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Originally posted by Dr.Fark I would have to say that this is the coolest thing I've done with linux yet. It's an mp3 player that sits in my living room. I interface with it through a remote conrole, and a little LCD panel. I have access to my mp3's over a network mount. After I made this mp3 player, HP came with a similar product, that cost about $500.00.
No way! That's super cool. I'd love to see it but the link doesn't work for me ... is the server down?
Originally posted by darin3200 using only 5 mouse clicks and no keyboard to access my mp3s on a windows partition. In mankdrake right click on desktop, find add, select disk, find the device tab and select the partition, hit ok
I can do it in 1 click. Just make a shortcut to the partition or folder on your desktop. (link to url)
Distribution: Home: Fedora Core 1, Mepis RC4, Red Hat 6.2. Work: Fedora Core 1&2, Mandrake 9.0.
Posts: 99
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1. Installing Java runtime on a friend's new RH 9 box that is 15 miles away via ssh and scp from my home computer.
2. Getting the first person shooter "Trespasser" working flawlessly under Winex.
3. Watching the lights flash on the Orinico gold card on my wife's Toshiba Satellite as it communicated with the Linksys wireless G router connecting her to the internet for the first time!
4. Recently I manged to burn a copy of Knoppix to disk from the downloaded ISO, using just the command line with cdrecord.
Distribution: Redhat 9 2.4.20-8 Athlon, Windows 2000 Professional, FreeBSD
Posts: 122
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Scorptatrons coolest things:
Convinced my boss to let me migrate all of our computers to linux (with no linux experiance!)
Setup an entire network on linux (www, mail, file/printer sharing)
Converted all our ASP to PHP in under 2 weeks
Learnt PHP in under a week!
Originally posted by scorpatron Scorptatrons coolest things:
Convinced my boss to let me migrate all of our computers to linux (with no linux experiance!)
Setup an entire network on linux (www, mail, file/printer sharing)
Converted all our ASP to PHP in under 2 weeks
Learnt PHP in under a week!
How large is your company, and how did you convince your boss? I assume he must have some kind of open mind about things
Originally posted by yapp How large is your company, and how did you convince your boss? I assume he must have some kind of open mind about things
i think convincing the boss is a good enough achievement to get posted by itself . every boss i have ever worked for thought MS were the bees knees - and although there is plenty of hard facts to support why Nix architectures are better, he always believe the MS hype
Distribution: Home: Fedora Core 1, Mepis RC4, Red Hat 6.2. Work: Fedora Core 1&2, Mandrake 9.0.
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I convinced the boss of our radio station to go with Linux on all it's computers. The only thing we couldn't do without was QuickBooks, which we are running from Win4Lin on top of Mandrake 9.0. I got in there and convinced him that he would be a stupid idiot not to listen to me! By George I DID listen to him and am glad he made me see the light!
I consider this another of the coolest things I've ever done with Linux.
Our lab runs an entire realtime movie playback and neural recording system on the RT linux kernel (+ fancy hardware). BTW, I didn't write the original SW, but I'm learning!
1. Got my Lexmark Z45 to work in Linux (with the help of the new HCL ^_^)
2. Got Starcraft to run under WineX
3. Got the Baldur's Gate II installer to run under WineX (I don't have enough free HD space to install it, I need to repartition)
Originally posted by dtournas Well the fact that I have a working IPCop system on a 286 PC for 14 months and some... I think is the coolest thing I have ever done in Linux!
I didn't think you could linux ran on a 286, because it's a 32 bit OS.
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. every boss i have ever worked for thought MS were the bees knees 
- and although there is plenty of hard facts to support why Nix architectures are better, he always believe the MS hype
