Posted on 09/07/2012 3:44:45 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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Good article.
I thought so as well. It answers several questions I’ve seen here on FR.
Tekkit is a highly advanced mod compilation that gathers dozens of other mods and gets them to all work in tandem. It allows you to basically construct advanced machinery at a basic level. Could spend a week building a machine that automatically mines, sorts, processes, refines, and constructs at each basic level to a finished product.
For example, I spent a couple weeks building a machine that did just that and the end result was advanced solar panels. The added fun was in refining the machine to fewer steps and more streamlining. Eventually I even built a warehouse to cover it and installed industrial lighting, taking care to wire it up.
Last week my Linux box crashed and wont boot into Gnome.
Not a huge deal is I didn’t deiced to use it for emergency photo storage to free up space on a memory card!
The hardware is still ok, I just thing the installation is now....gimped(shameless pun).
So if any Linux guys have a suggestion for this average Joe on how I may retrieve the goods from this machine before having to nuke the whole thing, I will be forever grateful!
Another thing of note, with Tekkit I saw a video of someone who built a literal piece by piece computer at the most basic level. Laying each transistor. It had something like 200 bits of memory, I think an 8 bit input register, and supported a display that was also constructed piece by piece at the transistor level. Of course it took forever for it to actually make a simple calculation, but it was a genuine simulated computer inside a computer. (How meta!) =]
I sure as hell ain’t that smart.
By the way, the security issue has been resolved with Microsoft's own free-to-download Security Essentials software, so if you're running Windows 7, you don't need to buy a third-party Internet security suite (along with the steep yearly subscription cost!) for safety online. And Windows 8 will include the full Security Essentials functionality as part of the Windows Defender section of the operating system.
Incorrect. Linux actually supports more hardware than Windows does.
By the way, the security issue has been resolved...
Security is never "resolved." Security essentials may help, but it does not cure.
A live CD creates a fake hard drive in the memory and starts from that, which is why it doesn't need to molest the hard disk unless you want it to. In this case, you want to "mount" (make accessible) the hard drive and read off the stored data. You can copy it out to a USB drive or ftp it to another system.
You didn't say what distro you have, btw, and the expression "boot into Gnome" doesn't actually make sense. By the time Gnome should be coming up, the boot process is well over and the kernel is fully operational — at that point, it's starting up applications.
Last week, my main Linux box wouldn't start KDE, but that turned out to be because the manufacturer of my video card discontinued hardware support for its whole series. I updated my Linux installation, and wups, suddenly no X Window system, which means no desktop. Linux was alive and well, but only usable from the command line.
I got a newer video card, plopped it into the box, and lo, everything came back up with no other changes. But that had nothing to do with Linux itself.
6. How do I install Linux but keep Windows?
But there are several virtual machines out there that would work as well.
That is a pretty broad statement considering Linux comes in so many flavors. If it were true, why are Ubuntu users endlessly searching for drivers? I think it really depends on what you are using Linux for and the distro you choose.
I will care more about Linux the moment more games become available on it. While it supports Steam, not many games are available and not near the number on Windows OS. I’m waiting for the day all games are Linux compatible and I can ditch the bloated Windows OS on my gaming rig. I would gladly kiss Windows goodbye and never look back.
I keep hearing rumors that Steam is making a gaming console that is essentially a small PC with a Linux OS that uses Steam as its front end.
“You didn’t say what distro you have, btw, and the expression “boot into Gnome” doesn’t actually make sense. By the time Gnome should be coming up, the boot process is well over and the kernel is fully operational — at that point, it’s starting up applications. “
It’s Ubuntu. It goes through some sort of startup process but when the desktop usually appears, I get just a blank screen.
bump for later.
Linux comes in one flavor. The distros are customizations of the one OS. Much like the different versions of Windows.
I base that statement not only on personal experience (ever install Windows on mid-tier hardware like an AS/400 or on a Tivo?) but on numerous reports around the web (see here for an example). Windows basically runs on x86 hardware with some on specialty phones. Linux runs easily on everything from phones to supercomputers, ATMs, military drones and battleships to car computers.
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