All you need is a legit XP Pro SP2 OEM installer CD image and any "authentic" serial number that you can copy off of the back of any PC you see anywhere and you can be 90% certain that it will install and authenticate with Genuine Advantage.
Install SP3 afterwords and you are good to go.
If it doesn't authenticate the first time, try another serial number from the POS terminal at your local grocery store or electronics retailer. Text the SN to yourself while waiting in line to pay.
Big secret: 90% of those XP Pro stickers have never been authenticated...
I'd like to see the installer DVD for Snow Leopard, surprise!, install on any Core 2 mobo. If Apple didn't advertise it and didn't promote it, and didn't officially support it, but let "it just work", imagine the turmoil in Redmond when a $39 competitor's upgrade runs on all of the hardware they were hoping to co-opt at $100+ a pop.
After all, later versions of the Leopard installer DVD will install surprise! onto certain Dell laptops without intervention, and this is not an accident of Dell design...
The Dell support staff will even give advice on how to make it work better!
For what it's worth, T-Mobile lets me change the default voice mail phone number on my BlackBerry. I changed it to my Google Voice number from the crappy t-Mobile voice mailbox.
It's fantastic. I now have instant junk call filtering - I just send to voice on my cellphone and the caller get the disconnect signal after a ring or two.
My friends all get custom greetings before leaving voice mail, and I receive an email as soon as they do. Also, I can play back my messages in the order I want without using airtime.
Plus I can play with all the other cool Google Voice features as needed. I love Google Voice - so what if they have a deal with the NSA to screen all my calls...
You have to either authenticate or crack your XP install after installation, or use a pirated 'corporate' serial. If you authenticate, you have to hit MS's servers. If they unplug the XP authentication servers, only pirates and corporations will be able to (re)install XP.
What I was really looking for was a weather map to see if the storms were close. Ironically, I was able to access the National Weather Service website and bypass television completely. My wife and I don't really watch broadcast TV, except for The Big Bang Theory, Mad Men, Desperate Housewives (my wife not me!) and occasional episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
Ironically again, I receive better quality programming reception from my "jolly roger antenna" than on my TV, and with no commercials! I do enjoy laserdiscs on my 35" Sony Trinitron. I also have a DVD player that plays AVIs flawlessly from data DVDs and CDs. If I really need a TV news update I can tune into European news via the Livestation app installed on my Mac.
Basically, broadcast and CATV 2011 = newspapers 2010...
"As for nuclear war, I wouldn't worry too much about that. The US isn't going to strike first, and Iran lacks the technology to deliver nuclear payloads to the US."
I would argue that a 40 foot shipping container with a warhead hooked to a GPS is pretty good payload delivery technology, and well within their means . . .
Well, I live in Denver and we've been having tornadoes for about a week, off and on. The local NBC affiliate has three DTV channels: regular NBC, 24 hour weather and Universal Sports (which is pretty cool for free TV).
Well, the tornado warning sirens in our neighborhood started going off today, so I tuned into the weather DTV channel to look at weather warning updates, and all I saw was jiggly pixels.
Yeah, it seems that, unlike analog TV which in bad weather is snowy but viewable, the DTV signal was totally disrupted and useless until the sky cleared up.
Good thing I didn't have a tornado in my neighborhood, 'cause the DTV early warning weather channel was worse than worthless.
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You kids. I was a computer operator for a large insurance company in the late 1970s. We had a vast room full of mainframe gear, and a sea of hard drives, each as big as a washing machine.
Once we started the night shift "batch" jobs, those disk units would go into the spin cycle. 40 or 50 floor standing hard drives all rocking and vibrating, the entire computer room floor rumbling like the Long Island Expressway at rush hour, lights flashing, tapes spinning, reams of paper flowing like waterfalls off of line printers and a laser printer as big as a panel truck.
All you had to do was press the red 'halt' button on the system console to bring everything to an immediate, silent pause. Hit the green "run" button, and everything picked up right where it left off. For a nineteen year old kid just out of high-school, it was a form of power and control, literally at my fingertips, that I've not experienced since in any other job.
