October 13th, 2006Silly Rodeo Clown
One of my favourtie “isms” is, “Windows Sucks!!” Another is, “Windows can bite my…” well, you know. And still another is, “I’m a moron.”
I got a little ticked (another “ism”) that Linux wouldn’t configure the ALSA sound devices, so I thought, “well, now that there’s an internet connection, why don’t I try a dual-boot with Windows.” See, when I tried to reinstall Windows in the first place, I got a pesky little NTLDR error, and all of the fixes I found just weren’t working. So I said (well, I won’t tell you what I really said), “I’ve been wanting to stick it to Microsoft anyway, this will just be an incentive to install Linux.”
Anyway, it’s been several months, and Linux just couldn’t do what I wanted. But y’know what? Windows doesn’t play well with others. If you have Windows and install a dual-boot with Linux, everything partitions off just fine. But if you have Linux and try to install a dual-boot with Windows, Windows may look like it’s configuring a partition on the hard drive, but what it’s really doing is erasing the hard drive. Good thing I backed up most everything. I lost a bunch of photos, guess I should have backed them up more often.
In the meantime, while I organize everything again, I thought I’d put up a vid. It’s from the rodeo at this years Fair. The Rodeo clown’s name is Troy, by the way.
October 15th, 2006 at 4:55 am
My son had that problem with Linux too. He has 2 hard drives, so he finally put Linux on it’s own drive.
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October 15th, 2006 at 11:11 am
That was the original goal. Our computer is circa 1999, and except for the motherboard, everything has been replaced, sometime’s twice. The original 30gb hard drive took a dump, which is why we lost the os in the first place. There are so many things I liked about Linux — not crashing every half hour, the educational suite of programs, less worry about viruses/spyware. But at this point I just don’t want to mess with it anymore.
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