FYI, I've been running Mandriva2006 Linux for months with no problems, rarely booting into WinXP for games. I'm sure there must have been a few minor crashed apps with this setup in the past few years, but I'm not remembering them atm. Happy computing:-)
Exactly. As already stated all over these comments, making more tech support jobs is going to take people who were already doing other things and tie them up with fixing Microsoft's problems instead of doing something more beneficial to the economy.
Clearly these "companies [that] will produce, sell or distribute products or services running on Windows Vista" are ones that would have been doing the same with XP.
Same goes for those that "will be employed in the IT departments of businesses that rely on Vista." Because previously they were using XP.
Vista brings nothing to Europe, but this is just about the EU actually making a stand against Microsoft's illegal actions.
I hope you know that the creator of Total Annihilation, Chris Taylor, is making the unofficial sequel, Supreme Commander. It's said to be feature complete and due out very early 2007.
Any reasonable person could say that they're busy when taking a call, or the other person could wait a second for the driver to drive. Plus it's the driver's responsibility alone to be aware of the traffic situation and to react to it, not rely on a passenger.
It's all a matter of the driver understanding proper priority and responsibility. It is possible to use a hands-free phone safely while driving, just as it is holding a conversation with a passenger.
Talking on a hands-free kit is the same as talking to someone behind you in the same car. Would you bad talking in cars? In the UK we had this same fine line to avoid crossing concerning hands-free legislation.
Maybe they should add messing with your radio to the driving test, but they're legal and it's the driver's responsibility to use it and control the vehicle.
Someone else has already said don't use tiscali, and I'd agree except for this rather important fact:
You may be able to get out free after 9 months instead of 12!
If you're only in the student house for one year, you only really need the connection for about 9 months, i.e. not over the summer afterwards. Most ISPs contracts are 12 months, with terms that you pay the remaining months to get out early, so as useful as just paying and no one receiving the service.
However: Me and 3 others signed up for Tiscali's cheap 2Meg unlimited connection, and the post-grade geography guy was downloading satellite images while us three comp. sci. students were slinging our 3rd year projects back and forth with the uni Subversion server. Many legitimate reasons to have huge bursts in our usage, no p2p, honest.;)
Soon we were working our way through the Fair Usage Warning Letters 1, 2 and Final, and then being 'managed' during peak hours... then Warnings 1, 2, final,.. 1 again! It just repeated, that all they do to you. Basically for a few hours slower service during weekday evenings we managed to maintain high usage, and then when we were done we responded to the part of the warnings about canceling or migrating, and did so for free at the end of the month!
So triggering a fair usage policy and only having to pay for 9 months not 12 may save you a bit of money, but maybe not hassle.;)
We did learn that 'high usage' is simply being in the top few percent of users connected at the same local exchange, so the absolute rate is not the same across the country, it just takes someone to complain about slow service and then the top users get singled out. Other ISPs may have different policies, but I dont think any state a fixed level of usage that constitutes unfair usage.
I posted the fact that it's about 8% above, and found a BBC article that explains it's a 22% rise in robberies to 311,000, involving a 10% rise in gunpoint robberies and with street robberies and muggings jumping by 8%.
Sorry kid but when you put fireworks off inside you are either mentally retarded or criminally insane or trying to start a fire. In any case you belong in jail for live or on the chair.
As stated below, it's a feature of the selected security level. Access to non-linux filesystems is restricted to root in Standard security mode (there's 1 lower level and 2 higher levels iirc).
The change in MCC isn't even a text edit, there's a check box with the label umask=0 and a description "Give write access to ordinary users". It doesn't get easier than that.
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What about ReactOS or the work of various compatabitity programs like Wine, or virtual machines?
http://www.supremecommander.com/
Although I believe much of the content is available at http://www.supremecommanderhq.com/ and maybe http://www.supcomuniverse.com/
FYI, I've been running Mandriva2006 Linux for months with no problems, rarely booting into WinXP for games. I'm sure there must have been a few minor crashed apps with this setup in the past few years, but I'm not remembering them atm. Happy computing :-)
Someone with some balls and a true believer in people's rights?
