There IS a limit on how many machines a copy of windows can be MOVED to (remove from old, install on new) and that is spelled out in the licence terms you agreed to
I'm sorry but I never agreed to any license terms. I went to the store, bought a product on display (a box of Windows XP) and paid at the cash. What license terms are you talking about ?
It may be like so where you live, but where I am there is law protecting the consumer, and one of them say that if I have to agree to a contract to use your product, you have to make me sign it BEFORE I buy the damn thing.
Now, if MS don't let me activate my copy of XP when I upgrade my machine, I will just call the consumer protection agency and let them explain the law to MS.
I like the seperate MythTV backend because I have two XBMC/ASRock installations and both can then read from the same source for playback in either room.
For your information, I have a MythTV backend that record TV from 3 Hauppage card and I can stream it to any of the 4 frontend I have in the house, without ever using CIFS
What? There's no need to buy a new monitor or projector. DVI/DisplayPort will drive a VGA device without any problems at all. But the reverse is not true. It really is bizarre that they still make laptops with just VGA output, when the digital alternatives offer VGA and more, with smaller connectors.
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Once the show is recorded, there is a background job flagging the commercials. When I watch a show, I just hit Z to bypass the commercial in a millisecond.
Watching live TV is a pain now because of this !
I got sick of MythTV locking up, crashing, and the constant non-stop twiddling with my configuration because I could never get things quite right.
SageTV isn't much better. I spend a lot less time twiddling, but it crashes and freezes about as often as MythTV used to. I'm still looking for that HTPC that just works. I haven't found it yet.
I have one MythTV backend in my server closet, plus 2 frontend in my house. I never fiddle with the settings, and the server keeps running and recording the shows we tell it to. It never seem to crash.
Since you have the same crashing with SageTV and MythTV, I would be tempted to say that the only point in common those 2 have is : YOU.
I would not let you touch my setup
What agreement ? I never signed anything when I went to the Apple store and bought a product that was sitting on the shelf. It maybe so in USA, but not here. It's written in the law here : if I have to accept a contract to use a product, you have to make me sign it before I buy it.
Geez, I don't care what Apple or Microsoft write in their EULA, I just click "Accept" and think to myself : let's see them try to uphold this in court.
Still, if they make it so that OS X won't run on an Atom, that is still legal, as much legal as me running OS X on an unapproved hardware.
I don't think Apple has a right to say what piece of hardware you can run OS X on. It's paid for, end of story.
They may not have a right (morally, that is), but, since the EULA states what you can run OS X on, they would seem to have a legal right.
Not everyone lives in USA. Different places have different laws. Where I am, that EULA as no validity. You can't impose a contract to use your product after I bought it. You have to make me accept that contract before I buy it. So it looks like eveybody in Quebec can go buy OS X and run it on anything they seem fit, even a toaster if they can make it work.
OK, leaving out 1.x and 2.x (3.x was where most people started after DOS...were 1 & 2 ever even released to consumers?)
Yes, I've used 1.x (well, used may be overstating, I played a bit with it, but since you could not run any DOS program in a window, and nothing was available for Windows yet, you basically just closed it and used DOS anyway).
I also tried 2.x, and I still have the originals 5.25" floppy. Was pretty much the same as with 1.x, you could run Calc, Notepad and Paint (which stayed pretty much unchanged since then), but that was about it.
Don't be silly, a real city isn't defined by its population count or legal status. A real city is defined by its crime rate. So if you don't feel unsafe walking the streets at night then you don't live in a real city.
So, by your definition, even if there is more than 1.5 million people in Montreal, it's not a real city then.
I'm glad I don't live in a real city, so I can walk in the streets at night without carrying a gun.
The geek still rants about the hardware requirements for Vista, while quite capable 64 bit Vista systems are mid-line at WalMart.
Dual or Quad Core CPU. 4 GB RAM or better. Humongous HDD and NVIDIA DX10 video included.
