tech installs the actual modem in the house, tech changes password, tech writes password in big black letters on the actual modem. tech leaves. How hard can it be?
Simple. The manufacturer has to put on the bat that when used for its intended purpose, the possibility of injuring others exists, and that under no circumstances whatsoever the manufacturer can be held liable, should such a thing occur. Obviously you could add another 400 pages of exceptions, until in the end the manual for a baseballbat exceeds the size of LOTR...
Didn't you know? According to American law the consumer can leave his brain on the nightstand when going out shopping. Unless ofcourse the EULA for the nightstand forbids it. Or the EULA for the brain specifies you're not allowed to lend it to other entities. You'd have to check with The Man Upstairs on that one...
Being a total linux n00b, i still managed to get Mandrake 9.0 running quite easily. Aside from the disk partitioning, which will likely remain one of the scarier aspects(***Attention, you will lose all data on this disk***), i was able to pretty much do everything i wanted through the gui. In the end i had a desktop, a working cable internet connection, sound and video up and running, the whole shebang.
It was the moment I wanted to add something to the actual OS that things went topsy turvy. Installing nvidia drivers? Keep dreaming, you'll spend half a week reading text files before you know how to do it. Check out some irc client? Better be prepared for some serious compiling, and if you're really, really lucky, you'll get one rpm, which needs to be ran from the command, because if you doubleclick it, nothing happens at all.
Praise goes to Mozilla in this case, since their installation was as easy as the one under Windows.
But all this is Compaq policy, not M$. Ofcourse it is the result of a deal between the aforementioned, but to be quite honest, if you buy a Compaq, you (should) know you will be facing this kind of nonsense.
As for having a valid copy, you got what you pay for. An OEM license such as this one is simply cheaper than a retail version of XP, and OEM simply means more hassle.
Tried Wine 2.2.1 under Mandrake 9.0 yesterday, mostly in order to get mIRC running;) lots of errors first time it ran, and a couple of font issues to work out, but if even a complete linuxn00b like me can figure it out, anyone can.
This company already made it on my blacklist, back when they were the only Bios manufacturer out there being unable to comply to USB standards, meaning your devices wouldn't work if plugged in during boot. Quite frustrating. BTW, aren't these the guys that bought Award out a little time ago?
I've been advised by multiple people to note the fact i play the bass on my resume. Being musical is not necessarily something which makes you a better coder, but it is something the more knowledgable employers take into consideration as being an indication of being a better coder. It's all about seeing the whole pattern while keeping track of the details...
This is the one I've used most, but it's not free. While googling for where I found it I also stumbled on this website, but I have no personal experience with that one.
The trick is not to put something on it that remains constant, but something that changes all the time. So instead of the actual browser, dump the cache on it. Tell your OS and software to use the drive for temporary storage(swapfile for example) and then you'll get the most out of it. Something the article does not specify but which my software driven Ramdrive allows me to do is to actually load a disk image into the drive on bootup, allowing you for example to permanently install an entire piece of software on it permanently which will then only have to be loaded from the harddrive once...
Dunno, but this Winxp machine I'm typing this on has a 700 MB Ramdrive(yes, one ISO), and I could easily upgrade that if I could be bothered to buy more memory...
I wish I could, I really do...but unfortunately people who obviously actually need to read literature like this are still spewing out websites which i cannot view in Mozilla. Examples include, but are not limited to: the intranet at my job, the Windows Update page;-), but for example also my "I need to host a file for free with no hassle" kinda provider www.0catch.com
This is obviously a troll, but I'll bite. XP runs fluently on my system. And that's a Duron 800 with 1 single SDRam 512 MB Dimm and a Geforce 2 MX. Now UT 2003, that's a whole different OS;-)
Considering it still takes slightly-above-average knowledge of how websites work etc etc we might very well be dealing with a Mozilla/Opera/"Insert Cool Broweser Here" user that managed to perform this 1337 act of h4x0r1ng...
And how logical. Trying not to grasp what is out of your reach and correctly assessing what is in your reach and what isn't sounds like a decent idea to me, in any given situation...
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For some reason the concept "election campaign" keeps popping into my head when I read this. Dunno what that is...
tech installs the actual modem in the house, tech changes password, tech writes password in big black letters on the actual modem. tech leaves. How hard can it be?
A *class* action...oh, oh, the irony.
Simple. The manufacturer has to put on the bat that when used for its intended purpose, the possibility of injuring others exists, and that under no circumstances whatsoever the manufacturer can be held liable, should such a thing occur. Obviously you could add another 400 pages of exceptions, until in the end the manual for a baseballbat exceeds the size of LOTR...
