Use linux without anyone knowing it!

Dude111 · 08-03-2011 1:33am #1

This is pretty impressive!!

pickarooney · 08-03-2011 10:05am

In what way is it impressive?

MacGyver · 08-03-2011 10:09am

in a 1998's way impressive

bandit197 · 08-03-2011 10:19am

Am I missing something here?

Jackobyte · 08-03-2011 10:26am

bandit197 wrote: »

Am I missing something here?

Linux looks like Windows 98 is all I can make out.

pickarooney · 08-03-2011 3:51pm

Is Dude111 an elaborate spambot? Are you, Dude111?

syklops · 08-03-2011 5:07pm

If he had it looking like windows 7(which is truth be told visually appealing), then that would be impressive. Having it look like Windows 98 first edition, is just... wrong.

Dude111 · 08-03-2011 7:13pm

pickarooney wrote:

Is Dude111 an elaborate spambot? Are you, Dude111?

Hehe No not at all!! (I hate spammers)

evercloserunion · 08-03-2011 7:16pm

Ah, there's something to be said for the pre-XP look. Maybe it's just nostalgia.

tman · 08-03-2011 7:22pm

evercloserunion wrote: »

Ah, there's something to be said for the pre-XP look. Maybe it's just nostalgia.

Nope... Still looks **** to me!

Grudaire · 08-03-2011 9:59pm

Dude111 wrote: »

Hehe No not at all!! (I hate spammers)

Thats exactly what a spambot would say... :P

Jonathan · 08-03-2011 10:56pm

MacGyver wrote: »

in a 1998's way impressive

2.2.19 was actually released in 2001.

boidey · 08-03-2011 11:58pm

Either I'm missing something here or you got very low standards.

Johnboy1951 · 09-03-2011 4:12pm

" Use linux without anyone knowing it!"

I am trying to figure out why ........

IRWolfie- · 14-03-2011 9:56pm

It looks like an attempt at a windows theme, but not a very good one, (you can get very convincing windows 7 themes for gnome)

hardCopy · 15-03-2011 10:07pm

Mmmmmmmmmm, Netscape

dueyfinster · 16-03-2011 12:20am

IRWolfie- wrote: »

It looks like an attempt at a windows theme, but not a very good one, (you can get very convincing windows 7 themes for gnome)

or packages like Macbuntu to look like OS X. I guess it's all fun at the end of the day. I tried stuff like this before, and it's fun until it gets in the way and you start to try things the GUI won't properly emulate (like menus are horrible in Macbuntu), then it's really annoying :mad:

Shows power and flexibility of Linux and all the many WM's and DE's

BopNiblets · 17-03-2011 4:09pm

Heh, I remind my mam she's using linux every chance I get:
"You'll use it.... and by god YOU'LL LIKE IT! Now update your system!"

Galen · 18-03-2011 6:34am

As far as I'm concerned, windows 98 was piece of crap and I certainly don't want to be reminded of it. Why would anyone go back to that when you can have linux mint or kde?

Dude111 · 23-03-2011 7:51am

Win98se happens to be my favourite WIN os

(One of the best ever released)

Nicest Icons,etc........

Galen · 23-03-2011 8:42am

There's no accounting for taste!

Webmonkey · 23-03-2011 9:10pm

I think you'd want to be pretty dumb not to realize that's not Windows!

Wait until a noob tries installing something :pac:

Rambo · 23-03-2011 10:11pm

Dude111 wrote: »

This is pretty impressive!!

Windows XP:

http://ubuntu.online02.com/node/14

Galen · 24-03-2011 7:31am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ&feature=player_embedded#at=129

KAGY · 25-03-2011 9:58am

While we're at it,
Use win3.1 in a browser...
http://www.michaelv.org/

Eliot Rosewater · 25-03-2011 11:30am

KAGY wrote: »

While we're at it,
Use win3.1 in a browser...
http://www.michaelv.org/

That's sweet! Can you download it and intall it on your own webserver? I know it's meant to be gimmicky, but if you could do file uploads and downloads on it it could be useful.

slowlydownwards · 25-03-2011 7:19pm

My favorite by far is Windows RG Edition.

evercloserunion · 27-03-2011 10:52am

slowlydownwards wrote: »

My favorite by far is Windows RG Edition.

I like the way the colour scheme in the Word application is the same one used by LibreOffice.

Hotblack Desiato · 27-03-2011 9:00pm

syklops wrote: »

If he had it looking like windows 7(which is truth be told visually appealing), then that would be impressive.

To my eyes, Windows7 looks very much like a rip-off of KDE4 :pac:

dubhthach · 29-03-2011 10:34pm

Why would you do that when it was possible to do the following several years ago (original screenshot from Feb 2007 -- blanked some details)

pickarooney · 30-03-2011 8:08am

I find it kind of funny that you blocked out some personal info but display your DNA details in your sig

dubhthach · 30-03-2011 8:17am

pickarooney wrote: »

I find it kind of funny that you blocked out some personal info but display your DNA details in your sig

The DNA info is fairly generic though, at least 70% of Irish men are R1b-L21, if you go for it's parent group R1b-P312 then that covers 90% of Irish men. I would say my admixture is also fairly standard, though I'm somewhat higher on "West-Asian" component (as result lower on N.European) then most other Irish people in the project (7-12% on average)

pickarooney · 30-03-2011 4:01pm

OT, but how do you find that info out?

syklops · 30-03-2011 4:07pm

pickarooney wrote: »

OT, but how do you find that info out?

Theres an App for it.

dubhthach · 30-03-2011 4:41pm

syklops wrote: »

Theres an App for it.

An app that runs on Linux called Admixture

http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/software/admixture/download.html

As for the original question well I spent $99 on getting a genetic test where they test for 1 million markers (SNP's) in your genome. I then submit that raw data to a project called Dodecad. Basically the breakdown is to do with populations where certain markers are more common (modal). So for example people from Sardinia are 96.5% "South European" whereas Lithuanian are 88.7% N.European, Chinese 98.3% East Asian etc.

http://dodecad.blogspot.com/
Population proportions -- across 10 admixture Components

http://www.23andme.com

Use linux without anyone knowing it!

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