/jealous.thebeardedlady said:
Dual booting is REALLY easy. I did it last holidays. It'll just take a day or two of your time to get Ubuntu completely set up, but it is so worth it. If you need help with the dual booting thing, throw me a line. Then again, maybe you don't want my help - i'm the guy that didn't set up his second hard drive in the BIOS after he installed it.`kyttie said:
Sounds like a plan.LatK7 said:
Thanks, I'll keep you in mind.bringbackshred said:Dual booting is REALLY easy. I did it last holidays. It'll just take a day or two of your time to get Ubuntu completely set up, but it is so worth it. If you need help with the dual booting thing, throw me a line. Then again, maybe you don't want my help - i'm the guy that didn't set up his second hard drive in the BIOS after he installed it.
)williamc said:
my trials are at the end of term 2. no relaxation for me these holidays... least i wont have as much to do next holidays tho!
Haha wow. I would never have thought of the command prompt. I'm not great at command line interfaces, although the terminal in Linux is really growing on me.`kyttie said:Thanks, I'll keep you in mind.
Don't worry though heh, I've done silly things too.
I've wanted to change my XP theme to a visualstyle, but you know how you have to hack the uxtheme.dll file before Windows accepts it and all? Well, I did that all manually, except.. I think I had something else on my clipboard, and instead of replacing the original dll with the hacked version, I replaced it with a different system file on my clipboard (I think it was explorer.exe). I didn't even check to make sure it was right, and I cancelled my way out of Window's evil "Replace if altered system file" policy thing, and rebooted. Argh. Computer boots up with "uxtheme.dll not found in library", with - no desktop, no taskbar, no.. absolutely nothing. No Explorer, especially. Only thing I could do was Ctrl+Alt+Del. Safe Mode was exactly the same. Oh, and no mouse either.
Then I was hit by a brainwave. I went to my little brother's computer, copied the original dll file onto a USB, and came back here. I figured I'd replace it. But.. how, if there's no Explorer? I tried Safe Mode with cmd prompt, and had to remember how to change directories. I cd'd my way to the guessed drive letter of the USB, found the file, but - I hadn't a clue how to copy it. Oh well, I scrapped the whole idea because I was so sick of command prompt.
Then another brain wave hit me. You know in Ctrl+Alt+Del, that "New Task" button? Hit Browse and.. it takes you straight to Explorer! Oh joy! From there, I found the USB, copied the system file and placed it onto my computer, rebooted and.. ta-dah! Life was good again.
It was pretty stressful for me though, I had a hand-in assessment on the next day and it was all on my computer. Hadn't gotten into the habit of backing up. Now I always backup to a USB, external drive and FTP server. Talk about paranoia.
Anywho - that was my little adventure. lol
During these holidays though... I want to open up my computer and check which type of RAM I have. Can't remember if it was DDR or.. whatever the other one was. SDR. DD. SD. I don't know, lol. Something like that. And then I can graduate from my inadequate 448megs. *shudder*
Oh and I also want/need to reformat my external drive, and vacuum the dust out of my computer. It's.. dusty in there. :mad1:
Kaitlyn.
(who's well and truly done ranting for a little while
PS: bringbackshred, which distro are you using now?
Wow, a new computer/laptop would be awesome.bringbackshred said:
I have 63gigs of music, 'cept I don't listen to mainstream so each of my songs is about 11 or 12Mb
What music do you listen to? I'm not a mainstream person either... Ugh.`kyttie said:Wow, a new computer/laptop would be awesome.
My brother has a laptop, but I can't get used to the no-mouse thing.
So if ever I get a laptop, I'll make sure to get a USB mouse with it or something.
That's amazing though, that someone else I know has as much music as me.
I can't imagine losing my external drive. I think I'd faint from shock, lol. I use SyncBackSE as my backup program, it took a bit of getting used to at first but I like it because not only does it back up files, but it'll synchronise them between two sources. It's also super-customizable. There's a free version (SyncBack or something), but the commercial one's easy to get as a torrent. /spam.
But I'd love to get Ubuntu, I've already sent for the CD (I would download it, but my CD/DVD-burner's been dead for about two years, heh) and I'm just waiting to get it. Speaking of waiting for CDs, we bought the full version of XP this January, and M$ had this offer going where if you buy a full version of XP between november and february or something, you get a free upgrade to Vista. So I was like, "wow that's unusually generous", until I found out it was Vista Basic - the crippled OS that doesn't even deserve to be called one. Oh well, I ordered it anyway, and I'll stash it away for another year or two before I even touch it. Apparently it doesn't have Fax or Scan support. That's a bit worrying, but I don't know how credible that is. :mad1:
Kaitlyn.
Mainly metal, although it's funny that my favourite metal incorporates other genres. But I'll listen to just about anything that requires skill to play - this includes, jazz, some classical, blues and whatever else.`kyttie said:Mostly dark ambient, I guess. It doesn't really have a name, bands like Mortesium, Stoa, [N]ever. A bit of industrial. Used to be into heavy metal, but now I don't like it much. I usually have to get my music through 3-gig torrents, it's really hard to find, ugh. I make my own music a lot though, using FLStudio. Fun fun.
You?
Kaitlyn.
Argh, i'm so jealous.ebonybc said:
