This is my: Why I hate Windows, RANT.

[Eric Wanchic]

Well, no mirror today. Sorry. But heh, I think this is an opportunity to
share "Why I hate Windows."

Well after my laptop experience, and just what I discovered right now, I
remembered why I hate windows. Simple. Because I have to reinstall
it...over and over and over and over and over .....and over...yet
another over again. For crying out load!

So I had my dual boot of Vista and ubuntu. I gave vista, half of my 320
GB HD....or so I thought. I guess when I say "half", vista must think
I'm saving the other half for vista too. Otherwise, I can't figure out
why it would partition THE WHOLE DANG DRIVE! And it really didn't
partition the whole drive. It started like 50 sectors ahead, and then
started to partition that all-the-way through to the end, minus one
sector?! (O_o)

So I was thinking I had 150GB, about, to partition back to ext4/3, and
throw the 70GB of mirror files onto that. But nope.

Why, Why, Why. Why must you be so...complicated!

[Dan Falconer]

I must be missing something.  You told it to use 150G but it took the whole drive instead?

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[Eric Wanchic]

That's correct. I'm going to double check this this weekend. But yes, it
seems like it partitioned the whole thing, physically, but tells me on
the vista side that it only partitioned half.

Sneeky if you ask me.

Eric

[Dave McCarty]

Sneeky would imply a degree of native intelligence. Evil but still
intelligent. This a Micro$oft product - so I could accept quirky,
vindictive, senseless -- but I'm having a hard time with sneeky.

On another subject -- can anyone recommend a good open source
architectural drawing program. I have a friend who needs to some
simplistic drawings as a part of his project management course at BSC.

Nate - could you add Greg....@my.bismarckstate.edu to our google
group? Greg is interested in learning more about the linux and attending
one of our meetings.

Dave

[Jeff Quast]

As enticing as it is, I won't bash Windows. And that isn't easy for me:-) I'll just add it to the "man I'm glad I run Linux" column.

I don't know what kind of architecture drawing your friend needs to do, but I've been using Sweet Home 3D to layout my house and it is a great program. It's a Java app so it runs on anything. I was never impressed with Java desktop apps in the past, but this one is fantastic. Especially for someone who really doesn't know what they are doing like me. Between that and using Money Dance (non OSS) for finance which is also a Java app, I've got a new found appreciation for Java on the desktop.

BTW, Sweet Home 3D does not do multiple levels (basements, upstairs), so if that is needed it won't cut it. But I've done levels as separate 'rooms' in my drawing, and besides not being able to connect the stairs to anything, it works fine.