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Farion: Gparted has a round to cylinders option. It's a useful livecd, look it up. Commando: You didn't give me nearly enough information.

Okay stop. Regardless of who is saying what, I can't read this. please use quote tags for the sake of my poor defenseless eyes. Thank you.

Serial ports lie well beynod my area of expertise. Sorry mate.

No, not really. It's extremely modular. A basic USABLE kernel would, but very technically, it's a fairly simple thing.

As fukyo pointed out... they don't have to be. But for something bloated and huge like Windows, you need to realize that there are a lot of non-triivial tasks to do between binary and Windows. You need bits to network, bits to connect the generic network bits with specific networking hardware...

The forums. Use them. The Archwiki is a good place to browse even if you lack Arch.

Sorry! I was at Otakon this weekend and was a hair busy. Ermine: Ubuntu or Arch depending on what your priorities are. If you want to go quickly, Arch linux has a fantastic wiki to help you get started and is VERY good for the learning process. If you need something that is much easier to...

Simple. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions Basically, install ntfs-3g, ntfs-config then run ntfs-config. And you win at everything forever. Incidentally, it is possible but difficult to do this the other way round using a little thing called Ext2fsd as long as you...

Yes. That was when I installed Windows on it, a long long time ago. It has since been restored to its true glory. Next Question. :king-twitter:

So, it's come to my attention, that I've reached a sor t of stopping point at my own knowledge of a user's end of operating computers, and I've gotten to the point where I consider myself equipped to answer most any computer-related question, or at least be able to point the asker in the right...

I spend a lot of time around a lot of electricity. Feel fine. Maybe I'm thick-skinned in this sense or maybe it's bogus. Just two cents.

Pastebin extension for chromium/firefox: PRICELESS Also: If your partitions are funky, the gparted livecd will get you sorted quickly: including merging and resizing ntfs partitions in a way that even the moderately-intelligent layman can understand. Disclaimer: doing anything to partitions...

I'm not as heavily on board the functional boat as Latro seems to think I am. :p The language I am most acquainted with is definitely C#; I wrote a 2D turnbased tiled thingy in it in XNA last year. Other than that, I can pick up any OO stuff quite quickly, and I have a bit of experience with...

Amen.

Ach. I feel like we're running in circles. No flames going the way of URLjet, those guys are undeniably awesome. Citing it with the implication that if your path is not followed it will happen again is a low blow, and is known as a logical fallacy. However. You seem to have lost sight of...

So, Claver. You, Lightspeed, Ashitaria, someone else I may have misremembered (sorry!) and magical quasi-humans who may or may not exist unless the WHOLE FORUM posts in this thread. On the other side, pretty much everyone else. I know this isn't a popularity contest, but if you were going to...

Except no. Both I and Latro have met Jesin IRL. I also know rmus from other contexts.

Nice, Kuu; I'd forgotten that post. I also seem to remember a guy named Tekton for some reason... :twisteddevil:

We only have one Irreplacable Lord Guardian. And it is definitely not Jesin.

Haha, yeah. I have a lot of respect for the users who were active near the time of the forum's true birth. I sort of view them as my intellectual peers, sort of like how one views people the grew from childhood did. Truly my experiences here have tempered me. Those people have shaped me as much...

Here's a longer callback, Sage. I spammed the forum into life with a guy known as Cabbo Pearimo. Back when the forum had posts per week. Or month. Or less. :p Also, FlashChat.

Seriously, Ashitaria. Just stop. Not only was Latro's anger entirely what you'd call 'Righteous Anger', but what you're saying about the situation is painfully uninformed. (Latro's anger being from an overreaction to his principles (what he considers right) being perceived to have been...

Augh. I must make this point. A common failing of INTPs, MYSELF INCLUDED is the temptation to let Ti take over to the detriment of all else. Subjectivity is bad. The letter F is not a synonym for unreliable or stupid. I have grown to loathe this sentiment, because it misleads so many other...

Hm. Inappropriate. Latro lost control of himself compltely in a very juvenile fashion, and Claver responded in a provocative and juvenile way. Is this what our hallowed halls have descended to?

The point is that it existed. The point is that stuff like that happens. The point is that companies don't tend to find out about stuff like that until a fair amount of time after the technical bits of the internet come across it. The point is the shifting and uncertain nature of technical...

