Better known as the PDR, anytime your Doctor says excuse me for a bit. The chances are very great they are flipping through a PDR trying to find the "right pill/treatment" for you.
If your Google the PDR you get link after link of how reliable it is on, all but the first hit. http://www.personalconsult.com... and it nails the problem with the PDR.
"The PDR is merely a drug's package insert. It is a FDA regulated article limited to merely the research submitted to the FDA typically to get a product approved for sale to you. Sometimes the information is from research from after the drug is out and being used by patients--new issues or problems arise. Period. It offers little else!" (edited "FDAÑtypically to FDA typically")
... "For example, one new anti-psychotic drug, Abilify, is listed in the PDR as a drug, which has doses of 15 mg, 20 mg and 30 mg. Guess what would happen if psychotic youth were given this PDR official dose?
If I gave that to kids with psychosis, I would have vomiting and stuporous patients. Continuing to follow the PDR would be cruelty."...
"In no way does the PDR describe nor purport to describe the standard of care. Half the prescriptions in the nation are written off label. In other words, doctors think of useful and helpful ways which have not been approved by the massive FDA, you know, the ones who shut down Canadian drug stores in the USA.
If a doctor fails to place patients on a medication for the non-approved PDR indication, but the custom is that most doctors do, the doctor is clearly outside the standard of care. Thus quoting the PDR as authoritative represents the failure to comply with half of the standard of care in the US.
Some doctors would testify that limiting oneself to PDR approved indications and dosage is quackery that should result in the loss of license, as a threat to the health of the public. Half the customary prescribed treatment would be missed by this doctor."
I just had a conversation with my son about violent games. This weekend for the first time I've let him play GTA. He loves it and speaks out loud while playing. I actually played with him to show him he doesn't have to kill officers and civilians to get what he wants.
I've seen the gas I get turn from an Amber color to almost clear. The gas stations in this area have used a razor to remove the "up to", from the pump stickers that now say, this gas contains 15% Ethanol.
Well-done article. Read it top to bottom. Congrats.
I tried to follow it all the way through, bounce around reddit and even downloaded the torrent "2014 Mt. Gox Leak"
I made the basic mistake of following links and forgetting to read the rest of the article. I went back and finished, it was well written and a lot of work went into it.
To give the ending away, this is what it comes down to (best guess speculation by author):
Peter R, another trader, came to the same conclusion independently from me -The author
"a group of hackers gained access to MtGox servers and executed fake trades that the world could see, driving the nominal price of bitcoin near $0. Mark was frantic. He quickly regained control of the servers and learned the dark truth: the million bitcoins that had recently flooded in earlier that month were gone. Mark admitted publically to the hack, rewound the false trades, but kept the truth of the missing coins a secret.
How could this 26-year old explain to his customers that he had lost their bitcoins? And if the world found out, would this kill the thing he loved so dearly? Would he go to jail? Or worse yet, would someone kill him? Mark decided that he would do what he thought was right: he would slowly earn back the lost bitcoin with MtGox trading fee profits and eventually make his customers whole again. He still had over 500,000 BTC left—he moved 424242.42424242 BTC between bitcoin addresses and convinced the community that MtGox was solvent. As long as withdrawals didn’t exceed deposits over a long period of time, no one would ever find out the truth. Or so he thought." http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoi...
----- So how did all of this trading activity affect the price of Bitcoin as a whole? The answer is, unfortunately, enormously. -article
Well-done article. Read it top to bottom. Congrats.
I tried to follow it all the way through, bounce around reddit and even downloaded the torrent "2014 Mt. Gox Leak" http://thepiratebay.se/torrent...
But wasn't able to view it as there's concern over the file TibanneBackOffice.zip; It appears to be a MAC.OSX.Coinstealer, go figure. https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
There used to be usenet where anyone can post and read, and since it was not technically sophisticated, you can't really copy/paste same crap over and over (you had to type your writings like a typewriter). This was also before the marketeers and spammers overran everything. sob!
The Newsgroup 24hoursupport.helpdesk was my hang out, any question was a good one and someone would usually be able to answer it. It's gone political now from what I see and of little use.
