You don't have a program that can resize your Windows partition and you need to re-install. Besides if you manange to screw up your Windows partition (say, got infected by a virus), you don't want to overwrite your Linux partition while re-installing Windows, eh?
Sadly for you, modern linux distros are quite capable of resizing preset partitions, much like Partition Magic can, which is already mentioned. Even if your favourite distro can NOT do so, it can't be too hard to find the correct utility which can, burn it along on the CD and the manually resize the damned partition. Partition resized, Linux can be installed. When done, make an image of your entire HD, keep it somewhere safe (burn it to DVD, keep it on a small stack of CD-roms, hide it under your bed, whatever) and then happily use your computer. If YOU fuck up Windows (Blaming Microsoft is easier, but fact is, Windows is most often mangled by incompetent users doing stuff they shouldn't be doing.) then it is YOUR responsibility to have made proper backups of the full HD with Linux already installed. Same thing applies when it is NOT your fault, your data is still your responsibility
Since when are Windows CDs a requirement for dual booting? I've installed a dual boot solution just fine WITHOUT any Windows CDs. That's on 98se, 2k and XP Pro. Worked like a dream and I simply did NOT need the CD, nor can I think of any situation where I WOULD need the CD. (then again, it's 5 am in the morning, I think I can barely be qualified as sentient atm)
The best way to deal with large corporations abusing OUR goverments and OUR legal systems is by employing OUR police force and OUR justice. Yes, I am proposing vigilante justice when things get too extreme; when we lose trust in our goverments and when our legal systems are just a corporate tool for extortion and profit, it is time WE the people take back what is ours; OUR country, OUR legal system, OUR goverment, to reshape it into something new, something different, something BETTER. How? Beats me, but the US constitution has a precious Seconds Amendment that reads: (emphasis mine)
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Maybe soon this will have to be put in effect in the US, when it becomes rampant and effects all of the people. Hopefully, this all can be stopped peacefully. If not, then I suggest we give up protesting and ENFORCE OUR FREEDOM upon those who try to control us. I hope it never becomes as crazy over here in the Netherlands as it is right now in the US, but should any be required over here, then count me in. It is time people stop asking for freedom from those that won't give it and start TAKING what is rightfully theirs, before our entire civilization descends back to feudalism, complete with a new incarnation of the spanish inquisition (our legal systems) and heresy. (thinking "outside the box" defined by the corporations)
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Well, there goes any hope of winning for 95% of the MSN users...
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Mmm, yes, but for CD-RWs to become succesful floppy replacements we'd need several more things, like cd-rewriters on every computer. I don't know about other colleges, butI don't think they're going to give each PC at mine a cd-rewriter just so we can throw around files. Even besides that, CD-RWs are useful things, though they take ages to format once you get one chocked on stuff. Also, you're unable to edit files on CD, you'd have to copy them back to the HD, edit them, save them, burn them, repeat. This can be a major pain in the ass for us students. Do you really think we write those 20+ page essays in one go? (Okay, I admit; we usually download them, alter a few lines and then hope for the best.)
Also, USB pendrives are far smaller and thus nicer to carry around; some of them even can be hooked on key chains. They don't suffer from scratching either. Then again, CDs can be made bootable* while USB device booting is still a pretty rare thing as far as I can tell. Also, those little things can get quite expensive, 125,- for a 512mb, USB 2.0. (woops, that's "USB hi-speed") That said, CD-RWs are still cheaper, more compatible once you've actually burned something (nearly all CD-ROMs can read a CD-RW) and CD-ROM drives are always on the front side, as opposed to PCs with only USB connection on the rear...
They are simply affraid that someone, somwhere, MIGHT aquire a SAM missile capapble of reaching commercial airline cruising altitudes and that (communist/drug warlord/terrorist/muslim) MIGHT just blow a 747 full of innocent little children out of the sky.
Of course, the biggest ceiling of any commonly available (read: soviet runion) SAM system is 8000 meters. (roughly 24000 foot) Oh, and that is for a mounted system; I'm not sure if the US police would appreciate anyone driving around in a cold war missile-launcher. Shoulder-launcher SAM systems having an amazing range of 10k feet, for the most common SAM system for ground personell, the US Stinger.
