moonlit

I don't, because I don't use Linux (at least I don't use it often or on a system I need to worry about).

[me=moonlit]explodes.[/me]

AFAIK it's just a regular HDDVD drive with a laptop style IDE connector and IDE->USB connector... I know people have been using it on PCs for ages now, on XP and Vista I guess.

I was thinking, you can buy a PS3 as a BluRay player, or an XBOX360 with HDDVD player to play your high definition content... but why not merge the two? The HDDVD drive is a standard USB external drive and works on a PC with no modifications, and the PS3 has USB ports... so what would happen if you ran Linux on the PS3 with the 360's HDDVD drive attached? Could you play both formats? Seems like a great way to play both formats if you already have a PS3 and it's fairly cheap too if you do.

Basically, to give this thread a rest, my point was that not everyone wants to jump in configuring GRUB just to see what this Linux deally's all about... perhaps that'll come later if they like and continue using Linux. The OP asked how to easily install all three, I provided the easiest answer I knew of. Sure, some people like to go head first in to it, configuring LILO/GRUB, command lining their way through the computing world and all that jazz but not everyone does. I was providing for those who don't.

Ok, you lost me... wanna rewind and start again? What's the point of this thread and what are we talking about? UNIXDOSNT95.11 doesn't seem to relate to cracking Windows...

I think he's asking how to make the CD tray open and/or close (depending on its current state)... sort of like those "RAT" trojans used to years ago...

Linux *is* vulnerable. That's all I need to say. I don't need to explain why or how. Linux isn't invulnerable just because it's not Windows.

I didn't suggest that he was stupid, but why go through unnecessary configuration if doing it the easy way works fine? Sure, configure GRUB when you're ready, but maybe some people aren't ready to configue GRUB before they try Linux... The reason I mentioned compiling everything is usually in a conversation referring to easy way vs hard way in relation to Linux ends up with a bunch of people saying "compile everything! gentoo ftw!" and others saying "I don't want to compile everything to use OpenOffice"... I figured I'd get in early I guess...

It's EULA, not ELUA. End User Licence Agreement.

Yeah, but that's what *you* think. I completely disagree that to try Linux you need to abide by the ethos and elitism that dogs the open source world. I'm sick of this attitude that if you had to compile it and configure every last minute detail then you must be uber-leet... you're not, it just means you're more patient and like things to run a few milliseconds quicker. Some people don't want or need that, some people just want things to work.

I will be hitting you when I meet you... ...but yeah, AVG or Avast, both are good, I use AVG on home machines, Avast on servers (because the trial version of the Server edition is free for 60 days or something...)

I believe not, that's the downside to using a demo I'm afraid...

Why do people want to make things more complicated just for the sake of it? Someone shouldn't need to take a degree in computer science to install an OS...

Shouldn't be too hard to do that bit either really... Yeah, if you just wanna do 1 program, one of those two should do it. DarkBasic if you want to do a bit more with audio and graphics and you want to learn a bit more to accomplish this, Visual Basic if you want it easy, less fully featured as far as this goes and not so good looking.

If you want cool graphics, something real quick and dirty like DarkBasic would work... it includes commands to work with the mouse and joypads/joysticks/gamepads, audio, video, graphics stuff, networking... It uses DirectX. BlitzBasic/BlitzBasic3D is similar to DarkBasic in that it uses DirectX and has good support for graphics, audiom video and gaming devices. The 3D version is the same as the 2D version besides its ability to work... well, in 3D... Visual Basic is good for rapid development, but like DarkBasic it's not gonna get you far if you really want to get in to programming. It's great for making things real quick. It's able to use a mouse fully, but doesn't have good support for gaming devices without really hacking about. If you use something like WinAmp to play audio though and assign hotkeys to the hacked up joypad, that probably won't matter. C/C++ would be a good place to start if you want to really get in to programming, but won't get you anywhere quick. You'd need to learn a lot of C to make something like this. Like Visual Basic it doesn't make working in DirectX easy... not that you really need it, but anything graphics related could be very difficult.

Excuse me, the what?

I was thinking a sort of wired (or wireless?) remote control thing if you used a gamepad, you could use the buttons (perhaps in a new case to your own design if you felt like it) as play/pause/etc. To keep it simple though, your 3 button idea would be the first thing to concentrate on. You could have a music player running in the background though and use something like Joy2Key to assign the ex-gamepad's buttons to hotkeys in the music player, so you wouldn't even have to code anything, you just use it as a sort of easy to configure remote control.

Hardware side = 3 button mouse guts, solder wires from the buttons to microswitches, there's your 3 buttons. :D Easy to build, easy to interface, easy to code for. Alternatively, if you wanted more buttons, you could use a gamepad (or rather the guts of one), this would allow for extra functions such as music controls or team name entry (like a bowling alley, but for pool).

No reason to keep this open, locked.

Install XP, then install 2003 on another partition, then install Ubuntu on yet another partition... 2003 will keep XP's menu option, then Ubuntu will install GRUB which will have a menu option for Windows.

I agree with the theory that viruses aren't that destructive any more, but that's just mainstream viruses... and by that I mean some wannabe hacker could cobble together a "virus" that deletes random files and/or renders Windows unusable... it's not all that hard, it's just in the realm of someone starting out. Think about it, wannabe blackhat thinks "hey, haha, I know, I'll make a virus... but wait, what to make it do? I know, kill Windows! That'll fuck 'em!". Alternatively, could've been an install of something like FlyAKiteOS gone wrong... unlikely as it is, that sort of installer really does screw with a lot of system files...

*sigh* See one of the other half a million threads about the same thing, then go get yourself caught. I'd usually be a little more forgiving, but we're seeing these "access blocked sites" threads a little too much lately. If you can't get to the site, ask the IT dept. to unblock it... if it's not related to work and you wish to keep your job, don't. Simple as. Oh, and welcome to the forum.

There are methods other than blocking by domain... like blocking the IP that domain resolves to, blocking the page/site based on the content of the pages, blocking by file extention, etc...