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I'm ALL nerdy up in here! Installing Ubuntu 7.10 on my PS3

posted by youdiejoe

8 months 3 weeks ago • 478 views

I only have 1 PS3 (see ref), and really like it. The PS3 is not nearly as paranoid as a XBox360 with all of it's DRM and such.

Around the time my son was born I found myself going back to the game systems. I had not had one since the SNES (1990?) and I went a little hog wild. Got a XBox 360, then I picked up a used xbox from Craigs List hacked it all up, threw in a huge hard drive, ect. then I got a PS3, then a Wii, then a PSP and then a Nintendo DS lite.

I have never been one to camp on single brand, I have always had a PC and a Mac around the house, I had a SNES and a Sega Genisis back in the day, why should my OS platforms be any diffrent.

I run XP, Vista, OS X and now Ubuntu. It makes the sexy little PS3 at under 500 bucks a pretty nifty desktop machine too.

If you have a toe in the PS3 world I point you to this post, so you may join in on the fun.

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Wow..that is geeky. Good on ya!
I have an Xbox running XBMC, it's great if a little underpowered.
Have you checked out Synergy for sharing mouse/keyboard between adjacent machines? It works great.

written by winkler1

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hey man thats cool, i always wanted to mod my systems, but was too scared because of the price.

written by K0MMIE

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Geeks are SO hot!

You are a sex-god. Tell yer wife "to geek, is to be passionate" and be sure to follow-up that up with a demonstration. With her, I meant, not the games.

written by smibbo

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Sigh... I guess this is as good a time as any to mention that my wife and I are getting a divorce after 16 years of marriage. Ironically one of things she has trouble with is the geeky-ness. We are still friends and will have shared custody of our son, but she gets no more IT from me!

written by youdiejoe

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WHAT!? She has trouble with that? Uck, I can only imagine, thats no fun at all man. Be strong.

Don't worry, there are plenty of good looking women who find geeky-ness adorable. Just ask my girlfried after I go off on a rant about how Cyclops could kill Wolverine if he wanted too. 20 minutes later and after the nerd dust settles she'll just say "you're so cute, and I love you."

written by K0MMIE

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Sorry to hear that, joe, but you're not alone. When I got divorced, my ex lost all tech support as well, and she's hurtin' without it.

And ROTFLMfuckingAO @ "nerd dust"

written by MarineGunrock

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can you even type into the damn thing? How much ram is in it?

written by marinara

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Doesn't Ubuntu come with that zippy cool cube windowing system? Compiz Fusion or something? It's awfully cool. Makes me want to use it violently in front of mac X zealots.

written by oxdottir

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>> ^K0MMIE:
WHAT!? She has trouble with that? Uck, I can only imagine, thats no fun at all man. Be strong.

Don't worry, there are plenty of good looking women who find geeky-ness adorable. Just ask my girlfried after I go off on a rant about how Cyclops could kill Wolverine if he wanted too. 20 minutes later and after the nerd dust settles she'll just say "you're so cute, and I love you."

Well 3 months later, we have worked out our differences and are still married. After 16 years we figured we had something worth holding on to.