Ye shall know the lizard, and the lizard shall set you free...
Indeed I know the lizard, for it is great indeed. And I am familiar with the lizard's apetite for unwanted popups, which be savagely devoured. Yet, the lizard does not eat popups that occur to me when I click on an external link. The lizard is indeed good, even though I prefer a greater degree of control over it's popup apetite.
First, calling Mozilla and FreeBSD "redundant, mediocre, and unpopular" is simply silly (and trollish).
It IS a troll. The best way to deal with trolls is to ignore them or make a (good) joke about something they hope that you will bite in instead. The latter is even better because it makes the troll look like a turd, makes everyone realize it's a troll and that YOU are not falling for it and a good joke is always better then a bad troll. (of which we have more then enough on slashdot)
Very OT, I know. Consider it a good thing, by helping out a poor sap who almost had someone take the piss out of him.
I hope the slashdot effects cripples the graphics.com servers and sets them on fire in a glorious blaze of divine revenge! Take that for full screen popups!
Operator: Incoming segway! Incoming segway! Bearing 305 mark 5, heading 252 mark 8!
Commander: Sweet mother! IFF signal!?
Operator: Unknown, sir!
Commander: Damn it! Any units ready!?
Operator: Negative, fifth armour is stuck in a traffic jam at Main street!
Commander: Damn it all to hell! Get me NORAD on the line, someone inform the president!
Operator: Visual confirmation coming in by TrackSat2 Delta... NORAD will be notified, unable to notify the president sir!
Commander: Explain yourself!
Operator: The president is driving that segway, sir!
Commander: By all that's unholy...
Seriously, if you go "mmm" at the idea of a little insignificant no one on the internet holding a vibrating thingy against her underwear while getting off on her boyfriend playing a game, all as a rather good marketing stunt, (Hey, it worked, that's for sure... poor taste but it worked!) then you've got some real issues.
Game Girl Advance: No original stuff, no real news, but I'm a girl so why should I bother with actual content when I can make my cheap site run good with a underwear shot?
As computers get cheaper - It's only a matter of time before a machine capable of doing decent websurfing and whatnot hits US$50 - they will become more popular in poorer nations, and those people won't want to pay more for a windows license than they are paying for a computer.
What a silly idea! Cheap things don't sell! Load something with sufficient buzzwords, make it new and shiny, get several sites to drool over it and swim in money! Businesses are out there to make profit, not to make cheap PCs. Even the most affordable PC (with monitor at all) would prolly be available for... 200 or 150 USD? This is a manufacturer prices with cheapotech parts. Don't expect this too change; a 5 gb HD with modern tech would be easy, easily costing about 25 to 30, but there's no real profit in that. Same thing with all other major components.
Maybe we could load up a few shipping containers, weld 'em shut, and just drop them in the ocean. The countries where they wash up get the computers.
Oh and I hate to tell you this, but the shipping container is prolly worth more then the computers. And even if ti wasn't, I highly doubt wether shipping containers are bouyant.;)
Fundamental Christians are very pipcky concerning food and due to their constant bible-thumping, they make awful pets.
The bible DOES read "Go forth and procreate" somewhere... Or something along that at least; might be a bucces with Christian fundamentalist women! The bad thing of this is, is that your future stepbrother might also be your competitor...
I think Mr Linus would be happy with unmarked slices of gold, uncut diamonds and several kilograms (that's 1024 LoC^2dB for you emperial people) of opium. Portable wealth is great thing!
As if we didn't have enough web logs already! (I refuse to use that retarded buzzword) Now we can all enjoy the daily adventures of random 14 year old American girls loosing their virginity to a random 24 year old American guy and then compare their blogs together! Actually, we could make a nice betting game based on that, building a few scripts that hunt for tell-tale signs about upcoming relationships... ("OMG im so in luv LOL i cant w8 2 see him!!!112" & "Hey, my 14 year old cousin is starting to get breasts!" (for the redneck version of the show))
Then we can make a Big Brother-esque show out of it! People can bet on what will happen! Will he screw her? Will she get pregnant? Or are they actually smart enough to use protection? Who will enjoy it most? All those bets can make a fortune and with the endless supply of ignorance and stupidity delivered on the internet (courtsey of the AOL userbase) we wont run out of subjects before the sun expands and consumes the earth!
