I'll be dating myself here, but I clearly remember walking with my mother in a strip mall years ago when this song came on over the PA system and it has stuck in my head ever since.
What will date us is the tech of the day. This was the age of the transistor radio with it's 2 inch speaker or single earphone. It was AM. FM wasn't even on the horizon yet let alone stereo radio.
I have my grandfathers portable radio. It is bright red and the size of a small lunch pail. It has 5 tubes and took 3 batteries. It used a D cell for the filimants, a 22-1/2 volt battery for bias, and a 67 volt B battery for the tube plate voltages. The batteries were not rechargable.
DVD players needed over a decade to supersede the VCR in the living rooms of the United States and there is little reason to believe that HD DVD and Blu-ray player adoption will outpace that of the DVD.'"
After the key break on Blu-Ray.. I followed a link in the discussion to see what titles were out and had keys listed. For the most part, the list was short and contained movies over a decade old.
It looks like the studios are just testing the waters and not yet dedicated to the format. Consumers are the same. Waiting to see what will happen. DVD's were the same except DVD's were for Movies first and data second. I think this format will deploy in the reverse as a data medium for console games, and slowly the movies will follow.
My current employer did great. I was going to apply after returning to the USE. A friend told me to apply before returning to the USA and they will play the relocation.
I'm glad I did. The international relocation was a good deal.
I would seriously consider not taking the job if they don't try to fix it quickly.
On the other hand, I did apply for a job at one place (local) and was hired and was to report Monday morning. I arrived Monday morning with my toolbox and was informed it was not to start work, but to be interviewed by the department head. I let them know I had been hired and was ready to start work and they had serious communication issues. Then I left. I kept track of them and they failed a short time later. First impressions go a long way and are often right.
And I've got news for you if you think Canon printer drivers are going to be any better than the experience you've had...
Which experiance; Dell or HP?
I was under the impression that Cannon printers were used on Apple computers and such unlike the Dell which are Windows only.
I just jumped over to Cannon's website and picked a random model and went to driver downloads. The i950 has these drivers ready for download.
Add-on Module for Printer Driver (Windows Vista/Vista64)
2006-12
i950 v1.62a Printer Driver for Windows XP
i950 v1.62a Printer Driver for Windows 2000
i950 v7.40 Printer Driver for Windows Me
i950 v7.40 Printer Driver for Windows 98
i950 v4.14 Printer Driver for Mac OS 8.6 - 9.x
i950 Printer Driver Ver. 4.1.9 (Mac OS X)
2007-01
You must be talking about the HP.. It was only the Dell that was limited to two versions of Windows. Cannon has supprt for Mac and most older versions of Windows. Only 95 and 3.x do not have support.
If you want to use this Cannon on linux a Google search bring up this;
Now try to find a linux print driver for a Dell Printer.
I come up with this. "I just bought a dell laptop from dell.com and it came with a free printer. the printer is a dell 720 (color inkjet), but i cannot find any driver for it. is there anyways to make it work? i do not need to do any fancy thing, i just want it to print in colors and i would be happy."
The reply is very helpful. "Dell printers are junk. Here's why: 1. Dell repackages Lexmark printers and sells them as Dell's 2. Lexmark printers are absolute garbage 3. Dell modifies the print cartridge bays so ONLY Dell cartridges will work 4. You can ONLY buy Dell print cartridges online, and for overpriced sums. Then you have to wait while they're shipped to you for extravagant shipping costs."
Any questions? I have not heard these complaints for Cannon printers which is why I am considering one of them.
I don't know what church they go to. The one I go to bends over backwards to help in situations like that.
There shouldn't be any other kind. I am glad to hear there are a few real Christian Churches left.
Those who don't follow the example are an embaressment to christianity everywhere. A template of a poor church was will played in the movie "Oh God" with John Denver and George Burns. It was a great movie and showed the shallowness of many churches.