The computer was so big you could open the cabinet and stand up inside it. The system supported more than a thousand terminals over an entire statewide region using only 4MB of real memory.
I mean, it has to have happened by now, right? (m-astro-bation does not count) If not, it certainly is going to happen by next week!;-)
The "three hundred mile high" club? I've looked everywhere on wikipedia for the answer, without success... Another thought: were they straight or gay? Inquiring minds want to know!
The nineteen-hundreds only ended nine years ago - so unless you are under the age of ten, you should be banned from using that other term. Then again, when you say "the nineteen-hundreds" it makes you think of Alexander Graham Bell in his stovepipe hat spilling battery acid and shouting "Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you."
Of course, that actually happened in the eighteen hundreds...
What exactly is the threat to Apple? It works with iTunes? So? I used to own a TDK MP3 player that also worked with iTunes. People forget that iTunes predates the iPod.
Some people never use iTunes to buy anything, but once you have iTunes it is hard to resist visiting the iTunes Music Store. Remember, Apple is getting rid of DRM in the ITMS, and music purchased there now "plays for sure" on any device. This is much more of a middle finger to the RIAA. Keep in mind that the recording industry is looking to reduce Apple's control and influence, not increase it.
If Apple allows Palm, iRiver and other device manufacturers to use iTunes, it gains access to potential music sales that previously would not have been Apple's. When it comes to personal listening devices, either you iPod or you don't. But - if you own an MP3 player and you buy music instead of downloading it on P2P networks, I am sure Apple would love to have your business.
Next, consider the potential market for sales to owners of smartphones, and Apple can broaden their potential market tenfold without lifting a finger. If Palm allows the Pre to utilize iTunes without prompting or overt permission from Apple, the FTC cannot really take action against Apple for restraint of trade, monopoly practices, etc etc etc.
Finally, iTunes exposes the user to the Mac user interface, even when running on Windows. Users may also see Apple product features "dimmed" in buttons and menus when their non-Apple product is connected. Apple could even detect that a non-Apple product is connected to their iTunes software and display marketing that targets sales to users of their competitors' products. Can you say "halo effect"?
"I've got you this time, Brer Rabbit," said Brer Fox, jumping up and shaking off the dust. "You've sassed me for the very last time. Now I wonder what I should do with you?"
Brer Rabbit's eyes got very large. "Oh please Brer Fox, whatever you do, please don't throw me into the briar patch."
I have an old Dell server running SIMH emulating the HP2000 Time Shared Access operating system I learned in junior high school. I used to play text-based blackjack for hours after school, printing out on roll after roll of paper.
A former Navy communications specialist and teletype repairman gave me a model ASR35 Teletype that I hooked up to the SIMH software and server.
Someone on the SIMH newsgroup was the person who scrapped our school system's HP2000 computer in the early eighties. He had a backup tape image and sent it to me, and I found programs written by a friend of my brother's in the main program library.
I can run the same computer system in my house that I dreamed of having as a kid. Totally useless, but totally fun.
All I have to do to get a new public IP address is power cycle my DSL modem (Qwest). I do this daily, sometimes several times a day. Doing P2P on a static IP is just plain stupid...
Sure, you can't buy it today, but how long until these are advertised like Viagra?
"PediSedate Helmet is not for everyone. If you suffer from repressed rage, post-natal depression, single-motherhood or pedophilia, ask your doctor if PediSedate Helmet is right for your family. Check your mail for a 20% off coupon for refill cannisters of nitrous oxide. PediSedate Helmet: quiet at last, quiet that lasts..."
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress --- throwing rocks should work as well.
I hear there's no police there, and you'll never be bored by your weather forecast.
give it time. once they kill broadcast TV, you'll gag on the commercials on net TV. TV sucks, try some "actual reality" for a change..
All you need is a legit XP Pro SP2 OEM installer CD image and any "authentic" serial number that you can copy off of the back of any PC you see anywhere and you can be 90% certain that it will install and authenticate with Genuine Advantage.