On subject the Newsgroup 24hoursupport.helpdesk was created by a company to provide support for their product, and taken over when they abandoned it many many years ago.
In our experience, using a public forum will GREATLY reduce the volume of support requests. The vast majority of issues that people run into are common enough so that if the guy Googles for the specific error, he'll most likely end up on a page where the exact same problem was already solved for some other guy. I do not have any recent metrics on this, but I'd venture a guess that these days something like 70-80% of problems are sorted before the user has to post anything. Thank Google and all that.
Anytime I run into a problem I Google it, and most of the time that's all I need to do.
Then you have Tomshardware.com that pays to show as the first few hits to key words and I run into my own Usenet post that they pull in as their own, this has happened a lot.
I think it was Dear Abby (honest:} ) someone wrote asking about having compromising photos taken of them by their husband. The answer was to wear a mask.
To produce uranium fuel elements, you dissolve yellowcake in hydrofluoric acid to make uranium hexafluoride ("hex"), which you then centrifuge, and then do any of a number of other reactions to either produce metallic or ceramic fuel elements.
Man that Uranium Hexafluoride is some nasty stuff. I worked for a few weeks (and enough for me) at a fuel element production plant (for commercial power plants). The Uranium came in (transported) as Uranium Hexafluoride. It's a bone seeker, I've heard of a person whose finger felt it was burning and nothing they could do about it, I'm sure there are other stories if I'd of stayed longer.
I'd mention health problems of the long timers (growths like warts) but can't back it up, just saying.
So while there has been quite a lot of proof of concept reprocessing in France and at Harford in the USA (MOX pellets), it's still vastly cheaper and easier to start with ore than get a bit more life out of the stuff in expired fuel rods or weapon material.
MOX - (Fukushima) Unit 3 has been fueled by a small fraction (6%) of Plutonium containing mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, rather than the low enriched uranium (LEU) used in the other reactors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... of course it was one that exploded.
It was part of the US program to reduce it's Plutonium supply.
Nuclear waste has all kinds of useful isotopes, including concentrated fissile material. Many medically important isotopes are produced from nuclear waste. Once we can economically process the waste, it will be a goldmine.
FFTF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... was a test fast neutron reactor, when it was time to shut it down the community tried to keep it running for the medical isotopes it could produce (and save a few jobs).
I had a chance to tour FFTF, as we all had security clearances we were shown a building to the rear of the reactor. It was a never used facility to break into the fuel elements and extract what was needed at the time. It was very impressive and could of very easily obtained the isotopes needed. I've never heard another word about what became of that building (all it's equipment), and the reactor was mothballed long ago.
While it could take at least another 25 years just to give it a go, it's the only option on the table now for high level nuclear waste (long term storage). Something that is really needed. That's a long time, and views tend to change given enough time.
There's a reason the waste isn't being sent to the Sun, rocket(s) can malfunction (not counting the cost). Personally I hope this works out and Australia commits to a nuclear dump.
- 30Hz is quite sufficient for everything but 3D games. DVDs are only encoded at 30fps (NTSC), or even 25fps (PAL). Hell, even a traditional movie theater only runs at 24fps.
I have a 42" 600hz Panasonic Plasma HDTV (that's 60hz effective). so my flicker 3D games are at 30hz; you'll get your rear handed to you. Stupid thing isn't divisible evenly by 24 so cinema is buggered as well.
Similar experience here just a month ago. We've had luck with a hastily printed "Blink Board". An 18"x24" laminated print (so it can be written on) with the letters of the alphabet grouped into chunks of 4-letters (ABCD EFGH etc). The family member can point to the groups, and using blinks, allow the patient to (slowly) spell out words.
I didn't see this I found a video that shows that being used, and it seems a very good way to communicate, Post the video here as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... and again please don't get me wrong it's just for the "Blink Board" not for the fact he's trying to leave it all behind.
I found this video; don't get me wrong it's about someone wanting to end their life; but they use a board that he can relate what he's thinking, and it seem very quick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... just throwing it out in an attempt to be helpful.
Good luck to you.
