Since my work phone is rather limited (and the company soft is Windows Mobile 6.5 only), I've been using an Android smartphone for a while for operating a web portal which we also use. It was Wildfire first (rather slow, even scrolling longer contacts list is jittery) and recently I upgraded to Galaxy S2. Since I don't make many calls (people call me;-) ), don't text that much, don't watch porn over mobile networks (okay, I tried it once, just because the Galaxy S2 _could_ actually do it), my needs are rather basic.
The best deal I could find is with O2: For topping up £10 on Text+Web PAYG tariff you get 100 texts and 500MB data. This still leaves you with £10 worth for calls, of which I use £8 (or so) to get the "Calls 50" bolt-on, 50 minutes to all networks. The remaining £2 is used for calls abroad/to 087x / MMS.
* prepare image (partimage - my choice, fsarchiver, ntfsclone, dd or whatever works for you), put on disk with the rest of the iles (sample:/image/diskc.000). * put file named "autorun" in root dir * if partition: the "rename NTLDR/BOOTMGR, put GRLDR in it's place" installation of GRUB4DOS is the simplest and survives various "repair boot sector" procedures * if partition: hide the recovery partition, make GRUB4DOS only show additional menu if Esc key pressed (hiddenmenu command)
< sample autorun file > #!/bin/sh echo "** Are you really sure that you want to restore the system drive C:,**" echo "** all installed programs and all data to freshly installed state?**" echo "" echo "** This will delete ALL user data (documents, pictures etc.)**" echo "** so you should try to save the most important stuff on a pendrive**" echo "** or portable hard disk first. If Windows does not boot, try this:**" echo "** - press Alt+Ctrl+Del here**" echo "** - as your computer is rebooting, keep tapping F8 (once a second)**" echo "** until you see a menu with "Safe Mode" option on top. Activate it.**" echo "" echo "** If you want to continue, write: YES (has to be capitals)**" echo "** then hit the Enter key**" echo "" echo "** If you write anything else, the computer will start in a rescue**" echo "** mode (ie. System Rescue CD).**" echo "" echo "" echo "** THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING BEFORE OVERWRITING THE DRIVE C:**" echo ""
read wpisal if [ "$wpisal" = "YES" ]; then echo "Here we go" partimage -f2 -b restore/dev/sda1/mnt/cdrom/image/diskc.000 sync shutdown -r now else echo "You typed: $wpisal, not YES; starting Linux" echo "press any key to continue or Alt+Ctrl+Del to reboot" read -n 1 -s fi -- < sample autorun file > --
* if DVD: make image of recovery partition (with image of system partition) rather than system partition, * if DVD: adjust default kernel loading timeout in isolinux, * if DVD: an option to re-write mbr makes sense in case the HDD was replaced
System Rescue CD always mounts it's media on/mnt/cdrom (unless you choose to load to RAM)
The disclaimer is going to be different in case of DVD recovery, obviously.
If you have a drive in PIO mode, you get very high CPU usage by DPC process in ProcessExplorer.
My unlucky desktop had something else that occasionally triggered DPC choke, but it disappeared after reboot. I don't know what that is except that it has something to do with my MB. Just be sure you are running with admin rights.
It may very well be something with your hardware, like chipset/CPU problem. Oh, just remembered - some cases of "slow computer" were caused by broken cooling/dust and CPU engaging thermal throttling. I know Everest can check that (Tools -> System Stability Test graphs).
[OT]Can anyone point me to other (small/easily portable) open/free program that can do that? [/OT]
And have in mind, that if you download updates for Windows Defender, it silently scans your hard drive every month.
Or have you lately installed some new indexig software?
I had a wireless keyboard (2xAA!!!) (and used a mouse on a few ocasions).
Wireless means you suddenly stop moving while you see a rocket going your way. Or get behaviour like "thisttttttttttttttttt" typing in commands in terminal. And battery indicator still shows 30% power.
Wireless means you find yourself wondering "where the hell is my keyboard" after watching a movie from your bed last night and moving the bed around to find it behind in dirt. The mouse gets around even more (as it's smaller).
My keyboard was Logitech something, batteries lasted for about a year.
(...) this should be a fairly optional part of the game, since most users might get a little overwhelmed by it, if it were complex enough to be fairly powerful.
Not to be a language nazi, but english way of vocalizing letters is not the only one out there and "Deus Ex" is a latin expression. Pronounciation is way different than in english - it's very strict in vocalizing letters.
The closest you can get is propably:
"De" - like in "debris"
"us" - 'u' is almost typical 'oo' but short; think "goose" but short 'u' and 's'
"Ex" - 'e' is again like in "debris"
And I know - the game is developed by english-speaking company and they can spell it however they want. So do you.
