jaclaz

Point #5 of the read-me-first: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143880-seagate-barracuda-720011-read-me-first/ further expanded here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/page-121#entry932258 jaclaz

Sure. But the idea in my snippet was to remove any "IF". And also any "SET" can be removed: @ECHO OFFSETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONSFOR /F "tokens=2,3,4 delims=[.]" %%A IN ('ver') DO CALL :Maj_min %%A %%BGOTO :EOF:Maj_minGOTO W%2.%3GOTO :EOFor: @ECHO OFFSETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONSFOR /F "tokens=2 delims=[" %%A IN ('ver') DO CALL :Maj_min %%~nAGOTO :EOF:Maj_minGOTO W%2GOTO :EOFand if we are allowed WMIC, there is also: @ECHO OFFSETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONSFOR /F "skip=1" %%A IN ('wmic os get version') DO GOTO :W%%~nAGOTO :EOFwhich removes also the "CALL" jaclaz

Well, if you want to play that game, it could possibly be further optimized as: @ECHO OFFSETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONSFOR /F "tokens=2,3,4 delims=[.]" %%A IN ('ver') DO CALL :Maj_min %%A %%B %%CGOTO W%Maj_min%:Maj_minSET Maj_min=%2.%3ECHO %Maj_min%GOTO :EOF:W6.3ECHO Win_81.cmdGOTO :EOF:W6.2ECHO Win_8_2K12.cmdGOTO :EOF:W6.1ECHO Win_7_2K8R2.cmdGOTO :EOF:W6.0ECHO Win_Vista_2K8.cmdGOTO :EOF:W5.2:W5.1ECHO Win_XP_2K3.cmdGOTO :EOF:W5.00:w4.00ECHO Earlier NT OSjaclaz

Good. : I had expected that you would have contributed to the tradition of old gamblers on trains bound for nowhere http://www.lyricsfreak.com/k/kenny+rogers/the+gambler_20077886.html Otherwise, how would the kids learn something on the matter? jaclaz

No , the part under the bering strait is the WHOLE tunnel, the rest is a "normal" surface railroad. From the same (already posted by me) site hosting that image: http://www.interbering.com/index.html jaclaz P.S.: Oops, cross-posting with LostInSpace2012 P.P.S.: BTW, since I learned recently the expression "selling snake-oil", I would like to point out how LostInSpace2012, by not believing in the project may be losing a great opportunity : http://www.interbering.com/InterBering-investment-funding.html bolding is mine.

Yep , this is actually my job in "real life" (constructions). I will give you something more to ponder about. In the last (very,very short by these metrics) tunnel construction I was involved in, during construction ventilation was assured by means of (BIG) electric fans, two for each bore, 160 Kw each (we are talking here of a tunnel less than 3 km in length). The amount of airflow was enough to guarantee fresh air to people and machines working inside the gallery. By using entirely electrically powered machinery, one can possibly reduce the amount of needed fresh air to 1/2 or 1/4 (the example tunnel I am talking about was excavated with "conventional" diesel machinery). But the amount of power needed to provide fresh air at some 30 km (or 50 Km ) from the outside would be anyway impressive . Everything gets very complex when these kind of lengths are involved. To give you another simple example, in the "conventional" tunnel, cars/pickups traveled in the excavated part at no more than 30 km/h (for security reasons), which means that a shift of workers was carried from the outside to the actual excavation site on average in 2-3 minutes (and in case of any problem that was the time for the emergency squad to get there) and carried out at the end of the shift in the same time. If the same speed limit applies (in these type of tunnels access is on rails) the train carrying personnel will take 1-2 hours to do the same. This in practice means that you won' t be having anymore the "normal" 3 shifts/day, 8 hours each, but 4 by 6 hours each for a large part of the excavating process, and then possibly 5 shifts by 4:45 hours. jaclaz

Yes, you got it right , and that adapter should be fine (the PL2303 should use the "lower" TTL level) . BTW this is explained in read-me-first: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143880-seagate-barracuda-720011-read-me-first/ points #6 and #10 which you really should READ FIRST (ALL of it). BUT, for the record, it is not particularly "difficult" to find which wire is what on a CA-42. The FGA #6 deals with it: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/147532-fga-for-the-seagate-720011-drives/ jaclaz

