I'm starting this thread for all of us (well, maybe not all 40,000 of us) to introduce ourselves.

I'm Mash, I'm a Senior in college majoring in Communication Studies. I do some part time web design work and love all things technology. I'm also into music, literature, politics, nature, traveling, and a whole bunch of other stuff. I live in the American Midwest and I love it. Oh, and I've only become a fan of Macs in the past year or so.

So that's enough about me - how about you?

I'm jbacko, I've been in and around the computer scene since the early 1980's. I worked with Xerox PARC doing multilingual programing (virtual Keyboards, languages, fonts and editors) for the Xerox STAR & 6085, following that I went to Sun (in the good old days!) where my first Workstation was a Sun 3/50 running SunOS (a BSD derivative, like the guts of OS X). I did some work with NCD doing xterms and email, and then I went to Netscape. I stayed at Netscape until AOL bought them (biggest bummer of my life!). Since then I've been doing freelance consulting - mainly Solaris and Internetworking stuff.

I happend across the Marklar bits on a torrent, gave it a shot - and totally fell for this OS. It's been my only OS for over two months now, and it will be for a very long time - anything to get rid of M$. I found the OSx86 Project and visit this site daily.

I live on the East Coast of the USA.

Oh, and I have a couple of boys who like to hack the parental control passwords on our satellite controller ;-)

I am Rykielz, I am a sophmore in college majoring in Informatics (Computer Science). I love computers and cars. I dont necessarily hate M$ but I like to pretend I do cuz it pisses off a good friend of mine lol
and installing OSx86 on a PC almost pushed him over the edge! hahah so much fun!
I never really thought that I would like mac's but after experiencing it I am in love..now to just get wifi working and I wont have to log in to windows at all.

I live in So Cal

I'm DrJägermeister because I like drinking (and smoking) hard stuff.
I am arrogant, bad, ugly, unpleasant and always drunk.
I'm an ashole and loving it.
Hope the 13000 other menbers have a better character than me

Greetz from Germany

I'm 23
I like read some books, including the ones from Dan Brown (one of my favorite writer)
Music.. my favorite kind is Trance!! Hot Trance plz (progressive, hardstyle and vocals)
I like alot to play games (Xbox and PSP)
I like to go on cine, go out with friends to drink some stuff and i like to camping when i can.
I hate my bad habits: smoking.
I love our girls, so sorry but brazillians woman is just the best in rest of world...

From computers i'm get my first meet with mac is just 3 yrs ago, i aways used to be an ordinary microsoft windows user, when i see a g4 running mac os, my eyes just bright and i'm in love until today.

I'm Metrogirl, and yes I really am a blonde... I'm English. I work with computers and I spend a lot of time in the US and Canada. Right now I live in the US, near New York. I've programmed all sorts of systems from 6502 mcros to VM mainframes. I love technology and dissecting logic - I guess that's why I'm here. I have several systems including a couple of real Macs and a bunch of PCs.

My hobbies are cooking, playing piano and writing. I spend too much time on line...
Bad habits - I like wine rather too much. Plus all the usual ones.

The name "Metrogirl" was suggested by a friend on IRC because I'm excessively fond of Fritz Lang's 1927 film "Metropolis" and, well, I'm a girl.

Sarah xx

The name's Bond...James Bond.

Acutally the name's Matthew....and I'm currently a High-School student in Ontario, Canada. Been into technology and such for a while, pretty much like everyone else on the site...

I'm really into music. I play both guitar and piano, and do write alot of my own stuff. Just recently started messing around with both my PC/Mac to do some recording work. It's a real bitch to master stuff for a nice sound =/

Other interests...Well, I like reading. Usually anything fiction, fantasy fiction, etc. I also write when I have time, though I don't have enough initative to actually finish anything! Also do a bunch of sports, e.g Swimming, Hockey, Skiing.

