Ok, I know that this is a joke but I would seriously recommend Gentoo to anyone who has the patience to install it.
Better yet, if a noob can get an expert to either show them how to do it or do it for them, Gentoo is much easier to use in the long run.
If people would just take the time to follow the step by step instructions for installing Gentoo, they would realize that it isn't daunting, just a little tedious.
Yeah, I agree. If you want to become familiar with/comfortable with linux, Gentoo is definitely the best "introductory" distro I've seen. The documentation is *excellent* (it doesn't assume much linux knowledge, if any, at all), and once you have everything installed and something breaks, you'll actually be able to know what to do.
After awhile though, the sheer time it takes to compile stuff from source just becomes annoying. That's why I've switched to Fedora, with apt installed using the Fedora.us repositories. But as I said before, I would not recommend starting with Fedora.
To provide an analogy, Gentoo takes you to the kiddie pool and patiently teaches you how to swim to the deep end. Once you reach the deep end yourself, you can handle navigating around. Fedora lets you hop in a boat, lay back, and let it take you to the deep end. Then it drops you overboard and you're on your own. Of course, if you've used Gentoo before using Fedora then you might have a chance of surviving.
Yeah, apt from fedora.us *plus* adding rpm.livna.org to the sources.list gives you most of what you would need. You shouldn't get any package conflicts with rpm.livna.org, as it it specifically designed to work with fedora.us (and in fact, its purpose is to provide the packages that fedora.us doesn't due to legal/licensing issues).
From the rpm.livna.org website:
The merger between Fedora.us and Red Hat necessitated the removal of certain problematic packages (including but not limited to mplayer, xine, videolan-client and xmms-mp3) due to licensing issues or US software patent.
The open community of volunteers gathered in rpm.livna.org will continue to maintain those packages and everybody is free to contribute by sending new spec files and/or new packages.
RPM.Livna.org is not a standalone repository
You must use rpm.livna.org with
Fedora.us repository
I don't run fedora so i cant speak from experience, but what about using one of those 3rd party boot loaders like GAG or XOSL?.
I don't think that would help, because it isn't actually GRUB that's causing the problem (it seems). It seems like the partition table itself is actually becoming corrupt/changed.
Ugghh!! Well today, I woke up at 10 minutesen after 8. Then I put on my socksen. Then I had to cupen of coffee. After that, I installed Fedora on my boxen. Previously, I had two working OSen, but not anymore.
Eh, you still have two working OSs, you just aren't able to boot one of them at the moment:)
There's more info in the bugzilla report, but it only affects drives larger than ~120GB (or so) and SOMETIMES can be fixed with fixmbr in the windows recovery startup.
Actually it affected me with my 30GB drive as well. Fixmbr didn't seem to work, but recreating the partition table using sfdisk did seem to work:
Are you sure? I encountered this "bug" when installing FC2 alongside Windows XP - in my case, changing my hd mode to "LBA" from "Auto" in the BIOS allows both FC2 and WinXP to boot. However, I didn't really like that, so I ended up booting to single-user mode in Fedora and doing the following, as suggested by someone in the bug discussion:
(I may have needed a --force in there as well). After that, I was able to set the mode back to "Auto" and both Windows XP and FC2 would boot. Note that all I did though, was basically just recreate my partition table by dumping the info provided by sfdisk and piping it back in sfdisk.
One explanation I read is that the Anaconda screws up the CHS values in the partition table. Windows uses both CHS and LBA, and so when it reads the CHS values it cannot boot. However setting the mode to LBA manually in the BIOS forces Windows to read the LBA values. Linux only uses LBA, so it doesn't matter what mode your hd is set to in the BIOS.
Of course, I don't really know what I'm talking about, but if someone could provide a better explanation...
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Ever laid on a bed of nails? Since there are so many, it supports you without much discomfort.
Pretty much every nintendo game has cinematic art done in real time. So even if it was cinematic art, it was still all rendered real time.
This is due to the small discs that can't contain tons of movies.
Irregardless of the reason, I much prefer cinematic art to be done in realtime. I find that it makes for much better visual continuity, a more consistent look throughout the game, and no disappointment of returning to blocky graphics after watching an amazing cutscene.
Perhaps Nintendo took this into consideration when they designed the discs - they knew they wouldn't be needing that much space anyways.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't all 17 inch LCD monitors (that have a resolution of 1280x1024) have a dot pitch of 0.264mm? Is dot pitch even a useful measurement for LCD monitors?
