Ehm.... I have a work laptop. I would have preferred a desktop, but I got a laptop. Why exactly would I need to pack up my laptop every night, and take it with me or even lock it in a closet if it is in the office? I mean, if my coworkers are going to steal it, then the company has bigger problems than me leaving the laptop unattended overnight and during my holidays.
The office is only accessible with a keycard in the first place, so that leaves the cleaning ladies as possible thieves.
I don't know, but unlike so many of my coworkers, I feel no need at all to take a work laptop home. I've got plenty computers at home, the work one isn't going to make a difference to me.
Well, I have no idea what USCIS is nor what you mean with "permanent residency". I assume you're a non US citizen, that married an US woman. Now that might be a rule in those conditions, but I believe that my wife has no business with my money and I do have no business with her money. We have a shared account for shared expenses, and that account is fueled with a certain percentage of our salaries in order to cover shared expenses.
Anything else is lunacy... It protects her from me running off with her money, and it protects me from her doing the same to me. You still might say that it's lack of trust, but we both have heard of very ugly divorces (hey, her parents had an ugly divorce), so this arrangement actually is in our favour.
Well, let me state this clearly: I have my account, she has her account, and we have our account. Guess who has access to what account. The shared account is fueled with money based on a percentage of our respective incomes and is used to pay our expenses.
I hope that makes it clear. Even in marriage there is a difference between her money, my money and our money. It's simple, effective and avoids fights.
You've just told the OS you prefer French, so why would an application that is installing that can support French want to install with the language set to English?
Tell that to all the people that asked me why some of their programs are in a different language than their OS. I guess that if many people have a problem with it, it is indeed counterintuitive.
But hey, let's stop discussing this. I know, I'm right and you know you're right. We just can and will not agree with each other.
Of course, but frankly, do you let your spouse have you e-banking account information? Frankly? Trust is good, but overly trusting your spouse is not good either.... You never know. Perhaps she'll join some crazy cult next week and takes all your money with her. You lose your spouse and everything you have. I'd rather just lose my spouse in that case.
Trust is good, but a healthy dose of common sense is better...
It's what I do... I simply customize "English (UK)". The thing is, I shouldn't have to.
Locales, correctly implemented should separate "Language" and "Locale" completely. That way, I can say that I speak "Swahili", but want my locale of my country of residence "Liechtenstein". That's the whole problem. Nobody does this correctly. To implement this correctly, one should have two dropdown boxes: "Language" and "Locale". Note that there is a third problem: the language of the operating system. You can tell an English operating system that the language is "French", that's fair, because that's what I write most. However, it is extremely annoying that software that you want to install, reverts to that language. It should revert to the language the operating system displays in order to avoid inconsistencies and dialog boxes in the style "Möchten Sie die Applikation schliessen? [Yes] [No]".
It is just a fact that no operating system implements any of these things correctly, and the reason behind that is that the people who implement this stuff do not live in a country where up to four different languages and locales are used (again excluding the number of different languages displayed by the operating systems).
I understand, why this is: people actually having this experience are hard to find and expensive.
Find a Windows machine, install iTunes, import DRMed music fines, let Hymn/QTFairuse do its work. Congratulations, you now have unprotected AAC files. (I checked, QTFairuse at this point works with iTunes up and including version 7.4.3.1).
You could do all of this from within a virtual machine.
Oh, and after you did all this, buy non-DRM content only. That's what I did after DRM started to thoroughly piss me off.
Who the fuck used non-privileged accounts in XP, besides huge corporations?
I do, and so does my whole family. Works perfectly fine. The reason others don't manage is because it requires a bit work and knowledge to set the permissions of misbehaving applications (both on the filesystem and in the registry). To add insult to injury, you need to use a command line too to set the file permissions on Windows XP Home.
It's not hard to do, but you need the required knowledge.... Problems? My Windows XP machines do not have problems and all users are Limited. Including myself. I only log in to Administrator when I actually need to configure something for the whole system.
Yes, even games can be made to work on Limited User. My brother is an avid gamer, and all his games work under Limited User. Of course, he wouldn't be able to do that himself...
Myself, I use Windows because I can't get used to the GUI for some reason, although these days I spend more and more of my time in consoles (either ssh to the linux server or a Cygwin shell).
What makes you think that others will switch, if *you* a seasoned geek/nerd, can't make the switch because of lack of familiarity in the GUI?
Besides, have you checked any of the other Ubuntus like KUbuntu or XUbuntu?
That is exactly what I did as a kid! Took me an afternoon or so, and I didn't read English well back in those days. Without a dictionary, and patience I wouldn't entered that game ever.
Did you use the OEM restore or reinstall disk? Those usually are pre-activated and a BIOS-check is done if it's from the right manufacturer. (Only that, a Dell restore CD usually works on all Dells) Changing hardware in XP will only trigger a reactivation if you change quite a bit of components. I personally have never seen a XP nagging about reactivation. I added a Wireless card and more RAM to my brothers PC who runs a OEM XP Home. Soon I'll upgrade his CPU, it's then that I'll expect problems... I hope not, but we'll see then.
