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Heh, its always fun when you bring a girl back and she's like "You have 4... computers? ....there *all* turned on... and why did you need 3 of them to play a CD?"... but in winter all you need to do is turn them all on and calculate PI, its cheaper than heating gas. Linux is cool but i'm kinda tired of the bullshit politics that usually come with it. You need to make pragmatic honest choices in computing, especially when it comes down to the platfrom/os your planning on running. What I intend to use linux for is more behind the scenes stuff, a HTML based MP3 sharing system for the house, that type of thing. That way i have my programs and apps on windows, and my always-on stuff running linux/bsd. Best of both worlds.

Do you need to move 100%? If your gaming and using adobe apps, then linux probally isn't for you. For coding, development hacking and modding linux is probally a must. I'd just get hold of a cheap 2nd PC or dual boot... There is more to computing that reinstalling your OS. Its about what you use a computer to do, doesn't matter what OS you use to acomplish that.

Honestly, I'm a windows guy, and will be until macs are cheaper and linux has software i want. So for me this is a great way of keeping NT and linux seperate.

Finally figured it out, so i thought i'd share my expirence and see what i did wrong: First Step: Install Windows XP, or resize your hard disk partition. You need enough free unpartitioned space for linux, I used 4.5GB for this. Google for software... 2nd step: Boot with an Ubuntu liveCD, it has GParted. With this I created an extended patition using the free space on the disk. I then created a partition of 3400mb in ext3, and used the remaining space as a swap partition, both inside the extended partition. 3rd step: Installed linux (I chose a security distro called Back|Track (based on WHAX and Auditor)). I installed it to /mnt/hda5 and set it to put the MBR on /dev/hda5. This went threw with out a problem. (it has no option for /dev/hda5, you have to type it in.) If you edit the mbr on your XP partition, GOTO 10. From what i've found not even fixmbr or fixboot will help. 4th step: Rebooted, went straight back into windows. I then downloaded the util called BootPart from www.winimage.com. Its a CL util which allows you to copy the bootsector from the linux partition to a file like bootlinux.lnx. Copy this file to "c:" You then open your boot.ini with notepad and add " c:bootlinux.lnx=â€<name of linux>†" after the windows boot info. Rebooted, I could now select windows or linux with the NT boot loader, and boot into each of them fine. Now I just need to get ndiswrapper working and i'm happy. BTW: This is a shoddy "guide" at best, and is all just info i have gleaned from other sites (I would suggest reading them and not trusting me). This method is probally the fastest if your a total *nix n00b like myself. I read: http://www.hezardastan.org/breezy_xp_dualb...enewpartgparted & http://blog.myseng.com/?p=36 & googled like hell

I'm a complete n00b at active directory, just been watching some videos on it so far. But is this any help? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid...=129&tid=49 This looks like its what i need

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Content? <shakes head>

Bash was kinda funny, but there was a period where every "joke" was Jew this and Ni--er that, which was just fucking lame. Personally I'm kinda hoping it falls into the sea sooner or later.

Wasn't aware of that no, i was pretty sure that you needed some super funky one with *nix support. Do you have a link? Or some google key words? It was just funny, i hear all the time how linux is ready for the desktop. Yet when i try it, that was Ferris Linus's Weekend at Redmond... You know what would be a good thing to create, a page where you enter your systems specs and it suggests a distro that would be suitible. Hard to do off the bat, but an idea. Gonna give this another try though, I really want to have at least one machine with dual boot. Anybody got any links i should read? Any How-To's etc? Feel I've rather missed something...

