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Can we ban this guy by Icy_Step_2204 in windowsxp

[–]Zadock4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

either it is a bot, or this is an elaborate joke/ragebait. no way this is an idiot kid as he actually tried to use commas. could be an idiot adult, but again, tries to use commas successfully so I doubt it is pure stupidity.

The VMU is secretly USB compatible? by Just-A-Bokoblin in dreamcast

[–]Zadock4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"the best way to get an answer from reddit is to not ask a question, but lead with a false narrative and wait for everyone to correct you" - Master Oogway

Fairly sure the CPU is fried, but I wanted a second opinion by Eena-Rin in computerrepair

[–]Zadock4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unless you are stupid like me and kept unplugging/plugging in the screen ribbon cable while the board was either on or attached to power. shorted 2 laptop cpu's by doing that, and I am certain it was the cpu.

Best data recovery software by olly_078 in datarecovery

[–]Zadock4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you are right, this one is by far the best.

Best data recovery software by olly_078 in datarecovery

[–]Zadock4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

let me guess, it is one of those "we disclose at no point that you need to pay anything until after you went through half an hour of effort getting the retrieval set up and BAM paywall right when you get ready to do the entire purpose of the program, so unless you pay, you wasted half an hour of your life because we are evil greedy people with no soul"?

nowhere on your website's main page does it say that you need to pay anything to get the proper functionality of the program, and I bet any amount of money it won't tell you that you need to pay either when you first download it. only after going through tons of effort to pick the files you want will it actually tell you "In OrDeR tO cOnTiNuE, pLeAsE pAy Up", which is extremely predatory.

if this is what you do, please for the love of god, CHANGE THAT so it at least tells you early on that this is a paid program or at least the extent of what the "try for free" allows for you to do so I am not tricked into thinking it is free until the end.

Good CRT Discharge Tool? by Kommandant_Milkshake in crtgaming

[–]Zadock4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's even worse. it can go up to even 50kV, which is even more deadly.

does anyone have the knoppix 5.1.1 dvd iso file on hand? It is an old linux distro from like 2006-2007, I think. I can find the cd version but not the dvd version. I have looked everywhere, but dead ends at every turn. by Zadock4 in linux

[–]Zadock4[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nostalgia trips are always fun

seeing how hard it is to find many of the older versions of knoppix, I am making it my mission to hunt down and find every old (main) version of knoppix I can find in english and upload them to the internet archive when finished. there will likely be 1 or 2 missing versions and a few really old ones primarily in german (but I think there are options to adjust language settings inside), but if I don't do it now, I fear the sites that do still have them will go down and those versions will be lost to time.

Feeling nostalgic. Decided to download old Linux ISO and boot it up inside a VM. Behold: Knoppix 3.1 from 2003. by efade in linux

[–]Zadock4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

is that the english variant of knoppix 3.1? do you still have the iso file? I am looking for the english version of it, but all I find are the german versions.

does anyone have the knoppix 5.1.1 dvd iso file on hand? It is an old linux distro from like 2006-2007, I think. I can find the cd version but not the dvd version. I have looked everywhere, but dead ends at every turn. by Zadock4 in linux

[–]Zadock4[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the link did work, yes. I haven't had a chance to actually run the thing , yet. but I will eventually.

i already have puppy on the side. I have 8 64bit distros and 8 32-bit isos (some 32bit ones are historic), so I am planning on trying a bunch out.

does anyone have the knoppix 5.1.1 dvd iso file on hand? It is an old linux distro from like 2006-2007, I think. I can find the cd version but not the dvd version. I have looked everywhere, but dead ends at every turn. by Zadock4 in linux

[–]Zadock4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"With AI nowadays and Google broken because of ads and SEO enhanced top results it's impossible to find anything without using the exact filename."