The church I grew up in had to deal with panhandlers and those just looking for an easy buck. To sort out the needy from the frauds and those down and out by choice, the church simply had vouchers good at a local hotel good for meals and an overnight stay. It worked out well and it is a church I could in good heart support. The needy had help when they needed it. Only a few of the vouchers were redeemed for meals or a stay. If it was needed they would have used it. Sometimes they would arrange to pay someone's electric or oil heating bill. (rural, not on gas yet)
The church I attend now is assembling lunch boxes to give to the homeless and panhandlers on the freeway onramps. Instead of cash for booze, we fill the hunger need as requested. This is one of many programs we support.
It's another church I can support. What does your church do for the community and those in need? Helping the elderly and widows is a function of the Christian Church. Have you considered carrying a lunch sack for a panhandler on the corner instead of giving them money?
The biblical church had a storehouse for food, not a bank for money. In the old testimate in the story of Joseph and his brothers, they went to go get stored grain, not money. The tithe was a portion of the harvest.
Actually they were wondering if anyone at Dell had managed to get a printer working with Windows.
Funny thing you mentioned that. When my wife got a Dell printer with her Dell XP computer a few years ago, we found it came with drivers for XP and 2K only. On my home LAN the wife's XP was the only PC that could use the printer unlike the HP printers already on the LAN. We donated the printer to Goodwill when it ran out of ink and reclaimed the desk space.
I own a Samsung laser printer because it has linux support:-)
Tried a newer distro of Linux?
When I finaly retired Windows 98 and loaded Ubuntu on a machine on my LAN, it fould both my older HP printers just fine.
Personally I hope both HP and Dell fail
I am aiming that way quickly. My wife got a Dell printer with her new (not anymore) XP computer. We about fell over laughing when we saw the size of the print carts. We looked up the price of the replacements. They were the same price as the carts for the HP722c but were a quarter the size. We could not pick them up localy but had to pay S & H on top.
We figured to go ahead and install it and use it until it ran out of ink. This is where we got our second laugh.. It cam with drivers for Windows XP and Windows 2K. At the time none of the other computers on the LAN ran either of those OS'es. At the time we had a mix of Win98, Win 95, Linux, and an oddball Win ME laptop. None of them could use the new printer.
To add insult to injury, Dell had a very generous offer.. They would recycle my old printer for free including shipping, just pack it in the printer box and put on the shipping label. Yea right! I was going to ship their printer back for recycling when it ran out of ink, but they probably would pass it on to someone else as a new printer. We donated it to Goodwill instead. It's there if someone really wants it.
HP has very little to worry from Dell unless they put out a decent printer and make supplies easy to pick up at a good price.
I think Cannon will eat both of them for lunch if they are not careful.
If you want to check the Japanese track that topped the US charts, check the link in the parent and scroll down. The original version is posted as well as many many many remakes including the English version. Enjoy.
Maybe iTunes doesn't sell them is they sometimes are posted for free after the copyright expired unlike in the US where the extension act will make it sure I will expire first.
"His biggest hit, Ue o Muite Aruko (I Look Up When I Walk; "Sukiyaki" in the West), was released in Japan in 1961. After its release in the U.S. in 1963, the song's earnestness and melodic beauty proved irresistible despite its incomprehensible lyrics. Against all odds, on June 15, 1963, the song ousted Leslie Gore's "It's My Party" to become the No. 1 popular song in the U.S."
Japan has lots of great music. While I was there I bought a few albums. Some I could not even tell you who the artist is or the name of the album because there is not any english printing on it. The record stores would frequently play albums and display the album playing. This is how I found and bought some great music.
To add insult to injury, iTunes finished the quality by encoding to only 128K and charging full bore retail. I suppose it is OK to listen to on a noisy school bus, but it is very lacking on good equipment at home.
If you have to carry a Windows laptop through a checkpoint, just keep a Knoppix (or other distro) LiveCD in the DVD drive. Boot to pretty colors, log into nada.
I like it. I wonder if they will fall asleep while waiting for it to boot off CD.
The only way to stop spam is to make it unprofitable. So if you get enough lawsuits on you Spams become unprofitable. Thus it stops.
It hasen't stopped in this case. Does anybody know if MS has collected their 7 million? A 7 million settlement hasn't stopped the spam king.
