Linux

If you are trying to do something non standard like running a 2nd operating system off of a n external HD e.t.c you are more likely to have to work to get things as you want. I'm not saying Linux s perfect but just that your comparison is comparing a factory installed O/S being used and installed in standard way which you are familiar with with one which is unfamiliar and installed in a non-standard way. It's not for everyone but can be installed to work well in a simple reliable manner or a tricky customised one. That's the big +.

I'm listening to Last FM.

tried ubuntu by installing it on an external HDD so when i wanted i would plug it in, boot it and away. getting it to work was fine until i needed to do things like plug in other external hard drive which for whatever reason would not be recognised.

Went on the Ubuntu forum and to be fair a lot of people helped me, but it still didn't work.
I then decided after many many hours trying to get it to work to delete it. However the 'grub' thingy ubuntu installed on the HDD would not go away, even after formatting or low level formatting. I was like wtf ?! i hate this, so many problems for such simple things that just work on windows 7. i had to use KillDisk in the end to delete Grub, the most persistent, annoying thing i have ever come across.

So yea that's my linux story. I for one don't see it's allure. nothing works without using some kind of code.

Grub installs itself as a rule on the first 512 kilobytes of the hardrive ... which is where your master boot record lives (this is the first thing the bios looks for after a boot). There are other ways of booting Linux with Grub ... when I used Window 2k, I used The windows bootloader to boot the Linux bootloader.

Grub is horrible ... I hate it ... I use this to dual boot ... GAG ... soo much simpler .. but doesn't work that well with linux tbh ... though I don't use it soo no big deal.

The allure anyway of using Unix like OS is that the command line is soo powerful for my work, and it is just nicer than using the Windows CMD. But I don't use Linux I use OpenBSD which is something similar but very different.

Anyway ... if you are happy using Windows 7 ... good man ... great OS .. I do all my dev work on it.

I'm listening to Last FM.

Same here.

Actually the only thing so far that has stumped me is the Empathy application: I can;t make head nor tail of it. I use Google Talk, YIM and Windows Live. Now, I can't figure out how to get in to any of these accounts as I did before. The YIM one I have found is the BETA thing, whatever that is; via Yahoo mail. Windows live I think I have found though it looks different. Google chat I can't get in to at all.
So I don;t know what the Empathy thing is. I tried putting details in but get a message about passwords.
I dunno.

Try gaim I've used that before with yahoo I think, never tried any of the others

what?

Hold on I've just done a new ubuntu install today on another computer I'll see if it's installed as standard. Give me two min.

^ it is called Pidgin now

gaim in a instant messaging program which is popular.but I can't find it as an easy install for you I'm afraid.

Ah! dam name change!

AOL was going to sue them soo they changed the name.

I'd just like to be able to sign in to the accounts I already have and for them to pop up in a recognisable format

Linus people

Am having an issue installing java update on linpus

Following the instructions from here http://java.com/en/download/help/linux_install.xml#rpm

For some reason I can find the file, which is downloaded to mydisk/download, when I try find this happens -

find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /mnt/home/.opera: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.

fsck?

Have cp the file t usr/java and not it just says inflating.

I may hate windows bu it makes things very easy.

Oh i'm using linpus that a wierd version of fedora8.

I think it's just searching over something that's supposed to be mounted or so.
It's just a WARNING anyway.

You can do

find /mypath -mount -name whatever 2>/dev/null

if you do

shutdown -Fr now

-F will do an fsck when the system starts

if you do

shutdown -Fr now

-F will do an fsck when the system starts

Thank you will do that in a minute

still seems to be inflating.

Unpacking...
Checksumming...
Extracting...
UnZipSFX 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs@lists.wku.edu).
replace jre-6u22-linux-i586.rpm? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: y
inflating: jre-6u22-linux-i586.rpm

Amazon are offering a free EC2 cloud based micro linux machine: http://aws.amazon.com/free/

Just signed up and have one running in about 10mins - seems pretty cool and reasonable limits before you start paying for usage...

yeah, EC2's pretty cool ...

Anyone got experience with MySQL DB backups from EC2 to S3 and so on?
Just working on something like that ...

We are using AWS heavily at work. Mostly Windows boxes though.

forgot to add - its only free for a year

Whow, there are loads of choices.
This looks easiest:

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/

just ran chmod 770 -R /kernel on a Solaris box... DOH!!!! stupid fat finger / bash autocomplete
/kernel is normally 755 right?