Well, this is happening here in Greece for the last year. OTE the main telecom company owned by Deutsze Telecom has been implementing a similar semi-open wifi to the subscribers by using their 2nd SSID on their latest routers. The architecture is based on a mixed firmware, partly OTE custom depending on router (ZTE, Huawei) and partly on a FON (la fonera) rural network setup.
The service itself is free of charge (for the time beeing) as long you opt in and have a valid A/VDSL account.
It has a 2Mbps, 1Gb cap by default on each connected account that successfully connects throught the captive portal.
Most customes don't even know how to use it.
If i got this straight, microsoft will push the OS upgrade through windows update, and after the installation will check for a valid 7/8/8.1 licence key and activate Win10 with that.
So, if i need to do a vanilla installation of Win10, will i be able to download the iso and use my valid 7/8/8.1 licence key without any problems?
Or is it a one way path where you need to do a vanilla of 7/8/8.1 and then do an OS upgrade through winupdate?
Clevo P570WM : high-end desktop Core I7, 880M GTX SLI, 3 slots for HDDs/SSDs.
More expensive than a desktop, but hey, good luck taking a flight with your desktop...
He bought a Clevo..... Hahahahahahaha....
Can't....... stop........ laughing.....
Clevo P570WM : high-end desktop Core I7, 880M GTX SLI, 3 slots for HDDs/SSDs.
More expensive than a desktop, but hey, good luck taking a flight with your desktop...
Lol....
Have you even considered that second grade electronics such as the ones used by clevo and rebranded all over the world (here in Greece by Plaisio - Turbox budget laptops) won't last more than a year and a half TOPS running full throttle on games.
I run a small IT business and daily i deal with people beeing fooled by computer super markets into buying Clevo and shit. Never beeing happier (businesswise) when i have one of those on my bench, it's easy money reflowing GPUs.
Not that higher grade laptops are better, cheap HPs (G series) are a waste of money due to overheating, Acer has long forgotten how to make a proper laptop and the list goes on.
with fries on the top?
In other words, i would be happy to give it a try on common intel platforms instead of buying overpriced shiny hardware.
But as all things Apple does, this time they think that its easier for them to charge for the privilege to outsource/push beta testing to the early adopters.
In XP i could grab the quickstart bar, drag it on the top, fill it with app shortcuts and autohide it, something that i have missed in 7 and replaced it with VAIOGATE.
Well, you're partly right, but as far as I know there is no way you can be 100% sure for the reliability of a regular hdd. I've seen barracudas stuck into oblivion, deathstars clicking the hell out of order, and wd drives with fried boards. I can go on with the box full of failed drives I have in my shop. Anyway, hardware failure is common nowadays with the ever so cheaper components manufacturers use, so another 2 c of advice is backup regularly and hope for the best.
I'm writting this on my third OCZ SSD on this machine which i use in a daily basis. The first one died about 6 months from the day of installation while the refurb OCZ sent me as a replacement died on the first two boots. The third (second replacement) is still ok running on the second month of operation. On the other hand i have installed two years ago on my main work machine an Intel SSD which is running 24/7, 365/12. I'm pretty s is. ure that whoever has used a cheap ass SSD such as OCZ will have a similar story to tell. My two cents of advice is if you want reliability do a research first and buy the most reliable drive currently on the market, preferrably Intel.
My first iMac G3 as a coffee table at my tech shop, a couple of Amigas and commodores at the shop's retro corner. Still brings nostalgia to some of my clients.
Personally i never believed a single vowel that came out of Microsoft's advocate Mr Dvorak...Call me a troll, call me whatever, the man speaks only for those who pay him...
If you don't have the guts to risk a sleepless night and spend a week restoring the damage you have done to the lab, you don't deserve to find answers.