I spend a tad too much time online as well....but all of my other spare time is spent around and about, so that balances things out a bit. I like reading a couple webcomics in my spare time...Dr. McNinja is amazing...one of my favs. Plus I spend alot of time on Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and you might see me around the forums as Sparticus.

Anyways...that's me.

I'm Cyrana (duh), and I'm a redhead, so that means I'm superior to all of you. Currently live in the US, although I'm moving to Wales later this year. My job is computer related (network security), and I've been in computers for a while now. (If you know a great recruiter in the UK, let me know)Interestingly, I studied history and Japanese in college, and then lived in Japan a while before getting into computers. As for PCs, I only have two x86 boxes, as I've sold all my macs recently in anticipation of something.

My hobbies are cooking reading, writing, wasting time on the computer, keeping in shape, and doing stuff with my dog. I definitely spend too much time online...

Cyrana doesn't mean anything, it was just a name I used in some online game years ago (Asheron's Call). I'm more prone to go by denjin or windycitycassie. You can gather my name by the second half of that last one.

Hey, I'm a redhead too. Togeether we shall rule the osx86project forums! Haha, just kidding.

Anyway, I'm Patrick. I'm from Perdido Key, FL, USA. I'm currently a Sophomore in High School.

I have one PC with an AMD AthlonMP 1500+, soon to be an Athlon64 3000+. I also have a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop running OS X.

I guess that's about all.

I'm Cam. I live up here in the Great White North of Canada, eh!. Now take off, ya hoser!

Here, temperatures range from -40'C in the Winter (capitalized for a good reason, also it's -40'F too) to +40'C (~104'F+) in the summer. Yup need to pay $1000's for natural gas during the Winter, and many $100's for air conditioning during the summer.

I've been using computers since the Commodore 64 back in 1987. I graduated to a Mac Plus in 1990. In 1993, I got a computer job for a consulting firm, and I was forced to learn Windows and DOS. I quickly became the computer guy from not knowing anyting about those two. After graduating from high school, I worked for Future Shop for a year. Then I started my own business for a couple of years.

I got a job at a mail order company in 1997, and totally computerized them within 4 months (total software written from scratch for shipping, accounting, database, etc.). That software was all written in HyperCard (which, at the time, was promising and version 3.0 was just around the corner). HyperCard is now dead, and so is the Mac OS 9 that it runs on. Our company is struggling with a computer system, and I'm in the process of upgrading the entire system to Runtime Revolution and CGI.

Here are my computer-related job titles:
- computer programmer
- network administrator (we run all DNS, mail, routers, etc., in-house with a 40Mbps fibre connection)
- website designer
- database designer/programmer
- Windows 2000 and XP administrator
- Mac OS 9 client administrator
- Mac OS X administrator for servers

Amoung many other job duties. My most ambitious job project at the moment is developing an in-house replacement for eBay for us (it's becoming a pain to use eBay). We want to start auctioning items on our own website instead. I've been working on that for over a year now. Should be up and running soon.

I like kung-fu movies, and spaghetti westerns. Gamecube is my console of choice.

I've visited these US States in my travels: ND, SD, MN, IA, WY, CO, MT, ID, WA, NM, TX, KS, MO, OK, GA, FL, KY, IL, TN, IN, AL, AR, NE (and probably a few more that I'm forgetting). I've visited BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, as well as real Mexico (not those resort places, but "backwoods").

To sum it all up: lots of computer experience, no formal education for computers - loves to travel

Well my real name's Tom (as you might guess from the nick )
I'm from Nuremberg, Germany, I go to college and study Food Chemistry. In my free time I mostly spend time with my girldriend or go out with my friends... probably i still spend too much time online as well...

I currently run an athlon system, which will be changed to pentium d next week. by the midst of feb i hope my macbp has arrived

Hello...I'm Shaun, 24, from Ohio. I too have been into computers and technology for quite a while... Age 7 actually -- starting with an IBM PC/XT 4.77MHz. The words bbs, pascal, quickbasic, clipper, dbase, math co processor, controller card, high density... all words that remind me of my past.