@Mhz My guess is that the batch exits/terminates before that. @ghosttracer I would also test this snippet: SET "_OSV="FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS=[" %%A IN ('VER') DO (SET "_OSV=%%B"CALL SET "_OSV=%%_OSV:* =%%" & CALL SET "_OSV=%%_OSV:~,3%%")IF %_OSV% LSS 5.1 GOTO :EOFIF %_OSV% LSS 6.0 (ECHO= Installing Internet Explorer 8IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe /passive /update-no /no-default /norestart) ELSE (ECHO= Internet Explorer 8 Not Required & ECHO= Disabling HibernationPOWERCFG -h off)after having modified it in such a way that you understand what actually happens, like (example): And, I would start the batch with: jaclaz

The channel tunnel was made possible by a number of "coincidences". Among others, the geology of the area (which is mainly a constant layer of chalk marl) and the low depth of the actual channel. Length is an issue, and it depends also on the difference of levels, the "chunnel" is only around 75 m deep. The actual underwater part of the tunnel is around 38 km, but the overall length is around 50. A train (and particularly high speed ones) cannot deal very well with slopes. The normal slope of railway is 1%, high speed one tend to have 0.5%. This means that to go down or up 1m you need a 100 to 200 m of length ramp. However (among the many) issues with length of a tunnel is the time it takes to go through it, as there are speed limits that you simply cannot break, as the train itself acts like a piston inside a bore,and there are are "relief valves" to stabilize air pressure in the two train tunnels. In "normal" tunnels there are usually (vertical) wells/shafts that connect the tunnels to the surface to allow for air intake and exhaust. The current max speed in the Channel tunnel is 160 Km/h and though this can be increased a bit, to actually make it sensibly higher one would need to make a much bigger tunnel in diameter. However, the idea is not entirely new, JFYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing and: http://www.interbering.com/index.html The studied tunnel in the above would be around 120 Km, which is a little more than twice the chunnel length, much better than four times , and, since it will "cross" two small islands: http://www.interbering.com/Bering-Tunnel-Cross-Section.html it allows for the ventilation shafts, and each "completely" underwater stretches are each not much longer than the current channel tunnel. Luckily enough there are also no real issues connected with depth, though the different geological situation may cause some problems. Overall, the tunnel construction seems technically feasible. The biggest problems as I see it will be the actual climate in the areas, that may limit severely the construction times (increasing construction times and costs) and also the maintenance costs to keep the railway operational that may reveal to be prohibitive, we are talking of -20° to -50° C, operating (particularly electrically powered and "high-speed") railways in these climates is not easy. jaclaz

Sure, but the good things about numbers are that they can be expressed in so many ways. I would define 200 km as "more than 5 times the length of the longer undersea tunnel ever built" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel The diameter of the Earth implies that it is roughly spherical, something that is still debated : http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm http://theflatearthsociety.org/ jaclaz

@bphlt Actually, there are several reasons why an EULA itself may be partially or totally illegal (or void) in itself, but if an Author (for whatever reasons) decides to NOT release the Sources of his/her code as "Open Source" or as "Public Domain", the sources remain UNavailable, so the matter is not about an EULA, but rather on the legality of decompiling/disassembling binaries (and using such derivative work which is illegal because of "generic" Laws, not necessarily because of the EULA). The known issues (which maybe were even a bit overhyped) about ReactOS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS and clean-room (or Chinese wall) reverse engineering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_reverse_engineering#Reverse_engineering should have teached us something on the matter. jaclaz

Hmm but how about this little thing called out of any support. Would that apply to presto engine too. Dont mean to double ask this, but I think this might be a key. Sure , ask anyone with an even minimal familiarity with Copyright, software and intellectual property related Laws about the validity of this (anonymous/apodictic - with all due respect to vinifera ) sentence: in an actual Court (in any of the countries that do have such Laws). jaclaz