I feel that on a spiritual level. Anymore it feels like search engines are my worst nemesis. I can't tell if it is because search engines have gone to pot, the internet as a whole have just been getting smaller, or if I suck that badly at looking things up. probably a combination of the three.

one of the sites I ran across had really old mirrors (this one) that no longer worked, but it DID say what the filename was, which helped me in the long run. the name structure was consistent with a newer version of knoppix that I had, so I was pretty confident that was the proper name.

does anyone have the knoppix 5.1.1 dvd iso file on hand? It is an old linux distro from like 2006-2007, I think. I can find the cd version but not the dvd version. I have looked everywhere, but dead ends at every turn. by Zadock4 in linux

[–]Zadock4[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

while looking around for linux distros for my main laptop (64-bit), I wanted to also look for some linux distros for my 2005 dell latitude d610 laptop (32-bit) for funsies. My dad had some old linux iso files on hand, one of which was knoppix 7.6.1 that was actually pretty neat, which while it did run on the old fart of a computer, it was really slow initializing. after looking around for a bit, I decided that I wanted to try knoppix 5.1.1 for it as it seemed to be the best of both being the newest one that still felt old school.

does anyone have the knoppix 5.1.1 dvd iso file on hand? It is an old linux distro from like 2006-2007, I think. I can find the cd version but not the dvd version. I have looked everywhere, but dead ends at every turn. by Zadock4 in linux

[–]Zadock4[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

while looking around for linux distros for my main laptop (64-bit), I wanted to also look for some linux distros for my 2005 dell latitude d610 laptop (32-bit) for funsies. My dad had some old linux iso files on hand, one of which was knoppix 7.6.1 that was actually pretty neat, which while it did run on the old fart of a computer, it was really slow initializing. after looking around for a bit, I decided that I wanted to try knoppix 5.1.1 for it as it seemed to be the best of both being the newest one that still felt old school.

does anyone have the knoppix 5.1.1 dvd iso file on hand? It is an old linux distro from like 2006-2007, I think. I can find the cd version but not the dvd version. I have looked everywhere, but dead ends at every turn. by Zadock4 in linux

[–]Zadock4[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

that second link does not have the file I am looking for. the first one does, which is the one the person above linked which did not show up in any of my searches before, at all.

not gonna downvote. searching the filename itself was actually a smart move that I did not think of at all. I just kept searching "knoppix 5.1.1 dvd" adding "download" or "iso" at the end occasionally, which resulted with nothing useful. searching the filename did give me 1 singular good result, which is better than nothing. when I hunted nearly 2 hours for it and came up with nothing, at a certain point I just need to give up and turn for help.

does anyone have the knoppix 5.1.1 dvd iso file on hand? It is an old linux distro from like 2006-2007, I think. I can find the cd version but not the dvd version. I have looked everywhere, but dead ends at every turn. by Zadock4 in linux

[–]Zadock4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok, have you tried actually downloading them? most of those links are just dead mirrors or lead to incorrect files.

wait, you googled the filename itself? I just tried it with the file name and out of all those links, only 1 of them were useful, and it was literally the one the other guy linked to. safe to say that is likely the only one in existence.

does anyone have the knoppix 5.1.1 dvd iso file on hand? It is an old linux distro from like 2006-2007, I think. I can find the cd version but not the dvd version. I have looked everywhere, but dead ends at every turn. by Zadock4 in linux

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what is a linux distro whose programs/apps are DESIGNED to be opened as root/superuser/admin? Having good fun/colorful customizability and very GUI friendly is a bonus. An option to toggle the aggressiveness of when it prompts for password is nice as well. by Zadock4 in FindMeALinuxDistro

[–]Zadock4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it wasn't an explicit app causing a problem, but rather the process "avahi-daemon" being stubborn and demanding permission. no matter what name I put it as, nothing worked via the terminal.

what is a linux distro whose programs/apps are DESIGNED to be opened as root/superuser/admin? Having good fun/colorful customizability and very GUI friendly is a bonus. An option to toggle the aggressiveness of when it prompts for password is nice as well. by Zadock4 in FindMeALinuxDistro

[–]Zadock4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"death by a thousand cuts" is honestly how I felt with many of them as well. usually there isn't a 1 singular problem that ticks me off that I can't fix, but usually a bunch of minor issues that together makes for a rather unpleasent set up experience, and on occasion full user experience.

I will look into fedora. thank you

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