Re: UPDATE: goodbye-microsoft.com Test Install

2013-05-14 Thread John Hasler
Mark Allums writes: > If you get root on it, you can use it like any *nix machine. Getting > root is the hard part. I will not assist in this, because it is now > illegal to root tablets in the US that were not already pwned before Jan > 1, 2013. Richard Owlett writes: > Can you support that bro

Re: UPDATE: goodbye-microsoft.com Test Install

2013-05-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Mark Allums wrote: From: Richard Owlett Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:04:20PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: All things considered, everything went quite smoothly. Cool. Now if only there was an equivalent "goodbye-android.com" for my tablet ... AGREED. I bought an Android Tab

RE: UPDATE: goodbye-microsoft.com Test Install

2013-05-13 Thread Mark Allums
> From: Richard Owlett > Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:04:20PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > >> All things considered, everything went quite smoothly. > > > > Cool. Now if only there was an equivalent "goodbye-android.com" for my > > tablet ... > > > > AGREED. I bought an A

Re: UPDATE: goodbye-microsoft.com Test Install

2013-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:04:20PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: All things considered, everything went quite smoothly. Cool. Now if only there was an equivalent "goodbye-android.com" for my tablet ... AGREED. I bought an Android Tablet {Lenovo A2107A-F} thinking I was get

Re: UPDATE: goodbye-microsoft.com Test Install

2013-05-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:04:20PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > All things considered, everything went quite smoothly. Cool. Now if only there was an equivalent "goodbye-android.com" for my tablet ... -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpi

UPDATE: goodbye-microsoft.com Test Install

2013-05-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
Okay, just completed a base install of Debian from within Windows 2000 Pro running in Virtualbox. Host system: Athlon 64 X2 dual-core, 8GB RAM, Wheezy 64-bit. Virtual system: 12GB virtual HD, partitioned with 3GB for W2k; 192MB RAM. (The same config as my Thinkpad 240X.) After clicking on the "i