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Thoughts on why we love to hate MS.

Posted 07-02-2010 at 04:24 PM by rich_c

I read an article today entitled "Why do we (Love to) hate Microsoft." An interesting piece but the comments are as, if not more, telling. I, like many others spent many years not knowing any better. My Microsoft user days go back to MSX home computers. At the time, it seemed to me that the philosophy of 'one system to rule them all' was a good one in the interests of interoperability. I quite happily used Windows 3.11 and Windows 95 but then had a brief dabble with SuSE. As a Windows...

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Posted 07-02-2010 at 07:30 AM by Web31337 (In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog])
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How to cleanly delete Linux partitions and install XP and multi Linux OS's on them.

Posted 07-01-2010 at 09:50 PM by navneethr

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Hello,
Thanks for your posts. It helped me in getting the solution I wanted. Here is what I finally did...

Deleting the partitions via XP or the 98 bootable CD was not clean and these programs could not cleanly delete the Linux partitions. THe linux partitions have to be deleted via the Linux programs itself.

Procedure:
I used the fedora disk and went into rescue mode. I used the skip option which prevented it from mounting any filesystems and went to...

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Arch Linux and House Guests.

Posted 07-01-2010 at 08:16 PM by damgar
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My sister-in-law and her children are moving in this weekend for an indeterminate amount of time.. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but I can see already that I'm going to need a diversion. Arch Linux looks like just the thing! I'm generally a Slackware fan-boy, but as I've said before, Slackware's stability (even in -current) is sometimes a drawback when I just NEED to fiddle!

In all honesty though, Arch just intrigues me. I've heard that it's bleeding edge nature occasionally causes...

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Odds and ends.

Posted 07-01-2010 at 07:44 PM by peonuser

Making a usb fridge/warmer in an old Barbie doll locker (repainted of course).

Going to use linux via the parallel port to fire off compressed air rockets on the fourth.

Running U 10.04 on an old 800 mhz laptop. Not too bad.

Have another linux box to build.

Linux router + jet direct + electronics = home control possibilities.

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