[Toasty]

Yeeeeaaaahhhh.......apparently falling asleep at the beginning of class and waking up at the bell is a bad thing. Soooooooo, my computer got taken away thanks to my science teacher whining about it. And I only did it once! All the other times I fell asleep, I woke up after at most 30 minutes. :D (srsly tho)

So now I get to control the spam in my e-mail inbox with the MS-DOS prompt while I'm at school (Websense blocks my ISP's webmail login page). I'm currently working on splicing the two REALLY old PC's that I have in my household (an IBM with socket 7 CPU and an HP with a socket 370) to make one massively underpowered computer capable only of using teh intarnets.

All I need is a working laptop CD drive (that's what the HP uses, and I'm having WAY too much trouble with the IBM) so I can install Windows ME on the HP. I took the one from my sister's laptop, but she came home before I could even get the CD in, and let me tell you, she was really happy about it. <.<;

So yeah, her boyfriend (who's awesome) is letting me borrow his laptop's CD drive. I'll be back in no time. :o

[Gio]

You were gone?lol j/k

good luck with that stuff you are doing with computers. I didn't get it at all.

[kate]

doooon't leeeave meee

my spam king T.T *tear*

[Caael]

I didnt know you could speak french.

Laters.

[PDM]

glhf

[Saturos S.]

I R NOT ENTERTAINED.

[Sea of Time]

Something about RAMs and gigabytes......whatever, come back soon I suppose.

[Moonear]

Come back soon and good luck with your complicated computer issues.

[Someone Else]

That's what you get for staying up until 1 AM every day to post here...

[PDM]

He's so hardcore. We're so proud of him.

[Toasty]

I know. <3

Wind Dude, on Feb 27 2008, 04:58 PM, said:

That's what you get for staying up until 1 AM every day to post here...

I actually just keep GSSF open in a tab the whole time. I'm usually on Wikipedia or looking for some app that I'm interested, or occaisionally looking at the prices for computer hardware (n0 pr0n 4 m3). Last time I was up on teh intarnets past midnight, I was trying to figure out how the crap to get my PS2 emulator working. Lukily, my friend has a PS2, so I can get the BIOS I need for the Emulator from him.

[Split Infinity]

I can send you a BIOS if you get on MSN. I'm not sure if it'll work though, since my emulator has never managed to work ever since I installed it.

[Toasty]

I've got a BIOS I got from a torrent, but I want to get the one from my friend's PS2 since I know that it's the real deal. Unless you got yours off of a PS2 yourself, I think I'll pass.

But It's been complaining about the GS configuration (which I've tried many configurations/plugins of) lately. Haven't gotten it to work yet.

[Split Infinity]

I have a PS2, but I don't have anything with which to dump the BIOS, and I think there might be region problems.

[Toasty]

I have BIOS's for all regions right now. I just want a real US region one.

[Split Infinity]

Is there a way to actually run the BIOS, by the way? You know, with the browser menu that appears when no disc is inserted.

[Toasty]

That's the OS. The BIOS runs in the background. Because of that, I don't think it's possible.

[Split Infinity]

I don't know, VisualBoy displays the Gameboy logo when you 'enable' the BIOS.

[Toasty]

That's different. That's just an animated image, not a Graphical User Interface (GUI).

[Split Infinity]

Hm. I would've thought the interface would be part of the BIOS, since it's not meant to be changed.

[Toasty]

BIOS= Basic Input Output System. Basically, it's the backbone of your computer/vg system. You're computer (or in this case, vg system) will not function AT ALL without the BIOS. the operting system is what lets you interact with the computer, or the vg system itself. The OS is not needed for playing the games, only the BIOS. The OS is there to be fancy and offer a few extra options that make life funner/easier.

[Split Infinity]

STOP TEACHING ME STUFF. I know all this from my IT textbook. :(

[Folcon]

LOL split.

You could try putting it on one of those evil macs, seeing as you can run two, or maybe more, OS on it, perhap you could run the BIOS on it two and switch between the two. I'm just grasping at straws here though.

[Toasty]

Lulz. Usually when my dad litterally unplugs my PC and hides it in my parent's room (otherwise I'm always able to find some way past the password lock, etc.), I don't see it for a week or more. I waited a few days to see if he'd take it back, but he let me have it so I could finish a science project which was due the next day (this was just last Monday), and he never took it back. I was waiting to see if he would, because he's forgotten once or twice before, but he never did.

And I never actually worked on the project that night either. XD I did it all at school the next day. I would've even have gotten an A if my stupid computer in first period didn't freeze up TWICE (frikkin' Dells....), because if it hadn't, I would've had the report done, and all I would've had to finish was the poster. But I wrote the report in science before it was my turn to present. Funnily enough, I was one of the three or four people who actually even did ANYTHING. XD

So yeah, I'm back.

Split Infinity, on Feb 29 2008, 02:35 AM, said:

STOP TEACHING ME STUFF. I know all this from my IT textbook. :rolleyes:

IT textbooks are no match to experience. :P Besides, everything I've learned was either from figuring it out myself (like taking the system completely apart and putting it back together), or from articles on teh intarnets (like CAS latencies, socket compatablilities, overclocking, etc.).

So there. :P

[kate]

yay! *rejoices*

go spam. now.

[PDM]

We missed you.