If you had an OS....

[Dudeking]

If you had your own opperating system what would it do......

The first thing I would get mine to do it sort out number lock, at the moment my login screen loads with number lock off, I turn it on to enter my password( it has numbers in it:spy:) then logon, and the OS switches number lock back off to log me on.
What a pain:doh:

[dbarrow]

You can turn numlock on be default...
#1 setting is in BIOS
#2 setting is in Windows ... ah... let me remember where that lives... I have to do it on son's new machine so I will post it for you.

[Pi rules]

You can run a script to turn Numlock on at startup, MS has instructions here (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q262625&ID=KB;EN-US;Q262625).

Mine would not crash and if the hardware was faulty, wouldn't have a blue screen of death. If you want your own OS, you could create your own Linux distro, but it might take a while to learn how. :dizzy:

[Dudeking]

Mine would not crash and if the hardware was faulty, wouldn't have a blue screen of death. If you want your own OS, you could create your own Linux distro, but it might take a while to learn how. :dizzy:
Yeh one of the back issues of Linux Format had a guide, Im s*** with graphics thought, ill leave OS building to the pros...

Numberlock is on in the bios but when the login screen loads it turns off, so I turn it on then when gnome loads up it turns back off.
But if I leave it off for the login screen gnome turns it on when it starts up.
I think windows does somthing similuar.

[Guest117]

Don't know your OS but for W2k:
You can turn on the NumLock key in the default profile so that every new user who logs in to a computer has NumLock enabled by setting the following Registry value to 2:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators:cool:

[kern]

If you had your own opperating system what would it do......

get me to a desktop, and nothing else- no media player, movie maker, antivirus, firewall, etc...
i want to be able to install my own apps without any conflicts from "integrated" utilites.
then again, i'd also like to see apps designed properly so they dont munge the OS...

[Tortanick]

Come, join us on Linux. We don't have any "integrated" apps. we're so unintergrated that you have a choice of several desktops, and can mix and match compoenents from each if you have the skill.

You'll probobly get some software pre-installed but you can easily remove it from the package manager.

[kern]

Come, join us on Linux. We don't have any "integrated" apps. we're so unintergrated that you have a choice of several desktops, and can mix and match compoenents from each if you have the skill.

You'll probobly get some software pre-installed but you can easily remove it from the package manager.


i thought about migrating to Linux- had tinkered with Mandrake 9 for a couple months, but never got the hang of it.

[Dudeking]

I just tryed the new Ubuntu 6.06.
God its so easy to install, I didnt like it, way to simple.
Just put the disk in, it loads up the live cd and they you install from with in the Gnome GUI, Its just like installing a windows apps, theres no options just select the partition and thats the most customising you can do.

I love suse thought, Linux is great I recomend it to every one, I have even got Far Cry playing on it:)
I have no need for windows now:D

[Pi rules]

It's almost too easy (not enough customization), but I guess more people will install it then. When school starts it's time to start handing out Ubuntu CDs again. :) Last year I handed out about 15, hopefully I'll get some underclassmen to take them as well. I have 15 now, but I requested more for when school starts.

What do you use for running Windows apps?

You could also try running Linux on a virtual machine like I do. It only takes up as much as it needs, and then you can just have a Windows installation with one partition. If you mess up, you can just start over. You could even make 1 virtual hard drive with a shared /home for several distros.

[Tortanick]

I love suse thought, Linux is great I recomend it to every one, I have even got Far Cry playing on it:)
I have no need for windows now:D

I tried SUSE, its good but I just can't live without apt, and I can't shake the feeling that SUSE useing up far more hardware power than it needs to.

And while there isn't much customiseing in the Ubuntu installer but there is plenty outside of it ;) If you really know Linux YAST would be a huge limitation.

[Dudeking]

I'm prity new, but I'm experimenting.

I payed for Cedega to play the games.
SUSE does take quite a while to boot up, I got windows booting it under 15 seconds its about 3-4 mins for SUSE to boot, I'd try to speed it up but I don't know what services to stop.

A few years ago I tryed slackware but I went back to XP after about a month but I'm staying with Linux for good now.

Yeh it was too easy... I just got my 10 Ubuntu 6.06's I just leave them in the IT office at school and put a notice up. :) - Normaly only about 3-4 go lol

[Tortanick]

I'm pritty certain you mean Ubuntu 6.06s

[Dudeking]

Yes, I do... lol

[Pi rules]

Isn't Cedage $5 USD /month? I'd rather just play games on XP, which I already bought.

[Dudeking]

£3.80/mo
XP Licence gone and they want me to pay, appaerntly I have acctivated to meny times.

[Pi rules]

You should pay in US dollars, you're getting ripped off. UK£ 3.80 =7.1383 U.S. dollars. :eek: It's only $5 in the US.

[Dudeking]

I'm going to stop paying now, I have only used the software once and I have got my dual boot working again.

[kern]

£3.80/mo
XP Licence gone and they want me to pay, appaerntly I have acctivated to meny times.

you can avoid that problem in several ways.

one way, which has been discussed in our "Tips" forum, would be to copy the .wpa files to a floppy, then after you reinstall XP, you simply copy the saved .wpa files into the Windows folder.

another way, although a tad more work, would be to make a "backup" of Windows immediately after a clean install using NT Backup(installed by default on XP Pro, for XP Home install from "Value Added" folder on XP Home CD).
after a reinstall, you then use NT Backup to "restore" your activated XP using your "backup" file.

[Dudeking]

Thanks, well I have reactivated, so I will do that in the future.