>did anyone involved actually know what a computer was?

The CG guys probably did.

HACK THE GIBSON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4oB28ksiIo

You'd use something like this: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

to create an image of the virtual machine and then you can clone that to a real machine somewhere else. Just be careful with drivers and such.

Windows XP will be a bitch with this. You can think of it as taking the system drive from one computer and putting in another with completely different hardware, it's usually more pain trying to get it working properly than to do a clean install on the destination pc.

Thank you, I just found this thread describing an elegant way: http://superuser.com/questions/114445/is-it-possible-to-convert-virtual-machines-to-physical-environments

I will try it later, still running the famous windoze update session ;-)

Yeah, I'm curious if it will run and activate. The drivers I put on the Desktop - so if it boots they will be installed easily. I guess for installing the bootloader I can use the windows-CD's repair mode? Haven't messed around with NT in a while...

Unlucky OP here, it didn't work in the end...

Everything seemed fine after dd'ing the image to disk: partition recognized and mountable, I did an ntfsck ang grew the partition to fill the entire disk.

First boot from the WinXP HD: boot.loader found, but the system not starting up. Doing another chkdsk + fixmbr and fixboot without any success.

After doing the "extended" repair from the installer disk (not 'r' option but 'install' -> search for existing installations -> repair) at least the XP splash screen showed up but then didn't continue to boot.

Now I'm installing clean from CD at least it has SP3 included and wish I had a VGA-switch :-(

You can do an automated install for all the machines. http://www.overclock.net/t/12467/how-to-automated-xp-install
http://npselvan.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/creating-an-windows-xp-automatic-installation-cd/

Usually when you try to do it your way, you have to strip out all of the drivers from the XP install which sort of defeats the purpose.

What kind of features do you need? Will you be installing custom firmware?

>>101816
Not much, custom firmware would be nice
I have my eyes on WNR3500L-100NAS v2 that looks like a popular budget choice

>>101814
asus wl-520gu

anything that can run the latest version of openwrt... dem features

Linksys WRT54GL

No, it doesn't have wireless n, and no, it doesn't have gigabit ethernet... but it is the best damn router I have ever owned regardless. They are just about bullet proof, and never give me any problems.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124190

>5 eggs
>3,850 ratings

>>101848
Forgot the punchline, nb; after installing 300 dependancies after buying mp3 codecs for the price of $0.00 I couldn't get mp3 support on openSUSE because the EULA wouldn't load. I was like, why am I even has anybody tried does what look like waaaaaaat?

Was the sound issue that when you suspended your computer and unsuspended it, the sound stopped working?

Because I have that issue and have never been able to fix it :(

>>101853
Kill and restart ALSA should work ?

>>101855
I've tried it. Tried it with pulseaudio too.

Nothing.

This is one of the most annoying problems I have ever faced with Linux because it means essentially that I have to restart my laptop every time I close and open the lid.

>Free and open source linux distro
>Google Chrome instead of Chromium
>facepalm.jpg

>>101850
You need a component video to vga converter. Make sure it's for component and not composite, as both use RCA connectors.

>>101815
The battery life is terrible. The keyboard is good. Vooodoo sound is great on it, but the jack broke, so I rarely got to use it. Beware of the dreadful battery life. Even on airplane mode I lost at least 5% each hour under clocked and undervolted as well.

>>101823
That's unfortunate. I don't know how much of a problem it'll be for me though. I'm gonna be pretty active and this phone is only for entertainment and occasional internet access, so I can stay in briefest touch with people.

Did you have any problems with glitching? Is there any software I should definitely look into getting to improve my experience with this thing? Should I "root" it? I'm open to any suggestions.

You just bought a three year old cell phone. If you can, I'd return it and look for a nexus 7 off ebay. http://www.ebay.com/sch/iPads-Tablets-eBook-Readers-/171485/i.html?LH_ItemCondition=4&_from=R40&LH_Complete=1&_nkw=nexus+7

They seem to be selling around your price point and will last you longer. There's other android tablets you could go for, try to get something with at least ice cream sandwich operating system.

>>101808
You could get an Alienware M18x they're pretty sweet.

>>101843
I dunno, at $75 I'm not feeling much regret. I went for it because it has capabilities beyond what I need and is half the price I was originally willing to go. Still seems like a good deal. Now if it turns out to be a flimsy piece of shit that overheats I got 30 days to kick it back to where it came from.

Since I'm not getting a service with the phone (only using the wifi and media abilities), but I still want to use the GPS navigation I hear you can preload maps and use it that way. Anyone care to elaborate?

>>101844

Hah.

why not build your own?
you will:
a) get exactly what you want
b) save money
c) maybe learn something

>>101845
if he's afraid to zap and fry his parts, he can buy the parts and have someone else assemble them for him too

http://www.logicalincrements.com/

note that for gaming, a great graphics card is the most important component, and the CPU does not bear as much weight.

>>101622

ditto I hate the screen on my t420 viewing angle is rubbish

I love mine but no graphic card

update: finals are over

created a bunch of insane study guides and really crushed my exams this semester. shout out to my thinkpad.

>>101783
how well does the finger print lock work?

old ones were great, then suffered from build quality in graphics chip, now Lenovo just another Chinese brand

>>101839
you can probably find a similar model with a SSD (or just buy a SSD on newegg and install it yourself)

I use Ghostery for privacy and NoScript for Tor sessions, but I'm not concerned about getting infected by malicious scripts (not in general, anyway). It's never been an issue for me. I'm way more concerned about plug-ins, which should never load by default.

>then you realize no sites work anymore and it takes all evening giving permission to the hundreds of sites that needs to be added to get the fucking page working

This. I tried noscript for a day and it wasted so much of my time on the slim possibility that I'd be stupid enough to go on a site with harmful scripts. Common sense and a good AV is all you need.

>>101802

>Ghostery for privacy

Don't use it if you want privacy. It's developed by an advertising company and used to mine data. Use this:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

>>101824

Source??

>>101824

> It's developed by an advertising company

This is true.

> and used to mine data

This was also my first impression when I once tested it. I disliked it straight from the guts. Also the german computer magazine "chip" writes in the conclusion of its ghostery review that

> Ghostery only pretends to protect the user from the advertisers' sniffing attacks. Because at the same time, the manufacturer makes its database available to them. We therefore recommend not to use this add-ons. Instead, we recommend NoScript to suppress the tracker.

(quick'n'dirty translation from http://www.chip.de/downloads/Ghostery-fuer-Firefox_37693930.html)


In their blog http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016021262 they write:

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Its faster and more convenient to find the maximum OC with software

So I tried AOD, brough the HT to 243 and immediately got BSOD lol. There also was no place to change the voltage in aod. Said max was 1.4. Is my mobo limiting that or something?

>>101818
It's possible. It's more likely that it's that shitty piece of software. IMO all overclocking should be done in the BIOS. Don't forget to use profiles for your settings if they're available to you, saves losing all your settings when you have to clear CMOS.

>>101707
I absolutely recommend linux. It's great for making old computers useful.

I myself use gentoo which I am sure would run on those computers, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you know what you're doing.

I think debian will serve you well though.

If they will run MorphOS, check it out. If you ever used an Amiga, you'll be right at home.

yeah, let's do the linux appreciation day
I had a netbook with mint as my primary computer for a while and it was pretty badass
hard drive died
rip

>>101707
I have a G3 and it works great. 800MHz, 128mb ram, OSX 10.2. Its a little slow, but does everything that my other laptop can except youtube.