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From: Karl E. Peterson on 27 Jul 2010 20:22 It happens that Brian E McNamee formulated : > Yep, my licenses are legitimate. But I don't know anything about > bittorrents. Any suggestions? Sounds like there's a way to just set the > switch "ON". Grab uTorrent (www.utorrent.com) and install. It's probably the best torrent client out there. Then you need to find an appropriate torrent file to download. For a file that's commonly shared, this is a great name, as it comes at you like many firehoses. For one that hardly anyone shares, not so much. At any rate, the best torrent search site I'm aware of is www.isohunt.com, although you've probably also heard of www.piratebay.org? IsoHunt recently went all Google on us, in the US, because of a stupid court decision. Only way to get to it now, if you're here, is via an anonymizer that masks your IP. But torrents are available anywhere, really. For example: http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=Visual+Studio+6+Enterprise+Edition+filetype%3Atorrent Here's a direct link to one on Pirate Bay (which is currently hosted from within the Swedish Parliament, as I understand it?): http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5514992/Visual_Studio_6_%5BVB6%5D_Enterprise_Edition_-_%5BGuruFuel%5D You will *of course* want to take all necessary prophylactic measures! General rule of thumb, torrents with more "seeds" will arrive sooner. Good netiquette is to achieve a sharing ratio yourself of better than 1.0 before stopping your own feed. More background details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29 I know some folks will consider what I describe above as a form of piracy. I don't see it that way if you're downloading bits you're already licensed to use. YMMV. :-) -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Brian E McNamee on 28 Jul 2010 17:27 Ralph, Would you be willing to share your poster? Probably next week I'm gonna take a crack at setting files onto the monster (Alien??) and see how I can do at fooling the setup procedure. VB 3.0 gets ignored by W7, but I'll feed the Alien some 3.0 and see if it'll bite on 4.0. BTW, do you have any experience with the Flight Simulators? -- Brian McNamee "ralph" wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:50:38 -0700, Brian E McNamee > <BrianEMcNamee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > > ... But I'm too lazy to to scour the world > >to develop the same level of knowledge about the no longer very small box > >that now raises hackles at me when I turn it on just to run the stuff I've > >been using for 10 years! > > > >But I would like to get some of my programs that have 1,000s of hours of > >development to run! And be able to maintain them (damn stock market reports > >change format all the time!). > > > > I can feel your pain. I finally dumped my beloved Windows 2000 for a > Vista box and a Win7-64bit box, and I too have a ton of legacy stuff I > still want to play with. Some installed in their new environments > without incident (which was always interesting in itself), others were > a nightmare. > > What helped me (mostly cuz I'm rather right-brained) was taking a > large poster and actually mapping out "logical" folders vs "physical" > folders as well as "WoW"s, permissions, etc. This was useful because I > discovered most problems were not caused by missing or non-supported > components, but not having items/settings where the O/S expects them > to be. Once, you get that sorted out you can manually > copy/configure/register anything to run. > > hth > -ralph > . >
From: Brian E McNamee on 28 Jul 2010 17:28 Karl, Thank you. I'll try this as plan "B". See replay to Ralph above.. -- Brian McNamee "Karl E. Peterson" wrote: > It happens that Brian E McNamee formulated : > > Yep, my licenses are legitimate. But I don't know anything about > > bittorrents. Any suggestions? Sounds like there's a way to just set the > > switch "ON". > > Grab uTorrent (www.utorrent.com) and install. It's probably the best > torrent client out there. Then you need to find an appropriate torrent > file to download. For a file that's commonly shared, this is a great > name, as it comes at you like many firehoses. For one that hardly > anyone shares, not so much. At any rate, the best torrent search site > I'm aware of is www.isohunt.com, although you've probably also heard of > www.piratebay.org? IsoHunt recently went all Google on us, in the US, > because of a stupid court decision. Only way to get to it now, if > you're here, is via an anonymizer that masks your IP. But torrents are > available anywhere, really. For example: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=Visual+Studio+6+Enterprise+Edition+filetype%3Atorrent > > Here's a direct link to one on Pirate Bay (which is currently hosted > from within the Swedish Parliament, as I understand it?): > > http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5514992/Visual_Studio_6_%5BVB6%5D_Enterprise_Edition_-_%5BGuruFuel%5D > > You will *of course* want to take all necessary prophylactic measures! > > General rule of thumb, torrents with more "seeds" will arrive sooner. > Good netiquette is to achieve a sharing ratio yourself of better than > 1.0 before stopping your own feed. More background details: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29 > > I know some folks will consider what I describe above as a form of > piracy. I don't see it that way if you're downloading bits you're > already licensed to use. YMMV. :-) > > -- > ..NET: It's About Trust! > http://vfred.mvps.org > > > . >
From: ralph on 28 Jul 2010 18:48 On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:27:52 -0700, Brian E McNamee <BrianEMcNamee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Ralph, > >Would you be willing to share your poster? > Ha, really not that much to share. You can create your own pretty quickly. The nuances comes from how your particular box is configured in terms of Users, Profiles, etc., thus it is not likely my configs directly map to yours. For example, my Win7/64 bit is a corporate setup with a system partition and 'roaming profiles', the Vista a simple home default. Its real use is to server as a quick reminder, as in "Hey stupid! - I know it is called "System32" but that is for 64-bit here." <g> >Probably next week I'm gonna take a crack at setting files onto the monster >(Alien??) and see how I can do at fooling the setup procedure. VB 3.0 gets >ignored by W7, but I'll feed the Alien some 3.0 and see if it'll bite on 4.0. > Note as someone already pointed out. VB3 and half of VB4 is 16-bit and 16-bit is dead as far as Win7/64 is concerned. Not quite accurate as you can use Win7 "XP mode", disable intergration features, as well as use an emulator such as VMWare - but performance can be a problem, and based on your hardware's virtualization abilities may not work at all. However, the XP mode may be useful for getting 16/32-bit installers to run even if the app doesn't. [You will get to learn a lot about the XP mode, likely more than you ever wanted to know, over the next couple of weeks. <lol>] IMHO, Save an XP box and hang it on your LAN. <g> >BTW, do you have any experience with the Flight Simulators? Only with Micorosoft's. <g> -ralph
From: Karl E. Peterson on 28 Jul 2010 19:40
Brian E McNamee laid this down on his screen : > Karl, > > Thank you. > > I'll try this as plan "B". See replay to Ralph above.. Could actually be plan C, with B being ask a friend to rip you an ISO. You're entitled, afterall! :-) -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org |