Comments on: Picking an external DVD drive

By: Shopping with a friend « Motho ke motho ka botho

Shopping with a friend « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:19:01 +0000

[...] lemon guarantee, and the seller threw in an off-the-shelf DVD reader-writer identical to the one I bought two weeks ago. Considering that my friend was expecting to pay twice that amount, it was an easy [...]

By: Circumventing a lack of USB CD support « Motho ke motho ka botho

Circumventing a lack of USB CD support « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:00:56 +0000

[...] few steps to get around. It seems that the Crux 2.6 installation CD doesn’t carry support for USB CDROMs in its spinup sequence — which means the disc will boot, but it’s unable to reach the [...]

By: Raptor Rapture

Raptor Rapture — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:38:26 +0000

http://www.google.com/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://geekadelphia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/apple-logo-cookies.jpg

They all look the same, and you can’t change the frosting.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:03:58 +0000

You’ll be pretty hard pressed to find a netbook that won’t boot from external USB drive and whatever type.

Also, it’s getting harder to find hardware that *doesn’t* work with Linux these days. I rarely check any more to be honest.

By: Luca

Luca — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:41:59 +0000

I really don’t get leaving the plastic on. Surely it looks worse than having fingerprints?

On another note, I’m glad to see BIOSs boot of external DVD drives. I was pondering replacing my laptop with a netbook, and this would have been a requirement.

By: LeoSolaris

LeoSolaris — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:11:34 +0000

“And on that note. …”

It’s time for cookies and kool-aid?

That shouldn’t be a question…

Of course it’s time for cookies and kool-aid!

(It’s it why I’m a part of the cult of Linux… We have so many more choices in our cookie types and kool-aid flavors than the other compuCults.)