XPSP2
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Seem to remember much the same was said of XP when it was released. It's not for me at the present, but as most new PC's are shipping with Vista pre-installed it wont take long for users to forget about it's faults
Their pocketbook will remind them. When you upgrade to vista you need to upgrade all other software and hardware. Then, in less than 2 yrs, you will need to upgrade to vienna.
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Actually, at another forum I visit, the solution to half the problems with vista booting, is solved with a 98 boot floppy. They've come a long way in the last decade! Funny that new computers with vista even come with a floppy. Mine came with XP less than two years ago, but no floppy drive.
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No, but keep an eye, err ear, on it. Pay attention to how many beeps, whether they are long or short and the exact sequence. ie. two long one short.
You will then be able to trouble shoot it at M$.
If you have a manual for your computer, check it out. It may be signaling the beginning of the end of your CMOS battery.
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clamav just to make sure I don't pass on an infection to M$ users.
Using Linux, you have a better chance of winning a super lottery than you do of getting infected.
There are no suspect sites, I browse wherever I want to.
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"The Wall", original, not live remake.
By the way, which one is Pink.
Another day,
"High Voltage" AC/DC
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Everything impressed me!!! such as:
- The look of it was a fresh uncluttered look and feel, that I'm sure Microsoft would never create.
- It ran super smooth, even from the DVD-RW I burned the .ISO onto.
- Seems like a very thorough OS, yet simpler and quicker - dare I say more newbie friendly than even WinXP (well to me at least), I wish I had learned computers on this back in 1998. In other words crap wasn't hidden deep away from the user which I liked and appreciated very much.
- Worked with my DSL connection right off the CD which actually surprised me, I visited the forums here but didn't log in because I didn't know what type of security was or wasn't in place.
Of course I'm going to have to spend more time thoroughly using it when I finally get a chance to put it on my old computer but that's probably several days, or weeks away.
The only thing though is my DSL connection seemed a little bit slower, although I didn't test the connection speed on any speed test website to know for sure.
As rridgely stated wait because it found 122 MB of available updates, so might as well wait for the next .ISO version to be released versus downloading nearly 700 MB then to turn around and download another 122 MB or maybe higher when the next version is released.
I do wonder, if it's installed does it read FAT32 and/or NTFS filesystems? I have no idea if it does or not because I couldn't browse my NTFS C: and D: hard drives
If you do a dual boot on a machine and make a FAT32 partition, Linux and windows will both be able to read and write to that partition.
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NTFS file system. New Hard Drive.
On another forum, several people have told me this is a know bug with Windows, which can be ignored.
So there must be a link on which error messages to use and which to ignore then?
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That's one disadvantage of being a Windows user is that many of the open source applications I've always wanted to use are for Linux.
You can get the same things for windows, you just have to pay for them.
That is one of the major differences between MS & Linux. MS is a money machine, Linux is a brains machine.
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Give away of the day has a new Library full of software. Some is free, some have trials, check it out.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freeware/
I have seen programs listed to do with phones.
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Microsoft allows bypass of Vista activation
By Brian Livingston
Microsoft always says it opposes "software pirates" who sell thousands of unauthorized copies of Windows.
But the Redmond company has made things a lot easier for pirates by adding a line to the Registry that can be changed from 0 to 1 to postpone the need to "activate" Vista indefinitely.
Activation doesn't stop true software piracy
As most Windows users know, Microsoft has required "product activation" since the release of Windows XP in 2001. XP must be activated by communicating with servers in Redmond within 30 days of installation. By contrast, Microsoft Office XP, 2003, and 2007 require activatation before the package is used 5 to 50 times, depending on the version, according to a company FAQ. If a PC has no Internet connection, a user may activate a product by dialing a telephone number in various countries.
The activation process will complete successfully only if the software has not been previously activated, such as on a different machine. If activation isn't completed within the trial period, Microsoft products temporarily shut down some of their features. MS Office loses the ability to edit and save files. After Vista's activation deadline runs out, the user can do little other than use Internet Explorer to activate the operating system or buy a new license.
Microsoft describes its product activation scheme as a way to foil software pirates. However, as I previously described in an InfoWorld Magazine article on Oct. 22, 2001, activation does nothing to stop mass piracy. The Redmond company actually included in Windows XP a small file, Wpa.dbl, that makes it easy for pirates to create thousands of machines that validate perfectly.