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So, to sum it up, the Windows installer is nasty to anything else that isn't Windows on your system , both on initial install and on any further re-install. So the blame here is 100% with Windows and not grub or Linux.
Grub 1 I could understand and edit. This Grub 2 is beyond me and I see myself as being fairly competent. In fact I didn't know Grub had updated and learned how to edit Grub 1 (first Google hit), Grub 2 carries over nothing.
First I have no clue which "partition" Mint installed itself to, I made three "partitions" Boot, data, and swap. Mint will select boot or data to install itself to. This drive is in between others it's not the first or last. I have to load Hiren's boot disk to see where Mint has installed itself to then find the drive which is shown as SDC.
I go to edit GRUB and I'm at a loss and I've read a lot about it and feel prepared; yet no clue where to start.
Windows Boot.ini was just a copy and paste to select the boot order, Win7 there's EasyBCD (NeoSmart Technologies) to change boot drives and what I use to install Mint to the boot menu. But with Linux it's Grub. I know there are other boot programs but ones stuck with Grub from the onset.
Grub is my road block for using Linux as I always multi-boot and require a boot manager. I could turn drives on and off in the BIOS as many do but that's not for me, I also may need the data from a drive I disabled.
I believe what you say as truth but I just can't use (edit) Grub.
I watched that when it was first shown, it was the funniest thing I thought I'd ever seen.
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Started Linux with RedHat in the mid 90's I gave up in disgust when I couldn't create the "partitions" or split up the hard drive as required. I've been doing the same for a while with Mint over many installations, this one time I let Mint select it's placement, as it's never put itself where I've suggest it to.
When Grub was my bootloader the problems really started, of all the things that doesn't have a GUI it's grub; I've complained recently that everything was GUI. Linux is a learning process to many (myself included) nothing to put on-line blind (while a firewall is available it's off and has zero settings, not even examples.
I knew Mint would claim the boot but also expected EasyBCD (NeoSmart Technologies) to fix it, as it's been very good at that.
I've always had a dual boot system, having Linux Mint available would work just fine. Yet working with Grub is no easy task. Some don't even mess with Grub they just select the drive from the BIOS when their computer starts. http://community.linuxmint.com... this one creates two grubs - I don't see it http://www.howtoforge.com/dual... Just saying many avoid Grub, in one way or the other.
I had to be at the computer when it started to select windows, or have to reboot; playing around with Mint and having to use it are two different things; EasyBCD was of no help...
So I reinstalled Win7; I had been planning to reinstall Win7 as it was showing signs that it was time. It's no big deal (normally) C:\ drive is my Win7 Drives D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L (total of three drives) are support, another OS, or storage. I just format C drive, reinstall windows, the drivers and my favorite programs; 2 hours time I can be up and running with my base system.
Now here's where I came across Microsoft messing with those who use Linux; once a MBR has been touched by Linux, Windows won't have anything to do with it, and it's a damn pain.
This time the Win7 install claimed "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition" (a new one for me) I was able to continue on, it gave me a 100K boot partition, and Win7 partition, this screwed up my drive arrangement (my drives are named Drive_D, and so on). I formatted the drive again using Hirens boot disk 14 and Win7 install format both. This time I couldn't install Win7 at all, there's even a "FAST PUBLISH" "as-is in response to emerging issues". Support.microsoft.com/kb/2272294 claiming the partition the BOOTMGR is located must be in 4K clusters (NTFS is 4K clusters).
Searching for the problem, the accepted fix is to disconnect all drives except the one to hold Win7. I did that, no big deal as it's how I installed Mint without Grub loading Win7; and it worked, but there were problems. Win7 wasn't acting right, things weren't working as they should if at all.
So I started over, all this time the MBR seemed to be the problem but with Win7 formatting it before the install it should of been taken care of that, as well as my using Dart (Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us... to repair the boot structure; specifically the "Bootrec" command. I had every reason to assumed it had been taken care of.
It was only when I specifically wrote the Win7 header to the MBR did everything start working. This was three days into the fiasco.
Until I learn Grub I'm not going there again, and Grub isn't all the friendly.
