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Blog Comment Hi Moley, thanks for your frank comments. I would say in all honesty that I agree with your evaluation, but I do indeed try to be 'restrained' in what I write here, because I have learned over the years that there are people who know a lot more...
[July 3, 2009, 8:05]
Microsoft's Dam Project Springs a Leak.
Blog Comment Two comments - First, besides uber-geeks and the like, we also have Moley running Win7, and I for one thank goodness for that independent source of first-hand information. Second, I agree 100% with your comments about "spin", and I would add that...
[April 30, 2009, 7:45]
openSUSE 11.0 Available for Download
Blog Based on Moley's comments, I am downloading it and will try loading it on my two laptops. The new release of OpenSUSE, 11.0, has just been made available for download. As I am a relative Linux newbie, I'm very interested to see if my good...
[June 19, 2008, 17:09]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Comment Thanks for the comments, Moley, and it was indeed helpful. My experience has been a bit different, in that I had no trouble getting GRUB to boot Vista, when I installed VIsta first and then Ubuntu. GRUB even shows that it knows the Vista boot is...
[June 18, 2008, 9:27]
Upload your own avatars to ZDNet Community
Blog Comment Moley (and everyone else), your avatar should now be appearing correctly on your comments to blog posts. Thanks for raising the bug.
[May 22, 2008, 10:36]
No Email Program in Windows 7???????
Blog Comment @Moley - that sounds extremely interesting, I'll have a look for it the first chance I get, and I'll be watching for more comments from you about it here. Bisson/Branscombe - I do not trust anything that Microsoft does, under any circumstances and...
[October 30, 2009, 18:51]
Disappearing comments and blog posts
Blog Comment Moley: I'm sorry about that deluge of spam over the weekend. Tezzer: I'm not sure what happened to those comments that disappeared -- in addition to being under moderation, some comments may also have encountered a bug.
[September 29, 2009, 9:36]
Disappearing comments and blog posts
Blog Comment This weekend's blitz of objectionable and potentially dangerous spam did get through and clutter up the community discussions! Why was this?
[September 29, 2009, 0:26]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment Jamie and XWJ thanks for your consideration. I have only got as far as preparing the CD. However, I wasn't going to take the risk. I'll just try the live CD or USB installation in the meantime. Another thing.
[September 7, 2009, 20:29]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment Thanks XWJ and Jamie for your replies. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I remember a clear choice in earlier Ubuntu versions to install to an external drive without writing anything to the internal hard drive(s).
[September 5, 2009, 13:38]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment I used to install Ubuntu to an external disk and place all the boot configuration and grub on the external disk, thus leaving the MBR and existing boot manager(s) untouched. If I wanted to run Ubuntu, I would shut down, plug in the external disk...
[September 4, 2009, 16:40]
Vista - so bad, they pay you to take it?
Blog Comment I'm not an expert on PC specifications, Moley, but I coudn't see anything major in the specs, maybe a few Gig in the hard drive. Thanks for the comments, all I take your point, chrishocking, about supply, but it's also a matter of demand.
[December 6, 2007, 8:09]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment @Moley - I have several extensive multi-boot setups, as I suppose you know. They all have mixes of ext3 and ext4 filesystems; I always use ext4 if it is available, and ext3 otherwise. I haven't seen any real problems arising from this, the only...
[September 7, 2009, 20:57]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment Moley if my idea caused you any grief I'm sorry about that. I'm sorry now I butted in.
[September 7, 2009, 16:25]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment @Moley - WARNING! The LiveCD installer does NOT work the way that I had assumed it would in this case. I just tested it, while in the process of reloading the Mini-Note. I connected an external drive on a USB/SATA adapter, and selected a partition...
[September 7, 2009, 11:35]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment Moley - I remember that version too, and that's the version that I wish we had back, but I guess that "we" are in the minority, and questions about how, where and whether to install GRUB look pretty intimidating for ordinary users.
[September 5, 2009, 14:15]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment Moley - I had just started to think about something similar to what XWJ suggests. In fact, I haven't tried installing Karmic on a completely separate drive, as you suggest, I've only installed it on a partition of the internal drive of my laptop...
[September 5, 2009, 9:34]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Comment Thanks for your comments. I have the feeling now that some my comments were half baked. I finally installed XP as my main OS as a Christmas present to myself so it's over 6 months since I tried all the double and triple boot scenarios and even an...
[June 19, 2008, 9:21]
Spoke too soon about XP SP3?
Blog Comment Further to my comments above, I have just successfully installed XP SP3 on a heavily skinned (Mac Lookalike) XP SP2 computer without any apparent problems. It just took rather a long time. From the screens that became available, I was able to see...
[February 22, 2008, 1:29]
Wow! MS admitting something.
Talkback That was rather obvious from all the comments posted at the time, but it is surprising to hear them (M$) admit to it then say that they will learn from this experience and extend their standard business practices into this area (Standards).
[June 24, 2008, 10:50]
