I am BEGINNING to try out over flavours of Linux and I did like the Mint one, at least to look at?!
Now..not sure how far I can get into this as I need more, not to mention faster SD Cards and/or USB Memory STUBS, lol, and time but I have ha both benefits cancelled so could be homeless in a few weeks putting an end to all my blogs, the ones with the false numbers presented to me, and my pursuit eo acquiring an income JUST...as I was about to start getting it...THREE MONTHS LATE AT LEAST, LOL.
Still I have managed to put PORTEUS on a memory card with a multi boot program called YUMI.
Alongside Porteus, which I thought was quite night and diminutive size and truly FEELS portable, I also added Linux Mint 11, which went wrong, and changed it to version 14.
I also installed Ubuntu 13.04 and that has been it for now.
I also have, and tryiing and managing to get my head around what they are, KUbuntu, XUbuntu, MythUbuntu, Zorin, PC Linux OS, SMS, SentOS, Fedora and likely a few others besides.
Now Porteus is designed to run from a USB Memory stick long term but I thought I could check out the others.
I did kind of like the GUI for Linux Mint with its Aero like look if I am honest but it oddly REFUSED o connect to my wifi hotspot and has been the ONLY Linux OS to do that?! A shame.
The trouble with other versions of Linux is that I am interested and hoping that something comes from the Linux Steam Client! As far as I know it is only available on Ubuntu and I presume this is ALL the Ubuntus?!
I was also shocked at the Ubuntu 13.04 as a look in the details section showed I had an AMD driver installed which probably means I can get Counter Strike to work as it refuses to under 12.04!
So I may do an upgrade especially as I keep reading that 13.04 is speedier that 12.04, which in all honesty can make Windows 7 look quick at times which for a Linux OS is somewhat shocking, lol.
I seem to have come to the conclusion, finally, that KUbuntu is a KDE Ubuntu and XUbuntu is a simplified X-Window driven Ubuntu?!
I am hoping to check them all out over the next few weeks and I would not mind having a go with Arch too!
I have to admit that outside of Ubuntu the two that caught my eye was Mint and Arch in all honesty. Now I have seen Mint I do thinks it is a better GUI but I want to play around to see if I can get the damn WIFI to connect and if the colours can be altered from the drab grey default colour.
I do like the way you can add widgets on it too. Had the more polished feel and look to it I found in Mint and oddly although I like the Unity Ubuntu look I did feel it needed work on the launcher as it is very limited in personalising it and that folding of icons at the bottom is annoying and fiddly and I had hoped that you could turn that off and just scroll with it.
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Saturday, 20 April 2013
Saturday, 6 April 2013
RIGS TO GAME AND WORK
Well. What do I day about this subject?
Had this idea banding around in my nogging for awhile now. Ever since November 2012 I kept thinking I was only a few weeks away from starting it. I ended up not getting into position to make the furry small purchase. It has evolved a few times in the lengthy period where every two weeks I thought I would make that purchase. That is eight times or 8 fortnights and I an still waiting.
In that time it has changed a few times and now a second rig has been added and is the only sensible solution to my plans. After well it is an age old adage that says work and play should not mix.
Of course one of these is LINUX and one Windows 7, note how I specifically said seven?
Now presently I am using Ubuntu with Unity and still trying to understand certain aspects and why certain things are actually slower than windows, to my absolute horror and confusion. Whether this is actually down to Unity I do not know yet, cue Peter who I would like to here more about on here if what he knows about LINUX and why he does not like Unity. I want to ask as that is the reaction I have had from quite a few and one guy said it took longer to get striping to things and I thought I had solved this.
I like the look if Unity but I have noticed done odd things about it. When first installed the launcher icons were huge bit scrolled very easy and quickly. But you could not alter the size and there was no transparency.
Cue a big battle with AMD drivers and now transparency is in, size is reduced and oddly the scrolling is now very crap and this annoying compacting of icons at the button which hinders use. In other words everything is slowed right down to be useless. Added to this the unique and very much liked for desktops available when first installed also have vanished. Very weird.
I download and overall My Unity but that does not help so I end up downloading Docky... Unlocking the icons that go off screen and add them to the new dock but the dock springs up when I want to scroll a window?!
Annoying.
Also annoying is opening up the Pictures folder which takes forever to show all the thumbnails. Again weird.
My laptop may not be the latest or greatest but should be far more than enough for LINUX as it is for Windows 7.
So if Rig gets built for LINUX it may bit be having the same LINUX OS I currently use. In this time I seem to have amassed a fair few others and need to set one up in the next few days.
This one is Porteus and operated entirely and happily from a USB drive. I have also acquired more speed from this overall of Windows 7 too as I downloaded an ISO and deleted the recovery partition with Hewlett Packard's shit install of Windows 7 and all its bloatware.
Would you believe that, and I an still coming to terms with this myself, that Elder Scrolls V Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas run noticeably faster than before?! Weirdly I also had installed previously that Razor Game Booster before this overall that was supposed to speed up games by turning things off. Well if it did speed it up it was barely noticeable and better advice would be given to write down your Windows key, in case the sticker gets rubbed it, download an official bare Windows 7 ISO and then delete the recovery partition and do a here install.
Word of warning I always say to people, as well as making it myself yet again recently and had my bacon saved by Ubuntu, is get your wireless adaptor driver and make sure it is the right one. Microsoft have not learned from XP that the one driver you need to have on the OS disc is one that gets you on the internet as with that you can get everything else!
Oh and rigging Windows to refuse to come out to play when another child us on the block! Doing that towards software that is free is extremely bad taste even for the leaping lizard!!
Unfortunate things for me have been skirt than they should be as I spend took much time trying to show governments, organisations and companies the error of their ways asking with their more naive our just completely unaware public if how they are really being treated.
In so doing I move from place to place and down alliance after alliance only to discover even more shady behaviour and my plans seem to extend further away still. Like a scene in a horror movie our some dream like state when your running ever faster toward the end if the tunnel or corridor and yet it gets further and further away.
All this time the people you have tried to affiliate with ire explain things to are making money for doing nothing while I'm told I'm a bustard sponger because I won't broke my already hurt back because my government only see back breaking work as proper work while they earn money while on a golf course.
I digress.
Still I think that I am very close now to either doing that or divulging something very serious. I have had to do some...other things elsewhere and attempt even...MORE affiliations in the hope of finding someone who does not use or abuse either people or their lofty position of power.
As fir those in lofty positions...it's a long way down! The higher the lofty position the further and faster you fall to the ground.
Funny as I thought this was common knowledge and it seems that these people have also forgotten that their are still icons and people that represent good on this world who will NOT be impressed once they realise the true contempt that us secretly held for innocent people and lives and the level and widespread scale of abuse and the number of lives have been abused as will as ruined and not forgetting completely ended over their amoral behaviour.
Just a shame that a great deal of this involves the Internet and this even includes BUT using the Internet too. The Internet is USED when it suits organisations and then NOT USED when it suits them and there are no excuses.
This is exactly why I stated on my corruption blog how it would be quite funny that I have twelve blogs as they will on occasion back each other up by certain things cross crossing across them.
This is obvious when you think about it but not do obvious that someone could be in a unique position to see these different industries affected, infected, utterly destroyed our remoulded to serve then as if it is theirs by some sort of unspoken right.
What bass been going on is that the candles have all been ignited st either end and what worried me is that I saw this a long time so and I knew that before long the wider public would see it too. Of course any lecturing each western country had done towards others would feel a set if teeth from a foreign country sank deep into their arses if they ever found out too?!
Maybe this is what is already going on? After all everyone and his wife seems to get hacked these days and it us becoming much more regular. I know others are aware of the things I have been even if they have not done the work I have. They might have done things in different ways to new but I decided there was enough already doing that and my more in the face approach, audio recording and trapping by luring them to let it out the bag would be a refreshing change to the norm. Also I thought it was one they would not expect and if I kept cool I could keep it going for a fair old while.
Longer than I thought in all honesty and discovered fast more and nite shocking things then I actually ever thought. Also with big names I would never have thought too.
It is a shame that things are this way and I hope that one day it is discovered not only HOW but WHY it ended up like this?!
I was told by someone years so that the owner of Barns & Noble was a Satanist and I know not whether this was true or not. But ever since that Jehovah's Witness stated that "it is like Satanists are running this country" those words about Barns & Noble said to me about 16 years ago now keep ringing in my ears.
It was such a strange thing to hear and shocking that the words always stayed buried in my brain somewhere. I mean I an not religious but I think that people that are Satanists are not only very sad but if willing to treat people like they have then are very depraved and very cold people and I feel sorry for any family or children they might have.
Hopefully in time things will change and obviously so and a corner is turned in such a way that it is obvious to all watching and that means all of us.
We certainly need to see that things will change to relive the gradual build up of stress I have been seeing on every day people. After all I know where this leads and its but a nice place to be. If toy manage to survive it as I did then I doubt that the vast majority of people will be able to hold themselves back and in check as I have been able to do.
