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Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Kazan on January 13, 2004, 06:13:53 pm
I'm posting this from my wireless laptop (at home, I have a router + switch + 802.11b AP in my appartment - but also campus is covered in them!)  

I will be able to work on some of the less intensive things from class such as FS Dev Studio and fs2netd - i will also be more available to ask questions

I don't think FS2 will run on this though, I'll just have to set how it works out when all the updates and stuff are applied.  It does have a rage mobility 2x agp w/ 8mb of it's own memory...


[fyi: it's a thinkpad a20m with the 700mhz, w/o DVD - current ram 128mb - i have a 256mb SODIMM on the way]
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Bobboau on January 13, 2004, 06:16:53 pm
that should run FSO, just not well
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Kazan on January 13, 2004, 06:43:27 pm
no it won't - RAM issue still pressent in latest builds i thought :P

i did just CVS FSDevStudio and POFConstructorSuite onto it :D

getting this shizat all setup for tommorow
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Taristin on January 13, 2004, 08:34:31 pm
Good. Maybe you can finish that while you're bored in class. ;)
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Kazan on January 13, 2004, 09:00:03 pm
hehe.. actually in class i'll probably be working on fs dev studio
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Taristin on January 13, 2004, 09:03:14 pm
:nervous:  That's what I meant. ;)
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: phreak on January 13, 2004, 09:06:47 pm
i sure could use a laptop during computer architecture.  This guy can put an insomniac to sleep.  

(http://www.cs.kent.edu/~durand/Resources/Paul2.jpg) (http://www.cs.kent.edu/~durand/)

his voice has no emotion at all..
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Taristin on January 13, 2004, 09:07:19 pm
I've had my share of them... meef
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: phreak on January 13, 2004, 09:08:12 pm
yes, but the chairs in that specific lecture hall are padded, and therefore comfy.

at least you can understand what he says.  The Data Structures Prof is an unintelligible Apu.
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Taristin on January 13, 2004, 09:11:44 pm
Remembe rhte professor from the Simpsons? I had one teacher last semester... or was it two ago? well, nevermind that, I had a professor who I was always waiting to blurt out "Flayven" or some other... comment.
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: phreak on January 13, 2004, 09:13:33 pm
Frink.  Im assuming he had a few loose screws.

Isnt it fun comparing professors to characters from the simpsons?
Title: Re: Time_For_FS++
Post by: mikhael on January 13, 2004, 09:56:08 pm
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Originally posted by Kazan
[fyi: it's a thinkpad a20m with the 700mhz, w/o DVD - current ram 128mb - i have a 256mb SODIMM on the way]

Sweet. I can never recommend those IBM Thinkpads enough. Best laptops ever, in my opinion. I used a T20 (think corporate version of the A20) and a T30 (think of your A20 with 512mb RAM, 1.3gig RAM, 1840x1440 display and a DVD+CDRW combo and builtin aironet). I miss working at Cisco more because I had to give up my T30 than for the pay (actually I do miss the pay). Oh, and FreeBSD ran like a DREAM. :)

Damn you Kazan, for making me bitter over my lost laptop. :D
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Bobboau on January 13, 2004, 10:32:42 pm
yes but becase they fired you they got to save the pay they would have given you, wich caused ther profits to go up wich raised ther stock wich I am heavily invested in, investing primaraly in Cisco has given me 5 times what the broker recomended, in one year I've doubled my capital :D
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: phreak on January 13, 2004, 10:34:37 pm
note to self.  gamble college money using the stock market.
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Kazan on January 13, 2004, 10:50:45 pm
lol @ phreak
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Bobboau on January 13, 2004, 10:53:08 pm
wait untill it's REAL low, like after a major military/terrorist strike and/or at the peak of a huge financhal resesion that cuts the value of the market in half (or near it). then just invest $200 a month for a year or two, voiala instant retierment

honestly I nearly creamed my pants when I saw dow 7,500
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: mikhael on January 13, 2004, 11:08:18 pm
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Originally posted by Bobboau
yes but becase they fired you they got to save the pay they would have given you, wich caused ther profits to go up wich raised ther stock wich I am heavily invested in, investing primaraly in Cisco has given me 5 times what the broker recomended, in one year I've doubled my capital :D


Bastard. Actually, Cisco isn't saving any money in this case. I was on contract. Mine ended and they brought in another contracter in a different position, for the same pay. Cisco is paying the contracting company exactly as much now as they did before my contract ended ($500k/yr for 6 warm bodies. They would actually pay LESS if they HIRED the six warm bodies directly.)
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Liberator on January 14, 2004, 12:57:33 am
Yes but think of all the money their saving by not having to administrate 6 extra bodies.
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: mikhael on January 14, 2004, 02:41:06 am
Um. Actually, they do. They have a manager who IS on the Cisco staff who has to manage them. If you're talking about the HR end of things, well, six more bodies isn't that much of a load on the ladies and gents that run the place.

I'm actually surprised that Bob's making a profit on Cisco stock. Most of the permanent employees can't cash in their stock options because the stock is currently worth less than their options are. They'd be paying $50 for $15 stock.

Ah well, I hated the place anyway. It was the least interesting job I've ever had, and that includes working in Taco Bell.
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Nuke on January 15, 2004, 11:25:26 am
dont let your mom use your laptop. i did and she spilled her coke on it. i did salvage the cpu and hard drive.
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Kazan on January 15, 2004, 01:12:05 pm
my parents don't touch my computers
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Flipside on January 15, 2004, 01:23:14 pm
Meh, I'm constantly having to fix my parents computers :(
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Nuke on January 16, 2004, 09:28:47 am
my 6 year old niece played on my laptop many times and she never even left fingerprints on my screen, i let my mom use it once and it gets fried.
Title: Time_For_FS++
Post by: Flaser on January 16, 2004, 02:48:11 pm
Talk of "backwards compability"