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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Quote: I suppose that Windows Vista won't natively support Ext3 partitions, right? Out of the box? That'll be the day! |
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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Thomas: yes I know I use that one already. That's why I'm asking for native support - I know I'm naive. Quote: That'll be the day! Yes it'll. [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Evert, you wouldn't happen to be a Buddy Holly fan would you? -- |
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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No. Never heard of him, in fact. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Ah well, I thought you were old enough to have at least heard of him, old musician. I only heard of him through older movies and my parents. "That'll be the day when I die" is a classic -- |
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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After seeing this video I doubt that it will be possible to exploit that hole... [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
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LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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Quote: "That'll be the day when I die" is a classic probably my favorite song of his. Most people are probably more familiar with either "Peggy Sue" or "Rave On." But yeah, Buddy Holly rocked (no pun intended). His death was a great shame (as was the Big Bopper's and Ritchie Valens' (who was my preferred artist of the three that died that night)).
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Bob Keane
Member #7,342
June 2006
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As opposed to Matthew's DELETE STAR DOT STAR command, might I suggest FDISK C DELETE PARTITION NOVERIFY? By reading this sig, I, the reader, agree to render my soul to Bob Keane. I, the reader, understand this is a legally binding contract and freely render my soul. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Recovering a deleted partition is a little easier than recovering your file system tree. -- |
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Tobias Dammers
Member #2,604
August 2002
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Quote: Would subtracting the output sent to the souncard from the microphone samples avoid processing the speaker output?
No. Each and every piece of sound hardware induces a certain amount of latency, and even in a top-of-the-line audio production system, total latencies are around 1 to 2 samples for each direction (in / out), totalling to at least 2 to 4 samples. While this is not an audible time delay, it will not cancel out the sound completely. Quote: Edit: I suppose that Windows Vista won't natively support Ext3 partitions, right? We all know that ext3 is an evil communist file system, and that NTFS is the bestest evar, don't we? --- |
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Bob Keane
Member #7,342
June 2006
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I remember back in the twentieth century, there was a low level format command which would wipe the drive in an unrecoverable state. I don't remember what it was though. Sigh. By reading this sig, I, the reader, agree to render my soul to Bob Keane. I, the reader, understand this is a legally binding contract and freely render my soul. |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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Quote: Ops, I suppose it was w/o Aero. It was with Aero. And regarding ext2, I doubt that FS driver will work anymore. Vista now refuses to run unsigned drvers. ANOTHER nail in the coffin. |
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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Quote: And regarding ext2, I doubt that FS driver will work anymore. Vista now refuses to run unsigned drvers.
Not my fault [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Whoa, it'll refuse outright to run unsigned drivers? Thats a pain in the ass. On the beta I used it complained quite a bit upon installing, but it worked If you have to theres always coLinux and having it access the drives. -- |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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On the RC2 I used, it would install the driver, but wouldn't load it unless you enabled debug mode + unsigned drivers [this has to be done on every boot through the boot menu]. And word is, that option was removed in all but the development editions of Windows. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Well, if I feel the vista itch, I'll stick with my beta (alpha, rtm, whatever) version. -- |
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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Thomas: till the license goes off? I think that they're supposed to refuse working after Windblows Vendettat official release date, aren't they? (oh I don't think about little hacking...) [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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I believe they disable as of June 2008. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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I did say if -- |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Quote: I remember back in the twentieth century, there was a low level format command which would wipe the drive in an unrecoverable state. I don't remember what it was though. Sigh. You mean the DOS FORMAT.COM? At least Win95 (98?) and earlier reformatting over an installed partition (even of different size) would show junk on the "dir" command. Now I always format with Linux boot cd after dd'ing a few megs of zeros to the start of the partition. Quote: Windows now has the flashy GUI that MacOS X has had for the past five years, and requires a top-of-the-line new computer to use it? In addition, the Mac was running it on the PPC chip (which Motorola allowed to languish due to lack of competition which is why Apple switched to x86) They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Quote: You mean the DOS FORMAT.COM? If he really meant low level format, then I guess not. It's a procedure that I only ever heard about that you could do on harddrives in the early eighties. By the time we got our first PC, the option was still in the BIOS but home users weren't supposed to low-level format their harddrives anymore because it was sure to ruin the drive (that's what was said - I don't know the specifics) without the proper equipment. These days I think the option isn't even available any more. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Quote: You mean the DOS FORMAT.COM? I would have to say no. I'm thinking he's talking about a low level format, a utility that is supposed to only be run once, just after manufacture. It "formats" the platters into the proper configuration, and may add any defective sectors to the bad list. Quote: home users weren't supposed to low-level format their harddrives anymore because it was sure to ruin the drive I've seen the option in many HD manufacture's diagnostic utilities packages. Its dangerous, and if anything goes wrong (like a power failure) during the process, your drive ends up dead. But otherwise, its just not something that should ever need done these days. Drives will automatically add dead sectors to thier own internal bad sectors list till its full. And once you start seeing bad sectors, its time to get a replacement. -- |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Quote: harddrives in the early eighties For at least some drives, you could fire up debug.com and "g c000:7300" or something to use a subroutine in rom to rewrite the tracks (which were "missed" by aging stepper motor linkages). I made one that used BIOS interrupts to change the interleave to 1:1 for that blazing fast 286. But everyone I'd talked to in real life insisted that FORMAT.COM was the low level format. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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Bob Keane
Member #7,342
June 2006
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It definitely was not format.com. The rumor was that it would ruin a hard disk when something went wrong, it did have something to do with the manufacturer's utilities and I think had something about a hex address. I am going with Arthur on this. The good old days. When destroying a computer meant exactly that. (sighs nostalgically) By reading this sig, I, the reader, agree to render my soul to Bob Keane. I, the reader, understand this is a legally binding contract and freely render my soul. |
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Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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Is it true that Vista doesn't support OpenGL? -- |
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probably my favorite song of his.
I want to see people, when they'll give me some document and I'll ask them for .odt 