BlackSmokeDMax

BlackSmokeDMax

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Ah nice. Does that work even in desktop mode, or only in Modern view? If so, then that is why i don't see it, never see the modern view ever. If not that, then perhaps I was able to kill it with Stardock's Start8?? Will have to look into this when I get home.

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[Solved] Ended up just forcing through the Ubuntu install on 2nd hard drive (/dev/sdb in ubuntu), got that working just fine. Somewhere during that I accidentally deleted the main partition on /dev/sda (my Win10 install), so I ended up having to reinstall windows. That was mainly due to inexperience with the gparted UI. LOL, it is a quick, dangerous tool! ;) After the windows install, it looked like windows had reset the partitions on my second drive, bu

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[quote who="alaknebs" reply="18" id="3589059"] if all fails, just install linux via virtualbox or some other virtual machine. a lot slower with older machines, less fiddly, and pretty much guaranteed not to screw up your windows. you can also mess with all the different linux flavours you want, not just *buntu [/quote] Good point, but I think if all else fails, I'm just going to install ubuntu all by itself. So far what I've seen of Win10, I don't love. I don&#39

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[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="14" id="3588922"] Yes. Otherwise, dual booting is child's play. But with Win10, as with Win8, you may need to go into bios and allow for booting to CD\DVD\USB. Some PCs have a certain key to press on startup. mine is F12. To access the boot mode. [/quote] Yeah, I've been into the BIOS and can access the boot menu (F11 on this particular machine), so booting to the ubuntu dvd is

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[quote who="Uvah" reply="9" id="3588913"] Sort of an active backup. Do work on one and the other duplicates it. Very not bad. Thanks [/quote] While fairly accurate, there is a typical * to that statement. Raid 1 should not be treated the same as backing up, as it is really only good for one specific function, the breakdown of one drive. Timeliness to getting back up and running is about all it provides. In case of fire, it's all gone, in case of virus, it&#3

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[quote who="Uvah" reply="7" id="3588902"] Isn't a raid configuration used to make them mimic each other or to just operate in tandem. Now you're making me curious. [/quote] With two hard drives they are typically in either Raid 0 mode (speed mode) or Raid 1 mode (data security.) With Raid 0 if you lose one, you've lost everything, as they are combined together, with Raid 1, they are an exact copy of each other, so if you lose 1 and then replace it, the Raid

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bluedxca93 : Not sure if this changes your advice or not, but it appears my motherboard does not have UEFI. I should have made that more clear in the original post, instead it looks like I said that it does not have a way to disable UEFI. I'm thinking that it may not matter with your other method. (Detaching the Win10 drive during Ubuntu inst

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I know there is some smart people hanging out on this board, hoping one of you can help with this. Here is the situation: I have an extra computer that was running Win7 Pro x64. I have since upgraded that to Windows 10 Pro, and then after that, went through and did a clean install of Windows 10 Pro. Everything good so far. Mostly. The computer was running Win7 with the hard drives in a Raid 1 setup. Windows 10 didn't seem to respect that, and installed on one drive only. T

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[quote who="Primal_Savage" reply="1138" id="3588697"] Thanks guys! [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] It's unlikely I'll remove the Cooldown for all Tactical Abilities (At the moment I'm using Stamina only, but I'm currently going through the Stamina-based Tactical Abilities to see which one need a small Cooldown on top of it). In other words, XtraDeconstruct 2.0 will most likely introduce an hybrid system of Cooldown/Stamina to prevent the tur

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So, some very early thoughts: -So far I like the new stamina mechanic. -You changed the turn button! Nice job!! Now turns a bit yellow letting you know both with the color and mouse-hovering over the button with a tool-tip that there is an idle city. Combine that with the Zzz near the city list and that is pretty well set. -Still weird pathing issue. I had a unit immediately to the northwest of a city. I selected two units within the city and then right

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[quote who="geniusisme" reply="11" id="3587691"] Also obvious thing to do - let maul consume 1 stamina each strike, and stop on zero stamina even after successful hit. [/quote] Excellent idea, and it makes great logical sense as well. Bonus!

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I've seen this a few times but think I did it myself while saving the game. After clicking on save game and then while double clicking on the file to save over the top of, one of the clicks seems to register sometimes on the options menu that appears after the save menu goes away. I've definitely changed resolution this way before which is certainly one of the things that needs a restart. Think I've possibly clicked other options on that screen as well, but not positive as I don&#

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Any chance we can see something to help clear minors out of our area? At least the allied ones? My last 1.1 game I had so, so, many minor units clogging up all my roads, it would take two or 3 turns to get away from my capital. Have never seen that before, and still haven't seen it in 1.2, granted haven't played a lot of 1.2 yet. But when it does happen, it is very aggravating.

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