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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
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31/12/2012 09:07
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Honestly - this thread just reminds me why I'm an Apple fan these days. You've got more money than technical ability? Sorry, couldn't resist PMSL - no, life's just too short to be fighting all this stuff. There's nothing I want to do on a computer that's worth the effort. Switch it on, do what I want, then switch it off. Then I have more time for cycling or fighting my race car
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
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31/12/2012 10:02
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Switch it on, do what I want, then switch it off. Which is why I like linux...
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: barnacle]
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31/12/2012 20:44
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I'm with MRS on this. As an ex IT techy, there was nothing I enjoyed more than hours of tinkering. But gradually over time I found it more and more frustrating leading to extended bouts of computer rage, finally I woke up and realised that the computer is just a tool to do stuff with, and the time for doing stuff was eaten up by trying to make the damn thing work. So i went from a confirmed PC, anti Apple person to an instant convert. I bought an iMac roughly a year ago, I switched it on, connected to my wireless network and that was it. Since then I have never had to tinker once, can't honestly remember the last time I went near to any settings!
As Neil says, each to their own, but when I think of the hours, days, weeks and probably months of my life I have wasted trying to make various MS products work properly.....
It's a bit like a car, I just want to drive the bloody thing without having to change the parameters on some obscure sensor just because I chose to wear red socks that day!
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
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01/01/2013 00:06
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It's a bit like a car, I just want to drive the bloody thing I can fully understand such a desire but feel I must question why such logic deserted you when buying a car. Almost everyone knows that all Italian cars would fail to offer such a simple function to almost all of their owners.
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: barnacle]
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01/01/2013 13:26
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Might be worth giving Sabayon a bash (no pun intended) its gentoo based but has support for UEFI secureboot out of the box, also has the usual array of desktop managers to choose from. Having said that it sounds as if you are getting there with Fedora 18 beta, which has a newer version of Shim than Ubuntu 12.10 apparently. As for window 8............
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: barnacle]
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01/01/2013 15:19
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Indeed, fair enough, horses for courses and all that ! I've always been a "pop the bonnet, look under the hood" kinda person so Linux is more than just an OS, it's one of my hobbies. I'm not blinkered however, I'll use whatever OS I need to get the job done, after I've made damn sure it ain't going run under Linux first though !
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
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01/01/2013 15:27
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It's a bit like a car, I just want to drive the bloody thing I can fully understand such a desire but feel I must question why such logic deserted you when buying a car. Almost everyone knows that all Italian cars would fail to offer such a simple function to almost all of their owners. That's why the Italian one is sat in the garage and the German one is the one on the drive that gets used
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
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01/01/2013 17:39
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Ah, but for me, the Italian one doesn't get used not because it's likely to break, or unlikely to start, but simply because I live too far from work... a matter of cost. The coupe was used daily for fifteen years!
Currently, I'm building a gentoo image, having found a way to get it started. This has been described as 'first, find an oil well, an iron mine, and a rubber tree. From these, build a car...'
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: barnacle]
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01/01/2013 22:44
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Ah, but for me, the Italian one doesn't get used not because it's likely to break, or unlikely to start, but simply because I live too far from work... a matter of cost. The coupe was used daily for fifteen years! In fairness don't you have another Italian in its place for the daily runner? No German machinery is there? On the windows 8 note. One feature I notice which I liked a lot is windows 8 can open images files as they are without being burned off etc. (just tested an iso file) so can actually check the files inside the image without waste time and a cd. No need for demontools and mount the disc
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: barnacle]
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02/01/2013 09:21
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Interesting thread - so you decided to keep W8 and install gentoo alongside? If so, how was the hard drive partitioned from factory? Only ask because if the W8 partition needed to be resized to allow space for gentoo could that maybe cause issues?
A lot of the PC's I have used have either never come with an OS or have Windows on them so I just run a linux live disc, shred the drive (if necessary), repartition it to have some allocated to Windows, swap and the majority for mint. install windows and then linux so I can have the grub menu at boot. I use virtualbox a fair bit but it's a necessity to have the option of windows at startup too as the missus uses it a fair bit and I have done so for games and other bits of software.
good luck with the install. I'm currently working on a bash script in work to decomplile android apks and then I need to get involved with the source code. Only just starting to learn java so this isn't going to be pleasant journey
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: barnacle]
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02/01/2013 12:23
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I tried gentoo once and can appreciate the difficulty. Without a friend who knew it all I would have got nowhere. These days I run Ubuntu Studio and Mint. I did convert wifey's Vista laptop to a VM which re-activated using the same key - but was the same cpu/machine just a different disk/SSD.
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: barnacle]
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02/01/2013 13:53
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Reubs I also like the fact you can now also mount an iso within the OS so no need for deamon tools etc...
You have always been able to see inside isos with the later versions of win zip although I always preferred .7zip
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Re: Today I are mostly swearing...
[Re: barnacle]
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07/01/2013 08:14
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Well done on sorting it all. How did you transfer the data? Doing the same with mine later on using scp and a crossover cable.
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