[sylpheed:35762] Re: Sylpheed - Patch Install

[tristan]

On 27/08/2013 21:54, cgw993 at aol.com wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sylpheed-bounces at sraoss.jp [mailto:sylpheed-bounces at sraoss.jp] On
> Behalf Of Craig
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:56 AM
> To: sylpheed at sraoss.jp
> Subject: [sylpheed:35759] Re: Sylpheed - Patch Install
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> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:22:42 -0700 <cgw993 at aol.com> wrote:
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>> Thank you for your reply.  On these mailing lists, should my response
>> be at the bottom of the email or at the top? I am unsure of the
>> etiquette to use.
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
>
>
>> I dedicated a hard drive for only Blag and when I boot, if I want to
>> switch operating systems, I go into Bios and switch the order of the
>> boot - not sure if that is the same thing as dual booting or not.
> Technically, that is dual booting, but it's more difficult than what is
> typically meant by dual booting. In the simpler case, when your computer
> starts, it runs a bootloader (like GRUB) that gives you a choice of which of
> the operating systems on the disks in your system to run. That way you don't
> have to go to the trouble of messing with the BIOS. It used to be, too, that
> BIOSs did not support changing the order of the disks. In that case you had
> to use a bootloader.
>
>
> Craig
>
>
> Good to know about the posting rules thanks.    I was wondering if there was
> an easier way to do the dual booting as the Bios method takes several steps
> to do. I will check out GRUB.
> Thanks
>
Thanks Craig for a professional answer .
and also about the posting Rules.