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What Would You Put Into A Software Survival Kit?
LosManos asks: "A call for help to the Everyday Heroes that are out there: I have just returned from a 4 months scientific expedition to some of the more remote parts of the South Pacific. As soon as people we met found out that I was a computer guy they asked me to help them and all to often I had to reply that I didn't have the tools.This got me thinking; what should a software toolbox consist of? OS, patches, digital books, compilers, sniffers, servers, harddisk restore apps...? Please remember that the computers I met where often old and slow. The answers to this could be interesting also when you are not several days away from nearest inhabited island. I mean, what is it that most often break? How is it usually fixed? Are more fancy solutions more error prone?" If you were to create a "first aid kit" consisting of CDs, disks, books and other technical utilities you have used to resurrect dead systems, what would you put in it?
"So far I have found:
- A utility for reading and repairing hard disks
- 'regmon' and 'filemon' from Sysinternals
- Video drivers (but I don't know which)
- A diskette for booting MSDOS with CD support
- Digital books (but I don't know which)
- Remote controlling tools, such as VNC
- CDs with OS (but there are hundreds of those)"
A filemon, a digimon... a pickachu and hash ... er.. Ash
I just heard some sad news on talk radio: the body of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was found dead in the rubble of a Bagdad bunker this morning, shot dead by several 2000 pound bombs. No further details were available. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will mourn the death of yet another victim of America's bood-for-oil policy. Even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his ground-breaking achievements in the fields of chemical warfare, state-sponsored genocide, and innovative methods of torture and execution. Beloved by anti-war leftist activists, Kuro5hin readers, and homicidal megalomaniacs everywhere, he will be missed. Truly a peacenik icon.
Lame RTSs. Total Annihilation > *
Nice to see there is someone else that love TotalA here.
You may like to know palito, a free RTS game made by TotalA fans.