[ale] If you own (almost) ANY HDD, repartition with 4k boundaries

[Calvin Harrigan]

On 3/20/2013 2:47 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Chuck Peters <cp at axs.org
> <mailto:cp at axs.org>> wrote:
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>     On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:04 PM, David Ritchie <deritchie at gmail.com
>     <mailto:deritchie at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         Repeat after me: Windows XP is an obsolete, unsupported software
>         system.
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>     Technically it is supported until mid April 2014.  That being said I
>     have an nv4_disp BSOD issue with an old Nvidia 5200 card and I am
>     unlikely to see a driver update or MS update to fix it.  Too bad my
>     attempts at converting Mom to Linux failed.
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> Supported meaning in this case "We will still be polite when you call MS
> about your XP problem, but unless you are a Fortune 50 company
> that is running into this issue, we can wait you out - and we might just
> do that even if you *are* a Fortune 50 company..."
> Unsupported, IMO. I don't think we are too far out of agreement here....
> I would be doubtful there will ever be a SP4. Is MS doing
> any patches for XP today? Just curious...
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> Best regards,
> David Ritchie
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Yes, security only.