Fast forward to now, where I work for a software company that provides point of sale solutions to thousands of retailers in over 60 countries. Most likely the majority of you have had your credit card run through one of our software packages at one time or another.

I run OSx86 mainly because of my jealousy of my wife's iBook, or it could be because I like not having to install antivirus/spyware as my first app after a reinstall. Either way, between the eye candy and the stability of unix, I'm quite happy...

Cheers!

I am Antrunix and am living in France. Always crawling around with my 12 inches Asus laptop. I am fond of news about computer but I can't program. My concerns are also about ecology, ideology, history.
I love books and information. I think computers can realize a part of Herbert Marcuse's dream concerning automatic life which will permit man to escape from weightful tasks. Internet is a way to approach it. It changes everyday people power. It has increase personal control on many aspects. Unfortunately, science has widespread without enough moral values as said Rabelais, french classic author. And human kind is too divided to take advantage of the new "gobal village" foretold by Mc Luhan and made possible by the Web.
I am afraid is now too late to enjoy a life regulated by data processing machines. The reason is the planet is very dirty outside. Liberty has been given in very large part to human who acted as fools with it. And I believe that machines received a similar foolishness in the way they work so that they will, when powerful enough, become a threat for mankind instead a way of liberation. As human kind destroyed its environment, machines will destroy life one day if nothing is done. So we are all in a dream here, believing that our computer is merely our new tool as hammer or knife used to be. But the power inside it so great in particular when interconnected that associated with the reality of human nature evilness, the result is a nightmare that we, sweet dreamers, could experiment soon.

Text approved by Hal 9000, made by National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois University, Urbana-Champaign. Now on a mission to Jupiter.
Read 2001: A Space Odyssey from A.C.Clarke

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Hmm... Interesting. That doesn't seem very much like you...

I'm Chris and I'm a high school student in Georgia, U.S. of A. I have brown hair (my mom insists it's blond), blue eyes and am about six feet tall.

I hate everyone and have no real life. I bumble throughout my pathetic existence, making friends and then quickly losing them. I used to do good in school, but this year I'm almost failing everything. Except Band. I play the clarinet, mainly for the reason I'm too lazy to play anything else. That and the fact that my crush plays clarinet as well! I'm also in the school's marching band, even though pretty much all the band geeks hate me.

I like video games, but school has kept me from playing them since like December 28, I believe. I found out about Mac when I went to a camp and all my fellow campers pushed me to get the Windows boxes. I slowly walked over to a Mac, sat down and stared at the desktop for about seven minutes until someone laughed at me and told me that Safari was the Internet browser.

I am very good with computers, having used them since I was like five. My dad gave me unrestricted access to the computer and one time I permanently destroyed Win95 by changing the screen resolution. I'm considered the computer-know-it-all of the school and am frequently sent to fix one.

So, yeah... That's me.

EDIT: Oh, yeah... I forgot. My dad works for EMC2. who, if you don't know, owns VMware!

Hi

I am Nitant. I am from Mumbai, India. I love computers. I have two computers, one is desktop, Athlon XP 2100+, which i use mainly for games, etc. The second one is my laptop Dell Inspiron 700m which is for college work and watching movies, Lost, Southpark. It s the machine that runs OSX. I have been in love with Apple since i got my iPod. I hat ethe way i have to reinstall windows every two months, while OSX runs perfect, no problems at all.

I am doing Computer Engineering, 1st year cuurently. I love music...mostly Trance(Psy, Progressive, Vocals, Smooth). Fav artist is ATB, DJ Tiesto, Chicane, Infected Mushroom. Love movies. Love playing games a lot on my comp and PS2. I started on computers with a 486. Back then 640MB of HDD and a 66Mhz 486 was like the best. Saw OSX in real life on my Dell and was addicted as sson as i did. I mean wow what an OS.


