Thats It!!!

[xoder]

Fuck it all!
Licence issusde keeping me from working in the CEDA lab, my OS keeping me from listening to Shoutcast due to nonsensical bandwidth cap, and a shitload of work to do in my room -- the worst possible place for me to even try!

Thats it, zsparke, take me to Sam's club, we're getting me a HDD, and some more RAM for good measure. codepoet, faboo, come to my place friday night (like 7). Bring XP and your favorite Linux distro (sorry, Ed, I don't really feel like LFS, so something else, maybe?).

Violence!!!

PETER

Comments

XP? uhhh...

[codepoet.livejournal.com]

you might prefer 2k - I've herd in the past that it's the best of the Windowses, and I've been becoming more and more convinced of this as time goes on.

don't worry, I wouldn't attempt to force LFS on someone - I'd only really suggest it if they seem eager to break out of the distro-box.

as for distro - proably Redhat or Mandrake.

Re: XP? uhhh...

[xoder.livejournal.com]

I have mandrake 8.2 on CD already. Okay, then where should I get 2k? Anyways, doesn't that have some other issues, like not as good DOS compatibilty?

Of course, do I use dos that much now? No. Still.

Anyways, what about getting the partitions right? My schema is a little tricky.

Re: XP? uhhh...

[stoneliongrowl.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have noticed that the XP vs. 2K thing is kinda a even split. When 2k first came out I tried it and it crashed my comp 3 times before I had it installed... then it crashed some more. I understand that it has gotten better since then.... but I still a XP man... Basically Xp is a very stable (Ultra funky stable) version of windows that comes a with a bunch of "useful additions" that are only useful for newbies and can easily be turned off. It takes 5 minutes to fix it if you know what to do (I'll help). The only annoying thing that i actually kept is the auto updates... because it find security holes like a few hours after there posted and fixes them (it bugs you to restart your machine, but you can make it go away if you wish).

So I push for you to join the XP revolution!!!!!

PS I thinking of getting a linux dual boot, but i know nothing of the administrative stuff, or about the distros... I going to use it mainly for programming and a little web server stuff (Like mysql and cgi stuff).... what ditro is good for a guy who dosent want to become a linux guru, just a programming user?

Re: XP? uhhh...

[ellf.livejournal.com]

XP?

You could also take a random selection of private information and start sending it regularly to Microsoft. Really.

Have a look: http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm

XP is a cranky pile of shit. You can wrap shit in shiny paper, but it still stinks, and if you press on it hard enough, it breaks into little shitballs. You want this on your computer? *Why?* :)

Re: XP? uhhh...

[xoder.livejournal.com]

2k it is. I just need a windows boot, some school software needs such. I wouldn't want to try to use PSpice (Which runs like 8 separate programs upon startup) under WINE. Of course, I've already begun looking for suitable replacements...

P

Re: XP? uhhh...

[ellf.livejournal.com]

I reccomend Debian as a good starter's distro. It's not laden with crap like Mandrake (ask faboo about thaT), and apt is the greatest of the package management systems, imo.

Re: XP? uhhh...

[zsparke.livejournal.com]

Yes, Debian is nice and apt is to be worshiped.

It's good to have most of your hard drive space as your windows partition or to have a large partition that uses a file system that windows can read as linux can read windows-read file systems(there may be an exception but not where the fats are concerned, which is probably what you have) but windows cannot read linux info. That way, you can store all your info in an area common to both so you have access to almost all your data, all the time.

It's happy.

Re: XP? uhhh...

[xoder.livejournal.com]

FAT can be read and written by Linux. NTFS can only be read.