That's all nice and dandy to create an image, but usually after a few months I have so many updates on software (besides the heap of hotfixes from MS of course) that that image is about useless.
I did make one when I first installed this laptop, and when I needed it about half a year later the update of everything installed took just as much as a complete reinstall. But I don't understand either why one would reinstall every month. I do maybe one very one to one and a half years. Not neccessarily because I have to, but more for kicks to start anew. *l*
Yes, but you can't always get JOE on any *NIX or *BSD machine. I had to use vi on a few Suns because I had no opportunity to install a different editor.
One day I remembered I had a webserver and a mailserver running 4.7... Uptime over 300 days. *lol* I was taking them for granted, serving my mail and my webpages every minute of the day. Then when they got close to 500 days a powercut of a few hours made them go down. *curses*
I was about to say the same, except I run FreeBSD, and I haven't upgraded my mail, web, dns, ftp server in ages... I only toy around with the firewall, so that's not really forced work, hehe...
What you're talking about here is not Windows competing with Linux, but Windows turning into Linux. For me, Windows doesn't have to become GPL, or have so many different shells forced upon it, what Windows need to do for me is become more modular. A simple kernel, the gui separate from it, all services and programs running on it optional so I can choose what I want to install and de-install. This way you can truely install it as a server, or a workstation. Oh, and the ability to switch off any wizard that treats me like a preschool kid. (including removing all the "My" references in Windows, I didn't buy a "My first Sony"!) Windows isn't that bad, but I need to modify it too much to run it the way I want it to. That's why I use FreeBSD as much as possible, because I can customise it the way I want it. I say Microsoft doesn't have to turn Windows into Linux, because that doesn't give you more choice. It only takes away one more choice you have of what OS you want to use. And be honest, there isn't one OS that doesn't receive unfavorable comments.
Looks like it isn't as straightforward to install an OS on it. And I do miss more harddisk sizes. It looks perfect in all other aspects though. Very small.
As I replied to RoundSparrow, these too miss the flat design of the frontpanel I'm looking for. For my taste these are too "round". (I'm also a fan of carmodels from the 70's and 80's, not the aerodynamic bubbles of today. *lol*)
Closer, but those don't have that flat frontpanel design as some of the more "designer" pc's have though. The older cubid case for mini-itx is the closest thing I've seen sofar. And I have 4 of those at the moment for my home network.:-)
All those boxes I've seen lately are just like the original(?) Shuttle cube. I don't call this a big selection, even if the innards are different. I'm still looking for something in the form of a slim rectangle (think of the shape, and colour, of the monolith from 2001). With mini-itx and slimline dvd players that should be possible. (and yes, I can't build it myself.:-P)
Well, there are some FreeBSD diary pages out there, and I've been thinking about documenting my next install of FreeBSD with Qmail, DJBdns, Proftp, Samba, Zope, and anything else I use for my network. Not only as a reference for myself (I should have done it with my current install), but hopefully to give a hand to other (sort of) newbies like me who want to run FreeBSD at home or at work.
Even better, I use two realtek for internal interfaces and one 3com for the cable connection. The 3coms don't like it when there's more than one in my firewall, the realteks work just fine. Only setting the macaddress didn't go well, so that's why the 3com on the outside.
The first thing that came to mind seeing the page of new rules is "Quit all that damned capitalization!" How can I see if two sentences placed under each other aren't the same link? I see loads of text, but I can't see how many are actually separate links. To me, that page is even not worthy of clicking through.
That is what is happening in our company now. We have two large databases running on old digital alpha's with a lot of cobol batches running on it nightly. Now we are starting on building the whole thing to run on SQL and Axapta Navision and they hope to get the first part in production in about two and a half years. For that it is expected there will be about 20 people needed to write it all. I'm crossing my fingers...
Indeed. I had to do some tricks when I set up our terminal server servers to get some of our standard software packages to work. And now with the migration to AD it gets even worse. A lot of support software from suppliers is still dos based or requires admin rights because it is written in crap(tm).
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That's all nice and dandy to create an image, but usually after a few months I have so many updates on software (besides the heap of hotfixes from MS of course) that that image is about useless. I did make one when I first installed this laptop, and when I needed it about half a year later the update of everything installed took just as much as a complete reinstall.
But I don't understand either why one would reinstall every month. I do maybe one very one to one and a half years. Not neccessarily because I have to, but more for kicks to start anew. *l*
Yes, but you can't always get JOE on any *NIX or *BSD machine. I had to use vi on a few Suns because I had no opportunity to install a different editor.
