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On 12/17/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 11:11 AM, Casey Dougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/17/07, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Eclipse runs much faster under Linux in my limited experience. > > > > How is Linux with reading off of NTFS formated partitions? What's my best > > route here for getting the most out of a 160 gig drive? > > This is what I was going to do, but I never ended up finishing: > > VMWare (and most other flavors) have utilities for converting existing hard > drives into VMWare images. Pretty slick, right? > > So, what I was going to do, was install Ubuntu (I like Mint, personally) and > then move my music and whatnot (good chunk of disk space) from the XP > side, and then convert the resulting tiny-er XP drive to a VMWare image. > > Thus, I'd still have my old XP system, with MSSQLEXPRESS and whatnot > all good to go. My bud did this on a Mac -- he's got his old XP desktop on > there now too! > > I never finished- turned out it was easy to convert the stuff that had been > MS specific to mysql or postgresql, and for browsing sites, I've got an > XP machine that suffices. > > I still have that XP drive, and I may create an image someday, but I'm > already getting low on diskspace with my new drive! Course, I waited > like a year to install it, so they're much bigger now... doh... > > GIMP works well-- haven't needed anything else. Plus, the photo library > management stuff for Linux is pretty impressive... I'm amazed at the > level and quality of a lot of this software. I shouldn't be, but I am. > > Really impressive. I'm impressed. Yup. Color me WOWed. > > -- > I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our > longing for righteousness. > Evelyn Rodriguez, Crossroads Dispatches, 04-12-2006 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:248509 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