Coming up next: IRC Deathmatch. Two horny people, one modified ircd, no fucking dignity! Is 16 year old Suzy really the virgin from Tampa she claims to be? Does 17 year old Kindra from Portland really have a D cup? Bet on these uncertainties and watch out as we send a large, aggresives and violent camera crew to meet them all a few days after!
Definitely one of the features which makes Linux a powerful OS. A good and well-configured packaging system can be a blessing, automagically resolving dependancies or at least telling you where and how things will fuck up. The problem with package managers is that there are quite a few of them around. Normally, diversity would be a good thing but those package managers don't seem too willing to process eachother's packages...
For example, RPM packages are almost common these days; most open source software has a few packages ready to be implemented. Pretty much the same thing with Debian packages, because of the large userbase. Chances are that a few hours after the release of a major product someone has made a.deb somewhere, ready for you to install. However, if you'd look beyond these two packaging systems, you'd get a few nasty surprises...
The TGZ packaging scheme (also mentioned in the article, along with RPM and DEB) just... Well... Sucks. Or at least in Slackware, I don't know if any other distributions use it differently but lets use Slackware's TGZ system as an example for now. What's wrong with it, you ask? First of all (and possible the foremost reason) it's almost unused. Apart from the Slackware packages itself, I've never seen anyone distribute something in the TGZ format which worked. That excludes the few things which I found and simply refused to install. It doesn't do dependancy checking, conflict-checking, heck, it doesn't do anything or so it seems. I'd continue but ranting about the bad parts of Slackware isn't the issue at hand.
The issue at hand are the two remaining package systems, which might be technically sound and quite useable, but they still won't have allot of use. Who here has ever heard of SLP and PKG packages? And even then, who here knows of any major applications which distribute their software using those package systems? Sure, SLP and PKG might be a dream to use, but without any actual packages to install, they're (possibly sadly?) not really of any value.
Which brings us back to RPM and DEB, apparently two of the most common systems, courtesy of Red Hat and Debian. Looking at the list of summed up data, it's really not a miracle those two are more common: Both support mostly options listed, both are backed by a large amount of users/developers and both are relatively easy to use, yet still distinct. Perhaps a system which allows multiple systems to cooperate (regarding dependancies and conflicts and the like) would be a nice compliment to both RPM and DEB?
You misspelled my name, it's Seth, not Dork. An understandable typo, in regard of how close d, o, r and k are to s, e,t and h on a normal qwerty keyboard. Carry on, minion!
Just what the world needs, another huge aircraft carrier designed to fight communi- er, drug carte- no wait... Who are the current boogeymen for the US right now? Oh yeah, terrorists! Yep, we need that $5 billion chunk of steel to blow up Kore... No wait, already blown up... Well, apart from North Korea, when is it their turn again, anways? Panama? No wait, also blown to bits already... Same for Iraq...
Ah hell, just wait for the next financial scandal, Bush will then pick a random country, declare them to be part of the axis of evil, demand UN inspections, claim they already got evidence anyways, pull Mr Blair's strings a bit more, send over this new carrier to drop an ammount on ammo worth more then the GNP of the receiving country and feel good about it! Afterwards, let Mr Blair take the heat for false evidence and scare any Americans who dare to raise a voice against the war into submission. Oh and: PROFIT!
This NYT story describes how thousands of PCs have been used as porn spambots and reverse proxy servers, and mentions that they could be used for kiddie porn.
So instead of their normal scare-mongering by involving terrorism in any way possible, they are now suddenly switching into scaring everyone by mentioning kiddie porn instead? Wow, such diversity! Next thing you know NYT actually becomes a good source of news with facts and interesting content without a "we will spam your ass off" scheme! Maybe right after DNF is released...
Yeah, working with HTML forms to upload data. That works, I tried that and itwas nice, sort of:) It's a bad solution if I'd ever want to upload larger files due to various issues, like the initial drawbacks of http. (being stateless and all that) Still, it works up to a level and it works nicely if you don't expect too much out of it.
