members computers thread!

kennyhui · Nov 1, 2006

ryan s said:
^^no worries, spread the love around

kenny, how do you like the fingerprint system? does it work 100% of the time?

ya the fingerprint system is gd.........n it will work 100% of the time!! but i'm not using that so often..only when i login to the window n lock my pc.......

also, i convert my Window system to OS system

shavedaccord · Nov 1, 2006

Anyone here run Linux?

Jeffro · Nov 1, 2006

shavedaccord said:
Anyone here run Linux?

I had a friend that tried it on his old laptop, and then it got the best of him and he bought a new computer, lol...

ryan s · Nov 1, 2006

im working on it. i did the partitioning wrong (doh! noob) and im trying to undo it. i can still boot both ubuntu and xp fine, so its not a huge deal. my goal is to have ubuntu learned by the time vista replaces xp. that way, i can still use xp for games and such, but have an os thats free of viruses

it feels so weird to go on the internet without an antivirus program. its like being naked. but then you realize its all good, so its like being naked with a lady lol

Jeffro · Nov 1, 2006

ryan s said:
im working on it. i did the partitioning wrong (doh! noob) and im trying to undo it. i can still boot both ubuntu and xp fine, so its not a huge deal. my goal is to have ubuntu learned by the time vista replaces xp. that way, i can still use xp for games and such, but have an os thats free of viruses it feels so weird to go on the internet without an antivirus program. its like being naked. but then you realize its all good, so its like being naked with a lady lol

lol... If you mean the drive was partitioned wrong, then my guess would be that it needs re-formatted. My dad had this problem with his external 250 he just bought, and it was only letting him use 60gb or something, and he had to re-format it... There was no other way to fix the partition... :computer:

shavedaccord · Nov 1, 2006

I haven't used an anti-virus program in over 7 years. I see them as pointless. If you know what you are doing and careful where you go you won't get them. I've never had a virus. Hell I haven't even had spy ware in about 2 years. No firewall either I see them as pointless on a home computer. Most of the cheap publicly available firewalls for windows are garbage and easily bypassed. Partitions are horrible and unstable on windows. I would just pick up a spare 8gb hard drive from a used computer parts store and stick Ubuntu on it. That's the way you should do it anyway. OS's no matter if it's windows or *nix based should be ran on a separate higher RPM hard drive.

ryan s · Nov 1, 2006

i agree with you on that one darryl, and ive been kicking this idea around. i have my hp oem maxtor 80gb 5200rpm hd as my slave drive. my main drive is a deskstar 160gb 7200rpm drive. this summer, i picked up a used 60gb 7200rpm deskstar. i got the 160gb drive last january, and i used it as my master cause its faster even with a lot of data on it. but now that ive got another 7200rpm drive, i want to use it as my master. so ive got to:

1. write the stuff i have stored on the slave to dvds
2. reformat the 60gb (which will be the master)
3. hopefully repartition the 160gb drive and move xp to the 60gb
4. put all my data on the new 160gb slave

sounds like fun, eh? when i installed linux, i thought it was going to create a partition *for* linux, not the whole drive. so now im limited to 34.8gb on my 160gb drive :banghead:

im working on repartitioning it. if not, oh well. ill still have more than enough space for 2 OS's on the 60gb primary, with a vast 160gb freespace

shavedaccord · Nov 1, 2006

Yeah like I said it's good idea to run the OS on one hard drive and your programs/non-OS data on another. Like Photoshop and other high resource programs I have running on my Slave not the master along with all mp3's. I think my new plan is too stick in another HDD (since I can have 6 total) probably 15-20gb just for Linux alone and emulate with Wine so I can run Photoshop and what not. Really all that is keeping me from Linux is Photoshop I don't really game much at all plus when I decide too I'll have the dual boot setup waiting to go so I can just reboot and switch to Windows as I please.