Yeah. I just rebuilt my machine from scratch, (using licensed stuff).
Windows won't install if it sees any unknown partition types (at least Linux ones).
It will waste your time making it look like it's scanning the disk or something, but an overnight run bought me nothing.
So you dump all of your non-Redmond partitions, and install XP. Windows finds much joy in rebooting itself during the install. You're not "supposed" to have any foreign partitions anyway (are you?) so they seem comfortable in asserting that your MBR should point to the NTFS partition. Why would it do otherwise?
After the ugliness of getting Windows installed, you can put GRUB on the MBR, go back to restoring whatever other partitions you desire, and using your purchase as you see fit.
Trying to back up the MBR using dd and then restore it via dd, instead of just using the GRUB install method, resulted in much ugliness. Either my command line was false, or there is a checksum in there. In any case letting GRUB install itself proved the only acceptable approach (for me; you might not be the sort of goofball who dropped your NTFS partition in the first place)
Long story short, Windows XP is the [odious presidential candidate] of operating systems.
This is not meant to be too pedantic, but...;)
In "actually in this day and age", the prepositional phrase had me looking for an adjective subsequent to the adverb.
Possible rephrase: "creating a contemporary typeface, when..."
Long day in a long week in a long (already) year.
The only purpose it's pretty much used for is the exchange of the worst crimes of humanity.
Also, guns kill people
Cars kill the enviornment
Retention of individual sovereignty/responsibility/money kills "fairness".
So, I'm thinkin': a government program can fix all of these woes.
WTF? ColdFusion and Java? To serve a single static page?
Well, there was some sed, awk, a dash of emacs in batch mode, python, some xalan and xlst in there (to simplify things).
That "First post recovered !" business was really a debug string literal that crept in at one point.
The expected output was, or course "Hello, World".
We're obviously going to have to port some of this to Mono. Probably get a more impressive stack trace out of it, too: the line count that wimpy java business didn't even make double digits.
How weak is that?
People can quibble and obfuscate about the definitions easily enough to reject any example.
I'll advance the USSR and North Korea as two examples.
China seems to be playing the spooky card WRT the Olympics.
While objections may abound, the realities of these states seem at odds with their stated wonderfullness.
The lovely statement "People who give up a little bit of liberty for a little bit of security deserve neither" gets used frequently as a slam on the Bush Administration for the Transportation Safety Administration, among other things.
It also seems to apropos for the various entitlement programs that none of the Presidential candidates have the fortitude to discuss from a long-term sustainability standpoint.
Oh, there are some Inconvenient Truths about the hypocrisy charge and politicians of every stripe, shade, and aroma.
I refer to my little plastic composter drum as "Congress", the worms living therein as "Politicians", and their product as "Legislation". A truth one surely doesn't want to handle without gloves.
After having been trivial, obvious, and awash with prior art by the gallery for decades previously.
None of the presidential candidates, AFAIK, has said peep #1 about patent reform. Hm.
Well, if we delegated the power encompassed by the IRS, the SSA, and the various other control mechanisms in place from the Fed to the states, we could undo a lot of arguably wrong-headed old precedent.
Creating a "new" tradition of un-intrusive Federal government would really put the "P" in Progress for many of us.
Reverse psychology.
If they came out liking it, everyone would assert "Oh, they're a bunch of tools, the movie is teh l4m3".
I, for one, plan on going to see this flick and reverting to age 8 for an hour and a half, irrespective of whether the movie is so content-free as to qualify as a political speech.
Neener, neener, neener.
Just publish a giant list of all mail servers not configured properly.
And then I manipulate this list to effect a soft kill on my competitor. If Acme Widgets has an apparently bad email server, who will do business with them?
Think Machiavelli.
...seeing stegonographic and other kinds of tools proliferate in China so that the whole censorship policy is rendered completely moot.
If they had some kind of translator to take a message and encode it in a Chinese version of rhyming slang, how nifty would that be? Particularly if the product could appear pro-Communist. I guess pictograms would render such a project "non-trivial". Loyal to the Group of 17 would be so proud of the Chinese government.
Those treaties, when ratified by a state, become International Law and bind that state.
Even if not ratified by a particular state, they become Customary International Law, and states are pressured to conform.
After a crossover point, the government is the singleton coroporation.
As I age, it becomes more apparent that Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine" is really an unofficial anthem for a huge chunk of the population.
At least government is nominally accountable to the people.
This is a statement with lots of acceleration, but little mass, and therefore negligible force.
Government accountability is about keeping decision-making power low in the hierarchy, where the decision-maker is more likely to live with the results (good or bad) of the decisions.
As long as people continue to want entities like the US Fed, the EU, and the UN to solve all of their problems, we can expect more, not less, crappy legislation.
Concentrated power makes manipulation too easy.
I suppose, ultimately, I'm a volunteer in the organization whose narrow-minded focus forces me to jump through hoops to participate.
However, my equity level therein forces me to grin and bear it.
It's that whole ugly "growing up" thing.
Excellent point. Even if there is not a Linux driver, if the raw PCI device is exposed under Wine to IE--no, wait: there is another magic ActiveCard Gold piece that has to be installed, too.
Hmmmm....
