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Originally Posted by Boerseun

So, my friend told me the biggest screw-up in Vista (as far as he was concerned) was that there wasn't a run command or a command prompt in Vista.

WRONG! there is a run command, when you hit the start button on the toolbar there is a search bar that you can type stuff in, just type run and you get the run thingy. Thats how i get to CMD or i think there is still the CMD thingy under accessories or somthing, i havent been on my vista machine in 3 weeks and i gotta wait 2 more days for the parts so im upset. there should be some sort of firewall that prevents the rootkit from getting in through another virus, just gotta look.

[Theory5]

Originally Posted by Pyrotex

What???
You missed The Tonight Show special last week???
You didn't see

"The Top Ten Reasons Why Windows is Inferior"???

Hint: number 7 was, "The Blue Screen of Death".

I have not gotten the blue screen of death for years.
I have gotten the black screen of annoyance though. :-P

whoops sorry double post

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

Originally Posted by alexander

lol you are probably the only person here who actually read it, it really is spot on..!

I read it too!!!

Didn't fully understand it...but I read it...forgot most of it
Trying to figure out how to "test drive" Linux on my pc w/out flippin-it- up

A rocket scientist I ain't

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Originally Posted by DFINITLYDISTRUBD

Trying to figure out how to "test drive" Linux on my pc w/out flippin-it- up

Just burn a LiveCD like Knoppix or Ubuntu. Boot from the CD and test drive Linux. Reboot to get back to Windoze.

[alexander]

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Just burn a LiveCD like Knoppix or Ubuntu. Boot from the CD and test drive Linux. Reboot to get back to Windoze.

Sounds simple nuff....Now... If I really really like it how do I convince my even less computer savy wifey to let me keep it?!?!? (or how do you make a pc run either one depending on choice w/out having to load and work from the cd which is likely slower?)

Also how much space while operating vs windoze? (mem/cpu consumption)

[alexander]

you dualboot, resize the windows partition (in case of ubuntu during the ubuntu install), install linux and set up the box to ask you if you want to boot to windows or linux (in case of ubuntu, once again, its a part of the installer, and is automagificated).

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

More reasons people don't go for the free linux It's a ROYALpain in the tush to download...The sites are definitly not non-geek friendly...It takes "forever" to download (after which it may or may not work)...and last but not least requires additional downloads of stuff (which may or may not work) to make a "live disk".

I still haven't succeeded in making a live disk just to try it (after hours of F#####g around with about 20 different sites. I still don't have a ______ing clue what the _____ I'm doing wrong!) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[alexander]

what the hell are you talking about?

literally 23 seconds and: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/ubuntu-rel...sktop-i386.iso

or you can literaly ask them to mail you the CD for free! Get Ubuntu - Download, request a CD, or buy on CD/DVD | Ubuntu

all you need is a program to burn it, i hope you have a cd burning program or would you like a link to that as well?

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Originally Posted by DFINITLYDISTRUBD

A rocket scientist I ain't

See the above^

Nor am I a computer wiz...nor (aparently) am I good at finding things on the internet.

I did manage to find a burner program specificaly for burning ISO's which you have to have or at least a burner program capable of it. (aparently just copying the Iso to a cd will not work....which I learned the hard way after farting around with it for an interminably long time.)

And I did manage to finally locate DSL which downloaded rather quickly and after burning it works (I think).

But Only after giving up after an hour and a half for ubunto to get half way downloaded from Linux.com.

WTF is a mirror anyways?

Found the burner at puppyos.com it's small, simple enough even for a simpleton like me and free (which is always good.)

Please note:
There are those of us out here that aren't computer savy...and generally we're not all that good at navigating the WWW either...Hell I found Hypography by accident while looking for information on hypnosis why my browser thought Hypo was relevent is beyond me!