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Wow! That'll be a hard one to get! According to this, you'll need to get a version of REMIDEUP.EXE from before Nov 19, '97!!!

Bravo! That makes sense as the origin of the meaning, and comes from military use as expected (and is probably pre-1946, of course, since by 1946 the usage was so widespread it leaked into common usage).

Large drones present very-few to no technological challenges at this point in time, since the onboard remote-control and/or guidance-AI are necessarily relatively not very heavy and conventional fuels very energy efficient at those scales. A mosquito-sized drone would need to have most or all of its guidance-AI off-board and a very tiny, almost weightless, remote control unit. That's feasible, although very difficult. But the only energy source efficient enough to have it flying and doing anything useful at all for at least some minutes would be a stasis-field trapped Kamehameha (viz. かめはめ波) orb, or the like, which is, of course, beyond science.

With the TeraByte Plus Patches you can use 512TiB to 4PiB depending on Logical Sector Size. Using just LLXX's 48-bit LBA patch or RLoew's patch for the same purpose, 2 TB (not 2 TiB), provided all partitions < 1 TiB. For onboard SATA drives, another of RLoew's patches may be needed, depending on the controller's manufacturer and model.

The entry below is from the Oxford English Dictionary. Please notice the dates of the quotes for the use of interest. It's clear that it must have started as part of military jargon from WWII and slowly gained some foothold in general usage from that point. However, while it was just a concept, devoid of reality, it never became an important sense to "drone", until very recently. Things have changed already: they do exist, operate and can kill. Next step is to miniaturize (which procedure enhances their threat and/or paranoia potential)!

"Drone", in that sense, was a relatively rarely used word in English, outside comics, for a long time until the news about military uses and police uses began to hit the net, perhaps starting as far as two years ago. In that sense, a "drone" usually meant a fairily big and expensive unmanned plane-like machine, capable of taking great pictures from high altitude, or to hit some target literaly "out of the blue", in which case there uses to be an explosive payload, instead of just cam hardware. This much comes mostly from my watching and reading mainly CNN International (but also Fox News sometimes). Now, the possibility of snooping -- as you painted it -- was there from much before that, because miniature autonomous recording cams (aka "spy cams") are inexpensive and available all over the internet for more than 5 years, and remote controlled plane and helicopter aeromodels to transport and host them are around for far longer than 20 years already and are very inconspicuous, however loud, because they're usually seen as harmless toys. It's just a matter of putting one of each together, and there you got your own personal snooper drone. I'm really surprised, now you made me think of it, that I've never heard of it having been done... then again, this doesn't mean it really hasn't, since it may simply really go unnoticed most of the time, and forgotten about the rest of it. BTW, look here, for instance. *B*U*T* --- there's a *real* long way between all this and a picture-taking, working, mechatronic mosquito.

And I agree. But my case is interesting because I was able to stabilize my system without the RAM Limitation Patch and optimized the setup long and carefully, before I went on and adopted it. So I am one of the few who can actually compare both results from before and after the RAM Limitation Patch. My conclusion is the Patch makes the system way stabler, and especially so when going above 1.5 GiB. But this is based on the type of hardware I have only, of course.

Non-tripulated flying devices, capable of stationary flight are there for a long time already... here's a Brazilian one, used mainly in agriculture: VANT. I see no big deal in them, they make a real loud sound while hovering or flying, one cannot really overlook them.

Congratulations! Since you have 2 GiB RAM onboard, as soon as you are satisfied the system is really stable, feel free to submit the needed details by PM to me, and your machine shall be included in the > 1 GiB list.

Tuxera Recovery for Windows... how good is it? I'm curious about it. Tuxera is the source of the free de-facto standard NTFS driver for linux, ntfs-3g, which is really pretty good..

You're probably right, but I bet on the plugins, because my totally plain-vanilla Opera 12.15 (build1748) works as expected. I normally browse the Web using Palemoon 3.6.32 spoofed to version 19.0, which is whence I sent the original post with the link to nusb33e.

hmmm never get to the page where it actually downloads. Am I clicking the wrong links? Don't know what's going on there. I'm getting the same loop. Well, I click on the link I gave, the page blanks for a second and then the download box dialog opens asking me to save or cancel, just as I'd expect for a direct download link. What happens when you click that link? You're not expected to go to any page... you're expected to get a download box dialog.

