Switching off the OS
I was reading about these people switching to mac, and switching back from Mac and everything... and you know, i just thought: what a bunch of losers. So last season. I finally made the switch away from operating systems. It was like a light switching off in my head. I uninstalled all my operating system stuff. All i use now is a browser and a usb key. I use google docs, google spreadsheets, google calendar, google mail. And for searching I use msn. i mean google. Now that all my info is online I don't need a hard-drive either. Virtual memory goes onto the usb key. I took out the hard drive and just gave it to a kid who was walking down my street. What a liberating moment. Drives for my remaining hardware are bundled into a self contained file that's called by a bootstrap from the BIOS. I used a bunch of stuff from sysinternals to extract the driver code away from the full windows drivers, like a surgeon removing healthy tissue from a tumour, and bundled them into a self-booting chunk of code on the afore mentioned usb key. Updates are gonna be tricky. I'll work aroud that when I get to it. The only thing i don't have is a decent ide. Maybe lisp can help there.
'Magnus' on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:07:20 GMT, sez: Hey LB... do you have shares in google???
'lb ' on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:09:43 GMT, sez: >do you have shares in google???
i wish maggie! i wish!
'Farmer Jeb' on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:25:07 GMT, sez: That's so cool and minimalist. That's where I was a few weeks ago. I didn't really achieve the Nirvana I was seeking, however, until I got rid of the bulkiest component of all - my screen. Now I'm just a kid with a keyboard, a box, a usb key and a great imagination!
'lb' on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:02:47 GMT, sez: >I'm just a kid with a keyboard, a box, a
>usb key and a great imagination!
good to see you've ditched the mouse too. If you get a usb key that plugs straight into the keyboard, you'll be right.
back in the old days we used to use our imagination all on its own!
'andreas' on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:11:38 GMT, sez: well, for a lot of users google's online offerings are not powerfull enough. compare google docs to ms word. ms wins. i have absolutely no use for docs. i can write simple documents in any app, for complex ones i need something feature rich, like ms.
and google spreadsheet. seriously...
when i can't sync my phone with gcal in an easy way, i won't use it.
reader is great but slow compared to a desktop application.
gmail is just wonderful, though.
'mgroves' on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:56:28 GMT, sez: What do you mean by "uninstalled all my operating system stuff"? Surely you still need an operating system to run a browser.
Or do you mean you just uninstalled all your local applications?
'lb' on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:01:01 GMT, sez: no os means just that: no os. just a bootstrapper, wrapping around some hardware management code, only implementing the parts of the drivers that are (indirectly) callable by the browser code.
you can buy it in kit form off ebay too i think.
aw heck, it's just a joke. it's all just a big sarcastic lie. sorry if i confused you.
'Farmer Jeb' on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:06:05 GMT, sez: A lie, a lie... Hahaha! Those dudes at www.cleverclogs.org thought YOU were serious and I was joking. Does that mean that I'm funnier or you're cleverer or they're stupider?
(Explanation: I "get" him because SG and I lived together for nearly 20 years. Sure we slept with each other a few times and shared a bath more times than I can remember... mostly at Grandmas. We're brothers - duh.)
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