Christmas List 2003

Alright I’m still a newbie but please don't think I'm just looking for something to post. I'm interested in what everyone will be hoping to get under their trees this year. :)

I do realize that some of the countries this website reaches might not even celebrate Christmas and there is a large mixture of religion amongst us. I mean no offense to anyone so I will broaden my question to.

If you had to make a list of things you would like to receive as a gift what would be on it? This could be for a holiday or any other type of special day your culture celebrates.

Personally I’m hoping for a few Serial ATA hard drives and some more DDR system memory for my own personal mod. I'm also wishing for that new fleece hooded sweatshirt with the caffeine chemical make up printed on it.

Now I’m sure I’ve expressed my youth in the way I’m asking what you want for the holidays, but I’m truly interested in you guys I look up to the sear brilliance you express in all the stuff on this site.

Anyways this is just some general chit chat.
:D

All I know is there better not be any switches (of the garden variety) under that tree, or I'm gonna be pissed off!

I would like an IBM Thinkpad T41. But unfortunately it is really expensive. I will pretty much take any laptop though along with an orinoco 802.11b/g Gold wireless card. Are you getting us what we want?

I will certainly try to put in a good word with the fat guy upstairs. Unfortunately he won't stop complaining about my rent to actually let me talk to him.

Umm... what would really be nice would be a 1998 Toyota TT (Twin Turbo) Supra... umm.. a 2003 Evo 8 wouldn't be that bad either... hehe

Computer wise.. a nice wireless keyboard and mouse would be all I need.. I'm set.. :D

Bring me the head of Osama bin Laden


And if that upsets anybody.........................GOOD!



Cheers

:rofl: Nihil

I could go for that.

I think I want a Cisco Pix firewall. I would also like a Wirless router.

A new truck wouldn't be bad either.

Hmm, what does I want under the tree? Hehehehe:
1) Toshiba A20 laptop
2) Wireless router with SPI and such
3) 3 Wireless adaptors
4) A couple grand cash to pay off the rest of my guitar and buy another amp :)
5) A digital recording studio
6) Speakers for the above
7) Microsoft Corp. (so I can sell it at a lemonade stand for $1 Canadian to some kid who will throw it away, but not till after I give 85% of its funds to Linux!)
8) Money

Yeah, that sums it up.

Happy holidays!!

Dave

I think I'm hoping for a new laptop, something nice, right now I'm running a Dell Latitude CPi. PII 300/128/6Gb.

Either that or one of the new Asus MB's with dual Xeons and 4 Gig's RAM included.(and dual 250 Gig HD's) w00t.

I changed my mind. I will take a less expensive laptop. And I want this:
http://www.linuxcd.org/view_item.php?id_version=206
Maybe not that exact thing, I would like to have Suse in there in place of fedora, and Gentoo instead of College linux, and Libranet instead of MEPIS. That's what I want for Christmas. PM me if you're interested in getting me at least the set of distros and I will give you my address to send them to me or you can give me yours to send you the bill. Also, does anyone have experience with ordering in bulk from them. If I just picked the same amount of distros as this pack has, but diff ones, would it be the same price or more?

Ok I've updated my list.

I wanted the Bastard Admin's job :D

lol

I wouldn't mind getting enough money to build another computer just for *nix. Maybe a 200GB HD so I can install a bunch of different ones. I think I would also like a Geforce 4 FX 5900 Ultra.

My list is short... cause I get myself anything I want througout the year...

A ski trip for the weekend with the gf (hotel/cabin should have a hot tub)
The roof rack for my new 2003 jeep liberty.
The roof top travel bag that mounts on the roof rack for long trips this summer.
A bike rack that mounts on the back of the jeep.

If I don't get those... the I suppose I'll just get them for myself.

What else is a x-mas bonus for? To spoil yourself, of course!

I wouldnt mind a nice alienware laptop. or a pen tablet. I think ive gotta a better chance at the second one though haha.

PeacE
-BoB

I need a new life.. any chance of that happening santa ?

SANTA.. ARE YOU HEARING ME ?

/heh, who trusts a fat rolly poly guy who always makes me move around when I sit on his lap ? :eek:

I want a new car. Mine leaks gas onto the exhaust pipe so the whole car reeks of gas, the window roller-upper-thingy falls off all the time, the tape deck doesn't work, it leaks oil like a sonofabitch, the door handles stick open, the power locks are siezed, the turn signal handle doesn't stay so I gotta hold it, I gotta wiggle the light switch to get the headlights and taillights on at the same time, and the fron wheels are out of alignment so I can't go over 50 (~30MPH) if there's more than a light dusting of snow. (Maybe I should write all of that down somewhere in the car so next time I do some work on it I'll fix all that stuff)

But hey - the engine purrs like a kitten and the heat is hot enough to burn skin, so who am I to complain?