Richter was already ordered to pay $7 million in a 2003 lawsuit filed by Microsoft after initially refusing to settle the dispute for $100,000. Microsoft announced in 2005 that it would be using the money from the settlement to fuel further antispam operations."
Last time I knew anything about the Sony MD players, is there are two formats and 2 modes of operation. The Data format takes data disks and can transfer stuff to and from a computer and the Music format which employs Serial Copy Protection. Your copy of a copy won't work. To prevent a computer from defeating Serial Copy Protection, a player with a music disk will not talk to a computer at all. The data port is disabled when in music mode.
The DRM of Serial Copy Protection and the segration of Music and Data modes is the reason I never bought one of the players. You probably have only one player so Serial Copy Protection is not an issue for you.
Have they changed any of the above? Can you now copy music to and from a player with a computer?
Other than analog, how the heck do you record music disks to play?
Why are all the keys to movies from the back catalog?
Is the industry limiting HD DVD's to just old stuff? Maybe they are simply releasing old stuff to see if it gets cracked and are holding new content for after the market is established. King Kong? Enter the Dragon.. What year did that come out?
Piacy amounts to a drop in the bucket compared to the additional revenue they can squeeze out of honest customers thanks to the fair-use stiffling effects of DRM.
I fail to see how the additional revenue thing works when it keeps consumers from buying in droves. Example, iTunes store. The average iPod can hold 1,000+ songs. Some hold less, some hold more. How come they have sold only 22 songs per player? It's obvious why nobody with a Zune, iRiver, Coby, Toshiba, or Creative Zen have bought iTunes tracks. DRM has totaly locked these players out of the store.
I fail to see how selling an incompatible DRM format can squeeze out revenue of honest customers thanks to the fair-use stiffling effects of DRM. DRM has kept me out of all online DRM media stores.
There are a few countries that are noticing that DRM is incompatible and consumer unfriendly. Too bad the USA isn't one of them.
That these cracks and counter DRM attempts cause enough compatability problems that the Consumer electronics industry gives up on DRM, and the studios would have to follow if they wanted there content sold at hi def prices....
More likely they will assume piracy and charge will over $100 a copy for the hi def movies or keep them off the market entirely until a truly secure (Vista media edition) pipe is provided.
My response was, and I quote, "Fuck you, I'll just crack WGA on my validly purchased copies that I already own, and I dare you assholes to try and prosecute."
A better response is "How do I get refunds on the defective copies so I can buy working copies?" If you can't fix it or I don't get a full refund, I'll see you in small claims court." If I have to go to small claims, I'm replacing the OS with something else which works like Ubuntu." Follow up on this. Don't take no for an answer. Post the results online.
Well, personally, I have reinstalled the same copy of windows on the same machine more times than the activation allows (~20?). So, no, I don't try to activate either.
My kids machine needed rebuilt about every 3-6 months for 2-4 rebuilds/year. XP has been out for how long now?
The last rebuild got a full Ubuntu install and it has been stable for almost a year now.
I haven't even needed to update the anti-virus.;-)
This free website allows users of Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3, Netscape 4.0, Mozilla Firebird 0.7, Opera 5, or K-Meleon 0.9, to keep their copy of Windows up-to-date. Newer releases of these browsers are also suitable.
If you're running Internet Explorer, please upgrade your browser. Choose from the links below:
You can't use the site with Internet Explorer. So much for supporting any browser! I'll have to check the link later at home.
What church charges? I was under the impression it wasn't mandentory. They recommend a tithe which is close to what the government charges for what the church used to do. Government didn't used to have Social Security. The Tithe was for the church storehouse to feed widows and elderly. The Government has replaced that function which most churches no longer perform.
Offerings is for the operation of the church. It is seprate from the Tithe. Most churches haven't kept them seprate and no longer teach what the Tithe and offerings are for.
Remember, the Government (in the USA) has taken over the church Tithe. Offerings are a gift and not mandentory.
I'm sure Microsoft execs were able to get Wal-Mart to use Suse by continuing to offer them great Windows discounts. This way they aren't really compromising the integrity (sic) of their volume licensing.
The title is misleading. Walmart is not buying Suse Support.. It's a package deal. They are packaging it together with MS server.
From the article..
