____/ High Plains Thumper on Tuesday 06 November 2007 11:21 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> William Poaster on Monday:
>>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>> Tim Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How is your using insulting names for people advocating
>>>>> Linux, Roy?
>>>>
>>>>
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/04a3d90e610f98df?dmode=source
>>>>
>>>> or http://tinyurl.com/2z2g2y
>>>>
>>>> [quote]
>>>> Subject: Mark Kent, go fuck yourself
>>>> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:14:46 GMT
>>>> From: Tim Smith <reply_in_gr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Message-ID:
>>>> <aAedg.4954$921.2070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Is that Smith troll claiming he's a linux advocate now?
>>
>> The 'polite' Timmy has a new name: Tim "go fuck yourself!!!!"
>> Smith. That's why he's killfiled here and elsewhere.
>
> Yes, he said it politely, didn't he? A poison by any other name
> is still a poison.
>
> Speaking of poison, I found this article interesting:
>
> http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/
>
> [quote]
> Friday, November 2, 2007
> Mac OS X Leopard Is Coming to Your Linux Desktop
>
> Do you want to give your desktop a dash of Mac OS X? The goal of
> Mac4Lin project is to bring the look and feel of Mac OS X (latest
> being 10.5, Leopard) on *nix GTK based systems. This document
> will present the procedure to install Mac4Lin pack & tweak
> certain things to get that almost perfect Mac OS X like desktop.
> [/quote]
>
> Here's something interesting, create a file in Linux, format it
> to any suitable Linux standard, then mount it as though it were a
> disk:
>
> [quote]
> Create Linux Filesystem From An Ordinary File
>
> Under Linux, you can create a regular file, format it as an ext2,
> ext3, or reiser filesystem, and then mount it just like a
> physical drive. It's then possible to read and write files to
> this newly-mounted device. You can also copy the complete
> filesystem, since it is just a file, to another computer.
>
> First, you want to create a 20MB file or any size you want by
> executing the following command:
>
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=disk-image count=40960
> 40960+0 records in
> 40960+0 records out
>
> Next, to format this as an ext3 filesystem, you just execute the
> following command:
>
> $ /sbin/mkfs -t ext3 -q disk-image
> mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
> disk-image is not a block special device.
> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
>
> You are asked whether to proceed because this is a file, and not
> a block device. That is OK.
>
> Next, you need to create a directory that will serve as a mount
> point for the loopback device.
>
> $ mkdir fs
>
> You must do the next command as root, or with an account that has
> superuser privileges.
>
> # mount -o loop=/dev/loop0 disk-image fs
>
> You can now create new files, write to them, read them, and do
> everything you normally would do on a disk drive. To make normal
> user to use this filesystem you need to give valid permission to
> the directory holding this filesystem.
> [/quote]
>
> There are some slick things one can do in Linux.
You're linking to a blog that just plagiarises and contains content from other
Linux Web sites. I think it has been banned from Digg by now.
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