Anyone know of any Canadian bargain sites? It seems all the good deals are for American customers only - even regular price items are more expensive here for some reason.
between digital cable and direct tv satellite, I've always thought that a set top box hinders the viewer from the easiest viewing experience. A feture like picture-in-picture is lost. It requires you to program another remote, and for some people this is a pain. It can require the user to have two remotes, one to turn on the tv, switch it to cable input, and adjust the volume and then one to changed the channel and use the converter box.
I sort of have the opposite view. I think TVs should do one job, and one job only - display whatever is input to them (in fact, I think they should not have speakers either). Decoding of digital cable content (and in fact, tuning analog cable channels) should not be the job of the TV. TVs should have one single input (like a DVI port, or something to keep the image digital). Everyone should also have an A/V receiver so they can plug all their equipment into one central source - perhaps there could be a market for cheap stereo receivers, for those who don't need 5.1 dolby digital surround sound. Connections to the A/V receiver should be *fully digital* (maybe then they could have all audio/video data on one line).
Why do I think this is a good idea? Because it is much more simpler, especially for those who aren't inclined or willing to understand how everything works - there's only one connection to the TV, so you obviously plug the video out to the TV - anything else like your DVD player or digital cable terminal plugs into the A/V receiver. There would be no "changing your TV to channel 3 and changing your cable terminal to channel 56" nonsense, which is probably the root of confusion for most consumers. Also, it is much more modular - what if a new cable or satellite technology comes out down the road? Do you really want to buy a new TV? What if a new video techology comes out? What if you need more inputs? What if you want to upgrade your speakers? Upgrade the TV only? The multiple remotes issue could be solved by mandating a standard interface that the A/V receiver uses to communicate with all peripherals. That way, all communications would be between the remote and the A/V receiver, with the receiver controlling functions on other devices such as DVD playback or changing of channels on a digital terminal. The TV could have a power-save function that would turn it off when no signal is detected (or, an interface could be defined so that all A/V receivers would have control over the TV power).
1) Stop debating it. Stop doing cost-benefit analysis. I DON'T CARE IF WE DO LOSE A FEW LIVES. We NEED to proceed in our exploration of space.
Would you be so quick to say that if it was your life? It is arguable that those "who are willing to die in the line of duty" due to equipment malfunctions, miscalculations, etc are really those who we want to send on science explorations.
Japanese firms regularly embark on projects that won't be finished until all of the founders are dead.
It's more than just thinking long term, it's about not being selfish. Many Americans ask "How does doing this benefit me?" Many Japanese probably ask "Is commiting my career and life to this goal worth it, will it give me something to be proud about and make my life worthwhile?"
Well it's just a mascot - not like they have to use it everywhere. I assume the OO.org brand will still be identified by their logo. Goofy mascots? What about Tux, or the Greek olympic mascots, or the MSN butterfly guy?
Now stop making facetious arguments about abridged versions of a sentence which makes perfectly good sense.
First of all, what was wrong with my argument? I implied that "conclusive evidence of a possibility" doesn't say a lot, and I still believe it doesn't. All it says is that we are sure that it's not impossible. Secondly, did I ever say you can't provide conclusive evidence of a possibility? I don't know where you got that from.
Now stop making reduntant comments about my comments which make perfectly good sense.
American game companies were being run Hollywood-style, going big with every release, and playing a constant game of one-upsmanship against their competitors.
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Yeah, I agree. If you want to become familiar with/comfortable with linux, Gentoo is definitely the best "introductory" distro I've seen. The documentation is *excellent* (it doesn't assume much linux knowledge, if any, at all), and once you have everything installed and something breaks, you'll actually be able to know what to do.
After awhile though, the sheer time it takes to compile stuff from source just becomes annoying. That's why I've switched to Fedora, with apt installed using the Fedora.us repositories. But as I said before, I would not recommend starting with Fedora.
To provide an analogy, Gentoo takes you to the kiddie pool and patiently teaches you how to swim to the deep end. Once you reach the deep end yourself, you can handle navigating around. Fedora lets you hop in a boat, lay back, and let it take you to the deep end. Then it drops you overboard and you're on your own. Of course, if you've used Gentoo before using Fedora then you might have a chance of surviving.
From the rpm.livna.org website:
I don't think that would help, because it isn't actually GRUB that's causing the problem (it seems). It seems like the partition table itself is actually becoming corrupt/changed.
Eh, you still have two working OSs, you just aren't able to boot one of them at the moment :)
It screwed up for me (dual boot with XP as well), and it seems like it is the partition table that becomes corrupt during install.
