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The Restart Page - Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems. Desktoppr - Free High Quality Desktop Wallpapers for Windows and OSX. MEDIAPORTAL - a HTPC Media Center for free! 5 Classic Games You Didn't Know Had WTF Backstories. A lot of classic arcade games have straight-forward, logical plots that drive them: Turtle dragon stole your woman, stomp mushrooms until he gives her back. That's cool; we're on board with that. But some of these other classic, seemingly self-evident games actually hid madness and dementia behind their fun, childish veneers. #5.

Donkey Kong Via Video Game Obsession What we thought was going on: We all know the story of Donkey Kong, right? "Well, there's your problem. " The WTF Backstory: Except that Mario is the villain in Donkey Kong. According to the game's manual, Donkey Kong was actually Mario's pet ape. Isn't this basically how the Planet of the Apes got started? The poor beast suffered years of physical abuse and neglect, can you blame him for reacting poorly when he finally got his shot at freedom?

Teaching children around the world a valuable lesson about pet care. Because you'll probably find Mario there, covered in ape-blood, screaming in unearthly fury. #4. Step 1: Sleep on a rock. Making sense of memory usage on Linux. June 10, 2012, 12:24 PM — Let's look at some basic commands that report on memory usage. The first that probably comes to mind is free. The free command will tell you about used and unused memory and about swap space. Physical memory is the random access storage provided by the RAM modules plugged into your motherboard. Swap is some portion of space on your hard drive that is used as if it is an extension of your physical memory.

The first line of the free command's output contains the column headings. The second, labeled Mem: displays information on how physical memory is being used. . $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2026 1922 103 0 491 1109 Just looking at these numbers, we see that this system has roughly 2 GB of RAM and that nearly 95% of it is used. . $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2026 1922 103 0 491 1109 -/+ buffers/cache: 322 1703 Swap: 4094 0 4094 Between the Mem: and Swap: lines, we see a line labeled -/+ buffers/cache.

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