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On Oct 6, 2011 11:21 PM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Mick wrote: |
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>> On Thursday 06 Oct 2011 20:42:43 Dale wrote: |
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>>> Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>>>> On 10/06/2011 04:20 AM, Jonas de Buhr wrote: |
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>>>>> most of the "oh it's so weird"-whining often comes from just not being |
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>>>>> used to it. flip your door lock upside down - you'll hate it with |
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>>>>> passion for a week and then you won't even notice. flip it again and |
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>>>>> the process will repeat. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> But if someone else snuck into your house and flipped your locks every |
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>>>> week? |
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>>>> This one change won't be catastrophic, but I will probably spend a good |
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>>>> eight hours researching, testing, implementing, and documenting it. In |
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>>>> the end, *if everything goes according to plan*, stuff will work |
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exactly |
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>>>> how it does now. |
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>>>> If Grub were the only package to do this -- fine, whatever. But next |
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>>>> week it will be something else. I don't know what my point is, but it |
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>>>> feels good to bitch about it. |
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>>> This is how I feel about the initramfs thingy and /usr and /var. What |
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>>> is next? I am pretty sure it will be something tho. |
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>> I share your pain. :-( |
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>> I'm not sure if this a sign of me getting (even) older, or Linux maturing |
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and |
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>> in doing so it caters less and less for Gentoo geeky users and more and |
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more |
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>> for mainstream ignoramuses. :p |
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> I was thinking more like windoze really. If windoze starts having mount |
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points like Linux, things could start changing. ^_^ Think about it, |
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windoze currently has to have its stuff on the C drive and Linux can be |
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spread out over many drives and you can mount things wherever you want. |
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Linux is going the way of windoze then windoze would be going the way of |
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Linux. Weird huh? |
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You've been able to do this since at least WinXP. I don't know if that |
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functionality extends through Win2k and earlier. |
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On one hand, you can configure the locations of things like %PROGRAMFILES% |
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and %SYSTEMROOT%. On the other hand, you can mount a volume wherever you |
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like. |
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I used this to use the same .libpurple directory on a machine dual-booted |
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between WinXP 32-bit and WinVista 64-bit. A data volume was mounted at |
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D:\Data, and I had NTFS junctions pointing my .libpurple on both boots at a |
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directory on that volume. |