After my third slug of coffee, I am awake!
here are some more random facts that may/may-not be useful.
one member in my writing group recently bought a =new= laptop
to use with Doze and linux. he is a tech writer and very sharp,
but knew little about linux. I introduced him to ubuntu. I
have been using ubuntu for some five years. IMO, it is better
than most distributions. he just bought a "Gateway Win7" at
Fry's, which is a quasi-discounter here in the states. --from
your TZ, Im guessing you are somewhere is oz. at any rate, this
fellows told me::
MS has what's call=
ed secure boot on Win8 (it prevents people installing alternate OSs --
spit=
ting into the peanut butter jar). I hope they didn't start doing that for
remaining Win7 systems. Guess I'll find out. </P>
I assume that his win7 did not have this UEFI interference, but
it is an indication of what's coming. more hack-arounds.
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:49:48PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 05:24:29PM +0900, nomnex wrote:
> > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:54:55 -0800
> > > Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I honestly do NOT know what I did to fix the UEFI "thing"::
> > > unless I followed somebody's hand-waving: "you can fix this
> > > in the BIOS."
> >
> > Okay, so you disabled UEFI in the BIOS, and you are in Legacy mode (I
> > guess) running F17 only. Did not know UEFI was already enabled on W7
> > machines
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > When you find a new machine, please do share which model and
> > > make, etc. the tech I hired found me this model that was
> >
> > I will. It will be a Window8. I hope that won't make any difference.
>
>
> what do you mean, windows8? I have never run run windows--not
> even to torture myself. I have only run unix: sun, bsd, linux.
>
>
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