Currently looking for a way to get my 855GN get CI and QE.............I can hope cant i. I got the name Unstable Connection from a wallpaper my friend has.

I remeber those days Unstable....I still have an old 486 Compaq laptop sitting upstairs in my closet. I think the HD is actually 300mb on mine though. I remeber squeezing Office 2000 on it, and that's pretty much all it ran

Hey !

My name is Olivier, and I live in Switzerland.

The picture is a real on...It was at my weeding 1 year ago

I love computers since...12 years ago when I discovered them...In Africa! At this time, it was MS-DOS 4.X, and I used the Norton Commander, which is now ported also to OS X.

I am 3 times MCSE...NT 4, 2000 and 2003. I am also a graduate manager.

Even if I am a fervent Windows supporter, I like also to explore other systems, and I ran OS/2, several distros of Linux, BeOS, and...last but not least, Mac OS X ! I never make copy of software, always buy it. So, I am a good customer for MS ;>))

Well, the only exception was the OS X, but I already ordered and Intel box, so I fell ok with that.

Outside computers, I read many books, especially about Buddhism and spirituality in general. I am also active as a freemason on a Lodge where I made the website.

I have a lot of pleasure to share experiences with friends here, but so sad that I will never meet Metrogirl

All the best to everyone,

Olivier

Hiya!

I'm Darktear, and yes I'm a man (the sencetive type) I live in Norway. I am a "houswife" (man'ish) and I live with my girlfriend and my son.

I have puzzled with computers the last 11-12 years, and like to work with OS X on my PC. I usually have a tab opened on the apple website just to druel over the mac's. Windows is still my main OS, but sometime this year, an iMac will be my window to the web

I love reading this forum, though I'm not an frequent poster, you can usually find me reading and moving around here a couple of times a day. Thank you for giving me something to read about think about and sometimes to laugh about

My hobbies are: cooking, reading, wasting time on the computer, playing WoW, and doing stuff with my girlfriend & son. I also spend too much time online....

Darktear as a nick just came into my mind, after abandoning my long used lover_toyboy nick

but no matter what i still remember, those boxes were rock solid, no crashes, downtime, noisy fans. simplicity and hardware that delivered. some times i miss my 486. Even though i had to keep switching between Win 95 and Win 3.1. Coz 32 MB RAM just wasnt enuf for 95...............heh that reminds of Bills famous 640k line. That also reminds of days of God of thunder and Death Rally(One of the best games ever)

hey - cool thread, nice to find out a bit more about the scene members.

im 27, live in Scotland with my wife-to-be, work as a Software Engineer and am about to become a father for the first time (due in less than two weeks!)

been into computing since i was very young (older brothers who had ZX81s, Spectrums etc), my gaming and programming route went ZX81 -> Spectrum -> Amiga 500+ -> Amiga 1200 -> PowerPC Amiga -> PowerMac -> SGI Indy (IRIX) -> Windows -> Mac OS X

my work is mostly Delphi, C/C++, Java on Win32 (unfortunately)

i'm also totally into photography (iPhoto is the reason I got back into the mac scene), guitar (tho not so much these days) and reading.

i own a powerbook g4 1.33Ghz 12'' and a new hackintosh (Pentium D 920, i945-based, X1800XL graphics, named Zaphod).

greets to all.

PS for anyone who doesnt recognise the great man, i'm a huge Bill Hicks fan....

hi, my name is Ralf, i'm from Germany

i sold my Harley Davidson at 1995 and bought my first PC
my dream was to make music with it
so after many years of learning, my dream came thru.

my new dream is to get a working logic audio on a normal PC
a few weeks ago i found some information about OSx86
and i started search around and found this forum.

i'm not so familiar with the hole stuff here
maybee there is another German who can give me a hand

Hey thats how I chose my handle, and I didn't even have the 16k expansion pack.
I'm from alba too, left a good few years ago, somewhere in north america (for apple legal!)