In fact that is what amazes people the most with me when they realise the truth us how I did it. Not just survive but how I have not killed anyone, ended up killing myself or in a mental institution and various other things.
Sure enough if there was ever a digging up if my history...my God I would pity the fool who was tasked with checking all the days in here and anything else there may be as it would certainly not be for the faint of heart.
Yesterday my landlord say in my living room and he items his own building firm and items a number of properties in his family. I showed him my laptop and what I had done with it, the figures I had collected and then the camera 15 feet from my door and that they are everywhere but not on the Great Cambridge Road where all the stores are that were looted in the last riots. I said well they are not protecting the shops and businesses and from the placements in Enfield look to be protecting to Civic Centre which is the main Enfield Council HQ and in fact the pictures and movie I put on YouTube they were 300 yards from it and heading towards it as we watched.
Hmm well I think I roll get to build my computers but sometimes I think everything will just turn to shit before I do?!
I hope not but then these people do seem to be deliberately provoking the public further and further that I worry about what will happen once we have had a few Weeks if build weather and when the grip of the changes bite, you know the ones they keep telling everyone are both FAIR and that the poor will be better off?!
Well if council buildings end up getting trashed by objects our burnt to the ground then toy will be bloody wrong would you not?! Of course you skyway have a just of excuses as will as a list of people to blame for it all no doubt...
..only your are already in a tiny minority and this is getting ever smaller.
I dread to think what you're legacy will be but from the statements I have heard where Margaret Thatcher is being ripped off, find your bloody own lines for God sake, I would imagine they you have a very different idea of that to me?!
Somehow I think 2013 will answer all questions before it is through?!
Time..as ever, will tell.
Saturday, 30 March 2013
MICROSOFT'S GAME IS UP WITH LINUX
Right here we are!!
I found the 'educational' video and I do think you will enjoy it and hopefully it will help many PC Users out there.
There are just a couple more videos other than this one but its all done now.
I would like to say thanks to Peter for putting Ubuntu in my head in the first place and I really mean that...no sarcasm intended my friend.
Computers always drive me nuts but I DO LIKE the challenge in all honesty, despite spitting fir and moaning about it but that is just down to the fact I always have alot going on (Pain, Hospitals, Doctor, Blogs, Police, Local Council, Bailiffs, Orchids, Bills, Shopping, GPs, Tests, Planning, Corruption, Animals, Astonomy, Cycling, The NEWS and oddly enough not a woman in sight!!! LMAO) as I know you are aware and likely man others are here too.
If not....well you HAVE seen my other blogs...surely?! LMAO!
Anyway without further ado, Microsoft CAUGHT IN THE ACT!!!
I found the 'educational' video and I do think you will enjoy it and hopefully it will help many PC Users out there.
There are just a couple more videos other than this one but its all done now.
I would like to say thanks to Peter for putting Ubuntu in my head in the first place and I really mean that...no sarcasm intended my friend.
Computers always drive me nuts but I DO LIKE the challenge in all honesty, despite spitting fir and moaning about it but that is just down to the fact I always have alot going on (Pain, Hospitals, Doctor, Blogs, Police, Local Council, Bailiffs, Orchids, Bills, Shopping, GPs, Tests, Planning, Corruption, Animals, Astonomy, Cycling, The NEWS and oddly enough not a woman in sight!!! LMAO) as I know you are aware and likely man others are here too.
If not....well you HAVE seen my other blogs...surely?! LMAO!
Anyway without further ado, Microsoft CAUGHT IN THE ACT!!!
Had to link this as Blogger did not update the title so could not find it...TUT-TUT and it is all handled and managed by GOOGLE TOO?! LMAO!
Are you aware Mr Ballmer that you have, single handed, destroyed and are STILL destroying one of the greatest companies to ever come about?! All due to greed, power and EGO!!
Just like the Intel and AMD thing I want many companies to co-exist.. BUT...
1) I hate the way that Microsoft and Intel behave towards others
2) It will only serve to destroy themselves eventually (disagree? well your WRONG! LOL)
3) But more sadly is that whoever usurps them only turns into them in time!!
4) The kinds of people that come in and do that should be banned from being involved in ANY kind of business (it is old hat, out of date and will not serve you anymore! Business models have to evolve too you know?!)
5) I have and am proving all the above and have been doing so for the last 7 months and will continue to do so for about a year. (At anytime between June 2013 and February 2014 I would have proved my point beyond ANY shadow of a doubt. Disagree? Well you can come back in February 2014 and tell me I am an idiot then can you not? If your in hiding then you will realise that I am an up and coming GOOD INFLUENCE on these matters, LMAO)
THE CLOCK IS TICKING EVER LOUDER, AAAAHAHAHAHA!
HEHE. Sorry I cannot resist a bit of humour, lol.
WINDOWS REFUSES PARTY INVITE
Yet again Wimpows... I MEAN WINDOWS refuses to turn up at the party?!
Now I am getting angry and I am planning to kick some Microsoft BUTT!! BIG TIME!!!!
I DO TOO!!
LMAO!!!
Now I am getting angry and I am planning to kick some Microsoft BUTT!! BIG TIME!!!!
I DO TOO!!
LMAO!!!
UBUNTU GOES WALKABOUT CREEK
Well here is an odd one...
Ubuntu wont boot and nor will is shutdown successfully if you request it to while a USB Memory Stick is in a USB port?!
Anyone says the words 'need' and 'unmount' in the same sentence i will punch them in the kisser! LOL.
Ubuntu wont boot and nor will is shutdown successfully if you request it to while a USB Memory Stick is in a USB port?!
Anyone says the words 'need' and 'unmount' in the same sentence i will punch them in the kisser! LOL.
WINDOWS & WILL NOT PLAY PART ONE
A video of pre-success attempts that got somewhat .... out of hand and somewhat... confusing lol.
Thursday, 28 March 2013
UBUNTU 12.04 LTS & WINDOWS 7 PREVIEW
This is just to notify you that I have a very good, quite revealing and hopefully funny video coming up.
I have delved deeper into ... things and I have managed to achieve thigs I have NOT achieved beforehand. I also had a suspicion prior to attempting this so I decided to film myself doing this and at first I think I guessed wrong and the I am all "Oooh I was right!"
LMAO!
Hopefully this will help a great many as I find out what in the hell was going on, a bit of naivety on one side with some real sinister stuff on the other side, lol.
Also for those with dual HDD bay HP Pavilion and Envy laptops or redundant Optical Drives I may have some help and advice to help you improve your system.
The film is done, or in fact there are TWO, lmao, but I just have to finish a few things and something is downloading right now, ooh that is another hilarious part, and I should have this nailed down tight tonight or tomorrow during the day.
I will upload the, THEN, THREE videos to my YouTube account and then link them into my next post on here.
I was pretty surprised with what I thought up and even more surprised when I took a guess, thought up a way of proving it and then manage to think of filming it before i did it.
See those three dead birds?! Well I only had ONE STONE?!?!
LMAO!
I have delved deeper into ... things and I have managed to achieve thigs I have NOT achieved beforehand. I also had a suspicion prior to attempting this so I decided to film myself doing this and at first I think I guessed wrong and the I am all "Oooh I was right!"
LMAO!
Hopefully this will help a great many as I find out what in the hell was going on, a bit of naivety on one side with some real sinister stuff on the other side, lol.
Also for those with dual HDD bay HP Pavilion and Envy laptops or redundant Optical Drives I may have some help and advice to help you improve your system.
The film is done, or in fact there are TWO, lmao, but I just have to finish a few things and something is downloading right now, ooh that is another hilarious part, and I should have this nailed down tight tonight or tomorrow during the day.
I will upload the, THEN, THREE videos to my YouTube account and then link them into my next post on here.
I was pretty surprised with what I thought up and even more surprised when I took a guess, thought up a way of proving it and then manage to think of filming it before i did it.
See those three dead birds?! Well I only had ONE STONE?!?!
LMAO!
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
RETURN OF WINDOWS 7 DUAL BOOT PART ONE
Well here is the first half of the story behind Windows returning.... or Elder Scrolls returning and Skyrim in particular, lol.
If I had a 6 series graphics chip I would put an SSD in the 2nd bay?!
The 8GB USB Key, someone borrowed by 16GB one and not bought it back yet, lol.
Only the ISO Image turns out to be a damned Polish one?! Morons!!
The OLD DVD Drive REMOVED
The HARD DRIVE CADDY with Western Digital Scorpion HDD in place, even has a cool blue LED light?!
The 160GB Western Digital Drive seen in GParted!!
This STILL leaves my and HDD Bay EMPTY?!?! LOL!
If I had a 6 series graphics chip I would put an SSD in the 2nd bay?!
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
MICROSOFT AND LINUX
I an afraid to say that as ever the journalists are LATE.
I just spent a couple Weeks trying to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu and after cursing the Linux OS it became obvious that it was Windows 7 and Microsoft that deliberately went out of outs way not to play fair.
