But of course this doesn't remove the DRM or the copy protection, and if you have actually bought Vista and want to activate it why not do it the right way instead of setting all this stuff up?
Also I think it's ok for the creators to try to protect their work.
I really doubt the legality of this one but Hiren's BootCD must be one of the most complete solutions. SVP also sells real cheap microSD-adapters which can probably make a nice small drive, but microSD-cards are much more expensive than miniSD and SD so maybe it's a bad idea.
Nintendo will make more since the product doesn't cost them $250 to produce and therefor they make a profit on each and everyone sold. Sony on the other hand might lose upto $300 / console so the fewer they sell the more they "make", or well, the more they don't lose;)
But of course Sony hope to make up for that in games and blu-ray royalties I suppose.
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Lol, digital format? Yeah, I remember those analogue cartridges:)
My mario character have become stuck inside the cartridge, how do I fix this? Can I clean it somehow?
I would say it's still the amount of thermal grease which was the problem. The fans MIGHT have added to this if the temperature sensor they used was fitted on the heatsink and the grease made only a small amount of the heat travel over to the sink and thereby not make it that hot = lower reading = no reason to spin up the fans.
It might be that correctly applied thermal grease gives better heat transmission to heatsink, better temperature reads and fans spinning up earlier/more.
"Alternatively, I could purchase a new drive from another retailer and... throw away money on a drive I won't use, with a resale value that really doesn't make it worth the effort to sell."
Thought with Apples upgrade prices an "update" to a 7200 rpm drive would probably cost as much as buying a brand new one anyway. (I guess not since it's smaller, but anyway.)
I've tried Mac OS X for 4-5 days, and I to didn't found context menus that great, BECAUSE THERE ALMOST ARE NONE!
Why bother even trying and click right button if the options given are rather limited? When there ARE more options available I like context menues for the same reason that you don't like them: I don't have the options I'm looking for burried away in a lot of other options I don't need and which isn't important for what I'm actually trying to do. I would like to see MORE context menus in Mac OS X, sure having them in the regular menu is ok aswell.
Also back in the days on the Amiga we had no context menus, but we had MagicMenu which showed the menu where the mouse pointer was when you pressed the right mouse button, and even thought that includes all the menus it was more convenient since you didn't had to move the mouse all the way up to the top of the screen. Hate the rat!:D
Also Macs are more expensive, but nowadays it's not that much so which makes them priceworthy.
Ok, I haven't tried all of these programs, but I'm quite confident they are similair enough to make my comments valid anyway:
Desktop publishing in LaTeX? Yeah, I imagine a lot of news magazines, design students, birthday-card-designers and whatever to use LaTeX... Or not. I use LaTeX where it fits but it would suck to make a whole magazine in it, you can't even see and place stuff exactly where you want to, you just trust LaTeX putting them in a good place for you.
Openoffice, abiword, koffice? A word processor isn't a DTP tool, also I would say all of those tries to be Microsoft Word so much that they suck just as much as the later one does. Word documents look like shit due to wide margins, small text and waaay to many letters per line. Sure you can change that, but regular people doesn't. In any case you can't design a whole magazine in Word either...
This is just a very cheap office replacement package from Apple but check out what it does before you give any suggestions: iWork Pages quicktour.
Scribus looks decent from the first page I saw. Xara might be ok to, is it really available for Linux to? The webpage sucked so I only found downloads for Windows..
Inkscape would be a worthy competition against a commercial package for vector graphics? Riight.. Gimp is just as good as Photoshop? Riiight.. Krita seems very lame aswell.
You could have mentioned Pixel.
But since we are talking open-source software here and since most of it is GPL shouldn't you just be able to get the source from Apple? Thought I suppose there is some work to mix them (new code + apple patches) together.
... and I guess it used a reasonable default until _someone_ told it to burn in a much slower speed. Maybe it was stupid that the program let the user choose 1x if that wasn't supported by the media but who knows if the media told so. In any case just burning at the suggested speed would probably have worked, right?