Bill played perth once but I was too stoned to attend (typical scottish student). Then he upped and died on us, tragic waste. Wasnt he the funniest comedian of his time. Get some sleep with prior to the wee one arriving, first few weeks are manic, lots of fun though, cannae beat it. Cheers!

aye. ye gave yirsel' awa' there wi' yer 'cannae', min'.

Well You can guess from the Name, I am a former US Marine, ended my services with the US Government in 1997. I have a wonderful wife, and 3 children, ages 8, 6, and 2 on friday.

I have been a network engineer since 1993, started way back when Banyan Vines was actually a NOS.

I have supported networks in companys such as, GTE, LSG Sky Chefs, American Airlines, and currently working for the 5th Largest US ISP.

I have supported evey microsoft product from the days of Microsoft Windows 3.1 all the way to Windows 2003 (and I am working on Vista now too)

I have been through, traveled to about as many places as I wanna go (or atleast go to solo)

And I am probably one of the oldest people on this board as well.

As for what I really believe:

There is just one rule in life: Live life by the seat of your pants, if you don't then you are gaurnteed to miss something. (and yes I can even live by that rule with 3 kids)

I'm dubbed "cable box" *thanks to one of my coworkers*

I'm 22, started with a 386-20mhz and 2mb of ram, 40mb hdd

GOD how things have changed... $1 per megabyte to less than $1 per gigabyte

New to all the Mac-tel stuff, having a blast playing with codename "Version 3" (just upgraded from "Version 1" tonight)... guess I missed out on "Version .8" (Maxxuss, you kick just wanted you to know...

Now, I'm on a 1.6Ghz P4, 1gb 266mhz DDR, 200 and 80gb harddisks, NEC 1100A (upgraded to 1300A, thanks Herrie's Firmware page!), Geforce 440mx 64mb running windows craXP, SUSE 10, and yours truly "Version 3"

Trying to go from to here, and I dunno where to start. Wish I could be helpful.

Anyone that'd be willing to send me an instant message and lend me a hand would be very much appreciated.

Thanks guys
Cable box

AIM: Bludacrisrs

Well, it's about time I got around to posting here. Let me start by giving you this link, for anybody that hasn't been there. http://www.apple-history.com/ This site has all the information you could ever want on all the hardware that Apple has ever sold. That covers from the first Apple, to the Core Duo machines now, and all the iPods and everything... It's fun to sort by processor and see the evolution

About me. I have always felt an intuitive connection with computers. When I was 6 years old, my dad bought our family a Mac Plus. Within days, I knew more about the machine than anyone in the family, and my father's company used Macs at work! Soon enough, I was given a used Apple IIc of my own, so everyone else could use the Mac When I was older, I graduated to a Mac LC II for high school. It was the mid nineties, but I had never had internet access of my own until I went to college. When I got there, I found that the school used nothing but their own version of UNIX on campus, and became used to using Sun Sparc, Sparc IIs, etc. It was great when I started doing work for the Media Lab there, and was assigned a 'time share' of sorts, on my own Silicon Graphics Octane machine. Now that was some serious power at the time.

All along, however, I was confined to using my personal PC - my first Windows machine ever. I had bought a Dell Pentium 233MHz, since almost everyone had PC's as their personal computers. I missed my Mac. Since then I have gained more experience through using PC's through the transition from '95 to '98 (and ME yuck) to XP and such. I find that my biggest interest is in Networking. Between larger jobs as a Networking Consultant, I get by at the moment on smaller, computer 'odd jobs' and such. Right now, I'm looking for a more permanent form of employment. That's probably why I have so much free time to sit at my computer and be active on this forum. Although, it doesn't help me pay the bills

