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OriginalGriff wrote: and doesn't require an extra OS licence
Would you really worry about that, in this sort of context?
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Yes. I'm of that mind set: if you use something, you give recompense. Beer, food, chocolate, ... for friends who help; money for software writers. I even buy shareware I use once I've decided it's worth while using.
If nothing else, it encourages those who produce good stuff to produce more!
And a VM needs an OS - in this case a OS compatible with the Nasty Stuff - if any - to identify it's actual nastiness. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Yes. I'm of that mind set: if you use something, you give recompense.
But this is Windows we're talking about - which gives us all so much grief, surely it balances out? (and then some...)
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Windows has been good to me, over the years.
I remember the fun of getting a network (co-ax, in those days, none of yer fancy RJ45 stuff) up and running; keeping it that way before Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. Suddenly, you could just plug it in, install Windows and share files, and printers. And it's got better - with a number of retrograde steps - over the years. Even Win 10 isn't bad - ugly, schizophrenic, greedy as hell, clumsy at times, yes: but not actually bad - it's solid, competent, and has a huge supply of damn good software.
Paying for it used to be the price for that, and it was worth paying (with a few exceptions I managed to avoid). A VM? I'd need another license, and I only have Win7 ones to spare.
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OriginalGriff wrote: it's solid, competent, and has a huge supply of damn good software.
I take it you're not talking about the Microsoft store. 
(if you are, you might want to let them know, I'm sure they'll be as surprised as anyone else)
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It's cold.
It's dark.
It's raining.
But ... it's polling day today in the UK, and we vote on a new government. Which means that by law they aren't allowed to campaign any more. Herself has had the TV news on for over ten minutes and not once have they mentioned the "B" word! Or slagged off the "opposition". Ahhhhh ...
To be honest the presenters are looking somewhat lost without the only thing they have covered for three and a half years.
Only problem is ... this ends at 22:00, and then they will be back to "normal".
If only this day could last forever ...
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Yes, it is strangely quiet here - no school run of course.
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Another bonus! 
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Aaah, thats why I was not up to neck in kids 
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I bet you can make that run in less than 12 parsecs.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Not on a normal schoolday he can't!
You just try enabling warp drive during the school run, and you'll be ejecting the warp core before you get 100m.
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Do they even have groundhogs in Wales?
(Groundhog Day (film) - Wikipedia
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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We have roadhogs.
And groundnuts.
So that probably counts.
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Listened to R4 on the drive in to work. Great to have news rather than politicians lying
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RugbyLeague wrote: Listened to R4 on the drive in to work. Great to have news rather than politiciansBBC interviewers lying
FTFY.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Listened to R4 on the drive in to work. Great to have news rather than politicians and BBC interviewers lying
FTFY!
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The Radio 4 Farming Today programme at 05:45 was talking about communing with trees.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Now that the election campaign is over, you're more likely to get a response from them than from a politician.
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, that's a downside.
But I don't listen to radio at 05:45, so I'll let it pass. #TodayForever!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Only problem is ... this ends at 22:00, and then they will be back to "normal".
Not just normal - it'll be worse tonight while they get over-excited about the latest exit poll & prediction, or a potential sighting of B**** in a freezer or tumble dryer or something...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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It is Truckersday in NL!
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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And very apt that we'll find out who's in charge on Friday 13th. 
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