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UncleGrimjerk wrote:Another option is to install Virtual Box--or similar--bare metal, run all of your OS's as virtual machines. Take a snapshot after you get your gaming install of windows up with all your games installed. Something corrupts/infects it, wipe it and restore from the snapshot. Make sure to back up stuff of course as you go, natch.

At this point you might as well use Faronic's Deep Freeze and make it ignore specific directories (such as your d2 save directory for example)

Who gave the Canadian 22 cookies? He's fat enough.

UncleGrimjerk wrote:Who gave the Canadian 22 cookies? He's fat enough.

Yeah, his avatar has been photoshopped so much. Here's the original:

What a fatty.

Alright, that cinches it! I'm currently taking an Intro to C Programming class at my local college and I can't do the fucking homework because I have to use Eclipse with Linux (apparently doing it on Windows does not set the same pointers as Linux does) because when I send in my homework to be graded via an online grading program, it fails unless I use the colleges computer lab that uses Linux. Anyway, currently reading a Deitel book and am finding out some amazing stuff. I'll most likely be installing Linux on a second partition later this week when I get a chance. Excited, but wondering where I'll find the time to do all this shit.

Your school has linux computers? What distro(s) do the computers have? I wish my college installed linux on some (or all) computers

Not sure, but I'll find out tomorrow during my class. Half the computers are Linux and the other half Windows based in the first computer lab. I haven't been in the second computer lab but it's probably similar. Each lab seems to have about 40-Linux and 40-Windows computers.

Do you mind if I ask you what kind of homework you're doing? The fact that the automated grading program doesn't work with code you wrote on windows seems very strange. I mean C code is C code, and C code is amongst the most portable things on the planet, generally speaking.

Unless you have to provide the grading program an executable rather than code, in which case that would explain everything, but that'd be a *very* unwise thing to do.

Image #1 is reason why supposedly. Image #2, line #4, is the hook the program uses to send commands to your program and test it.

Looks like they need both an executable file and source code. Personally, I don't think I'd trust this kind of automatic grading.

Food wrote:Personally, I don't think I'd trust this kind of automatic grading.

It also sounds like a huge headache lmao