While that system can barely run Vista,on that exact same hardware I run Kubuntu 64 bit while I have 2 windows XP machine running in VMWare (at a very decent speed), and my Linux desktop is still very responsive, playing a movie, browsing/. and compiling Asterisk.
I still don't run an anti-virus and feel confident in my safety, and I never see a popup screen asking me permission for every move I do.
When I upgrade my PC it is so that I can do more with it, not just so I can still do what I did on the old one at a slower pace.
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There's nothing wrong with wanting things to 'work' sometimes. Some people have better things to do in the evening than trying to get working. Especially when they spend their day fixing other people's problems.
Exactly. I have no time to waist on something that I already made working and then the OS barfed on himself and it doesn't work anymore. That's why I prefer Linux : it maybe sometimes more trouble to make it work, but once it is setup, I never have to touch it again.
I spend enough time fixing other people Windows machine that when I get home, I just want to use my PC, not fight with it.
Linux : because I have better things to do than fix a damn computer
So I just invested in a TV tuner card, installed Vista on a decent PC I had and now I have all the functionality I had used before with my Tivo for free.
Unless you pirated Vista and stole your TV card, I wouldn't count your setup as free.
And since I can't imagine myself watching my TV bluescreen, I will stick with MythTV, thank you.
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There IS a limit on how many machines a copy of windows can be MOVED to (remove from old, install on new) and that is spelled out in the licence terms you agreed to
I'm sorry but I never agreed to any license terms. I went to the store, bought a product on display (a box of Windows XP) and paid at the cash. What license terms are you talking about ?
It may be like so where you live, but where I am there is law protecting the consumer, and one of them say that if I have to agree to a contract to use your product, you have to make me sign it BEFORE I buy the damn thing.
Now, if MS don't let me activate my copy of XP when I upgrade my machine, I will just call the consumer protection agency and let them explain the law to MS.
You know the difference between an MD and God ?
God doesn't believe he's an MD
I like the seperate MythTV backend because I have two XBMC/ASRock installations and both can then read from the same source for playback in either room.
For your information, I have a MythTV backend that record TV from 3 Hauppage card and I can stream it to any of the 4 frontend I have in the house, without ever using CIFS
What? There's no need to buy a new monitor or projector. DVI/DisplayPort will drive a VGA device without any problems at all. But the reverse is not true. It really is bizarre that they still make laptops with just VGA output, when the digital alternatives offer VGA and more, with smaller connectors.
This is only true for DVI-I (Integrated) ports. DVI-D (Digital) doesn't have the VGA (analog) output. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface for details
Once the show is recorded, there is a background job flagging the commercials. When I watch a show, I just hit Z to bypass the commercial in a millisecond.
Watching live TV is a pain now because of this !
I got sick of MythTV locking up, crashing, and the constant non-stop twiddling with my configuration because I could never get things quite right.
SageTV isn't much better. I spend a lot less time twiddling, but it crashes and freezes about as often as MythTV used to. I'm still looking for that HTPC that just works. I haven't found it yet.
I have one MythTV backend in my server closet, plus 2 frontend in my house. I never fiddle with the settings, and the server keeps running and recording the shows we tell it to. It never seem to crash.
Since you have the same crashing with SageTV and MythTV, I would be tempted to say that the only point in common those 2 have is : YOU.
I would not let you touch my setup
What agreement ? I never signed anything when I went to the Apple store and bought a product that was sitting on the shelf. It maybe so in USA, but not here. It's written in the law here : if I have to accept a contract to use a product, you have to make me sign it before I buy it. Geez, I don't care what Apple or Microsoft write in their EULA, I just click "Accept" and think to myself : let's see them try to uphold this in court. Still, if they make it so that OS X won't run on an Atom, that is still legal, as much legal as me running OS X on an unapproved hardware.
I don't think Apple has a right to say what piece of hardware you can run OS X on. It's paid for, end of story.
They may not have a right (morally, that is), but, since the EULA states what you can run OS X on, they would seem to have a legal right.
