The last poster wins

[billyro]

I've got many USBs, I just don't have one of those magical Linux USBs of Laptop Life Extension. Or am I confused, and all USBs work with your method? I honestly don't know.

 

Technical stuff - not my forte.

[Ironman5000]

Well last night I watched Man of Steel for the first time on blu ray last night...wow didn't expect it to be so epic!

[Werne]

I've got many USBs, I just don't have one of those magical Linux USBs of Laptop Life Extension. Or am I confused, and all USBs work with your method? I honestly don't know.

Any USB storage on any USB port, as long as it has enough memory to hold a Linux DVD image (some 1.5GB is perfectly fine). Linux live images can also boot from eSATA, flash memory cards, floppies, CDs, DVDs, on-board hard drives, external hard drives, business cards, cellphones, MP3 players, through a wired internet connection, etc. Some types of boot need extra fiddling with (like cellphones and online), but it can boot from basically anything mobo can recognize in BIOS as a bootable drive. :smile:

 

Linux ain't Windows so Windows limitations do not apply to it, and that's the beauty of an open system. :wink:

Edited December 7, 2013 by Werne

[billyro]

Awesome. Yeah, I'll definitely keep that in mind. I'm absolutely screwed if my laptop dies (especially with university next year) so any chance of survival is very welcome.

 

Weirdly though, I notice no discernible difference in my laptop's functionality or performance ever since that autopsy revealed my hard drive problems. I doubt it's an inaccurate call, but I can't help but wonder if it actually will end up dying...

[Werne]

Awesome. Yeah, I'll definitely keep that in mind. I'm absolutely screwed if my laptop dies (especially with university next year) so any chance of survival is very welcome.

Linux live systems can come in handy even when you have no intention to use it actively. If something happens to the storage drive, the PC is usually dead in the water, while Linux can boot even without a storage drive inserted so you can actually use the PC. Also comes in handy when your PC dies, you can find old machines with 256MB RAM for less than 50$ on which a lightweight distributions like Slitaz, Puppy, Debian LXDE, etc fly even compared to Win98, makes for a handy backup machine until you can afford a new PC in a tight situation.

 

Weirdly though, I notice no discernible difference in my laptop's functionality or performance ever since that autopsy revealed my hard drive problems. I doubt it's an inaccurate call, but I can't help but wonder if it actually will end up dying...

Hmm, you can check it's SMART status using smartmontools, it's a command line tool on both Windows and Linux so it may be inconvenient if you don't use CLI.

 

A GUI alternative is HDTune, you can get it and run it as admin to check the health status of your HDD (the health tab, pretty obvious that one) - if any one of those entries says "Failed", it's dying. If two or more say "Failed", I'd hurry up with that USB.

[KakeiTheWolf]

I am truly baffled that, after 10 years, Second Life still runs like crap on pretty much any computer.

[Werne]

Because it is crap. :smile:

 

EDIT: The win, it's still mine!

Edited December 7, 2013 by Werne

[Pushkatu]

 

EDIT: The win, it's still mine!

 

Not if I coppy cat it. (sp?) :facepalm:

[Iv000]

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[ub3rman123]

So, after four months of modding inactivity, I think I finally found the solution to the merging problems I was having, and I feel so tempted to fall back onto the modding wagon and get started again. Of course this happens during finals week. Of course.