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Yeah. I just rebuilt my machine from scratch, (using licensed stuff).
Windows won't install if it sees any unknown partition types (at least Linux ones).
It will waste your time making it look like it's scanning the disk or something, but an overnight run bought me nothing.
So you dump all of your non-Redmond partitions, and install XP.
Windows finds much joy in rebooting itself during the install. You're not "supposed" to have any foreign partitions anyway (are you?) so they seem comfortable in asserting that your MBR should point to the NTFS partition. Why would it do otherwise?
After the ugliness of getting Windows installed, you can put GRUB on the MBR, go back to restoring whatever other partitions you desire, and using your purchase as you see fit.
Trying to back up the MBR using dd and then restore it via dd, instead of just using the GRUB install method, resulted in much ugliness. Either my command line was false, or there is a checksum in there. In any case letting GRUB install itself proved the only acceptable approach (for me; you might not be the sort of goofball who dropped your NTFS partition in the first place)
Long story short, Windows XP is the [odious presidential candidate] of operating systems.
samzenpus, himseslf, could be the neighbor in question.
Did he wind up in Andalusia?
(starts off with some classical/flamenco stylings, goes right off the Jimi Hendrix cliff)
'Sall good
This is not meant to be too pedantic, but... ;)
In "actually in this day and age", the prepositional phrase had me looking for an adjective subsequent to the adverb.
Possible rephrase: "creating a contemporary typeface, when..."
Long day in a long week in a long (already) year.
Cars kill the enviornment
Retention of individual sovereignty/responsibility/money kills "fairness".
So, I'm thinkin': a government program can fix all of these woes.
That "First post recovered !" business was really a debug string literal that crept in at one point.
The expected output was, or course "Hello, World".
We're obviously going to have to port some of this to Mono. Probably get a more impressive stack trace out of it, too: the line count that wimpy java business didn't even make double digits.
How weak is that?
People can quibble and obfuscate about the definitions easily enough to reject any example.
I'll advance the USSR and North Korea as two examples.
China seems to be playing the spooky card WRT the Olympics.
While objections may abound, the realities of these states seem at odds with their stated wonderfullness.
The lovely statement "People who give up a little bit of liberty for a little bit of security deserve neither" gets used frequently as a slam on the Bush Administration for the Transportation Safety Administration, among other things.
It also seems to apropos for the various entitlement programs that none of the Presidential candidates have the fortitude to discuss from a long-term sustainability standpoint.
Oh, there are some Inconvenient Truths about the hypocrisy charge and politicians of every stripe, shade, and aroma.
I refer to my little plastic composter drum as "Congress", the worms living therein as "Politicians", and their product as "Legislation". A truth one surely doesn't want to handle without gloves.
Student election?
Blade/face bijection
Halt candidate/follicle
Ninja insurrection
Burma Shave
After having been trivial, obvious, and awash with prior art by the gallery for decades previously.
None of the presidential candidates, AFAIK, has said peep #1 about patent reform. Hm.
Well, if we delegated the power encompassed by the IRS, the SSA, and the various other control mechanisms in place from the Fed to the states, we could undo a lot of arguably wrong-headed old precedent.
Creating a "new" tradition of un-intrusive Federal government would really put the "P" in Progress for many of us.
The really great movies operate on both didactic and entertainment levels, and stand up to repeated viewings.
Reverse psychology.
If they came out liking it, everyone would assert "Oh, they're a bunch of tools, the movie is teh l4m3".
I, for one, plan on going to see this flick and reverting to age 8 for an hour and a half, irrespective of whether the movie is so content-free as to qualify as a political speech.
Neener, neener, neener.
Think Machiavelli.
...seeing stegonographic and other kinds of tools proliferate in China so that the whole censorship policy is rendered completely moot.
If they had some kind of translator to take a message and encode it in a Chinese version of rhyming slang, how nifty would that be?
Particularly if the product could appear pro-Communist. I guess pictograms would render such a project "non-trivial".
Loyal to the Group of 17 would be so proud of the Chinese government.
Those treaties, when ratified by a state, become International Law and bind that state.
Even if not ratified by a particular state, they become Customary International Law, and states are pressured to conform.
As I age, it becomes more apparent that Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine" is really an unofficial anthem for a huge chunk of the population.
This is a statement with lots of acceleration, but little mass, and therefore negligible force.
Government accountability is about keeping decision-making power low in the hierarchy, where the decision-maker is more likely to live with the results (good or bad) of the decisions.
As long as people continue to want entities like the US Fed, the EU, and the UN to solve all of their problems, we can expect more, not less, crappy legislation.
Concentrated power makes manipulation too easy.
Apparently he was loaded
(three mini-sketches after the car ad)
I suppose, ultimately, I'm a volunteer in the organization whose narrow-minded focus forces me to jump through hoops to participate.
However, my equity level therein forces me to grin and bear it.
It's that whole ugly "growing up" thing.
Excellent point. Even if there is not a Linux driver, if the raw PCI device is exposed under Wine to IE--no, wait: there is another magic ActiveCard Gold piece that has to be installed, too.
Hmmmm....
Hm, haven't used Open Office in a couple of years.
I didn't say they need it, I said they got it.
Hey, don't underestimate the value of the play action fake