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#1 - Gparted? #2 - GParted which also has a LiveCD, LiveUSB, and PXE boot capabilities. #3 - Yes. Gparted, although the subsequent partitions won't be accessible in Windows. #4 - Yes. Gparted, although the subsequent partitions won't be accessible in Windows. #5 - GParted? I'm not sure why transfer rates increased with your screwed up drive though.

Is it bootable from either GRUB4DOS or Grub2?

Wow, thanks. This is great! Time to get some WGet action goin on!

Same thing with text messaging. It's such an annoyance when you're reading something like, "ay u gon 2 skol 2maro????," or "wut wuz da asinemant 4 inglish???!" Half (most) the time I feel like reaching through the screen and punching whoever in the damn face. I've even seen people write actually fuckin schoolwork with "txt spk," which is complete idiocy. And the insane acronyms that could have hundreds of different meanings. I remember seeing "lmao" for the first time. I had no idea what it was and was almost convinced that they were trying to spell "llama." Now, don't get me wrong, I use acronyms like "lol, lmao, and idk," but that's about it, and nothing like that is ever seen in anything I write that has any remote importance. Also, my handwriting isn't so great either. My hand gets cramps within 10 minutes because I write with my fingers and tend to press down quite forcefully. I'd almost always rather type something than write it because I can type faster than I can write and pressing "Backspace" is faster than erasing and much cleaner as well. That's not the point though. It's just that so many people have become dependent on the computer and automation to complete tasks for them. Yes, I use spell check, but it's to refine what I've already tried my best to write properly. It also catches simple mistakes like pressing 't' instead of 'r' or similar, which I am thankful. Correct grammar, word usage, punctuation, and spelling should be something we all know (at least here in the U.S.), though, when most don't.

I knew you'd have something to say about it (I remember you having said you were dyslexic before). I'm all for using spell check as an aid, but not as a way of having the computer almost completely rewrite something because they can hardly use the English language correctly, if at all. I've even found myself misspelling words, immediately using spell check, and then misspelling it again later because I didn't even really bother to look at my mistake. I try to consciously remember my mistakes so I can learn from them and decrease the amount of mistakes I make in general.

I created this using a virtual floppy. http://www.mediafire.com/?zkngzmommni

100 downloads reached!

If technology can do it all for you, and the computer is always right, why not let it? Technology is obviously having both positive and negative impacts on society, mainly the United States, the laziest of countries. As everything becomes more automated and less user interactive, people become dependent on it. Being in high school, I see this as if from a sort of ground-zero and it's terrifying thinking that *this* is the next generation. From people who can't read, to people who need a calculator to perform simple addition, let alone multiplication, and what really gets at me, the people who just don't give a shit about *anything.* I'm appalled when I see foreigners speaking English as their third or fourth language with fluency and precise correctness that many U.S. citizens, who have been speaking only English since their first word, and have been studying it for about ten plus years, could never even dream of achieving. I can't imagine how the United States will be when my generation is forced to make difficult decisions that will affect others or when they'll all have to get jobs and McDonald's is *nationally* out of positions. Anyways, I'm done ranting. Here's the link posted on digg.

Yes. Although I can't vouch for it as I haven't tried it, booting from NTFS is supposed to be possible and has been reported to be working by many people.

If somebody gets this booting and running correctly, meaning most, if not all AVs working, and posts how they did it, be it via the USB method or mapping the ISO, I'll gladly put this in the readme.

I found that Kon-Boot didn't work on a Compaq desktop. I forget the code that was given, but I think it was because it's got that "Restore Partition" or whatever they like to call it. This "Restore Partition" was actually the first partition of the hard drive and formatted as NTFS so I'm guessing that Kon-Boot tries booting the "Restore Partition," resulting in failure. I haven't tried it on any other systems except my VM and my Dell D620 which both worked fine. I'll see if I can test it on a school computer or two this week ;P

GRUB4DOS actually does support booting from NTFS. From README_GRUB4DOS.txt: You should probably just format in FAT. Save everything somewhere else before reformating, then just copy it all back over so you don't have to config everything again.

No, that's a config file for GRUB4DOS, not GRUB2. I think it would be a good idea if the original thread was edited though to include both a GRUB4DOS config file as well as a GRUB2 config file so it's all in one spot.

Favorable mutations cause new traits to be introduced to the gene pool. If an animal is born abnormally strong with little to no adverse side-effects they might pass that gene on to their offspring. That offspring will have offspring which might also have the "strong gene." As the gene is passed down from generation to generation it spreads because most animals have multiple offspring. If the gene survives through innumerable generations, it will eventually be found in the majority of surviving species because it is favorable over the original gene. This also brings in the theory of Natural Selection. The better made (stronger, faster, smarter , bigger, etc.) survive over the others. Better can be smaller as well though if it's favorable to the species. Natural Selection plays a limited role in humans though. Incentives like love or money greatly affect who a human will produce offspring with. If this was not true, humans would be much smarter as a species in general because the dumb would die off due to the opposite sex not wanting to produce offspring with a less intelligent human. We also would be very different from who we are as a species though because to eliminate all factors, save Natural Selection, we would have to think only logically.

It's not possible to install VMware inside another VM. It sounds like Fusion recognizes some configuration options differently than Workstation and Player for Windows, like how flash drives are auto-connected. Try to connect the flash drive manually, although I'm not sure how to do this in Fusion.

Yeah, my mistake.

Since when do you not need to hook them? If they aren't then the changes aren't made and the devices still show up as what they originally were. That is what is being attempted.

No, that's not it. It should look something similar to this (although that might not even be what's wrong with it): title Kon-Boot map --mem /FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img (fd0) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) map --hook chainloader (fd0)+1 rootnoverify (fd0)

http://hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=4913

:o nuhuh!?

If you pay for it and he doesn't comply to your usage agreement (not using all bandwidth for YouTube) kick his ass off. He needs to realize that the internet connection you pay for and let him use is not a right but a privilege which you control.

Who pays for it?

Point taken VaKo. I wish everybody would post/write like VaKo. Most everything is quite clear, concise, thought out, understandable, intelligent, and thought provoking. I know, I know, there are innumerable people on the internet who's first language is not English, but I'm not talking about them, because most of them can communicate better in English when it's their third language than someone who's first and only language is English. Anyways, thanks, you opened my eyes to how and why wars can be beneficial to society and the world as a whole. Mass suffering is still not the best way to entice a few great thinkers though.

How hard is it to talk to him? Must you go with the passive way? Just ask him, it's quite simple.

Social skills...? Ask him to stop being a bandwidth hog, unless he pays for it all himself, because then you really have no say in what he does with his bandwidth.