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| djohnston Aug 12, 2013 5:17 PM EDT |
Quoting:build an entire OS from an icon set Everyone starts with the icon set, don't they? No hype there. 8^( |
| dag Aug 12, 2013 11:10 PM EDT |
depends. what I think that means is its design based on an idea. if looking at a picture you may have an idea of what is going on around it or it may be more abstract and then based on a principle it can create a whole story. |
| kikinovak Aug 13, 2013 5:43 AM EDT |
Why not? Bill Gates managed to create an entire OS from household waste. |
| Bob_Robertson Aug 13, 2013 8:40 AM EDT |
Gotta start somewhere. |
| gus3 Aug 13, 2013 2:16 PM EDT |
@kikinovak, twice this week I have attempted, and failed, to rescue Windows systems with that d@mnable UEFI crud. Given that the "O" in "OS" stands for "operating," I hesitate to call Windows an "OS." |
| kikinovak Aug 14, 2013 6:59 AM EDT |
Last week I was at a client's network for a bit of maintenance for the Linux server I installed them some time ago. It's a mixed network in a school, with one server (running Slackware64 14.0), a few Slackware clients, and then all the users' laptops, a good hundred, with a few Macbooks and mostly Windows Seven. Some folks upgraded their laptops to Windows 8, and I had to configure them a bit (check out the MAC address so they get an IP in the "teachers" pool, bookmark the Samba server, ...). I must have spent a good twenty minutes on the first machine before I could figure out some basic things like how do I start an application? Where's the DOS terminal? How do I reboot the thing or shut it down? |
| gus3 Aug 14, 2013 12:53 PM EDT |
I hear a shotgun is good for shutting it down. In fact, someone yesterday said that's what she was going to use on her Win8 system. |
| jdixon Aug 14, 2013 1:35 PM EDT |
> I hear a shotgun is good for shutting it down. In fact, someone yesterday said that's what she was going to use on her Win8 system. Disconnecting power and pulling the battery (if necessary) are somewhat less destructive. :) Plus, then you can still sell it on Ebay and pawn it off on some other unsuspecting user. |
| gus3 Aug 14, 2013 1:55 PM EDT |
Less destructive.... and somehow less satisfying, also. |
| Bob_Robertson Aug 14, 2013 3:56 PM EDT |
Just got an external disk drive, it came formatted in NTFS. On it is a driver for Mac, so it can access NTFS. On the disk. Gee, I didn't see that coming. Reformatting this NTFS drive is emotionally satisfying too. Satisfying, that the "applications" that were on the disk are now long gone. It's more satisfying when it's a full Windows operating system, and not just some Windows applications, but such is life. As time has passed, I have less and less opportunity for erasing Windows installs. Sigh, even this gratification too shall pass. So very zen. |
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