Wait! Now that I have your attention, could you put the weapons away? And put the burning torches out... I decied to install linux on a spare laptop today, a Compaq Armada 3500 (p2 366mhz, 192mb RAM, 6gb HD). Its an ancient machine, but a good one, and had been running windows 2K just fine. But it died, and needed rebuilding sans fluff before it would boot. The thing runs Windows XP fine, but seeing as how linux is good for older hardware, i thought why not. So I grab a freshly pressed offical ubuntu v5.10 install disc, inserted it, and booted. I was aware that compaq laptops have a special partitions on the hard disk for bios. So i set aside 2gb of free space for ubuntu, set ubuntu to patition that space and install. All is going fine, and the installer knows where windows is and where the bios is. It asks for a reboot, and then I find its pissed all over the bios partition it told it not to and nothing will boot. Not even a liveCD... So after going threw some 7 year old PDF files I find the answer is reflashing the bios from a floppy drive... Floppy Drive? WTF?!? I spend an hour going threw every draw and cuboard in the house, but nothing turns up. Finally I find a box of Win2K boot discs in the basement but thanks to water damage none of them format... Eventually one works for long enough to get the bios update on it. This is made harder because the only working FD in the house is in my server room, 2 floors down... So eventually I've got the bios on a disc, i go to the laptops floppy disc... and the disk won't fit... I pull the drive out, and find it looks like someone took a hammer to it... Not good. Whats even worse is someone had soldered a floppy to the drive dust door... No shit, the disc was melted to the door and some of the insides. So in the end i have to take the drive apart, and build the floppy disk into the drive as it put it back together. Somehow this works, and the disc boots. Hurrah, i can put the weird compaq bios back on. An hour later, and XP is running fine again. So much for linux on that machine, which is a damn shame really. So i'm thinking, what is could be wrong with this machine? I think its the weird HD bios. So i grab another laptop of the shelf, a dell Latitude x300 (dothan pm thinking, its modern, there should be no issues. I install Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0, looks good, has a partition manager and a boot manager. Its a POS. The boot manager fails... and even when you uninstall it, it stays on your hard disk. If you manually copy back the ntldr and ntdetect.com and do a fixmbr, its still there. If you remove all traces of it, its still there. NEVER USE THIS SOFTWARE. And whats even better, it fails to see any type of linux you install! Ubuntu, suse... nothing catches its eye... One thing that is a positive, I've found a great pen test liveCD, BackTrack So, i'm back to installing Windows XP on my laptop, again... which sucks Its a rant I know, but if your still reading, any ideas what went wrong?

FLAC all the way, it will sound mint on most things. If you want more than that, use WAVs...

There are a couple i like, Helix and Auditor. the idea was to make it easy to swap them in or out on whim.

My main use of linux so far has been the LiveCD's from penertration testing/pretending i'm a hacker. The problem is that i've always opted for ultra portable laptops such as the Compaq Armarda 3500 (currently used as a remote desktop for my server and & wifi-hifi) and Dell Latitude x300, with external CD drives. Which i cannot be arsed to carry about with me. So how would I set up a boot system where I could have 3-4 different liveCD's on the hard disk, and choose which one at boot? So far I've got as far as figuring out i'll need to create several 1GB FAT32 partitions, and just copy the ISO contents to the partition. I don't have a method of boot management. The main OS on both these machines is XP pro, no wireless drivers otherwise.

interesting.... TO THE HAK CAVE!

use your ip trap of doom sparda, the we'll know!

April Fools day on the internet sucks, instead of lasting for 12hrs, it now lasts for 3 days due to timezone difference and confused bloggers.

personally i'd like to blame my sponsor for the night, Hoegaarden White Beer...

You know, while i'm quite drunk, i feel disapointed that i've not recived a angry PM from the forum n00b. Back to Tori Amos sings "milkshake"...

Yup, me an Fox Television go back ages, i loaned then $30 back in the 90's. And i co-wrote The Oreilly Factor For Kids. Billster is pissed at you, no doubt about it. Said something about "unamerican" and threw a chair at the camera...

Well, depends on what the police say, i notifyed Fox Sercurity so you might just be getting a little call from bill orielly...

I kinda think, that just possibly, you may be below legal drinking age. In fact i doubt you could get served in Brewsilvania...

Its friday night, i'm gonna mix it up in town with the ASBO crowd.

Shit, i have to pay to have a wank now?