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I was going to put my hard drive in another computer and i was wondering if there is a way to recover windows under the new hardware without having to reinstall windows all over again. I want to boot the new hard drive that has the windows for the other computer. In the past when i had tried this i would get the fatal error, but i was thinking maybe there is a way to cause windows to reconfigure its devices. Thanks!

Quote: We're all selling our time, & thus, our lives (which ARE limited). I would rather just buy an rv camper and wander with my family town to town across the us and canada enjoying the outdoors and meeting the people that make up this wacky world. Maybe I still can do this if I can get in, make a quick buck, save smart, and get out with my sanity and personality in tack with many years left for fun and sun. Quote: Yup, MS stuff... "No one ever got fired for buying IBM", an old saying. It holds true with MS stuff now. What can I say? When I look at all the help wanted ads they all require MS products. I would rather build with open source tools like php, mysql, and linux but the future is unclear. In the US it does not seem as though MS is going anywhere soon. I think open source is much cheaper for the client but they have been marketed and are scared too. The sheeple do as the market directs them. I guess I am one too since I have chose the path of MS to insure job opportunities in my future. This has become a world of cut and paste code and bloated IDE's. I fear the day will come when nobody knows what is going on behind the IDE. That is when the cycle starts again and some "statistician" will determine that X amount of dollars are being wasted on non-productivity while employees wait for bloated code to spit out meager results. Then history will repeat itself and the good ol' fashioned programmer who writes in assembly and c will be on demand again. But, hey, I guess as good sheeple we ride the wave to wherever it may take us Sorry about this rambling rave and twisted post.

Quote: (roots were in 80's timesharing mainframes & midranges on Unix & Vax VMS systems) Radio Shack TSR80 was my first. Remember Start Trek on the VAX? Quote: where the artist is the scientist is the artist as the programmer This describes me exactly. I am an artist at heart yet gifted with skills in mathematics and logic. One side of me says create(program) and the other says go for the bread and butter(networks). What should I do? I am compulsive and would be a dangerous programmer, yet for my own sanity maybe I should stick with networking at my age and just coast out the rest of my life. But would the world be cheated or would I let myself down if I did not take a shot at programming and miss the opportunity to create some binary masterpieces? I am going to plunge into VB.NET and SQL since this is the consensus I have raised so far from all my research and will expand that into C#. I have too much work to do to look too far ahead. I will just try to get certified in programming(MCSD). I wonder if I can get this by the end of summer? I will let you know

I have played since DOOM and I was disappointed with Quake3. UT2003 is a lot more fun but the maps are too big I think. I dislike both and still play Quake2 CTF when I do play...old school. I don't care for the cartoonfigures in the newer games. Even half-life counterstrike is better than the newer stuff. I am waiting for QUAKE 4! I hope it is not a disappointment

Quote: Believe me, this is me in this thread when I was YOUR age, & I don't think I had as much 'on the ball', judging from your gung-ho attitude: I am not young, unfortunately. Instead of going to college when I was young I decided to do it MY way and now at age 37 I have a little over half my credits for my bachelors degree in cs info systems and a ton of amateur programming and computer skills. I started back at school a couple of years ago going online through my local university while I was working full-time. I have mostly been taking cs classes though and it was actually this website and windows 2000 that actually drove me to make the jump back into school. My bad back and 15 years of truck driving played a part too. When I used Windows 2000 for the first time I was shocked at what a nice product it was and it renewed some faith back in microsoft. I ramble though. I only add this in case there are others out there who manage to browse this message some day. There is hope for older people and I will continue to post to this forum as the years roll by giving inspiration to all who will receive it. And maybe a couple of photos of prized acquisitions like AlecStarr as well

Thanks AlecStaar! I always enjoy your contributions to this board. I hope you get those wheels you want and much more

Oh man! This forum is about to ruin another life. I already spend too little time with my family as it is. If they want to talk to me they have to either email me or start every sentence with a word like "computer" in order to get my attention as it is. The more I read everywhere the more I am realizing that the ones who really succeed are the fanatics who are ready to eat your lunch. I got my bib on baby! Whens LUNCH! Cause I have brought a very large apetite

Thanks for all the advice! I like the "live it" part in AlecStaars post. I think that sums it up nicely.