Far from stopping software piracy, product activation has primarily been designed to prevent home users from installing one copy of Windows on a home machine and a personal-use copy on a laptop. As I explained in an article on Mar. 8, buying a copyrighted work and making another copy strictly for personal use is specifically permitted to consumers by the U.S. Copyright Act and the copyright laws of many other countries.
For example, courts have repeatedly ruled that consumers can make copies of copyrighted songs or television programs for personal use (not for distribution or resale). This principle is legally known as "fair use." The home edition of Microsoft Office 2007 reflects this principle, allowing consumers to activate three copies of a single purchased product. Microsoft Windows XP and Vista, however, allow only one activation.
Surprisingly, Microsoft has embedded into its new Vista operating system a feature that makes things easier than ever for true, mass software pirates. These tricksters will be able to produce thousands of Windows PCs machines that won't demand activation indefinitely ? at least for a year or more.
Leaving the activation barn door open
I reported in a Feb. 1 article that the upgrade version of Windows Vista allows itself to be clean-installed to a new hard drive. The new Microsoft operating system completely omits any checking for a qualifying previous version of Windows. This allows the upgrade version of Vista to successfully upgrade over a nonactivated, trial version of itself.
After my article appeared, ZDnet blogger Ed Bott summarized the secret in a post on Feb. 15. He flatly states, "You satisfied every condition of the license agreement and aren't skating by on a technicality. The fact that you have to use a kludgey workaround to use the license you've purchased and are legally entitled to is Microsoft's fault."
In my own piece, I had speculated that clean-installing the upgrade version of Vista "probably violates the Vista EULA (End User License Agreement)." But more and more computer experts are saying that the procedure is fully compliant with the EULA and, in any event, is perfectly legal.
I wrote a follow-up story on Feb. 15. I reported that Microsoft includes in Vista a one-line command that even novices can use to postpone the product's activation deadline three times. This can extend the deadline from its original 30 days to as much as 120 days ? almost four months.
PCWorld.com posted a report on my story on Feb. 17. The magazine quotes a Microsoft spokeswoman as saying that extending Vista's activation deadline as I described it "is not a violation of the Vista End User License Agreement." I'm glad that's clear.
The feature that I've revealing today shows that Microsoft has built into Vista a function that allows anyone to extend the operating system's activation deadline not just three times, but many times. The same one-line command that postpones Vista's activation deadline to 120 days can be used an indefinite number of times by first changing a Registry key from 0 to 1.
This isn't a hacker exploit. It doesn't require any tools or utilities whatsoever. Microsoft even documented the Registry key, although obtusely, on its Technet site.
But dishonest PC sellers could use the procedure to install thousands of copies of Vista and sell them to unsuspecting consumers or businesses as legitimately activated copies. This would certainly violate the Vista EULA, but consumers might not realize this until the PCs they bought started demanding activation ? and failing ? months or years later.
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I was a big fan of MS. The more I learn, the less of a fan I am. There is big money in MS products and all the spin-off business related to it.
Anti-this-n-that and back-up software for starters.
The only reason games are designed for MS is because of the base. If Linux, Mac and MS were 50-30-20, who do you think the games would be designed for?
MS is afraid of losing it's base because of this. It is better to get something than nothing. If only half the people were legal, there is a lot of money involved with the purchase of 45% of computers on the market. If they were to slip to 45% of the base, legal or not, software developers and in particular games, would change with the landscape.
Personally, I think you are going to see the landscape change anyway. People want a computer they can turn on and use. I'm talking your average user, like me, not the more experienced ones on this site.
Please don't tell me the younger generation is computer savvy and that this will change. I work at a College. I can guarantee that I see more young people using computers than most people do. We have one room, of many, that houses over 300 computers. I see kids digging for calculators all the time while sitting at the computer, some with Excel open on the desktop.
It costs the game developers big bucks to comply to the new OSs' that MS is always forcing you to update to. I believe this is part of MSs' overall plan. Force out the little guy and be the only guy on the block.
If you think it is hard to get a driver for Linux, try to get one for Vista. Yet gamers seem to be upset at the game developer, not MS, who should have released the code for the developers to do their job.
Linux has a lot of support sites out there. Next time you have a problem, post a question on one.
Here is a good start page.
http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showforum=14
Vista is more secure? Why is everyone concerned about anti-virus for it then? How come we can get a virus but not a driver?
