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Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by xradionut »

blahpro wrote: post #16
Tmmrn wrote: post #11

LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even "only" xz nowadays or for big downloads, zpaq (lrzip is probably not mainstream enough I guess)? And 1000 megabyte parts? Why?

Although they come from Microsoft, I don't feel enormously comfortable doing this: chmod +x LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx; ./LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx

I was assuming the built-in NSA access was making people uncomfortable. ;)

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by simcop2387 »

blahpro wrote: post #16
Tmmrn wrote: post #11

LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even "only" xz nowadays or for big downloads, zpaq (lrzip is probably not mainstream enough I guess)? And 1000 megabyte parts? Why?

Although they come from Microsoft, I don't feel enormously comfortable doing this: chmod +x LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx; ./LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx

for a lot of self extracting files, take a look at p7zip. It'll usually work on most of them, including some of the funky windows installers.

It's also great to pull data off a cd image without mounting, it.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by raverbashing »

tlrobinson wrote: post #17
Tmmrn wrote: post #11

LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even "only" xz nowadays or for big downloads, zpaq (lrzip is probably not mainstream enough I guess)? And 1000 megabyte parts? Why?

And why bother splitting up large files when most clients can resume partial HTTP requests?

Well... Fat32 FSs don't support files > 2GB

But yeah, it's silly.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by btian »

fowlerje wrote: post #29
rednukleus wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You still can't run OS X on non-Apple hardware can you? I'd love it if they changed that.

Sure you can. They have 10.8 VMs for VMWare Workstation. I'd recommend at least 8gb of RAM for smoother access though.

That has questionable legality in the United States. I won't want to run it on my corporate PC.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by r0s »

fowlerje wrote: post #29
rednukleus wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You still can't run OS X on non-Apple hardware can you? I'd love it if they changed that.

Sure you can. They have 10.8 VMs for VMWare Workstation. I'd recommend at least 8gb of RAM for smoother access though.

I don't know OSX versions, is that a recent one?

More important, can I get the most recent versions of browsers? (Safari,Chrome,FireFox)

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by sluukkonen »

fowlerje wrote: post #29
rednukleus wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You still can't run OS X on non-Apple hardware can you? I'd love it if they changed that.

Sure you can. They have 10.8 VMs for VMWare Workstation. I'd recommend at least 8gb of RAM for smoother access though.

The EULA forbids you to run OS X on non-Apple hardware though.

"to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using OS X Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use."

http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX1082.pdf

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by MicroAndMacro »

Tmmrn wrote: post #11

LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even "only" xz nowadays or for big downloads, zpaq (lrzip is probably not mainstream enough I guess)? And 1000 megabyte parts? Why?

Hi Tmmrn. I work on the team that made these available. We originally had these as >3Gb single files and had many requests to reduce the file sizes from people who had failed transfers. It also helps when using sneaker net to setup test environments that are isolated and you need USB sticks to move bits around.

We went with RAR because: * It's available on all platforms * No client or 3rd party software needed to extract when using self extracting SFX and EXEs respectively * some degree of built in resiliency and self correction

Hope you find them useful. Open to suggestions for improvement too. Follow the team @IEDevChat for updates and feedback.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by ja27 »

fowlerje wrote: post #29
rednukleus wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You still can't run OS X on non-Apple hardware can you? I'd love it if they changed that.

Sure you can. They have 10.8 VMs for VMWare Workstation. I'd recommend at least 8gb of RAM for smoother access though.

"They" being someone that posted an image on bittorrent? Apple doesn't license OS X for VMWare anywhere except Apple hardware. You can't even run a 10.8 guest on a 10.7 host per their license, which is really annoying.

Re: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

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Post by Ecio78 »

MicroAndMacro wrote: post #38
Tmmrn wrote: post #11

LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even "only" xz nowadays or for big downloads, zpaq (lrzip is probably not mainstream enough I guess)? And 1000 megabyte parts? Why?

Hi Tmmrn. I work on the team that made these available. We originally had these as >3Gb single files and had many requests to reduce the file sizes from people who had failed transfers. It also helps when using sneaker net to setup test environments that are isolated and you need USB sticks to move bits around. We went with RAR because: * It's available on all platforms * No client or 3rd party software needed to ext…

My suggestion: use 7-zip

Open Source, available on all the major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OSX). You can find also the MSI version that can be deployed via Active Directory GPO

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Oh, and you can create self-extracting file too (even though I don't know if you can unpack them on other platforms, never tried, but I should bet you can do it)

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