If a customer attempts to activate Windows XP with an OEM key from a COA, they will be directed to call customer support specialists to obtain an override code - provided they can prove that their copy is legitimate by answering a series of questions.
Jupiter Research senior analyst Joe Wilcox said the change shouldn't affect many PC buyers. "Seeing as how the typical OEM would normally preactivate Windows XP, most legitimate users shouldn't have much need to go through the activation process," noted Wilcox.
With regard to the people wondering whether they should close their AllOfMP3.com account, go into hiding, skip the country etc, I have a question for any legal types out there:
If I buy from a real high-street shop that stocks really cheap stuff, and where I suspect, but don't know, that their goods were stolen, am I breaking the law? If they tell me the goods are cheap because of some "legal loophole", am I to blame if I buy their goods?
I see these being more useful as we move more and more towards media PCs etc.
I've just built a media PC (VIA Nehemiah based, fanless, Fedora Core 2) for playing DVDs, AVIs and Ogg/MP3s. I have yet to write some kind of OSD-type control software for it to select a file I might want to play. It's a real pain having to walk up to the PC just to play the next episode of 24, for example.
This is kind of a stealth keyboard which wouldn't look so much out of place on the coffee table. Particularly if it were wireless. Being able to type superfast on it wouldn't be a requirement... I want one!
"...when you're talking about the danger of having summary judgment or even partial summary judgment granted against you, it's pretty difficult to think of a reason [SCO] would withhold all of [their] evidence," Levy said."
And have you heard it?? I just downloaded the MOV file and the music is APPALLING... however I'm not sure whether that's the robot's fault or the composer's... it would be interesting to hear this attempt something like Rodrigo's Concierto.
So, this verson is going to be wrapped up pretty quickly. I hope people will support the release, because I'm sure I'll have a lot more bills before all of this is through, and I'm blowing through what little money I've managed to save.
This struck me... I use Slack on two *really slow* PCs (233 Mhz) and it makes them perform just fine. And yet I've never paid Pat a dime. I think it's time I started a subscription. What about you?
I'm sure there's a market for something like this... in London onen sees, all the time, people walking along talking to themselves, looking like raving idiots. Until one notices that they have a little earpiece. Some of them try to make it obvious that they are using a phone by holding the handset in front of them (if the earpiece is corded) so as not to look so mad.
I've always thought that a regular, old fashioned handset used either (a) via bluetooth or even (b) as a corded cellphone accessory would look so cool to be talking into as you were walking along!
Only downside, of course, is the bulk of the thing...
I am (at this very minute) replacing my aging hifi PC with a mini-itx system based around the VIA EPIA Nehemiah M10000 LVDS 1Ghz Motherboard, with the fan ripped off and fitted into the passive cooling E-Otonashi Case (both available from http://www.mini-itx.com/store/).
Not one fan. The ONLY thing that makes a sound is the hard disk (and THAT's a quiet one). It's freaked me out a couple of times, where I think it's died, until I see the light's still on. With a decent-sized solid state drive, this would be totally silent.
I own a Zaurus SL-5500. The battery life is OK-ish with a battery extender (basically a box with four Mi-Mh AA rechargeables in it. Gives me about four hours). As a geek toy it's brilliant. I'm running OpenZaurus on it, and can SSH onto it from my other machines, and use it to control devices about the house, and, of course, it's interesting to use it with Kismet as a wireless "warwalker".
BUT... I wouldn't dream of using it as a PDA. To my mind, a PDA should be diary and addressbook (and maybe to-do lists), and streamlined for those purposes, and not try to be a desktop PC scaled down. I own (and depend heavily on) the cheapest Palm Zire for PDA purposes, and it interfaces with Linux just fine (J-Pilot is fantastic). I don't think I've ever even seen the battery icon go below 50%.
So it really depends what you are looking for. A geek toy (Zaurus!!) or something to organize your life (Palm!). I'm sure that the two COULD one day be built into one small device that runs for days on one charge, but currently you can have: (a) coolness and (b) long battery life plus usability. Pick any one.
The keyboard isn't sacrosanct... granted, we'll always want to be able to enter text (at least those of us belonging to the rebel alliance will).
I can't imagine ever having speech recognition being good enough for a programmer, it would be too slow to have to say "cout less than less than quote capitalised Hello comma world less than less than quote semi colon", and it would make the workplace an awful noisy place:-)
But what about the non-invasive "thinking caps" featured recently in a story? Maybe one day we'll be able to simply "see" the word or line and it will be entered...
Purists may smirk at this, being VB-like and all, but I just compiled this from source and had a play... it's incredibly well done. I'm really impressed. I'd love to see something like this which builds proper executables and allows C or C++ for the language.
