Nathaniel wrote:

David Cat wrote:

Sentynel wrote:The difficult bit is knowing what parts to get (and getting everything working once you've built it).

We can just ask you =P

That's what I used to do, haven't bothered him for quite some time now :D

You should, it's very fun

I've got others to bug.
And it's generally a good rule not to bug admins TOO much.
It's too much fun not to at all :)
I'm good at getting things working.
I've been fairly good at troubleshooting, whatever I don't know, I call JT.
He's my guy.
He's in his fifties, knows friggin everything, he builds computers for fun, then sells them.

Dansariki wrote:He's my guy.

;)

Dansariki wrote:I'm good at getting things working.
I've been fairly good at troubleshooting, whatever I don't know, I call JT.
He's my guy.
He's in his fifties, knows friggin everything, he builds computers for fun, then sells them.

You'll learn much more working out how to fix it yourself. Only go ask someone if you really can't do it yourself.

And I can't, so I ask him.
Usually I try to do it myself, but everything I have worked on either wasn't mine, or was rather important, so I had to be careful not to kill it.

Google, man! It's pretty hard to make things worse. Unless you install OpenBSD.

Ahaha that's awesome!
Yeah I know, I used to today, found out FAT32 doesn't do things bigger than 4Gb.
Had to reformat.
Boring, but iTunes and the internet make it all better...

Why on earth did you have anything using FAT32 anyway?

Sentynel wrote:You'll learn much more working out how to fix it yourself. Only go ask someone if you really can't do it yourself.

Ahhh. Elementary school teachers...

Cuz it's compatible with Macs and PCs.
Is NTSF better?
I'm unfamiliar with this kind of windows stuff...

NTFS is much better than FAT. Better metadata support, better data structuring for better speed, reliability and disk space user, and it adds access control lists and file system journaling. Plus support for large files and hard disks, of course.
There should be libraries available for Mac that allow it to read NTFS. Ah yes, thought so, NTFS-3G is Mac compatible.

Yep, I was readin on that awhile back.
I think I'll reformat it, CS4 PC is 8.19 gig...

and yet nobody has mentioned http://www.xkcd.com/528/ yet?

Think they'll kill UAC?

I heard UAC is still present but screwed up such that there's no point keeping it on because it doesn't actually help, it's just annoying.
Sudo's a better system anyway..

Sudo?

Ku?

Sentynel wrote:I heard UAC is still present but screwed up such that there's no point keeping it on because it doesn't actually help, it's just annoying.
Sudo's a better system anyway..

Where did you hear that? They have changed it from Vista so there are more level;s for the user to select and can turn it off if they want too, but it is deffintely worth having.

The UAC will not be going anywhere but can be configured to be a lot less annoying.

Re: UAC: "The changes Microsoft has made to Windows 7's UAC render it little more than a pesky annoyance. If this is the path the company wishes to go down, it should stop doing things by halves and kill it off altogether."

Re: Sudo: Stands for "super user do". Under Linux, rather than run as a root account, you run as a limited account and should you wish to do anything that requires root access, you can call that command with sudo and provide your root password. Distros like Ubuntu simplify the process by not requiring two different accounts - you log into the root account but it doesn't actually get root access without sudo. Programs (like package managers, system updaters, etc) can also request root access, and again you have to provide your password.

Oh...
Wow, that's pretty smart, but I think I'd get tired of having to input my pass all the time...