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You get an upvote fur that one.
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This stuff is bennevisicial to no-one!
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My dear Griffington,
What kind of Nutflix would you expect, in the Soapbox?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Oh sure. Owls like who-lu, tropical animals prefer Amazon, and the insects still stick with the classic antennae.
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And cows prefer K-bull while sheep prefer ewe-tube?
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Yikes! Squirrel porn, I'll pass
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OK, it was an obscure word:
Stereotypically mouldy
float F
goes far LONG
FLONG[^]
Quote: In relief printing, a flong is a temporary negative mould made of a forme of set type, in order to cast a metal stereotype (or "stereo") which can be used in a rotary press, or in letterpress printing after the type has been broken down for re-use.
I'm up tomorrow and I'll try to make it a simpler word ... but I liked this one! I guess my mother being a printer helped.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well done, it's was good to have an unsolvable one... exercises the brain for a change!
Your spelling of "mouldy" did have me down the mould path (hence cast/pitch), and I also was working with "long" for a while too. I even figured "float" for "f" at one point... however, just never managed to put all the pieces together at the same time. Probably doesn't help I didn't know the word in the first place.
And "Stereotypically" really through me off on this one.
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A very quick google would have given you the definition I quoted!
(I tend to google before I post, given that my spelling is abysmal)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I was thinking 'pond scum' but then I thought - "Why would Griff be so self-referential!" That CCC is just downright mean.
But on the plus side at least the CCC wasn't solved by the time I got on line this morning (I was early and it went long - so I would finally get a chance to solve one of these... Nope - I got nothin!)
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Thanks! I'll be sure to remember that ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well you have to admit that the CCC was pretty nasty. I mean you went way out there for that one.
(Does that make it far-flong?)
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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My father was a printer but it didn't help me
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Take a Bow, Sir
It was tough
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Because of Microsoft's many recent screwups, I am considering moving over to Linux as my main O/S. At the moment, I still have quite a few projects that must be developed under Windows, So I will need to keep my Windows machine as a VM. My questions:
- Are there any recommendations for tools that can convert a physical partition to a VM?
- What are the licensing issues? Will I have to purchase a completely new license for the VM, or can I transfer the license from the physical machine?
- Should I use a type 1 ("bare metal") hypervisor, or go with a type 2 ("hosted") hypervisor? Any recommendations?
Thanks.
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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Depends on what type of VM you want.
I know that VM Ware has a free tool that can create a VM from a physical computer. I've used it once and the result was excellent.
You can try having a look at this:
How to Convert a Physical Windows or Linux PC to a Virtual Machine
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Thanks; I'll try it out.
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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I can confirm that Sysinternals Disk2vhd works fine too
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Nice. Something new learned today. Most surprising thing is that its already on my PC!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I'll vouch for Disk2VHD as well. I've only ever converted one machine, but it worked flawlessly.
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just as an aside I looked at doing this (and heard reports it works well)
but then I realised I would be offloading a lot of other things to the linux host, web browser, email, video watching, music even most office work (documents), plus there was a few years of other cruft on the windows box either no longer used (dvd burners) as well as the inwvitable talings of uninstalled programs,
thus I went clean slate on the windows vm, basically: windows, 7zip, np++ and vs2017, another one same except vs2013 (so no version X spoiling version Y). And really I can see a difference, some of the quirks (from some uninstalled progs) that had built up over time were all gone.
I did need ms office for some interop apps (since converted away), so yet another VM with just office. (Similarly if you do have some win only req can either add it to your dev VM, or have a separate VM.)
Oh yeah, and another one: plain w10 for testing (above all w7).
The multiple VM's used a common shared directory where all my work files are, so I could even compile on one and flip to another to test.
If I need another clean VM, just copy the base of one of the existing VM's - far easier then installing and setting up windows from scratch each time.
Bonus: testing vanilla VM's - you will soon find out if for example you are relying on something that is particular to your dev env, previous releases or even own machine. (no more chance of the embarrassing, "oops, forgot about that, please wait while I download and install it.")
incremental backups really easy: using snapshots don't need to backup the entire VM each time, can have branched snapshots on snapshots and roll back, prune, so many versions of your machine on all on one physical box, one backup... way less admin (backups, networking, setting permissioning..... ) than running multiple machines.
And really don't waste metal on windows: Without even testing for that I noticed with 3 simultaneous VMs running they all performed as well as the machine when it was single install win only, windows (on new HW) is like buying a Ferrari that has been speed limited to 50. Total waste!
licensing:
my install on VM didn't like my license (it is a real lic) so screw it, I just went VL on the guests and run a VL auth host on the linux - doing it the naughty way and I know 2 longs don't make a light but no animals were harmed and don't really care to waste any more time on ms license stupidity.
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Lopatir wrote: Bonus: testing vanilla VM's - you will soon find out if for example you are relying on something that is particular to your dev env, previous releases or even own machine. (no more chance of the embarrassing, "oops, forgot about that, please wait while I download and install it.") Or, as I've ruefully discovered, now and then, over the years "It works on my machine". Which of us hasn't fallen down that rabbit hole?
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Thank you for a very comprehensive answer. It's given me plenty of food for thought.
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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Can I ask which hypervisor you're using and which flavour of Linux?
I'm thinking of doing this on OpenSuse with Windows 10 under KVM.
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using virtualbox, on lubuntu.
lubuntu is a release of ubuntu with less extras installed; still has the installer so easy to add back what you want.
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