My biggest complaint while small is Opera always opened a new tab to the far right, everything else opens it next to the tab your in, old Opera had it right.
Go to about:config and set browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent to false.
Thank you! PaleMoon opens tabs to the far right by default, might be a real decent browser.
Origin and Dice had the money, then dropped the ball in so many ways
Dice? As in our new corporate overlords? As in the people keep trying to foist the crap that is Beta on us and not listen to us when we say is sucks?
Well, based on what I've seen, it's no wonder if they were involved in a game it turned out as shit.
Fuck Dice. Fuck Beta.
Slashdot used to be good before the new corporate overlords, and it's been in decline since.
No, and I could see this one coming. Dice EA and Dice/. are two separate unrelated groups. Dice EA stands for Digital Illusions CE. http://beta.slashdot.org/story...
So what about PaleMoon? Scuttle has it a bunch of people are headed over that way not least because of FF29 UI Shenanigans.
http://www.palemoon.org/ checked it out and it looks (sounds) good, I'll give that a try, didn't know there were so many different browsers out till this DRM thing. I like what Palemoon has to offer, more so what it doesn't. No clue what this "FF29 UI Shenanigans" is all about
And what does Opera have to say about all this? How about Chromium and/or Komodo Dragon? (Non-Googly clones of Chrome.)
Opera's irrelevant now and shouldn't be considered an alternative, I'm still running Opera 12 but many sites are starting to complain. 20 (?) some years worth of bookmarks and this is the end of my building on it.
My biggest complaint while small is Opera always opened a new tab to the far right, everything else opens it next to the tab your in, old Opera had it right.
Chrome isn't an option, I have a problem when a program forces itself on me at every turn, and Opera is just a different interface for Chrome.
Leaving FireFox won't be hard at all, never really cared for it and always had to disable it's crash reporting. (something Palemoon has already done (whatever the reason)).
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And this seems to me the proper use of wikipedia.
Yep.
Better known as the PDR, anytime your Doctor says excuse me for a bit. The chances are very great they are flipping through a PDR trying to find the "right pill/treatment" for you.
If your Google the PDR you get link after link of how reliable it is on, all but the first hit.
http://www.personalconsult.com... and it nails the problem with the PDR.
"The PDR is merely a drug's package insert. It is a FDA regulated article limited to merely the research submitted to the FDA typically to get a product approved for sale to you. Sometimes the information is from research from after the drug is out and being used by patients--new issues or problems arise. Period. It offers little else!" (edited "FDAÑtypically to FDA typically")
If I gave that to kids with psychosis, I would have vomiting and stuporous patients. Continuing to follow the PDR would be cruelty." ...
"In no way does the PDR describe nor purport to describe the standard of care. Half the prescriptions in the nation are written off label. In other words, doctors think of useful and helpful ways which have not been approved by the massive FDA, you know, the ones who shut down Canadian drug stores in the USA.
If a doctor fails to place patients on a medication for the non-approved PDR indication, but the custom is that most doctors do, the doctor is clearly outside the standard of care. Thus quoting the PDR as authoritative represents the failure to comply with half of the standard of care in the US.
Some doctors would testify that limiting oneself to PDR approved indications and dosage is quackery that should result in the loss of license, as a threat to the health of the public. Half the customary prescribed treatment would be missed by this doctor."
http://www.personalconsult.com...
I just had a conversation with my son about violent games. This weekend for the first time I've let him play GTA. He loves it and speaks out loud while playing. I actually played with him to show him he doesn't have to kill officers and civilians to get what he wants.
You showed him how to pick up hookers? (Grin)
The site http://pure-gas.org/ has a pretty comprehensive list of gas stations and suppliers of Ethanol-free gas.
Thank you for that link, There's a station close to me I'll be using now.
Always the carburetor.
I've seen the gas I get turn from an Amber color to almost clear. The gas stations in this area have used a razor to remove the "up to", from the pump stickers that now say, this gas contains 15% Ethanol.
Well-done article. Read it top to bottom. Congrats.