UAC? From what I have read, it pops up in your face so often that most people will quickly tire of it and just keep clicking ok without reading what it says, or they will just turn it off. Big improvement.
Can anyone tell me how I change my user ID on this site?
Former MS fanboy.
P.S.
Vista $500
Upgrade RAM(for my machine to run Vista) $400 (I know from friends that if you really want to use Vista, you need at least 2GB of RAM)
A good graphics card to use aero?
I can pay $100 to buy an emulator that will run games designed for MS on Linux or I can use the free WINE but would have to set it up.
Linux has Beryl. Check it out here.
Yes, I watch all these videos on my PCLOS. Right from default settings. No get this or that.
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That's just it, friends lending friends music or hearing music playing in someone else's house, car, etc., is the easiest way to learn of new music that we probably would've never listened to or never heard of.
The LPs, tapes, CDs, etc., have always stated that any public performance of a recording is illegal which brings up questions in of itself for instance if someone is having a party at their house is it illegal for them to play copyrighted music during that party.
When I was younger in the 1980's I dubbed enough LPs, and tapes for them to arrest me and throw me into a deep dark cave where they'd have to bazooka in my daily rations, but back then to my knowledge they were mostly going after big bootleggers and leaving the general listening public untouched. Those early music deviations of borrowing music from friends did make me into a very addicted musicholic, and I've bought well over 2000+ audio CDs to prove it and I'm rather proud to be addicted to music which is going on some 26+ years now.
However I do understand that our old school way of getting music doesn't even compare to the ability for songs and albums to be on thousands of computers within an hour just from one measly source. I do however think the record companies will continue to sue people blind until one day their will need to be a sort of consortium placement on all music, sort of what already exists in the Creative Commons but I don't necessarily think that will happen for several decades long after we're buried to enjoy it.
In 1982, an upstart band called Metallica provided a few tape-trading friends with a demo tape of seven songs, called "No Life 'Til Leather." Dubbed and re-dubbed and re-re-dubbed, the tape made its way from California to Chicago, to New York, to England, to Holland, to Germany. Within months, the band had fans worldwide -- without the benefit of a publicist, an A&R person or a marketing budget. It's anybody's guess how many people were actually involved in this tape-trading network, but a good number of these charter Metallica fans were budding rock journalists who wrote for the various underground metal zines and magazines of the time (added shout-outs go to Metal Mania, Whiplash, Aardschok, and Metal Forces); their enthusiasm for this unknown California band was very soon transmitted to thousands of their readers.
Napster is a program that lets people swap music files (relatively) quickly and easily. The company says, in effect, that its software helps new bands distribute their music and that it's not the company's fault that users are abusing the technology to distribute copyrighted songs. Metallica argues that the program steals their intellectual property. They also contend that the universities are a partner in this because college students using the schools' networks seem to be the biggest users of Napster's software. And now the band has begun tracking down individual users who are allowing Metallica songs be downloaded by others.
I guess Metallica got brainwashed by the RIAA. Seems to me it didn't hurt them at all having piracy happening.
Musicians today must be afraid you'll find out they have only one good song before you buy a complete album full of s**t.
Full article here.
http://archive.salon.com/ent/log/2000/05/0..._fan/index.html
The real Pirates.
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000...love/print.html
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Microsoft vs. GM
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating (by Mr. Welch himself): If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
12. Everytime GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine
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That's the problem. It isn't all me. I share my computer and I am not as confident in the other users browsing habits.
Now it isn't a problem. I don't care where they surf to.
I didn't like Ubuntu myself. It wouldn't even let me set my monitor correctly. Kept display at 800X600, refresh at @ 50 Hertz. Recommendations for my monitor are 1024X768 @ 85 Hertz. Mepis and PCLOS set it correctly the first time and allow for adjustments to be made.
Updating Java required @ 10 lines of commands. Mepis and PCLOS do it automatically without any commands.
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Maybe I got lucky, but everything works on my computer. Everything was also auto detected. My computer was manufactured in August 2005.
I can play music that is on my NTFS partition. I can rip music and DVDs' as well as burn them. Printer works no problem.
The only thing is that now I don't get to play around with anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-malware, disk defrag and all that other fun time consuming M$ $tuff. 10 hours a month I don't know what to do with now.