Yeah you guys in the US are shafted, not that we have it much better...
Erm it's the Swiss with the banks, watches and knives...
Exactly. As already stated all over these comments, making more tech support jobs is going to take people who were already doing other things and tie them up with fixing Microsoft's problems instead of doing something more beneficial to the economy.
Clearly these "companies [that] will produce, sell or distribute products or services running on Windows Vista" are ones that would have been doing the same with XP.
Same goes for those that "will be employed in the IT departments of businesses that rely on Vista." Because previously they were using XP.
Vista brings nothing to Europe, but this is just about the EU actually making a stand against Microsoft's illegal actions.
Yeah likewise I think I'm in the same situation. Maybe it's karma based too? Of course I can't be arsed to check out slashcode ;-)
I just wanted to say thank you for articulating that so well.
Probably fake. Nothing to see here.
Don't you mean a DS Lite or did I miss something?
I hope you know that the creator of Total Annihilation, Chris Taylor, is making the unofficial sequel, Supreme Commander. It's said to be feature complete and due out very early 2007.
I think your sig has a spelling mistake and you meant bghynjf instead of bhgynjf.
Any reasonable person could say that they're busy when taking a call, or the other person could wait a second for the driver to drive. Plus it's the driver's responsibility alone to be aware of the traffic situation and to react to it, not rely on a passenger.
It's all a matter of the driver understanding proper priority and responsibility. It is possible to use a hands-free phone safely while driving, just as it is holding a conversation with a passenger.
Sorry, I meant ban talking, not bad.
Talking on a hands-free kit is the same as talking to someone behind you in the same car. Would you bad talking in cars? In the UK we had this same fine line to avoid crossing concerning hands-free legislation.
Maybe they should add messing with your radio to the driving test, but they're legal and it's the driver's responsibility to use it and control the vehicle.
Someone else has already said don't use tiscali, and I'd agree except for this rather important fact:
;)
;)
You may be able to get out free after 9 months instead of 12!
If you're only in the student house for one year, you only really need the connection for about 9 months, i.e. not over the summer afterwards. Most ISPs contracts are 12 months, with terms that you pay the remaining months to get out early, so as useful as just paying and no one receiving the service.
However: Me and 3 others signed up for Tiscali's cheap 2Meg unlimited connection, and the post-grade geography guy was downloading satellite images while us three comp. sci. students were slinging our 3rd year projects back and forth with the uni Subversion server. Many legitimate reasons to have huge bursts in our usage, no p2p, honest.
Soon we were working our way through the Fair Usage Warning Letters 1, 2 and Final, and then being 'managed' during peak hours... then Warnings 1, 2, final,.. 1 again! It just repeated, that all they do to you. Basically for a few hours slower service during weekday evenings we managed to maintain high usage, and then when we were done we responded to the part of the warnings about canceling or migrating, and did so for free at the end of the month!
So triggering a fair usage policy and only having to pay for 9 months not 12 may save you a bit of money, but maybe not hassle.
We did learn that 'high usage' is simply being in the top few percent of users connected at the same local exchange, so the absolute rate is not the same across the country, it just takes someone to complain about slow service and then the top users get singled out. Other ISPs may have different policies, but I dont think any state a fixed level of usage that constitutes unfair usage.
Why is this modded troll? Pay attention meta-mods.
Why is this modded troll?? Someone get that jerk in meta-mod.
As much as I like AMD, where are you getting that 370Watts for an Intel CPU stat?
I posted the fact that it's about 8% above, and found a BBC article that explains it's a 22% rise in robberies to 311,000, involving a 10% rise in gunpoint robberies and with street robberies and muggings jumping by 8%.
98,204 - 90,747 = 7,457 More
7,457 / 90,747 = 8.2% Rise from the original level
22%? WTF?
Make that Write access to non-linux filesystems is restricted...
As stated below, it's a feature of the selected security level. Access to non-linux filesystems is restricted to root in Standard security mode (there's 1 lower level and 2 higher levels iirc).
The change in MCC isn't even a text edit, there's a check box with the label umask=0 and a description "Give write access to ordinary users". It doesn't get easier than that.