Microsoft Windows Server Datacenter 2012 - Base License - OEM
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And they don't even give you a kiss or a reach-around!
And that's the "oem" version. I can't even imagine the "retail" license, which Newegg doesn't carry, the one that can be transfered from one node to another.
From what I gathered in the summary, the OP is an admin in a business and he should have SA, especially since he's considering a Datacenter or Enterprise version.
For just joe schmoe, pirate it. Microsoft would rather you do that than never use Windows at all. Bill Gates said so in 1998, publicly.
You could do it individually, but then there have been tools that do this automatically on Linux.
>implying doing this in Linux is not native
PDF is an open standard. TIFF is an open standard. Why the hell do you need a proprietary program, besides OCR (there are like 5 OSS OCRs with a couple of them being very good), to do any of this?
>my ethos
My ethos is practicality and frugality. If I can do it in software that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, then I'm going to do it that way.
It's as simple as feeding the originating document into a script and collecting the finished product. It's like magic. Just like the guy who ranted and raved about how his Adobe product does it, but mine doesn't cost a dime.
The people who are foolish with their money are more than welcome to send it to Adobe.
No no, don't send them to Alberta. Leave that for actual Canadians. They deserve a cut of their own resources.
There's a reason why Fort McMurray is nicknamed Fort McMoney. There is a lot of money to be had mining tar sands. 6 figure income for general labor. Honest to glub. PRI's Marketplace devoted like a 20 minute segment on that. People work there for 5 or so years and then buy a cottage on Pigeon Lake (God's country, you should go some time ).
No, no. Send them to Nanisivik. It's uninhabited so they won't disturb anybody else.
A VM of Windows FLP. It's like one of those pirated and trimmed back XPs, but official and not botnet ridden.
It boots in 8 seconds on this user's machine, so fast that in order to install the 3D drivers in VirtualBox, you must hand-edit boot.ini to put it in safe mode, since spamming the F8 key doesn't work.
It's. Fast.
And to every other program, like Photoshop and whatnot, it identifies itself as XP. I dare say that anyone pining away for the days of W2k, this is the Windows for you. It's like W2k, but you don't have to fetch DLLs from XP and neither do you have programs bitching about having the wrong version (WordPerfect Office won't install in W2k).
>Something like, say, an SSH client with a hardcoded public key, to which The Man holds the matching private key, is a non-flawed intentional backdoor; because it keeps unintended 3rd party malice to a minimum, while still letting the backdoor users in.
>You really think the solution is to use a Live CD and run a server on my network?
If you have a bunch of people doing it, yes, a server dedicated to the task is not out of the ordinary.
There are.debs that you can install in your own Ubuntu desktop. I was just giving an example.
Honest to glub, you're dense and didn't click through the link.
>elegantly integrated into the same tool
Nothing that Adobe does is elegant. Just because you can't see the guts working doesn't mean it's a massive dump.
The Windows install of Adobe Reader is a135MB download. Flash is a nightmare on every platform. If you program something for the Adobe Photoshop API, there will be 10 ways to do something and Adobe will pick a 13'th undocumented way to do it.
>Try explaining to someone that you extracted images from his PDFs and repackaged them in a OSS-friendly manner. At BEST, he'll go 'that's nice, but could you just give me a PDF please?'
What you guys don't seem to understand is that you can reassemble all this back into a PDF quite easily.
>This is frankly amazingly useful for my wife as a lot of the supplied source material for her Masters course is presented in PDF image format. NOTHING like this exists in Linux because Adobe haven't ported Acrobat to Linux, and there are no alternatives
Image based PDFs consist entirely of TIFFs. These can be extracted and procesed like any other TIFFs. There has been TIFF>OCR>TXT on Linux since last century. Indeed, something like this is scriptable and can be done for entire directories of PDFs.
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Maybe it's because 8 is a stinker and they have to deep discount the so-called upgrade to 15 bucks just to get people to try it?
Furthermore, until the GOP shouts down idiots that say slavery (and publish it in books, yet!) before it hits the newspapers and causes embarrassment, the GOP are tacitly approving racism. Even to this day.
And in general it hasn't exactly deep below the surface in public Republitard discussion in general. So much dog-whistling. The thing is that they think nobody but themselves and their base can hear it.
No, I'm not. I'm anti-moron. If this makes me a bigot, then so be it.
