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Translating from one batch file system to another can be interesting. As a former admin, I had to do that with Novell scripts and convert them to MSWindows batch files when we were changing systems. Someone wrote a batch file for emulate a menu to launch the browser to go to different sites that could of been a bit more precise for dos, but I decided to translate it to bash. Dos: @echo off color 0e Title Website Starter (by Prof. Pickle) :Menu cls echo --------------------------------------------------------------------- echo This is the Website starter echo. echo Select the number of the website you wish to select echo Or press E to exit. echo --------------------------------------------------------------------- echo. echo. echo 1. facebook echo 2. youtube echo 3. google echo 4. redtube echo 5. other set /p web= If %web% EQU 1 start www.facebook.com If %web% EQU 1 goto Menu If %web% EQU 2 start www.youtube.com If %web% EQU 2 goto Menu If %web% EQU 3 start www.google.com If %web% EQ...

Several computers for the price of one. You can not beat a deal like that. Actually you will still have only one computer but we will use the power of the system to allow it to run what is known as virtual machines or computers within a computer. Actually this has been done for a long time, but only now is the general community starting to take advantage of it. A little history first. It used to be if you wanted to use more than one operating system on your computer, you had to do what is known as dual or multi-boot. You had more than one operating system you could use, but only one at a time. Remembering when I was a tech, the college I was working for wanted to get rid of their unix server. They wanted each student to have their own  'nix system to work with. So we took a machine with already installed Microsoft product and squeezed in Linux operating system install. Linux was going to be taught to get to know Unix. When the students started up the computer for their access...