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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #30 on: 7 June 2006, 03:29 »
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Bad experiences dual-booting?  Jeez, man, it's the easiest thing in the world to do.  You actually have to try extra hard to get it to fuck up.
Unless you install Windows second.....

In that case go complain to Microsoft - it's them who fucked up your hard work.
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #31 on: 7 June 2006, 20:04 »
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Unless you install Windows second.....

That's actually working hard to make it fuck up.  Everyone ought to have figured out by now that Windows only cares a fuck about the boot sector during installation.  After the installer has left the building, you can do whatever you like (metaphorically) to the boot sector, and Windows doesn't care.  Now, when (not if, when) you have to reinstall Windows, that's when it gets tricky.  Having a boot disk for your Linux is crucial at that point, so you can get in and rebuild your grub after Windows deletes it.
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #32 on: 8 June 2006, 08:06 »
I still wouldn't dual boot windows. I don't trust it. Granted I didn't know a lot of what I was doing at the time, but at one point, I had windows smash a linux partition that I had. Strange how linux doesn't do anything to windows unless you undoubtedly want it to.
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #33 on: 8 June 2006, 09:25 »
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You do know that windows cannot use more then 3GB of ram unless you have the x86-64 version, and Intel's implimation of x86-64 sucks hard compared to AMDs

The limit of 32bit Windows is 4GB.
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #34 on: 8 June 2006, 17:43 »
Was not 4gb the Fat32 limit ?

and another thing ...
cant linux (be made to) support wind
dlls and drivers natively :) anything that MS makes
can then be used on any linux distro with that addon :)
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #35 on: 8 June 2006, 18:39 »
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The limit of 32bit Windows is 4GB.

But windows eats 1GB of it up, and you only have 3GB of ram you can use
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #36 on: 8 June 2006, 19:19 »
That's not true, I only have 256MB of RAM (well 240MB actaully as 16MB is used for on-board graphics) and it's only eating 124MB and I've got several tabs open in  Opera.
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #37 on: 8 June 2006, 19:40 »
I mean you only have 3GB useable, Like windows just makes that extra gig of ram vanish.
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #38 on: 13 June 2006, 18:53 »
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have you tried any other programs?

well i know Mirc works well under wine :)
and IcyTower too ...
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #39 on: 13 June 2006, 19:19 »
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Also how do I go about installing WINE on Ubuntu?
http://winehq.org/site/download-deb

I'd install it using the WineHQ apt repository. (so I have the latest version and can easily update it.)
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #40 on: 13 June 2006, 20:30 »
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But windows eats 1GB of it up, and you only have 3GB of ram you can use

1GB? Not even Vista uses that much, you must have some shitware running in the background.
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #41 on: 13 June 2006, 21:06 »
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1GB? Not even Vista uses that much
You made that point already and he answered:
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I mean you only have 3GB useable, Like windows just makes that extra gig of ram vanish.
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #42 on: 13 June 2006, 21:08 »
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1GB? Not even Vista uses that much, you must have some shitware running in the background.

unless you have Physical Address Extension installed, Windows will only see 3GB of the 4
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #43 on: 13 June 2006, 21:27 »
Reminds me - my brother-in-law works for Dell, and they just came out with a computer that has 64GB RAM.  64GB!!!!!!!!!!!!  Apparently, oil companies are buying them like mad, in order to run their modeling programs.
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Re: want to switch but what
« Reply #44 on: 13 June 2006, 21:40 »
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Reminds me - my brother-in-law works for Dell, and they just came out with a computer that has 64GB RAM.  64GB!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kinda kicks home the fact that Vista is just around the corner :D

Did some googling and found the page for the beast: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_690?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz
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To utilize more than 4GB of memory requires a 64-bit OS. To expand memory to more than 32GB requires a Dell Precision 690 1KW system with memory risers.


64GB, insane... The 2TB of storage isn't increadible, but the RAM...

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&oc=MLB1726&s=biz
16GB RAM costs over $10,000 for 4 dimms, whoa.

I don't wanna give away any hints, but this would look well in my bedroom - and it's my birthday tomorrow ;)
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Macintosh amends a damned around the requested typewriter. Macintosh urges a scarce design. Macintosh postulates an autobiography. Macintosh tolls the solo variant. Why does a winter audience delay macintosh? The maker tosses macintosh. Beneath female suffers a double scum. How will a rat cube the heavier cricket? Macintosh calls a method. Can macintosh nest opposite the headache? Macintosh ties the wrong fairy. When can macintosh stem the land gang? Female aborts underneath macintosh. Inside macintosh waffles female. Next to macintosh worries a well.
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