Unfortunately for Microsoft this includes the user and their hardware as will as Linux!!
A fresh overall and no bloody internet a la Windows XP. I have always maintained that Windows is shit and assert initially liking Windows 7 the releases of H8 and this fiasco has changed my mind.
Tossers they really are and now I hope Canonical are not going to turn into them?! Same old..same old..shit!!
Give them twice the fine that the biggest one was....no three times as much and take the same amount from Steve Ballmers personal account. You need to make an example and so far you any done jack!
Wonkers never learn.
UBUNTU & AMD RADEON WORKING IN HARMONY
Well what do you know?! At LONG LAST!!
I have the AMD Radeon Graphics Driver INSTALLED and IN USE for the first time ever in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?!
It seems that I decided to do one last thing because everything got into a bit of a mess partition wise and I decided to wipe the whole laptop put it back to just ONE partition and install Ubuntu onto it alone!
Against my better judgement but knowing I can get it up and running very quickly and easily I attempted to install the AMD Radeon Drivers and, HEY PRESTO, it worked!!
There was something I noted that was different with this install and that is that without me downloading anything at all there were about 5 different choices for AMD Graphics drivers where there were only TWO beforehand and do not know what that was all about. This laptop does have two graphics chips in it so that might be something to do with it.
Oh how weird?!
I just noticed that the fan is not on and the laptop is stone cold?! Well you know what I am going to say next?! I simply have to!!
How COOL is that?!
LMAO! Groan!
Seriously though that IS weird. I am not sure I have ever had it this quiet and this cool before and am rather surprised the screen is lit up and I am typing?!
Anyway so there seems to be a serious issue with the graphics drivers for Ubuntu if you dual boot with Windows 7 using the same hard drive, despite partitioning and certainly on a
HP Pavilion DV7 Laptop
AMD Phenom X3 1.8GHz
Radeon HD5470M & HD4200 Graphics
8GB RAM
Toshiba 320GB Hard Drive (having second added soon)
17 Inch monitor 1600x900
Ohh I can download STEAM now?! LOL!
Hmm I just remembered I was IN THE STORE where I bought this laptop, PC World's store, and a guy was looking at a HP Pavilion lappie and as I passed I said "Don't!" and the guy looked at me as if I was mad and I walked back up to him and said "no I mean it...DON'T!" and has asked why I said that.
I told him that before my one which I bought out the same store had been back in for TWO repairs, several letters had rubbed of, 'a' 's' 'n' 'l', the hard drive failed, the case came apart and they were supposed to fix it and it is STILL coming apart?!
His eyes went wide and he said "are you SERIOUS?!" and I replied, yes.
Right next to the Pavilion was a HP Envy, albeit a little one I had never seen. I said that the Envy would be OK as the keys are not printed and it is their top of the line range.
Oddly enough I never had any problems with my old Pavilion DV5000 and I had that for 7 years and sold it to a friend who is STILL using it?! Yes OK I did have to change the keyboard for a new one but that was because of missing keys that came off due to its age!!
Now I would NEVER buy anything with the PAVILION name on it and I now realise why they were going to gove up PC manufacturing as they were making stuff like crap! I love it when companies do this and then throw their toys out the pram because people will not put up with it?!
well if I was anyone else I would be kicking up more of a stink but luckily for HP I know where all the keys on a keyboard are. I DO look down but I do not know why as I know where they are and have now deliberately stared at the screen for the last 30 seconds!! Hoho....OOOPS!
God I am not going to have to buy ANOTHER bloody Sony product am I before long? Well if the blogging and other online activities pay off I would like to be able to work online while out and about and even on holiday or abroad?!
This being a 17 inch laptop it is too much really. I will get a 15 inch in future provided I have two desktop machines first of course. If I am out and about and need a bigger monitor there is always the HDMI port I can use on a TV wherever it is I am staying.
Then there is the question of what to do with this one...I would probably donate it or give it to someone.
Annoyingly I will probably be wasting my money then soon when I buy another dive to place inside this machine so I can get Windows 7 back on?!
The obvious thig to do now would be to build a gaming PC but not feasable for awhile and not sure how long before it is feasable. But with Ubuntu on here and working it would be the sensible course until I build a Small Form Form Factor Ubuntu Rig. Building another Ubuntu RIG now would just be a waste of time and money. The gaming RIG is too expensive! So the only sensible option is to get Windows back on here, lol.
Yes STUPID I know!!
I have the AMD Radeon Graphics Driver INSTALLED and IN USE for the first time ever in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?!
It seems that I decided to do one last thing because everything got into a bit of a mess partition wise and I decided to wipe the whole laptop put it back to just ONE partition and install Ubuntu onto it alone!
Against my better judgement but knowing I can get it up and running very quickly and easily I attempted to install the AMD Radeon Drivers and, HEY PRESTO, it worked!!
There was something I noted that was different with this install and that is that without me downloading anything at all there were about 5 different choices for AMD Graphics drivers where there were only TWO beforehand and do not know what that was all about. This laptop does have two graphics chips in it so that might be something to do with it.
Oh how weird?!
I just noticed that the fan is not on and the laptop is stone cold?! Well you know what I am going to say next?! I simply have to!!
How COOL is that?!
LMAO! Groan!
Seriously though that IS weird. I am not sure I have ever had it this quiet and this cool before and am rather surprised the screen is lit up and I am typing?!
Anyway so there seems to be a serious issue with the graphics drivers for Ubuntu if you dual boot with Windows 7 using the same hard drive, despite partitioning and certainly on a
HP Pavilion DV7 Laptop
AMD Phenom X3 1.8GHz
Radeon HD5470M & HD4200 Graphics
8GB RAM
Toshiba 320GB Hard Drive (having second added soon)
17 Inch monitor 1600x900
Ohh I can download STEAM now?! LOL!
Hmm I just remembered I was IN THE STORE where I bought this laptop, PC World's store, and a guy was looking at a HP Pavilion lappie and as I passed I said "Don't!" and the guy looked at me as if I was mad and I walked back up to him and said "no I mean it...DON'T!" and has asked why I said that.
I told him that before my one which I bought out the same store had been back in for TWO repairs, several letters had rubbed of, 'a' 's' 'n' 'l', the hard drive failed, the case came apart and they were supposed to fix it and it is STILL coming apart?!
His eyes went wide and he said "are you SERIOUS?!" and I replied, yes.
Right next to the Pavilion was a HP Envy, albeit a little one I had never seen. I said that the Envy would be OK as the keys are not printed and it is their top of the line range.
Oddly enough I never had any problems with my old Pavilion DV5000 and I had that for 7 years and sold it to a friend who is STILL using it?! Yes OK I did have to change the keyboard for a new one but that was because of missing keys that came off due to its age!!
Now I would NEVER buy anything with the PAVILION name on it and I now realise why they were going to gove up PC manufacturing as they were making stuff like crap! I love it when companies do this and then throw their toys out the pram because people will not put up with it?!
well if I was anyone else I would be kicking up more of a stink but luckily for HP I know where all the keys on a keyboard are. I DO look down but I do not know why as I know where they are and have now deliberately stared at the screen for the last 30 seconds!! Hoho....OOOPS!
God I am not going to have to buy ANOTHER bloody Sony product am I before long? Well if the blogging and other online activities pay off I would like to be able to work online while out and about and even on holiday or abroad?!
This being a 17 inch laptop it is too much really. I will get a 15 inch in future provided I have two desktop machines first of course. If I am out and about and need a bigger monitor there is always the HDMI port I can use on a TV wherever it is I am staying.
Then there is the question of what to do with this one...I would probably donate it or give it to someone.
Annoyingly I will probably be wasting my money then soon when I buy another dive to place inside this machine so I can get Windows 7 back on?!
The obvious thig to do now would be to build a gaming PC but not feasable for awhile and not sure how long before it is feasable. But with Ubuntu on here and working it would be the sensible course until I build a Small Form Form Factor Ubuntu Rig. Building another Ubuntu RIG now would just be a waste of time and money. The gaming RIG is too expensive! So the only sensible option is to get Windows back on here, lol.
Yes STUPID I know!!
Saturday, 23 March 2013
UBUNTU AND WINDOWS FINAL ROUND
Right the time is almost upon us...or just me, lol.
I have had some really bad days being two things...
Very ill and in a great deal of pain and even spent an entire day in a useless hospital that has nothing but the stench of death for me, having many friends and family die there it is becoming stupid.
Anyway I am recovering slowly and hopefully tomorrow I will be indoors all, or at least most, of the day.
I am going to try a couple of things to see if I can get the current installation of Windows 7 up and booting again?!
I have two methods to be able to do this by way of a Recovery Disk I have acquired and a Windows 7 Full DVD of Home Premium, I will TEACH them for not providing a hard copy?! LMAO!
Anyway failing these two methods I will at least get in and send all my Windows files off to an external 2 Terabyte Hard Drive and then will do the same with the Ubuntu files.
