Most PC users are the casual of casual - that's why M$ cares so much about the icons on the desktop, because maybe 80% of people do not know that they can be deleted.
Also it strikes me as odd that M$ would go to such trouble (and risk the wrath of so many casual users) with product activation if there were easy ways around it. But then again, I've not often been impressed with what they've churned out in the past.
Would it be possible for Windows XP to discretely send information to Microsoft's servers when people went online, as a means of countering cracks or hardware key generators (they must exist - if not someone will read this and will write one)?
As if that means anything to the typical home user.
It will start to mean something soon with all that product activation crap built into the eXPerimental build of windows that requires you to ask the M$ servers for permission to continue using the product you've spent £200/$300 on.
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How many of these files can Linux support? Is there a limit on the size of the disk that can be used?
I though that BEOS was able to support files this large.
Most PC users are the casual of casual - that's why M$ cares so much about the icons on the desktop, because maybe 80% of people do not know that they can be deleted.
Also it strikes me as odd that M$ would go to such trouble (and risk the wrath of so many casual users) with product activation if there were easy ways around it. But then again, I've not often been impressed with what they've churned out in the past.
Would it be possible for Windows XP to discretely send information to Microsoft's servers when people went online, as a means of countering cracks or hardware key generators (they must exist - if not someone will read this and will write one)?
> on one computer.LOL!
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As if that means anything to the typical home user.
It will start to mean something soon with all that product activation crap built into the eXPerimental build of windows that requires you to ask the M$ servers for permission to continue using the product you've spent £200/$300 on.