Install SP3 afterwords and you are good to go.
If it doesn't authenticate the first time, try another serial number from the POS terminal at your local grocery store or electronics retailer. Text the SN to yourself while waiting in line to pay.
Big secret: 90% of those XP Pro stickers have never been authenticated...
I'd like to see the installer DVD for Snow Leopard, surprise!, install on any Core 2 mobo. If Apple didn't advertise it and didn't promote it, and didn't officially support it, but let "it just work", imagine the turmoil in Redmond when a $39 competitor's upgrade runs on all of the hardware they were hoping to co-opt at $100+ a pop.
After all, later versions of the Leopard installer DVD will install surprise! onto certain Dell laptops without intervention, and this is not an accident of Dell design...
The Dell support staff will even give advice on how to make it work better!
well, I could contemplate $400k pretty well, given the chance.
RE: $15 billion dollars is roughly $1 per week per person living in the US... over what period of time?
For what it's worth, T-Mobile lets me change the default voice mail phone number on my BlackBerry. I changed it to my Google Voice number from the crappy t-Mobile voice mailbox.
It's fantastic. I now have instant junk call filtering - I just send to voice on my cellphone and the caller get the disconnect signal after a ring or two.
My friends all get custom greetings before leaving voice mail, and I receive an email as soon as they do. Also, I can play back my messages in the order I want without using airtime.
Plus I can play with all the other cool Google Voice features as needed. I love Google Voice - so what if they have a deal with the NSA to screen all my calls...
all you need to do is buy a minimum of a thousand copies...
You have to either authenticate or crack your XP install after installation, or use a pirated 'corporate' serial. If you authenticate, you have to hit MS's servers. If they unplug the XP authentication servers, only pirates and corporations will be able to (re)install XP.
people actually SEE ads on the internets? (cough)PRIVOXY(cough)
What I was really looking for was a weather map to see if the storms were close. Ironically, I was able to access the National Weather Service website and bypass television completely. My wife and I don't really watch broadcast TV, except for The Big Bang Theory, Mad Men, Desperate Housewives (my wife not me!) and occasional episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
Ironically again, I receive better quality programming reception from my "jolly roger antenna" than on my TV, and with no commercials! I do enjoy laserdiscs on my 35" Sony Trinitron. I also have a DVD player that plays AVIs flawlessly from data DVDs and CDs. If I really need a TV news update I can tune into European news via the Livestation app installed on my Mac.
Basically, broadcast and CATV 2011 = newspapers 2010...
I would argue that a 40 foot shipping container with a warhead hooked to a GPS is pretty good payload delivery technology, and well within their means . . .
Well, I live in Denver and we've been having tornadoes for about a week, off and on. The local NBC affiliate has three DTV channels: regular NBC, 24 hour weather and Universal Sports (which is pretty cool for free TV).
Well, the tornado warning sirens in our neighborhood started going off today, so I tuned into the weather DTV channel to look at weather warning updates, and all I saw was jiggly pixels.
Yeah, it seems that, unlike analog TV which in bad weather is snowy but viewable, the DTV signal was totally disrupted and useless until the sky cleared up.
Good thing I didn't have a tornado in my neighborhood, 'cause the DTV early warning weather channel was worse than worthless.
You kids. I was a computer operator for a large insurance company in the late 1970s. We had a vast room full of mainframe gear, and a sea of hard drives, each as big as a washing machine.
Once we started the night shift "batch" jobs, those disk units would go into the spin cycle. 40 or 50 floor standing hard drives all rocking and vibrating, the entire computer room floor rumbling like the Long Island Expressway at rush hour, lights flashing, tapes spinning, reams of paper flowing like waterfalls off of line printers and a laser printer as big as a panel truck.
All you had to do was press the red 'halt' button on the system console to bring everything to an immediate, silent pause. Hit the green "run" button, and everything picked up right where it left off. For a nineteen year old kid just out of high-school, it was a form of power and control, literally at my fingertips, that I've not experienced since in any other job.
