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Maybe they're gonna give us Majora's Mask 3DS! emotion_c8

I turned my dad's busted old computer into a working one running Ubuntu, which is a linux distro.

Now the kids hopefully won't fight over the laptop as much.

this is true

But I was more talking about how aonuma said they're very early in development, where earlier someone said that they'd considered bringing a trailer to E3, but I guess that person straight up lied.

Yeah, that hunk-a-junk is running with pretty decent speed now. Too bad the fans still sound ready for lift-off.

The whole point of installing ubuntu was to recover some files for my dad. He thinks I'm some kind of wizard, probably, but tonight I sorta feel like an ignoramus.

At first I thought that the partition on the hard drive where all the files related to Windows etc (Everything on the hard disc before I used a thumb drive booter to create an ubuntu partition) was corrupt or something. I couldn't find any of the files. Then I realized maybe it wasn't properly "mounted," because the way you access s**t in these OSes is kinda complicated.

So, I spend hours trying to mount this stupid ******** partition to a directory I couldn't even make appear (All of these guides seem to be written involving some feature which must have been very recently overhauled. And probably several times.) and then I realized that it had been mounted all along to the main directory, but it was still empty.

And then I looked at the partition in some graphical partition manager program and I saw how small the thing was... and now I'm pretty sure that it must have been wiped somehow. (Which must have been the problem all along. There was next to nothing left on the hard drive!)

So... so much for recovering my dad's files. Hope it was nothing important! :U

Not really certain. The computer had 8 years of accumulated problems. It wasn't getting much use at all for the last few years. Obviously there was a problem with irresponsible use, but also it was ancient in computer terms. It could have been a combination of either.

As far as old computers go, it's not bad. it's dated, definitely, only compatible with relatively slow DDR2 ram, but 2 gigs of that and an old 3ghz dual core processor is more than sufficient to run ubuntu and I don't think it'll ever be used to do anything but browse the internet.

Loading speeds are pretty decent too, since it's wired right into the router. It should keep the kids satisfied, and it's nice to be able to do something around here.

So, I just remembered that I played Diddy Kong Racing on monday, and holy crap has it aged poorly.

a lot of indie games have the IP address system.
its not too hard. people can see their own external IP at places like IPchicken.com or other similar places.