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By: Ventilen » Blog Archive » The most stupid april fools of the year

Ventilen » Blog Archive » The most stupid april fools of the year — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:39:03 +0000

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By: forest

forest — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:49:22 +0000

Etanoir…I think you and I should hook up…I’ll be under the big clock at the station at 1pm. Look for the really, really unbelievably handsome bloke carrying a copy of the Times and a pink carnation in his buttonhole…don’t forget your wallet.

By: etanoir

etanoir — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:16:31 +0000

I thought it was seriuos… and BANG!!!, maybe for american or somebody out there celebrating foooool’s day will quickly understood… but me?? it took me 1 day to figure out that I’d fooled!!! and I almost deleting my v6 torrent download! oh mama…

By: el_b

el_b — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:58:43 +0000

It’s so awesome, the new green screens of exceptions, dumping, and flushing. In Windows Vista they were blue. They look so awesome!
It’s so nice. I get them every 30 seconds.

By: syred

syred — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:48:00 +0000

Man i just purchased & received my own copy of linux mint. I have a problem it says my mint needs activation wtf? another prob that i have, my linux mint menu expired already.. wtf? i thought it was included in the price.. also when i do lspci i get a GSOD for gods shake! you suck!

(i L-O-V-E mint, i just wish i had enough money to donate v6 instead)

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:47:03 +0000

wow, you totally got me. That was really mean, but awesome at the same time.

By: rubicon

rubicon — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:37:11 +0000

forest: good one 🙂

By: MF

MF — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:10:32 +0000

Oh! Jolly good to hear about Mint2! I was beginning to miss that blue-screen of death and an inability to make the software do what I want, and not what some spy at MS thinks I need! If anyone even so much as considered making a change to Vista, it would not need to be 1st April for them to be seen as a complete fools!

By: forest

forest — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:36:33 +0000

I don’t understand what all the fuss above is about. I think it is a good thing that Mint 2 is going to be sold…it’s about time the Linux community started to realise that the developers need to get paid….especially with this recession.

I think it is a good thing too that it will work with Vista, which as we all know is probably the best OS on the planet. I like the anti virus application too. I have have so much trouble trying to get a virus I now feel a lot happier that when I can catch one I have got the tool to remove it

Sometimes I think Linux misses out, because nobody can be bothered to sit down and write one especially for the community, which is a shame and shows that Linux is being neglected by Mr Hacker, who is too busy with MS products.

The disc defragmenter is a good idea, especially if I do not have to buy so many hard drives. I find I need new hard drive about once every 5 weeks or so. The man in the PC shop where I buy them told me you have to take a hard drive out of the case and tap it gently on all four sides with a rubber mallet. He says this helps to re-align the little magnets stuck onto the drive gears inside.

The shop person says it will probably take a good 7 or 8 months for me to learn how to get it right, but it has to be done. The man said I was lucky because he just happened to have a few hard drives left at only $300 for a 10GB unit. This is very cheap apparently and i felt a bit guilty not paying the full price of $450.

He very kindly told me where I could buy this special rubber mallet. Amazingly his brother in law runs a hardware shop and was able to order me one specially, and a spare one, because apparently the rubberness wears out unless you keep it in an airtight box. Luckily he had one airtight box left. The mallets and box were a real bargain at only $600, each.

I admit tho’ I cannot find how to d/l the files or where to pay my $299. I would like to buy 3 copies just in case.

can anyone help please? I am willing to help with any expenses you might incur, Thanks in advance. This is a wonderful community.

By: Timmi

Timmi — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:11:51 +0000

Will this new version resolve the multitasking problems I have on my Core2Duo Toshiba laptop running Mint6? Because when I try to play internet radio in the browser that comes with it, and switch to another tab, it stops playing. 64bit version resolved this, but was unstable, and crashed a few times until it eventually stopped booting altogether. Everything is fine under XP Pro or Vista. Just when I thought you’d addressed these issues I find out it’s only an April Fool’s joke!
:p