> as you lump everyone who disagrees with your politics together. You are the one calling people retards and racists.
I called people threatening to go to Canada because Obama is not as right of center as they like retards. This is because Canada is the exact opposite of what they want.
Read. My. First. Message. Again.
>The AC said nothing that would indicate he is either racist or a retard,
No, he brought up the issue of racism his own self. He doth protest too much.
>he merely said something you disagreed with.
No, he accused me of being a bigot and calling him a racist in the first message. Which I didn't. I called people with a complete lack of understanding of what they said tea-tards. Because the people who said they were moving to Canada were tea-partiers and stupid at the same time, thus tea-tard.
> I'm tired of half my extra contract work money going to the federal government and being called a bigot for saying anything about it
No, you're called a bigot because you had a bumper sticker on the back of your truck, right above your trailer-hitch testicles, that said "Don't Re-Nig in November" like a lot of retards had.
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Microsoft Windows Server Datacenter 2012 - Base License - OEM
$4,159.00
Save: 14% - Oh goody, it's on sale!
And they don't even give you a kiss or a reach-around!
And that's the "oem" version. I can't even imagine the "retail" license, which Newegg doesn't carry, the one that can be transfered from one node to another.
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BMO
I didn't realize that you are the submitter.
I don't know why you even mentioned 2008 Datacenter or Enterprise.
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From what I gathered in the summary, the OP is an admin in a business and he should have SA, especially since he's considering a Datacenter or Enterprise version.
For just joe schmoe, pirate it. Microsoft would rather you do that than never use Windows at all. Bill Gates said so in 1998, publicly.
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BMO
If I'm going to do games, I'll either dual boot or Xen with VGA passthrough.
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So?
You could do it individually, but then there have been tools that do this automatically on Linux.
>implying doing this in Linux is not native
PDF is an open standard. TIFF is an open standard. Why the hell do you need a proprietary program, besides OCR (there are like 5 OSS OCRs with a couple of them being very good), to do any of this?
>my ethos
My ethos is practicality and frugality. If I can do it in software that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, then I'm going to do it that way.
It's as simple as feeding the originating document into a script and collecting the finished product. It's like magic. Just like the guy who ranted and raved about how his Adobe product does it, but mine doesn't cost a dime.
The people who are foolish with their money are more than welcome to send it to Adobe.
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BMO
No no, don't send them to Alberta. Leave that for actual Canadians. They deserve a cut of their own resources.
There's a reason why Fort McMurray is nicknamed Fort McMoney. There is a lot of money to be had mining tar sands. 6 figure income for general labor. Honest to glub. PRI's Marketplace devoted like a 20 minute segment on that. People work there for 5 or so years and then buy a cottage on Pigeon Lake (God's country, you should go some time ).
No, no. Send them to Nanisivik. It's uninhabited so they won't disturb anybody else.
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BMO
>Do you need 3D accelerated graphics? If not, VM is the way to go.
After ignoring the Windows 3D driver for VirtualBox, I installed it and ran Neverball, a 3D table-tilt ball game.
It worked fine.
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>VM of Windows XP?
No, not a VM of XP.
A VM of Windows FLP. It's like one of those pirated and trimmed back XPs, but official and not botnet ridden.
It boots in 8 seconds on this user's machine, so fast that in order to install the 3D drivers in VirtualBox, you must hand-edit boot.ini to put it in safe mode, since spamming the F8 key doesn't work.
It's. Fast.
And to every other program, like Photoshop and whatnot, it identifies itself as XP. I dare say that anyone pining away for the days of W2k, this is the Windows for you. It's like W2k, but you don't have to fetch DLLs from XP and neither do you have programs bitching about having the wrong version (WordPerfect Office won't install in W2k).
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BMO
>If The Man's copy of private key gets leaked then security is lost, but that's true however many people had it to begin with.
"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin.
I reiterate: key escrow is always bad.
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>Something like, say, an SSH client with a hardcoded public key, to which The Man holds the matching private key, is a non-flawed intentional backdoor; because it keeps unintended 3rd party malice to a minimum, while still letting the backdoor users in.
Until the private key gets leaked.
Key escrow is always bad.
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I fucked up a sentence in the previous message.
Arguing with you is making me dumber, because every argument from you is one from incredulity.
Talk to the hand.
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BMO
>You really think the solution is to use a Live CD and run a server on my network?
