Comments for Life with Linux

Comment on Where should you install GRUB? by Chompi

Chompi — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:31:58 +0000

Hahaha…. AS ALWAYS … It is not clear from the very beginning!!

“First, you can install it to the Master Boot Record of your first hard drive.”

But which is “the first hard drive”, in the first place??
a) The first one in the order you tell the BIOS to boot the moment you are running grub?
b) The master on the first slot?

you are always asked for a place where to install grub, but then you read that it is installed in two parts: in one of the MBR’s of the disks you have and maybe somewhere else too. Hahaha…

You talk in singular when we have two or more drives. When there’s nothing to choose, we don’t have questions. Our questions are for the complez cases, obviously:

We have these disks: A, B, C, D.
How the map to hda, hdab, hdc, …..
Each disk has a MBR: MBRa, MBRb, MBRc,…. etc
Then the partitions.
There is no “THE boot sector”… there is boot-a, boot-b, boot-c, etc
Start talking with symbols, like a perfect mathematiian, so ther’s no doubt as to what you say, PLEASE!!

What happens if we have a disk with an ntfs partition with data and want to install Linux in another partition, should we install grub in the MBR, are there other possibilities???
??
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“To avoid this, install GRUB to the boot sector of the active partition instead.”

But we can make active any partition? Which one should we choose as active??
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The problem is not the BIOS, is not the comlexity, … it is the language. The use of precise, accurate language.

Comment on Migrating from Apache to nginx by Daemoncoder

Daemoncoder — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:27:57 +0000

For anybody who’s interested in knowing how exactly to setup nginx with php-fpm, here’s a guide -> http://daemoncoder.com/install/nginx-and-php-fpm-on-fedora-13

Comment on Firefox users can't access Internet Explorer only web sites? by margaret guardia

margaret guardia — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:41:59 +0000

How do I capture the NT id of a user accessing via firefox. I can easily in IE and this is the only thing keeping me from using firefox as a web developer.

Comment on Where should you install GRUB? by Ashkan A.

Ashkan A. — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:39:27 +0000

Hello!

I use Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala on an USB
flash drive.
after updating the system using update manager,
where should I install grub?(it asks me in terms of sda and…
which I’m not familiar with.)

Comment on Migrating from Apache to nginx by 2718.us blog - Apache’s MultiViews Option

2718.us blog - Apache’s MultiViews Option — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:58:45 +0000

[...] my eye. In that post–no, actually in the comments on that post–there was a mention of getting rid of Apache for performance reasons. In reading that post, in the discussions of the pros and cons of nginx [...]

Comment on Firefox users can't access Internet Explorer only web sites? by Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:52:09 +0000

Hey thanks for the tip it worked a treat. Not that I’d ever patronise a site that was only compliant with the browser born to the cripple and the village idiot but it’s a good proof-of-concept and works like a charm.

I’ve tried the user agent switcher in Safari v4.0.x to do the same thing since I installed it (including at beta stage as Hotmail isn’t IE only but won’t work on browsers in beta) but with no success. I do find Safari a faster browser and on OS X 10.5.8 it’s the only 64-bit application I run so it’s good to use, but good on you Mozilla, and chrispederick, for your awesome work.

Comment on Where should you install GRUB? by nikhil

nikhil — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:56:53 +0000

grub4dos is a much better bootloader incase you wish to dual boot windows and linux.

Comment on Firefox users can't access Internet Explorer only web sites? by J. Oldham

J. Oldham — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:43:56 +0000

Worked like a charm. Been trying to lick this problem for a bit now so thanks for the fix.

Suck it IE.

Comment on Printing with Linux made easy by Rainer

Rainer — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:55:40 +0000

Unfortunately Ubuntu (think also Fedora) adopted an annoying windows behavior here.
When your printer is switched off but there are some jobs in the queue, ubuntu permanently bugs you with a “printer not connected or powered off” message. EVEN when you print via local spool files like in the DARK AGES.
It’s windows thinking to assume you want your printed paper exactly at the time you print (and then bug you with annoying popups).

Comment on Where should you install GRUB? by haal12

haal12 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:37:18 +0000

Vista is a domineering monster, Xp is slightly better.

You need to develop a Vsta accountable GRUB multi-boot.

I am looking at the Open src code for this and it indicates

a total isolation of the linux partition designed to fool the

windows installation. A pre-cognitive Vista Bootloader.

!OR! Make the linux or Unx boot a Vista Slave(2). So far,

#2 is just not an option to date.