I haven't had a chance to investigate further (should be working, after all!) but does anybody know what you need to distribute to get an app working on another box? Does the RPM it creates install all the required libs etc or do they need Gambas installed too?
... not only is it, as pointed out by just about everyone, ugly as sin, it's also made by ASUS. I swore never to buy another Asus product again after I discovered how diabolically bad their support is for their products (I basically could not elicit *one* *single* *response* from them over a clear bug on one of their motherboards). Even if this WAS pretty, I wouldn't buy it.
One of the problems with the Zaurus is its software - as a PDA it really doesn't cut it compared to Palm. It's great for a Linux hacker to mess around with, and for War Walking (got Kismet running on mine right now), but for the average user wanting a PDA it's poor. Which is a shame.
Now if I could retrofit Palm software on to it... well... I might use it as a PDA!
Very good point - however I knew because it was from the branch manager I'd dealt with on numerous occasions before:-)
Hmmm... unless he's gone over to the dark side and started his own phishing business... or the black hats have got some good voice emulation technology (or just good impersonators...)
The problem is not just related to email. Here in the UK recently Lloyds TSB (one of the major high street banks) recently sent me a letter asking me to reconfirm ALL my banking details (including signature). It occurred to me that, without checking, I could be returning this official form to anyone (i.e some phishing scamster). So I threw it away. And the chasing letter. When they rang me and I finally verified this was official, I acceded to their requests. But it's shocking that they expect people to send off details like this without any verification other than the fact that the letter is on an official letterhead...
This is the reflow bug and it's much quicker to do a quick Ctrl+ then Ctrl- (or Ctrl-Mousewheel Up followed by Ctrl-Mousewheel down) to force a redraw of the existing page by changing font size. Hitting reload in my experience often doesn't help and just adds to site traffic.
I'm disappointed this wasn't fixed in 1.0, I'd seen comments to suggest it would have been.
What the hell is ":(){:|:&};:" - Oooh - just figured. I should have thought more before trying to run it in a bash shell. Nasty:-). Now to stop my machine before the CPU melts. Sorry for the off-topicicity.
I'm impressed. Downloaded the 0.7 zip file from the site (it was the only download available). I thought... well, this must be the windows version (I'm on Linux FC2), but I'll have a look at the code anyway. Unzipped it, realised it was for Win and Lin, looked for a "configure" script, couldn't find one, so just ran "make". All compiled without a single problem. Then went to the examples and compiled all those, again just with a make, everything ran OK. It seems pretty solid. I think this is going to be great.
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Just put its URL up... we'll slashdot it to death in no time...
With regard to the people wondering whether they should close their AllOfMP3.com account, go into hiding, skip the country etc, I have a question for any legal types out there:
If I buy from a real high-street shop that stocks really cheap stuff, and where I suspect, but don't know, that their goods were stolen, am I breaking the law? If they tell me the goods are cheap because of some "legal loophole", am I to blame if I buy their goods?
I suspect not, but then, as they say, IANAL...
I see these being more useful as we move more and more towards media PCs etc.
I've just built a media PC (VIA Nehemiah based, fanless, Fedora Core 2) for playing DVDs, AVIs and Ogg/MP3s. I have yet to write some kind of OSD-type control software for it to select a file I might want to play. It's a real pain having to walk up to the PC just to play the next episode of 24, for example.
This is kind of a stealth keyboard which wouldn't look so much out of place on the coffee table. Particularly if it were wireless. Being able to type superfast on it wouldn't be a requirement... I want one!
Invalid platform????
And have you heard it?? I just downloaded the MOV file and the music is APPALLING... however I'm not sure whether that's the robot's fault or the composer's... it would be interesting to hear this attempt something like Rodrigo's Concierto.
This struck me... I use Slack on two *really slow* PCs (233 Mhz) and it makes them perform just fine. And yet I've never paid Pat a dime. I think it's time I started a subscription. What about you?
I'm sure there's a market for something like this... in London onen sees, all the time, people walking along talking to themselves, looking like raving idiots. Until one notices that they have a little earpiece. Some of them try to make it obvious that they are using a phone by holding the handset in front of them (if the earpiece is corded) so as not to look so mad.
I've always thought that a regular, old fashioned handset used either (a) via bluetooth or even (b) as a corded cellphone accessory would look so cool to be talking into as you were walking along!
Only downside, of course, is the bulk of the thing...
I am (at this very minute) replacing my aging hifi PC with a mini-itx system based around the VIA EPIA Nehemiah M10000 LVDS 1Ghz Motherboard, with the fan ripped off and fitted into the passive cooling E-Otonashi Case (both available from http://www.mini-itx.com/store/).
Not one fan. The ONLY thing that makes a sound is the hard disk (and THAT's a quiet one). It's freaked me out a couple of times, where I think it's died, until I see the light's still on. With a decent-sized solid state drive, this would be totally silent.
