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You can download one of those quickpaks (or servicepacks or what the hell I can't remember) which makes the diskettes to reinstall the "diagnostics partition" from Compaq's site. I did that with a Deskpro 2000 a few weeks ago after it had been ghosted with an image of another computer and it worked just fine. But then you need a working computer with internet connection to do that. And that can be a problem if it's your only one. Having a BIOS in ROM and a proper Windows CD is much better. But even better is installing a non sucky OS on you machine, such as Linux, FreeBSD or BeOS.
Re:Spread the message, brothers
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Sadly USA laws generally are adopted throughout the rest of the world as well. Also the police in other countries often act as representatives of the USA, like when XS4ALL had their systems impounded for hosting some Anti-Scientology site and when the Norwegian police arrested that DeCSS programmer.
Sorry to be so pessimistic, but this law has a very good chance to kill the free software movement. All Microsoft has to do is install Linux on one of their important but not vital systems, use Apache or some other program or something on it and then let it be affected by a bug that they know of and then slap 10 million dollar on the developers for damages caused (which they can't pay as open source programmers generally aren't millionaires). Developers will leave the OSS movement in droves after a few examples of that. Then Microsoft can happily continue bleeding their customers dry.
"Two things from Arrakis, then, Rabban: income and a merciless fist. You must show no mercy here. Think of these clods as what they are - slaves envious of their masters and waiting only for the opportunity to rebel. Not the slightest vestige of mercy must you show them."
-- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen to Beast Rabban in Dune (but it could as well be Bill Gates to Steve Ballmer).
Peter F. Hamilton was interviewed at my local bookstore a few weeks ago and when someone asked him about a movie of the Night's Dawn triology he answered "Have you ever seen Dune?" . So I think it would be very unlikely that they would make a film about it (unless PFH needed quick cash badly) as each of these books is as long as the entire Lords of the Rings triology. BTW: PFH mentioned that he was inspired by the Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher (The White Mountain, The City of Gold and Lead and The Pool of Fire) in his youth, which I thought was great as I thought those books were great. They were turned into a not-too-bad sci-fi series by the BBC in the mid '80s, which sadly was left hanging halfway into the story.
I remember some feminist saying that all heterosexual sex is rape of women.
Somehow I think they just say it to get someone's attention.
The whole feminist movement is a joke. What has it solved? Men still rule 99% of the world. And there's no Germaine Greer or Andrea Dworkin who will change that.
It reminds me a bit about a skit by Alexei Sayle (British funny man).
He interviewed some woman of the child care organisation and asked her in a scathing accusing tone where her organisation was when King Herod killed hundreds of Jewish babies.
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You can download one of those quickpaks (or servicepacks or what the hell I can't remember) which makes the diskettes to reinstall the "diagnostics partition" from Compaq's site. I did that with a Deskpro 2000 a few weeks ago after it had been ghosted with an image of another computer and it worked just fine. But then you need a working computer with internet connection to do that. And that can be a problem if it's your only one. Having a BIOS in ROM and a proper Windows CD is much better. But even better is installing a non sucky OS on you machine, such as Linux, FreeBSD or BeOS.
Sorry to be so pessimistic, but this law has a very good chance to kill the free software movement. All Microsoft has to do is install Linux on one of their important but not vital systems, use Apache or some other program or something on it and then let it be affected by a bug that they know of and then slap 10 million dollar on the developers for damages caused (which they can't pay as open source programmers generally aren't millionaires). Developers will leave the OSS movement in droves after a few examples of that. Then Microsoft can happily continue bleeding their customers dry.
Peter F. Hamilton was interviewed at my local bookstore a few weeks ago and when someone asked him about a movie of the Night's Dawn triology he answered "Have you ever seen Dune?" . So I think it would be very unlikely that they would make a film about it (unless PFH needed quick cash badly) as each of these books is as long as the entire Lords of the Rings triology. BTW: PFH mentioned that he was inspired by the Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher (The White Mountain, The City of Gold and Lead and The Pool of Fire) in his youth, which I thought was great as I thought those books were great. They were turned into a not-too-bad sci-fi series by the BBC in the mid '80s, which sadly was left hanging halfway into the story.
I remember some feminist saying that all heterosexual sex is rape of women.
Somehow I think they just say it to get someone's attention.
The whole feminist movement is a joke. What has it solved? Men still rule 99% of the world. And there's no Germaine Greer or Andrea Dworkin who will change that.
It reminds me a bit about a skit by Alexei Sayle (British funny man).
He interviewed some woman of the child care organisation and asked her in a scathing accusing tone where her organisation was when King Herod killed hundreds of Jewish babies.
Very funney, indeed!