On 4/21/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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I copied and pasted the link, not big deal, just thought you should be
aware.
Mitchell Brown wrote:
> Hey sorry about that. I just highlighted it on www.tinyurl.com and they
> happen to have it bolded. Good ol WYSWIG (SP) .. It didn't take it as plain
> text. And I forgot!
>
> Anyways, the link is http://tinyurl.com/qg59a
>
>
> On 4/21/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why waste all of this time? I am very comfortable with the repair
> console, limited as it is. It is actually faster for me boot with
> knoppix, copy the files that I need (since nearly everything of
> importance is stored on my fileserver at home, so there is not much on
> my windows box). I then reinstalled with a slipstreamed XP cd.
>
> For an even nicer tool, check out http://www.altiris.com
> They make a software virtualization product (free for personal use, but
> the really cool stuff is in its AD integration of the enterprise
> version). Really cuts down on the time needed to re-install all of
> your apps. This has nothing to do with linux, except that I build
> software images in VMware with host OS as linux... that does not even
> get me close to being on topic :)
>
> At the end of the day, troubleshooting windows is not worth the time and
> effort expended. For most of my clients I have disk images (ghost or
> partimage). When a client machine is having trouble, it takes 30
> minutes to restore the image.
>
> All windows does for me is play games and remind me how much I like Linux.
>
> One more thing, the link did not work for me with the "*" around it. I
> am using thunderbird on windows right now. I think it looked fine on
> thunderbird under linux. Weird. Anyway, if you could figure out how to
> not do that, it would be great.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mitchell Brown wrote:
>>>> Next time your Windows box gets into trouble -- you might try this
>>>> *http://tinyurl.com/qg59a*
>>>>
>>>> On 4/21/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> I would be lying if I said I had not done that before. It is almost a
>>>> shame that we learn better through mistakes :)
>>>>
>>>> At least backing up /etc is a lot easier than trying to backup your
>>>> registry before making changes. I just finished reinstalling my lone
>>>> windows machine after a windows update went bad (BSOD even when booting
>>>> into safe mode with command prompt).
>>>>
>>>> I have a script kicking around that I used to use that takes snapshots
>>>> every couple of hours. I will send it along when I find it. I now use
>>>> backuppc but this is probably not the easiest to configure for new users
>>>> (or experienced ones for that matter).
>>>>
>>>> Mitchell Brown wrote:
>>>>>>> What do you think :(
>>>>>>> No.. darn .. I totally forgot.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/21/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>>> You did back up your /etc/X11/xorg.conf before making changes...
> right?
>>>>>>> Mitchell Brown wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I tried gettng it going in my FC5 and I ended up breaking Xorg
>>>> :( and
>>>>>>>>>> hosing the install...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/21/06, Dan Graham < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Nick Wiltshire wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Until recent discussions on this list I hadn't heard much about
> XGL
>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>>>>>> I've
>>>>>>>>>>>> been watching demo videos and drooling on my keyboard.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> One question - all the examples I've seen are Gnome. Is it/will
> it
>>>> be
>>>>>>>>>>> possible
>>>>>>>>>>>> to see some of these effects in KDE as well?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> YES! I have it running on Kubuntu Dapper as we speak. Google
> XGL
>>>>>>>>>>> compiz and Kubuntu. I hear the Gentoo guys have it going as well,
>>>> but I
>>>>>>>>>>> found some good howtos for Kubuntu with KDE+KDM. The games run a
> bit
>>>>>>>>>>> slow but that may be a config issue. I just run a second instamce
> of
>>>> X
>>>>>>>>>>> on tty8. The install was just apt-get "packages" and bend a few
>>>>>>> configs.
>>>>>>>>>>> It should be possible with any distro that is packaging XORG 7x.
> as
>>>> 6.9
>>>>>>>>>>> won't do it.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> All the best, Dan
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>> Chaos, panic, & disorder - my work here is done.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
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