Tht said it all man...
as i have previously mentioned in an older post, i used to participate in a reasearch at my uni for a major mobile phone company (sony ericsson) for the implementation of fingerprint recognition on cell phones and other mobile devices (PDAs,notebooks,etc). Personally i preffer the fingerprint sollution rather than the RFID one because the phone's security is up to you and not as "hollow" as RFID can be by the use of reverse engineering. It's simple, if your phone is stolen the perp needs to have your thumb or else the phone is just another piece of garbage. You cannot reverse engineer a fingerprint simply because you cannot have a clue on how the actual fingerpint is shaped, while the scanning software is something very ubiquitous and tough to be "hacked" by someone who hasn't got a clue of the scanning algorithms.
well....i've been living in athens for all my life and haven't heard of a super breed of mosquitoes. Ok' there are the usual mosquitoes you get all over greece but i for one can say that athens hasn't got the marshes or still water that "dangerous" (see infected) mosquitoes can breed. The ones that are bread in athens (city mosquitoes) are not that harmful they just bite. Last summer when i was doing my time in the greek army i was stationed in a unit close to the greek-turkish borders in the north, where the place is full of marshes and rivers,i can say that those "choppers" were utterly dangerous and annoying.A piece of advice. the article says that the info was taken from a newspaper called "ta nea - (the news)",which is a daily newspaper that when it doesnt have any proper news to display, they make up stories such as this one. So....dont fear that greece is full of diseases and shit like that, its silly..lol...
I wonder if this scheme will expand to other countries. I live and work in Greece, and i can tell you for sure that most of the computer related stores (chainstores or small businesses) sell boxes with windows preloaded without even giving away the cds and product key stickers. They even charge customers the real (OEM or regular) price of windows, and make extra $$ by selling thin air. Recently i had to do a network maintenance in a local school, where twenty odd boxes and a server were sold with winxp preloaded (the one copy all of us have since before the official release;^) ). as soon as i asked to speak with the guy who sold them i found out that he was out of business (probably enjoying his vacations on a Greek island with the school's money). I reported this to the Greek offices of microsoft and all they could do was to give me an offer for an educational package for 20 machines for a couple of thousand euros without the server OS.
The funny thing is that i submitted this story 2 days ago and it was rejected....
this guy here describes a how to by using 3 boxes, although i suppose one is enough for this kind of task...
http://blog.kordix.com/marv/archives/000400.html
The funny thing is that i submitted this story 2 days ago and it was rejected....
this guy here describes a how to by using 3 boxes, although i suppose one is enough for this kind of task...
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Well, this is happening here in Greece for the last year. OTE the main telecom company owned by Deutsze Telecom has been implementing a similar semi-open wifi to the subscribers by using their 2nd SSID on their latest routers. The architecture is based on a mixed firmware, partly OTE custom depending on router (ZTE, Huawei) and partly on a FON (la fonera) rural network setup. The service itself is free of charge (for the time beeing) as long you opt in and have a valid A/VDSL account. It has a 2Mbps, 1Gb cap by default on each connected account that successfully connects throught the captive portal. Most customes don't even know how to use it.
If i got this straight, microsoft will push the OS upgrade through windows update, and after the installation will check for a valid 7/8/8.1 licence key and activate Win10 with that. So, if i need to do a vanilla installation of Win10, will i be able to download the iso and use my valid 7/8/8.1 licence key without any problems? Or is it a one way path where you need to do a vanilla of 7/8/8.1 and then do an OS upgrade through winupdate?
Depends on the laptop.
Clevo P570WM : high-end desktop Core I7, 880M GTX SLI, 3 slots for HDDs/SSDs. More expensive than a desktop, but hey, good luck taking a flight with your desktop...
He bought a Clevo..... Hahahahahahaha.... Can't....... stop........ laughing.....
Depends on the laptop.
Clevo P570WM : high-end desktop Core I7, 880M GTX SLI, 3 slots for HDDs/SSDs. More expensive than a desktop, but hey, good luck taking a flight with your desktop...
Lol.... Have you even considered that second grade electronics such as the ones used by clevo and rebranded all over the world (here in Greece by Plaisio - Turbox budget laptops) won't last more than a year and a half TOPS running full throttle on games. I run a small IT business and daily i deal with people beeing fooled by computer super markets into buying Clevo and shit. Never beeing happier (businesswise) when i have one of those on my bench, it's easy money reflowing GPUs. Not that higher grade laptops are better, cheap HPs (G series) are a waste of money due to overheating, Acer has long forgotten how to make a proper laptop and the list goes on.
with fries on the top? In other words, i would be happy to give it a try on common intel platforms instead of buying overpriced shiny hardware. But as all things Apple does, this time they think that its easier for them to charge for the privilege to outsource/push beta testing to the early adopters.
In XP i could grab the quickstart bar, drag it on the top, fill it with app shortcuts and autohide it, something that i have missed in 7 and replaced it with VAIOGATE.
