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Ho comperato un nuovo harddisk e ho deciso, dopo averne fatto a meno per un anno, di installare windows xp….magari una mezz’oretta con Cod4 ci sta.

Inizio col dire che è stata più lunga del previsto.

Ho una vecchia copia di windows xp sp1 che non ha al suo interno i driver per il controller sata della mia scheda madre (ICH9) e allora ho dovuto scaricarmeli dal sito della Asus. Dopo averlo fatto mi sono ricordato di quel famoso pulsante F6 da premere in fase di installazione di windows per poter caricare driver di terze parti, subito dopo un flash: “Ma serve il floppy??????”. Già…..

E dove lo prendo un dischetto? Ho varie chiavette, da 128 MB a 8GB, ma di dischetti pochi o nulla…ma uno si,che non va. “Ravana ravana” ho trovato in un angolo di una libreria una vecchia confezione di Verbatim con scritto “Gia Formattati!!” Wow

Copiati i driver sul dischetto e riavviato facendo il boot da cd di windows mi trovo schermata nera, solo una piccola scritta “Rilevazione Hardware” in corso e poi nero completo e cd fermo che non legge.Sia il cd? Cambiati 3 cd e stesso problema.

Ho poi scoperto che se l’installer di Microsoft trova sugli harddisk più di una partizione con la flag “bootable” esce senza avvisare lasciandoti li come un pirla con la schermata nera. Ho risolto scollegando gli altri due harddisk in raid (quando ho fatto il raid forse ho creato anche il danno), un altra soluzione con “parted” era di togliere le flag bootable o lasciarne al massimo una.

In compenso però ora mi ha avvisato che cambierà la risoluzione dello schermo….ma vedi di andare a ….

Il portatile di mio padre ha il drive del cdrom rotto, in più è vecchio e non c’è modo di fare il boot da usb. Per poter installare windows serve un computer desktop con un cdrom ed un floppy funzionante ed in più un adattatore da harddisk per laptop a Ide, una cosa come questa.
L’idea di base è di smontare l’harddisk del portatile, attaccarlo al desktop, formattarlo con dos, copiare il cd di windows xp e far partire l’installazione.

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I got a Packard Bell with Vista on it that reminded me why i don’t like windows…..

Vista is a bunch of shitty tools whose reason to exist is to drive you nuts.

As soon as I started Vista I realized that having the harddisk led blinking every often would have driven me crazy in a couple of days, then I found out that my laptop had Norton installed and it is a very well known fact that after you install something from Symantec you simply can’t get rid of it, they love you and they’ll stick with you….forever.

But you know….I have paid for a license.So the next thing was trying to shrink that smart 120Gigs partition and try to make things a little bit more clever and wow! Vista as its own partition utlity that actually is able to shrink the only filesystem it can read, for once it seemed that MS had done something almost right. Nope. That Shrink utility is (again) stupid and the best that it can do is shrinking your partition to half of what it was so I had to reboot with gparted live who actually did the job. Not completely because Vista didn’t like those changes and some repairing utility started ( by itself) that after 3 hours let me boot Vista. So as a start if Packard Bell had provided me a damn windows install cd I was done in 1 hour by instead they had to do things the cool way with their own Master DVD.( that you must make it yourself and if you lose it your fucked because you can’t make another one).

Then usability: Vista is secure , it comes with a *nix like hierarchy , in fact when you want to do operations that could potentially destroy your computer your screen turns gray and you have to click two times rather than one and in my home this is a cracker safe environment.

Software: the only software I use on windows is SolidWorks that does’t work on my Vista, no wonder why in April the solidworks guys said that they are going to make a linux version of it (maybe because they use opengl?).

Solution: format and classical winxp install on is tiny 10Gigs in NTFS and the rest in something that Virus called windows can’t understand.

P.S. btw the laptop itself as far i can tell is not bad, the Atheros wireless seems less powerful that the intel one….

Contentone…

aka: Google hates Microsoft or Google loves me?

Weird …..the page rank misteries.

A few weeks ago I wrote a post concerning how much vista is expansive compared to computers shipped with linux where you just pay the hardware and you get a bunch of good free software.

Nowadays when you go to a computer shop you find a lot of laptops with big “Ready for Vista” stickers so i called my article “Get Ready for Windows Vista” that is in italian “Preparati a Windows Vista”, just for the sake of joking .

It happens that if you search for “Preparati per Windows Vista” instead of seeing results from shops, newspapers, magazines that actually talk about getting ready for vista you see the first result from Microsoft and the second one is from my blog where I actually tell people that buying Vista is stupid, expensive and in the case you still want it I left there a link to a financial institute that make loans and I called it “Preparati a Windows Vista”.

Here you are , “Get Ready for” or “Preparati a ” Windows Vista” using google.

P.S. What happens when you don’t know this stuff and you look for “Get ready for Linux”? And mostly “How the hell is possible?”

Stavo leggendo la mailinglist di planetplanet quando ho letto questa bella citazione

“Linux is not like Novell, it isn’t going to run out of money – it
started off bankrupt, in a way” – Steve Ballmer

Ovvero

“Linux non è come Novell, non può finire i soldi perchè , in un certo senso , è come fosse partito dalla bancarotta” - Steve Ballmer

Non vedo l’ora d’installarlo , devono aver fatto passi da gigante…..

Ubuntu Computer:

Processor: AMD Sempron TM 3000+ – 1,8 GHz – L2 cache: 256 kB

RAM : 512 MB DDR400 (max. 2 GB)

Hard disk: 80 GB – SATA – 7200 RPM

Video: Integrated GeForce 6

Audio: Integrated Realtec ALC655

Ports: 1 x parallel – 1 x serial – VGA – PS/2 Keyboard – PS/2 Mouse – 6 x USB (2 front; 4 back) – RJ45 LAN jack

Drives: floppy – combo: DVDROM / CDRW

Accessoires: Keyboard (Belgian Azerty) / Mouse (optical)

Operating system: [tag]Linux[/tag]

[tag]Software[/tag]: Openoffice, Koffice, Kmail, Kontact, Cad, Thunderbird, Amsn,
Gimp, Groupware, un vero firewall.

Prezzo: 510Euro

[tag]Windows[/tag] [tag]Vista[/tag] Ultimate (solo software senza Office senza antivirus) : 570 Euro (misco , 1/2/2007)

PREPARATI A WINDOWS VISTA