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The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

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    #7052
    Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    A play? Odd.


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    #7053
    mathew
    Registered Users Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mathew


    Baza210 wrote: »
    A play? Odd.

    A Musical.. not a play.

    Going to see Les Miserables, but making a weekend out of it..


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    #7054
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Baza210 wrote: »
    A play? Odd.

    Some people call it culture


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    #7055
    Tricity Bendix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Tricity Bendix


    mathew wrote: »
    A Musical.. not a play.

    Going to see Les Miserables, but making a weekend out of it..
    Oooh. I love that show. Especially the song On My Own. Got me through some though times, did that song.

    Drat. Now my online macho persona lies in tatters. And I spent so long building it up.


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    #7056
    Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    Deleted Ubuntu partition in preparation for OS X installation.
    GRUB had changed MBR.
    Computer will not boot.
    Eee has no cd drive. External is not available until Sunday. I don't know if I have the right Windows CD either way.

    Fuck.


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    #7057
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Baza210 wrote: »
    Deleted Ubuntu partition in preparation for OS X installation.
    GRUB had changed MBR.
    Computer will not boot.
    Eee has no cd drive. External is not available until Sunday. I don't know if I have the right Windows CD either way.

    Fuck.
    OSX is shit.

    QED


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    #7058
    Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    OS X had nothing to do with my computer failing, it was the ghey way Ubuntu installs itself that caused the problem.


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    #7059
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Baza210 wrote: »
    OS X had nothing to do with my computer failing, it was the ghey way Ubuntu installs itself that caused the problem.
    It was as a result of trying to install a ****ty os that your craptop wont start :P

    Did you not chain the bootloaders?


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    #7060
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    Jesus bazza, you let the OS X installer auto partition and format, that was a mistake you make only once.


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    #7061
    Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    Listen you muppets, OS X hasn't gone near my system at this stage. Using a partition manager in XP I deleted the Ubuntu partition, something happened and I didn't profit.


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    #7062
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Baza210 wrote: »
    Listen you muppets, OS X hasn't gone near my system at this stage. Using a partition manager in XP I deleted the Ubuntu partition, something happened and I didn't profit.
    Put in the xp recovery cd and run /fixm.... oh wait.. no cd drive..


    For next time, install grub to a partition, and then call it from the xp bootloader.


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    #7063
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    Oh, so it was XP that was the problem. : p

    How about run a live distro off a usb key?


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    #7064
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    PurpleFistMixer wrote: »
    Oh, so it was XP that was the problem. : p
    No. The problem is that GRUB (linux bootloader) is written to the MBR, (the first place a pc looks when switched on). GRUB now points to unallocated space, and is therefore not booting.

    By using the xp restore cd, he can reinstall ntldr (windows xp bootloader) to the MBR and regain access to his currently inaccessable windows xp partition.


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    #7065
    Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    I'm not sure that the CD provided by Asus is actually a proper Windows recovery CD though, rather than their own one.

    Btw that should've been imgs.xkcd.com not img


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    #7066
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Baza210 wrote: »
    I'm not sure that the CD provided by Asus is actually a proper Windows recovery CD though, rather than their own one.

    Btw that should've been imgs.xkcd.com not img
    Either way you have access to oodles of copies of it here.


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    #7067
    Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    I'll investigate that marvellous link at a later date. Night all.


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    #7068
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    jmccrohan wrote: »
    No. The problem is that GRUB (linux bootloader) is written to the MBR, (the first place a pc looks when switched on). GRUB now points to unallocated space, and is therefore not booting.

    By using the xp restore cd, he can reinstall ntldr (windows xp bootloader) to the MBR and regain access to his currently inaccessable windows xp partition.
    And XP wouldn't realise this was going on when he was deleting the partition?

    Though I was more making a subtle joke that it couldn't POSSIBLY be linux at fault.


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    #7069
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    em......hope you havent gone and cleaned everything up, grubs quite easy to point to a differnt partition.


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    #7070
    Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    I deleted everything. I sort of expected it to just revert back to Windows booting up, as I had GRUB set to boot Windows first anyway.


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    #7071
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Stoopid chainreactioncycles not allowing me to spent my money.


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    #7072
    Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    Curse these young people across the aisle from me and their functioning laptops. And their thermos flask. I do have homemade Ginger cake though..mmm


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    #7073
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Baza210 wrote: »
    Curse these young people across the aisle from me and their functioning laptops. And their thermos flask. I do have homemade Ginger cake though..mmm
    Where are you?? :s


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    #7074
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bah, stupid shaving.


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    #7075
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Myth wrote: »
    Bah, stupid shaving.
    I hate shaving.


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    #7076
    Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    On the train, on ma phone. Dunno whereabouts on the journey I am, but I'm nearing Dublin. Stupid battery nearly dead. Anyone got a Win XP recovery disk?


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    #7077
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Baza210 wrote: »
    On the train, on ma phone. Dunno whereabouts on the journey I am, but I'm nearing Dublin. Stupid battery nearly dead. Anyone got a Win XP recovery disk?
    Pro or Home?


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    #7078
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    jmccrohan wrote: »
    Pro or Home?

    Same question, and Pro :)

    It's been a month and I still haven't sorted my laptop out.


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    #7079
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    I have a pro disk if anyone wants it.

    EDIT: I have both now that i think about it.


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    #7080
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    I absolutely don't have a copy of XP with integrated SP3 and I absolutely won't burn a copy for baza and myth should they want it.


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    #7081
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    Boston wrote: »
    I absolutely don't have a copy of XP with integrated SP3 and I absolutely won't burn a copy for baza and myth should they want it.
    Good to see SOMEONE has some morals in these piracy-riddled days.


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