Then and very early next week I have something arriving and it is a caddy that turns my Optical Drive bay into a HDD/SSD Drive bay.
Now I have two options with that in the I DO have a 160GB Western Digital Scorpio Drive here which I could USE to install Ubuntu to or I could get something else.
An SSD would be a bit if a stretch at this point in time and I would want to load Windows 7 onto an SSD anyway as it would need it more than Ubuntu! LOL. Poor Windows!
SO that is what is coming up shortly, the last post or two where I get everything back and NOT to the way it was before but BETTER!
I will obviously do the odd video, albeit shorter and minus the cussing this time, lol.
Ooh yeah and that Ubuntu book should arrive too?!
Hmm but now remembered I am hearing about 13.04 now so i might look that up on the Internet so what people are saying about it?! I am thinking that the 13.04 will be like the 12.04 and be a Long Term Support OS and the 13.10 will be like the 12.10?!
Still got a great deal to get my head round with this and the two Linux Magazines could use a little work too?! Blimey guys you are supposed to make the OS appeal to a wider audience and I wanted to yawn in places! Got annoyed with myself when I was tempted to flick on past whole sections so have to keep picking them up and going through it.
Not even my Linux Pocket Guide book by O'Reilly has been that bad?! Lol.
Now I am sure there is something else I have ordered and do not know if it is related to this blog or another....ooh I know it is another harness but for my bird watching binoculars!! LOL!
I have had some really bad days being two things...
Very ill and in a great deal of pain and even spent an entire day in a useless hospital that has nothing but the stench of death for me, having many friends and family die there it is becoming stupid.
Anyway I am recovering slowly and hopefully tomorrow I will be indoors all, or at least most, of the day.
I am going to try a couple of things to see if I can get the current installation of Windows 7 up and booting again?!
I have two methods to be able to do this by way of a Recovery Disk I have acquired and a Windows 7 Full DVD of Home Premium, I will TEACH them for not providing a hard copy?! LMAO!
Anyway failing these two methods I will at least get in and send all my Windows files off to an external 2 Terabyte Hard Drive and then will do the same with the Ubuntu files.
Then and very early next week I have something arriving and it is a caddy that turns my Optical Drive bay into a HDD/SSD Drive bay.
Now I have two options with that in the I DO have a 160GB Western Digital Scorpio Drive here which I could USE to install Ubuntu to or I could get something else.
An SSD would be a bit if a stretch at this point in time and I would want to load Windows 7 onto an SSD anyway as it would need it more than Ubuntu! LOL. Poor Windows!
SO that is what is coming up shortly, the last post or two where I get everything back and NOT to the way it was before but BETTER!
I will obviously do the odd video, albeit shorter and minus the cussing this time, lol.
Ooh yeah and that Ubuntu book should arrive too?!
Hmm but now remembered I am hearing about 13.04 now so i might look that up on the Internet so what people are saying about it?! I am thinking that the 13.04 will be like the 12.04 and be a Long Term Support OS and the 13.10 will be like the 12.10?!
Still got a great deal to get my head round with this and the two Linux Magazines could use a little work too?! Blimey guys you are supposed to make the OS appeal to a wider audience and I wanted to yawn in places! Got annoyed with myself when I was tempted to flick on past whole sections so have to keep picking them up and going through it.
Not even my Linux Pocket Guide book by O'Reilly has been that bad?! Lol.
Now I am sure there is something else I have ordered and do not know if it is related to this blog or another....ooh I know it is another harness but for my bird watching binoculars!! LOL!
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
ENJOYING THIS UBUNTU AND LINUX NOW
Now that I have rattled off because I now and do not know when I can...
1) Play SKYRIM
2) Play FALLOUT NEW VEGAS
3) Play CRYSIS UE
4)Play NEED FOR SPEED or any other og f my games
5) Regain access to my Windows files, photos documents scans and the like (My Screen Test Second Series is on hold now)
I have come to terms with that (he states while knee deep in fingernails and toe nails!!)
But I really would warn anyone away from attempting what I did without a great deal of knowledge of the current methods of boot files, managers and EFI's currently employed by both Linux distributions and Microsoft Windows!!
REALLY DON'T! I suspect it may well be a great deal easier if you have two separate drives and dual boot but with the two OS's occupying their own drives but unless you have I would REALLY avoid this and totaly ignore ANY PC MAGAZINE that states differently as they have obviously no knowledge or experience at all on DUAL BOOTING LINUX and WINDOWS?!
I can tell you this much... I WILL!! I will reacquire everything and still have the current Ubuntu installation still here.
There are many ways of doing it some purely through technical know how and I just have to work it out...
The other by having hardware know how I DO possess but NOT the hardware...BUT I WILL!
Now THAT is just my nature I will not allow myself to be beaten, ooh OK I will not allow myself to be beaten down for long. But I WILL win the war in the end, lol.
The reason for this short post is to not only explain that, for more reasons than you could possibly imagine, but also to explain that I am working my way through this book and I get a great deal of things with both Linux and Unix, and anything else based on Unix like Mac-OS and Android for instance, that I did not understand before. Or fifteen years ago when I dived in head first as soon as a lecturer friend called Alastare Measures presented me with a pale blue Red Hat CD?!
Oddly enough it was Alastare that taught me something else about computing that I had to recently employ yet again after many years because of.... oh damn LINUX!!! LMAO!!! FUNNNNYYYYYY!!!!
Anyway! Yes I am now getting it! I am also understanding how it works differently to Windows and DOS and in all honesty whereas years ago it made LESS SENSE than DOS it is now making alot more sense than Windows directories and the way that works.
I do have an android phone and it is rooted and has superuser permissions so I have had these brief interludes of linux involvements. However looking at the file structure on the phone never made sense to me but now it does.
My head has spent far too long in the Microsoft was of doing things in trying to make a computer appear more...HUMAN! Albeit it doing very badly in the process and just slowing the OS down over consecutive releases, or even fall over.
So now I am having fun now...until the next time I come home soaked and in pain and just want to play Skyrim for a few hours to relax and cannot, lmao!
But I will get there eventually. If I have not sorted the issue in 2 weeks I would most certainly have after 4 weeks.
This will serve to show my determination to see things through and find my way around obstacles in my path that prevent me from doing what I WANT to do and NEED to do!!
It will act as ... an self made marketing post to show a side of my nature.
It will show that despite the fact and can appear to be beaten down and on the verge of defeat I will rise up again when least expected and triumph over the instruments of my demise.
Yes I am smiling today and am looking forward to this! Once this book is done and at the end of the week another and more technical one arrives I should be in a great position within a week or two of beginning to read it?!
Hmm I had better get another pack of bookmarks this week!!
1) Play SKYRIM
2) Play FALLOUT NEW VEGAS
3) Play CRYSIS UE
4)Play NEED FOR SPEED or any other og f my games
5) Regain access to my Windows files, photos documents scans and the like (My Screen Test Second Series is on hold now)
I have come to terms with that (he states while knee deep in fingernails and toe nails!!)
But I really would warn anyone away from attempting what I did without a great deal of knowledge of the current methods of boot files, managers and EFI's currently employed by both Linux distributions and Microsoft Windows!!
REALLY DON'T! I suspect it may well be a great deal easier if you have two separate drives and dual boot but with the two OS's occupying their own drives but unless you have I would REALLY avoid this and totaly ignore ANY PC MAGAZINE that states differently as they have obviously no knowledge or experience at all on DUAL BOOTING LINUX and WINDOWS?!
I can tell you this much... I WILL!! I will reacquire everything and still have the current Ubuntu installation still here.
There are many ways of doing it some purely through technical know how and I just have to work it out...
The other by having hardware know how I DO possess but NOT the hardware...BUT I WILL!
Now THAT is just my nature I will not allow myself to be beaten, ooh OK I will not allow myself to be beaten down for long. But I WILL win the war in the end, lol.
The reason for this short post is to not only explain that, for more reasons than you could possibly imagine, but also to explain that I am working my way through this book and I get a great deal of things with both Linux and Unix, and anything else based on Unix like Mac-OS and Android for instance, that I did not understand before. Or fifteen years ago when I dived in head first as soon as a lecturer friend called Alastare Measures presented me with a pale blue Red Hat CD?!
Oddly enough it was Alastare that taught me something else about computing that I had to recently employ yet again after many years because of.... oh damn LINUX!!! LMAO!!! FUNNNNYYYYYY!!!!
Anyway! Yes I am now getting it! I am also understanding how it works differently to Windows and DOS and in all honesty whereas years ago it made LESS SENSE than DOS it is now making alot more sense than Windows directories and the way that works.
I do have an android phone and it is rooted and has superuser permissions so I have had these brief interludes of linux involvements. However looking at the file structure on the phone never made sense to me but now it does.
My head has spent far too long in the Microsoft was of doing things in trying to make a computer appear more...HUMAN! Albeit it doing very badly in the process and just slowing the OS down over consecutive releases, or even fall over.
