Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture.
The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no.
Mead said, … “that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed.”
Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken the time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.
“Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts” Mead said.
Over the past 12-15 years I’ve always had at least one PC set up to dual boot Windows and Linux.
Windows and Linux seemed to always sort of play nice until the BIOS became the UEFI — then it started to become more difficult because many times the boot.ini or MBR partition was write protected by Microsoft itself so there was no way to edit or configure (short of the shell or cmd if even that) a pointer to the Linux partition. Writing a pointer to the sda2 partition in GRUB was about the only way you could boot into the Windows partition it seemed. The trick here was to be sure that your system picked up GRUB outside of the MBR first, otherwise it was going to be just Windows with no other option available to enter the Linux partition.
When I get out on to the interwebs and look around at all of the tutorials that involve dual-booting these two operating systems, I can begin to understand why so many get confused.
Everyone out there is at a different experience level, and though each solution may work out at the end of the day, it all just comes down to how much time and effort you figure you want to spend doing this.
I’ve pretty much had my fill of GParted, MiniTool Partition Wizards, AOMEI Partition Assistant’s, or any of the other 3rd party partitioning tools out there. 3rd party software usually comes with a bunch of adware and malware junk anyway, so don’t waste your time.
Microsoft Windows already has the tools you need to reduce, expand, or create new partition(s) anyway, so you might be better off and dollars ahead by just using what Microsoft offers.
I pretty much quit buying laptops and PC’s over the counter quite some time ago because they are fairly limited in their over all capabilities. Not only are they extremely low powered as a rule, but their UEFI/BIOS are pretty limited as far as configurations.
Recently I built another new PC basically from scratch and put Windows 10 Pro on it. Contrary to popular belief, Windows 10 will install and boot without having to use secure boot, so that’s what I ended up doing. After the install, I split the main partition thus giving the Windows 10 only 1 terabyte instead of having two. Then I went in and installed Linux Mint in the second partition. All of this was done without having to use secure boot by the way. Once the Linux portion was installed, I rebooted and I was presented with a screen that gave me a choice of which partition to boot into. Windows was using the MBR side on sda2 and the Linux side was using GRUB on sda1.
Simple enough I suppose, but now I figured it might be time to upgrade to Windows 11. Before I could do the upgrade, I had to go into the BIOS and set the UEFI Secure Boot, and enable the TPM 2.0.
Once I had done that, I upgraded to Windows 11. When I rebooted after the upgrade, I didn’t get the screen that gave me the option of which partition to boot into. It went straight into Windows 11.
I rebooted again and this time went into the BIOS and set the boot to UEFI Secure Boot with Legacy Support. (ASUS gives you a few options as far as boot configurations: UEFI Secure Boot, UEFI Secure Boot w/Legacy Support, Legacy, or just plain old Other OS.)
I saved the configuration and continued to boot. I was once again presented with a screen that gave me a choice of which partition to boot into. Windows 11 is happy because it has it’s UEFI Secure Boot in the MBR on the sda2, and Linux Mint is happy because it gets to use it’s GRUB over on the sda1.
I use ASUS Motherboards for nearly all of my builds. The only time I don’t is if a customer wants something different.
I purchase the ASUS gaming motherboards mostly because they are the most flexible as far as configuration is concerned.
At the end of the day I’ve got a new PC set up to boot both of the latest versions of Linux Mint and Microsoft Windows.
Excluding landslides caused by volcanic eruptions, earthquakes or dam collapses, the Oso slide is the deadliest single landslide event in United States history.
I was contracting at the time in Western Washington state when on a particular Saturday morning, a mountain near where we were living fell down.
We had left Texas upon after working on FEMA houses after hurricane Ike and landed in Western Washington state. Upon our arrival to Washington, we were looking around for a place to lease for the period of time we were to be there.
We found a few places in Darrington, Steelhead Haven in Oso, and another place just out of Trafton up Jim Creek Road. We settled on the Jim Creek Road place because of it’s proximity to Arlington and the work I was doing.
We had enrolled our son in the elementary school in Arlington. We drove him because though the bus ran to Oso, it didn’t run beyond Trafton up Jim Creek Road.
Both I and my wife worked, and sometimes her schedule conflicted with her picking our son up from school. Since I could do pretty much what I wanted with my schedule, I opted to pick our son up from school most of the time. There were however, those times when I would be working over in Bremerton, and I would have to deal with Seattle/Tacoma traffic — there were times when I would sit for two hours during a ten mile drive.
I was sort of complaining about the traffic one day when we were all waiting for class to get out at our son’s school when Katie Ruthven offered to pick our son up along with her son (both boys were in the same class) and look after him at their house on Steelhead Drive until either me or my wife could pick him up after work. I thought that would be great and offered to pay her and her husband Shane for the effort. She didn’t want payment however and told me to call them if I wanted our son picked up.
Long story short, we never had Katie look after our son after school. We just worked it all out so our son didn’t need for them to pick him up.
I’m sure that our son would have had a real blast if he ever went out to the Ruthven place, because he was already good buddies with their son Hunter.
It was a very rainy Friday afternoon when we were standing under cover at the school waiting for the kids to be released. I remember Katie telling Wyatt (Katie’s 4 year old son) to pick up Hunters jacket that was left on the playground that day, and her wringing it out. Never really ever thought about it all until Saturday morning when there were reports of a house sitting in the middle of SR530 at Oso.
It was a brilliantly sunny Saturday morning when we learned that Steelhead Haven was totally wiped of the planet.
The mountain behind Steelhead Haven had totally collapsed.
Steelhead Haven was a beautiful place and the house we might have leased there was only 4 years old — but I had to be practical with regard to work and select a location that would cut travel time down and put us closer to our son’s school.
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The March 2014 landslide engulfed 49 homes and other structures in an unincorporated neighborhood known as “Steelhead Haven” on the south side of the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River, approximately 4 miles east of Oso, Washington. It also dammed the river, causing extensive flooding upstream as well as blocking State Route 530, the main route to the town of Darrington (population 1,347), 16 miles east of Oso.
The natural rock and mineral formation (referred to by geologists as a “geological feature”) with the most recent activity in the area of Oso is known as the Hazel Landslide; the most recent landslide event was referred to in the media as “the Oso mudslide.”
It seems that Microsoft is allowing Windows 11 to install on machines that may not have the required TPM 2.0.
Trusted Platform Module (TPM, also known as ISO/IEC 11889) is an international standard for a secure cryptoprocessor, a dedicated microcontroller designed to secure hardware through integrated cryptographic keys. The term can also refer to a chip conforming to the standard.
On the Microsoft website there are instructions pertaining to the modification of the registry configurations that would allow the Windows 11 installer to bypass the TPM 2.0/cpu check.
Here is the registry edit you’ll need according to Microsoft:
This laptop is the oldest/slowest unit I’ve got and I’ll figure it to be a starting point for Windows 11.
My much faster ASUS unit has an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 w/6 cores, runs out at about 32GB RAM, and it thinks that Windows 11 is the Bees Knees.
The park entrances at Gardiner, MT (North) and Cooke City/Silver Gate, MT (Northeast) are closed to visitor vehicles.
These entrances are open to approved commercial tours, bicycles, and foot traffic.
Slough Creek Access
As of September 8, visitors no longer need a Slough Creek Day-use Ticket in order to drive the section of road between Tower Junction and Slough Creek.
