*looks to his left*

IV have always shipped overseas before (with Darwinia and Uplink), I don't see why Defcon would be any different. Though I'm not sure about copies in local shops.

mibias wrote:why does poptarts not exist in denmark...... maybe because they are bad.... maybe its because "the man" says that they are too good for denmark... or too bad

You can buy them from import stores. I know of at least one in Copenhagen. *nod*

Dirty Harry Potter wrote:Pretty sure there isn't a legal drinking age here in Denmark :X You can't buy alcohol before you're, I think it's, 18 though.

It's 16 in shops, 18 in bars and clubs and things, IIRC.

(Just to, y'know, reply to a couple of days old post.)

AgentX 24 wrote:I was gunna post this too. Damn you!

Yeah, but I was the one who told Darksun in the first place .

Damn you, beating me posting it .

[EDIT]In the actual paper itself it's located in the "Doors" section.[/EDIT]

The US distributors apparently didn't include the datafiles necessary for the Linux installer to work, and only shipped a Windows installer. If the installer works in Wine, then it should be salvageable; only having 1st gen UK retail boxes (InstallShield, yay), I'm not sure if it can. If it can be r...

The blackbox would appear in $PWD, though I'd imagine it'd just complain about the missing shape file.

The mod issue seems strange; I've not played around with the system enough to work anything out.

MaintenanceSyS' issue is a general one; it just always fails on Linux, apparently due to a missing shape. I think I reported it back in its original thread, but I can't be arsed to check back and see. The "garden" issue suggests that you may be using an old profile; you need to create a ne...

Did a recent update fuck up FF and Thunderbird for you? It did for me and my dad. I dunno, I've not booted into native Win32 for ages; I literally only have it for playing the odd game that this machine can actually handle. My VMware XP Pro and 2000 installs still have Firefox working fine though. ...

NeoThermic wrote: You have to do something stupid to mess it up

Something stupid like...install suggested drivers from Windows Update.

*grumblestupidwindowsupdategrumble*

You'd set up dual-boot, which most distros do automatically now. The one caveat is that Windows doesn't even comprehend that it may not be the only OS on the system, so that has to be installed before Linux.

Cheshyr wrote:Grab Slackware or Fedora.

Slackware's nice, but definitely not for a first timer... I'd recommend Ubuntu or Fedora, as you said.

(I'm just not a fan of Gentoo)

You throw away the CD, and get a sane distro.

*nod*

*nods at LLamaBoy*