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At least in soccer - and I don't watch any sports or read any sports news so there may very well be others - there ARE such notices. I heard of at least the Englisch Premier League as well as the German Bundesliga trying to enforce "copyright" against Youtube.

http://winfuture.de/news,28312... (German)

That's like saying you can't find any evidence that police hand out parking tickets in Boston. It's such a common occurrence that it doesn't require more sourcing or evidence on a German site.

http://web.de/magazine/auto/verkehr-service/8888722-kostet-stinkefinger.html

Far more worrisome is that politicians, clergy, churches, and their critics threaten each other based on these kinds of laws. This is also a regular occurrence, sometimes even resulting in prison sentences or book banning. Churches and right wing politicians are particularly fond of shielding themselves from criticism that way:

http://winfuture.de/news,66580.html

http://www.rp-online.de/politik/deutschland/bundespraesident/wulff-klagt-wegen-beleidigung-bei-facebook-1.2655558

http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/ein-mann-druckte-koranverse-auf-toilettenpapier-und-schickte-die-blaetter-an-moscheen--das-gericht-verurteilte-ihn-und-verwies-dabei-auch-auf-die-weltpolitische-lage-geeignet--einen-orkan-zu-entfachen,10810590,10365520.html

Then you are doing it wrong I'm afraid. Use the combo of XP ISO Builder and RyanVM and you are looking at maaaybe 20-30 minutes, and that is if you want the full customized unattended install with everything from the desktop to services preconfigured.

For XP X64, Vista, and Windows 7 I've found having WSUS Offline makes it trivial to bring a machine from fresh install to fully patched. It will even integrate service packs if you so choose, but I prefer to simply have a disc with the latest service pack slipstreamed so WSUS Offline can fit all the X86 on a single DVD and all the x64 on a second single DVD. That way I just require 2 DVD to update ANY Windows OS from Win2K- Windows 7 X64. Just burn a new Driverpack disc every couple of months and that will cover a good 90% of the hardware out there, more if you go to the forums and pick up the third party packs like TV cards and funky drivers for things like Bluetooth.

Finally for software your old friend Ninte has that covered, with more than 90 of the most common apps in x86 and x64 with NO toolbars or other crap to worry about, and you can even suggest your favorite apps and they will check them out and often add them. I personally like Klite Codec pack because of its hardware acceleration, so I suggested it and voila! There it is. And the apps are constantly being updated to the latest version, all unattended and ready to go. Finish it off with Filehippo Update Checker so the user doesn't have to worry about keeping up when the latest version of an app has been released. And all is gravy. Time? Maybe an hour and a half on a slower P4, less than an hour on most modern systems.

So now instead of all the BS I simply run WSUS offline once a month after Patch Tuesday, burn the two DVDs (x86 and x64) it automatically produces for me which also has all the Office patches included, and check driverpacks Base app once every month or so to make sure I have the latest X86 and X64 drivers. my actual time for doing so is maybe 5 minutes, since I can simply launch the apps and let them do the work. So if it is really taking you a half a day then you are simply taking the long way about it. So please enjoy these free tools and not have to deal with the long wait again!

Bad marketing may not have been the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back, but it still played a part.

Ads demonstrated nothing about the phone short of "Take pictures, upload them instantly." Furthermore, the way that feature was demonstrated was in the context of "Stalk your ex-girlfriend, upload her pictures to your studio. Stare at them later." Either that, or "Take risque pictures, sext your girlfriend."

The Kin and Kin Two were two terribly-thought-out products, I agree with you there. But the phones were also the victims of terrible marketing from the "me-too" corporation that wanted to look young and edgy. Midlife crisis for Microsoft? Just about.

Here you go. XP ISO Builder will let you turn her recovery disc into a regular install disc,as well as slipstream service packs,drivers,user accounts,software,etc. So easy my 15 year old nephew can do it. So much better than dealing with those crapware recovery discs. Oh,and it works on 2K and 2K3 too. But it would probably be smart to make one for your mom before something happens to bone her PC. Because lets face it,it Windows and it'll get boned sooner or later. Better safe than screwed.

Allow your old PC repairman to enlighten you,grasshopper. The reason PIO mode burns out hardware is because it was never meant to go that slow. PIO mode is a leftover from the days of 1x cd drives and ancient HDDs and was kept for compatibility. For a modern drive to be stuck in PIO mode is the equivalent of driving your car at 60MPH with the emergency brakes on. See how that is a bad thing?

Now if you have a machine that keeps throwing a drive into PIO I would look for SecuROM and Starforce on the machine. They are by far the biggest culprits when it comes to throwing a false PIO mode,thanks to their crappy Trojan CD/DVD drivers. You should also look in the BIOS,as some models have a setting in the BIOS where it can refuse PIO mode for a drive. This will sometimes help but since it is nearly always a DRM,and thus userland problem,it is kinda hit and miss.

But I can tell you that if it keeps throwing the drives into PIO mode that you may need to do a full format/reinstall. This is because I have seen several times where even after the removal of Starforce/SecuROM the Windows drivers are left such a mess that stability is just shot. You can do a repair install and that will usually fix the bug,but if I'm going through all that trouble anyway I'd rather just back up the user profiles(You can use USMT to make the job easier) and nuke the thing so at the end you have a nice clean and minty fresh Windows install.

After you have installed the drivers and apps she uses most run a good backup like Acronis and you'll have an easy to use baseline install in case something goes wrong in the future. If you use XP ISO Builder to integrate the drivers,user profiles,and make an unattended CD it will also cut down on the time required. But if it were my machine I would check it every day,because that PIO bug can cause damage to your drives and short of a reinstall it is hard to kill. Good Luck!

Winfuture XP ISO Builder for the win. So simple my nephews could do it. Takes about 20 minutes to integrate service packs(including SP3),hotfixes,drivers,software,integrate XPize(under add hotfixes) setup a full unattended with the user accounts,etc. So much better to just use it for an unattended 2K/2K3/XP that doing the MSFT reinstall dance IMHO.

Microsoft said they will also support ATOM in Longhorn. http://www.winfuture.de/news,21461.html - I can't find an english news.

So all feeds supported in Longhorn will be:
RSS 0.9x
RSS 1.0
RSS 2.0
ATOM 0.3
ATOM 1.0

Here, I have found an offshore website wich still has the goods. Keywords: screenshots, mirror.

Yes, click the link in the article.

Shortcut for the lazy: here

Just grabbed the entire thing at about 280kb/s via http on our corp network.

Yes, it IS on BitTorrent now.

http://stacktrace.org/index_html/20050313-Knoppix3 .8CeBitTorrent/KNOPPIX_V3.8-2005-02-28-CeBIT_Editi on.iso.torrent

Here's the webpage this link comes from:
http://stacktrace.org/index_html/20050313-Knoppix3 .8CeBitTorrent

And, here is a (very slow, may be down now) conventional download:

http://dl1.gamerznet.org/vollversionen/unix/knoppi xx/KNOPPIX_V3.8-2005-02-28-CeBIT_Edition.iso

Here's the webpage that it came from (beware, heavy advertisements/popups, better get Adblock for your Firefox):

http://www.winfuture.de/news,19477.html

Enjoy! (To my knowledge, Knoppix is 100% Open Source, so all these links are legal)