By the time I 'found' Mac again this past December, I knew virtually nothing about it's current system. I had jumped from Mac System 6, straight to OS X 10.4.1. I have to say, this forum (and of course the work by Maxxuss and others) has been the best thing that has happened to my personal computing experience since going to college, and discovering the world of UNIX based Operating Systems. I am ecstatic to be a part of this community, and I value the inputs of each and every member here (even if a rare few of them piss me off to no end )

Today, I run my main machine (in my signature) built from scratch 2 years ago. I have currently been running nothing but 10.4.3 8F1111A on it (without rebooting into XP) for almost 2 weeks straight without a single crash or restart. I also have an IBM Thinkpad T30 that goes everywhere with me, and 2 older IBM Pentium II machines set up as servers. One for internal filesharing and BitTorrent, and the other as an FTP server. I have two very loving cats, am in the process of finding a new room mate, and my very happy VW passat station wagon If only I could get the VW to run OS X, it would be an awesome add on to its VR6 powerhouse. I love all kinds of music, and I'm a big fan of independant movies. My avatar is from the movie Pi by Darren Aranofsky (also did Requiem for a Dream). I watch too much TV, and smoke too many cigarettes. I can't think of much else, so thanks for reading if you made it this far...

I'm Alex - 23- recently married- from midwest U.S. My wife and I are expecting our first child any day now - -
I, of course, enjoy computers and technology- I'm mainly interested in the ideas of online collaboration - I spent quite a bit of time pondering an idea of making music online - (essentially "jamming" using Skype) - I think there is a lot that can be accomplished through online collaboration- - so that, along with a new-found interest in Apple (thanks to a Danish friend) has brought me here.
I'll graduate from my university in May - Ideally, I'd like to get some sort of tech job at a university and pursue a master's degree.
I've learned a lot from everyone- I really appreciate the "community" atmosphere.
Thanks for all your help!

Congrats holden caulfield!

We hope everything goes well with the delivery. Upload some pics when you get the chance.

Good luck, and welcome! Great name, btw. Although I've not read the book in years...

Congrats as well...and to you too Munky!



We're not so different...learning the ropes in Cubase right now...hoping to get some stuff recorded nicely very soon!

Hey everyone, I'm from Wisconsin...the land of beer, cheese, and meat (preferably in that order too).

I've been into computers since the early 80's since our family owned a multitude of Commodores and Ataris. I haven't used an Apple now though since the IIci in highschool, on which I (mostly on accident) hacked into the administrative server and changed tons of grades...locked teachers out of accounts. It was pretty hairy, they didn't even want to allow me to graduate with the 140 hours of detention I still had left to serve...but hey, I got good grades

I've been solely a Windows user since the Pentium I came out, so I'm loving the differences and smooth butteryness of osX...been learning alot from these forums too, although it seems I have oodles of command line msgs to learn now

I'm a late blooming college student now, in a networking degree, but mostly I just care about multimedia...making music, video editing, and tweaking my computers out to be able to work harder and harder.

I also run an electronic radio station through shoutcast, which you can find below in my sig (or look for Limbik Frequencies in iTunes, under Ambient).

So, anyways, hola all, and thanks for the help again...really, these forums have been the only decent info I've found for the Macintel fiasco.

Wutup.

My nickname is franz, but that was taken so I put my 2nd most popular nickname, franzy .

I am a sophomore in high school but am of an elite few in my high school, and gaining the title, MLA (machine labor assistant i think :-/)

obviously havent had much experience w/ the 80's computers back in the day like u old guys :-D, but the computer head does and he's got some incredibly old machines - the LISA, etc. I have a 95' dell of my own :-D.

My experience ranges from contributions to the mac os x86 effort (a wireless solution for 10.4.5, etc). Also experience on building comps. More noteably, I know everything about the cutting edge technology of today, as well as being on top in the computing world.

Gladly joined this site after its creation a short time after macifying my dell.
mashugly - great job on this site. You've really assembled a nice bunch of hackers.

