Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 690163)

So, yesterday morning, the PC which I use at the office (running XP SP3) bluescreened hard. On rebooot, it shows the splashscreen but then it BSODs before the login screen.

This happens to be a fairly small office (20 people) located quite a long way from the nearest "official" Harris location.

I call the corporate help desk (in Florida) and they say that I have two options: I can FedEx the machine to them and they'll try to have it back to me by Friday, or I can wait until next Tuesday when they have a tech scheduled to be in this area. Clearly, neither of these choices are acceptable.

So I get on another machine, go to the Ubuntu website, and download a LiveCD image. I burn it, stick it in my main PC, and boot into Linux.

After an exceedingly short period of fiddling, I have the machine working beautifully in dual-screen mode, talking to our Windows network, accessing our Windows server, and printing to our Windows-served printers. I can see and access the local Windows filesystem on my hard drive, so I'm able to continue working normally. So far, Visio and AutoCAD are the only two things I haven't been able to use. OpenOffice is working quite nicely for everything else.

Now bear in mind that this machine is booted off a CD, so it has no actual Linux filesystem on any of the local drives. So this is roughly equivalent to personal computing in the early 80s, when you booted the machine off a floppy and had no hard drive. Ok, so occasionally I have to sit and wait for the CD to spin when opening an application, but overall, the machine is working better now than it ever did before as an official "Harris Standard Client" with all of the antivirus, antifilesharing, and antiproductivity shit they had loaded onto it.

I think I may actually make this my normal operating configuration. (Well, I'll install it on the hard drive, but you know what I mean.) VMWare in Unity mode should fulfill my need for Visio and ACAD. It's actualy quite tempting. (Though the IT folks will blow a gasket when they find out, I'm sure.)

(As an aside: if you guys aren't familiar with Unity, or with VMWare in general, it's fucking awesome. Basically, you can seamlessly run individual apps in a virtualized window as part of the main desktop, kind of like what the Mac folks do in order to be compatible with the rest of the world. This would probably be a good solution for all you folks having problems with your ECu tuning software on Win7-64.)

I love it when shit just works.

Originally Posted by rider384 (Post 690196)

Anyone got a song that honestly gives them a rush when you listen to it?

For me it's Brain Damage/Eclipse (especially) from Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. There are one or two others that I can't think of right now.

Originally Posted by Reverant (Post 690258)

I've never thought about the joint, you being in the Netherlands and all, so both I guess.

Originally Posted by turotufas (Post 690277)

I just seen liek the hottest girl on a 200cc Ninja motor bike. I thought it was a moped at first slowing down traffic in front of me, so I switched lanes and caught up to her. Liek 8 cars followed me! Then I got honked at because I was keeping pace with the girl staring at her for liek 2 miles.

She had leathers on too but I could tell.. Oooo weeee she had a body. I wud have filmed this one but I had nothing on me! I was actaully going home to get my isht.

If she was riding like a loud sport bike I might have considered side swiping her just to give her mouth to mouth. :fawk:

And while I passed her she adjusted her backpack then started riding wit one hand. That shit gave me a boner wont even lie.

Creep/

Originally Posted by Oscar (Post 690282)

I don't smoke all that often. The legality kinda takes the fun out of it:fawk:

Originally Posted by ZX-Tex (Post 690126)

I hate people that slam on the brakes when they see a cop in order to slow down to 10-20 mph slower than the speed limit. Fucking infuriating.

Originally Posted by matthewdesigns (Post 690300)

Giant fail. Even more fun when legalized, as paranoia drops exponentially, supply is infinite, and quality is unbelievable.

"What, me high? I'm legal, suck it."

Originally Posted by matthewdesigns (Post 690300)

Giant fail. Even more fun when legalized, as paranoia drops exponentially, supply is infinite, and quality is unbelievable.

"What, me high? I'm legal, suck it."

Originally Posted by Reverant (Post 690287)

Girls on bikes are hot.

Originally Posted by Pusha (Post 690396)

Originally Posted by WonTon (Post 690463)

OMG, i wanna punch Justin Beiber in the face so fuckin bad!