I tried to follow it all the way through, bounce around reddit and even downloaded the torrent "2014 Mt. Gox Leak"
I made the basic mistake of following links and forgetting to read the rest of the article. I went back and finished, it was well written and a lot of work went into it.
To give the ending away, this is what it comes down to (best guess speculation by author):
Peter R, another trader, came to the same conclusion independently from me
-The author
"a group of hackers gained access to MtGox servers and executed fake trades that the world could see, driving the nominal price of bitcoin near $0. Mark was frantic. He quickly regained control of the servers and learned the dark truth: the million bitcoins that had recently flooded in earlier that month were gone. Mark admitted publically to the hack, rewound the false trades, but kept the truth of the missing coins a secret.
How could this 26-year old explain to his customers that he had lost their bitcoins? And if the world found out, would this kill the thing he loved so dearly? Would he go to jail? Or worse yet, would someone kill him? Mark decided that he would do what he thought was right: he would slowly earn back the lost bitcoin with MtGox trading fee profits and eventually make his customers whole again. He still had over 500,000 BTC left—he moved 424242.42424242 BTC between bitcoin addresses and convinced the community that MtGox was solvent. As long as withdrawals didn’t exceed deposits over a long period of time, no one would ever find out the truth. Or so he thought."
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoi...
----- So how did all of this trading activity affect the price of Bitcoin as a whole? The answer is, unfortunately, enormously. -article
Well-done article. Read it top to bottom. Congrats.
I tried to follow it all the way through, bounce around reddit and even downloaded the torrent "2014 Mt. Gox Leak" http://thepiratebay.se/torrent...
But wasn't able to view it as there's concern over the file TibanneBackOffice.zip; It appears to be a MAC.OSX.Coinstealer, go figure.
https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
There used to be usenet where anyone can post and read, and since it was not technically sophisticated, you can't really copy/paste same crap over and over (you had to type your writings like a typewriter). This was also before the marketeers and spammers overran everything. sob!
The Newsgroup 24hoursupport.helpdesk was my hang out, any question was a good one and someone would usually be able to answer it. It's gone political now from what I see and of little use.
On subject the Newsgroup 24hoursupport.helpdesk was created by a company to provide support for their product, and taken over when they abandoned it many many years ago.
In our experience, using a public forum will GREATLY reduce the volume of support requests. The vast majority of issues that people run into are common enough so that if the guy Googles for the specific error, he'll most likely end up on a page where the exact same problem was already solved for some other guy. I do not have any recent metrics on this, but I'd venture a guess that these days something like 70-80% of problems are sorted before the user has to post anything. Thank Google and all that.
Anytime I run into a problem I Google it, and most of the time that's all I need to do.
Then you have Tomshardware.com that pays to show as the first few hits to key words and I run into my own Usenet post that they pull in as their own, this has happened a lot.
I think it was Dear Abby (honest :} ) someone wrote asking about having compromising photos taken of them by their husband. The answer was to wear a mask.
To produce uranium fuel elements, you dissolve yellowcake in hydrofluoric acid to make uranium hexafluoride ("hex"), which you then centrifuge, and then do any of a number of other reactions to either produce metallic or ceramic fuel elements.
Man that Uranium Hexafluoride is some nasty stuff. I worked for a few weeks (and enough for me) at a fuel element production plant (for commercial power plants). The Uranium came in (transported) as Uranium Hexafluoride. It's a bone seeker, I've heard of a person whose finger felt it was burning and nothing they could do about it, I'm sure there are other stories if I'd of stayed longer.
I'd mention health problems of the long timers (growths like warts) but can't back it up, just saying.
So while there has been quite a lot of proof of concept reprocessing in France and at Harford in the USA (MOX pellets), it's still vastly cheaper and easier to start with ore than get a bit more life out of the stuff in expired fuel rods or weapon material.
MOX - (Fukushima) Unit 3 has been fueled by a small fraction (6%) of Plutonium containing mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, rather than the low enriched uranium (LEU) used in the other reactors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... of course it was one that exploded.
It was part of the US program to reduce it's Plutonium supply.
