Monday, May 13, 2002

Pondering the Imponderable -- 10:43 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Since The Master got to say this before, I'll say it now. Greetings from Red Hat 7.3! I've got a lot of things to get straightened around here, but at least I know it works! I've got it installed on a separate hard drive now so Windows can find it and break it. Now for the customization!

SOF2 Gold! -- 6:28 pm CST, Update by The Master

Blue has a press release from Activision announcing that Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix has gone gold. May 22 is the expected shelf date.

How to Kill an iMac -- 10:38 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

According to MacUser, if you attempt to play the latest Celine Dion CD or a number of other CDs produced by Sony subsidiaries on an iMac, it (the iMac) will immediately become a paperweight. Here's what happens:

[O]nce the CD is inserted into a new iMac it cannot be removed and the machine cannot be restarted.

Hmm. Is that a class-action lawsuit I smell? Thanks HardOCP.

J.t.Qbe comments: Ouch! This is getting ridiculous. The "entertainment industry" needs to be spanked. Or shut down. Both are just as likely to happen.

Sunday, May 12, 2002

Bleh -- 8:25 pm CST, Update by The Master

After suffering many hours of sub-par Windows 2000 performance after my Red Hat 7.3 install yesterday, I've discovered the key to keeping performance up.

W2K has some issues with drives if a drive is converted from a windows OS to Linux. In particular, it wants to continue believing the drive is Win-OS formatted. You MUST disable the linux drive in the hardware manager if you use a whole drive in this manner. I'm not sure what would happen in a single-disk partition environment, my guess is it would work fine. It might also have worked if I had removed the planned linux drive from the hardware profile before installing Linux, but that's all water under the bridge. This entire discussion is my experience, YMMV.

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