Nah, I still want a new car for christmas.

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Originally posted here by jenjen
heh, who trusts a fat rolly poly guy who always makes me move around when I sit on his lap ? :eek:

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Try my lap.

As for Christmas;

I want a 52 inch Plasma TV

Too the dude that wants a supra, I want a Mclaren F1, the car that whips any supras ass. *0-100 in 4 seconds...MMmmMmmMmm*

I want an IBM thinkpad

I want a Powerbook with super drive

I want an Alienware Laptop

I want an Alienware Desktop

I want an IBM UNIX server

I want my own coffee shop...dont care if i make a dime but Im pissed because were almost out of cream.

I want Libranet Linux, the pay for version.

I want Mandrake 9.2 Professional.

I want SuSE 9.

I want a new guitar

I want...some more coffee and a smoke, ill finish this later.

Striek I'm sorry to here about your car and thanks for all the post everyone glad to hear from you.

I would like to update my list now. All i want for christmas is a better grade in my Cisco class.
I'm only a highschooler taking this class for a dual highschool/collage credit. I'm gettinbg really mad at myself for not doing better in this class. The whole thing just seems screwy sense they updated everything this past year.

:cool: As for everyone elses list I will be send a letter to santa so you better get your list in. :D

I just got a new Seagate 120 GB hard drive for $59.99 ($149.99-$90.00 rebate), if you can believe it, so I'm looking for boxed sets of Red Hat and FreeBSD to fill it with. My box is pretty good, however it came with just a 60 GB HD with two NTFS partitions, WinXP already installed. Well, I'm tired of the ceaseless rebooting, so I'm going linux! Yeah, and to go along with that, I want some linux tees from http://computergear.com as well as their binary clock (looks real cool). That's about it for me! :eek:

hmmm... I am looking at some new Handhelds as well as some new "guts" for my computer.

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Originally posted here by h3r3tic
I changed my mind. I will take a less expensive laptop. And I want this:
http://www.linuxcd.org/view_item.php?id_version=206
Maybe not that exact thing, I would like to have Suse in there in place of fedora, and Gentoo instead of College linux, and Libranet instead of MEPIS. That's what I want for Christmas. PM me if you're interested in getting me at least the set of distros and I will give you my address to send them to me or you can give me yours to send you the bill. Also, does anyone have experience with ordering in bulk from them. If I just picked the same amount of distros as this pack has, but diff ones, would it be the same price or more?

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I'm quoting my own post here but oh well. I emailed linuxcd.org about switching those distros and here is the response I got:

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Hi,

You want to remove 6 CDs and add 8 CDs. If you really want that, the
price can't be the same. The price will be $43.00 and I need the version
of gentoo you want (i686 or Athlon xp).

Regards,

Guillaume
LinuxCd.org

-----Message d'origine-----
De : steven [[email protected]]
Envoyé : mercredi 26 novembre 2003 05:12
À : [email protected]
Objet : about a deal

I was just wondering about this deal and if some of the distros within
it could be interchanged:
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LinuxCd Packs -> Try Linux Pack (TLP)
Kernel Version -
Architecture ix86
Number of CD 22
Released on 07/02/2003
Price 40

This cds can be downloaded on the distro page ... This Pack contain :
Mandrake 9.2 (3 Cds), Fedora 1 (3 Cds), Knoppix 3.3 (1 Cd), Debian 3.0r1

(7 Cds), Slackware 9.1 (2 Cds), College Linux 2.3 (1 Cd), FreeBSD 5.1 (3

Cds), MEPIS 2003-08 (2 cds)
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I copied and pasted that from your website. I was just wondering if
some of those could be interchanged and it still be the same price. I
was thinking of adding: Gentoo, Suse, and Libranet, and removing
Fedora, College Linux, and MEPIS. Can this be done. I know I can order

them, but could I have those in the deal for the same price instead of
what's actually in there? If not, what kind of deal would I be able to
get on that combination?

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Sounds pretty good eh. I think I'm going to have santa clause get that for me for Christmas.

I want a top spec computer with a terabite drive and quad screens

v_Ln

I want an iPod (any size) the new Powerbooks and a lifetime subscriptions to Scientific America and Hackers Quarterly 2600.

:D
I hope Santa's noticed I've been a good boy

-Mtuf-

I'd just like to make a final follow up on this thread being that it is Christmas day. I hope everyone recieved what they wanted. I know i did. I got that better grade in Cisco i bitched about and i'm espcially fond of the Samsung 19' viewable LCD moniter i recieved. Thank you fat men in the red suit.
Merry Christmas!

I never got world peace like i asked santa for , **** him, he only seemed to listen when i was a kid anyway.