Recent content by DiamondzAndGunz

I wouldn't necessarily say that I 'love' linux.. but I like it, I've gotten into it a bit. I run both Slackware and Gentoo. Slackware, as mentioned above, is nice, small, and not a pain to install. I run it on an old laptop, and was the first distro I messed around with. Gentoo, on the other...

Read it, loved it. Great book. Got an A on the paper I had to write for it, too :) Wouldn't go so overboard as to say 'Read it 12 times', but since I said it's great, I voted for the first option.

Got 5. Took me 2 or 3 more reads to find that I missed an "of" in the last line. I would think that it has more to do with the pronunciation of the word. "Of" is read as "ov" or "uv", making a distinct "v" sound, not the same "f" sound as found in the rest of the words. More people would...

Well, it might not be a permanent solution, but have you tried getting a floppy boot disk? I have one, in case any of my computers ever go psycho (or if I have to boot a CD on my laptop. Yes, it's that old). It came on the first install disk of my copy of Slackware linux. If you have access to...

Well, one thing that I can point out that just seems to stick out as wrong is your mobo/HD compatibility. Your mobo's SATA, while it seems (forgive me if I'm wrong) that your HD is ATA. You could get an ATA to SATA converter, but why not just get a SATA HD? Much better, IMO. SATA is slightly...

Parmenion, it is just a slightly different definition of irony. Here, the fact that a fire started due to the carelessness of the firefighters is ironic because firefighters preach fire safety and fire prevention. You would expect firefighters to be the most careful when it comes to fire...

SATA - Serial ATA. It's a different type of connection from the HD to the mobo. Instead of those long ribbons, they're thinner cables. Don't really have time to explain much more, but a quick google yields this site - http://www.serialata.org I would go with the SATA, but only if you're...

Yes. It's from that one site posted in this thread (the link has been removed though).

LinuxISO.org Get rid of Windows and you'll live in peace. :smug:

I didn't intend say that you could run windows programs without an emulator using Darwine, only that you could with Wine. Nonetheless, thanks for clearing it up, and I wasn't aware of the needed implementation of QEMU (which, according to that faq, they haven't done yet); perhaps I should read...

PearPC :p The only reason that we might sometimes need it is due to the fact that some 95% of PC's run windoze, and therefore there are some apps that we may need that don't have an equivalent (yet). Same with linux and it's need for Wine, really. They have an even smaller amount of...

Well, it might or might not be. Depends on the laptop and what kind of applications you plan to run. You mentioned in another thread that you're looking into buying a new laptop, so I presume you would be looking at either a 1-1.2 GHz iBook or 1.33-1.5 GHz Powerbook. It would run decently on...

Virtual PC is pretty much your best option. However, you would still need a very fast Mac to get anything to run at a decent speed, and it still has not been upgraded to work with the new G5's. There's also Darwine, anyone familiar with Wine for Linux would know that this is not an emulator...