A bottle of cheap red

[Rogerborg]

An ancient eee PC, a Chromium OS distro from some random intardtuber, and a USB stick in the shape of a racecar.

Who's with me?











sudo who's with me?
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[UncleFester]

single
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2017 Z1000SX

[Rogerborg]

Progress report:

Created:
Pizzas, 4
USB boot keys, 1

Consumed:
Wine, red, bottle, 1
Pizza, half pepperoni, mushroom and jalapeño, half olive and anchovy, x 0.5

Bricked:
Unrelated Windows laptop, 1
Virgin media broadband connection, 1
Awesome avatars, 1

So far so typical for an Open Sores install!
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[Rogerborg]

tl;dr - FML.

Looks like it'll be smoke signals from here, chaps.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[nowhere.elysium]

How can you fuck up installing Chromium OS? Was the eeePC actually a Speak'n'Spell? Was the red wine secretly swapped with antifreeze?
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'10 SV650SF, '83 GS650GT (it lives!), Questionable DIY dash project, 3D Printer project, Lasercutter project

[Rogerborg]

UPDATED Progress report:

Consumed, addendum:
Half decent lager, 1
Cheap fizzypish, 0.5
Lidl green "Prongles", tube, 0.5

Recovered:
Unrelated Windows laptop, 1, using oven, graphics card for the baking of.
Intardtubes connection, using GiffGaff, tethered, spazzy version.

Can go fuck themselves with baseball bat studded with rusty nails dipped in shitty leprous pus:
Virgin Media.

That's how you fuck up a Chromium OS install. Your broadband connection shits its intestines down its leg again and some Gunga Din jabbers down the phone at you to unplug white cable please then black cable please again then books in a van monkey visit again when they should know damn fine well that it's a network fault, the same as it's been the last five times.

At this rate I might have to actually talk to the wife tonight. Is that what you want, Virgin Media? Is that what you want, because that's what's going to happen.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[CaNsA]

So... whats up with virginmedia ?

[Sload]

When it works it's great, when it plays up it is impossible to get to the bottom of as their support is full potato. You just have to wait and pray.
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Honda Varadero >> Triumph Speed Four >> Honda CBR1100xx

[Rogerborg]

Bawwwed on Tweeter, connection came back up within 5 minutes.

Probably a complete co-incidence.

Right. Where were we?

<opens malt blend>
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[Rogerborg]

Well, damn. Network comed up, Chromium OS installed ran from USB, it Just Works. Actually usably fast. Would stab a hippy in the face and sell out to Evil Megacorp again.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[swampy]

OKay, I've had the bottle of cheap red...

I saw some words.... Some of them I recognised..

Now what ?
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"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Hunter S Thompson
"Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death..." Hunter S Thompson

[t121anf]

You should have stopped at the point the cheap red came into your possession, either give it back or slap yourself to prevent yourself from buying it.

Rest sounds like fun.

[Rogerborg]

[stinkwheel]

I was about to suggest installing a legacy, pre-unity version of ubuntu.

Gutsy was working on my eeeeeeeeeeeePC 701 until i putted Xp back on it because I neded SOMETHING with windows to support my action cam settings wizard and WINE wasn't cutting it.

I have a box at work running Lucid LTS and it's still getting updates despite having officially passed its use-by date. I THINK that was the last gnome version.

If all else fails. I have yet to find a PC puppy doesn't work on incredibly quickly once it's set up.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Rogerborg]

Puppy was my fallback choice but this machine has been related to pure browersing, so I might as well try a browser OS. I've just realised that the hexxeh builds are years out of date so I'm trying an arnoldthebat daily aaaaaaaaaand it failed.

Doesn't work with my network adaptor. Wow. That's how you know it's a Lunix OS.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[stinkwheel]

In any case. I can help with the cheap red.

Most are vastly improved by running them through an aerator.

I'm currently drinking Muriel Rioja. £5.99 from the coop. Tastes nothing like a rioja. more like a mediocre Bordeaux. Running it through my vinturi really brings out the chewey tannins and blackcurrant flavours at the back of the tongue.

Posted off a PC running chromium browser on LMDR.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Matt B]

[Rogerborg]

[t121anf]

Regarding Chromium, is there a decent RDP client?

[Rogerborg]

[t121anf]

I could use vnc but everything is setup for RDP at the moment.

[Rogerborg]

Tried "Chrome Remote Desktop"?
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[stinkwheel]

[t121anf]

[Rogerborg]

I mean just try it in Chrome / Chromium browser on whatever platform you're currently on. Chrome OS / Chromium OS is essentially the same browser plus the OS required to run it.

Even on Lubuntu, I installed Chromium (browser), logged into Google and BAM, all the plugins and bookmarks I've been using on other platforms just appeared automagically.

Privacy nightmare, convenience wet dream.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike