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New Ultimate Extras

I doubt the EU or DOJ would care as long as Microsoft adds software developed with a level playing field, i.e. * uses published open standards / documented OS APIs to make the code work * doesn't force / manipulate resellers / integrators to discourage 3rd party tool sales / integration *...
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- Post #12
- Sep 25, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Is it safe to alias system directories?

Into single user mode you can do without /home. /var will probably be needed for any runlevel above single user, though.
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- Post #5
- Sep 25, 2008
- Forum: Open Source
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filemon type program for Linux

Holy overkill. You can use things like 'lsof' or whatever to see what files a process has open. But usually reading the manuals and sysadmin guides / tips for something is more effective than trying to reverse engineer / debug the program at a low level and hoping you'll figure it out...
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- Post #4
- Sep 25, 2008
- Forum: Open Source
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Nasty Intel Driver in Kernel v2.6.27-rc7 that Bricks your NIC

OUCH. That is just horrible driver design / QA, but also hardware design -- it should not be POSSIBLE to brick a piece of hardware due to a software bug. Especially a NIC. At worst you should have to reflash its EEPROM but that shouldn't be critical since it isn't typically your PC's main...
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- Post #2
- Sep 25, 2008
- Forum: Open Source
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how do I make CTRL+C work normally in FC9?

man stty stty intr ^c If ^c is your interrupt character in the shell you're launching a program from then a process that is launched from that shell should be interruptable by it (eventually -- it may take some time for the buffered output to flush). If it doesn't work, it is possible that...
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- Post #3
- Sep 25, 2008
- Forum: Open Source
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New Ultimate Extras

Wow, that's just ... sad. Games are NICE and all, but how about something really USEFUL like, say, being able to burn an ISO CD/DVD image, or some better image processing / browsing / editing tools, or some file/email security tools to interoperate with GPG/PGP/DSS/..., a good SSH...
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- Post #10
- Sep 25, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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How do I password protect my folders in Vista?

"...no software to install...." -- Vista doesn't have such a capability that I'm aware of in all of its editions including the most common ones (home / starter / etc.). They crippled or removed the disk/file/folder encryption, they took away the ability to make password protected zip files...
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- Post #6
- Sep 25, 2008
- Forum: Windows
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Need tool to show memory / CPU usage for FireFox tabs

FF uses threads instead of processes to open tabs, so many of the resource monitoring capabilities of the OS in terms of memory usage tracking and CPU time tracking are not so easily applied to them. I'd think the best thing would be if FF3 had such data stored / calculated within its own...
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- Post #2
- Sep 25, 2008
- Forum: Windows
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Moving Program Files folder

Maybe...I am confused. What do you mean my E: is your Documents? As in you made Vista's "built in" user login "My Documents" type profile directory go to E: and NOT C: anymore? What do you mean G: has Program Files/Program Files (x86)? 1: As in you used some system tweaker to make...
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- Post #15
- Sep 23, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Moving Program Files folder

Maybe...I am confused. What do you mean my E: is your Documents? As in you made Vista's "built in" user login "My Documents" type profile directory go to E: and NOT C: anymore? What do you mean G: has Program Files/Program Files (x86)? 1: As in you used some system tweaker to make...
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- Post #14
- Sep 23, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Moving Program Files folder

Maybe...I am confused. What do you mean my E: is your Documents? As in you made Vista's "built in" user login "My Documents" type profile directory go to E: and NOT C: anymore? What do you mean G: has Program Files/Program Files (x86)? 1: As in you used some system tweaker to make...
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- Post #13
- Sep 23, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Software based solution to for RAID like setup for *nix

http://lime-technology.com/ UnRAID might do what you want. Selectable folder duplication? Sure, OpenSolaris and ZFS can do that with ditto blocks. Also you can have it combine any number of mirrored sets or RAIDZ groups together into one big pool even if the component mirrors / RAIDZs are...
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- Post #3
- Sep 23, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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HOT! Car MP3 Player FM Transmitter with SD Slot and IR Remote (SD/MMC/USB Port/MP3) NOW 6.89 Free Shipping!

Pictures, please. I'd like to know how to tell them apart and to see if I got the old or new revision. Mine puts out a pretty quiet FM signal on its maximum volume setting, so I assume I may have the old version. If they have a new revision that is much louder I might order one or two.
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- Post #99
- Sep 22, 2008
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Backup Software Recommendations

Check out Cobian.. it should be able to do full file oriented backups as well as incremental file backups. I don't believe / remember it doing anything like partition image backups, though, but those are of limited flexibility anyway. Check out some of the other links like clonezilla and...
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- Post #3
- Sep 22, 2008
- Forum: Windows
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Turning Vista Enterprise into Ultimate

They're right about the feature limitations in enterprise, but as the previous response said, I don't think you can change the active features except during installation time. Enterprise is not so bad.. install something like VLC to play DVDs and other media and you have virtually all the...
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- Post #3
- Sep 22, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems

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