Well, you're partly right, but as far as I know there is no way you can be 100% sure for the reliability of a regular hdd. I've seen barracudas stuck into oblivion, deathstars clicking the hell out of order, and wd drives with fried boards. I can go on with the box full of failed drives I have in my shop. Anyway, hardware failure is common nowadays with the ever so cheaper components manufacturers use, so another 2 c of advice is backup regularly and hope for the best.
I'm writting this on my third OCZ SSD on this machine which i use in a daily basis. The first one died about 6 months from the day of installation while the refurb OCZ sent me as a replacement died on the first two boots. The third (second replacement) is still ok running on the second month of operation. On the other hand i have installed two years ago on my main work machine an Intel SSD which is running 24/7, 365/12. I'm pretty s is. ure that whoever has used a cheap ass SSD such as OCZ will have a similar story to tell. My two cents of advice is if you want reliability do a research first and buy the most reliable drive currently on the market, preferrably Intel.
My first iMac G3 as a coffee table at my tech shop, a couple of Amigas and commodores at the shop's retro corner. Still brings nostalgia to some of my clients.
Well, the actual opposite is Kythera, you insesitive clod... learn ur geography first and then get off my lawn!
Personally i never believed a single vowel that came out of Microsoft's advocate Mr Dvorak...Call me a troll, call me whatever, the man speaks only for those who pay him...
according to this it seems that the story is fake
DUH!!! lol.... you must be new here....
If you don't have the guts to risk a sleepless night and spend a week restoring the damage you have done to the lab, you don't deserve to find answers. Tht said it all man...
I Live in the original SPARTA you insensible clod!!!!!!!!!!!!!
or even better iCrash...lol
as i have previously mentioned in an older post, i used to participate in a reasearch at my uni for a major mobile phone company (sony ericsson) for the implementation of fingerprint recognition on cell phones and other mobile devices (PDAs,notebooks,etc). Personally i preffer the fingerprint sollution rather than the RFID one because the phone's security is up to you and not as "hollow" as RFID can be by the use of reverse engineering. It's simple, if your phone is stolen the perp needs to have your thumb or else the phone is just another piece of garbage. You cannot reverse engineer a fingerprint simply because you cannot have a clue on how the actual fingerpint is shaped, while the scanning software is something very ubiquitous and tough to be "hacked" by someone who hasn't got a clue of the scanning algorithms.
well....i've been living in athens for all my life and haven't heard of a super breed of mosquitoes. Ok' there are the usual mosquitoes you get all over greece but i for one can say that athens hasn't got the marshes or still water that "dangerous" (see infected) mosquitoes can breed. The ones that are bread in athens (city mosquitoes) are not that harmful they just bite. Last summer when i was doing my time in the greek army i was stationed in a unit close to the greek-turkish borders in the north, where the place is full of marshes and rivers,i can say that those "choppers" were utterly dangerous and annoying.A piece of advice. the article says that the info was taken from a newspaper called "ta nea - (the news)",which is a daily newspaper that when it doesnt have any proper news to display, they make up stories such as this one. So....dont fear that greece is full of diseases and shit like that, its silly..lol...
Errr.... you forgot the obvious
6. Profit..
I wonder if this scheme will expand to other countries. I live and work in Greece, and i can tell you for sure that most of the computer related stores (chainstores or small businesses) sell boxes with windows preloaded without even giving away the cds and product key stickers. They even charge customers the real (OEM or regular) price of windows, and make extra $$ by selling thin air. Recently i had to do a network maintenance in a local school, where twenty odd boxes and a server were sold with winxp preloaded (the one copy all of us have since before the official release ;^) ). as soon as i asked to speak with the guy who sold them i found out that he was out of business (probably enjoying his vacations on a Greek island with the school's money). I reported this to the Greek offices of microsoft and all they could do was to give me an offer for an educational package for 20 machines for a couple of thousand euros without the server OS.
The funny thing is that i submitted this story 2 days ago and it was rejected.... this guy here describes a how to by using 3 boxes, although i suppose one is enough for this kind of task... http://blog.kordix.com/marv/archives/000400.html
The funny thing is that i submitted this story 2 days ago and it was rejected.... this guy here describes a how to by using 3 boxes, although i suppose one is enough for this kind of task...