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Since my work phone is rather limited (and the company soft is Windows Mobile 6.5 only), I've been using an Android smartphone for a while for operating a web portal which we also use. It was Wildfire first (rather slow, even scrolling longer contacts list is jittery) and recently I upgraded to Galaxy S2. ;-) ), don't text that much, don't watch porn over mobile networks (okay, I tried it once, just because the Galaxy S2 _could_ actually do it), my needs are rather basic.
Since I don't make many calls (people call me
The best deal I could find is with O2:
For topping up £10 on Text+Web PAYG tariff you get 100 texts and 500MB data.
This still leaves you with £10 worth for calls, of which I use £8 (or so) to get the "Calls 50" bolt-on, 50 minutes to all networks.
The remaining £2 is used for calls abroad/to 087x / MMS.
* prepare image (partimage - my choice, fsarchiver, ntfsclone, dd or whatever works for you), put on disk with the rest of the iles (sample: /image/diskc.000).
/dev/sda1 /mnt/cdrom/image/diskc.000
/mnt/cdrom (unless you choose to load to RAM)
* put file named "autorun" in root dir
* if partition: the "rename NTLDR/BOOTMGR, put GRLDR in it's place" installation of GRUB4DOS is the simplest and survives various "repair boot sector" procedures
* if partition: hide the recovery partition, make GRUB4DOS only show additional menu if Esc key pressed (hiddenmenu command)
< sample autorun file >
#!/bin/sh
echo "** Are you really sure that you want to restore the system drive C:,**"
echo "** all installed programs and all data to freshly installed state?**"
echo ""
echo "** This will delete ALL user data (documents, pictures etc.)**"
echo "** so you should try to save the most important stuff on a pendrive**"
echo "** or portable hard disk first. If Windows does not boot, try this:**"
echo "** - press Alt+Ctrl+Del here**"
echo "** - as your computer is rebooting, keep tapping F8 (once a second)**"
echo "** until you see a menu with "Safe Mode" option on top. Activate it.**"
echo ""
echo "** If you want to continue, write: YES (has to be capitals)**"
echo "** then hit the Enter key**"
echo ""
echo "** If you write anything else, the computer will start in a rescue**"
echo "** mode (ie. System Rescue CD).**"
echo ""
echo ""
echo "** THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING BEFORE OVERWRITING THE DRIVE C:**"
echo ""
read wpisal
if [ "$wpisal" = "YES" ];
then
echo "Here we go"
partimage -f2 -b restore
sync
shutdown -r now
else
echo "You typed: $wpisal, not YES; starting Linux"
echo "press any key to continue or Alt+Ctrl+Del to reboot"
read -n 1 -s
fi
-- < sample autorun file > --
* if DVD: make image of recovery partition (with image of system partition) rather than system partition,
* if DVD: adjust default kernel loading timeout in isolinux,
* if DVD: an option to re-write mbr makes sense in case the HDD was replaced
System Rescue CD always mounts it's media on
The disclaimer is going to be different in case of DVD recovery, obviously.
If you have a drive in PIO mode, you get very high CPU usage by DPC process in ProcessExplorer. My unlucky desktop had something else that occasionally triggered DPC choke, but it disappeared after reboot. I don't know what that is except that it has something to do with my MB. Just be sure you are running with admin rights.
It may very well be something with your hardware, like chipset/CPU problem. Oh, just remembered - some cases of "slow computer" were caused by broken cooling/dust and CPU engaging thermal throttling. I know Everest can check that (Tools -> System Stability Test graphs).
[OT]Can anyone point me to other (small/easily portable) open/free program that can do that? [/OT]
And have in mind, that if you download updates for Windows Defender, it silently scans your hard drive every month.
Or have you lately installed some new indexig software?
I had a wireless keyboard (2xAA!!!) (and used a mouse on a few ocasions).
Wireless means you suddenly stop moving while you see a rocket going your way. Or get behaviour like "thisttttttttttttttttt" typing in commands in terminal. And battery indicator still shows 30% power.
Wireless means you find yourself wondering "where the hell is my keyboard" after watching a movie from your bed last night and moving the bed around to find it behind in dirt. The mouse gets around even more (as it's smaller).
My keyboard was Logitech something, batteries lasted for about a year.
Wireless is not Nirvana, you know?
(...) this should be a fairly optional part of the game, since most users might get a little overwhelmed by it, if it were complex enough to be fairly powerful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colobot You can do most (if not all) tasks by manipulating robots yourself
Not to be a language nazi, but english way of vocalizing letters is not the only one out there and "Deus Ex" is a latin expression. Pronounciation is way different than in english - it's very strict in vocalizing letters.
The closest you can get is propably:
"De" - like in "debris"
"us" - 'u' is almost typical 'oo' but short; think "goose" but short 'u' and 's'
"Ex" - 'e' is again like in "debris"
And I know - the game is developed by english-speaking company and they can spell it however they want. So do you.