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Dual boot, single drive, encryption

yoyoceramic — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:33:43 -0800

Dual booting Win XP and Win 7 off the same disk... I have already used TrueCrypt to encrypt the primary Win XP Partition. Anything I should know before attempting to do the Win 7 partition? I don't want to mess up any boot loaders. I want to proceed carefully here. I have already encrypted my Windows XP partition (the same partition that has Windows Boot Manager on it), and now I need to encrypt my other partition which contains Windows 7.

Is there anything I need to know before I proceed with this? I am assuming when I am booted into Win7 I just choose the "encrypt partition" option from TC.... I just dont want to mess up the TC boot loader that is already on my system due to the encryption job I made on Win XP.

Are those nuns still a health hazard?

zadcat — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:41:02 -0800

Is it true that the graves of people who died of certain infectious illnesses remain dangerous centuries later? I've come across this notion before, then today, reading an item about an historic crypt in Montreal, I find this: "Quebec's Health Department refused to let the tombs be opened and exhumed because some of the sisters died of infectious diseases." Typhoid was rampant here at times, and the Grey Nuns, as hospital sisters, would certainly have been exposed to it. But is their crypt a "plague spot" even to this day?

Trying to get the title of an old EC comic

bonobothegreat — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:19:51 -0800

I'd like to get a copy EC (or similar publisher) comic about a comic book letterer who murders an inker. I haven't had any response from any of the of forums I've asked in. Ghoulish story synopsis ahead... The story, as I remember from childhood, was about a talented comic book artist (I think he was an inker) who is pushed down the stairs by an envious assistant (who I think was a letterer). The killer is then possessed by the spirit of the murdered artist and he begins producing beautiful work at a tremendous pace. There's an excellent panel of him clutching a fistfull of cheques but he's unable to leave his desk to cash them or eat. Eventually, the cops have to come to his home and check on him. They find him dead at his desk with his (choke!) hand twitching and the ink still wet on his final drawing... a panel illustrating the murder.

I've since grown up to become an overworked storyboard artist and the image of this exhausted man bound to his desk is one that really resonates with me. I don't care if it's a reprint or in a collection, I'm just hoping to get a copy of it.
I'd even appreciate a link to a good forum for this sort of thing. I buy comics but have never been a huge collector and I got a bit lost in tons of crappy google results.

Do you know what the symbols in this crypt mean?

lorbus — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:28:27 -0800

In the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan lies a crypt of the Galimberti family. Cuboid in shape, it bears numerous engravings which appear scientific in nature. I can make out what appears to be smashing particles, parabolas, lenses, and spirals. Is there a hidden meaning to all of this? A message? Code? Here are some photos: Full, Front, Door Detail, Left, Right, and Back.

If you need bigger images just let me know.
Thanks.