HTTP tunnels are a good solution so far but I don't have any working tunneling software yet apart from a trial version of a commercial tunneler. Granted, I haven't taken a very good look at gnu/httptunnel yet, so that might be an answer. Once I get back in college that is and by then I'll have one of those USB keys:)
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Sadly for you, modern linux distros are quite capable of resizing preset partitions, much like Partition Magic can, which is already mentioned. Even if your favourite distro can NOT do so, it can't be too hard to find the correct utility which can, burn it along on the CD and the manually resize the damned partition. Partition resized, Linux can be installed. When done, make an image of your entire HD, keep it somewhere safe (burn it to DVD, keep it on a small stack of CD-roms, hide it under your bed, whatever) and then happily use your computer. If YOU fuck up Windows (Blaming Microsoft is easier, but fact is, Windows is most often mangled by incompetent users doing stuff they shouldn't be doing.) then it is YOUR responsibility to have made proper backups of the full HD with Linux already installed. Same thing applies when it is NOT your fault, your data is still your responsibility
That said, 5 am is a very good excuse, canadian.
Since when are Windows CDs a requirement for dual booting? I've installed a dual boot solution just fine WITHOUT any Windows CDs. That's on 98se, 2k and XP Pro. Worked like a dream and I simply did NOT need the CD, nor can I think of any situation where I WOULD need the CD. (then again, it's 5 am in the morning, I think I can barely be qualified as sentient atm)
So to put it in a simple way:
What's the fecking problem!?
The best way to deal with large corporations abusing OUR goverments and OUR legal systems is by employing OUR police force and OUR justice. Yes, I am proposing vigilante justice when things get too extreme; when we lose trust in our goverments and when our legal systems are just a corporate tool for extortion and profit, it is time WE the people take back what is ours; OUR country, OUR legal system, OUR goverment, to reshape it into something new, something different, something BETTER. How? Beats me, but the US constitution has a precious Seconds Amendment that reads: (emphasis mine)
Maybe soon this will have to be put in effect in the US, when it becomes rampant and effects all of the people. Hopefully, this all can be stopped peacefully. If not, then I suggest we give up protesting and ENFORCE OUR FREEDOM upon those who try to control us. I hope it never becomes as crazy over here in the Netherlands as it is right now in the US, but should any be required over here, then count me in. It is time people stop asking for freedom from those that won't give it and start TAKING what is rightfully theirs, before our entire civilization descends back to feudalism, complete with a new incarnation of the spanish inquisition (our legal systems) and heresy. (thinking "outside the box" defined by the corporations)
Well, thinking about how fair, sound and pristine the US legal system is...
No.
Well, there goes any hope of winning for 95% of the MSN users...
Mmm, yes, but for CD-RWs to become succesful floppy replacements we'd need several more things, like cd-rewriters on every computer. I don't know about other colleges, butI don't think they're going to give each PC at mine a cd-rewriter just so we can throw around files. Even besides that, CD-RWs are useful things, though they take ages to format once you get one chocked on stuff. Also, you're unable to edit files on CD, you'd have to copy them back to the HD, edit them, save them, burn them, repeat. This can be a major pain in the ass for us students. Do you really think we write those 20+ page essays in one go? (Okay, I admit; we usually download them, alter a few lines and then hope for the best.)
Also, USB pendrives are far smaller and thus nicer to carry around; some of them even can be hooked on key chains. They don't suffer from scratching either. Then again, CDs can be made bootable* while USB device booting is still a pretty rare thing as far as I can tell. Also, those little things can get quite expensive, 125,- for a 512mb, USB 2.0. (woops, that's "USB hi-speed") That said, CD-RWs are still cheaper, more compatible once you've actually burned something (nearly all CD-ROMs can read a CD-RW) and CD-ROM drives are always on the front side, as opposed to PCs with only USB connection on the rear...
It's the US way fo handling things: Fear.
They are simply affraid that someone, somwhere, MIGHT aquire a SAM missile capapble of reaching commercial airline cruising altitudes and that (communist/drug warlord/terrorist/muslim) MIGHT just blow a 747 full of innocent little children out of the sky.
Of course, the biggest ceiling of any commonly available (read: soviet runion) SAM system is 8000 meters. (roughly 24000 foot) Oh, and that is for a mounted system; I'm not sure if the US police would appreciate anyone driving around in a cold war missile-launcher. Shoulder-launcher SAM systems having an amazing range of 10k feet, for the most common SAM system for ground personell, the US Stinger.
