Unless things have changed dramatically in the last year, I wouldn't count on that. Last year I took C# and VB.net. I couldn't even get simple "Hello World" apps built in Visual Studio to run in Mono..NET=Further locked into Windows
I remember when I was young and all the best Nintendo games got the neat "Player's Choice" sticker and a price reduction down to $20, which was very reasonable for a game I knew was going to be good.
That's still done, at least for the PS2. It usually says "Greatest Hits" and sells for $19.95. Those are the only new games I actually buy, everything else I get used.
Plus, if you're a student and take a programming class you get Visual Studio (full) for free, along with Project, Visio, SQL Sever, etc. If you take the Windows XP class (which is required where I go) you can even get a copy of XP for free.
M$ knows how to get students addicted to their products.
You only paid $85 for a new book? At the book store the cheapest I've bought in the last two years was $85 used. This semester, for two courses, cost me about $300.
With dd if you have a 80 hd, you now have an 80 gig image. Gzip or bzip2 might take it down some, but it will still be insanely large.
If you insist on using cloning (imho, bad idea) you can use the free ntfsclone, which is part of the Linux NTFS project. With gzip it will get down to about a gig.
Whenever I have to reinstall someone's Windows system, the first thing I do after activating it and applying all Windows updates is to make a clone with ntfsclone. I then build a Linux-based restore dvd for them so they (and I) won't have to deal with activation the next time.
It's actually not much work at all, once everything's set up. I even use auto-it scripts to take care of most of the windows side. I clean several computers a month (I do it on the side) and rarely spend more than 10 or 15 minutes doing actual work on any one computer. All of the scanning takes about 7 hours, though.
The reason I use Linux in the process is because it's difficult to properly clean an infected system from within the infected system. It's also nice how many of the virus scanners have free Linux versions.
Create a PXE-based linux system (or live cd) that contains:
fuse captive-ntfs (to give read-write access to ntfs partitions)
and the following virus scanners:
clamav bitdefender avg f-prot
Mount the fs, and update the above four scanners. First run ClamAV, then BitDefender, then AVG, and F-Prot. The order isn't important.
Boot into Windows and install:
HijackThis! (be very careful, and google anything before removing) Spybot Search & Destroy Ad-Aware Microsoft Antispyware Bitdefender AVG
Run all of them in Windows.
Boot into Safe Mode, run them all again.
Boot back into Windows. Re-run Hijack this, Spybot, Adaware, and Microsoft Antispyware. Check the sure make sure everything works normally.
Boot back into Linux. Re-run all of the scanners. If anything is still detected, google it and learn how to remove it manually.
The downside to the above is it takes time, but it's not difficult and very effective. For the Linux-side stuff it takes like a minute to write a shell script to do it automatically.
I clean systems like that all the time and can get rid of some really nasty stuff. I usually don't spend more than 15 minutes actually working on it.
Goldstein: This movie makes no sense. She's possessed, she's not possessed... that rack had better be stacked. OH! TITS! Those aren't real. Yes, they are!
Later on..
Kumar: How were Katie Holmes' tits? Goldstein: You know the Holocaust? Kumar: Yeah? Goldstein: Picture the opposite of that! Kumar: Nice!
And this is different from browser detection, how?
Well, you're only adding three comments to the file. In the past I just wrote workarounds that worked for all browsers and it was difficult to maintain and very messy. Currently I create a clean template for each browser type. Lateley, though, I've been using IE7 in the development of a (internal) webapp and it's been great so far. Nothing more than those three comments.
You can actually force IE 5.5 and IE 6 to parse pages correctly, including CSS. All you have to do is add a few lines to your page that other browsers treat as comments. The script is called IE7, and I've been having good experiences with it. It also fixes the PNG support (yes, alpha transparency).
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I thought it was a band.
Nazi's riding dinosaurs will once again walk the earth, and rivers of lava will flow freely across the land.
Eclipse rocks. I use it for all my PHP, Ruby, Perl, and Java work.
Unless things have changed dramatically in the last year, I wouldn't count on that. Last year I took C# and VB.net. I couldn't even get simple "Hello World" apps built in Visual Studio to run in Mono. .NET=Further locked into Windows
I remember when I was young and all the best Nintendo games got the neat "Player's Choice" sticker and a price reduction down to $20, which was very reasonable for a game I knew was going to be good.
That's still done, at least for the PS2. It usually says "Greatest Hits" and sells for $19.95. Those are the only new games I actually buy, everything else I get used.
