What computer/OS are you using?

[alfonso_rd_30]

yup---

[Chocofreak13]

kay, good to know. thanks guys~

[alfonso_rd_30]

speaking of bitchtunes, yesterday tried to install the most recent version of bitchtunes and I couldn't start the IpodService...

to make short a long story, couldn't start it because I have an older version Portable and it was running a 32bits version of IpodService

[Chocofreak13]

why not look for an older version of itunes, then? they exist. :\

[alfonso_rd_30]

ciould install it, just had ta close the 32 bits IpodService

[Chocofreak13]

hope it works out. :\

[LeaflameSD]

I know it's been a short while since someone has posted, but I finally got that eMachines rig restored with Windows XP Home Edition SP2.

[Nichi]

Cool ^^

I used to have an eMachines desktop, that was part of a project to have a member of my fleet running Linux. It sadly didn't go as planned, although now I use Mint on my laptop

[LeaflameSD]

@Pent: I was thinking of putting Linux in there, but I just know that the drivers would be a pain to install. What distro did you use?

[Nichi]

I use Linux Mint. It works great, and seems to have wide compatibility with various hardware, typically detecting everything right at the start

So, I've officially begun a project to build a new PC for my grandma. Here's a rundown of the planned specs:

CPU: AMD-A4 (2.5Ghz)
RAM: 4GB
Video: On-board
HDD: 250GB
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium

It's going to be a very no-frills, no-nonsense PC for her to be able to check e-mail and store genealogy stuff on, to replace this 7-year-old desktop she has at her office. I was originally going to go with a Celeron, but I found the A4 is $10 less and offers better performance, so I'm going for it instead.

For the curious, I went with an MSI motherboard; same manufacturer that made the one for 2k, so I've had good experience with them.

[Chocofreak13]

WHO WANTS TO HELP ME HACK MY HOME ROUTER

[Nichi]

Sorry that didn't work out :\

So, I'm typing this from Project Philosoraptor (The desktop I'm building for grandma). I'm temporarily borrowing the power supply, BluRay drive, and 4GB RAM from 2k to test it out. So far, I think I need to dig through the options; as the only OSes I've managed to successfully boot is Fedora 15 (32-bit with GNOME 3 not working properly), as it seems to reject Mint 14 (64-bit)

[LeaflameSD]

Pent... have you tried installing Windows 8 and removing metro?
http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25534

[Nichi]

I've never tried it, so I don't know. But, it would have been a nice option when I was tinkering with the consumer preview last year

(After all, I was trying desperately to make the NT 3.51 Program Manager or the 2k Explorer work in Windows 8, to no avail)

[LeaflameSD]

If I'm correct, the XP and 2000 version of Program Manager should work on Windows Vista/7/8.