Here's something to try: 1) Move the hard disk to the hdb drive in a machine that has room for two drives. 2) install Linux on the hda drive 3) mount the windows partitions
The problem is that those restore CDs repartition the drive to the way it was from the factory. So remounting the Windows partitions still just mounts the new, factory restored partitions, not the old, full of.doc files partitions that the users are so sore about losing. I usually try Norton's undelete program, but it finds very few useful files, and most of the time the files are Internet cache files or system files.
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Emusic is really a great service. I agree fully with this guy, the only shortcoming it has is the 128kbps bitrate. I'd prefer at least 160kbps. I think he's just a satisfied customer.
First, Microsoft now requires that OEMs no longer distribute fully functional copies of Windows(tm). They can only distribute "restore disks". These restore disks typically reformat and repartition your drives (wiping out any other OS you might have).
I'm not sure that you're right about this; I work for a small computer services company, and we get PCs from an OEM who pre-installs Windows but does include a standard OEM Windows CD that can be used however the end user sees fit. I think the reasoning behind the "restore disks" is to cut costs for the major vendors' help desks. Rather than hire people who know how to fix problems, they just say, "Boot off the restore disk, agree to all the prompts, and the problem will go away." Many times I've had people come into the shop and ask if we can get their data back. The answer's usually no.
Texas is cool place to watch on "King of the Hill", but I wouldn't want to live there just because I love where I live (Friends, family, ect) I'm surprised slashdot editors would allow such a seething comment to make it through. Just because you love where you live is no reason to clown on someplace else.
Maybe the editor also likes where he lives and has friends where he lives, hence he doesn't want to move to Dallas. Now, living close to the Dallas Cowboys, on the other hand, that ought to scare anyone from moving there!
They explain it in the article. The makers of PGP feel that some guy compiling the source code and making it available or using it himself isn't going to cut into their profits too much because most people interested in using cryptography aren't going to use some shady, homebrewed, perhaps compromised program, they're going to buy it straight from PGP so they can trust it.
Fucking Win95. The thorn in IT departments' sides since its birth. The only thing worse is that goddamned WinME shit that cheap companies have because they decided to buy home PCs for their workstations. These are CONSUMER OSES, people! Not CAD workstations!
The main problem with the review is that after reading it, I still have no idea what the movie is about. I know it was based on a science fiction book by Stanislaw Lem, but as I haven't read any of his books, that doesn't influence my decision on whether or not to watch the movie. The only thing I got out of the review is that the movie was slow-moving and confusing to some audience members. I need more to go on than that, sorry.
The downloads could be broken up into binaries and source code. Nobody's saying the public would be forced to get the source, the author's only saying that the companies would be required to make the source code available to people who bought the software. If it was shipped on a CD-ROM, it would be on the CD. If it was bought over the web, there'd be a link for the source code. No mega-zipfile.
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Yes, we know, we read the article. It's mentioned there.
Hormel, the company who makes the food SPAM, would rather you refer to bulk unsolicited e-mail in all lowercase letters, i.e. spam. Otherwise you infringe on their trademark.
IBM is most definitely not phasing out AIX. I read that in Network World or one of those other trade magazines, in an article about how AIX has this new feature where users can "split" the server into multiple parts. I don't remember the details on the technology, but I think that IBM is likely backing Linux in case Linux gets some sort of feature that would make a good addition to AIX.
Would you want your 3 year old drive replaced and or fixed? Why should they stock these? Maybe if they just sent me the cheapest one currently made..
That's usually what they do. They replace the broken drive with the newest drive that has a comparable capacity. If your drive dies near the end of the warranty period, you might luck out and get a bit more capacity for a replacement.
The biggest set of have nots are still those who have not in respect of anything (the third world). We have the 'ring of fire' around Africa, but that's only really useful for the countries with a shoreline. Do you think your efforts for intra-planet internet-working would help to provide better satellite based access for making ISP's cheaper.
Africa (for the most part) needs better sewage and water pumping infrastructure, not cheap ISPs. I think once the leaders get the essentials, they'll be able to handle ISPs by themselves. But right now, they've got bigger fish to fry.
It's Island that you need to watch out for. There's an amusing interview done in a sneaky fashion that Don and Mark of Negativland did with The Edge after the big lawsuit that Island filed against Negativland and their label, SST. It's funny, The Edge was sort of sympathetic toward Negativland, he claimed that Island went ahead and filed the lawsuit without really talking to U2 at all.
Yes, it does have to do with not adding generations unless necessary. Plus, with MP3s, you get that problem where a guy decompresses it to WAV, makes a CD, trades it to someone else, and they make MP3s off the CD. Then you find yourself getting compression artifacts and a general lack of quality. With SHNs, you can archive the show on a CD and make new SHNs off it without worrying that you're degrading the quality for the next guy.
I read somewhere that car manufacturers actually ask to get their cars in Gran Turismo. The only stipulation they have is that the cars can't be damaged, because that reflects poorly on them. "What a piece of crap car! I just barely touched that wall!" So it works out great for Polyphony as well as for the car manufacturers. I don't know about the billboards, though.