Plus, if you're a student and take a programming class you get Visual Studio (full) for free, along with Project, Visio, SQL Sever, etc. If you take the Windows XP class (which is required where I go) you can even get a copy of XP for free.
M$ knows how to get students addicted to their products.
You only paid $85 for a new book? At the book store the cheapest I've bought in the last two years was $85 used. This semester, for two courses, cost me about $300.
With dd if you have a 80 hd, you now have an 80 gig image. Gzip or bzip2 might take it down some, but it will still be insanely large.
If you insist on using cloning (imho, bad idea) you can use the free ntfsclone, which is part of the Linux NTFS project. With gzip it will get down to about a gig.
Whenever I have to reinstall someone's Windows system, the first thing I do after activating it and applying all Windows updates is to make a clone with ntfsclone. I then build a Linux-based restore dvd for them so they (and I) won't have to deal with activation the next time.
If you're looking to install more than one computer, though, reconsider using imaging. Spend a weekend learning how to use Unattended, AutoIt, and secedit/a After using this for a little, you're just cringe when someone suggests imaging.
It should be 14.
According to AgeOfConsent.com it's 14 in Missouri and Iowa but that only applies to guys, though. It's 17 and 16, respectively for women.
Here's the chart:
http://www.ageofconsent.com/ageofconsent.htm
Read.
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Beer Good. Napster bad.
If you forcibly deprive someone of sleep, they end up with physical brain damage and then die.
So it is true that my boss is trying to kill me. I though I was just being paranoid.
It's actually not much work at all, once everything's set up. I even use auto-it scripts to take care of most of the windows side. I clean several computers a month (I do it on the side) and rarely spend more than 10 or 15 minutes doing actual work on any one computer. All of the scanning takes about 7 hours, though.
The reason I use Linux in the process is because it's difficult to properly clean an infected system from within the infected system. It's also nice how many of the virus scanners have free Linux versions.
Are there any advantages to using the Itanium over an Opteron or Athlon 64?
Create a PXE-based linux system (or live cd) that contains:
fuse
captive-ntfs (to give read-write access to ntfs partitions)
and the following virus scanners:
clamav
bitdefender
avg
f-prot
Mount the fs, and update the above four scanners. First run ClamAV, then BitDefender, then AVG, and F-Prot. The order isn't important.
Boot into Windows and install:
HijackThis! (be very careful, and google anything before removing)
Spybot Search & Destroy
Ad-Aware
Microsoft Antispyware
Bitdefender
AVG
Run all of them in Windows.
Boot into Safe Mode, run them all again.
Boot back into Windows. Re-run Hijack this, Spybot, Adaware, and Microsoft Antispyware. Check the sure make sure everything works normally.
Boot back into Linux. Re-run all of the scanners. If anything is still detected, google it and learn how to remove it manually.
The downside to the above is it takes time, but it's not difficult and very effective. For the Linux-side stuff it takes like a minute to write a shell script to do it automatically.
I clean systems like that all the time and can get rid of some really nasty stuff. I usually don't spend more than 15 minutes actually working on it.
I know it's for OS X, and that is where I use it. I'd like to see it ported to Linux.
OmniGraffle.
Goldstein: This movie makes no sense. She's possessed, she's not possessed... that rack had better be stacked. OH! TITS! Those aren't real. Yes, they are!
Later on..
Kumar: How were Katie Holmes' tits?
Goldstein: You know the Holocaust?
Kumar: Yeah?
Goldstein: Picture the opposite of that!
Kumar: Nice!
Damn she was hot in that movie...
And this is different from browser detection, how?
Well, you're only adding three comments to the file. In the past I just wrote workarounds that worked for all browsers and it was difficult to maintain and very messy. Currently I create a clean template for each browser type. Lateley, though, I've been using IE7 in the development of a (internal) webapp and it's been great so far. Nothing more than those three comments.
You can actually force IE 5.5 and IE 6 to parse pages correctly, including CSS. All you have to do is add a few lines to your page that other browsers treat as comments. The script is called IE7, and I've been having good experiences with it. It also fixes the PNG support (yes, alpha transparency).
I use QEMU regularly under Linux on a Athlon 64. It's significantly faster than Bochs, though much slower than VMWare.
Alex Chiu claims to know how to build a UFO and a Teleporter...
My phone, at least, requires a signal for the alarm to work.
Will Vista still have the same anoying Product Activation that only affects legitimate users of the software?
Also to be included in Vista: OpenOffice.org
Hell will freeze over before Microsoft includes Firefox. Where's the lock-in in that?