Indeed I know the lizard, for it is great indeed. And I am familiar with the lizard's apetite for unwanted popups, which be savagely devoured. Yet, the lizard does not eat popups that occur to me when I click on an external link. The lizard is indeed good, even though I prefer a greater degree of control over it's popup apetite.
TROLLING:
It IS a troll. The best way to deal with trolls is to ignore them or make a (good) joke about something they hope that you will bite in instead. The latter is even better because it makes the troll look like a turd, makes everyone realize it's a troll and that YOU are not falling for it and a good joke is always better then a bad troll. (of which we have more then enough on slashdot)
Very OT, I know. Consider it a good thing, by helping out a poor sap who almost had someone take the piss out of him.
I hope the slashdot effects cripples the graphics.com servers and sets them on fire in a glorious blaze of divine revenge! Take that for full screen popups!
Commander: Sweet mother! IFF signal!?
Operator: Unknown, sir!
Commander: Damn it! Any units ready!?
Operator: Negative, fifth armour is stuck in a traffic jam at Main street!
Commander: Damn it all to hell! Get me NORAD on the line, someone inform the president!
Operator: Visual confirmation coming in by TrackSat2 Delta... NORAD will be notified, unable to notify the president sir!
Commander: Explain yourself!
Operator: The president is driving that segway, sir!
Commander: By all that's unholy...
Seriously, if you go "mmm" at the idea of a little insignificant no one on the internet holding a vibrating thingy against her underwear while getting off on her boyfriend playing a game, all as a rather good marketing stunt, (Hey, it worked, that's for sure... poor taste but it worked!) then you've got some real issues.
Game Girl Advance: No original stuff, no real news, but I'm a girl so why should I bother with actual content when I can make my cheap site run good with a underwear shot?
What a silly idea! Cheap things don't sell! Load something with sufficient buzzwords, make it new and shiny, get several sites to drool over it and swim in money! Businesses are out there to make profit, not to make cheap PCs. Even the most affordable PC (with monitor at all) would prolly be available for... 200 or 150 USD? This is a manufacturer prices with cheapotech parts. Don't expect this too change; a 5 gb HD with modern tech would be easy, easily costing about 25 to 30, but there's no real profit in that. Same thing with all other major components.
Oh and I hate to tell you this, but the shipping container is prolly worth more then the computers. And even if ti wasn't, I highly doubt wether shipping containers are bouyant. ;)
Be sure to put them back where you found them.
Fundamental Christians are very pipcky concerning food and due to their constant bible-thumping, they make awful pets.
The bible DOES read "Go forth and procreate" somewhere... Or something along that at least; might be a bucces with Christian fundamentalist women! The bad thing of this is, is that your future stepbrother might also be your competitor...
I think Mr Linus would be happy with unmarked slices of gold, uncut diamonds and several kilograms (that's 1024 LoC^2dB for you emperial people) of opium. Portable wealth is great thing!
You sir, are a shit troll and an even worse flamer.
As if we didn't have enough web logs already! (I refuse to use that retarded buzzword) Now we can all enjoy the daily adventures of random 14 year old American girls loosing their virginity to a random 24 year old American guy and then compare their blogs together! Actually, we could make a nice betting game based on that, building a few scripts that hunt for tell-tale signs about upcoming relationships... ("OMG im so in luv LOL i cant w8 2 see him!!!112" & "Hey, my 14 year old cousin is starting to get breasts!" (for the redneck version of the show))
Then we can make a Big Brother-esque show out of it! People can bet on what will happen! Will he screw her? Will she get pregnant? Or are they actually smart enough to use protection? Who will enjoy it most? All those bets can make a fortune and with the endless supply of ignorance and stupidity delivered on the internet (courtsey of the AOL userbase) we wont run out of subjects before the sun expands and consumes the earth!
Coming up next: IRC Deathmatch. Two horny people, one modified ircd, no fucking dignity! Is 16 year old Suzy really the virgin from Tampa she claims to be? Does 17 year old Kindra from Portland really have a D cup? Bet on these uncertainties and watch out as we send a large, aggresives and violent camera crew to meet them all a few days after!