If you have a bunch of people doing it, yes, a server dedicated to the task is not out of the ordinary.
There are .debs that you can install in your own Ubuntu desktop. I was just giving an example.
Honest to glub, you're dense and didn't click through the link.
>elegantly integrated into the same tool
Nothing that Adobe does is elegant. Just because you can't see the guts working doesn't mean it's a massive dump.
The Windows install of Adobe Reader is a135MB download. Flash is a nightmare on every platform. If you program something for the Adobe Photoshop API, there will be 10 ways to do something and Adobe will pick a 13'th undocumented way to do it.
FFS.
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>Try explaining to someone that you extracted images from his PDFs and repackaged them in a OSS-friendly manner. At BEST, he'll go 'that's nice, but could you just give me a PDF please?'
What you guys don't seem to understand is that you can reassemble all this back into a PDF quite easily.
You do *not* need Acrobat to do this.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/07/22/1852234/open-source-ocr-that-makes-searchable-pdfs
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>Well I'm smarter than you, friend,
Yep, I foed you and this just confirms that I made the right choice.
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>This is frankly amazingly useful for my wife as a lot of the supplied source material for her Masters course is presented in PDF image format. NOTHING like this exists in Linux because Adobe haven't ported Acrobat to Linux, and there are no alternatives
Image based PDFs consist entirely of TIFFs. These can be extracted and procesed like any other TIFFs. There has been TIFF>OCR>TXT on Linux since last century. Indeed, something like this is scriptable and can be done for entire directories of PDFs.
You're dumb.
Bye.
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You're the only person I have ever known that has had a problem with my sig.
I'm not the one with the problem. Take your OCD madness and get out.
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And this is the argument that Windows shills get reduced to:
MUH GAMES.
You don't need an operating system to load games. You need a menu system and a kernel. That's it.
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Steve Sinofsky, the "brains" behind Windows 8, has just been given the boot.
Gee... one wonders why.
http://allthingsd.com/20121112/breaking-windows-head-steven-sinofsky-to-leave-microsoft/
Maybe it's because 8 is a stinker and they have to deep discount the so-called upgrade to 15 bucks just to get people to try it?
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BMO
> having too many options (KDE)
This is a nonsense argument.
Stick with being a prisoner of Microsoft.
>treating your wife as if she's dumb.
You're sexist too. Wonderful!
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BMO
It's like you didn't even pay attention at all.
>At what point anywhere in history has the GOP been pro-slavery?
This year. This election cycle.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/15611617-505/arkansas-rep-calls-slavery-blessing-in-disguise.html
This is what I'm talking about. He was only castigated by his fellow Republitards only *after* it hit the news.
Morons. All of you.
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Furthermore, until the GOP shouts down idiots that say slavery (and publish it in books, yet!) before it hits the newspapers and causes embarrassment, the GOP are tacitly approving racism. Even to this day.
And in general it hasn't exactly deep below the surface in public Republitard discussion in general. So much dog-whistling. The thing is that they think nobody but themselves and their base can hear it.
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Tax and spend is surely more sensible than cut-taxes and spend more, which was the Romney/Ryan agenda.
People who support that are utter retards and should not be trusted with even a single penny.
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>Actually BMO you are the bigot
No, I'm not. I'm anti-moron. If this makes me a bigot, then so be it.
> as you lump everyone who disagrees with your politics together. You are the one calling people retards and racists.
I called people threatening to go to Canada because Obama is not as right of center as they like retards. This is because Canada is the exact opposite of what they want.
Read. My. First. Message. Again.
>The AC said nothing that would indicate he is either racist or a retard,
No, he brought up the issue of racism his own self. He doth protest too much.
>he merely said something you disagreed with.
No, he accused me of being a bigot and calling him a racist in the first message. Which I didn't. I called people with a complete lack of understanding of what they said tea-tards. Because the people who said they were moving to Canada were tea-partiers and stupid at the same time, thus tea-tard.
On the other hand, he's a fucking moron.
Fuck you.
Asshole.
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You're offended by "tea-tard"?
How about retard? How's that?
> I'm tired of half my extra contract work money going to the federal government and being called a bigot for saying anything about it
No, you're called a bigot because you had a bumper sticker on the back of your truck, right above your trailer-hitch testicles, that said "Don't Re-Nig in November" like a lot of retards had.
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