Nuclear waste has all kinds of useful isotopes, including concentrated fissile material. Many medically important isotopes are produced from nuclear waste. Once we can economically process the waste, it will be a goldmine.
FFTF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... was a test fast neutron reactor, when it was time to shut it down the community tried to keep it running for the medical isotopes it could produce (and save a few jobs).
I had a chance to tour FFTF, as we all had security clearances we were shown a building to the rear of the reactor. It was a never used facility to break into the fuel elements and extract what was needed at the time. It was very impressive and could of very easily obtained the isotopes needed. I've never heard another word about what became of that building (all it's equipment), and the reactor was mothballed long ago.
While it could take at least another 25 years just to give it a go, it's the only option on the table now for high level nuclear waste (long term storage). Something that is really needed. That's a long time, and views tend to change given enough time.
There's a reason the waste isn't being sent to the Sun, rocket(s) can malfunction (not counting the cost). Personally I hope this works out and Australia commits to a nuclear dump.
- 30Hz is quite sufficient for everything but 3D games. DVDs are only encoded at 30fps (NTSC), or even 25fps (PAL). Hell, even a traditional movie theater only runs at 24fps.
I have a 42" 600hz Panasonic Plasma HDTV (that's 60hz effective). so my flicker 3D games are at 30hz; you'll get your rear handed to you. Stupid thing isn't divisible evenly by 24 so cinema is buggered as well.
Similar experience here just a month ago. We've had luck with a hastily printed "Blink Board". An 18"x24" laminated print (so it can be written on) with the letters of the alphabet grouped into chunks of 4-letters (ABCD EFGH etc). The family member can point to the groups, and using blinks, allow the patient to (slowly) spell out words.
I didn't see this I found a video that shows that being used, and it seems a very good way to communicate, Post the video here as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... and again please don't get me wrong it's just for the "Blink Board" not for the fact he's trying to leave it all behind.
I found this video; don't get me wrong it's about someone wanting to end their life; but they use a board that he can relate what he's thinking, and it seem very quick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... just throwing it out in an attempt to be helpful.
Good luck to you.
So, to sum it up, the Windows installer is nasty to anything else that isn't Windows on your system , both on initial install and on any further re-install. So the blame here is 100% with Windows and not grub or Linux.
Grub 1 I could understand and edit. This Grub 2 is beyond me and I see myself as being fairly competent. In fact I didn't know Grub had updated and learned how to edit Grub 1 (first Google hit), Grub 2 carries over nothing.
First I have no clue which "partition" Mint installed itself to, I made three "partitions" Boot, data, and swap. Mint will select boot or data to install itself to. This drive is in between others it's not the first or last. I have to load Hiren's boot disk to see where Mint has installed itself to then find the drive which is shown as SDC.
I go to edit GRUB and I'm at a loss and I've read a lot about it and feel prepared; yet no clue where to start.
Windows Boot.ini was just a copy and paste to select the boot order, Win7 there's EasyBCD (NeoSmart Technologies) to change boot drives and what I use to install Mint to the boot menu. But with Linux it's Grub. I know there are other boot programs but ones stuck with Grub from the onset.
Grub is my road block for using Linux as I always multi-boot and require a boot manager. I could turn drives on and off in the BIOS as many do but that's not for me, I also may need the data from a drive I disabled.
I believe what you say as truth but I just can't use (edit) Grub.
That would be against the "phrases with biblical connotation"
What?! No reference to WKRP?!
I watched that when it was first shown, it was the funniest thing I thought I'd ever seen.
Started Linux with RedHat in the mid 90's I gave up in disgust when I couldn't create the "partitions" or split up the hard drive as required. I've been doing the same for a while with Mint over many installations, this one time I let Mint select it's placement, as it's never put itself where I've suggest it to.
When Grub was my bootloader the problems really started, of all the things that doesn't have a GUI it's grub; I've complained recently that everything was GUI. Linux is a learning process to many (myself included) nothing to put on-line blind (while a firewall is available it's off and has zero settings, not even examples.
I knew Mint would claim the boot but also expected EasyBCD (NeoSmart Technologies) to fix it, as it's been very good at that.