Actually it affected me with my 30GB drive as well. Fixmbr didn't seem to work, but recreating the partition table using sfdisk did seem to work:
sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda
sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda
(I may have needed a --force in there as well). After that, I was able to set the mode back to "Auto" and both Windows XP and FC2 would boot. Note that all I did though, was basically just recreate my partition table by dumping the info provided by sfdisk and piping it back in sfdisk.
One explanation I read is that the Anaconda screws up the CHS values in the partition table. Windows uses both CHS and LBA, and so when it reads the CHS values it cannot boot. However setting the mode to LBA manually in the BIOS forces Windows to read the LBA values. Linux only uses LBA, so it doesn't matter what mode your hd is set to in the BIOS.
Of course, I don't really know what I'm talking about, but if someone could provide a better explanation...
But what about sitting on a bed of nails?
Irregardless of the reason, I much prefer cinematic art to be done in realtime. I find that it makes for much better visual continuity, a more consistent look throughout the game, and no disappointment of returning to blocky graphics after watching an amazing cutscene.
Perhaps Nintendo took this into consideration when they designed the discs - they knew they wouldn't be needing that much space anyways.
Doing eyecandy for Longhorn
People are stupid. Thus, to win, you need to have stupid games.
Or so they say...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't all 17 inch LCD monitors (that have a resolution of 1280x1024) have a dot pitch of 0.264mm? Is dot pitch even a useful measurement for LCD monitors?
Anyone know of any Canadian bargain sites? It seems all the good deals are for American customers only - even regular price items are more expensive here for some reason.
I sort of have the opposite view. I think TVs should do one job, and one job only - display whatever is input to them (in fact, I think they should not have speakers either). Decoding of digital cable content (and in fact, tuning analog cable channels) should not be the job of the TV. TVs should have one single input (like a DVI port, or something to keep the image digital). Everyone should also have an A/V receiver so they can plug all their equipment into one central source - perhaps there could be a market for cheap stereo receivers, for those who don't need 5.1 dolby digital surround sound. Connections to the A/V receiver should be *fully digital* (maybe then they could have all audio/video data on one line).
Why do I think this is a good idea? Because it is much more simpler, especially for those who aren't inclined or willing to understand how everything works - there's only one connection to the TV, so you obviously plug the video out to the TV - anything else like your DVD player or digital cable terminal plugs into the A/V receiver. There would be no "changing your TV to channel 3 and changing your cable terminal to channel 56" nonsense, which is probably the root of confusion for most consumers. Also, it is much more modular - what if a new cable or satellite technology comes out down the road? Do you really want to buy a new TV? What if a new video techology comes out? What if you need more inputs? What if you want to upgrade your speakers? Upgrade the TV only? The multiple remotes issue could be solved by mandating a standard interface that the A/V receiver uses to communicate with all peripherals. That way, all communications would be between the remote and the A/V receiver, with the receiver controlling functions on other devices such as DVD playback or changing of channels on a digital terminal. The TV could have a power-save function that would turn it off when no signal is detected (or, an interface could be defined so that all A/V receivers would have control over the TV power).
Would you be so quick to say that if it was your life? It is arguable that those "who are willing to die in the line of duty" due to equipment malfunctions, miscalculations, etc are really those who we want to send on science explorations.
Japanese firms regularly embark on projects that won't be finished until all of the founders are dead.
It's more than just thinking long term, it's about not being selfish. Many Americans ask "How does doing this benefit me?" Many Japanese probably ask "Is commiting my career and life to this goal worth it, will it give me something to be proud about and make my life worthwhile?"
hmmmm I'm not sure we want tires to "stick" to the road. I think we just want the surface to not give when moved parallel to the road.
Note that even if it were for OpenOffice in general, it is not even a logo. It is a mascot - like the MSN butterfly guy.
Well it's just a mascot - not like they have to use it everywhere. I assume the OO.org brand will still be identified by their logo. Goofy mascots? What about Tux, or the Greek olympic mascots, or the MSN butterfly guy?
Thank you for the encouraging post and reminder that not the entire world is screwed up.
First of all, what was wrong with my argument? I implied that "conclusive evidence of a possibility" doesn't say a lot, and I still believe it doesn't. All it says is that we are sure that it's not impossible. Secondly, did I ever say you can't provide conclusive evidence of a possibility? I don't know where you got that from.
Now stop making reduntant comments about my comments which make perfectly good sense.
Hmmm, sounds familiar....
But, how is the value of gold any less reliant on perception? What makes gold inherently valuable?
Okay, that sure says a lot.
That's why they use it in toothpaste Of course I'm sure it's poisonous if eaten in the right amounts.