I have a similar problem with an old CD drive, it started years ago, it would reject CDs entered randomly, the chance of it accepting a CD went constantly down, but besides that, it functioned perfectly.
during an upgrade, I replaced the CPU, mobo and memory, only original components inside the case that were still left were the floppy drive, CD drive, GPU and PSU.
due to the mobo upgrade windows spectacularly failed to boot, as expected. problems started here, the (original) windows XP pro CD failed to be inserted into the drive for about a week, after that, BIOS didn't see it was bootable, knoppix ran fine instantly, fedora core 3 installed fine, debian would have worked fine if the netinstall hadn't failed miserably (didn't recognize the onboard ethernet), gentoo also worked fine. I borrowed a perfectly working CD drive from someone else, replaced the old one with it, exact same problem, closer inspection revealed it to be of the same type. A new XP cd with SP2 on it would read after several tries, but crashed while booting every time, doing nothing besides ruining the MBR.
And the self healing is pretty much useless anyway, it's great at preventing you from removing malware or unnecessary junk like media player, but it won't stop you trashing the bootloader or deleting the kernel.
well, due to windows file locking, you won't be able to delete the kernel, you can corrupt it though...
Heh...I could have told him what he did wrong...I had the exact same issue when I tried to install Fedora on my Toshiba. It took me a lot of flopping around (two reinstalls) to identify and fix the issue, but now Fedora works like a charm.
Google is now beta-testing yet another new service, Google-login, it stores all your passwords and biometrics and has advanced algorithems that copy the functionality of onetime-tokens.
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Tell that to the users that got stuck at a command line with no way of knowing how to use apt-get to get the fixes.
simple: emerge --sync && emerge -unD world
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I have a similar problem with an old CD drive, it started years ago, it would reject CDs entered randomly, the chance of it accepting a CD went constantly down, but besides that, it functioned perfectly.
during an upgrade, I replaced the CPU, mobo and memory, only original components inside the case that were still left were the floppy drive, CD drive, GPU and PSU.
due to the mobo upgrade windows spectacularly failed to boot, as expected. problems started here, the (original) windows XP pro CD failed to be inserted into the drive for about a week, after that, BIOS didn't see it was bootable, knoppix ran fine instantly, fedora core 3 installed fine, debian would have worked fine if the netinstall hadn't failed miserably (didn't recognize the onboard ethernet), gentoo also worked fine.
I borrowed a perfectly working CD drive from someone else, replaced the old one with it, exact same problem, closer inspection revealed it to be of the same type.
A new XP cd with SP2 on it would read after several tries, but crashed while booting every time, doing nothing besides ruining the MBR.
I vaguely remember windows 2000, the pstools en especially psexec, doesn't that fall under 'rootkit'?
but I thought it was supposed to go the other way?
well, due to windows file locking, you won't be able to delete the kernel, you can corrupt it though...
has exactly that
1. Dell will use this mobo (+ P4 ofc)
2. Dell will advertise it
3. Dell will bolt the cases shut -_-'
Heh...I could have told him what he did wrong...I had the exact same issue when I tried to install Fedora on my Toshiba. It took me a lot of flopping around (two reinstalls) to identify and fix the issue, but now Fedora works like a charm.
I have it too
http://www.bosleymedical.com
Bosely Medical Institute
they aren't even spelled the same, or is that just great slashdot spelling again?
that is very false, my old 1333 Tbird exactly equals a 1500+ in performance when not overclocked, when overclocked to 1500MHz, it's equal to an 1800+.
it seems to be a blatant ripoff of AMD64, renamed a few things and introduced a few incompatibilities just to give the architecture their own name.
and according to the benchmarks they did a poor job at it, but that's intel for you.
they were working on something different, and paniced when AMD came up with something better.
..Stating that Windows Server 2003 is 14% cheaper than 'Linux'
yeah, right.
slightly offtopic, but whatever
Google is now beta-testing yet another new service, Google-login, it stores all your passwords and biometrics and has advanced algorithems that copy the functionality of onetime-tokens.