hi,

ok here it is, the competition, first of what can you win,

A Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo (800 MHz AMD Duron) Minitower (see photo), complete with 32mb nvidia Geforce 2MX 400 (32mb ram) card, Turtle Beach Sana Cruz II audio card, Intel 10/100 network, 56k modem, 20gig hd, 128mb ram, IDE based.

also included i will pre-install a linux distro such as ubuntu linux 5.1, suse 9.3 professional or fedora core release 4 on this for the winner.

Its a nice wee box with room for expansion and it can be yours for FREE, NADA, ZIP. Well not quite, YOU have to pay for SHIPPING the box from me, to you.

ok, thats it, on with the competition,



ok ? easy huh ?

The first person with the nearest correct answer (in seconds) wins and only one guess per person

reminder of the rules:-

* you pay for shipping
* you must be a member of linux-noob.com
* only one guess per person
* the guess must be in the form of X minutes and X seconds
* post your guess in this thread.
* first person with the correct answer who is willing to pay for shipping, gets it.
* if the person who wins doesn't want to pay for shipping, then the next nearest (who is willing...) will get the computer
* competition CLOSES Wednesday 8th of June 2005 (winner will be announced same day)

people ! this is actually a nice little box and worthy of some attention, so if you win it, do us all a favor here at linux-noob.com, tell us exactly what you are going to do with it


good luck

cheers

anyweb

4mins and 34 seconds

I say 1 minute and 30 seconds

Come on, you ain't that slow: 1 minute 56 seconds.

okay, i'm going to take a guess at this for fun. whether i win or not is irrelevant.

my guess is: 2 minutes, 45 seconds.

I agree. Whether I win or not is irrelevant. This is for fun, right? okay...

my guess is: 3 minutes, 17 seconds.

ill box for a 2 minutes flat! in all honesty though don't really need 'yet another pc'

definetly 4 min 18sec

4mins

I guess 4:56

That is saying that it isn't in standby

15 secs

5M 18s

4:12

9 minutes 8 seconds!

BINGO

5min 13sec

1min 21seconds

I guess 6min and 5secs

0 minutes 0 seconds. Cause it doesnt have an operating sistem

2min 20seconds

2 min 13 sec

I'll take a shot 1 minute and 43 seconds...

Here goes.... nothing 8 minutes 77 seconds j/k 9 minutes 17 seconds

ok ya'll the competition is now officially CLOSED.

It appears that there are a few people close to the result but no one got it right,

when i booted the system a week ago, i attached a USB mouse instead of the PS/2 mouse, that caused a hardware 'redetect' which slowed down my result by some seconds.

anyway, on with the result,

from start up (pressing the power button) to the moment i got a ping reply back from www.google.com took exactly (and i'm being specific here)



based on the result above and the guesses listed here, it's my honor to present the prize of the Fujitsu Scaleo Minitower pc to

z0ny

for his near perfect guess of 1 minute and 56 seconds.

If z0ny wants the box, and will pay for shipping as above then it's all his, if he doesnt, then I will award it to the second closest guesser (and so on until the box is shipped out of my office).

congrats z0ny and thanks to everyone for taking part

cheers

anyweb

Congradulations on your win z0ny hope you enjoy it

w00t z0ny.. any closer and we'd say you cheated!!! hahaha

thanks to anyweb for the comp.. and i hope you enjoy the machine

W00T! Cool, I've never won anything!
Of course I'll take it if shipping isn't too expensive!
Thanks everybody!

ok dude, congrats !

now we'll have to figure out how to ship it/how to pay for shipping

contact me this evening on irc and we'll figure something out

what linux distro (ubuntu/suse/fedora) do you want preinstalled on it ?

cheers
anyweb

Bit too late here

I guess "1 minute, 51.7 seconds"

whoever wants it can have it

pay for shipping !

and thank z0ny and anyweb

cheers

anyweb

*bump*