The MBOOTPATH does not contribute to forming the HFSLIP and HFSLIPSVC variables anymore: Like: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/158622-hfsvcpack-and-hdd-based-installation-bug-fix/ Or maybe the above mod introduced a form of "regression bug" for multiboot CD's, if this is the case, try the version immediately before that mod. It's a lot of time I don't use HFSLIP and possibly I never used it in/for a multibootCD, but maybe you are expecting by the MBOOTPATH something different from what was in the intention of the Author: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/80426-feature-request-bounty-better-multi-boot-support/ (and that the new code has now made "automatic") If you check this (german, but google translate is not that bad) guide: http://cypressor.twoday.net/stories/2597337/ you will see how you slipstream each source and then copy the SOURCESS folder AS the \I386\ in the various DVD folder structure. Maybe you were expecting HFSLIP to do that for you? jaclaz

I have rarely seen such a Wise (pun intended ) statement. jaclaz

No, it is not a "special field" (and it is right that is not "dynamic" as, if you open the same worksheet on another PC/another instance of Excel with a different user name all comments would change accordingly ), it is a sort of "quick template". But still, you can use VBA to change the values in the comments: http://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/678-excel-change-comment-author.html Please understand that this is basically a "replace" function, so hopefully in your case you won't have anything except you initials JD actually containing "JD" or "jd". By default what you should actually have in the comment is "JD:", I would add the ":" colon sign in both the "search" and "replace" fields. Of course test on a copy of the file, first. jaclaz

Maybe I can try translating submix8c post in the way I understood it. HTH jaclaz

Well, that KB is documented here: http://hfslip.altervista.org/yellow/changelog.htm It only makes sense if you use an obsolete version of Windows Media Player. And allow me to be a bit skeptical about it being actually a "critical" one. jaclaz

Well, IMHO it's a good thing that they were, "many, many", as those "kisses" had the highest cost ever seen, in total around US$ 70 million (and the actual taxpayers paid the bill for Bill ). Wait, the good US taxpayers also got a lousy report : http://www.salon.com/2002/03/13/ray_3/ http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CDOC-105hdoc311/content-detail.html jaclaz

I guess there might be an issue with WHERE EXACTLY Monica will be kissing Bill in the image. jaclaz

Well, with all due respect , it's not like "news" or "a new frontier" or "a still unresolved mistery", the Gosh and Flyakite guides are on MSFN since the dawn of time (almost). Here: http://gosh.msfn.org/ http://flyakite.msfn.org/ jaclaz

If I may, CFF explorer may make the above workflow easier: http://www.ntcore.com/exsuite.php (though I have no idea if it woud run on NT 4). Possibly other similar tools exist jaclaz

I quickly put it together for this specific case, though it is very possible that you saw something similar somewhere. jaclaz

Corrected original link , however, JFYI, my Opera has no troubles with it, even with the "spurious" characters at the end, good catch. jaclaz

Yes (but this is "normal" since it is your first time you write a batch). The base assumption however, as pointed out by Yzöwl, is "wrong" and however is not in line with asking for improvements. IF you want to check for the installed Operating System AND you want to improve your batch scripting abilities, you should start considering doing this in a proper way. Mind you, "good enough" is - obviously - "good enough", but then you should not seek to improve the code, you go binary: either it works (for you) or it doesn't (and you need to fix it), but there no sense in asking for "coding improvements". Also, you are perfectly free to NOT follow the advice that is given, but following some of it (but not all of it) makes IMHO little sense. What I suggested you: Because this way the Y or N is case insensitive and if nothing is provided, i.e. the user just presses Enter, it is assumed a "default" (of N in this example).The dots are there for a reason . (What would happen if the user hits the [sPACE] bar at the prompt before pressing [ENTER]?) As well, there are documented, "proper" ways to detect the OS, see (examples): http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/appcompat_w7.txt Personally, as another example, I would write this: As: The suggested extension for batch files under NT systems is .cmd instead of .bat (rare nowadays, but especially with a "flawed" or "missing" OS version check they may be run accidentally in DOS or Win9x/Me if they are .bat) jaclaz

Sure it has. The wiki you posted is a "reprint" (correctly linked to, BTW) of the "Original". There is NOT any difference (since they are the "exact same" thing), though when re-posting it in the Wiki that you linked to some formatting of the text got lost, and or some lines were made a link. Examples: Point #83 on https://sites.google.com/site/vmwarethewiki/Create-WIM-images-of-Windows-XP-for-system-deployment is a link leading to nowhere While Point #83 in the original is "plain text". The Wiki has no date, the original has Author and date: Sunday, August 08, 2010 Posted by Jerry Shum jaclaz