From: Shmuel Metz on
In <hd3g44$9qk$2(a)newsreader2.utanet.at>, on 11/07/2009
at 10:43 AM, "wolfgang kern" <nowhere(a)never.at> said:

>I didn't mean that it must be the first entry in the partition table, but
>I think it must reside on the first sector of a physical drive as long no
>other boot-loader is involved :)

No, you can install grub in the MBR but you don't have to, and I generally
don't.

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From: Shmuel Metz on
In <i1k9f55gkit8phk3di6sltoq6aos3f8smu(a)4ax.com>, on 11/06/2009
at 05:51 PM, StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt <Zarathustra(a)thusspoke.org>
said:

> THAT is what boots. If it points directly at an OS (which you fuckups
>do),

Talking to yourself? I doubt that you can identify any poster here whose
MBR points directly to an OS. But then, you're so dumb that you probably
believe that BM, grub and lilo and OS's.

> I should buy full bore Suse, and see if the flaw follows, and then sue
>you bastards for utter stupidity.

I want the popcorn concession.

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From: Shmuel Metz on
In <c9j9f511k7smhraivlp6u8nski8g7vjh6v(a)4ax.com>, on 11/06/2009
at 05:30 PM, StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt <Zarathustra(a)thusspoke.org>
said:

> I was probably administering networks when you was a little punk in high
>school.

You had a time machine, tonto? Do you even know what 5-level refers to?

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From: Shmuel Metz on
In <hd924i$98p$1(a)news.al.sw.ericsson.se>, on 11/09/2009
at 01:32 PM, bb <spamtrap(a)norsborg.net> said:

>You seems to be on the brink of going mad,

Brink?

>seek a doctor

Kevorkian.

>Show your parents

First she/he/it would have to locate them.

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From: StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt on
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:27:41 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
<spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:

>In <c9j9f511k7smhraivlp6u8nski8g7vjh6v(a)4ax.com>, on 11/06/2009
> at 05:30 PM, StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt <Zarathustra(a)thusspoke.org>
>said:
>
>> I was probably administering networks when you was a little punk in high
>>school.
>
>You had a time machine, tonto? Do you even know what 5-level refers to?

'90 a ten machine Ethernet peer-to-peer. I also wrote the OLTP system
for it. That was a long time ago.

level-5? Ha! Do you know what 'crypto' refers to?

You do not get anywhere near my streams unless you are supposed to.
And you ain't.

Hey, MetzTard, you are on the wrong layer!

Watching you pirouette is a bit amusing, however. Not much more than
that, though.