So now I am having fun now...until the next time I come home soaked and in pain and just want to play Skyrim for a few hours to relax and cannot, lmao!
But I will get there eventually. If I have not sorted the issue in 2 weeks I would most certainly have after 4 weeks.
This will serve to show my determination to see things through and find my way around obstacles in my path that prevent me from doing what I WANT to do and NEED to do!!
It will act as ... an self made marketing post to show a side of my nature.
It will show that despite the fact and can appear to be beaten down and on the verge of defeat I will rise up again when least expected and triumph over the instruments of my demise.
Yes I am smiling today and am looking forward to this! Once this book is done and at the end of the week another and more technical one arrives I should be in a great position within a week or two of beginning to read it?!
Hmm I had better get another pack of bookmarks this week!!
LINUX POCKET GUIDE O'REILLY by DANIEL BARRETT
Well my book has turned up and a great deal earlier than expected to be honest, lol.
It also looks new.
Now it is only a beginners book that is for sure but it was a long time ago I had my little brush with Red Hat and and I remember....NOTHING! Have a hard enough time, well I did last night, remember DOS commands, lol!
So I will go through this and tomorrow order another book and in the meantime time and little by little I was focus in on this Windows booting problem to see if I can fix it.
Now it is entirely possible that something may...present itself to me and a variety of things...
I could end up starting to build a new RIG, ohh I wish!
I could end up getting a SECOND HDD.
Now the latter would be easy to do as my laptop has a SECOND HDD bay next to the first, only you need a special plug and lead to be able to PLUG a secind hard drive in and...
HP want £90 for two 50 Pence plugs and a bit of wire?!
NICE.
How about this Hewlett Packard?...
I buy a Replacement CADDY for my OPTICAL DRIVE with a HDD Fitted?!
Now even THESE are overpriced and yet STILL COMBINED cost less than Hewlett Packard's wire?!?! I kid you not?!
I visited Maplin when I first wanted to do this and someone that actually worked in the store had the same issue and my jaw dropped when he said "Have you got a HO laptop by any chance?"
You know I felt sorry for HP when they got into that trouble but in all honesty...
After the SHIT I have owned for the last year I would NEVER touch another product of theirs again!!
Two laptops and a printer I have owned of theirs and was hoping to buy a desktop but no bloody chance in hell. I could go into more details about the crap they install on your laptop and how utterly useless it all is but will just droan on o for hours, lol.
In fact I am not sure I would EVER buy a laptop again in all honesty, not after this. Not a Windows laptop that is for sure!
NEVER!!
I will also not buy Windows 8 either...NEVER!!!
So Microsoft had better get their heads out their arses over the next two years as they are climbing up it and will disappear up the own jacksies by then!
This utter manipulation of users just to try to get more cash and stop others from getting cash has got to stop.
Also I have seen no end of anti trust cases going on but have now been exposed to some that are far worse and far more obvious to those already pursued and yet I hear NOTHING of any action?!
Also I am not the only one that sees this and a great many see it too and one example is the disappearance of the boot.ini file and I cannot find a way to tell the Windows boot that Windows is now on the X: drive. Well until I do Windows stays off my laptop I am afraid to say so you kinda shot yourself in the foot their Microsoft?!
I also find it kinda odd how two completely different Operating Systems that seem OK for the most part have had utterly disastrous OS releases either side of them?!
This is not me you understand but what others say as I have not used anything other than Windows 7, since Win XP, and Ubuntu 12.04, since Red Hat err circa 1998.
So with Windows 7 you have Vista prior and 8 post its release. I have heard nothing good about either one and Valve seem to feel the same.
With Ubuntu 12.04 you have...err whatever version they were ooh wait they had tens in them?! 11.10 and 12.10?!
With the latter there were two things that concerned me and that was the BIG ICONS and looking like it was going for a touch screen design, stupid on PCs as Microsoft is finding out. The other was the integration of Amazon ads into the OS?! Oooh boy was that stupid!!!
If you have not worked out the obvious this I call going after the gravy and everything else gets left behind or discarded, or us...
...so it is MONEY and not USERS that matters. But as they always say it is about users they LIE.
Hmm sounds a lot like governments and I guess the proverbial BREEDS?!
Like I said before it became obvious that you have to lie your way to the top, everyone knows that, but what amazes me is that when you get there and get caught out LYING the public go oooh your at the top?! You cannot lie?!!! BURN HIM, GET RID OF HIM?!
But wait you knew damn well people lie their way to the top, they lie just about everywhere I look on the Internet. Why so shocked when someone in charge of a large corporation lies? Why surprised when the government lies?
I get annoyed and frustrated with these things and these companies because I KNOW what they are like. I express frustration but I do NOT express shock. Ooh OK yes maybe with the Ubuntu going for the money ...YES, OK I was surprised. But as regards to the contempt shown to people and the love of the POUND NOTE or DOLLAR no surprise at all. Funny enough they have had this attitude for decades now but...aren't well all now skint?!?!?!
Oh well that attitude works then does it not?!
Is their even a fleeting sense of an aroma of coffee?
It also looks new.
Now it is only a beginners book that is for sure but it was a long time ago I had my little brush with Red Hat and and I remember....NOTHING! Have a hard enough time, well I did last night, remember DOS commands, lol!
So I will go through this and tomorrow order another book and in the meantime time and little by little I was focus in on this Windows booting problem to see if I can fix it.
Now it is entirely possible that something may...present itself to me and a variety of things...
I could end up starting to build a new RIG, ohh I wish!
I could end up getting a SECOND HDD.
Now the latter would be easy to do as my laptop has a SECOND HDD bay next to the first, only you need a special plug and lead to be able to PLUG a secind hard drive in and...
HP want £90 for two 50 Pence plugs and a bit of wire?!
NICE.
How about this Hewlett Packard?...
I buy a Replacement CADDY for my OPTICAL DRIVE with a HDD Fitted?!
Now even THESE are overpriced and yet STILL COMBINED cost less than Hewlett Packard's wire?!?! I kid you not?!
I visited Maplin when I first wanted to do this and someone that actually worked in the store had the same issue and my jaw dropped when he said "Have you got a HO laptop by any chance?"
You know I felt sorry for HP when they got into that trouble but in all honesty...
After the SHIT I have owned for the last year I would NEVER touch another product of theirs again!!
Two laptops and a printer I have owned of theirs and was hoping to buy a desktop but no bloody chance in hell. I could go into more details about the crap they install on your laptop and how utterly useless it all is but will just droan on o for hours, lol.
In fact I am not sure I would EVER buy a laptop again in all honesty, not after this. Not a Windows laptop that is for sure!
NEVER!!
I will also not buy Windows 8 either...NEVER!!!
So Microsoft had better get their heads out their arses over the next two years as they are climbing up it and will disappear up the own jacksies by then!
This utter manipulation of users just to try to get more cash and stop others from getting cash has got to stop.
Also I have seen no end of anti trust cases going on but have now been exposed to some that are far worse and far more obvious to those already pursued and yet I hear NOTHING of any action?!
Also I am not the only one that sees this and a great many see it too and one example is the disappearance of the boot.ini file and I cannot find a way to tell the Windows boot that Windows is now on the X: drive. Well until I do Windows stays off my laptop I am afraid to say so you kinda shot yourself in the foot their Microsoft?!
I also find it kinda odd how two completely different Operating Systems that seem OK for the most part have had utterly disastrous OS releases either side of them?!
This is not me you understand but what others say as I have not used anything other than Windows 7, since Win XP, and Ubuntu 12.04, since Red Hat err circa 1998.
So with Windows 7 you have Vista prior and 8 post its release. I have heard nothing good about either one and Valve seem to feel the same.
With Ubuntu 12.04 you have...err whatever version they were ooh wait they had tens in them?! 11.10 and 12.10?!
With the latter there were two things that concerned me and that was the BIG ICONS and looking like it was going for a touch screen design, stupid on PCs as Microsoft is finding out. The other was the integration of Amazon ads into the OS?! Oooh boy was that stupid!!!
If you have not worked out the obvious this I call going after the gravy and everything else gets left behind or discarded, or us...
...so it is MONEY and not USERS that matters. But as they always say it is about users they LIE.
Hmm sounds a lot like governments and I guess the proverbial BREEDS?!
Like I said before it became obvious that you have to lie your way to the top, everyone knows that, but what amazes me is that when you get there and get caught out LYING the public go oooh your at the top?! You cannot lie?!!! BURN HIM, GET RID OF HIM?!
But wait you knew damn well people lie their way to the top, they lie just about everywhere I look on the Internet. Why so shocked when someone in charge of a large corporation lies? Why surprised when the government lies?
I get annoyed and frustrated with these things and these companies because I KNOW what they are like. I express frustration but I do NOT express shock. Ooh OK yes maybe with the Ubuntu going for the money ...YES, OK I was surprised. But as regards to the contempt shown to people and the love of the POUND NOTE or DOLLAR no surprise at all. Funny enough they have had this attitude for decades now but...aren't well all now skint?!?!?!