I think macs usually ship late. Mac mini was just recently updated with core duo in all models but who knows, maybe you are lucky and will get a core 2 duo one instead:)
http://svp.co.uk/ got one for micro-sd cards (but isn't this nothing else than just a memory card reader?) for something like £4 or so, don't remember.
Wow, transparent PNGs, welcome back to 1998:) Does if even use the CORRECT COLORS!?!
Weird that it changes how fonts are rendered, shouldn't that be something which the OS decides/does? Ohwell, I guess both FreeType2 and Mac OS X does a better work.
I think people who have reapplied the thermal grease have said that their fans started earlier/more often, so it might be that they uses temp. sensors but since the conductivity (?) is very low the fan sensors doesn't read a that high temp and therefor they don't run as fast as they should/would do if they actually feelt the heat.
I suppose if everything was correct and worked as it should there would be no reason to run the fans faster than needed, that is 1000 rpm is ok if the chips are cool.
I'm proud to say that I'm one of those uses in Europe which uses Opera. Opera 9 rocks!
Not because it's secure and got less vulnerabilities but because it's the fastest, most intelligent and innovative browser there is. And it also runs on a lot of different operating systems.
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But of course this doesn't remove the DRM or the copy protection, and if you have actually bought Vista and want to activate it why not do it the right way instead of setting all this stuff up?
Also I think it's ok for the creators to try to protect their work.
Yeah, I'm sure someone earning $2 per day wouldn't switch with someone with a wealth of say 2 billion dollars and pay all those taxes!!
Poor rich people!! OMG THE TAXES ARE RUINING THEM;!"#
I need to donate to the rich-people-paying-lots-of-taxes-fond...
I really doubt the legality of this one but Hiren's BootCD must be one of the most complete solutions. SVP also sells real cheap microSD-adapters which can probably make a nice small drive, but microSD-cards are much more expensive than miniSD and SD so maybe it's a bad idea.
I'm tired, but: Maybe he can get some real hifi equipment which doesn't sound like shit instead.
"Where's our analogous cooking game? Where's our analogous 'Brain Age 2' for DS?'"
;)
I could tell you but since it includes fetching roms I guess it's not appropriate
To bad about the unreadable text thought.
Nintendo will make more since the product doesn't cost them $250 to produce and therefor they make a profit on each and everyone sold. Sony on the other hand might lose upto $300 / console so the fewer they sell the more they "make", or well, the more they don't lose ;)
But of course Sony hope to make up for that in games and blu-ray royalties I suppose.
Lol, digital format? Yeah, I remember those analogue cartridges :)
My mario character have become stuck inside the cartridge, how do I fix this? Can I clean it somehow?
Uhm, 1.5GHz P4 seems to be around 3 Gflops, so 2.5 is around 4.5 since the architecture suck ;)
4.500.000.000 Gflops = 4.400.000 Tflops or around 15700 times faster than the #1 machine, but anyway...
More like 63.000 2.5GHz P4s or so.
I would say it's still the amount of thermal grease which was the problem. The fans MIGHT have added to this if the temperature sensor they used was fitted on the heatsink and the grease made only a small amount of the heat travel over to the sink and thereby not make it that hot = lower reading = no reason to spin up the fans.
It might be that correctly applied thermal grease gives better heat transmission to heatsink, better temperature reads and fans spinning up earlier/more.
"Alternatively, I could purchase a new drive from another retailer and... throw away money on a drive I won't use, with a resale value that really doesn't make it worth the effort to sell."
Thought with Apples upgrade prices an "update" to a 7200 rpm drive would probably cost as much as buying a brand new one anyway. (I guess not since it's smaller, but anyway.)
I've tried Mac OS X for 4-5 days, and I to didn't found context menus that great, BECAUSE THERE ALMOST ARE NONE!
:D
Why bother even trying and click right button if the options given are rather limited? When there ARE more options available I like context menues for the same reason that you don't like them: I don't have the options I'm looking for burried away in a lot of other options I don't need and which isn't important for what I'm actually trying to do. I would like to see MORE context menus in Mac OS X, sure having them in the regular menu is ok aswell.