I've always had a dual boot system, having Linux Mint available would work just fine. Yet working with Grub is no easy task. Some don't even mess with Grub they just select the drive from the BIOS when their computer starts. http://community.linuxmint.com... this one creates two grubs - I don't see it
http://www.howtoforge.com/dual... Just saying many avoid Grub, in one way or the other.
I had to be at the computer when it started to select windows, or have to reboot; playing around with Mint and having to use it are two different things; EasyBCD was of no help...
So I reinstalled Win7; I had been planning to reinstall Win7 as it was showing signs that it was time. It's no big deal (normally) C:\ drive is my Win7 Drives D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L (total of three drives) are support, another OS, or storage. I just format C drive, reinstall windows, the drivers and my favorite programs; 2 hours time I can be up and running with my base system.
Now here's where I came across Microsoft messing with those who use Linux; once a MBR has been touched by Linux, Windows won't have anything to do with it, and it's a damn pain.
This time the Win7 install claimed "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition" (a new one for me) I was able to continue on, it gave me a 100K boot partition, and Win7 partition, this screwed up my drive arrangement (my drives are named Drive_D, and so on). I formatted the drive again using Hirens boot disk 14 and Win7 install format both. This time I couldn't install Win7 at all, there's even a "FAST PUBLISH" "as-is in response to emerging issues". Support.microsoft.com/kb/2272294 claiming the partition the BOOTMGR is located must be in 4K clusters (NTFS is 4K clusters).
Searching for the problem, the accepted fix is to disconnect all drives except the one to hold Win7. I did that, no big deal as it's how I installed Mint without Grub loading Win7; and it worked, but there were problems. Win7 wasn't acting right, things weren't working as they should if at all.
So I started over, all this time the MBR seemed to be the problem but with Win7 formatting it before the install it should of been taken care of that, as well as my using Dart (Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us... to repair the boot structure; specifically the "Bootrec" command. I had every reason to assumed it had been taken care of.
It was only when I specifically wrote the Win7 header to the MBR did everything start working. This was three days into the fiasco.
Until I learn Grub I'm not going there again, and Grub isn't all the friendly.
My biggest complaint while small is Opera always opened a new tab to the far right, everything else opens it next to the tab your in, old Opera had it right.
Go to about:config and set browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent to false.
Thank you! PaleMoon opens tabs to the far right by default, might be a real decent browser.
Dice? As in our new corporate overlords? As in the people keep trying to foist the crap that is Beta on us and not listen to us when we say is sucks?
Well, based on what I've seen, it's no wonder if they were involved in a game it turned out as shit.
Fuck Dice. Fuck Beta.
Slashdot used to be good before the new corporate overlords, and it's been in decline since.
No, and I could see this one coming. Dice EA and Dice /. are two separate unrelated groups. Dice EA stands for Digital Illusions CE.
http://beta.slashdot.org/story...
I almost shit myself laughing when I read this--thank you, sir, thank you :-)
I'm glad I could add some humor to your day, but yes I got the acronym wrong, and with such authority :)
So what about PaleMoon? Scuttle has it a bunch of people are headed over that way not least because of FF29 UI Shenanigans.
http://www.palemoon.org/ checked it out and it looks (sounds) good, I'll give that a try, didn't know there were so many different browsers out till this DRM thing.
I like what Palemoon has to offer, more so what it doesn't. No clue what this "FF29 UI Shenanigans" is all about
And what does Opera have to say about all this? How about Chromium and/or Komodo Dragon? (Non-Googly clones of Chrome.)
Opera's irrelevant now and shouldn't be considered an alternative, I'm still running Opera 12 but many sites are starting to complain. 20 (?) some years worth of bookmarks and this is the end of my building on it.
My biggest complaint while small is Opera always opened a new tab to the far right, everything else opens it next to the tab your in, old Opera had it right.
Chrome isn't an option, I have a problem when a program forces itself on me at every turn, and Opera is just a different interface for Chrome.
Leaving FireFox won't be hard at all, never really cared for it and always had to disable it's crash reporting. (something Palemoon has already done (whatever the reason)).
Thanks for the heads up.