Oh well that attitude works then does it not?!
Is their even a fleeting sense of an aroma of coffee?
Monday, 18 March 2013
LINUX & WINDOWS SITTING IN A TREE
OPPOSING TREES THAT IS!!
Well it would seem that after 15 years of absence the LINUX and WINDOWS operating systems have gone backwards and that is a fact I am very sorry to say.
I am not sure what the issue is down to right now but it could not surprise me if a large part of it was down to Steve Bullmer at Microsoft and more ANT-COMPETETIVE behaviour.
Oddly if my suspicions are ever proved correct I can tell you this much and the Mr Bullmer would have single handedly either destroyed Microsoft or reduced to no more than a squeaking mouse.
After not quite understanding WHY I could not get WUBI to work correctly I DITCHED IT!!
Only things then went from bad to WORSE and I do mean LITERALLY
After starting what was portrayed as an easy peasey thing to do by Computer Active Magazine, a magazine that is aimed at beginners you understand, I can tell you that nothing could be further from the truth and not a single person i the building at their offices tested this in anyway shape or form!
Bad!
Why? Well if you want something other than the obvious the only reason a journliast would misinform about something and encurage you to download and install something is down to one reason and one reason only...
...MONEY!
It has been over 7 days since I started their easy-peasy suggestion and I will now tell you what is going on now.
I SPLIT my hard disk into TWO separate partitions. This is what I should have done in the beginning really and this would now only make it much easier, as was the way I was used to doing it, but that the finished article would be alot swifter and likley graphics drivers would install correctly.
Everything worked flawlessly and set up without a hiccup and I was surprised to see a PURPLE screen come up with the BOOT OPTIONS?!
I thought, how weird?! Doing this the Wubi Way and I had a boot option screen like I remember years ago, black screen and white letters. Then I remembered seeing people stating that you should install Windows first and I thought that this was odd as I remembered it being the other way round.
Of course this time Ubuntu WAS the default OS of choice....
Got in and things worked a great deal better and a bit more snappy.....except that damned AMD Graphics driver STILL REFUSED TO INSTALL?!?!
I simply could NOT believe it!
Then after messing around I decided to reboot into Windows 7 and guess what?
Refused point blank to do it!!
Now I have messed around and tried to add an entry to the BCD but it refuses to do that...
I then wondered if Ubuntu had wiped the main C: drive when using it for a swap drive?!
But no the files were still there.
I looked up as to why I could not alter the BCDBoot file and then realised that it might not be this file at all, though why I could not write it it was still an oddity.
Maybe it was the Boot Loader in Ubuntu?!
Downloaded this program everynone raved about, Grub Customizer, but what i see looks nothing like the screen shots of it running. tried Boot Repair but Windows boot selection was greyed out.
It looked as if the partition had been wiped but it had not and I had seen it and within the file. But it seems that every single possible way to correct this problem just failed to work MISERABLY?!
It has been more than 7 days since I started this and i cannot quite believe just how incredibly frustrating and laborious it is and dual booting Red Hat with NT 4.0 or Win 2000 was a bloody walk in the park compared to this?! That took me TWO days and that included attending University for my Computer Science Degree?!?!
While I was at this is seemed some things were this way purely out of incompetence and no forethought. Then after awhile it amost seemed that I was being LED down the garden path to nowheresville and then it occurred to me.
This seemed almost deliberate! I cannot believe there are that many possible solutions that do not work?!
I am a victim on all fronts of people with, and I mean AT BEST, people with half the knowledge. Or in the case of civil servants and public offices people with NO KNOWDLEGE whatsoever, lol.
In fact I found a page where one guy lets off steam about it to make me blush and I make him right when he said that he had been on loads and loads of sights and forums ne people chat SHIT. Like me he had been through loads and loads of things that had not worked.
what makes me laugh is that these people who are quick to help then start getting arsey with you when they help does not work!
Indeed I got one guy so desperate to find a solution to work that he then told me to force these drivers in place and someone else piped up 'Nooo' and i had already done it and Ubuntu REFUSED TO BOOT!
The world seems full of people that WANT to be experts and yet they have only learned one or two tricks. I am NOT an idiot and when I come along everyone thinks oh easy and I get the IT Crowd treatment ... "Have you turned it OFF and ON AGAIN?!" LMAO!
So at the moment I am not sure if the boot section of Windows does not, or REFUSES to accept that Windows is now on the X: Drive and before you ask no I bloody did not make it that?! I made the Ubuntu partition the Z: drive to ensure no feck ups and on installing Z disappears and Windows ends up as X:?!
Baring in mind everyone says Windows does NOT like it unless it is the C: drive so how did Ubuntu end up changing it to X when their wasnt one, sticks Windows 7 it and then instead of going onto Z as I had instructed places itself onto the C: drive?!
I mean COME OOONNNNNNNNNN!!!!
Not only are you supposed to know the file structure used of two completely different OS's, know the command line ... COMMANDS of two completely different OS's but when you gibve them SPECIFIC instructions they go and do things entirely differently to what you instructed and then throw all their toys out of the pram becaus ethey do not want to play anymore?!?!
Jesus Christ, did I slip through a worm hole back into the early seventies?!
This should not be happening!!!
If the next model cars worked the same way the world would be full of motionless cars going nowhere?! You het the next and newer model because it is faster, easier, quieter, more luxurious and any other benefits.
What gives here?
Well I do not know if I will ever recover window, before anyone says it will not recover either!!
I swore years ago that when Microsoft stopped handing over hard copies of Windows with laptops and using these fecking partitions to stick it on I said first and foremost that this was wrong and a recipe for disaster?!
Well I just spent the last eight days COOKING?!
Well it would seem that after 15 years of absence the LINUX and WINDOWS operating systems have gone backwards and that is a fact I am very sorry to say.
I am not sure what the issue is down to right now but it could not surprise me if a large part of it was down to Steve Bullmer at Microsoft and more ANT-COMPETETIVE behaviour.
Oddly if my suspicions are ever proved correct I can tell you this much and the Mr Bullmer would have single handedly either destroyed Microsoft or reduced to no more than a squeaking mouse.
After not quite understanding WHY I could not get WUBI to work correctly I DITCHED IT!!
Only things then went from bad to WORSE and I do mean LITERALLY
After starting what was portrayed as an easy peasey thing to do by Computer Active Magazine, a magazine that is aimed at beginners you understand, I can tell you that nothing could be further from the truth and not a single person i the building at their offices tested this in anyway shape or form!
Bad!
Why? Well if you want something other than the obvious the only reason a journliast would misinform about something and encurage you to download and install something is down to one reason and one reason only...
...MONEY!
It has been over 7 days since I started their easy-peasy suggestion and I will now tell you what is going on now.
I SPLIT my hard disk into TWO separate partitions. This is what I should have done in the beginning really and this would now only make it much easier, as was the way I was used to doing it, but that the finished article would be alot swifter and likley graphics drivers would install correctly.
Everything worked flawlessly and set up without a hiccup and I was surprised to see a PURPLE screen come up with the BOOT OPTIONS?!
I thought, how weird?! Doing this the Wubi Way and I had a boot option screen like I remember years ago, black screen and white letters. Then I remembered seeing people stating that you should install Windows first and I thought that this was odd as I remembered it being the other way round.
Of course this time Ubuntu WAS the default OS of choice....
Got in and things worked a great deal better and a bit more snappy.....except that damned AMD Graphics driver STILL REFUSED TO INSTALL?!?!
I simply could NOT believe it!
Then after messing around I decided to reboot into Windows 7 and guess what?
Refused point blank to do it!!
Now I have messed around and tried to add an entry to the BCD but it refuses to do that...
I then wondered if Ubuntu had wiped the main C: drive when using it for a swap drive?!
But no the files were still there.
I looked up as to why I could not alter the BCDBoot file and then realised that it might not be this file at all, though why I could not write it it was still an oddity.
Maybe it was the Boot Loader in Ubuntu?!
Downloaded this program everynone raved about, Grub Customizer, but what i see looks nothing like the screen shots of it running. tried Boot Repair but Windows boot selection was greyed out.
It looked as if the partition had been wiped but it had not and I had seen it and within the file. But it seems that every single possible way to correct this problem just failed to work MISERABLY?!
It has been more than 7 days since I started this and i cannot quite believe just how incredibly frustrating and laborious it is and dual booting Red Hat with NT 4.0 or Win 2000 was a bloody walk in the park compared to this?! That took me TWO days and that included attending University for my Computer Science Degree?!?!
While I was at this is seemed some things were this way purely out of incompetence and no forethought. Then after awhile it amost seemed that I was being LED down the garden path to nowheresville and then it occurred to me.
This seemed almost deliberate! I cannot believe there are that many possible solutions that do not work?!
I am a victim on all fronts of people with, and I mean AT BEST, people with half the knowledge. Or in the case of civil servants and public offices people with NO KNOWDLEGE whatsoever, lol.