"Microsoft offers coupons for Suse Enterprise Linux support services as well as legal indemnification for customers who use both Microsoft and Novell's Linux, which is open-source. "
This is a package deal. With MS server running, you can also run Suse Server.
There is nothing in the article about anything desktop. This is a back office deal only.
Legal indemnification is limited to those running both server softaware packages. This not Microsoft selling Suse support. It is about selling MS Windows Server with Suse Enterprise Server.
Once users have bought a collection of songs from iTunes (even if it's only 20 or 30) they won't want to throw them away by switching DRM vendors
Which is exactly why I call any DRM format a Walled Garden and Incompatible with almost everyting.
I have stuck with MP3's. If everyone voted against DRM with their pocketbook, it would have died on the vine long ago. The music industry is in business to sell a product. Buy the music, but reject the DRM. Support e-music instead of iTunes. The artists will follow the money.
Press Enter Enter your userid and password Watch cursor blink on C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserID>_ No graphics interface, no desktop, just black screen with "helpful" comand prompt
Sit back and wait for TSA goon to ask you to shut off the laptop.
On Ubuntu, there is no need to log in or wait for a spot in the boot up process. Power it on and when the HD starts after the POST from the BIOS, Toggle to TTY1 by hitting Ctl Alt F1. On a Windows machine you are turning the machine over to them while logged in. Not good. On Ubuntu, you turn the machine over to them while NOT LOGGED IN. Watch them scratch their heads as the boot up steps buzz by on screen and end up with a Login prompt.
It's much more fun and less dangerous. Some TSA guys may know enough about the C:\ to type "exit" which boots back to the GUI.
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I'll be dating myself here, but I clearly remember walking with my mother in a strip mall years ago when this song came on over the PA system and it has stuck in my head ever since.
What will date us is the tech of the day. This was the age of the transistor radio with it's 2 inch speaker or single earphone. It was AM. FM wasn't even on the horizon yet let alone stereo radio.
I have my grandfathers portable radio. It is bright red and the size of a small lunch pail. It has 5 tubes and took 3 batteries. It used a D cell for the filimants, a 22-1/2 volt battery for bias, and a 67 volt B battery for the tube plate voltages. The batteries were not rechargable.
DVD players needed over a decade to supersede the VCR in the living rooms of the United States and there is little reason to believe that HD DVD and Blu-ray player adoption will outpace that of the DVD.'"
After the key break on Blu-Ray.. I followed a link in the discussion to see what titles were out and had keys listed. For the most part, the list was short and contained movies over a decade old.
It looks like the studios are just testing the waters and not yet dedicated to the format. Consumers are the same. Waiting to see what will happen. DVD's were the same except DVD's were for Movies first and data second. I think this format will deploy in the reverse as a data medium for console games, and slowly the movies will follow.
My current employer did great. I was going to apply after returning to the USE. A friend told me to apply before returning to the USA and they will play the relocation.
I'm glad I did. The international relocation was a good deal.
I would seriously consider not taking the job if they don't try to fix it quickly.
On the other hand, I did apply for a job at one place (local) and was hired and was to report Monday morning. I arrived Monday morning with my toolbox and was informed it was not to start work, but to be interviewed by the department head. I let them know I had been hired and was ready to start work and they had serious communication issues. Then I left. I kept track of them and they failed a short time later. First impressions go a long way and are often right.
And I've got news for you if you think Canon printer drivers are going to be any better than the experience you've had...
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Which experiance; Dell or HP?
I was under the impression that Cannon printers were used on Apple computers and such unlike the Dell which are Windows only.
I just jumped over to Cannon's website and picked a random model and went to driver downloads. The i950 has these drivers ready for download.
Add-on Module for Printer Driver (Windows Vista/Vista64)
2006-12
i950 v1.62a Printer Driver for Windows XP
i950 v1.62a Printer Driver for Windows 2000
i950 v7.40 Printer Driver for Windows Me
i950 v7.40 Printer Driver for Windows 98
i950 v4.14 Printer Driver for Mac OS 8.6 - 9.x
i950 Printer Driver Ver. 4.1.9 (Mac OS X)
2007-01
You must be talking about the HP.. It was only the Dell that was limited to two versions of Windows.