Hey,

I'm Mike and a freshman in high school here in Florida. I take three tech classes which are Tech Studies, BST (Business Systems and Technology), and Drafting. Next year I hope to be in T.V. production. I haven't been around long enough to have and use an Apple ][ or anything like that. My dad is a real big Windows fan and he's been using it since DOS. I still have that old computer with Windoze 95 on it. I was born and raised on Microsoft products until my grandma bought her first iMac G3 back in 1998. Since then I have been a Mac guy. I hope do either do video editing, software development, or do something with Photoshop when I'm older.

Good job with the site, Mashugly. It's really grown since it started in August.

EDIT: I'm a sophomore now.

Well i was looking for somewhere to introduce myself so...i hope i did this i the right place folks.

My name is Karl (aka Neon). I am usually the Windows Vista, XP e.t.c guy but something about OSX on a computer excited me. Its different and certainly interesting.

Have i had OSX on my computer yet? Yes
Do i want it again? Yes

The community seems to be full of people who are either well-up on the subject and/or have some good questions. You've probably guessed by now i have my own

Well. See you around people!

This thread is most likely dead, but anyway. Im Richard, and I like anything that has to do with computers, videogames, cars, or music. My PC specs are in my sig, I play guitar, record music, toy with cars, h4x with computers, and that kind of stuff. Thats about it, lol.

My name is Mark and i live in scotland, i used to be a computer engineer but im going back to study graphic Design this autumn.

I love music and was first attracted to osx by the ability to use garageband and Logic.

This thread was dead as far as i can tell, but what the hell.lets just give it a rebirth

I'm Justin and I'm in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. I'm currently 18 and just finishing up high school. I've already been accepted at a polytechnic school around where I live called BCIT, where I will be taking the Computer Information Systems Technology. I plan on working in the computer networking field, programming and troubleshooting Cisco equipment and possibly Linux servers.

I've liked Mac OS X since it came out. Although I've grown more attached to it since Tiger came out. I don't think I'll ever be buying a Mac desktop system, unless of course I start making some big bucks, but I'm trying to get a MacBook Pro the way Mashugly did, and munky will be doing. I don't have any true purpose to use it, it just feels more professional to work with. Unless DirectX is ported to other operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X, I will always use Windows, just not legally.

I used to mountain bike as a hobby, although I haven't found anyone to go with over the past year so I haven't been doing it much anymore. I'm planning on forcing a few friends to start back up again because I'm not getting any exercise at all. Six months ago I obtained a stomach ulcer from my unhealthy lifestyle and I've been working at making a lot of changes in my life because of it. Hopefully I'll be back to normal soon.

I'm always looking for new people to talk to, so if you think you'd like to talk to me, PM me and I'll give out my instant messenger screen names. Sorry for such a long introduction to myself, I like to get carried away with these sort of things. Toodles.

amdprophet: if ur ever in scotland ill go mountin bikin wit ya

Hey! I'd love to go traveling to Scotland. I could visit munky, and you, and a few other people on the forum. Think you could handle the sort of mountain biking I do? Not the average trail riding, I'm talking about going off 20 foot cliffs.

Hi,

My name's Luca, I'm 20, I'm a male, I live in Italy, in Rome, and I'm studying informatic engineering at university.

I'm in love with Computers since I was 4 years old (!).
When i was 4, my dad bought a 286 with a VGA monitor which ran DOS.

Paradoxically (does this word exist?) I learnt first how to write on dad's PC (and DOS commands) and then on paper.

One day when all of a sudden, DOS went crazy and started to launch several commands.
It was my father that realized that there was a boot virus... and actually I was the author!!!
In fact I was writing in WordStar a DOS Quick Reference for my mother (she only used it to play Tetris) and I did something that interfered with the Autoexec.bat .

So when i was 5 years i wrote my first virus

At 6 years, I found an Olivetti 286 abandoned outside an office and I decided to take it home. My dad bought me a Black and White Monitor and that was my first PC.