In fact I found a page where one guy lets off steam about it to make me blush and I make him right when he said that he had been on loads and loads of sights and forums ne people chat SHIT. Like me he had been through loads and loads of things that had not worked.
what makes me laugh is that these people who are quick to help then start getting arsey with you when they help does not work!
Indeed I got one guy so desperate to find a solution to work that he then told me to force these drivers in place and someone else piped up 'Nooo' and i had already done it and Ubuntu REFUSED TO BOOT!
The world seems full of people that WANT to be experts and yet they have only learned one or two tricks. I am NOT an idiot and when I come along everyone thinks oh easy and I get the IT Crowd treatment ... "Have you turned it OFF and ON AGAIN?!" LMAO!
So at the moment I am not sure if the boot section of Windows does not, or REFUSES to accept that Windows is now on the X: Drive and before you ask no I bloody did not make it that?! I made the Ubuntu partition the Z: drive to ensure no feck ups and on installing Z disappears and Windows ends up as X:?!
Baring in mind everyone says Windows does NOT like it unless it is the C: drive so how did Ubuntu end up changing it to X when their wasnt one, sticks Windows 7 it and then instead of going onto Z as I had instructed places itself onto the C: drive?!
I mean COME OOONNNNNNNNNN!!!!
Not only are you supposed to know the file structure used of two completely different OS's, know the command line ... COMMANDS of two completely different OS's but when you gibve them SPECIFIC instructions they go and do things entirely differently to what you instructed and then throw all their toys out of the pram becaus ethey do not want to play anymore?!?!
Jesus Christ, did I slip through a worm hole back into the early seventies?!
This should not be happening!!!
If the next model cars worked the same way the world would be full of motionless cars going nowhere?! You het the next and newer model because it is faster, easier, quieter, more luxurious and any other benefits.
What gives here?
Well I do not know if I will ever recover window, before anyone says it will not recover either!!
I swore years ago that when Microsoft stopped handing over hard copies of Windows with laptops and using these fecking partitions to stick it on I said first and foremost that this was wrong and a recipe for disaster?!
Well I just spent the last eight days COOKING?!
Friday, 15 March 2013
MUST BE (UBUNTU 12.04 LTS) BLOODY MAD?!
Right that was very odd. Turned out it needed a reboot to register that the partition, yep wrong Wubi bit, was gone and I realised when it showed I had 280 GB of space.
Only on reboot the dual boot partition is still there, but no big deal as you could, if you have this problem too, go into the BIOS and set time to '0' seconds. Or there is the fixboot option too.
There are a great many descriptions and answers given by people in the forums that seem to go 'right around the houses' to fix this problem and will be baffling and unnecessary to many.
I need my head examined as I have now decided to REINSTALL UBUNTU and have this really stupid idea that I did things in the WRONG order when I was first logged on the first time and...
...well my damned curiosity to get to the truth, it is another bloody puzzle Martin, and see if I am right has led me to go through it all AGAIN?!
LMAO!
Only THIS TIME I am going to do things VERY differently to what I did last time and think I made a mistake in treating it like a Windows install and should have been more...AWARE.
Did not help that I was unfamiliar with many Linux OS's either and I have had a play about and know what everything does and where it all is, well enough anyway, and now want to put my theory to the test.
So in case it goes wrong you might want to ignore the screaming and shouting in the next couple of posts as it is my own fault for having to do things right and refusing to be beaten by anyone or indeed ANYTHING!
LMFAO!
Hopefully I will get it right and then I can put on here the correct sequence to a nice Ubuntu 12.04 LTS install on iffy hardware, eh Hewlett Packard?!?!
LOL.
DO you all have ear plugs?! Hehehe.
Only on reboot the dual boot partition is still there, but no big deal as you could, if you have this problem too, go into the BIOS and set time to '0' seconds. Or there is the fixboot option too.
There are a great many descriptions and answers given by people in the forums that seem to go 'right around the houses' to fix this problem and will be baffling and unnecessary to many.
I need my head examined as I have now decided to REINSTALL UBUNTU and have this really stupid idea that I did things in the WRONG order when I was first logged on the first time and...
...well my damned curiosity to get to the truth, it is another bloody puzzle Martin, and see if I am right has led me to go through it all AGAIN?!
LMAO!
Only THIS TIME I am going to do things VERY differently to what I did last time and think I made a mistake in treating it like a Windows install and should have been more...AWARE.
Did not help that I was unfamiliar with many Linux OS's either and I have had a play about and know what everything does and where it all is, well enough anyway, and now want to put my theory to the test.
So in case it goes wrong you might want to ignore the screaming and shouting in the next couple of posts as it is my own fault for having to do things right and refusing to be beaten by anyone or indeed ANYTHING!
LMFAO!
Hopefully I will get it right and then I can put on here the correct sequence to a nice Ubuntu 12.04 LTS install on iffy hardware, eh Hewlett Packard?!?!
LOL.
DO you all have ear plugs?! Hehehe.
Thursday, 14 March 2013
I BROKE UBUNTU
Well after three says if messing around with UBUNTU I have broken it.
The last two attempted boot upes have failed and freezes on the screen that is all purple and says Ubuntu with the little dots and does it right after the little drum noise it makes.
Indeed it had stayed on that screen the whole while I have been typing this on my faulty smart phone lol.
Unfortunately I have finally decided it comes off. These Linux people really should keep abreast of what their creation works with and does not and issue warnings as should thre magazines.
In fact Computer Active only stated there were issues reported with Windows 8. You would think that worth only two companies producing GPUs that they would all get to hear of issues?! Especially when there us all this error reporting parts of operating systems theses days.
Cine to think if it I don't think the Windows error retiring ever really did anything other than make users think the next version would be really ace. Oops, lol.
Right I have forced a power off now and booting into Windows. A shame that and really frustrating as I thought I had it sussed a few times only to break it completely.
I will have to remove it now to regain the 19GB I awarded it. I think in future I will not bother with LINUX unless I have a complete list of compatible hardware so u can build a rig for it.
Waaaaah! SOB SOB!! Really liked it and wanted to use that SMS really depressed it went the way it did.
I do not have the time to spend days on ends trying to get it to work I'm afraid do it gets ignored now for a few months.
:(
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
COMING TO UBUNTU 1
Well here are the FIRST three of the videos...
I left the laptop and phone on all not and not a single byte of data uploaded all night, plus I got up two hours late?!
Well I was shattered yesterday, lol...
I left the laptop and phone on all not and not a single byte of data uploaded all night, plus I got up two hours late?!
Well I was shattered yesterday, lol...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
ALTERNATE WINDOWS GAZE INTO THE FUTURE
Well I forgot to add something to the last post and thought of some more points to make.
I do not like Windows 8.
It seems from something I was reading neither do Valve?!
I had though after all this time that I would finally have to make the leap over to a Linux Operating System and that as it had been 15 years since my last skirmish, and believe me it WAS, with Red Hat that now things would have been greatly improved.
So imagine my utter shock when what should have been a pleasurable experience taking minutes has turned my grey and taken 24 hours only to hit a brick wall?!
I would not mind but this. it turns out, was the brilliant and stable version out of three when the other two were referred to as catastrophes?!
WORRYING!
I also thought that Microsoft would meander off in other directions now and from what I read, WINDOWS BLUE, this certainly looks to be the case.
It is also of concern that they obviously do not care otherwise Valve would not have got as far as releasing Steam for the Linux OS!
Well I can say for certain that I know damn well what Steve Bullmer is doing and that is what he always does goes where the scent of money is. Only on THIS occasion it is going to backfire and in all honesty it will be down to one thing and one thing only that decides if Microsoft will still exist in its current form, Steve Bullmers madman antic aside....
...that is the NEXT XBOX?! (the 720?! ZBOX?! XBOX NEXT?! NEXTBOX?!)
They are going after the tablet market and smart phone market but in all honesty they have pretty stiff competition that is already established and STRONGLY in an industry that is a passing phase and will drop of considerably in time. Before people start saying nooo I did not say disappear I said drop off. Just like PHONES DID, just like SMART PHONES DID, just like iPhones now have and just like ,COM!
Cannot see the business for the money!! LMAO!
Yes that makes sense, leave an industry behind that you had tied up for years but losing your marbles with it of late and go sprinting, remember Microsoft's SIZE, after something else others have become establish in and have a firm foothold because you think theirs cash to be made and/or you just want to destroy any competition you see as a threat to your dwindling market share?!
Mr Bullmer that is just not going to happen!
Now while they were pre-occupied doing this Linux could have swooped in from the skies taking all in its path! Well not on what I saw in the last 24 hours I am afraid and what with this laptop not exactly new or state of the art that is worrying!
Fifteen years ago if you even have brief thoughts about Linux you had better hope nothing in your hardware we less than a year old. Less than 6 months and you had better forget it.