Cannon has supprt for Mac and most older versions of Windows. Only 95 and 3.x do not have support.
If you want to use this Cannon on linux a Google search bring up this;
http://www.turboprint.info/printers.html
The supported list includes the i950 picked out from random for testing.
Now try to find a linux print driver for a Dell Printer.
I come up with this.
"I just bought a dell laptop from dell.com and it came with a free printer. the printer is a dell 720 (color inkjet), but i cannot find any driver for it. is there anyways to make it work? i do not need to do any fancy thing, i just want it to print in colors and i would be happy."
http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/263
The reply is very helpful.
"Dell printers are junk. Here's why:
1. Dell repackages Lexmark printers and sells them as Dell's
2. Lexmark printers are absolute garbage
3. Dell modifies the print cartridge bays so ONLY Dell cartridges will work
4. You can ONLY buy Dell print cartridges online, and for overpriced sums. Then you have to wait while they're shipped to you for extravagant shipping costs."
Any questions?
I have not heard these complaints for Cannon printers which is why I am considering one of them.
I don't know what church they go to. The one I go to bends over backwards to help in situations like that.
There shouldn't be any other kind.
I am glad to hear there are a few real Christian Churches left.
Those who don't follow the example are an embaressment to christianity everywhere. A template of a poor church was will played in the movie "Oh God" with John Denver and George Burns. It was a great movie and showed the shallowness of many churches.
The church I grew up in had to deal with panhandlers and those just looking for an easy buck. To sort out the needy from the frauds and those down and out by choice, the church simply had vouchers good at a local hotel good for meals and an overnight stay. It worked out well and it is a church I could in good heart support. The needy had help when they needed it. Only a few of the vouchers were redeemed for meals or a stay. If it was needed they would have used it. Sometimes they would arrange to pay someone's electric or oil heating bill. (rural, not on gas yet)
The church I attend now is assembling lunch boxes to give to the homeless and panhandlers on the freeway onramps. Instead of cash for booze, we fill the hunger need as requested. This is one of many programs we support.
It's another church I can support. What does your church do for the community and those in need? Helping the elderly and widows is a function of the Christian Church. Have you considered carrying a lunch sack for a panhandler on the corner instead of giving them money?
The biblical church had a storehouse for food, not a bank for money. In the old testimate in the story of Joseph and his brothers, they went to go get stored grain, not money. The tithe was a portion of the harvest.
Actually they were wondering if anyone at Dell had managed to get a printer working with Windows.
Funny thing you mentioned that. When my wife got a Dell printer with her Dell XP computer a few years ago, we found it came with drivers for XP and 2K only. On my home LAN the wife's XP was the only PC that could use the printer unlike the HP printers already on the LAN. We donated the printer to Goodwill when it ran out of ink and reclaimed the desk space.
I own a Samsung laser printer because it has linux support :-)
Tried a newer distro of Linux?
When I finaly retired Windows 98 and loaded Ubuntu on a machine on my LAN, it fould both my older HP printers just fine.
Personally I hope both HP and Dell fail
I am aiming that way quickly. My wife got a Dell printer with her new (not anymore) XP computer. We about fell over laughing when we saw the size of the print carts. We looked up the price of the replacements. They were the same price as the carts for the HP722c but were a quarter the size. We could not pick them up localy but had to pay S & H on top.
We figured to go ahead and install it and use it until it ran out of ink. This is where we got our second laugh.. It cam with drivers for Windows XP and Windows 2K. At the time none of the other computers on the LAN ran either of those OS'es. At the time we had a mix of Win98, Win 95, Linux, and an oddball Win ME laptop. None of them could use the new printer.
To add insult to injury, Dell had a very generous offer.. They would recycle my old printer for free including shipping, just pack it in the printer box and put on the shipping label. Yea right! I was going to ship their printer back for recycling when it ran out of ink, but they probably would pass it on to someone else as a new printer. We donated it to Goodwill instead. It's there if someone really wants it.
HP has very little to worry from Dell unless they put out a decent printer and make supplies easy to pick up at a good price.
