-alike" issue, though I took it more of a base on minix rather than...

Funny how you should correct me so harshly, wiki says Linux was a project by Linus to make a unix-like system that was based off Minix. The very first versions even required Minix to run. Check the Minix page at wiki as well, and it will also tell you that Minix was a Unix-like system. I also...

Linux is an offshoot of Minix, which is an offshoot of the Unixes of the late 80's-early 90's. It's true to oldschool Unix in lots of ways, but the BSDs are much more faithful to the originals from way back in the day. Binary support is completely different (of course as in a linux binary won't...

IMO 2k is a great advance over XP except in the media department (but that's more than obvious and to be expected since either techies at home or servers are running it, of course). 2k3 is an excellent alternative to XP in almost every way. Too bad it's so damned expensive, not to mention too...

WinXP on a 350mhz?

This is probably totally unrelated, but whenever my washing machine "changes gears", my speakers fizzle out for a second.

Fairly recent shot of my Ubuntu desktop.. And my crappy windows setup.

I think gnomemeeting does voip.