The computer was so big you could open the cabinet and stand up inside it. The system supported more than a thousand terminals over an entire statewide region using only 4MB of real memory.
Today's server racks are.... boring.
I mean, it has to have happened by now, right? (m-astro-bation does not count) If not, it certainly is going to happen by next week! ;-)
The "three hundred mile high" club? I've looked everywhere on wikipedia for the answer, without success... Another thought: were they straight or gay? Inquiring minds want to know!
Remember when Motorola went from the MicroTac (which was anything but micro) to the StarTac?
The first StarTacs were $1200. Next gen was $600, then $250, then $99, then they went away, now Motorola is going away too.
As far as I am concerned, the StarTac was the height of evolution of the cellular phone.
That depends on what part of your body you connect it to...
The nineteen-hundreds only ended nine years ago - so unless you are under the age of ten, you should be banned from using that other term. Then again, when you say "the nineteen-hundreds" it makes you think of Alexander Graham Bell in his stovepipe hat spilling battery acid and shouting "Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you."
Of course, that actually happened in the eighteen hundreds...
What exactly is the threat to Apple? It works with iTunes? So? I used to own a TDK MP3 player that also worked with iTunes. People forget that iTunes predates the iPod.
Some people never use iTunes to buy anything, but once you have iTunes it is hard to resist visiting the iTunes Music Store. Remember, Apple is getting rid of DRM in the ITMS, and music purchased there now "plays for sure" on any device. This is much more of a middle finger to the RIAA. Keep in mind that the recording industry is looking to reduce Apple's control and influence, not increase it.
If Apple allows Palm, iRiver and other device manufacturers to use iTunes, it gains access to potential music sales that previously would not have been Apple's. When it comes to personal listening devices, either you iPod or you don't. But - if you own an MP3 player and you buy music instead of downloading it on P2P networks, I am sure Apple would love to have your business.
Next, consider the potential market for sales to owners of smartphones, and Apple can broaden their potential market tenfold without lifting a finger. If Palm allows the Pre to utilize iTunes without prompting or overt permission from Apple, the FTC cannot really take action against Apple for restraint of trade, monopoly practices, etc etc etc.
Finally, iTunes exposes the user to the Mac user interface, even when running on Windows. Users may also see Apple product features "dimmed" in buttons and menus when their non-Apple product is connected. Apple could even detect that a non-Apple product is connected to their iTunes software and display marketing that targets sales to users of their competitors' products. Can you say "halo effect"?
"I've got you this time, Brer Rabbit," said Brer Fox, jumping up and shaking off the dust. "You've sassed me for the very last time. Now I wonder what I should do with you?"
Brer Rabbit's eyes got very large. "Oh please Brer Fox, whatever you do, please don't throw me into the briar patch."
I have an old Dell server running SIMH emulating the HP2000 Time Shared Access operating system I learned in junior high school. I used to play text-based blackjack for hours after school, printing out on roll after roll of paper.
A former Navy communications specialist and teletype repairman gave me a model ASR35 Teletype that I hooked up to the SIMH software and server.
Someone on the SIMH newsgroup was the person who scrapped our school system's HP2000 computer in the early eighties. He had a backup tape image and sent it to me, and I found programs written by a friend of my brother's in the main program library.
I can run the same computer system in my house that I dreamed of having as a kid. Totally useless, but totally fun.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1227963&cid=27894137 It's easy to understand - it's this way because someone profits from it...
i thought so!
All I have to do to get a new public IP address is power cycle my DSL modem (Qwest). I do this daily, sometimes several times a day. Doing P2P on a static IP is just plain stupid...
Sure, you can't buy it today, but how long until these are advertised like Viagra?
"PediSedate Helmet is not for everyone. If you suffer from repressed rage, post-natal depression, single-motherhood or pedophilia, ask your doctor if PediSedate Helmet is right for your family. Check your mail for a 20% off coupon for refill cannisters of nitrous oxide. PediSedate Helmet: quiet at last, quiet that lasts..."
"tastes great - less filling"...