Also back in the days on the Amiga we had no context menus, but we had MagicMenu which showed the menu where the mouse pointer was when you pressed the right mouse button, and even thought that includes all the menus it was more convenient since you didn't had to move the mouse all the way up to the top of the screen. Hate the rat!
Also Macs are more expensive, but nowadays it's not that much so which makes them priceworthy.
Actually Suns Niagara uses 8 cores but just one floating point one.
Well I couldn't, because it refused to boot all the way... The old method in 5.10 worked back then.
Ok, I haven't tried all of these programs, but I'm quite confident they are similair enough to make my comments valid anyway:
Desktop publishing in LaTeX? Yeah, I imagine a lot of news magazines, design students, birthday-card-designers and whatever to use LaTeX... Or not. I use LaTeX where it fits but it would suck to make a whole magazine in it, you can't even see and place stuff exactly where you want to, you just trust LaTeX putting them in a good place for you.
Openoffice, abiword, koffice? A word processor isn't a DTP tool, also I would say all of those tries to be Microsoft Word so much that they suck just as much as the later one does. Word documents look like shit due to wide margins, small text and waaay to many letters per line. Sure you can change that, but regular people doesn't. In any case you can't design a whole magazine in Word either...
This is just a very cheap office replacement package from Apple but check out what it does before you give any suggestions: iWork Pages quicktour.
Scribus looks decent from the first page I saw. Xara might be ok to, is it really available for Linux to? The webpage sucked so I only found downloads for Windows..
Inkscape would be a worthy competition against a commercial package for vector graphics? Riight.. Gimp is just as good as Photoshop? Riiight.. Krita seems very lame aswell.
You could have mentioned Pixel.
But since we are talking open-source software here and since most of it is GPL shouldn't you just be able to get the source from Apple? Thought I suppose there is some work to mix them (new code + apple patches) together.
... and I guess it used a reasonable default until _someone_ told it to burn in a much slower speed. Maybe it was stupid that the program let the user choose 1x if that wasn't supported by the media but who knows if the media told so. In any case just burning at the suggested speed would probably have worked, right?
I think macs usually ship late. Mac mini was just recently updated with core duo in all models but who knows, maybe you are lucky and will get a core 2 duo one instead :)
http://svp.co.uk/ got one for micro-sd cards (but isn't this nothing else than just a memory card reader?) for something like £4 or so, don't remember.
Wow, transparent PNGs, welcome back to 1998 :)
Does if even use the CORRECT COLORS!?!
Weird that it changes how fonts are rendered, shouldn't that be something which the OS decides/does? Ohwell, I guess both FreeType2 and Mac OS X does a better work.
Funny, it seems Microsoft want me to use another browser, I wasn't allowed to install IE7 ;/, oh well, big problem ;)
(I just wanted to install it because it will probably be better than IE 7, I will still use Opera.)
I doubt that would matter much considering the CPUs probably already clock themself down when not under heavy use to save power.
Yeah right ;/
:D
Need to be said: Hate the license
I think people who have reapplied the thermal grease have said that their fans started earlier/more often, so it might be that they uses temp. sensors but since the conductivity (?) is very low the fan sensors doesn't read a that high temp and therefor they don't run as fast as they should/would do if they actually feelt the heat.
I suppose if everything was correct and worked as it should there would be no reason to run the fans faster than needed, that is 1000 rpm is ok if the chips are cool.
I'm proud to say that I'm one of those uses in Europe which uses Opera. Opera 9 rocks!
;)
Not because it's secure and got less vulnerabilities but because it's the fastest, most intelligent and innovative browser there is. And it also runs on a lot of different operating systems.
But you already knew, you just doesn't run it
Shut up, Nintendo is cool now ;)
(In other news I was just stuck at the toilet for 50 minutes playing Mega Man ZX. DS isn't good for your sleep.)