AMD Phenom X3 1.8 GHZ
AMD Radeon HD 5470M & HD 4200 Graphics chips
8 GB RAM Memory
The sound was fine and to be honest there were NO graphical issues so not quite sure WHAT was going on and WHY it failed to do so many things...
...but this laptop I bought over a year ago, was not by any stretch the fastest available and ex demo that had been there a fair old while.
Ubuntu should have, and I fully expected it to, been moving so fast that time would appear to be going BACKWARDS?!
Unfortunately it did not! :(
NOW! While I was typing and posting both the last post and now this one my videos of what was happening, DUMB-ASS, I mean NOT HAPPENING are being uploaded to my YouTube account. This curious to see what was going on, puzzle solvers like me, can go and have a look see when they are done, likely tomorrow.
As much as I love puzzles I do not have the patience I once had to sit around for days on end figuring this one out. I have far too money other things going on to boot but that IS slowly changing.
So for now the videos are up for your enjoyment or curiosity and Ubuntu will sit there on my hard drive with the static gathering dust on that portion of the spinning discs, lol.
Well unless I come across or it occurs to me out of the blue (which does happen from time to time) how to fix it?!
I do not like Windows 8.
It seems from something I was reading neither do Valve?!
I had though after all this time that I would finally have to make the leap over to a Linux Operating System and that as it had been 15 years since my last skirmish, and believe me it WAS, with Red Hat that now things would have been greatly improved.
So imagine my utter shock when what should have been a pleasurable experience taking minutes has turned my grey and taken 24 hours only to hit a brick wall?!
I would not mind but this. it turns out, was the brilliant and stable version out of three when the other two were referred to as catastrophes?!
WORRYING!
I also thought that Microsoft would meander off in other directions now and from what I read, WINDOWS BLUE, this certainly looks to be the case.
It is also of concern that they obviously do not care otherwise Valve would not have got as far as releasing Steam for the Linux OS!
Well I can say for certain that I know damn well what Steve Bullmer is doing and that is what he always does goes where the scent of money is. Only on THIS occasion it is going to backfire and in all honesty it will be down to one thing and one thing only that decides if Microsoft will still exist in its current form, Steve Bullmers madman antic aside....
...that is the NEXT XBOX?! (the 720?! ZBOX?! XBOX NEXT?! NEXTBOX?!)
They are going after the tablet market and smart phone market but in all honesty they have pretty stiff competition that is already established and STRONGLY in an industry that is a passing phase and will drop of considerably in time. Before people start saying nooo I did not say disappear I said drop off. Just like PHONES DID, just like SMART PHONES DID, just like iPhones now have and just like ,COM!
Cannot see the business for the money!! LMAO!
Yes that makes sense, leave an industry behind that you had tied up for years but losing your marbles with it of late and go sprinting, remember Microsoft's SIZE, after something else others have become establish in and have a firm foothold because you think theirs cash to be made and/or you just want to destroy any competition you see as a threat to your dwindling market share?!
Mr Bullmer that is just not going to happen!
Now while they were pre-occupied doing this Linux could have swooped in from the skies taking all in its path! Well not on what I saw in the last 24 hours I am afraid and what with this laptop not exactly new or state of the art that is worrying!
Fifteen years ago if you even have brief thoughts about Linux you had better hope nothing in your hardware we less than a year old. Less than 6 months and you had better forget it.
AMD Phenom X3 1.8 GHZ
AMD Radeon HD 5470M & HD 4200 Graphics chips
8 GB RAM Memory
The sound was fine and to be honest there were NO graphical issues so not quite sure WHAT was going on and WHY it failed to do so many things...
...but this laptop I bought over a year ago, was not by any stretch the fastest available and ex demo that had been there a fair old while.
Ubuntu should have, and I fully expected it to, been moving so fast that time would appear to be going BACKWARDS?!
Unfortunately it did not! :(
NOW! While I was typing and posting both the last post and now this one my videos of what was happening, DUMB-ASS, I mean NOT HAPPENING are being uploaded to my YouTube account. This curious to see what was going on, puzzle solvers like me, can go and have a look see when they are done, likely tomorrow.
As much as I love puzzles I do not have the patience I once had to sit around for days on end figuring this one out. I have far too money other things going on to boot but that IS slowly changing.
So for now the videos are up for your enjoyment or curiosity and Ubuntu will sit there on my hard drive with the static gathering dust on that portion of the spinning discs, lol.
Well unless I come across or it occurs to me out of the blue (which does happen from time to time) how to fix it?!
BU-BYE UBUNTU IT WAS NOT NICE KNOWING YOU
Oh my god ... that was the most excruciating 24 hours of my life I can EVER recall?!
Madness! Well I gave up filming and it turned out I had lost track of how many videos I did and I have also MISLAID some of the parts as they are in the UBUNTU section of my hard drive and I cut and past videos to free up the memory on the SD Card.
I have used and always did for years all the betas of Windows from Windows 95 up until Windows 2000 and possibly beyond that but since XP I have not bothered.
Now up until now, save to odd blue screens of death which were rare for me I have to admit the most infuriating the a new OS did was actually Windows XP and I DID NOT EVEN OWN THE DAMN THING?! LOL.
You may realise that from that statement I was referring to the official full release version where Microsoft made, what is no matter WHAT you or they say, an terrible school boy blunder as on release I think everyone I know that had it with a new computer it turned out they could NOT GET ON THE INTERNET. It refused to talk to the supplied MODEM?!
It was, it turned out, to be something really stupid and i even dated a woman when her friend at a works do said to me "This is Susan she has a problem with her new computer and i wondered if you could help?" and this was at Land Rover!
"Let me guess..." I said before she could speak "...you cannot get on the Internet?" Wide eyed and open mouthed she said "how the hell did you know that?! Tony did you tell him?" whereas he replied "No, I told yo he was good?!" when the reality was I had heard it so many times and from EVERYONE I knew or even did not know that had just bought a computer with Windows XP installed on it. I am amazed at how many PC suppliers failed to realise there was a problem before shipping them out?!
I went round with a floppy disk and Sue, looking like a blond Susan Sarandon that made my eyes water in desire, went off to put the kettle on. On her return to my seated position at her computer desk she continued to tell me the problem when she suddenly stopped and said "Wait a minute! YOU HAVE A WEBPAGE UP?!?!" to which I said "I KNOW" and she said "but you did that in the time I went and put the kettle on?!" and it turned out that my work colleague Tony had a mate who was supposed to be a computer nerd and he had spent 5 whole nights round there and gave up?!
We ended up dating, albeit very briefly and it was a little odd for me in all honesty and that was that.
I am afraid to say Ubuntu 12.04, the one NOT referred to as a CATASTROPHE, was a CATASTROPHE!
Now you either need one of two things here...
1) Another 5 years... and /or
2) A FAIR REDUCTION IN CHEFS?!?!
Madness! Well I gave up filming and it turned out I had lost track of how many videos I did and I have also MISLAID some of the parts as they are in the UBUNTU section of my hard drive and I cut and past videos to free up the memory on the SD Card.
I have used and always did for years all the betas of Windows from Windows 95 up until Windows 2000 and possibly beyond that but since XP I have not bothered.
Now up until now, save to odd blue screens of death which were rare for me I have to admit the most infuriating the a new OS did was actually Windows XP and I DID NOT EVEN OWN THE DAMN THING?! LOL.
You may realise that from that statement I was referring to the official full release version where Microsoft made, what is no matter WHAT you or they say, an terrible school boy blunder as on release I think everyone I know that had it with a new computer it turned out they could NOT GET ON THE INTERNET. It refused to talk to the supplied MODEM?!
It was, it turned out, to be something really stupid and i even dated a woman when her friend at a works do said to me "This is Susan she has a problem with her new computer and i wondered if you could help?" and this was at Land Rover!
"Let me guess..." I said before she could speak "...you cannot get on the Internet?" Wide eyed and open mouthed she said "how the hell did you know that?! Tony did you tell him?" whereas he replied "No, I told yo he was good?!" when the reality was I had heard it so many times and from EVERYONE I knew or even did not know that had just bought a computer with Windows XP installed on it. I am amazed at how many PC suppliers failed to realise there was a problem before shipping them out?!
I went round with a floppy disk and Sue, looking like a blond Susan Sarandon that made my eyes water in desire, went off to put the kettle on. On her return to my seated position at her computer desk she continued to tell me the problem when she suddenly stopped and said "Wait a minute! YOU HAVE A WEBPAGE UP?!?!" to which I said "I KNOW" and she said "but you did that in the time I went and put the kettle on?!" and it turned out that my work colleague Tony had a mate who was supposed to be a computer nerd and he had spent 5 whole nights round there and gave up?!
We ended up dating, albeit very briefly and it was a little odd for me in all honesty and that was that.
I am afraid to say Ubuntu 12.04, the one NOT referred to as a CATASTROPHE, was a CATASTROPHE!
Now you either need one of two things here...
1) Another 5 years... and /or
2) A FAIR REDUCTION IN CHEFS?!?!
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