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Is it something local here or do you have it also?
(I think that it closed the gap between school opening sales and end of year sales)
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Must be local, we've only achieved Crazy Eights technology here 
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This is Wales, we just have the Three Seashells.
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Hopefully not the ones from the movie Demolition Man
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Eric Lynch doesn't know how to use the three seashells! 
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I was going to say that I've been known to go Crazy Eddie, from time to time, but I did a web search (to make sure I'd got the name right), and found that the name has a whole new meaning, in the US.
Moties, man, I mean moties.
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From now, I shall drink for evil.
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Personally, I drink for the time being
I am almost afraid to ask what concoction one drinks for evil. I'm guessing it minimally involves cheap tequila.
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Eric Lynch wrote: I'm guessing it minimally involves cheap tequila.
And don't forget the worm. Shades of Poltergeist II.
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Good ole Mezcal...Tequila's evil twin.
I'd add gin, but I hear rumors of folk who don't get irrationally angry when drinking it. Also, adding gin has always seemed unwise to me
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I remember Gordon Lightfoot at a concert said,
"I don't drink any thing stronger than pop, and my Pop will drink anything"
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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  thanks for the laugh, if only I could give it two upvotes.
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I drink for or five, just to warm up.
It doesn't do much good for my typing, though.
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yeah, I'll up vote that
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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So I have some filter (ISP based) to block unwanted content (mostly for kids, but not only)...
Yesterday I wanted to go on and edit an other part of the HTML/CSS story once started, and behold - the editing is blocked... I can read what I have already in the article, but editing is blocked...
As I have no idea what my password (or username) is I will have to connect them by phone... 
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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0) I installed VMWare on my Windows 7 desktop and created a Win7 VM (just because it was convenient to do it that way, and I wanted to make sure I could use a couple of important Windows apps (VS2017 and DVDFab) without issue.
1) I then installed Linux Mint 19 on the box (on a different drive, just in case things went sideways). I'm entering this message from the Linux install.
2) I installed VMWare Player on the Linux install, but it refused to open the VM via its UI. I had to go browse to the location (it's on a NTFS drive) and open it with the linux file manager. When I finally got it open, I discovered that the host shares in the VM couldn't connect. I assumed that it was because the shares weren't setup i, and when I went to do that, I found that samba wasn't installed (which is weird because Mint installed pretty much everything else). I've still got to reboot to enable samba.
3) Since this is my main desktop, I decided to try changing some appearance aspects. I really don't like the icon theme, because all of the icons are square and don't resemble the icons I'm expecting at all - I still haven't figured out how to get what I want out of the UI.
4) The theme stuff is bizarre (in my eyes), and has some strange side-effects. I went to the dark boarders and controls, and Firefox buttons don't show any icons, and some web sites won't display text in their buttons (this is probably bugs in the web sites that exhibit that problem problem). When I went back to the default border/controls theme, the Firefox (and web site) buttons came back.
5) I'm still trying to come to grips with the hot key differences in Linux. Linux does not seem to treat the number key pad the same as Windows. Highlighting text is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're gonna get. The complete description would bore the crap out of everyone, so I'm not going to say anything more than "it ain't at all like windows".
So, I'm off to reboot to enable samba.
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seems odd that samba is required.
Have you mounted the NTFS drive in linux first?
From there should be able to create the shares in VMWare manager / control center as if they were like any other linux directory.
The linux layer takes care of the FS differences, it's just another directory.
Using virtualbox (on linux) I create the shares for the windows hosts in the VB manager (i.e. not within the guests themselves).
Having done that I boot the guest and the shares are automgically there (already mounted as shared drives - I didn't have to do a thing within the guest.)
Didn't need samba at all, virtualbox has it's own methods.
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Yeah, that's VB wiring up Samba behind the scenes. Samba (or another SMB provider) is 100% required to provide a file share to Windows in a way that it can consume without running additional software.
The shake-n-bake setup in virtualization managers fine for flat network configurations, but as soon as you want to do interesting stuff it becomes cumbersome, and tends to break, quickly.
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ahhh, logical [from virtbox] coz why reinvent the wheel?
also explains why at a later stage I installed SAMBA (for physical inter-box connection) and noticed before I started there were already some pieces of it there. (I'm on lubuntu.)
also begs the question why vmware wouldn't do the same?
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Well, VirtualBox largely targets end (power) users, while VMWare targets SysAdmins.
I can tell you from hard experience that the more "baked in" stuff a VM has, the harder it is to work with when you have to customize interactions with it.
That said, with VMWare Tools installed in a VM you can indeed do folder sharing, which infers that it does not use Samba, but a proprietary mechanism.
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Why Mint? and What Flavor of Mint is it?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Mint 19.
Because it’s the most windows like distro, and it’s the one I’m going to install on SWMBO’s machine.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Isn't every weekend now Linux weekend for you? I mean, not expecting an OS/2 warp weekend soon 
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I figured people would be interested, because - well, you know - the win 10 October update...
Nobody is interested in windows weekends.
Here’s a funny - I actually thought about os2 a couple of days ago. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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