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  1. spamhog

    A 5GB partition that should NOT exist ??

    Dear Tek, thanks for your reply! >> two primary partitions is part of the problem. >> You can do it, but it throws the order of logical partitions off when Windows reads the MBR at bootup. I have all the four primaries the architecture allows. One (the 3rd) is an extended partition with...
  2. spamhog

    A 5GB partition that should NOT exist ??

    On my trusted, battle-scarred laptop I have had a lot of partitions for several years: C: Primary, 3GB, Windows 98 + apps D: Primary, 50MB, DOS (bootable with some tricks, FAT16) E: Logical, 500MB, temporary files F: Logical, 400MB, Windows swap (FAT16) G: Logical, 1500MB, hot work files +...
  3. spamhog

    Can I combine hard drive partitions

    If you decide to keep at least 2 partitions, you can set Win98 up to keep the "My Documents" and "Desktop" folders on another drive. Even better, assuming the 4 partitions are the same size and that the PC can manage 1 partition twice as large as the ones have now, you could do like this: 1)...
  4. spamhog

    Changing Linux- Difficult?

    Thank you Daniel! So associations are just recorded as ascii userid strings, w/o any additional obfuscation, right? Simpler than I feared. Filippo / spamhog Computer Victim (as in "fashion victim") - Milan, North Poldavia - http://filippo.ru.ru 40% WinME, 40% Linux (Debian...
  5. spamhog

    Changing Linux- Difficult?

    Perhaps you want a lower-level-of-abstraction reply. All distros nowadays recognize existing partitions. DO BACK EVERYTHING UP. But if you are sure you can tell where your user data is (i.e. in which partition /home is), you can define the mountpoint of that partition as /home again, tell the...
  6. spamhog

    aix startx question

    I am definitely not an expert on this, but I am afraid you're barking under the wrong tree. X is a "server" but you have to consider that its clients are the applications. You are "sitting" in front of the "server" and apps (local or remote) use the X server on...
  7. spamhog

    Switching between 2 networks?

    Letting a user hack registry is courting trouble, even through layers of *.bat and read-only *.reg.... Consider this thingie: IP Switcher http://www.softmate.co.kr/UK/ipswitcher/product-basic.htm or http://leader.linkexchange.com/X1703135/showiframe? Filippo / spamhog Computer Victim...
  8. spamhog

    Alternative windowing shells?

    Forgot to mention... I might have eradicated IE, but I reckon I need it to do Windows Update. I know of no other browser that can trick the WU site into believing it's a genuine MSIE. I just use IE as a dedicated WU utility. This is another concern regarding alternative shells. How deep...
  9. spamhog

    Alternative windowing shells?

    Thanks! I had heard about that one. I never use the Internet Explorer infrastructure, neither directrly through the IE interface nor through IE-based "alternative" browsers. Right now I am using Opera, which I strongly recommend and just selected as default browser - relatively fast...
  10. spamhog

    Alternative windowing shells?

    I see there is a good number of windowing shells that replace the original windowing infrastructure of Windows. I think they are related to both the old X-windows of the DOS era and to today's X server used in Unix. I have the impression that very few people use them, and just for the hell of...
  11. spamhog

    easy, discrete way to destroy a hard drive??

    Don't waste perfectly good hard disks!!! Wiping data off electronically is very easy. You can reach an NSA lever of unrecoverability with just a bit of running time (multiple presudorandom overwrites), but just a couple of random passes + a good scrub of the partition table will be enough to...
  12. spamhog

    Anyone booting from solid state HDs?

    I see that some solid state IDE "hard drives" [smallish, expensive, shockproof] are available. Does anyone have experience with them? Price? Speed? Boot times? (On what OS/comp?) Just curious. - Investigating static RAM market. - Wonder if HD substitution is any closer now than 15...

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