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Sadly, I passed that milestone some time ago (and 999), I guess that just means I have 1332 to look forward to.
I love my daemons. I'm planning putting some on my new laptop, to sanctify it from the evil that is already there (Vista).
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When checking up to see if the profile statistics were being updated again, I saw the following under my profile.
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What a beastlie comment count!
I have to deal with Unix daemons on a daily basis. Some of that may have rubbed off... 
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February 1, 2008 1:39 AM
You're really close to 1138 Nocturnal (1135 at time of viewing). Not spooky (or whatever), but cool :)
PS What are you planning on putting on the laptop?
Watch out, don't step in the anthropomorphization.
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February 1, 2008 5:30 AM
I've never actually seen THX 1138.
There are some hardware issues with the laptop, I've got Debian on it at the moment, but its not working to well. Looks like Ubuntu will work though, so I'll be giving that a go.
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February 1, 2008 1:45 PM
I've had good luck with Ubuntu in the past, but I haven't tried recently. I'm keeping my home rig strictly PC, with a Mac laptop.
I'm thinking of starting another Linux box. If anyone has any suggestions for distro, fire away.
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February 1, 2008 3:41 PM
Ubuntu 7.10 has been working fairly well for me. I put Xubuntu 7.10 on my workshop machine (via mini-epia) to get the lighter interface. I kinda like XFCE over Gnome, so I may switch to it on my "daily driver" too. Gnome just feels like it adds too many extra layers over the OS. Very pretty, just kinda overkill. Hard to describe.
Watch out, don't step in the anthropomorphization.
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February 1, 2008 5:42 PM
Peter Redmer said: I'm keeping my home rig strictly PC, with a Mac laptop. I'm thinking of starting another Linux box.I assume you mean strictly microsoft. I'm quite fond of Debian, but then again I never really use it in a desktop type enviroment.
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February 1, 2008 5:46 PM
You're correct, sometimes I use the terms PC and Microsoft to mean the same thing (I probably shouldn't!)
Back in the day, I like Mandrake (I think it was 8.0 or 9.0) and it worked well on both Mac and PC. Tried Yellow Dog on Mac (PowerPC) and a slew of distros on my home PC, but couldn't find that "sweet spot."
Might try the newest Ubuntu first and see how that goes. Isn't Ubuntu built on Debian?
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February 1, 2008 6:02 PM
Mixing up PC and Microsoft is bad. It makes me want to do nasty things to you.
Unbuntu is based off debian.
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February 1, 2008 7:44 PM
We usually just lump the two common components together by calling them "WinTel" machines.
Under my office desk is a tower with AMD processors running RedHat 4. I have a ThinkPad with the corporate edicted WinTel environment to run all the office bloatware. It travels to meetings, home, etcetera.
I did put FireFox and VNC on the WinTel system, so that I can get to the Splat-ix compute pool machines for engineering work.
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February 1, 2008 8:54 PM
I've been thinking of putting Ubuntu on one of my machines to have a play, Do you think it's worth the trouble, How good is it for use in robotics?.
People yearn after this robotic dream, but you can't strip your life of all meaning, emotion and feeling and expect to function.
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