4 years later my Dad went crazy and spent a load of money to buy a Pentium 166 MMX.

5 years later I bought the pieces of my new PC and assembled it by myself: an AMD Duron 600 with the mighty Radeon 9000 128 Mb.

From there until now, I used mainly windoze and Linux and now that I discovered OS X, I left both Linux and Windows, because OS X integrates Unix Power with Mac Style.

I'm planning to get a MacBook someday because I'd really love to own an original Mac.

That's all.

Do you live on the second floor? (bad joke). Welcome.

well,

im thatcrazylaxdude obviously. i play(ed) lacrosse for 3 years. sophmore in college majoring in Mechanical Engineering, minor in something or other, not sure what yet. used windows all my life. started using linux couple of years ago, and using osx for the past couple months. I stutter, but i get along. I like working on cars, even though i dont have one , VW and AUDI are by far my favorite manufacturers at the moment (changes alot). favorite car ever: Audi Quattro Coupe. (insert drooling smiley here). I'm an avid computer builder and trying to get into photography. I love music, and have a rather extensive collection. All-time favorite artist: the Beastie Boys. after all thats said and done, well, thats about it. feel free to PM me. btw, anybody got a sempron compatible 400mhz fsb socket a motherboard they can part with cheaply?

Hi everyone!

I apologize for not posting my introduction before my other posts, but at least I'm introducing myself now. I go by the username/nickname Melody of Dismay. You can call me Melody or Melo too. I am into computers, music, and natural breast enlargement. I work for a Canadian internet service provider as a technical support representative. I am on my way to completing my jazz music degree and hope to gain a computer science degee in the future. I play guitar, piano, bass, and I sing too. I'm really into recording music on both the Mac and the PC. I help run a NON-commercial website called NBE Quest that includes topics about the various methods of natural breast enlargement. I currently own a PC desktop and a Mac PowerBook. Before today, I have been lurking the forums for a few months. Now I am happy to post here and have access to the search button! Thank you all for contributing to the OSx86 Project--it's awesome!

Cya!
~Melody~

Im corey, im 18, A an A+ certified computer tech.
Im a certified pimp as well. I work at a cell phone shop by day, and on the side I hustle laptops and work on cars.
Im into imports, muscle cars, Drifting, surfing, skateboarding.
Mainly im a laid back guy, i like to do a little recreational experimental activities to expand my mental abilities and my mind set.

I really enjoy watching movies like Waking life.
IMDB it.

Well my name is corey, im laid back not much of a problem starter, more a problem solver, im very quisitive and eager to tweak my machines and make then faster and find new ways to cut down on used hd space.

Melody of Dismay -

It's not every day that people are interested in both Natural Breast Enhancement AND OSx86. I'm not gonna lie... there are a lot of questions I would like to ask... but we'll keep it professional. Welcome.

Welcome, Corey! You'd better not work for T-Mobile...I used to at a call-center. They paid us really low wages and treated us like we were sub-human. Remember that next time you speak to an activations or business care agent.

This may be slightly off-topic, but is your display picture allowed on the forums? I mean, links to warez and pirated software aren't allowed, so one would think that pictures of cannabis aren't either. I hope you will be OK, but I myself would like to know about these things in case I put a display picture that is not appropriate!

Cya!
~Melo~

Hi again, Mash!

LOL--I bet I'm the only one who's into both OSx86 and NBE (natural breast enlargement)! If you have questions, please ask--I am open to any questions about my interest in NBE as well as about my NBE Quest website. I do my best to keep my website professional, too. Thanks for the welcome!

Cya!
~Melo~

Hey Melody! (how about MoD? )

Welcome to the forum. Hope you enjoy your stay!

You might want to shorten your sig in compliance with these rules too: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=16427

SABR.

Welcome, Melody and Corey. Wow, a pimp and someone into natural breast enlargement... We live in interesting times.

Only if the cannabis pictures are copyrighted.



Great, how big is your chest?