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Microsoft enhancements.
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!!! BREAD IS DANGEROUS !!!
Research on bread indicates that:
1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.
4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis.
7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.
9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to
your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.
In light of these frightening statistics, it has been proposed that the following bread restrictions be made:
1. No sale of bread to minors.
2. A nationwide "Just Say No To Toast" campaign, complete celebrity TV spots and bumper stickers.
3. A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.
4. No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.
5. The establishment of "Bread-free" zones around schools.
This article was written by B.S. Wheatberry in a desert after consuming mass quantities of yeast bread then realizing his canteen was empty. (seriously
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Personally, I am not one for wireless anything. Just that much more to troubleshoot.
Wireless has had problems with weather since the days of Alexander Graham Bell.
Satellite TV, radio, internet? No thank-you.
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If it weren't for Lawyers, we wouldn't need Lawyers.
Charlotte, North Carolina. USA.
A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire.
Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his first premium payment on the policy the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company.
In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires."
The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion.
The lawyer sued.. and WON!
(Stay with me.)
Delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous.
The judge stated, nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company, which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable "fire", and was obligated to pay the claim!
Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars lost in the "fires".
NOW, FOR THE BEST PART..
After the lawyer cashed the cheque, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!!
With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.
This is a true story and was the First Place winner in the recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest!
ONLY IN AMERICA
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If they really looked into it I suppose they could sue many people in the college environment. The only thing though I sort of take the Magnatune.com vision on things, although "regular" recording companies probably never will.
I remember not to long ago when a cousin of mine stated the college she was going to would expel any student found sharing copyrighted material such as music, software, etc., over their network.
I really like that link. I despise the way the RIAA rip off the original artist. Sure, make some money, but the artist is more deserving than the label.
What I don't like about the original article is that they are targeting kids. They can not drink or vote as they are not responsible enough. But, we can threaten them in this way because they should have known better?
When I was a kid, we all borrowed tapes and dubbed them. Does not mean that we did not grow up into responsible adults. I have bought hundreds of albums. Many multiple times. I'd say over $500 on Pink Floyds' "The Wall" alone. I do not have that album today. How many times must I pay for it before it is mine to keep?
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Maybe bad things don't happen more often, maybe we just hear about them more often. Population density, the 'net, and instant communication. Hazelnut is exactly right, to not allow ice sliding is a real loss.
It's a vicious circle. If one in a million is a serial killer, it stands to reason that the same city now expanded to 3 million people has 3 serial killers.
We want to hear the latest news, but on the other hand, I think some people get their ideas from the media.
Kids taking guns to schools and killing. Would they have thought to do that had they not heard about it?
Nothing seems to be done in moderation anymore. Everything is to the extreme. IMHO.
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So in other words you're crediting someone else who in turn probably got it for someone else, and that some probably also got it from someone else (if you're not understanding this it must be because of no bike helmets when I was growing up).
In any event it's really good, and we would've never been able to read it without you posting it.
You are welcome.
Share and share alike I always say.
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its lyrics from a Daft Punk song, also think its used in a lucozade/adidas/nike ad or something like that
I thought it was from the Six Million Dollar Man.
An old TV show.
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PCLinuxOS and Mepis are two Distros' that I know of that do an auto detect. I just added my printer and it was that easy, "Add Printer." Done.
I am at work right now but when I get home I will post a link for "Linux Incompatibility List."
If it is in this link, it probably won't work, although it could.
Part of the idea of the LiveCD is to test it to see if it will work. If it works with the CD, it will work when installed. Just faster, better, stronger.
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XPSP2, I sure did enjoy that email when it came around. Sounds like my life in a nutshell, except the part about eating worms.
But, well, gotta dig my heels in here. Drugs, guns, smoking, internet predation, playground predation. . .there are things from which children should be protected. My own childhood (and adult) experiences notwithstanding.
Different from sliding on ice? Yep.
Whaddaya think?
Yes, I agree. But. The only real change in your list is the internet and population density. At least in Canada.
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I have a dual boot.
I use Linux for most things. I recommend using Linux for on-line at least. Safer to use on-line than any m$ system no matter what you are using.
I used XP yesterday to write a letter using the speech recognition. I just don't allow m$ on the internet. I won't worry about updating anything or using this n that software to keep it safe.
Find something on-line you want for m$, save it to your fat32 partition.