Posted on 06/01/2006 1:08:49 PM PDT by Buck Ninety-Nine
WASHINGTON, May 31 — After vowing to steer a greater share of antiterrorism money to the highest-risk communities, Department of Homeland Security officials on Wednesday announced 2006 grants that slashed money for New York and Washington 40 percent, while other cities including Omaha and Louisville, Ky., got a surge of new dollars.
Homeland security officials said the grants were a result of a more sophisticated evaluation process
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I think I could learn a lot from you guys if I understood what you were saying...
The other big advantage is that if XP fails to load, you still have Linux, which can read the partition.
You can still recover your files, surf the web, write the document in OpenOffice, etc.
I've always thought it was a good idea, and it's come in handy a couple times already...
OK, to simplify.
There is a computer running Windows XP. HKMk23 is looking at installing the Linux operating system to his computer.
A friend with a Macintosh showed him the computer running Mac OS X (the current operating system on a Mac) with a copy of Windows XP running in a virtual machine.
The virtual machine simulates another computer and enables one to run a different operating system within their current setup. For example, with PearPC, I'm able to load and use the Mac's operating system while running Windows.
I recommended that HKMk23 look at partitioning (splitting) his hard drive and installing Linux on a freed portion of that hard drive.
I understood what was desired with the computers. What I have difficulty with is the the technical jargon that is used to get the desired outcome. It has nothing to do with your explanation, Jon. It's my brain. Some days, I can't even figure out how to turn the TV on. I'm series.
The big deal, here, is that I'd STILL be able to boot up my computer using my backup hard drive in the event that my primary hard drive died.
Just using XP, I can't do that; XP will not let me, which is why I was offline for ten days when my old 120GB hard drive failed. Yeah, I had my entire system exactly duplicated on my 160GB backup drive -- that's called an "image" -- and you'd think that I could have just swapped out the hard drives, set the BIOS settings to the new drive size and booted right up just like always.
XP doesn't work that way, though, and if you try that you end up with a perfectly good hard drive filled wit hdata and applications safely tucked away inside of a totally broken installation of XP that petulantly refuses to work.
Setting up the dual-boot would still leave me able to boot up in Linux and repair my crapped out XP partition from there.
I also kick it around when that happens...
Copyleftist sabotage!!!
Dual-boot: Just be sure to install Windows first, if you have to install both; at least for a time (years ago) I remember reports that the Windows installations would wipe out any Linux installations.
Howya sion!!
AudioGrabber
I think it uses the Xing engine to drive the CoDec. They both were available for free on the web a couple of years ago.
This is hugh...8^)
LOL
Now for multiple hard drives, I'm not sure. There are a couple of guys here that are far more knowledgeable--they can probably give you more advice than I can...
(All my experience has been with one hard drive...)
hehehe
Besides ge, who really cares? 8^)
Well, I have got a really good Windows PE disc with lots of gee-whiz geek tools on it -- a gift from my guru. I can boot on that CD and have wide-open access everything on the hard drive including the registry hives. So, in a sense, I already have a sort of dual-boot capability.
In fact, that's how I do my backups. I have my 200GB drive in a removable drive carrier, so I shut down my system, slide the 200GB drive into the bay, turn on the machine and drop the PE CD in. The computer is set to boot from the CD so it will come up in Windows PE. At that point I simply run Ghost to make an exact image of my 160GB primary drive on the 200GB backup drive.
Now, let's say my 160GB primary drive fails tonight. I have an image on my 200GB pullout drive, but you can't just swap that 200GB into the case in place of the dead 160 and be okay, and it's at this point that the average user will think they CAN do that, try it, and proceed to almost irreversibly break their XP installation.
If they win that game of Russian Roulette, their system will be the one-in-a-thousand that actually does boot successfully. If they loose, XP will be a total wreck and will have to be hacked in order to be broguht back to a bootable condition. This is tantamount to a resurrection and is beyond the ability of most users. Even fewer actually have the tools they'd need to achieve success at that point.
My beef with MS is that this is their fault, that no operating system should be this picky, and that they have shoved this off onto the user community who, for the most part, are completely unaware of the potential disaster they face if they suffer a hardware failure.
I'm only running with one drive; mybackup is in a pullout carrier and I never boot to XP with that drive installed in the bay.
The Open Source Lobby? ;)
Howya, Irish!
Howya KAC!!
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