However, the people here are complaining about Vista requiring a reactivation after a memory upgrade... Exactly one hardware change. That's not much hardware to change, methinks. I don't know if those rumours are true and as such take them with a large grain of salt. I don't use Vista, so I really wouldn't knwo.
Not condoning piracy, but sometimes you don't have much of an option. What is my coworker going to do with his HP machine that comes with a recovery partition, but now his disk is dead. No, there was no software way to burn the disks. It's a 2003 PC, the warranty from HP is long gone. He can't reinstall, yet he would have the right.
As for Dell: most people forget that the recovery CDs from Dell/HP/Fujitsu do not contain the crapware that is preinstalled. At least it never did for me. Out of the box = with crapware. Apply recovery disk = crapware gone.
That said, I did not reply for that, I wanted to comment the following:
Not once have I ever had to reactivate a legitimate copy of XP here at work despite having swapped out motherboards on a few occasions.
Of course not. Most bigger businesses have a Corporate Edition and a Corporate Edition does not need activation... ever... When pirating Windows XP, that's the version you want, together with a Corporate Edition Serial that is not known in the warez circles. Even installing WGA will not make a difference.
Within the last year, I know of two girls that switched from PC to Mac... Not all that much, but I don't know all that much people either. I used to use Apple, so they came to me for advice. Me? Not switching back to Apple, because the 2003 computer I have running Windows XP does all I need and I can maintain Windows machines correctly.
Of course, I'd expect any mechanic to say that maintaining a car is easy too:-P
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Why exactly should I shell out the money for that? Sure, it's only 5$, but shouldn't the company provide me with such tools?
Ehm.... I have a work laptop. I would have preferred a desktop, but I got a laptop. Why exactly would I need to pack up my laptop every night, and take it with me or even lock it in a closet if it is in the office? I mean, if my coworkers are going to steal it, then the company has bigger problems than me leaving the laptop unattended overnight and during my holidays.
The office is only accessible with a keycard in the first place, so that leaves the cleaning ladies as possible thieves.
I don't know, but unlike so many of my coworkers, I feel no need at all to take a work laptop home. I've got plenty computers at home, the work one isn't going to make a difference to me.
Well, I have no idea what USCIS is nor what you mean with "permanent residency". I assume you're a non US citizen, that married an US woman. Now that might be a rule in those conditions, but I believe that my wife has no business with my money and I do have no business with her money. We have a shared account for shared expenses, and that account is fueled with a certain percentage of our salaries in order to cover shared expenses.
Anything else is lunacy... It protects her from me running off with her money, and it protects me from her doing the same to me. You still might say that it's lack of trust, but we both have heard of very ugly divorces (hey, her parents had an ugly divorce), so this arrangement actually is in our favour.
Well, let me state this clearly: I have my account, she has her account, and we have our account. Guess who has access to what account. The shared account is fueled with money based on a percentage of our respective incomes and is used to pay our expenses.
I hope that makes it clear. Even in marriage there is a difference between her money, my money and our money. It's simple, effective and avoids fights.
You've just told the OS you prefer French, so why would an application that is installing that can support French want to install with the language set to English?
Tell that to all the people that asked me why some of their programs are in a different language than their OS. I guess that if many people have a problem with it, it is indeed counterintuitive.
But hey, let's stop discussing this. I know, I'm right and you know you're right. We just can and will not agree with each other.
Of course, but frankly, do you let your spouse have you e-banking account information? Frankly? Trust is good, but overly trusting your spouse is not good either.... You never know. Perhaps she'll join some crazy cult next week and takes all your money with her. You lose your spouse and everything you have. I'd rather just lose my spouse in that case.
Trust is good, but a healthy dose of common sense is better...
You clearly are not married...
*sigh*
Q: Did you know that there is a food out there that will stop a woman from wanting sex?
A: Its' called "Wedding Cake"
*sigh*
Why is your porn on an unencrypted, easily accessible volume that your wife has rights on? Huh? I don't get it....
Yeah, yeah, I see it's tongue in the cheek, but my data is inaccessible for my wife. She has no business in there, and neither have I in her data.
a case of champaign
I don't know anyone who ever ordered "a case of champaign", but plenty of people that ordered "a case of champagne".
It's what I do... I simply customize "English (UK)". The thing is, I shouldn't have to.
Locales, correctly implemented should separate "Language" and "Locale" completely. That way, I can say that I speak "Swahili", but want my locale of my country of residence "Liechtenstein". That's the whole problem. Nobody does this correctly. To implement this correctly, one should have two dropdown boxes: "Language" and "Locale". Note that there is a third problem: the language of the operating system. You can tell an English operating system that the language is "French", that's fair, because that's what I write most. However, it is extremely annoying that software that you want to install, reverts to that language. It should revert to the language the operating system displays in order to avoid inconsistencies and dialog boxes in the style "Möchten Sie die Applikation schliessen? [Yes] [No]".
