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Ditto.

I’ve never been impressed with the WSJ as a source of technical info.
WSJ periodically as articles that point to useful sources.

In the interests of full disclosure.

In thepast 3 months, I replaced all the AV on my multiboot system wit KAV 6.
Amazing performance improvement.

The PC World article, like most articles, omits importtant details.

Let’s ASSuME that KAV and NAV have the “same” impact on system performance.

As I undetstand it NAV 2007 still has the intrusive Norton Protection Center.
And KAV has a very annoying Proactive Defence, which is useless to the inexperienced user and, at best, a pain in the back rank, for experienced users, especially those using Office macros (see http://www.standards.com/Index.html?OfficeStuffExamples%5B/url%5D).

Such articles do not mention such details.

Thanx, that’s what folkes are saying.
But for it to work, I am must ASSuME that:

1. Firefox and Thunderbird are coded to allow eiter CRLF or LF as te record delimiter in the SAME file.
Whilst this would work, makes it hard to examine a file with,say Wordpad.

2. Wherever a path is coded within a file, there would have to be separate variables, one for each OS.
I gues that I can find this out after installing.

Is anybody here actually sharing Firefox and THunderbird stuff on a multiboot system using both Linux and Windows?

In Linux fora, some have suggested that the profiles can be shared. I do not see how that can work:

1. It is necessary to have a separate profile for Linux and for Windows, at least because:
a. there are paths encoded within the files within each profile;
b. different extensions may be used;
c. Windows uses CRLF at end of record, Linux does not.

2. Sharing of files such as Thunderbird mailboxes, address book, dictionary, and Firefox cookies, bookmarks, host permissions seem to also face the different end of record used by Linux and Windows.

See http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread….5288#post995288[/url].
Hopefully. Acronis will answer.

I do not see anything in that article about upgrading from 2000 to XP Home.

If MSFT says that you can only upgrade to XP Home from 98/ME, believe them.
Even if there were an unofficial workaround, why ask for trouble?

The most recent OInfoP11.MOF file in :Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedMSInfo is dated 10 March 2004.

So, this may be a bug in trying to update the file in Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedMSInfo.

However, what would trigger this, as there has not been an update since 10 March 2004?
Just started happening a few days ago.

Thanx.

Floppys from DEC Rainbow PC

Paper tape

Hollerith punched cards
EBCDIC punched cards
Univac punced cards

Thanx.

I’ve thought about getting at least two of the following books:

A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

Lunix in a Nutshell

Moving from Windows to Linux

I ordered the Moving from Windows to Linux book on Friday.

My current plan is to pull the tape drive on my current mutiboot system, and install a 4th disk drive.
Issues are:

1. Cooling: I expect that I will need a bay/drive fan of some type.
2. Whether to get a SCSI drive or an ATA drive.
All 3 current drives are SCSI, so cabling positions permitting, SCSI would be easiest, tho more expensive. No drive letter issues with this approach.

For a lot less money, I could get a larger ATA drive, but that might screw up all the drive letters unless the BIOS cam be told to first look at the SCSI drives.

I was planning on partitioning as you suggested.
Say, 2GB for Linux Swap, X GB for root and Y GB for /home.
I’d also ad a few Windows partitions.

Too many distros from which to choose.

Ayup, it did not work.