[dba-Tech] Sticky "ghost" partion on SSD

Hi Jim

Yes, today they are fast. But I recall that 100-line batch files as those Arthur and Peter made could be slow when run from floppy or the old 10 MB XT harddrive because they are read line by line. So if you made a call to something else in line 60 it would at the return read one line a time from the first line until it found line 60. 
I don't know if it still is so, but today with caching and so much faster drives you will not notice, of course.

As for the Hyper-V Server 2012 - I think I have made a note on it earlier - this is a stellar and absolutely free product. It installs in minutes on a +30 GB drive and features a full file server with physical and/or virtual drives, complete Active Directory integration for control and user access, full (bare metal) system backup and recovery, full remote control, configuration, and monitoring, and - of course and if your hardware permits - hosting of virtual machines.

Even though not labelled "Windows" it will run many Windows applications if these are not too fancy.

Go and get the iso file for the dvd if you haven't done so already.

/gustav

>>> accessd at shaw.ca 10-08-13 20:00 >>>
Hi Gustav:

I had a 5.25 disk(s) with a host of batch files, standard menus and drive specifications for every occasion.
 
When still working, most sites did their installs and upgrades via some very impressive batch files. The clients I still support have all their over-night routines built in batch files...they are easy to maintain, reliable and very fast.
 
I always liked when Windows sat on top of a DOS shell. PowerShell is what DOS should have morphed into and then adding all the multiuser and security features. Mind you, if we did we would now have a Windows built just like Linux. To my way of thinking not a particularly bad thing. Then a person could just throw on another distro to suit their needs and budget.

Microsoft's Hyper-V server engine is making a good start in that direction...with a couple of simple OS Distros with Wizards for those not wanting to assemble batch files for common tasks.

Jim      

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 10:13:29 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Sticky "ghost" partion on SSD

Hi Jim

Some of it. You could do magic with piping and self generating batch files. PC Magazine had a monthly column with a lot of tricks. 
Today you would use PowerShell or similar.

/gustav


>>> accessd at shaw.ca 10-08-13 18:57 >>>
Hi Gustav:

You remember that stuff? ;-) 

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 1:47:26 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Sticky "ghost" partion on SSD

Hi Mark

The show moves on.

But we see some progress. I remember when we at a DOS prompt opened Debug and then typed the magic g=c800:5 and it took a while to low-level format a 20 MB MFM harddisk.

Debug and Edlin (the command line text editor which could do real magic) are now gone.

/gustav