Yeah, but does that come from the cong, or because it's a Microsoft thing?
That should be "Ogg Vorbis". :-P
Hmmm... Except for my FreeBSD firewall, and all the Windoze servers at work, I can't remember ever doing a shutdown on BSD servers. *lol*
One day I remembered I had a webserver and a mailserver running 4.7... Uptime over 300 days. *lol* I was taking them for granted, serving my mail and my webpages every minute of the day. Then when they got close to 500 days a powercut of a few hours made them go down. *curses*
I was about to say the same, except I run FreeBSD, and I haven't upgraded my mail, web, dns, ftp server in ages... I only toy around with the firewall, so that's not really forced work, hehe...
I think just about all would go away if posting AC could be turned off in sections like these.
What you're talking about here is not Windows competing with Linux, but Windows turning into Linux.
For me, Windows doesn't have to become GPL, or have so many different shells forced upon it, what Windows need to do for me is become more modular. A simple kernel, the gui separate from it, all services and programs running on it optional so I can choose what I want to install and de-install. This way you can truely install it as a server, or a workstation. Oh, and the ability to switch off any wizard that treats me like a preschool kid. (including removing all the "My" references in Windows, I didn't buy a "My first Sony"!)
Windows isn't that bad, but I need to modify it too much to run it the way I want it to. That's why I use FreeBSD as much as possible, because I can customise it the way I want it.
I say Microsoft doesn't have to turn Windows into Linux, because that doesn't give you more choice. It only takes away one more choice you have of what OS you want to use.
And be honest, there isn't one OS that doesn't receive unfavorable comments.
worldroot# make world install
Is that what you had in mind?
Looks like it isn't as straightforward to install an OS on it. And I do miss more harddisk sizes.
It looks perfect in all other aspects though. Very small.
As I replied to RoundSparrow, these too miss the flat design of the frontpanel I'm looking for. For my taste these are too "round". (I'm also a fan of carmodels from the 70's and 80's, not the aerodynamic bubbles of today. *lol*)
Closer, but those don't have that flat frontpanel design as some of the more "designer" pc's have though. The older cubid case for mini-itx is the closest thing I've seen sofar. And I have 4 of those at the moment for my home network. :-)
All those boxes I've seen lately are just like the original(?) Shuttle cube. I don't call this a big selection, even if the innards are different. :-P)
I'm still looking for something in the form of a slim rectangle (think of the shape, and colour, of the monolith from 2001).
With mini-itx and slimline dvd players that should be possible.
(and yes, I can't build it myself.
Well, there are some FreeBSD diary pages out there, and I've been thinking about documenting my next install of FreeBSD with Qmail, DJBdns, Proftp, Samba, Zope, and anything else I use for my network.
Not only as a reference for myself (I should have done it with my current install), but hopefully to give a hand to other (sort of) newbies like me who want to run FreeBSD at home or at work.
Even better, I use two realtek for internal interfaces and one 3com for the cable connection.
The 3coms don't like it when there's more than one in my firewall, the realteks work just fine. Only setting the macaddress didn't go well, so that's why the 3com on the outside.
The first thing that came to mind seeing the page of new rules is "Quit all that damned capitalization!" How can I see if two sentences placed under each other aren't the same link? I see loads of text, but I can't see how many are actually separate links.
To me, that page is even not worthy of clicking through.
the railways used to be pubically owned
And now they're owned by a bunch of dickheads. Don't see much difference here. *lmao*
Gee, then I wonder why we call our VMS servers Alphas? ;-)
That is what is happening in our company now. We have two large databases running on old digital alpha's with a lot of cobol batches running on it nightly.
Now we are starting on building the whole thing to run on SQL and Axapta Navision and they hope to get the first part in production in about two and a half years. For that it is expected there will be about 20 people needed to write it all.
I'm crossing my fingers...
Isn't everything Microsoft creates convenient and secure then?
*ducks*
And Microsoft's Passport thing? Isn't it meant to include that functionality as well?
No, it satisfied HER. She got laid twice.
Yeah, but you are reading and posting on a site that also runs on Linux. :-P
Bad example for your kids now.
Indeed. I had to do some tricks when I set up our terminal server servers to get some of our standard software packages to work. And now with the migration to AD it gets even worse.
A lot of support software from suppliers is still dos based or requires admin rights because it is written in crap(tm).