Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Nadaka]

Depends on if the laptop has an unlockable bootloader...

[Neonivek]

What sucks is I got a whole speech about how this laptop is better, faster, and all that.

But for my purposes... NO it really isn't.

I have a feeling it cannot be sent back... Otherwise he would just go "Ohhh? Ok then"

He also says how it doesn't matter what computer I get they are all Windows 8... Well don't get me a new Laptop.

My old one will last a year or the years until Microsoft grows a brain.

[Tellemurius]

Ubuntu can inject a UEFI key along side windows 8 platforms now so its possible (you can also do the same for windows 7 as i believe the later installers have a UEFI key)

[Neonivek]

I don't know why Microsoft continuously makes worse programs with later editions but never offers the previous layouts.

It is like they are slipping to the point where they want to make things pretty but by taking out the function.

"Ohh what about something that just lays what the user wants to do infront of them?"

"NOOOO!!! Lets instead throw a bunch of crud at them so we will get app sales!"

"Well what about the more esoteric functions, should we keep them in logically accessible locations?"

"What? Like not using double space? HECK NO! we should hide it between multiple menus"

"Well, fine but the search menu still works right?"

"We are Microsoft... Of course"

"Yay!"

"Not... you didn't let me finish"

[Frumple]

Family consultation has revealed I may be experiencing my first ever genuine sinus headache.

Some three hours later, and it is as if the sommelier of my pain has decided to go "BAM, let's kick this up a notch."

Also somewhat sad I cannot remember through pain haze who it was that popularized that. Something starting with an E?

[Shakerag]

Family consultation has revealed I may be experiencing my first ever genuine sinus headache.

Some three hours later, and it is as if the sommelier of my pain has decided to go "BAM, let's kick this up a notch."

Also somewhat sad I cannot remember through pain haze who it was that popularized that. Something starting with an E?

Emeril Lagasse

[Bdthemag]

Ubuntu can inject a UEFI key along side windows 8 platforms now so its possible (you can also do the same for windows 7 as i believe the later installers have a UEFI key)

Oh, that's awesome. I have one of those small netbook laptops that are absolutely worthless, and runs like shit with Windows 8 on it. I tried installing Ubuntu on it a long time ago, but was pissed off when the bootloader was locked. That's one of the biggest dick-moves a prebuilt computer manufacturer can ever do.

[LordSlowpoke]

Ubuntu can inject a UEFI key along side windows 8 platforms now so its possible (you can also do the same for windows 7 as i believe the later installers have a UEFI key)

Oh, that's awesome. I have one of those small netbook laptops that are absolutely worthless, and runs like shit with Windows 8 on it. I tried installing Ubuntu on it a long time ago, but was pissed off when the bootloader was locked. That's one of the biggest dick-moves a prebuilt computer manufacturer can ever do.

heh

every hp netbook i've worked with had this ridiculous scenario where you could enter bios but essentially not change anything because it asks you for the bios password directly before booting up the os and there was no authentication in the bios itself (still, you could do jack shit in there) and then the bios password has to double as the os password (if you don't have a password on your os you're fucked) and you can't remove the bios password (because you need to somehow enter the os then enter the bios from inside the os)

[ChairmanPoo]

*snip*

[Reudh]

Feel terribly run down and tired. No depressive thoughts for the moment, which is good. Popped a Berocca and felt a little better. (They're like vitamin tablets you dissolve in water.)

[Max White]

So as some of you might know, as a follow up to a book binge, a friend and I had a bet that we must read each others favorite series. As such, I'm currently half way through the first of the Twilight books.

HAVE YOU FUCKING READ THIS SHIT? Holy crap I'm loosing faith in humanity knowing it is so popular. Seriously, I knew it would be bad, but I never knew it was so blatantly insulting to all involved. Do any girls actually think this is romantic? Really? Really? Really? Am I to understand that women like jerks who drag them by the collar and force them into their car more than guys who attempt to be friendly? Good god we really are raising a generation of domestic abuse victims.

No, I don't buy that shit. I don't know what is going on, but I'm not in on the joke... I remember high school, kind of. The female half of my year was better than this, I'm sure of it.

In related news, she has apparently finished The Colour of Magic and really enjoyed it. So there is some good coming from all this. Maybe I can instill some good taste.

[Bauglir]

Yeah, I was really wondering why you thought you were getting the good end of this bet.

[Max White]

Because there is a dinner on the line. Steaks for stakes, so to speak. Also having actually read the books grants some moral authority in future debates.

I'm still going to win.

[Vector]

It's an alternate take on the corruption of Lucy from Dracula.

I wouldn't expect a plebe like you to understand

[Solifuge]

Colour of Magic? I honestly don't like early Pratchett much, if at all. Too much focus on parody and trope-bashing. However, I seriously love his work after his style matured, and he added a side of Jaded and Bitter to his Irreverent Fantastical Snarkiness.