On Sunday 24 March 2019 15:47:23 tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: > Indeed! I've always said one should run Windows as an application in > Unix as god intended ;-) -Tom > > > On Mar 23, 2019, at 11:35 PM, Chris Albertson > > <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Almost all of this Windows BS goes away if you run Windows in a VM. > > The easy and secure way to run Windows is to first install Linux > > (or use Mac OS if on a Mac) and then a VM and then Windows. Then > > it does not need video or wifi drivers and you can snapshot the new > > Windows 10 install and later if/when the system is messed up. click > > reset and get back to the last snapshot. You user data is likely > > on a file server so the reset will correct any issues nearly > > instantly > Which makes windows a little less distastefull. But Bill Gates is going to have to personally apologize to me for his phone people calling me a pirate for wanting a copy of ntfs 3.51's main library, which their own damned housekeeping deleted from an otherwise secured hard drive in a locked at night closet. That put our comm channel to CBS out of business and cost us a few thou before it was cleaned up. I wound taking the drive out, packing it up in a static bag and half a pound of ghost turds, and overnight fedexing it to CBS, who checked the drive, found it healthy, and re-imaged it from one of their machines and fedexed it back to me. To this day, and I've heard a couple similar stories, I think ntfs 3.51 ($499 at the time) had a random timer set to run 2 or 3 years, then kill the os so you had to buy a new copy.
But I will not forgive M$ for calling me a pirate when I tried to argue for just that file to be sent out on a floppy so I could fix it. Screw M$ and the camel that rode in on them. So now you know the rest of the story behind my outsized hatred of things M$. And this happened before I ever made my first linux install in '98 on a 400Mhz AMD K6 cpu. Fastest machine in the building then. That was a breath of fresh spring air compared to what I seeing our sales people putting up with trying to do business with 3.1 or the new w95 of the day. Even then they were virus magnets. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