Didn't you know? According to American law the consumer can leave his brain on the nightstand when going out shopping. Unless ofcourse the EULA for the nightstand forbids it. Or the EULA for the brain specifies you're not allowed to lend it to other entities. You'd have to check with The Man Upstairs on that one...
Ehmmm. Read some of the latest Tom Clancy novels and all will become clear. Too bad it's fiction, for the US at least...
Sorry. Make that a *decent* irc client...
Being a total linux n00b, i still managed to get Mandrake 9.0 running quite easily. Aside from the disk partitioning, which will likely remain one of the scarier aspects(***Attention, you will lose all data on this disk***), i was able to pretty much do everything i wanted through the gui. In the end i had a desktop, a working cable internet connection, sound and video up and running, the whole shebang.
It was the moment I wanted to add something to the actual OS that things went topsy turvy. Installing nvidia drivers? Keep dreaming, you'll spend half a week reading text files before you know how to do it. Check out some irc client? Better be prepared for some serious compiling, and if you're really, really lucky, you'll get one rpm, which needs to be ran from the command, because if you doubleclick it, nothing happens at all.
Praise goes to Mozilla in this case, since their installation was as easy as the one under Windows.
But all this is Compaq policy, not M$. Ofcourse it is the result of a deal between the aforementioned, but to be quite honest, if you buy a Compaq, you (should) know you will be facing this kind of nonsense.
As for having a valid copy, you got what you pay for. An OEM license such as this one is simply cheaper than a retail version of XP, and OEM simply means more hassle.
Tried Wine 2.2.1 under Mandrake 9.0 yesterday, mostly in order to get mIRC running ;) lots of errors first time it ran, and a couple of font issues to work out, but if even a complete linuxn00b like me can figure it out, anyone can.
This company already made it on my blacklist, back when they were the only Bios manufacturer out there being unable to comply to USB standards, meaning your devices wouldn't work if plugged in during boot. Quite frustrating. BTW, aren't these the guys that bought Award out a little time ago?
Now that actually sounds like something I might want to buy ;-)
This failed attempt to access your computer through port 80 was brought you by C0C4 C014. Always C0C4 C014!
*Right click*
*Block all images from this server*
Banners, you said?
Guess I'm a thief too then...
I've been advised by multiple people to note the fact i play the bass on my resume. Being musical is not necessarily something which makes you a better coder, but it is something the more knowledgable employers take into consideration as being an indication of being a better coder. It's all about seeing the whole pattern while keeping track of the details...
Ah yes, the 30kb "Full Movie, great quality" kinda files...now where is that codec that allows that kinda compression :-)
Nevermind that second link...however, this article looks quite interesting...
This is the one I've used most, but it's not free. While googling for where I found it I also stumbled on this website, but I have no personal experience with that one.
The trick is not to put something on it that remains constant, but something that changes all the time. So instead of the actual browser, dump the cache on it. Tell your OS and software to use the drive for temporary storage(swapfile for example) and then you'll get the most out of it. Something the article does not specify but which my software driven Ramdrive allows me to do is to actually load a disk image into the drive on bootup, allowing you for example to permanently install an entire piece of software on it permanently which will then only have to be loaded from the harddrive once...
Dunno, but this Winxp machine I'm typing this on has a 700 MB Ramdrive(yes, one ISO), and I could easily upgrade that if I could be bothered to buy more memory...
I wish I could, I really do...but unfortunately people who obviously actually need to read literature like this are still spewing out websites which i cannot view in Mozilla. Examples include, but are not limited to: the intranet at my job, the Windows Update page ;-), but for example also my "I need to host a file for free with no hassle" kinda provider www.0catch.com
This is obviously a troll, but I'll bite. XP runs fluently on my system. And that's a Duron 800 with 1 single SDRam 512 MB Dimm and a Geforce 2 MX. Now UT 2003, that's a whole different OS ;-)
Considering it still takes slightly-above-average knowledge of how websites work etc etc we might very well be dealing with a Mozilla/Opera/"Insert Cool Broweser Here" user that managed to perform this 1337 act of h4x0r1ng...
whether it runs Windows or not. When you have one of the following:
- Balding man in his forties with a mid-life crisis.
- Young drug-dealing piece of shit.
- Spoiled little collega brat.
I like Porsches. Too bad by the time I can afford one I'll be too old to get away with it...
And how logical. Trying not to grasp what is out of your reach and correctly assessing what is in your reach and what isn't sounds like a decent idea to me, in any given situation...
Scsi is clearly superior. Can you imagine doing This with IDE?