#garfield Logs

Feb 20 2017

01:16 PM Jymmm: rue_house: 256bit, leave room for growth
07:24 PM rue_house: windows bloats up quite a bit, is 256bit enough?
07:25 PM Tom_L: rue_house, ever do a dual boot with windows 7?
07:25 PM rue_house: I try to not let windows touch any system I care about
07:27 PM rue_house: I had 4 packages arrive today
07:30 PM rue_house: at this rate, they might all actually arrive before Dec!
07:45 PM Tom_L: rue_house, what was that trick you told me to remove the linux stuff from the start of a hdd so i can load windows on it?
07:50 PM rue_house: its in the microsoft support forum, you have to use linux
07:50 PM rue_house: I think thats it
07:50 PM Tom_L: you said to write the first few sectors
07:50 PM Tom_L: with xx or oo or something
07:50 PM rue_house: so your telling me that even in windows 7, they dont initialize the boot sectors of a drive properly
07:51 PM rue_house: wow
07:51 PM Tom_L: i haven't tried yet
07:51 PM rue_house: that would wipe out the boot sector all togethor?
07:51 PM Tom_L: i was getting prepared
07:51 PM rue_house: drat, I told myself I'd have supper at 5 today
09:45 PM nuclearnadal: hello
09:45 PM nuclearnadal: anyone here
10:01 PM Tom_L: no
10:21 PM nuclearnadal: Tom_L: pleaes can you help me with this synchronous motor?>
11:30 PM rue_shop3: is it a stepper or a brushless?