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Licence nearly up on Apple's Boot Camp beta
News Either way, Apple is saying that those who have set up a Windows partition with the beta version won't just see their files magically disappear if they don't get the final version of the software. Those considering setting up a Windows partition on...
[April 11, 2007, 8:49]
Taking sweeties from strangers - update
Blog So I fired up some hairy-arsed Linux software, the sort that could de-partition India and Pakistan from one rather spiky command line. After some dismal faffery with various tools, all of which just underlined the utter anonymity of the drive in...
[June 5, 2007, 19:47]
Linux on a Pentium III - The Adventure
News The Micron came with one enormous 14.4 partition. I didn't want to wait two months for the expense cheque so I used the freeware DOS partition-resising tool FIPS, along with the standard Linux bootloader (Lilo).
[May 18, 1999, 8:25]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment For disk/partition cloning you can use partition image (partimage) for example, only thing is the partition you're backing up that way must be unmounted so you may have to do some hacking if you want that to be an automatic process, but i'm pretty...
[May 28, 2007, 5:01]
HP fine-tunes recovery, security for PCs
News With a few keystrokes, the old software is wiped out and a new version, from underneath the partition, comes up. Since January 2000, Microsoft has said that PC makers can use a recovery partition in lieu of a CD, an option that the company says...
[February 1, 2002, 16:55]
IBM upgrades mainframe OS
News The company is changing to a new model in which it charges only for the computing power of the partition in which the software is running. That will include new features such as an internal network technology called "HiperSockets" that lets one...
[March 26, 2001, 9:07]
Microsoft to change licensing rules
News An application or server software is installed on one partition, while a different partition is used for other applications and server software. That means companies running systems with more than one processor could see significant cost savings...
[March 14, 2003, 7:57]
HP, Unisys tout Intel servers
News In the demonstration, a 20-processor partition ran Windows and Microsoft's SQL Server database software, a four-chip partition ran HP-UX Unix and Oracle's database software, and a four-processor partition ran Linux with desktop software, HP said.
[December 11, 2002, 6:55]
SUSE Linux 10 review
Reviews YaST2 reduced the size of our Windows partition to make room for SUSE, suggesting a sensible size for the new partition, and created a 1GB swap file. The disk partitioner in YaST2 could not handle the HP’s drive -- most likely due to hardware...
[November 14, 2005, 15:50]
IBM upgrades Unix software
News Its "logical" partitions use an extra layer of software between the operating system and the hardware, a layer of abstraction that makes it easier to change the resources allocated to a partition. Sun Microsystems, with several years' head start...
[October 8, 2002, 7:24]
Build your own Linux server review
Reviews The larger disk we left as a single partition, with the aim of opening it up for user sharing. We used Partition Magic 8 to repartition the 10GB disk into three: 4GB bootable for the OS; a 700MB swap partition, which is a bit bigger than the memory...
[April 22, 2004, 9:35]
Apple warns of bug in music software
News Apple said the problem, an error in the program that installs the new version of iTunes, affected a "limited number" of Mac owners who were running the Mac OS X operating system and had multiple hard drives or hard drive partition.
[November 7, 2001, 10:27]
A new way to use Linux.
Blog I downloaded his project, a virtual desktop, residing on my windows XP partition, signed up as a user, and am now testing everything to see how it works. This frees up my windows partition so I can use it for the only thing it is good for, playing...
[July 12, 2008, 21:45]
How to upgrade your PC to Windows XP review
Reviews Write the driver to CD-R or other removable media or store it on a partition that won't be overwritten during the installation process. Disk-imaging applications, such as PowerQuest's Drive Image, offer a relatively quick way to back up an entire...
[January 28, 2004, 8:10]
Microsoft's Hyper-V: why all the fuss? review
Reviews The full product can be run in the parent partition if you want, and Windows Server 2008 purchased with the virtualisation component to enable this to happen. With Microsoft's Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 (or a subset of it) must be running in the...
[February 27, 2008, 9:14]
Red Hat Linux 7.1 Deluxe Edition review
Reviews However, partition-less installations let you discover Linux without the pain of working with your hard drive's partitions. You can even opt for a partition-less install, which lets you run Linux from within a Windows (FAT) partition.
[June 8, 2001, 0:00]
Windows Vista RTM review
Reviews It's pretty much an automated process, with the installer first copying the ISO image onto the new hard drive or partition, and then expanding that image. Right away, first-time users will be greeted by a Welcome Center, complete with tools to...
[November 9, 2006, 9:01]
Windows 7 on a Read-only Flash Drive?
Blog If you are careful, the read-write partition can be formatted in NTFS and it coexists nicely with the U3 CD-ROM type partition. I could see SanDisk turning out millions of Win7 USB flash disks on the U3 read-only "CDR"-like partition for Microsoft.
[June 30, 2009, 2:13]
Windows sidelined by Fedora bug
News In other cases, the problem stemmed differences in how Windows, Linux and a computer's BIOS -- basic input-output software used in the early stages of starting a computer -- handle the partition table information, Gafton said.
[June 9, 2004, 8:50]
Intel previews next-gen Atom, updates Moblin
News What we've done is reduce that three-chip partition to a two-chip partition," Noury Al-Khaledy, general manager of Nettop and Netbook Computing at Intel, said during a teleconference announcing the new platform.
[May 20, 2009, 14:20]
