Best Vista Error EVAR, gaming, and software requests, and an Ubuntu gripe

Erich Newell erich.newell at gmail.com
Tue May 20 01:06:58 MST 2008


I have one thing to say about this...and I'm very serious.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHAAHAHAH!

Really.


On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:56 PM, <storkus at storkus.com> wrote:

> I came across this while searching for the answer to the question
> following this, and IMMEDIATELY posted it here!  Feel free to forward it
> to /. if you have an account there.
>
>
> http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/king3vbo/best-vista-error-evar-toppled-by-new-error--58729.phtml
>
> Next up, the question: has anyone tried gaming on FreeBSD?  I've seen
> past stuff mainly about problems WRT native software liking ALSA over
> OSS, but I don't know if that's
> been solved or got worse.  What about WINE and its decendants?
>
> Finally, has anyone got a copy of FreeBSD 7 or Slackware 12.1?
>
> For those at the installfest last weekend, I STILL don't have a working
> install, and I worked on it all day.  ACPI on this laptop is turning out
> to be a MAJOR headache!
> One big weirdness (for me, anyway) is that the kernel on the install
> disks works fine but my compiled kernels all fail when they try to mount
> the root filesystem.
> As I'm writing this, I recall that, on modern Slackware anyway, they use
> modules and an initrd image, so maybe that's it.
>
> Oh, and that Ubuntu gripe: who the hell makes a live-CD/install disk
> where the root/superuser account is password protected?!?  And said
> password is nowhere to be found
> on the disk!  What gives?!?  Ubuntu is clearly too windozey for my
> taste.  Blech! :(
>
> Mike
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