Yes, I am looking at the MCSD very seriously. It looks like if I can manage to get the MCSD and the MCDBA I would be in the best position. I still might not be very productive but I would have dabbled in a broad range of stuff. I just want to maximize my 4 year degree. I don't want to pursue an area that is accessible by any kid off the street without a degree. I am working too hard, working full time and going to school, to not enter an area that will be the most fulfilling and rewarding. I still don't understand how a student really gets a start. The thing that gets me is that even though I may have built semi complex ecommerce sites in the past I would still have to brush up on the languages I used to reproduce those same sites. I mean all the syntax has vanished from my brain after a few months of not using the stuff. Unless you work with the same languages everyday there is no way to memorize everything. I know the questions to ask but some of the job postings I see ask you to be proficient and experienced in 14 different languages. That does not seem possible to know the syntax for everything and be fluent in all of them. Kind of like knowing 14 different countries language. Are these job postings joking, or are there some of you out there who can write expert code in 10 different languages without a reference manual? The only thing I have mastered is html because theres not much to it. I know all the bogus simple stuff they teach in college about C++, assembly, cobol, and some php and mysql, but by no means am I an expert. I am rambling now. I know I will be looking for an internship shortly but I just want some advice from anybody. I love web applications, but is there more demand for windows apps. I dont know and I need to in order to plan my career. Thanks

Im about 3/4 of the way thru college and am starting to get a little nervous. I am off for summer and am wondering what I should study this summer. I am getting the info systems cs degree instead of programming but it is basically the same thing except it does not require the hard math classes. Should I study up for the ms database administrator certification or should I just try to build some real world skills with assembly and vb, and c++, .NET versions, etc.(I have the basic entry level skills school taught me) When I look at the jobs in the want ads the ones that really pay the best are programming jobs. I love to program, but it sounds like everyone wants a contractor and not an employee for programming based on what I have seen in help wanted ads and read in this forum. I am just trying to stay active this summer and would like some advice. My ideas: 1: get an ms certification(dba or similar) 2: study high or low level languages in further detail(maybe design a summer project). Thanks for your help!

Thanks CUViper and clutch. I think I will continue improving my php skills and learn MSSQL for sure and maybe dable in some of the microsoft scripting products These MS products are getting so freaky lately it is hard to know what does what anymore;)

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Thanks. CUViper. I will consider perl. I know most public servers are perl compatible, I have only heard perl takes more steps to accomplish the same tasks as other scripting languages. I have been hearing a lot about ASP lately and how it goes hand in hand with MSSQL, almost like perl is losing its popularity or being nudged out. If you had to choose between the two, which one would you choose? I would like to gain a basic understanding of both of course. To be honest I was leaning towards ASP.NET but have no clue what I am talking about.

thanks. Can a person use VB in HTML code as a scripting language or is it only for creating Windows applications? My personal goal is to become a jack of all trades because I think the giant software companies(business aplication software-not necessarily MS) are starting to price out the little companies and the trend of the future will be for small companies to hire employees who can dabble in many different things and custom build applications during slow periods when networks are operating efficiently I think right now companies are caught up in buying software products but when it comes time to reduce costs even further(when labor costs have been reduced so much that workers are sent to the poor house)they will be looking for talented individuals who can build and operate this stuff for them. I might point out that either way MS will still hold a comfortable position because they do make the best "programming" suites.

I am proficient in PHP, MySQL, HTML, C++, Fortran, Assembly, and am interested in the "right" combination from the other guys for Web database applications. I definately will study MSSQL and from what I understand the syntax is darn identical to MySQL so that should not be a hard switch but what about the scripting language? Is it Perl, VB, ASP, or what? I have read banter regarding this in the forum but am wondering if anybody can share some insight into which scripting language is most needed for interacting with MSSQL in US markets.