I don't know, I think http://localhost/ is the fastest, most reliable of them all instead. Shit content though...
My Hummer is more important than the lady!*
* = Easy to say right now, having neither a Hummer nor a lady, but still...
Definitely one of the features which makes Linux a powerful OS. A good and well-configured packaging system can be a blessing, automagically resolving dependancies or at least telling you where and how things will fuck up. The problem with package managers is that there are quite a few of them around. Normally, diversity would be a good thing but those package managers don't seem too willing to process eachother's packages...
For example, RPM packages are almost common these days; most open source software has a few packages ready to be implemented. Pretty much the same thing with Debian packages, because of the large userbase. Chances are that a few hours after the release of a major product someone has made a .deb somewhere, ready for you to install. However, if you'd look beyond these two packaging systems, you'd get a few nasty surprises...
The TGZ packaging scheme (also mentioned in the article, along with RPM and DEB) just... Well... Sucks. Or at least in Slackware, I don't know if any other distributions use it differently but lets use Slackware's TGZ system as an example for now. What's wrong with it, you ask? First of all (and possible the foremost reason) it's almost unused. Apart from the Slackware packages itself, I've never seen anyone distribute something in the TGZ format which worked. That excludes the few things which I found and simply refused to install. It doesn't do dependancy checking, conflict-checking, heck, it doesn't do anything or so it seems. I'd continue but ranting about the bad parts of Slackware isn't the issue at hand.
The issue at hand are the two remaining package systems, which might be technically sound and quite useable, but they still won't have allot of use. Who here has ever heard of SLP and PKG packages? And even then, who here knows of any major applications which distribute their software using those package systems? Sure, SLP and PKG might be a dream to use, but without any actual packages to install, they're (possibly sadly?) not really of any value.
Which brings us back to RPM and DEB, apparently two of the most common systems, courtesy of Red Hat and Debian. Looking at the list of summed up data, it's really not a miracle those two are more common: Both support mostly options listed, both are backed by a large amount of users/developers and both are relatively easy to use, yet still distinct. Perhaps a system which allows multiple systems to cooperate (regarding dependancies and conflicts and the like) would be a nice compliment to both RPM and DEB?
Someone try to say that ten times fast!
Dear Ms. A. Coward,
You misspelled my name, it's Seth, not Dork. An understandable typo, in regard of how close d, o, r and k are to s, e ,t and h on a normal qwerty keyboard. Carry on, minion!
With love,
Sethy
Just what the world needs, another huge aircraft carrier designed to fight communi- er, drug carte- no wait... Who are the current boogeymen for the US right now? Oh yeah, terrorists! Yep, we need that $5 billion chunk of steel to blow up Kore... No wait, already blown up... Well, apart from North Korea, when is it their turn again, anways? Panama? No wait, also blown to bits already... Same for Iraq...
Ah hell, just wait for the next financial scandal, Bush will then pick a random country, declare them to be part of the axis of evil, demand UN inspections, claim they already got evidence anyways, pull Mr Blair's strings a bit more, send over this new carrier to drop an ammount on ammo worth more then the GNP of the receiving country and feel good about it! Afterwards, let Mr Blair take the heat for false evidence and scare any Americans who dare to raise a voice against the war into submission. Oh and: PROFIT!
So instead of their normal scare-mongering by involving terrorism in any way possible, they are now suddenly switching into scaring everyone by mentioning kiddie porn instead? Wow, such diversity! Next thing you know NYT actually becomes a good source of news with facts and interesting content without a "we will spam your ass off" scheme! Maybe right after DNF is released...
Yeah, working with HTML forms to upload data. That works, I tried that and itwas nice, sort of :) It's a bad solution if I'd ever want to upload larger files due to various issues, like the initial drawbacks of http. (being stateless and all that) Still, it works up to a level and it works nicely if you don't expect too much out of it.
HTTP tunnels are a good solution so far but I don't have any working tunneling software yet apart from a trial version of a commercial tunneler. Granted, I haven't taken a very good look at gnu/httptunnel yet, so that might be an answer. Once I get back in college that is and by then I'll have one of those USB keys :)