On 12/27/2012 08:28 PM, David Kramer wrote:
On 12/27/2012 04:24 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Looking more at Dave's situation, IMHO, Dave might be better off running
Windows in a virtual machine. The advantages are:
1. The VM can be backed up during normal Linux backups and easily
restored.
2.
On 12/27/2012 08:47 PM, David Kramer wrote:
On 12/27/2012 08:28 PM, David Kramer wrote:
After seeing everyone's great comments (including install Linux), I've
come to the realization that I'm probably best off doing a very
occasional mirror image of Windows, and use Unison to copy off my
On 12/27/2012 09:02 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Jerry Feldman wrote:
5. VMWare and VirtualBox provide methods to convert an existing physical
machine to virtual. (PtoV). This way you can take your physically
installed Windows and convert them to a virtual container. VMWare has a
free tool you can
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of David Kramer
I'm sure that's true. But with Windows you have the added complication
of activation/registration. No Linux restore/move is going to fully
restore then tell you
VM370 was pretty good. Of course it was not built as an OS but as a
hardware emulator. (IBM initially built it because they couldn't afford a
mainframe for every development group, hardware and software, to use.)
I was a sysprog for several years at a big company where we had thousands
of users
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:31:01 -0500
Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows
For reasons we don't understand, Windows memorizes which IDE/ATA
controller it was installed on and fails to boot in case the
controller changes. ... The solution
I'm actually partial to the old memtest86: http://www.memtest86.com/
The 4.0 version will run most tests multi-threaded on multi-CPU/core
systems. I have found that some older systems will not boot 4.0, so 3.5
is also in the iso file.
Jerry Natowitz
===j.natowitz (at) gmail.com
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:19:50 -0500
Brendan Kidwell bren...@glump.net wrote:
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but this is reason #1 I can't
run Windows on my general purpose computers at home and why I keep
Windows Activation is not a DRM mechanism and I don't care what
Wikipedia or the
work. I can't stand anything related to DRM including software
locking, especially when since I've already got myself over the
learning curve in Linux. I hate installing activation-requiring
software, and I hate having to avoid pissing off the DRM and resetting
the activation workflow.
So if we don't rely on either Wikipedia or the EF:
DRM = Digital Rights Management
MS has given the user the license to use the operating system on one
computer. They have some software in place to try and make sure that
is exactly what happens. It sounds like the claim is:
Digital Rights
My relationship goes back to the 'Open Letter To Hobbiests'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
Well, you can read that for the details, but it just ticked off the
hobbiest computer community and only made his stuff
spread faster. And M$ and 'others' have had a loathe-hate
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:44:52 -0500
Doug sweet...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
I think the license management is a subset of rights management.
I believe that they are orthogonal issues. License management is in
fact licensor rights management while while digital rights management
taking away consumers'
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:30:06 -0600
Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote:
spread faster. And M$ and 'others' have had a loathe-hate
relationship ever since.
Like I wrote in the UEFI Secure Boot thread a few months ago, I won't
tell you not to hate Microsoft. I will, however, tell you not to hate
On 12/28/2012 6:43 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:44:52 -0500
Doug sweet...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
I think the license management is a subset of rights management.
I believe that they are orthogonal issues. License management is in
fact licensor rights management while while
Brendan Kidwell wrote:
I can't stand anything related to DRM including software
locking... I hate installing activation-requiring
software, and I hate having to avoid pissing off the DRM and resetting
the activation workflow.
The real question is what happens 10 years from now when Microsoft
My mother has an iPad that she plugs in all the time when she is not
using it. My question is does it hurt to keep the iPad plugged in even
when it is at full charge. AFAIK, most computers and smartphones have
circuitry to prevent battery damage and over charging. My mother was
told not to keep it
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:19:27 -0500
Matthew Gillen m...@mattgillen.net wrote:
More often than not, I have to make a phone call to do what I legally
should be able to do. And while it's always been relatively painless
There is no law that I am aware of that grants you the right to install
any
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:37:57 -0500
Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote:
The real question is what happens 10 years from now when Microsoft is
a shell of its former self (maybe not, but it is sort of heading that
I'm not concerned. If you're using an old operating system -- ANY old
operating
I promise you battery circuits are smarter than that these days. We
monitor battery voltage. If it drops too much, we start charging again.
I'm really having trouble picturing a EE doing it any other way.
*
Drew Van Zandt
Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
Domain
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:23:55 -0500
Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com wrote:
I promise you battery circuits are smarter than that these days. We
monitor battery voltage. If it drops too much, we start charging
again.
This is what I would expect, however, my experience has not always
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