This is a good option, I sperged about these in other threads and have two myself. Lenovo, Dell and HP all do these USFF models. They are about the size of a book and because they are business machines the second hand market is flooded with them.
A few reasons really..
I've told the story before but when I was working with stuff I encountered an office that had tape backup and a solid scheme. The receptionist took the old tape from the server room and put in a new tape at the end of the day and took the tape home with her. In case of fire. They had a tape for every work day, labeled monday through friday, and it backed everything up at night. For a small company that was admirable.
select * from similarity inner join products on if(product_id_1='?1',product_id_2,product_id_1)=products.product_id where similarity = '?2' and category= '?3';
no it's windows so it's shit and idk why you'd willingly use it because it's less stable than Linux too. the only people that do are probably big corporations that have a MS stack
It's kind of hard to envision exactly what you have and what you're looking for, but just going by my understanding of it, something like this might work:
SELECT products.product_id, COUNT(similarity.*) AS similar_count
FROM products
INNER JOIN similarity ON (similarity.product_id_1 = products.product_id OR similarity.product_id_2 = similarity.product_id) AND similarity < {minimum similarity score}
WHERE product.category = 'A'
HAVING similar_count < {N}
I think that book is more for if you need to dig into a particular part of Win32 "special topics" for a program you're writing. For a "next level" book that is Windows-oriented but also highly educational in general I would recommend Jeffrey Richter's "Windows via C/C++", or even the previous edition "Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows".
You can buy a key on ebay for like $10
I see those listings but it seems they will ship to me rather than mail a key. There are site like buy-keys but I'm not sure they won't steal my credit card information.
Old keys on laptops/prebuilt machines/office machines will work, you can buy a junker laptop for almost nothing off ebay just for the key (as a bonus you'll have a backup computer or a fun project to mess around with). I don't know how far back you can go though, I've tested it with an old windows 7 machine and the key activated/upgrade to windows 10. I'm not sure an XP key will work, probably not.
I have used this site multiple times. If you are worried about them stealing your credit card info, just get a $25 visa gift card or use Paypal.
BuyKeyNow also takes PayPal. Key arrived via e-mail to my proton account and worked (for another 'Farmer) without a hitch.
Manufacturer specific Windows 7 keys will work for retail Win10. Windows 8 keys, maybe not. It's a bit weird, they really want every Win7 user to easily go to Win10 no matter what key it came from. Wonder why. When did they start their data harversting plan on users, was it after Win7?
I hate to ever recommend Reddit for anything, but the Piracy subreddit has some useful resources specific to Windows. Also I highly recommend the LTSC branch of Windows 10. If you are willing to do a fresh install, it is the closest to a Windows 7 experience you can get these days.
Never used this but it's been recommended here before
github.com
I've used it.Never used this but it's been recommended here before
GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts: A Windows and Office activator using HWID / KMS38 / Online KMS activation methods, with a focus on open-source code and fewer antivirus detections.
A Windows and Office activator using HWID / KMS38 / Online KMS activation methods, with a focus on open-source code and fewer antivirus detections. - GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Script...
