Posts from daniel in thread „Talk about today“

  • Talk about today

    Our Yorkie (Cooper) had an accident yesterday, leaving him partially paralyzed from the neck down. We are to take him back to the vet today and a decision

    will have to be made for his care. He wasn't "just a dog".

    The decision was made to put our little Yorkie to sleep!!!!

  • Talk about today

    RECONFIGURED MY OLD MACHINE FOR A LINUX BOOT DRIVE

    This is the old PC that I have reconfigured around PClinux. This PC was built back in the late

    90’s around a Intel DP43BF mobo and a Intel Pentium E6700 3.20GHz CPU, and it is still running,and

    has been reconfigured many times.

    #1 The top HDD 500GB is the boot drive with PCLinux installed.

    #2 The next drive is a 1tb drive with XP install in the 1st 130GB partition, it has three more partition

    dedicated for bkup and data.

    #3 A 240GB SanDisk SSD that is running Windows 8.1.

    #4 A 120GB SanDisk SSD that is running Windows 10.

    This is for a machine that can handle more than one

    drve. If it can,then install the drive and

    run Linux on that drive, and install Grub to that drives

    MBR. Use Grub to boot the machine, and use the Grub menu to

    select the OS.

    If you are, like me, have tried other distros, and have to use sudo, or enter a PW just to open some programs, then look no further.

    PCLinux does not use sudo, you sign in at the sign-in

    prompt, and enter the OS. The terminal will open to the user prompt, just use su to enter the root prompt.

    You have a choice at PCLinux install to not use a root PW, I do not and I do not deem this security issue if I am the only user on this PC. If you like typing PW's,then by all means do a root PW.

    You will have to use the chown command to get full ownership of your /home/user folder.

    PCLinux is a nice semi rolling release distro that can be setup to run mostly like Windows.

  • Talk about today

    Splinter

    One of my computers running a Intel DP43BF motherboard has decided not to do a cold boot. It will boot if I do a ctrl/alt/del, and runs fine, any

    idea on what might have happened, besides a faulty mobo.

  • Talk about today

    Quote from Splinter

    What are the specs daniel ?

    Splinter ...

    It is running a 3rd gen i5 cpu, Asus P8Z77V-LX that has no tpm port, UEFI and secure boot have long been disabled, DOS/MBR 1tb Samsung SSD, with one 500GB partition for Windows. I know

    MS could and probably will plug this hole, but I did nothing wrong, in the way I did this, I am still only running one Windows OS, on the same digital license that W10 had. I only

    exploited certain features with the W10 and W11 ISO,s.

    I see this as a complete farce, as to the W11 system requirements, it isn't, that W11 will not or can not, run on other hardware, but our big brother MS, wants users to throw away

    perfectly good machines and purchase something new. Makes no sense for users that have supported MS through the years to have to jump through hoops, like I had

    to, just to install an updated OS from MS. W11 actually reminds and looks more like Linux Deepin or a Mac, more than anything.

    I posted on Jim Canfield article on how and what I did to install W11.

  • Talk about today

    Quote from Rice

    The United States plans to arrange alternative fuel sources for Europe, in case Russia cuts off gas and crude oil supplies.

    Yea, probably just build them some wind turbine farms or install some solar panels, bought from China!!!!

  • Talk about today

    The Wife and I started this project the week end after Thanksgiving. We have now sanded and painted the paneling, had new carpet installed, and rehung things on the wall. Living room

    is a 14'x28' and the hall is about a 4'x23'. Our hard work has added a nice touch to the old house.

  • Talk about today

    Quote from Rice

    I didn’t know you’d been In Vietnam

    Did two tours of duty in Vietnam, one in 68 and 69 and another one at the end. I was a 67N20 or a Huey Crewchief, the Army needed all the help they could get, trying

    to get people out of harms way. Been in Iraq and Afghanistan for too long already, go in do your job and get the hell out, let other countries fight their own wars.