I wish the hardware and software companies would just not put DRM in their products and tell the RIAA, "Our customers don't like this stuff. We're not including it." There ARE other ways to stop piracy, like prosecuting those who break the laws. But no, instead I have to jump through hoops to get songs from my CDs to my Minidisc player through the OpenMG software (which is proprietary, of course). I'm not doing anything wrong here, yet I get punished. That's just not the right way to treat customers.
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The problem is that those restore CDs repartition the drive to the way it was from the factory. So remounting the Windows partitions still just mounts the new, factory restored partitions, not the old, full of
Right on, man. Right on.
Emusic is really a great service. I agree fully with this guy, the only shortcoming it has is the 128kbps bitrate. I'd prefer at least 160kbps. I think he's just a satisfied customer.
I'm not sure that you're right about this; I work for a small computer services company, and we get PCs from an OEM who pre-installs Windows but does include a standard OEM Windows CD that can be used however the end user sees fit. I think the reasoning behind the "restore disks" is to cut costs for the major vendors' help desks. Rather than hire people who know how to fix problems, they just say, "Boot off the restore disk, agree to all the prompts, and the problem will go away." Many times I've had people come into the shop and ask if we can get their data back. The answer's usually no.
Maybe the editor also likes where he lives and has friends where he lives, hence he doesn't want to move to Dallas. Now, living close to the Dallas Cowboys, on the other hand, that ought to scare anyone from moving there!
They explain it in the article. The makers of PGP feel that some guy compiling the source code and making it available or using it himself isn't going to cut into their profits too much because most people interested in using cryptography aren't going to use some shady, homebrewed, perhaps compromised program, they're going to buy it straight from PGP so they can trust it.
Fucking Win95. The thorn in IT departments' sides since its birth. The only thing worse is that goddamned WinME shit that cheap companies have because they decided to buy home PCs for their workstations. These are CONSUMER OSES, people! Not CAD workstations!
The main problem with the review is that after reading it, I still have no idea what the movie is about. I know it was based on a science fiction book by Stanislaw Lem, but as I haven't read any of his books, that doesn't influence my decision on whether or not to watch the movie. The only thing I got out of the review is that the movie was slow-moving and confusing to some audience members. I need more to go on than that, sorry.
The downloads could be broken up into binaries and source code. Nobody's saying the public would be forced to get the source, the author's only saying that the companies would be required to make the source code available to people who bought the software. If it was shipped on a CD-ROM, it would be on the CD. If it was bought over the web, there'd be a link for the source code. No mega-zipfile.
Yes, we know, we read the article. It's mentioned there.
Hormel, the company who makes the food SPAM, would rather you refer to bulk unsolicited e-mail in all lowercase letters, i.e. spam. Otherwise you infringe on their trademark.
Great, thanks.
Could you provide us with a link? I find that strange, just because they link to the New York Times a ton.
IBM is most definitely not phasing out AIX. I read that in Network World or one of those other trade magazines, in an article about how AIX has this new feature where users can "split" the server into multiple parts. I don't remember the details on the technology, but I think that IBM is likely backing Linux in case Linux gets some sort of feature that would make a good addition to AIX.
Read the article, Bill Gates is mentioned.
Then the U.S. military is doing its job exactly as it should be. Believe me, if we demilitarized ourselves, there'd be one hell of a threat.
Would you want your 3 year old drive replaced and or fixed? Why should they stock these? Maybe if they just sent me the cheapest one currently made..
That's usually what they do. They replace the broken drive with the newest drive that has a comparable capacity. If your drive dies near the end of the warranty period, you might luck out and get a bit more capacity for a replacement.
Maybe it's that "Apple" section of the site. I keep hearing about it, yet I don't know anyone who reads it! I think it's purely theoretical.
Africa (for the most part) needs better sewage and water pumping infrastructure, not cheap ISPs. I think once the leaders get the essentials, they'll be able to handle ISPs by themselves. But right now, they've got bigger fish to fry.
It's Island that you need to watch out for. There's an amusing interview done in a sneaky fashion that Don and Mark of Negativland did with The Edge after the big lawsuit that Island filed against Negativland and their label, SST. It's funny, The Edge was sort of sympathetic toward Negativland, he claimed that Island went ahead and filed the lawsuit without really talking to U2 at all.
Yes, it does have to do with not adding generations unless necessary. Plus, with MP3s, you get that problem where a guy decompresses it to WAV, makes a CD, trades it to someone else, and they make MP3s off the CD. Then you find yourself getting compression artifacts and a general lack of quality. With SHNs, you can archive the show on a CD and make new SHNs off it without worrying that you're degrading the quality for the next guy.
The source is here. Very well documented, my guess is you could modify it pretty easily.
I read somewhere that car manufacturers actually ask to get their cars in Gran Turismo. The only stipulation they have is that the cars can't be damaged, because that reflects poorly on them. "What a piece of crap car! I just barely touched that wall!" So it works out great for Polyphony as well as for the car manufacturers. I don't know about the billboards, though.
Nah, that's what your lift ticket wicket is for!
I wish the hardware and software companies would just not put DRM in their products and tell the RIAA, "Our customers don't like this stuff. We're not including it." There ARE other ways to stop piracy, like prosecuting those who break the laws. But no, instead I have to jump through hoops to get songs from my CDs to my Minidisc player through the OpenMG software (which is proprietary, of course). I'm not doing anything wrong here, yet I get punished. That's just not the right way to treat customers.