I own a Zaurus SL-5500. The battery life is OK-ish with a battery extender (basically a box with four Mi-Mh AA rechargeables in it. Gives me about four hours). As a geek toy it's brilliant. I'm running OpenZaurus on it, and can SSH onto it from my other machines, and use it to control devices about the house, and, of course, it's interesting to use it with Kismet as a wireless "warwalker".
BUT... I wouldn't dream of using it as a PDA. To my mind, a PDA should be diary and addressbook (and maybe to-do lists), and streamlined for those purposes, and not try to be a desktop PC scaled down. I own (and depend heavily on) the cheapest Palm Zire for PDA purposes, and it interfaces with Linux just fine (J-Pilot is fantastic). I don't think I've ever even seen the battery icon go below 50%.
So it really depends what you are looking for. A geek toy (Zaurus!!) or something to organize your life (Palm!). I'm sure that the two COULD one day be built into one small device that runs for days on one charge, but currently you can have: (a) coolness and (b) long battery life plus usability. Pick any one.
I think the funniest SSIDs one sees in Kismet are the garbage ones (like ^L*&^G^x#, etc).
Apparently according to the Kismet developer this is where MS Windows-based wireless clients "leak" crap into the packets... nice...
I'll check it out... thanks for the tip :-)
LoL... I was going for an "endl"!! Or as you rightly poing out I could have used \n.
See how hard it would be??????
The keyboard isn't sacrosanct... granted, we'll always want to be able to enter text (at least those of us belonging to the rebel alliance will).
:-)
I can't imagine ever having speech recognition being good enough for a programmer, it would be too slow to have to say "cout less than less than quote capitalised Hello comma world less than less than quote semi colon", and it would make the workplace an awful noisy place
But what about the non-invasive "thinking caps" featured recently in a story? Maybe one day we'll be able to simply "see" the word or line and it will be entered...
Purists may smirk at this, being VB-like and all, but I just compiled this from source and had a play... it's incredibly well done. I'm really impressed. I'd love to see something like this which builds proper executables and allows C or C++ for the language.
I haven't had a chance to investigate further (should be working, after all!) but does anybody know what you need to distribute to get an app working on another box? Does the RPM it creates install all the required libs etc or do they need Gambas installed too?
... not only is it, as pointed out by just about everyone, ugly as sin, it's also made by ASUS. I swore never to buy another Asus product again after I discovered how diabolically bad their support is for their products (I basically could not elicit *one* *single* *response* from them over a clear bug on one of their motherboards). Even if this WAS pretty, I wouldn't buy it.
The site's crawling. Looks like he built his webserver out of Lego too...
One of the problems with the Zaurus is its software - as a PDA it really doesn't cut it compared to Palm. It's great for a Linux hacker to mess around with, and for War Walking (got Kismet running on mine right now), but for the average user wanting a PDA it's poor. Which is a shame.
Now if I could retrofit Palm software on to it... well... I might use it as a PDA!
Very good point - however I knew because it was from the branch manager I'd dealt with on numerous occasions before :-)
Hmmm... unless he's gone over to the dark side and started his own phishing business... or the black hats have got some good voice emulation technology (or just good impersonators...)
The problem is not just related to email. Here in the UK recently Lloyds TSB (one of the major high street banks) recently sent me a letter asking me to reconfirm ALL my banking details (including signature). It occurred to me that, without checking, I could be returning this official form to anyone (i.e some phishing scamster). So I threw it away. And the chasing letter. When they rang me and I finally verified this was official, I acceded to their requests. But it's shocking that they expect people to send off details like this without any verification other than the fact that the letter is on an official letterhead...
This is the reflow bug and it's much quicker to do a quick Ctrl+ then Ctrl- (or Ctrl-Mousewheel Up followed by Ctrl-Mousewheel down) to force a redraw of the existing page by changing font size. Hitting reload in my experience often doesn't help and just adds to site traffic.
I'm disappointed this wasn't fixed in 1.0, I'd seen comments to suggest it would have been.
What the hell is ":(){ :|:&};:" - Oooh - just figured. I should have thought more before trying to run it in a bash shell. Nasty :-). Now to stop my machine before the CPU melts. Sorry for the off-topicicity.
I've got a Krypto New York and I opened it using this method. Cost me well over 50 GBP - and it's older than two years, damnit...
I'm impressed. Downloaded the 0.7 zip file from the site (it was the only download available). I thought... well, this must be the windows version (I'm on Linux FC2), but I'll have a look at the code anyway. Unzipped it, realised it was for Win and Lin, looked for a "configure" script, couldn't find one, so just ran "make". All compiled without a single problem. Then went to the examples and compiled all those, again just with a make, everything ran OK. It seems pretty solid. I think this is going to be great.