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Thursday, November 27. 2008

Ultimate waste of time

“Wasted” time on the parts of both developers and users. On the other hand, isn't the whole point about computers that they waste the time they could have saved in any case?

LILO boot screen with breakout game. Thanks to Florian Rehnisch for making me stumble upon this. (The description references SuSE Linux 7.2, so I'm probably the last person on earth who hasn't seen this before. Oh, welll...)

Posted by Adrian von Bidder in Interesting at 20:26 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Then if you want to play that Breakout game while doing something else you need to fire up vmware. Really someone should make an editor and compiler be part of a boot loader. Then you could write your own OS and boot it without using another OS. ;)

#1 Russell Coker (Homepage) on 2008-11-28 00:35 (Reply)

Have you seen this? http://packages.debian.org/sid/grub-invaders

#2 Fabian on 2008-11-28 09:00 (Reply)

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