[QUOTE=chalsall;318465]So, I've been a member of LinkedIn for years.

Suddenly I find many emails in my "In box" telling me that many of my friends have "endorsed" me.

Logging into LinkedIn, I'm presented with the (default) option of endorsing many of my friends.

LinkedIn is now a publicly traded company. Playing in the same space as FaceBook and Google.

Hmmmm....[/QUOTE]LinkedIn used to be FaceBook for grown-ups. The phrase "dumbing down" comes to mind.

I've recently been active on [URL="https://www.researchgate.net"]ResearchGate[/URL] which is (apparently) still moderately professional.

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Wow!! For only $50k I can get a software package for my free Ubuntu system. I guess HD stands for High Dollar??

[QUOTE=EdH;318672]Wow!! For only $50k I can get a software package for my free Ubuntu system. I guess HD stands for High Dollar??[/QUOTE]

WTF?!!?? Even if it was cents, not dollars.....

$4.99 on iPhings...

[QUOTE=EdH;318672]Wow!! For only $50k I can get a software package for my free Ubuntu system. I guess HD stands for High Dollar??[/QUOTE]I'm surprised that particular package is so expensive.

OTOH, I would not be in the least bit surprised at $50k being the true market price for rather more specialized and economically productive packages which can be run under Ubuntu. A commercial site license for Gaussian, for example, would cost me $40,250.

I'm looking for something rather closer to my budget ...

Paul

My kids enjoy playing Minecraft, which I'm certain a few of you are familiar with. They have been wanting me to install some mods and skins for the game, but almost every link I go to for installing the mods they desire requires me to either submit personal information, buy something, install third party software, deal with annoying ads, etc. My kids are upset with me for not installing any of these mods, but I just don't trust any of this other software. For example, I thought that maybe I could d/l iLivid in order to get to one of the mods they wanted, but when I d/l'ed and installed it, it installed another piece of software called Torch. Even then I could get iLivid to d/l the software from the provided link. I immediately uninstalled Torch and iLivid. I made it clear to them that in order to d/l the mods that I will inherently make their computer unsafe and unstable. I have NetNanny installed on it and I ran into enough sites getting blocked just trying to navigate to the pages that have the mods. I have never run into anything before like this with d/l'd games. Very annoying.

It IS like that. Annoying and unsafe. Those pieces of code are done by different guys around the 'net, not all of them quite professional or honest. The only thing I like about Minecraft is the "Dynamite" song parody, I wrote about it already on this forum. "I come to dig, dig, dig, dig... Just wait a minute I kill this pig, pig, pig, pig..." hehe, I like it more then the original song (very rare in my case, I usually don't like remixes and parodies of good songs, they are all crap, like you can't do something good and try make fun of good things other people do).

Your solution should be VirtualBox, give a 10GB virtual HDD to it, one gig of RAM, drop a copy of WinXP32 into it (or whatever else) do a clone of it and install everything you want there. When it starts making problems, re-clone the initial image, it takes few minutes (much faster then a XP installation). The virtual machine (guest system) is like a separate computer, make users for your kids, they (or the software installed there) can't access or damage the host system. I do this usually every time when I access strange internet sites, spawn a new WinXP computer in few minutes, access everything from it, save the things I need (say, pdf, ebooks, torrent thingies, no exe files) then kill it.

I was able to download the mod on my Mac and will copy the files over to their PC. Apparently the website detected that I couldn't d/l iLivid and gave me a proper link to d/l the mod.

It is definitely a mess with Minecraft mods, but with enough experience it's pretty easy to tell them apart. If it has a thread on [URL="http://www.minecraftforum.net/index.php"]minecraftforum.net[/URL], it's probably safe.

I've never needed a download manager. The links on e.g. the forum above are typically adf.ly links, but there's a button in the top right that says "skip ads", which should begin the download. The mods I know of typically come as zip archives that contain java .class files to be added to minecraft.jar. Other mods may work differently of course. (Some mods do have a direct download link.) The mods of the sort I'm talking about typically require [URL="http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/75440-v144-risugamis-mods-updated/"]ModLoader[/URL] (the link is a common example of a mod thread), which is a base mod of sorts designed to iron out conflicts between different mods. It, and the Xray mod, are the two that I've installed.

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