No, no, NO! Forums are hacked all the time, ESPECIALLY if they use a common architecture and are out of date like this one!

So. I'm gonna take away the following things from this, correct me if I'm wrong, Claver. 1) Guilty until proven innocent. 2)Jesin's password was obviously left around, and there's absolutely NO way it could have been bypassed or stolen. 3)You don't careabout this discussion, because you've...

Hm. But when you move the discussion to a place of its own, it's license for the discussion to be ignored. Why do that? Clav can just edit the OP with new information as time goes by, and the discussion can keep on rolling.

Claver. Forums are not impenetrable. In a perfect world, yes, it would be impossible for someone to ninja Jes's account without his password. Not so anymore. There are so many complex technologies maintained by so many different people, it is nearly impossible for there to be no security holes...

Mmm. So Jesin carelessly left his password sitting out in the middle of nowhere? I don't believe that for a second. If anything, I would imagine that it';s an exploit in the architecture of the server. This forum has taught me a lot. And, among the things it has contributed to my understanding...

Well. This is a doozy. I've returned from my sabbatical from the forum to say a few words. I've been a part of this forum for a long, long time. I've been absent for quite a while now, but I remember when Jesin joined. I've met up with Jesin in Real Life (tm). I've seen quite a bit of his...

How the hell did you get all that from me visiting to dump 21GB of files onto the server laptop?! @_o (I was the friend)

Christ, Anthile, good luck. As for the guy w/ the wiretaps, that sounds like paranoid schizophrenia to me... Reading sounds like a good idea, but Dostoyevski is just depressing. Hang in there, man.

Grudges. It occurs to me that INTPs are slow to make grudges, and slower to let them go. Discuss.

See their corpse, you mean. :p

Haha, my thoughts exactly, Ermine. Which leads me to an interesting observation. Does the forum draw us all slowly into a common point of cognition? Is the forum really a factory for churning out certain types of individuals? What sort of individual would that be? Is it a good thing? Am I off my...

I'd like to be a party pooper, but that's not Ti/Si That's Pure an adulterated Ne. The ability to make random connections is N. THe ability to meld them in to a cohesive structure is Ti. Si is entirely different. It's a sort of nostalgia, a sense of the essence of how things were. That's the...

Bernard needs some good health insurance...

Agreed. All caps is awful. All lowercase is still bad, just not quite so much. Punctuation. helps. a. lot.

Exabyte discs, incoming! (Exa = 1000 Peta, iirc)

The only thing that would make that scene more unpleasant would be a nice helping of nazis.

Rarely. I had long hair until recently, but had it lopped off by an intrusive mother. My hair is now just above shoulder length, and it used to be a good way down my back. Other than my hair, I don't change much, except for the last fleeing vestiges of puberty.

I like balance, I like designs that are smooth, and flow well, but don't stand out. It suits me. I search for this style even in my computer themes.

I felt dumb at first. I feel comfortable now. But then again, this place has been my home since January '08. I'm coming up on my second year. I have become acclimated to this place, and it has defined me, no matter what I may do henceforth. My post regret is low, coincidentally. The only posts I...

1) What IB said. Also, INTPs tend to miss details. INTJs are much better at catching them, or seem to be. Little things that fall through cracks and are forgotten, but critical. Watch for those, and you can make a very happy INTP. 2) Yes, ESTJs suck harder than a futuristic vacuum cleaner. Find...

XD. Never heard of a linux convention, but I did go to this past Otakon, it was pretty sweet.

You know, personally I just think of you as 'Ninja' I never made the INTP connection until just now, Oh well... :p

Water, I highly doubt one could ever find their real type when they're as depressed as you were. As you move forward in life, your real type should become more apparent. At least, I think so. :p

My own artistic sense comes out in a habit of trying to develop ad-hoc harmonic vocal parts to songs as I listen. I get some pretty damn good results now, but I still have catastrophic failures sometimes, but I enjoy it, but occasionally I sound really good. I'd really like to improve my singing...

If you acknowledge that it's not necessarily practical or efficient, why do you use it? It seems like you already acknowledge that there are better systems out there; why not find them? You're still young, and you're already saying things like 'I don't think I can change'. Honestly, one would...