I think Cannon will eat both of them for lunch if they are not careful.
If you want to check the Japanese track that topped the US charts, check the link in the parent and scroll down. The original version is posted as well as many many many remakes including the English version. Enjoy.
Maybe iTunes doesn't sell them is they sometimes are posted for free after the copyright expired unlike in the US where the extension act will make it sure I will expire first.
It has already happeded.
http://www.maddmansrealm.com/sukiyaki/
"His biggest hit, Ue o Muite Aruko (I Look Up When I Walk; "Sukiyaki" in the West), was released in Japan in 1961. After its release in the U.S. in 1963, the song's earnestness and melodic beauty proved irresistible despite its incomprehensible lyrics. Against all odds, on June 15, 1963, the song ousted Leslie Gore's "It's My Party" to become the No. 1 popular song in the U.S."
Japan has lots of great music. While I was there I bought a few albums. Some I could not even tell you who the artist is or the name of the album because there is not any english printing on it. The record stores would frequently play albums and display the album playing. This is how I found and bought some great music.
Musicians are perfectionists.
If that were true, Why they would not sign with labels that killed the quality and dynamic range out of their music?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
To add insult to injury, iTunes finished the quality by encoding to only 128K and charging full bore retail. I suppose it is OK to listen to on a noisy school bus, but it is very lacking on good equipment at home.
If you have to carry a Windows laptop through a checkpoint, just keep a Knoppix (or other distro) LiveCD in the DVD drive. Boot to pretty colors, log into nada.
I like it. I wonder if they will fall asleep while waiting for it to boot off CD.
The only way to stop spam is to make it unprofitable. So if you get enough lawsuits on you Spams become unprofitable. Thus it stops.
It hasen't stopped in this case. Does anybody know if MS has collected their 7 million? A 7 million settlement hasn't stopped the spam king.
Richter was already ordered to pay $7 million in a 2003 lawsuit filed by Microsoft after initially refusing to settle the dispute for $100,000. Microsoft announced in 2005 that it would be using the money from the settlement to fuel further antispam operations."
I think you are ontopic as it deals with DRM.
Last time I knew anything about the Sony MD players, is there are two formats and 2 modes of operation. The Data format takes data disks and can transfer stuff to and from a computer and the Music format which employs Serial Copy Protection. Your copy of a copy won't work. To prevent a computer from defeating Serial Copy Protection, a player with a music disk will not talk to a computer at all. The data port is disabled when in music mode.
The DRM of Serial Copy Protection and the segration of Music and Data modes is the reason I never bought one of the players. You probably have only one player so Serial Copy Protection is not an issue for you.
Have they changed any of the above? Can you now copy music to and from a player with a computer?
Other than analog, how the heck do you record music disks to play?
Why are all the keys to movies from the back catalog?
Is the industry limiting HD DVD's to just old stuff? Maybe they are simply releasing old stuff to see if it gets cracked and are holding new content for after the market is established. King Kong? Enter the Dragon.. What year did that come out?
Piacy amounts to a drop in the bucket compared to the additional revenue they can squeeze out of honest customers thanks to the fair-use stiffling effects of DRM.
I fail to see how the additional revenue thing works when it keeps consumers from buying in droves. Example, iTunes store. The average iPod can hold 1,000+ songs. Some hold less, some hold more. How come they have sold only 22 songs per player? It's obvious why nobody with a Zune, iRiver, Coby, Toshiba, or Creative Zen have bought iTunes tracks. DRM has totaly locked these players out of the store.
I fail to see how selling an incompatible DRM format can squeeze out revenue of honest customers thanks to the fair-use stiffling effects of DRM. DRM has kept me out of all online DRM media stores.
There are a few countries that are noticing that DRM is incompatible and consumer unfriendly. Too bad the USA isn't one of them.
That these cracks and counter DRM attempts cause enough compatability problems that the Consumer electronics industry gives up on DRM, and the studios would have to follow if they wanted there content sold at hi def prices....
More likely they will assume piracy and charge will over $100 a copy for the hi def movies or keep them off the market entirely until a truly secure (Vista media edition) pipe is provided.
