You'd have to obtain an OEM version of the Windows install disc somewhere. One without a Trojan.
Basically Microsoft has two types of install codes for Windows: one for the retail discs, another for OEM discs, and one won't work with the other kind. If you've got an OEM disc from the same vendor, it'll notice a signature in the computer's BIOS and then automatically activate without needing you to input the code.
I'd rather have the updaters running, especially for Adobe's security-bug-of-the-week products.
PROTIP: you can tell Adobe Reader to automatically install updates in the background. This has been a godsend for us. Now if only they'd let us do that for Flash.
For those to work you need a PostScript printer, which typically are a few hundred dollars and up for new ones. The cheapest printers (and most non-pro inkjets) are always soft-printers whose intelligence is actually in those bloated drivers which run on the host CPU. Pro inkjets have PCL3 compatibility, meaning that they have a relatively small PCL driver, often of 2-3 megs, and midrange-and-up lasers will grok either PCL5e, PCL6, or PostScript, or a vendor-specific language that is still interpreted on the printer.
Even modern PS printers will have more than PPDs included; usually it's GUI stuff to let you use more advanced print services, support for optional printer accessories, &c.
I believe the Air Force's F-4E was the only Phantom model that carried an internal cannon; none of the Navy or Marine variants ever carried one, except in an external pod.
Did you ever use the original Vista? Ever use Ubuntu or OSX from the same time period? Vista's prompt was a lot more annoying, because for some operations it would go off several times, while for the other two it'd ask you ONCE and then get the hell out of the way. Ubuntu would even remember your sudo credentials for a few minutes so you could do other tasks as root. Really a superior design.
They made it less annoying with SP2 and again with Win7, yes, but the original setup was shit.
In Debian's defense, there haven't been any Alphas built for many years, and I'd expect the same to be true of HPPA, which IIRC was replaced by Itanium.
The cheap tires which last for tons and tons of miles but don't have such good grip are made with more carbon black than other tires, which leads me to believe that the purpose of the CB is to make the tires last longer, and that's why we don't see tires without the stuff anymore.
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You'd have to obtain an OEM version of the Windows install disc somewhere. One without a Trojan.
Basically Microsoft has two types of install codes for Windows: one for the retail discs, another for OEM discs, and one won't work with the other kind. If you've got an OEM disc from the same vendor, it'll notice a signature in the computer's BIOS and then automatically activate without needing you to input the code.
I'd rather have the updaters running, especially for Adobe's security-bug-of-the-week products.
PROTIP: you can tell Adobe Reader to automatically install updates in the background. This has been a godsend for us. Now if only they'd let us do that for Flash.
Didn't Windows Update have a newer driver available, or does MS not offer new video drivers on XP anymore?
My practice is to grab the latest drivers and install them whenever I give someone a new machine, especially chipset, video, and NIC.
Those tiny "drivers" are actually PostScript PPDs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_Printer_Description
For those to work you need a PostScript printer, which typically are a few hundred dollars and up for new ones. The cheapest printers (and most non-pro inkjets) are always soft-printers whose intelligence is actually in those bloated drivers which run on the host CPU. Pro inkjets have PCL3 compatibility, meaning that they have a relatively small PCL driver, often of 2-3 megs, and midrange-and-up lasers will grok either PCL5e, PCL6, or PostScript, or a vendor-specific language that is still interpreted on the printer.
Even modern PS printers will have more than PPDs included; usually it's GUI stuff to let you use more advanced print services, support for optional printer accessories, &c.
tl;dr: you know not of which you speak.
Not for the non-professional lines, they don't.
It's for a secret 3-dimensional Battleship clone I was working on. Now I'll sue you and Sony for violating my NDA!
They've got until the end of February to resurrect it. I suggest you write.
He was a Slashdot editor a long while back. Seems he's back.
I believe the Air Force's F-4E was the only Phantom model that carried an internal cannon; none of the Navy or Marine variants ever carried one, except in an external pod.
Did you ever use the original Vista? Ever use Ubuntu or OSX from the same time period? Vista's prompt was a lot more annoying, because for some operations it would go off several times, while for the other two it'd ask you ONCE and then get the hell out of the way. Ubuntu would even remember your sudo credentials for a few minutes so you could do other tasks as root. Really a superior design.
They made it less annoying with SP2 and again with Win7, yes, but the original setup was shit.
Funny, my URL said it was on idle.slashdot.org.
Oh, look. It is.
Can't blame you for not being able to tell; the new design sucks that way.
Leave your mother out of this.
In Debian's defense, there haven't been any Alphas built for many years, and I'd expect the same to be true of HPPA, which IIRC was replaced by Itanium.
Time to break out the illegal wiretaps and ignore the 4th amendment some more.
I think she single-handedly outweighs any good that McCain ever did as a Senator. To think I wanted the old goat to be president in 2000...
Not worth his time because the government would twig and he'd go to jail.
Windows users will d/l their binaries directly.
This.
OTOH maybe the underlying assumption is "he's autistic, just let him get away with it".
My photo's still Pedobear.
Freedom Office, of course. :{P
One wonders why the council allowed developers to build residential housing out there.
I don't think so.
The cheap tires which last for tons and tons of miles but don't have such good grip are made with more carbon black than other tires, which leads me to believe that the purpose of the CB is to make the tires last longer, and that's why we don't see tires without the stuff anymore.
I was sort of hoping to avoid the retarded "OMG world ends in 2012!" comments, which is why I didn't go there.
Say hello to HTML 2011.