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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:36:42 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Why is that a problem?
>
> I dislike having to "register" to get my hands on supposedly "free"
> software.
mailinator.com - throwaway email addresses.
Jim
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> There is a Windows program that uses just that technique.
You can do it by either writing a big file full of zeros yourself, or using
the disk-defrag interface to manually put a block of zeros at each free spot
on the disk, which is what cipher /w does.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
much longer being almost empty than almost full.
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> >> (And it's not like I'm going to *pay money* to get a product I don't
> >> even use for my home PC.)
> >
> > what?! How can you possibly write mail or SQL scripts without it? Do you want
> > to sound dumb without a spell checker or miss that futurist word completion when
> > programming?
>
> I honestly can't actually determine whether he's serious or not...
That's called sarcasm, Betelgeuse dude.
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"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > >> (And it's not like I'm going to *pay money* to get a product I don't
> > >> even use for my home PC.)
> > >
> > > what?! How can you possibly write mail or SQL scripts without it? Do you want
> > > to sound dumb without a spell checker or miss that futurist word completion when
> > > programming?
> >
> > I honestly can't actually determine whether he's serious or not...
>
> That's called sarcasm, Betelgeuse dude.
notice however that there are some people who truly think like that.
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Semiunrelated...
OMG thank heavens for autosave. Even when your spreadsheet is to
corrupted for Excel to recover, it falls back to the most recent
autosave. Instead of, say, the last time you remembered to actually save.
More programs should have this feature. :P
--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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Tim Cook wrote:
> Semiunrelated...
>
> OMG thank heavens for autosave. Even when your spreadsheet is to
> corrupted for Excel to recover, it falls back to the most recent
> autosave. Instead of, say, the last time you remembered to actually save.
>
> More programs should have this feature. :P
I'm trying to remember a single instance in history when Excel has eaten
one of my spreadsheets...
(Remember: I'm a maths nerd. I actually use Excel with some frequency.)
I think the only time was when I was running Windows 3.1 on a 286 with
16MB of RAM, and I asked it to print out a 3D Mandelbrot graph I created
using VBA... That choked it.
Word, on the other hand, is legendary for eating your documents. Indeed,
the main reason I'm even trying out 2007 is to see if it can uncorrupt
three important documents that died this week.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>>> I honestly can't actually determine whether he's serious or not...
>> That's called sarcasm, Betelgeuse dude.
>
> notice however that there are some people who truly think like that.
...which is why I thought you might be serious. ;-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>>> Oh, definitely. And that's why I was hoping that the VMware Tools might
>>> include a tool to zero unused sectors. But apparently not...
>> Linux does. I don't know of anything in vmware to deallocate sectors,
>> even if they're all zeros.
>
> VMware tools' shrink functionality zeros the unused sectors out before
> shrinking it. The Linux VMware tools do as well, for that matter.
I'll have a look when I'm back in the office...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> I hear that Windows 2003 Server (?) comes with a "hypervisor" which runs
>> on the real metal, and then 2003 itself actually runs as a
>> paravirtualised guest. Or something like that...
>
> It can as long as the system hosting supports the right virtualization
> technology.
Well, if it's para-virtualisation rather than "full" virtualisation,
then yeah, the guest OS has to know it's paravirtualised. ;-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Can i say "I told you so"? ;-)
Can you say how to make the VMware Tools for Linux actually install? :-P
VMware doesn't recognise the KNOPPIX ISO image as a Linux install disk.
(Presumably because it's a cloop filesystem.) It also doesn't provide
KNOPPIX or Debian as an install option (but does provide Ubuntu,
weirdly). I think I selected "Other Linux 4.6.x". KNOPPIX installs fine,
and then I try to install the VMware Tools...
Eventually discovered how to untar the tarball. Run the installer (Perl
script). It runs, says it's installed, asks to run the configuration
tool. When that runs, it tells me no precompiled binary is suitable for
my kernel, do I want to try to build one? OK, sure... Where are the
kernel headers? Um, no idea.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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