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Cylinsier Master
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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The plan is to pick up a spool of CDs this weekend and get back on track with this project. I'm also thinking of replacing one of the above OS' in the list with Chromium OS (the open source basis for Chrome OS), but it requires a lot of command line so I may chicken out.
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ellipses Mod
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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DO IT.
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Cylinsier Master
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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To install Chromium, I have to build it first. And to build it, I need Ubuntu. So it looks like I will be installing Ubuntu first. Downloading now. _________________ The end is nigh! OR forums die APRIL 1. Don't lose contact! Join the forums at bogsource.com now! |
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Cylinsier Master
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Also working on an alternative method of getting Snow Leopard; going to try to install Leopard and then upgrade. _________________ The end is nigh! OR forums die APRIL 1. Don't lose contact! Join the forums at bogsource.com now! |
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Cylinsier Master
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:03 am Post subject: |
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Leopard got as far as the apple screen before locking up; farther than I could get Snow Leopard yet. Also tried Ubuntu; it tried to eat my disk drive, so I don't know whats up with that. _________________ The end is nigh! OR forums die APRIL 1. Don't lose contact! Join the forums at bogsource.com now! |
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ellipses Mod
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:00 am Post subject: |
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What do you mean it tried to eat it? _________________ The end is nigh! OR forums die APRIL 1. Don't lose contact! Join the forums at bogsource.com now! |
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Amphikalein Journeyman
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:57 am Post subject: |
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Please keep us posted on your results, Cy. i've got a couple of old desktops collecting dust in the garage so maybe i'll start experimenting with Linux. Some employers here are regularly looking for Linux familiarity & proficiency, and playing around with OS distros is probably my best bet to learn more right now.
In a week i'm starting A+ certification class. Then Network+. They were the cheapest, quickest and most foundational certifications i could pursue right now. Most 'bang for the buck' you might say.
HP's opening a huge new facility in January right up the hill from us - i'll probably go for MCDST next. _________________ "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~Martin Luther King Jr.
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Cylinsier Master
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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ellipses wrote: | What do you mean it tried to eat it? |
Well, my CD drive wouldn't open after the Ubuntu boot and instal failed, so I had to go into Bios and switch my boot order just to get back to Vista where I was finally able to make it spit the disk out. _________________ The end is nigh! OR forums die APRIL 1. Don't lose contact! Join the forums at bogsource.com now! |
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ellipses Mod
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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When I did the 50/50 ubuntu-xp laptop, I completely lost the cd drive on the xp side. I can boot from cd if I change the bios, but I can't find the cd drive anywhere in xp. It's a biatch to find the drivers to re-install the cd drive... and the only thing I use that drive for is booting the next release of ubuntu So... it's not really necessary to have it functional.
On a side note, I went to office max and wally world last week on my way home from work to get an S-video and wifi card for the laptop that I'm putting in the mix with the tv and components... couldn't get either one of them from the brick and mortar store. I don't want to get a usb dongle for the wifi because this is an old laptop with usb 1.0 ports and I don't think they will be fast enough.
Ordered both online today... paid less for both with shipping than i expected to pay in the store for just the wifi card.
Another side note... what does this mean? Can I use this drive with a combination of a mac and windows machines?
Quote: | # Setup Utility OS Support Windows® Operating Systems
# Client OS Support Windows® Vista™, Windows® XP, Windows® 2000, Mac OSX® or later |
I'm not necessarily going to get THIS drive... but when it comes to setting up something that will be central storage for both mac and windows machines, what do I need to look for?
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Cylinsier Master
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, it should work fine on both platforms. _________________ The end is nigh! OR forums die APRIL 1. Don't lose contact! Join the forums at bogsource.com now! |
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ellipses Mod
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Cool, I bought it... it was cheap.
320gb is probably 3 times more than I need, anyway _________________ The end is nigh! OR forums die APRIL 1. Don't lose contact! Join the forums at bogsource.com now! |
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Cylinsier Master
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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Depends on what you're storing. _________________ The end is nigh! OR forums die APRIL 1. Don't lose contact! Join the forums at bogsource.com now! |
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ellipses Mod
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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I have 15 gigs free on my 75 gb mac hard drive... I got up to within 4gb of it being full before I deleted a few movies that I had watched and just hadn't gotten around to deleting. The only stuff I "keep" is music... and even at that, I download maybe 1 song a week on average... I will never fill 320 gb... ever. _________________ The end is nigh! OR forums die APRIL 1. Don't lose contact! Join the forums at bogsource.com now! |
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Cylinsier Master
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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So you say. My PC has 700 GBs of space and I only have 250 left available. And I have already used 100 GB of the storage on my TB network drive. _________________ The end is nigh! OR forums die APRIL 1. Don't lose contact! Join the forums at bogsource.com now! |
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ellipses Mod
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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But what do you have on there? I might download 3 or 4 movies at a time, take a week to watch them and then delete them. In my entire iTunes library, I have 7.16 gigs of music... I suck at accumulating
I would say my streaming to download ratio is like 80/20... and I only really see that going up in favor of the streaming side.
But with the extra storage, I might take a crack at dl'ing some HD content... just to see if it's worth the wait.
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