OT FrankenLaptop goes to smugsville

So after my last Zotob.your.favorite.variant attack, I decided there had
to be a better way. I partitioned my 60gb HD in to three basic partitions,
one for XP Pro ( I know, I know, but I have to have it, OK?) , one for
Ubuntu Linux, and a fat32 shared space. I installed the XP first, with my
usual wInDoze apps, utils and whatevers. Then I installed the Ubuntu Linux
OS, and added the stuff I like to run off that. I still have the remaining
space as shared storage, and am able to mount it from linux or XP.
Anything really storage consuming gets put on my frankenserver (Dell
Poweredge from the Fred and Barney Giant Server days) anyway so I can move
things off on and on as I have to.

The best part is the looks on people's faces when they walk by and I have
XP running, then when they are walking by again, I am running ubuntu. This
is especially fun when it's a geeky person with an iBook, who is too cool.
Even better, my employer is buying one for me to use ( an iBook ) so I can
go to extremely hip coffee hangouts and have more OS than anyone else.
By the way did anyone see the recent South Park episode? I will have more
smug than George Clooney!


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Jim Stinnett
VTR1000
R1100RS
YZF R1
http://moto-rama.com

 

Running XP does not entitle you to any smug. Dual-booting it with anything else
doesn't, and neither does running WINE or Virtual PC on a Mac.

But I was dual-booting Yellow Dog Linux with OS X for a while. But I didn't see
the advantage of Linux, so smugly I removed that. }: )

 

Ah, thanks for adding to the problem of Global Laming!

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Barb
Chaplain, ARSCC



"Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable
insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as
Scientology."
-ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"

 

Since the 10.4 OS is Unix, you may as well accept that you have
been assimilated..:_)
yikes
Wait till I get the iBook..who says we can't shoehorn a dos install (and
maybe Windoze of some kind), some flavor of linux and Tiger...of course
we'll have tiger....

I made a four flavor 586 once, but they were all more or less
"accceptable" os's, just getting them all on the same disk with a workable
boot loader was the interesting part.
I seem to remember it having some smug value..at the time anyway.


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Jim Stinnett
VTR1000
R1100RS
YZF R1
http://moto-rama.com

 

Gladly. In ~2002 I got a contract position at Apple doing SQA. I worked
entirely with OS X and loved the unix tools.

Get one with as large an ard drive as you can afford in there. BTW, I got an
800MHz 12" iBook ~2 years ago and I love it.

Well ... with that sort of thing you can only be smug with other geeks or
nerds. Everybody else will sort of say, "Um, that's cool" in that condescending
way that cool people speak to nerds with when they haven't got the foggiest
notion of how cool what you did actually was. I at least know how to praise the
developers I work with: when he gets the Linux dmesg screen showing on some new
hardware, I can honestly jump up and down excitedly, yelling, "That's cool! "
and know how cool it really is what he did.

 

Oh, oh, oh. Pamt pant pant. Oh, ohhhhh. Ahhh.

Oh. Don't do that again.

 

Yes. That's why I got the 12".

 

Enough of this geeky crap! I'm going for a ride in the rain!

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PC Paul
89 PC800
77 R100RS

Trip pics at: http://photos.yahoo.com/paul1cart

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to
society" - Theodore Roosevelt