Not everyone lives in USA. Different places have different laws. Where I am, that EULA as no validity. You can't impose a contract to use your product after I bought it. You have to make me accept that contract before I buy it. So it looks like eveybody in Quebec can go buy OS X and run it on anything they seem fit, even a toaster if they can make it work.
OK, leaving out 1.x and 2.x (3.x was where most people started after DOS...were 1 & 2 ever even released to consumers?)
Yes, I've used 1.x (well, used may be overstating, I played a bit with it, but since you could not run any DOS program in a window, and nothing was available for Windows yet, you basically just closed it and used DOS anyway). I also tried 2.x, and I still have the originals 5.25" floppy. Was pretty much the same as with 1.x, you could run Calc, Notepad and Paint (which stayed pretty much unchanged since then), but that was about it.
They forget two things, nothing is free, and you get what you pay for.
That could explain why Internet Explorer sucks so much
Because when I do a search on their site, I'm not finding it.
I mean, you used Microsoft's search, what did you expect ?
Well, almost everyone is using Apache, yet the most hacked webserver is IIS.
You are so wrong, it's not even funny
Don't be silly, a real city isn't defined by its population count or legal status. A real city is defined by its crime rate. So if you don't feel unsafe walking the streets at night then you don't live in a real city.
So, by your definition, even if there is more than 1.5 million people in Montreal, it's not a real city then.
I'm glad I don't live in a real city, so I can walk in the streets at night without carrying a gun.
I don't know how to read, you insensitive clod!
Did you even read the article?
You mean, we are supposed to read it ?
undoing damage done by stupid moderation auto-post-without-undo function. I wanted to moderate you as funny
But in all seriousness, it'll be nice to have a rule that auto-directs calls to my cell when I'm out of the office.
You can do that with Asterisk and some imagination
If it was FOSS the developers would just tell us that security was important and we mere users were idiots for not understandind this.
And they would be right
Can I have some of what you smoke ?
Where did I say something about an Nvidia video card ?
But yes, I have an Nvidia video card, and I didn't have to go to Nvidia's site to download the driver, it was installed as part of the OS.
Here is $0.25, go buy yourself a real OS
The geek still rants about the hardware requirements for Vista, while quite capable 64 bit Vista systems are mid-line at WalMart.
Dual or Quad Core CPU. 4 GB RAM or better. Humongous HDD and NVIDIA DX10 video included.
While that system can barely run Vista,on that exact same hardware I run Kubuntu 64 bit while I have 2 windows XP machine running in VMWare (at a very decent speed), and my Linux desktop is still very responsive, playing a movie, browsing /. and compiling Asterisk.
I still don't run an anti-virus and feel confident in my safety, and I never see a popup screen asking me permission for every move I do.
When I upgrade my PC it is so that I can do more with it, not just so I can still do what I did on the old one at a slower pace.
There's nothing wrong with wanting things to 'work' sometimes. Some people have better things to do in the evening than trying to get working. Especially when they spend their day fixing other people's problems.
Exactly. I have no time to waist on something that I already made working and then the OS barfed on himself and it doesn't work anymore. That's why I prefer Linux : it maybe sometimes more trouble to make it work, but once it is setup, I never have to touch it again.
I spend enough time fixing other people Windows machine that when I get home, I just want to use my PC, not fight with it.
Linux : because I have better things to do than fix a damn computer
It's a Microsoft OS - anyone who expected rock-solid stability and bullet-proof security needs to have their head examined.
I knew I was using Linux for a reason. Thanks for reminding me
So I just invested in a TV tuner card, installed Vista on a decent PC I had and now I have all the functionality I had used before with my Tivo for free.
Unless you pirated Vista and stole your TV card, I wouldn't count your setup as free.
And since I can't imagine myself watching my TV bluescreen, I will stick with MythTV, thank you.
Last I heard it was only physically possible for about 23% THC production in the trichrome due to the size of the pocket inside of the gland.
The Montreal Police Department asserted that we have 25% THC in our Quebec Gold http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/canadasenate/vol1/chapter5_thc_concentrations.htm
La Belle Province indeed
You are wrong : http://www.cgi.ca/web/en/home.htm