Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (39 Viewers)

[Martin]

BTW, anyone seen this?

This could not have been any funnier if it was a mocking video.

But it shows you what they care about above all: marketing. "Vista: Gotta get me some"

 

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[Sheik Yerbouti]

man, when i boot into the live CD, my Caps Lock ligth starts blinking and loading just STOPS!!! it gets stuck even when installing from Wubi. surely the image is screwed. gotta download again! :'(

 

[V]

This could not have been any funnier if it was a mocking video.

But it shows you what they care about above all: marketing. "Vista: Gotta get me some"

Yeah but I gotta hand it to them, if this was indeed a inside joke, they have a good sense of humor.

I just love the bitlocker bit.

 

[Martin]

man, when i boot into the live CD, my Caps Lock ligth starts blinking and loading just STOPS!!! it gets stuck even when installing from Wubi. surely the image is screwed. gotta download again! :'(

If it blinks 3 times that signals a kernel panic, ie. complete kernel crash. Only thing you can do then is reboot.

You can md5sum the image. It's become a habit of mine after being too trusting at first.

 

[Martin]

Yeah but I gotta hand it to them, if this was indeed a inside joke, they have a good sense of humor.

I just love the bitlocker bit.

I don't know, it looked kinda real to me. I don't think think they would hire Springsteen just to mock themselves.

If you've seen Ballmer selling Windows for $100 back in the 80s, you know you shouldn't expect too much finesse from Microsoft marketing.

 

[Omair]

man, when i boot into the live CD, my Caps Lock ligth starts blinking and loading just STOPS!!! it gets stuck even when installing from Wubi. surely the image is screwed. gotta download again! :'(

that's sad ..

I completed the upgrade through traditional command line .. :wee: ..

loving FF 3b5 .. and will try brasero once the download finishes to convert a friend ..

 

[V]

I don't know, it looked kinda real to me. I don't think think they would hire Springsteen just to mock themselves.

If you've seen Ballmer selling Windows for $100 back in the 80s, you know you shouldn't expect too much finesse from Microsoft marketing.

Erm..Martin, that is not the real Springsteen. That some cheap imitator, the whole band that is.

 

[Martin]

Erm..Martin, that is not the real Springsteen. That some cheap imitator, the whole band that is.

Well whatever

Heck, Microsoft spends a gazillion on pencil sharpeners alone I figured they could afford anything.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

If it blinks 3 times that signals a kernel panic, ie. complete kernel crash. Only thing you can do then is reboot.

You can md5sum the image. It's become a habit of mine after being too trusting at first.

i know! i went into verbose mode during the bootup and experienced that!

im not trusting torrents for Ubuntu images from now on. ill just rip it from the servers! screw their bandwidth! they've cost me too many blank CD's!

 

[Martin]

i know! i went into verbose mode during the bootup and experienced that!

im not trusting torrents for Ubuntu images from now on. ill just rip it from the servers! screw their bandwidth! they've cost me too many blank CD's!

ekhm... Actually, bittorrent has data integrity BUILT INTO it. In other words, any file from bittorrent is supposed to be (and not just in theory, every chunk is verified as it downloads) exactly the same file that the uploader has. So if you got a corrupted image from bittorrent, that's probably a rare story.

So ftpdownload+checksum is roughly equivalent to bittorrent..


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That is not to say wubi throwing a kernel panic is such an unthinkable thing. I don't know how wubi works, but it's a totally new thing, so it might be unstable. Or it might just be that the standard kernel configuration hates your hardware, that happens too at times.
Did you try booting off the livecd? If that *does* work then all fingers pointed at wubi..

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

excuse me, but i got the kernel panic while booting into the Live CD itself! and even when i select Install Ubuntu from the bootup selection screen!

you fail Martin!

 

[Martin]

What was the kernel panic message?

 

[Bjerknes]

ekhm... Actually, bittorrent has data integrity BUILT INTO it. In other words, any file from bittorrent is supposed to be (and not just in theory, every chunk is verified as it downloads) exactly the same file that the uploader has. So if you got a corrupted image from bittorrent, that's probably a rare story.

So ftpdownload+checksum is roughly equivalent to bittorrent..


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That is not to say wubi throwing a kernel panic is such an unthinkable thing. I don't know how wubi works, but it's a totally new thing, so it might be unstable. Or it might just be that the standard kernel configuration hates your hardware, that happens too at times.
Did you try booting off the livecd? If that *does* work then all fingers pointed at wubi..

Who were the add wizards that came up with this one?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

i dont remember exactly, but everytime it looked liek teh cd was being red, i got some error msg on the screen, so it's like there's some problem with the cd. then after a while i got the kernel panic - attempting to kill init... i tihnk... yeah,.

 

[Martin]

Who were the add wizards that came up with this one?

a bitter mofo called Bram Cohen.

 

[Martin]

i dont remember exactly, but everytime it looked liek teh cd was being red, i got some error msg on the screen, so it's like there's some problem with the cd. then after a while i got the kernel panic - attempting to kill init... i tihnk... yeah,.

Well if you take the exact message that's a good place to start debugging.

If not, Fedora9 is just around the corner..

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Well if you take the exact message that's a good place to start debugging.

If not, Fedora9 is just around the corner..

im gonna download (K)ubuntu now and try that... lets see...

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Martin, this is the screenshot of the error...

 

[Martin]

Martin, this is the screenshot of the error...

Yep, there's no doubt. The system is struggling to read from the cd. Nothing more 'serious' than that, but a completely useless kind of error when you don't know what to do.

Did you checksum the iso? Btw you can even checksum the cd itself after you burn it to make sure:
md5sum /dev/cdrom
This is what k3b does when you use the "verify" option.

 

[Martin]

i got 3 cd's, and maybe they were screwed.

hey, can i write cd ISO's on a dvd?

Of course.