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On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 16:01 +0100, James Holland wrote:<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">I don't know if its just later versions of diskpart, but if you type</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">HELP there is an option called shrink.</FONT></TT><BR>
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I sidestepped the problem using a magazine Xandros trial disk - resized without a hitch. <BR>
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Anyone any ideas why it should work - and not debianoids, suse, mandriva....? Apart from a vague memory that it uses something else or has some sort of ntfs cross licence with MS. <BR>
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I'll have a look and play with it over the next few weeks as never looked at one of these distributions going for the MS market substitution. Wasn't there another one called Lindows that had to change its name doing the same thing some years back before I retired sick? Can't remember what it became due to some ludicrous court case about people getting confused between windows and lindows ferkrissake - as it if wasn't crashingly obvious to even the most technologically illiterate that it was a satirical and rather witty name and not any sort of intent to mislead the public! Every untechnical customer I had before my enforced retirement who'd ever heard of linux always gave a little smile when I mentioned "Lindows" even 5 or 6 years back!<BR>
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Anyone have any idea where I can get a dodgy licence number cracker from for Xandros? It's been something like 13 years since I did anything of that nature, no idea where to start looking nowadays. Off list please! <BR>
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This is due to that I doubt I will have time to play with this Xanrdos within the month, what with school hols, going away for a bit on rather sad family business, my limited energies taken up working with builder on finishing off house foundation repairs from last year (I have a neurodegenerative disorder which means I'm basically immobilised much of the colder months of the year, alas). <BR>
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It looks on first glance ideal for my wife to use for home working, as she uses XP at work and has had MS Office/Open Office spreadsheet problems, but I refuse point blank to let her use XP connected to the internet (and the kids for games too) having had so much grief with it back in err 2002?? Just got around to installing a copy for my daughter to run the Sims and Sim Cities Societies and Dogz... but disabled the network card in XP and removed the driver from the disk so she can't put it back into operation! <BR>
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My 5 year old is quite happy with an 866mhz Windows 98 box with a staggering 512mb of ram it has inherited over the years, going strong from 1998 with 90s era games (and a spare box in the loft in case the old one flakes out)! What more does a 5 year old need?<BR>
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Meanwhile I ought to find out what Lindows became and see if they do an evaluation version - this sort of MS lookalike market niche might be the way ahead to stop the wife whining about desktops changing all the time between home and work and document incompatibilities, tho' she does understand that's all MS's fault for fiddling with formats to lock in people, it still doesn't solve the problem. They've just wasted thousands at her (poverty-stricken kids pre school education social change work) charity upgrading all the computers to a later version of Office, putting in more ram, buying in new kit where old W98 stuff didn't have a hope of upgrading to XP. <BR>
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Its heartbreaking but I'm getting nowhere with the director or trustees on the open source front, some larcenous computer company has got them well and truly by the genitals with a mole wrench and is selling this and that upgrade - I'm waiting for the big Vista push replacing the entire hardware inventory. <BR>
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Then I'm really thinking of raising things with the charity audit commission, I really am. <BR>
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29 out of 30 would be doing fine on Windows 3.11 or New Deal - the latter a tragically underestimated x86 operating system with a good gui for its day and much better performance than windows 3.11 - from '93 or so. <BR>
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Much less "needing" Vista given the utter basics all of the do and need! The one odd sod should be using a Mac for publishing work if the Gimp won't do, at least she's got an excuse for an expensive bit of kit to make life easier interchanging graphics works with illustrators and so forth for publications. Err, whats the open source DTP beginning with "S"'s name? Its just flipped out of my head. How advanced is it - is it up to full colour and photo setting for publications that have to look slick and professional? I can't remember what they are using on a PC, but I gather they do still get grief interchanging with Mac using outsiders.<BR>
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Oh dear, opiate driven ramble again. I tend to do this twice a day during the initial rush of the painkillers that keep me going :-(
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