Download Porteus 2.0, burn it to a CD and give it a try. It's as good an itroduction to slackware as you'll ever get, in a ready-to-run form. Now, having read the links you gave, I feel I must point out that the astonishing graphs you like are related to KDE 4 (the K desktop environment), not the underlying distribution. That is a difficult concept to grasp, since there's no such dichotomy under Windows (NT-Family, of course), for which the windowing system is an inseparable part of the OS. I'd say setting up Gentoo on a computer is somewhat like building your own car, and having to lathe some of the connecting pieces from bare steel in the mean-time, on top of it. Slackware is gentler than that. But boots to the console if plain-vanilla, until you give it a desktop environment, which may be KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Xfce, Trinity, CDE or any of many others I'm not familiar with. Linux, after all, is about choice!

Well, if you give a look at the latest GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline, you'll see that there are just 3 main distribution families: debian (which includes ubuntu), RedHat and Slackware. Being the sole descendant of Softlanding Linux, slackware is the oldest extant linux distribution, and IMO, the one that kept best to its original tennets. Another good option is Gentoo (head of a minor distribution family and related to slackware). Both are solid, but slackware's long history and endurance make it my choice linux distribution. RedHat is the spawn of RedHat, Inc. and debian is too much involved with ubuntu's Canonical, Ltd., since 2004. If one wants a good contemporary proprietary unix, one might as well go MacOS X+

You want linux, this is the way to go:

Your NUSB link is 404 now, LC... so here's one of mine, this one to a well tested but not the latest version of NUSB. As for AV software, I think aru's fixed ClamWin may be the best bet, nowadays, for a new installation. I don't favor no AV at all, nor do I believe in security through obscurity. @LC: There's no avoiding it: the spx subdirectory at MDGx's is toast, and, thanks to an /spx/ entry in its robots.txt, there's no backup at the wayback machine. So, all that went poof! (= vanished in the ether).

It's "gora (жора)" not "goru", and he' s an MSFN member, too.

But, IIRR, your NT of choice is XP SP2 (or have you moved on to SP3 at long last?)... and that qualifies you as a die-hard, too. Of course, being a regular DOS user (true DOS, not a simple DOS box) is also a great die-hard qualification... then again, the whole MSCDEX vs. SHSUCDX matter itself is actually a bona-fide true DOS subject.

Agreed 100%. +1 Of course. In any case, being all 9xers, up to this day and beyond, we're all die-hards by nature, and hence, hardly amenable to be convinced by mere words, ads, fads/fashion and/or peer/social pressures of any kind... and we're all fully aware of that.

And I! I refuse to be the only to resist quoting that thread, although I too see no need to debate the issue! and I much less want to be the starter of such a flame war, I'll say that the reason for recommending quite strongly SHSUCDX is simply that it was written to be much more forgiving than MSCDEX, so that it can read many optical media that are beyond MSCDEX strict format requirements. Even if you don't feel like testing it right now, do have a copy of it in your toolbox, because, sooner or later, you'll find it quite handy. And because it's open source and very well documented (although you'd have to gather at least three versions to have access to all existing documentation: John McCoy's 1.4b, Jason Hood's 3.02 ...... and Jack Ellis' 3.03F, which is the current one), confirming it remains supported and actively developed.

No matter... it should just work.

Yes, I did that last week before I called Microsoft to ask them about doing what I wanted to do. The rep told me it wouldn't work. So I have the product key, but in your 'just in case' scenario, what is having it going to do for me? I'm sorry! I should have read your 1st post more carefully. As it is, the answer to your question is: nothing much.

Sure. That settles it. And, BTW, submix8c is right, Ghost can do it right. But, just to stay on the safe side, before proceeding, do use something like Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder v1.5, or your favorite key retriever software, to retrieve and save the product key, just in case.