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I use a Fedora ive CD (I like Fedora)
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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I always set up my machines with two copies of the O/S in separate partitions and set one as the primary boot with a three-second delay on boot manager. Then if, as has happened more than once, my O/S won't boot, I boot to the other one and use it to fix the first one - I have done this three times in the last ten or so years with success every time. The only time I had a problem was with an actual hardware failure on the main boot drive.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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I actually have 2 drives in my system, but the data drive has never been bootable - seems like I should change that 
Soren Madsen
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That's a very useful strategy to know about, if it's an OS failure, and not a drive failure, thanks !
I am curious to know what software tools you used on the second partition OS, that you booted from after the first partition OS boot failed, to help you restore/repair the OS on the first partition ... if you care to say more.
appreciately, Bill
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Oprah, chief spokesperson for America's obese and bored, at first said that the Surface RT was like a "Toyota Prius," but quickly changed that to "Mercedes Benz" [^].
In Hangzhou, China, a Gangnam-style dancing robot wins first prize in robot-dancing contest [^].
The fact that I experience these two events as connected convinces me that I am sick in the head, which other people have been telling me for years, but I have, always, denied that, with bared fangs, until now, when I heard myself saying it.
best, Bill
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Well that does it - I'm getting a Surface.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Well that does it - I'm getting a SurfaceGangnam dancing robot.
Fuxed (as they say in NZ)
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When I see those robots, I always have to think of this[^]. Please note who does not sing that song.
Their microcontrollers are a little weak for true AI, I certainly don't want to play around with some kind of robot BASIC (why does it always have to be BASIC?) and (for the ROBONOVAs) some more spophisticated sensors or hands would also help.
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CDP1802 wrote: Please note who does not sing that song
That's very intriguing; I knew that the original Ray Bolger recording was re-done to be more lively; are you saying that's not (one of) Bolger's or Garland's own voices ?
thanks, Bill
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No, not quite. We were talking about robots, but it's the scarecrow and not the tin man who would like to have a brain.
modified 4-Nov-12 7:25am.
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Hi CDP1802,
Well, your subtlety ran off me like rain off teflon: I assumed, because your link was to the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) and Dorothy (Judy Garland) singing that song, that you were referring to some interesting factoid about their duet in the movie I wasn't aware of.
Now, I consider this failure of mine to connect your comments to the gangnam-robot, a possible sign that I am not as sick in the head as I was telling myself I was earlier
Did you know that the first actor playing the tin-man in the movie was going to be Ray Bolger, and that Bolger lobbied very hard to swap roles with the actor who played the scarecrow ?
The original actor playing the tin-man then almost died as a result of inhaling the aluminium powder make-up they put on him. The studio execs thought something was fishy about that actor's absence from the set, and didn't believe the actor was really sick until: they went to the hospital, and found him in an iron-lung.
So, another actor was brought in to play the tin-man; and, this time, the make-up artists used a protective coating over the actor's skin, before applying whatever it was that made his flesh look metallic.
Thanks for the puzzle !
best, Bill
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Worry not Bill. We've all had moments like yours. It was comforting to read that Oprah has taken time out from eating greasy burgers and dodging salads to endorse the Surface. I have no choice but to order one just as soon as I can lever myself off the sofa.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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BillWoodruff wrote: Oprah, chief spokesperson for America's obese and bored
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Hi,
I recently got a Registry cleaner, and am evaluating it's report.
It correctly found remnants in the registry of long deleted programs. It also found (in my case) 693 invalid Com links. This has probably to do with bad un-installers. The claim is, that removing these (defunct) links will speed up my computer. I fail to see how, and am contemplating a complaint to the OFT
(The OFT is the GB Office of Fair Trade, by explanation to those living outside the UK, The OFT is a government agency which investigates whether a claim stated in an advertisement about a product, actually matches the performance of the product).
In my mind, the 693 invalid com links will probably never be called, because the programs using same, where uninstalled a long time ago. (the UnInstall forgot to remove the link in the registry)
Now, 693 invalid Registry links take up a little bit of disk space. The OS at Start up also has to scan through these. I cannot see a material slowdown here. The Windows Startup Process seems (correctly) to ignore bad links.
The Registry is a pile of concrete blocks to write grafiti on. Write the wrong thing, on the wrong block, and you're in trouble
Now, for those insistent on 'Cleaning' the Registry, One can only scan documented Reg Keys used by the Windows OS. Is there any guidance on how Windows physically registers information such as a Com Object in the Registry.
I am planning to write a small Open Source program in MFC that does just that. Microsoft should have provided a tool like that years ago!
Regards,
Bram van Kampen
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Hi Bram,
You may know this already, but what you'll hear from any official Microsoft support forum, is that you should never use a registry cleaner, or defragmentor (also spelled "defragmenter").
May I suggest you view a thread I posted on a specific free registry cleaner product, on CP's Free Tools forum [^].
I include links to Google searches on both "pro," and "con," views of this issue, and cite my own experience on an official MS support forum.
best, Bill
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Bill,
I've been a long-term fan and subscriber of RegistryWorkshop. It has a defragmenter and I've run it several times without any problems. I don't know if doing so has placed a latent gotcha which'll bite my hairy hooves later but so far it's not been a problem. Considering how critical the registry is it is wise to advocate caution all the same.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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I think you have done a correct analysis.
Microsoft DID make a free tool for this purpose years ago. It was called regclean and the last version was 4.1. (I believe I may have a copy somewhere if you want it for academical reasons)
They removed it from their download page some ten years ago when they found out that it broke the functionality of Office.
Office started registering entries in the registry without corresponding files for their install when needed feature.
It could be discussed if that was correct usage, but Office is the major income for Microsoft, so I think the discussion was shortlived
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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I also have a copy of RegClean. It was a life-saver in the old days when we used VB6. VB6 was plagued by broken COM links and other incompatible-cum-broken object references. RegClean was I'm sure designed by Microsoft to make the VB6 developers life a little easier. I've not used it in years and that was roughly the same time I was able to bury VB6 once and for all.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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Bram van Kampen wrote: I am planning to write a small Open Source program in MFC that does just that.
It won't be Open Source if it uses MFC.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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Hi,
Well, point taken, the intention is that the part that I write is freeware.
Bram van Kampen
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Using MFC will still cause problems, as anyone who wishes to use it will need a copy of the MFC libraries, which are not automatically shipped with Windows.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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Hi Richard,
It is my understanding that the 'Standard Retail' MFC libraries are fully redistributable. That is at least what Microsoft tells me. At any rate, if that where not the case, and if they were not included with Windows, NO MFC program would work at all, including most of the modern network languages, which at some stage (unbeknownst to either the user or the developer) link in to MFC.
Kind Regards, and thanks for raising this point.
Bram van Kampen
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Well, I Don't think I will. Go to the root of the thread.
Bram van Kampen
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I decided to not use the portable web development system I had set up on my flash drive, and deleted the files. Today, I decided to create a new environment on my 1TB USB3.0 Portable Hard Drive, and have finally gotten (gotcha, Chris) it working.
Server Part:
Development Environment:
And, OT, what is it with the Hamsters and links with underscores?
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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