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Easy PC rebuilds with Chocolatey

One of the things that I’ve always been interested in is automation, and being able to reproduce a ‘known state’ reliably and consistently. This applies at work when building servers or workstations thanks to tools like SCCM and Fog, and should be in your grasp at home or in even the smallest office, thanks to Chocolatey. Not to make a fine point of it, between my last post and this one I’ve rebuilt my PC, installing windows from scratch and all my applications, prepared breakfast for my partner and myself, started some laundry, and dealt with the cat pulling the net curtains down in my study.

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At least you don't work for EA.

If you do then my condolences, but you probably don’t. And if you don’t then however bad your day at work was, it’s probably not as bad as the network admins over at EA. How is it that everyone except EA themselves could see this one coming? For some time now EA and Maxis have been working on a ‘reboot’ of the massively popular SimCity game. As part of the run up to this launch EA announced that the game would require an always on connection to the Internet, because whether you want to or not you pretty much have to play the new game as a shared ‘online’ experience.

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