Now that Blu-Ray can be pirated, there's a chance the format might take off. This could have a positive benefit for PS3 sales.
Or we could be at a "Knife the baby" event where the studios simply refuse to release anything on a cracked HD format.
My response was, and I quote, "Fuck you, I'll just crack WGA on my validly purchased copies that I already own, and I dare you assholes to try and prosecute."
A better response is "How do I get refunds on the defective copies so I can buy working copies?" If you can't fix it or I don't get a full refund, I'll see you in small claims court." If I have to go to small claims, I'm replacing the OS with something else which works like Ubuntu." Follow up on this. Don't take no for an answer. Post the results online.
Well, personally, I have reinstalled the same copy of windows on the same machine more times than the activation allows (~20?). So, no, I don't try to activate either.
;-)
My kids machine needed rebuilt about every 3-6 months for 2-4 rebuilds/year. XP has been out for how long now?
The last rebuild got a full Ubuntu install and it has been stable for almost a year now.
I haven't even needed to update the anti-virus.
I also know of a few where they haven't passed, despite being bonafide installations from dell.
;-)
Dude, follow the instructions for turning in the pirate that provided the system to you and get your copy validated as genuing in the process.
Checked your link and got this;
"Unsupported Browser
This free website allows users of Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3, Netscape 4.0, Mozilla Firebird 0.7, Opera 5, or K-Meleon 0.9, to keep their copy of Windows up-to-date. Newer releases of these browsers are also suitable.
If you're running Internet Explorer, please upgrade your browser. Choose from the links below:
You can't use the site with Internet Explorer. So much for supporting any browser! I'll have to check the link later at home.
That's cheaper than the church charges.
What church charges? I was under the impression it wasn't mandentory. They recommend a tithe which is close to what the government charges for what the church used to do. Government didn't used to have Social Security. The Tithe was for the church storehouse to feed widows and elderly. The Government has replaced that function which most churches no longer perform.
Offerings is for the operation of the church. It is seprate from the Tithe. Most churches haven't kept them seprate and no longer teach what the Tithe and offerings are for.
Remember, the Government (in the USA) has taken over the church Tithe. Offerings are a gift and not mandentory.
The same can not be said for a Windows License.
I'm sure Microsoft execs were able to get Wal-Mart to use Suse by continuing to offer them great Windows discounts. This way they aren't really compromising the integrity (sic) of their volume licensing.
The title is misleading. Walmart is not buying Suse Support.. It's a package deal. They are packaging it together with MS server.
From the article..
"Microsoft offers coupons for Suse Enterprise Linux support services as well as legal indemnification for customers who use both Microsoft and Novell's Linux, which is open-source. "
This is a package deal. With MS server running, you can also run Suse Server.
There is nothing in the article about anything desktop. This is a back office deal only.
Legal indemnification is limited to those running both server softaware packages. This not Microsoft selling Suse support. It is about selling MS Windows Server with Suse Enterprise Server.
Once users have bought a collection of songs from iTunes (even if it's only 20 or 30) they won't want to throw them away by switching DRM vendors
Which is exactly why I call any DRM format a Walled Garden and Incompatible with almost everyting.
I have stuck with MP3's. If everyone voted against DRM with their pocketbook, it would have died on the vine long ago. The music industry is in business to sell a product. Buy the music, but reject the DRM. Support e-music instead of iTunes. The artists will follow the money.
Press Enter
Enter your userid and password
Watch cursor blink on C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserID>_
No graphics interface, no desktop, just black screen with "helpful" comand prompt
Sit back and wait for TSA goon to ask you to shut off the laptop.
On Ubuntu, there is no need to log in or wait for a spot in the boot up process. Power it on and when the HD starts after the POST from the BIOS, Toggle to TTY1 by hitting Ctl Alt F1. On a Windows machine you are turning the machine over to them while logged in. Not good. On Ubuntu, you turn the machine over to them while NOT LOGGED IN. Watch them scratch their heads as the boot up steps buzz by on screen and end up with a Login prompt.
It's much more fun and less dangerous. Some TSA guys may know enough about the C:\ to type "exit" which boots back to the GUI.