What happens when the temperature regulator in the soda machines goes out.
Posted on 06/01/2006 1:08:49 PM PDT by Buck Ninety-Nine
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All I need is some Chinooks to pass overhead and my day will be complete!
I just set up a machine at home to do that, but haven't actually started. What are you using?
A co-worker's son installed that, just to have the latest. Uninstalled it very soon after. Dog slow.
Our house's Wintel machines are all Win98 with one Win2k. The XP Pro box has been opened but never installed.
I've been running XP Pro on this box since the summer of 2002 and it's been just fine. The only complexity I ran into was when my hard drive failed. I had a 120G drive that I imaged over to a 160 as a backup with the thought that I could just swap in the backup if the primary failed. Bill says "No" and the upshot was alot of headaches and hacking, but I think it's the same with Win2K, too.
It isn't. XP was when all the "fun" started.
I've got a cable from the Line Out jacks on the stereo to the Line In on the sound card. Am planning on ripping using Audacity, burning music CDs, and converting to MP3s for the MP3 player. Going to take a lot of time, I fear...
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What happens when the temperature regulator in the soda machines goes out.
"Fun" is right. Unless you never have a hardware failure; then you're fine.
But, see, in order to avoid the "fun" you pretty much have to become a geek. You have to download instructions for sysprep, if you bought XP early on you have to eitehr download SP2 or get the CD from Microsoft, you have to slipstream the SP2 files in with the XP files so that when you do the system repair you don't have to redo the SP2 upgrade...
Does all of this seem like just a LITTLE, TEENY bit of an EXTREME expectation to make of an end-user? I mean, is it JUST ME, or does everyone else in the world ALSO assume that end users are all tech-savvy enough to tackle all of that? Yeah, we all have our own copy of Ghost 8.0. Sure we know what Windows PE is; we've even got our own copies of WinPE on CD so we can boot from CD and do diagnostics and repair on our computers.
[In my best 'Bill Cosby'] RIGHT!
Windows XP needs to come with a "SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING" about high blood pressure.
There is a bit of a time investment, but it's nice to listen to some of those old tunes while recording. Really a pretty relaxing project.
"Windows XP needs to come with a "SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING" about high blood pressure."
Yep...
And if that isn't bad enough, Vista may cause aneuryisms...
That's the nice thing about 98/2k -- no Ghost, don't know what Windows PE is, and if there's trouble I boot a Linux CD.
Still haven't found the "perfect" Linux distro though. Suse 10 is pretty good but some setup is (typically) poorly documented. It's still a bit heavyweight for my liking; a 1.3 GHz box out to be snappier than it is -- the "media ripping" box at 550 MHz Win2k, is faster.
The goodwife has experience supporting others' machines with XP. That's why we don't have it.
What software are you using to burn those wav files, just the Windows native Sound Recorder?
Apparently Sound Recorder has a 1 minute limit, though there's a trick to get around it.
LOL!
Good morning to you, too!
What would it take to do a clean Linux install on my Wintel box, then set up XP Pro to run on a virtual machine inside that? I watched a guru friend do that on his dual-core intel MacBook -- OSX installed and XP running inside a Parallels VM -- and it was really tight. I was blown away, frankly, but I don't necessarily want to drop the change for a new 'puter, so I'd like to know more about the possibility of doing something similar with Linux, first.
You could dual-boot Windows and Linux. That eliminates the need to run a VM, which frees up space on your main partition. Second, if you run it in a VM, the guest OS is almost always significantly slower.
Most distros with graphical installers (e.g. Fedora, SuSE) make it terrifyingly easy to resize an existing Windows partition.
Before anything else: Back up anything critical, and be prepared to reinstall Windows (you would be writing to the hard disk)
Assuming your partition is NTFS, I'd make sure you have plenty of free space (at least 10GB)--then thoroughly defrag it.
Boot the Fedora/Suse install CD and use the partiitioner. You should be able to resize the NTFS partition by following the directions on-screen and adjusting the size in the window.
If the CD that you use to partition the disk has the distro (version of Linux--examples include Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, Mandriva, etc.) you want, go ahead and install it. If not, shut down the computer and boot the CD/DVD containing your distro.
If that fails, you may need to do a clean install of Windows and then install Linux. Yep, it's a pain in the butt, but the OS runs much better.
Virtually every distro installs a bootloader such as LILO (LInux LOader) or GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader), that will have both choices available to boot.
That's pretty much what I thought.
I'm just noodling on how to get the machine set up so that a hardware failure doesn't leave me crippled, again; that was REALLY frustrating.
Right now, even though my machine is healthy and XP is working fine, with my past negative experience it feels like there's a time-bomb ticking away. I'm not prepared, nor do I have copious tracts of time to do the research and gather the software to become prepared, to engage the BS required to make XP boot back up okay after a hardware replacement.
Frankly, I'd rather just kick Bill Gates in the crotch, call him a bloody bastard and be done with it.
I need to investigate more.
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