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Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with VirtualBox (Linux/OSX)

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Re: Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with VirtualBox (Linux/OSX)

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post #53

Is it legal?

The images and everything Microsofty are provided by Microsoft for this use. VirtualBox is open source and ideal for something like this.

The automation might be mired in some obscure clause on either end, but it's just doing things you can legally do by hand.

Re: Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with VirtualBox (Linux/OSX)

#62

Personally speaking, I would love to see Google release an offical, downloadable ChromeOS images that could be used with VMWare or Virtualbox. Something like that could be a real boon for some users.

FWIW, my copy of Parallels 6 has a "Download Chrome OS" in its File menu. Last time I tried it, after some delay I was met with a functional copy of Chrome OS (I don't even recall having to answer any questions).

Re: Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with VirtualBox (Linux/OSX)

#63
post #61
post #53

Is it legal?

The images and everything Microsofty are provided by Microsoft for this use. VirtualBox is open source and ideal for something like this. The automation might be mired in some obscure clause on either end, but it's just doing things you can legally do by hand.

Thanks!

Re: Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with VirtualBox (Linux/OSX)

#64
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

xdissent: you appear to be still banned (at least, 4 hours after my post, you still were). Since you now have a positive karma, could you answer this post as a test?

Testing 1 2 3. This thing on?

Now it is :-)

You may want to repost your earlier answers in this thread.

    2011/9/3 Paul Graham 
    >
    > fixed
    >
    > 2011/9/3 Pierre-Yves Gérardy :
    > > Hello,
    > > would it be possible to unban xdissent?
    > > See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955023 for the details.
    > > Kind regards,
    > > -- Pierre-Yves

Re: Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with VirtualBox (Linux/OSX)

#65
post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe it should include a first step of piping it to less for review, followed by piping to bash if it looks fine. Slightly better...

At which point the people who know how to read it will do so (I did, out of curiosity) because it's so easy, and the people who don't will get jargonjargon [*&*@![]2\3 if [[jargon -f "words!"]] jargon # jargon jargon jargon /&$_)(82 fi # jargon the jargon jar(){ gon # yay pictures! # ∑´∞§∞¶•ø¨ˆ∆£˜¡–ª¢ø•ª¶π™˜£º¥µ # # ˚∆∂¥•¡º™ª•¶ƒ˙¨ˆ # # ˙π¡˜ø£•¶√≠˚•™µº–£¨≤ # and just go to the next step.

Did you just come up with that? Hilarious
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