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I've never set up a virtual machine. Is it difficult? Can you point me to a link? Thanks.
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Greg Utas wrote: I've never set up a virtual machine. Is it difficult?
Nope. It can sometimes be a bit tricky, if the setup is very difficult, but standard things are actually pretty easy
Greg Utas wrote: Can you point me to a link?
Look for the free version for private use of VMWare-Player (I use the v12.5.9 to "virtualize" Windows XP and 7) or VirtualBox (used to restore a backup of a Linux Server, I haven't used to setup a linux desktop yet).
I have been procrastinating the Linux-Tests to setup something for the family. This could be a nice chance to get started and at the same time help you out.
If you are interested contact me using the "email" widget of the forum message, instead of using "reply".
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Gee, thanks for the generous offer. I'll bookmark your post and look into it some more, and get back to you during the next week.
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Greg Utas wrote: Gee, thanks for the generous offer.
You are welcome.
Greg Utas wrote: get back to you during the next week.
If you do, use the "email" (I have activated it) instead of "reply". I will get your CP-Email address within the message and I would answer directly over there without going through the message boards.
Or we could go to the collaboration forum (it is pretty quiet over there) if you prefer to keep your email private.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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No problem, I've used the email option before, though using the collaboration forum might also be useful for others.
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Rich Turner, a senior program manager at Microsoft, has taken to Twitter to practically beg people to move away from Cmd to PowerShell. Because it works? (And you can choose which product is "it" in that sentence.)
I think it works either way.
I get where he's coming from, as PowerShell is much more capable, but my fingers still type 'dir /r /s /p', not 'get-childitem -recurse | more'.
Yes, Mr. PowerShell Master, I could use 'gci' there. Not really much better for my fingers, IMO.
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Quote: Cmd is in maintenance mode...
And the cost of keeping it that way is insignificant. So leave it, you dummys!
But some idiot (probably the one who pushed the ribbon) will decide to ditch it just for the sake of change some day soon.
Please don't. I'll gladly let you belittle me for being wrong!!!
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A lot of people[1] suggest that Microsoft would never do something as stupid as removing CMD because, as Rich Tuner says, it's needed for legacy scripts and other stuff that are never, ever going to go away.
However... recently my impression is that Microsoft is losing its way a little but in terms of backward compatibility and its importance in the corporate marketplace. My impression is that there are people in charge there now who live and think in the legacy-free (supposedly) web mindspace and who don' know and can't understand that there's a whole corporate world out there that is vastly slower moving, where decades long compatibility matters way more than the latest cool thing. Their treatment of VB, where they can't even stick to their own strategy, is one symptom of this.
It would not surprise me (but it would sadden me) if CMD turns out to another symptom of this sooner rather than later.
Footnoote:-
1: Yes, Wikipedia would add a "Who?" tag. Well, people I've seen, ok.
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And then there are the organizations which forbid the use of PowerShell because it's too "dangerous".
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Every couple of weeks, the USAF tries to remove PowerShell from Windows on our boxes. We have to repeatedly remind them that we have to have access to it, and they turn it ion again, for a couple of weeks. It's a pain.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yep. I tried explaining to DISA that PowerShell is needed to administer Windows servers, to no avail.
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An investigation of Twitter messages reveals new insights and tools for studying how people use stretched words, such as "duuuuude," "heyyyyy," or "noooooooo." Whaaaaa?
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I feel like there's an opportunity here to see how far some individuals stretch the truuuuuuuuuuuuuuth. 
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Money supermaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahket, anyone? 
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In our study, only one in three people who had accounts on breached domains changed their passwords Well, it can't get any more secure than 'p@ssw0rd!', can it?
I could add a digit at the end, but why bother? They'll just figure that one out.
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President Trump has taken the extraordinary step of threatening to close down social media platforms. We should be so lucky
Yes, sorry. Probably too political. Apologies in advance.
However, it's technical news, so Bob decided we should include it. Less as a comment on his behaviour than on my general feelings about Facebook and Twitter (and sure, MySpace, Friendster, Tik Tok, and whatever else the cool kids are using this week.)
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I have a little list
(He has a little list)
Of sites that never would be missed
(They never would be missed)
…
Filling in the list would be Soap Box material (but fun)! 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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OK, we are getting very close to "politics" now, but I am very close to saying: Let him!
Of course it wound't work. It wound't gag his opponents.
But it would reveal a lot of his respect for democracy, freedom and human rights.
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He's rich. He can buy it and bankrupt it, like his usual. (Or not, since I doubt his billionaire claims after everything we've seen.)
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actions speak louder than words
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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ha ha
is codeproject lounge and a social media platform?
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I don't think he has a legal (constitutional) basis for doing so. That seems to me to be a clear violation of the 1st Amendment. I'd like to see the legal argument, though.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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My guess is that it would have to be done by classifying Twitter, YouTube, and whomever as publishers. If they don't edit content, they aren't considered publishers. But now that they routinely censor things that they disagree with, they can be classified as publishers. And rightly or wrongly, publishers are liable for all content. This leaves them open to all manner of lawsuits or even criminal prosecution if, for example, they don't quickly take down illegal material. This isn't just child porn or whatever, but also things that violate copyright, which are rife on these sites.
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Insider news is the new Soapbox? why am I just finding out bout this? 
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