Re: Off Topic: EWF files

In news:hgjohq$kjk$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
the wharf rat typed on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:44:58 +0000 (UTC):
In article <hgjmr8$tik$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
BillW50 <BillW50@xxxxxxx> wrote:

That is the hard way to do it. Using "EWF Tool Version 1.0 BETA" does
all of that for you. So simple that anybody who can point and click
can do it.

What's that? Some kind of open source hack? I can't
find any mention of it on technet, but I *did* find

It was here the last time I checked:

http://www.computa.co.uk/staff/dan/?p=5

"Hey all, here is an interesting article from someone trying to use
enhanced write filter (EWF) on top of the desktop version of XP Pro.
I can't advocate doing this because I'm pretty sure there are
licensing restrictions preventing it plus there are no official tools
or processes to enable it in a supported way, but I thought it was an
interesting experiment -"

That's per Aaron Stebner, BTW.

Disclaimers are everywhere. Remember there was a time when ordering
coffee didn't have a disclaimer saying coffee is hot? Or don't use the
hair drier in the shower? If you listen to all of them, you can't even
eat or breath. So you need to use some common sense instead.

I guess I should add a disclaimer that being an idiot is normally a bad
thing, except when you can sue somebody else for megabucks. Then of
course, you must give most of it to the lawyers that helped you in the
first place. But then again, you are still the idiot in the end.
Although maybe with a few extra bucks in your wallet.

There are two ways to do things under Windows. The hard way or the
easy way. Picking the hard way and complaining about it doesn't get
you many points.

I'd rather type mount -o ro than run unsupported unlicensed
underground hacks on systems that I'm responsible for.

That may work for not corrupting my WMA files created under Windows. But
let's say someday I get Linux to create them, then what? Wouldn't it be
simpler to just use Windows in the first place?

And websites that monitor what OS
is accessing them always shows Linux at less than 1%.

Lol. 45% of active web servers run Linux. 68% of active
web servers run Apache.

Lol. Servers are a niche for one. What is it like one out of a thousand
computer users run servers or higher? And yes, on the Linux side, Apache
is the clear winner. So let's see with the benefit of doubt, one out of
a thousand was 0.1% I believe. So you ignore 99.9% and use 0.1% as some
sort of evidence?

popular than Linux machines for browsing. And that isn't saying much
since the Mac is far behind Windows. So how do you explain this?

By pointing out that the error in your logic is so commmon
that it even has its own Latin name: argumentum ad antiquitatem. It's
also called the appeal to common practice. Your claim is that Windows
is obviously superior because everyone believes it is. Sort of like
when Mom used to ask "If everyone jumped off a roof would you jump off
a
roof too?"

Does Latin have a phrase for the word hyperbole? A statement that is so
ridiculous that it can't be true? Surely there isn't a problem with
people jumping off of roofs are there? Or coffee drinkers spilling hot
coffee in their laps and being awarded millions? Sure it happens once in
a blue moon. But if Linux were any good, surely it would break the 1%
barrier you would think. But even so, the Mac is still kicking its butt
by 5 times and more. Nowadays the Mac can run Windows, so those figures
are only probably going to get worse.

--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) - Windows XP SP2





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