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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2475 on: August 30, 2016, 06:18:44 AM »
I found that everyone else in my class got a computer (Lenovo) that actually worked except me. We had to install Windows 7 on them via disc and mine didn't like it and refused to show anything on the screen. It was also the loudest computer in the room. Got it working eventually (teacher did something on BIOS). We could also install Linux if we wanted but after the fuss my computer made, I decided not to.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2476 on: August 30, 2016, 11:32:02 AM »
My bed after dropping The PR off.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2477 on: August 31, 2016, 07:16:15 AM »
Same place she's (PR) started going of late? sounds like (and I do hope so) shes having an alright time there. I'm glad, I really am :)

Although it must be said also, that the NAME of the damn place is.....well it does not foster the least approval, or feelings of warm and fuzzy. Makes me think of the older, worse (than its current incarnation still) title of of the organization we have here that now bears the somewhat sickmaking moniker of 'mencap'. Pretty sure thats the place I am thinking of, that used to be called 'the spastic society' (may have been 'spastic's society', I am slightly unclear on that). Whilst IMO they are benign in intent, a 'speak for' rather than 'in place of' and giving support ideology rather than, say, lynching folk who have MR and once cut down, cut UP again to be turned into a feline or canine edition of soylent green, my stomach still instinctively rebels against such nasty ass phrases and names such as 'spastic society' or 'association of retarded' on a basic level, its just, not on. A throwback to the days when we (or most of us at least) went knocking on cave door to cave door looking for a hot next door- or at least reasonably close if taking the pet family Smilodon -neighbours and whacking the first hot one that answers the cave-mouth over the head, to be dragged away and made into a bride or groom.

They could certainly rename the damn things. I mean come on, at least even autsqueaks isn't called the 'kill and eat the tards' society (any more).

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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2478 on: August 31, 2016, 11:40:07 AM »
I found that everyone else in my class got a computer (Lenovo) that actually worked except me. We had to install Windows 7 on them via disc and mine didn't like it and refused to show anything on the screen. It was also the loudest computer in the room. Got it working eventually (teacher did something on BIOS). We could also install Linux if we wanted but after the fuss my computer made, I decided not to.

Linux tends to work great on Lenovo computers.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2479 on: August 31, 2016, 11:49:47 AM »
I found that everyone else in my class got a computer (Lenovo) that actually worked except me. We had to install Windows 7 on them via disc and mine didn't like it and refused to show anything on the screen. It was also the loudest computer in the room. Got it working eventually (teacher did something on BIOS). We could also install Linux if we wanted but after the fuss my computer made, I decided not to.

Linux tends to work great on Lenovo computers.


I have only just heard of this (in my limited circles). Is there a technological reason for this? 

Has it to do with some compatibility of hardware in the basis of the MBs or universality of software within the BIOS?
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2480 on: August 31, 2016, 11:55:50 AM »
I found that everyone else in my class got a computer (Lenovo) that actually worked except me. We had to install Windows 7 on them via disc and mine didn't like it and refused to show anything on the screen. It was also the loudest computer in the room. Got it working eventually (teacher did something on BIOS). We could also install Linux if we wanted but after the fuss my computer made, I decided not to.

Linux tends to work great on Lenovo computers.


I have only just heard of this (in my limited circles). Is there a technological reason for this? 

Has it to do with some compatibility of hardware in the basis of the MBs or universality of software within the BIOS?

I think they prefer standard components and solutions to the extent possible. There are rarely any Microsoft-endorsed circuits (which used to mean that the firmware was closed source and the Linux folks had to reverse-engineer the hardware so they could write software) or obscure graphics cards, with the notable exception of the early Nvidia Optimus chips that were a PAIN.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2481 on: September 01, 2016, 01:19:35 AM »
Beyond the pale. Way, way beyond the pale.

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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2482 on: September 02, 2016, 10:51:10 PM »
I found that everyone else in my class got a computer (Lenovo) that actually worked except me. We had to install Windows 7 on them via disc and mine didn't like it and refused to show anything on the screen. It was also the loudest computer in the room. Got it working eventually (teacher did something on BIOS). We could also install Linux if we wanted but after the fuss my computer made, I decided not to.

Linux tends to work great on Lenovo computers.
Yeah, it worked really well on the other computers. I think mine had a problem reading discs.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2483 on: September 02, 2016, 10:52:37 PM »
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2484 on: September 03, 2016, 02:07:43 AM »
I found that everyone else in my class got a computer (Lenovo) that actually worked except me. We had to install Windows 7 on them via disc and mine didn't like it and refused to show anything on the screen. It was also the loudest computer in the room. Got it working eventually (teacher did something on BIOS). We could also install Linux if we wanted but after the fuss my computer made, I decided not to.

Linux tends to work great on Lenovo computers.
Yeah, it worked really well on the other computers. I think mine had a problem reading discs.

What was the distro and the Lenovo model used, do you remember?
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2485 on: September 03, 2016, 08:29:49 AM »
Sorry, I have no idea what a distro is. Omg, should I know by now? As for the model, it was big and looked old. I will write down the model type when I am in class next.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2486 on: September 03, 2016, 08:55:57 AM »
distro-distribution-flavour.distribution.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2487 on: September 03, 2016, 03:39:13 PM »
Sorry, I have no idea what a distro is. Omg, should I know by now? As for the model, it was big and looked old. I will write down the model type when I am in class next.

"Distro" is short for "Linux distribution". In other words I was asking for the particular flavour of Linux they installed on the Lenovo machines.

Sorry, I sometimes use nerd vocabulary without meaning to.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2488 on: September 03, 2016, 04:12:13 PM »
Sorry, I have no idea what a distro is. Omg, should I know by now? As for the model, it was big and looked old. I will write down the model type when I am in class next.

"Distro" is short for "Linux distribution". In other words I was asking for the particular flavour of Linux they installed on the Lenovo machines.

Sorry, I sometimes use nerd vocabulary without meaning to.

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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #2489 on: September 03, 2016, 11:20:50 PM »
Sorry, I have no idea what a distro is. Omg, should I know by now? As for the model, it was big and looked old. I will write down the model type when I am in class next.

"Distro" is short for "Linux distribution". In other words I was asking for the particular flavour of Linux they installed on the Lenovo machines.

Sorry, I sometimes use nerd vocabulary without meaning to.
Ah, thank you. I thought it was something computerish that I should know by now. I can't remember the particular version of Linux so I'll ask on Tuesday. It looked green and white on the screen. I was too occupied by my own computer having problems.
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