WTF would ANYONE buy a WIn 7 PC?

Jeez, that is a year old at least.

Even the half year old Knoppix disc has a more recent kernel than that.

Get with it, dork.

Use XFCE

Which brings up a question: Why are banks in the US not using transaction numbers? European ones use these TAN since more than a decade. You get a large sheet with numbers in the mail. When sending money to uncle Leroy their online portal asks you to put in TAN number

Ok, you have to carry a copy of the sheet if you want to use the service while on the road but that's a small inconvenience considering the security it affords.

The new Ubuntu is lame. Unity is lame.

IF I run Ubu, I will run 9 or 10 at the most.

The new stuff is utter crap.

I will more likely just run Knoppix.

A big improvement with Windows 7 over Win XP is that the 64-bit version is supported by drivers for just about everything.

On the minus side, 16 bit apps no longer work without installing a VM- that includes many early microcontroller development tools.

Is anyone running a Win7 or WinXP VM for engineering applications (CAE, CAD, FEA, or CAM) under Linux or MacOS?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I can't run my pc's Laying on couch as I'm doing now.

Greg

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I still have a 98se dual boot with w2k. I can work with xp. My laptop has vista. I wanted to install xp on that, but I may be giving that away. I'm afraid to buy a w7 laptop. Most new motherboards do not support w2k.

Great pizza has some black spots, and the crust is not even. That said my kmart makes cheap tasty 'hot and ready' little ceasars I'll eat in a pinch. Have yet to have a great pizza made in a conveyor belt oven. They are so common.

Greg

You better hope that particular Kmart isn't on their closure lists or you'll starve, in a pinch. ;-)

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Also heard from a friend who lost her phone in Australia that if a phone is reported lost, the carrier will disable the phone so that it is useless to any thief. She was surprised when someone returned her phone, then read about that. Why isn't this done here in the US? (shrug)

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Wow thanks, Fred! A single line... huh!

I modified it a bit to allow for spaces in the filename.

for file in *.mp3; do mv "$file" evanescence"$file"; done

Thanks heaps! I'm adding this to my journal of common Linux commands.

Michael

Some banks etc in Aus supply a device slightly larger than the average USB memory stick which has a small display that comes up with a number each time you press the button and it becomes the current transaction number which you provide to the transaction in progress. No sure how it works but reading the above description of TANs it would seem it is just like the paper action without carrying a clumsy piece of paper.

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Cool! Getting the hang of this.

Michael

Check on Win98SE and Win2K(sp4). And drivers for Win98SE on newer computers is a problem. To read otherwise unsupported SATA drives, try UIDE.SYS in config.sys (entry line "DEVICEHIGH=UIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 /S2 /Q:/CDRW" no quotes).

BTW, search for and try nusb32e.exe in Win98SE; does wonders for USB support.

Not all EE's have those problems... ;)

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You could ditch Firefox and install Chrome. It's a bit faster. Just sayin'. =3D)

In some respects the networking is better. However, I just found out with two NICs W7 gets mighty confused if you send data to a subnet which is physically disconnected and then you connect the subnet. XP and W2k didn't have this particular problem, but W7 sure does. Pain in the buttocks!

Yes, that's exactly what I have been doing for the past view years. I have been using VirtualBox.

Mortifyingly (for a linux convertee) the main thing I have to use the VM for is my own Access database that holds all our parts lists and vendor info.

It is also useful for things like all the demo boards that come with a USB connection and windows specific software. The USB drivers always seem to work fine for me in the VM.

Re the 16bit applications, you can of course install an older windows in another VM. I also use the DOS emulator dosbox to run an ancient DOS compiler (the one that we managed to get the dongle-free version of).

I use the native linux for PCB design, and embedded programming, as well as the usual browsing/email/word processing/spreadsheet/manuals stuff.

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One of my banks uses the one-time pad of TAN numbers that Joerg refers to, while the other gave me a small calculator-like device with a twelve-button keyboard (0-9 and "C" and "OK"). When I interact with the second bank, I have to plug my bank-card (which contains a chip) into the device, key in my four-digit PIN (personal identity number) then some six digit number which comes up on the computer screen.

The device then calculates a new six digit number which I have to read off its screen and type into my computer.

I've got to do this to get to see my bank statement, and again (with a different starting number) if I want to transfer money.

Presumably this all relies on a complicated hashing scheme that can be shown to be hard to crack - possibly even some form of public-key encryption - but I've yet to see any discussion of what they are doing, and bankers were famously slow in getting serious about encryption.

The bank that sends me the one-time pad now offers a parallel secure portal that seems to rely on the calculator-like number generator, so the one-time pad may be on its way out.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

He even had to rewrite part of his book because of this.

Vista was basically "Windows XP Millennium", ie a marketing device designed to make the following OS look fast compared.

True. Not the easiest one but once you get accustomed you can't live without it. On free operating systems (don't forget BSD and others) nobody leaves out a feature to make you pay for it at the next release, and nobody slows down the system like a slug because they're pushing their crappy development platform (.NET).

I purchased recently a couple mini PC by ASRock, both without operating system as I would have installed Linux on them. That made me save some good money.