It is just a fact that no operating system implements any of these things correctly, and the reason behind that is that the people who implement this stuff do not live in a country where up to four different languages and locales are used (again excluding the number of different languages displayed by the operating systems).
I understand, why this is: people actually having this experience are hard to find and expensive.
Find a Windows machine, install iTunes, import DRMed music fines, let Hymn/QTFairuse do its work. Congratulations, you now have unprotected AAC files. (I checked, QTFairuse at this point works with iTunes up and including version 7.4.3.1).
You could do all of this from within a virtual machine.
Oh, and after you did all this, buy non-DRM content only. That's what I did after DRM started to thoroughly piss me off.
Who the fuck used non-privileged accounts in XP, besides huge corporations?
I do, and so does my whole family. Works perfectly fine. The reason others don't manage is because it requires a bit work and knowledge to set the permissions of misbehaving applications (both on the filesystem and in the registry). To add insult to injury, you need to use a command line too to set the file permissions on Windows XP Home.
It's not hard to do, but you need the required knowledge.... Problems? My Windows XP machines do not have problems and all users are Limited. Including myself. I only log in to Administrator when I actually need to configure something for the whole system.
Yes, even games can be made to work on Limited User. My brother is an avid gamer, and all his games work under Limited User. Of course, he wouldn't be able to do that himself...
Myself, I use Windows because I can't get used to the GUI for some reason, although these days I spend more and more of my time in consoles (either ssh to the linux server or a Cygwin shell).
What makes you think that others will switch, if *you* a seasoned geek/nerd, can't make the switch because of lack of familiarity in the GUI?
Besides, have you checked any of the other Ubuntus like KUbuntu or XUbuntu?
That is exactly what I did as a kid! Took me an afternoon or so, and I didn't read English well back in those days. Without a dictionary, and patience I wouldn't entered that game ever.
Of course, later I found out about Alt-X...
It's been a long time, I actually had to use one... Guess things have changed over time...
But that does not explain my parents two pcs.
Did you use the OEM restore or reinstall disk? Those usually are pre-activated and a BIOS-check is done if it's from the right manufacturer. (Only that, a Dell restore CD usually works on all Dells) Changing hardware in XP will only trigger a reactivation if you change quite a bit of components. I personally have never seen a XP nagging about reactivation. I added a Wireless card and more RAM to my brothers PC who runs a OEM XP Home. Soon I'll upgrade his CPU, it's then that I'll expect problems... I hope not, but we'll see then.
However, the people here are complaining about Vista requiring a reactivation after a memory upgrade... Exactly one hardware change. That's not much hardware to change, methinks. I don't know if those rumours are true and as such take them with a large grain of salt. I don't use Vista, so I really wouldn't knwo.
Not condoning piracy, but sometimes you don't have much of an option. What is my coworker going to do with his HP machine that comes with a recovery partition, but now his disk is dead. No, there was no software way to burn the disks. It's a 2003 PC, the warranty from HP is long gone. He can't reinstall, yet he would have the right.
As for Dell: most people forget that the recovery CDs from Dell/HP/Fujitsu do not contain the crapware that is preinstalled. At least it never did for me. Out of the box = with crapware. Apply recovery disk = crapware gone.
That said, I did not reply for that, I wanted to comment the following:
Not once have I ever had to reactivate a legitimate copy of XP here at work despite having swapped out motherboards on a few occasions.
Of course not. Most bigger businesses have a Corporate Edition and a Corporate Edition does not need activation... ever... When pirating Windows XP, that's the version you want, together with a Corporate Edition Serial that is not known in the warez circles. Even installing WGA will not make a difference.
With Vista this "loophole" has been closed.
Within the last year, I know of two girls that switched from PC to Mac... Not all that much, but I don't know all that much people either. I used to use Apple, so they came to me for advice. Me? Not switching back to Apple, because the 2003 computer I have running Windows XP does all I need and I can maintain Windows machines correctly.
Of course, I'd expect any mechanic to say that maintaining a car is easy too :-P
Seriously, why let them set the rules?
Because the law is on their side?
Damnit... People really are shallow.... I really can't help it that I look like a Troll and live under bridge ;-)
Mods never heard of the expression "When Pigs Fly", right?
No, it's most probably because Microsoft paying for the meal could be interpreted as bribery.
Aaaagh, how I hate that mistake: it is "whether"... Please, "weather" is the thing about sunshine and rain... *weeps*
... but I work on the 5th floor....
And yet, selecting it impacts the date format & number format.
How again isn't it a locale? (in the Windows sense, I know French is a language)