Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.

Xander ,'Lessons'


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Sean K - Apr 27, 2008 8:21:06 am PDT #5909 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

AHA! Thanks, Scola.


Jon B. - Apr 27, 2008 9:20:11 am PDT #5910 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

if these drives are so cheap, is there a reason?

I was going to say that the prices you originally quoted

a Western Digital 320Gb 8Mb cache 5,400 rpm drive for $140, or a Seagate 200Gb 16Mb cache 7,200 rpm drive for $125.
were rather expensive.


Sean K - Apr 27, 2008 9:25:47 am PDT #5911 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

This is why I come to you people first.


Vortex - Apr 27, 2008 2:46:14 pm PDT #5912 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

firefox eats a lot of memory. maybe that has something to do with it?

it's not a problem with my old laptop, which still works. maybe I should upgrade firefox. it keeps asking me.


DCJensen - Apr 27, 2008 6:10:57 pm PDT #5913 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Anyone heard much about this? Good? Bad? Vapor?

ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.

[link]


§ ita § - Apr 27, 2008 9:06:25 pm PDT #5914 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What's the difference between a network location and a workgroup in Vista Home? I have both of mine set to one value on the Vista box, but it shows my Ubuntu box as being in the workgroup MSHOME, with the network location being the different and correct value.

I have edited smb.conf and changed the network parameter--where else could the MSHOME be coming from?


Gudanov - Apr 28, 2008 5:55:55 am PDT #5915 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system.

Real but pretty limited. I think it is mostly based on wine. It would probably work if you wanted a machine with a few hand picked applications that you knew worked with it.


Gudanov - Apr 28, 2008 5:59:18 am PDT #5916 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

smb.conf has a "workgroup" parameter, but I think MSHOME might be the default so it could be that it is set to that because it isn't set to anything else. To set the workgroup to 'Fred' the setting would be:

[global]
    workgroup = FRED


§ ita § - Apr 28, 2008 6:04:50 am PDT #5917 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That's the parameter I've already set to the correct value.

As for ReactOS, they do go on about why they're not Wine, but it'll be interesting to see if anyone cares, and if the performance can be trusted.


Gudanov - Apr 28, 2008 6:15:33 am PDT #5918 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

I misunderstood. That should be it, I'd check to make sure that it is in the [global] section and make sure that smbd has been restarted to pick up the change. I'm not sure what is up past that.