I call BS because lawsuits are a matter of public record, so their existence cannot by definition be confidential.
In theory it's possible they're trying to settle this outside of court first. However... I find it unlikely with Apple, they seem ready to goto court on anything.
The only time a Windows NT/2000/XP install will fail is when there is a hardware problem.
I couldn't complete installs tonnes of times because I lost the stupid key.
I've installed Windows hundreds of times since Windows 95, and build and supported at least a hundred servers since NT4. If someone has a problem keeping Windows stable, their problem is between the screen and the keyboard, not in Redmond WA.
Indeed, Redmond is perfect, that's why they don't release fixes for thei.. OH sorry, nevermind.
Ionescu indicates that ReactOS is nearly 100% binary and API compatible with the Windows 2003 kernel, and that they are aiming for full Vista compatibility. Ionescu attempted to demonstrate ReactOS but only succeeded in installing it after two BSoDs.
They better make it red, it'll be enough to convince people that it is a clone of Vista.
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Why clone a bad interface when you can clone a good one that many people would like to use?
GNUStep, KDE-look (where you can find a tonne of different OS X look-alike themes, replicating the OS X interface).
Oh, and, I don't fit into your 'many people' assumption. I don't want to use OS X's dumbed down interface style.
However, Firefox STILL wants to add a.bin extension to every file downloaded! That was the OTHER problem I was having with the downloads.
I don't have that problem either... You could try seeing if it's your profile screwed it up by moving.mozilla to another path like.mozilla.old and then starting Firefox.
(To get back your old settings and profile, delete.mozilla and move.mozilla.old to.mozilla)
When you go through the Rapidshare process to download a file, at some point you get the Firefox prompt to download the file. When you click on the download radio button, Firefox does "something", I don't know what, and Rapidshare proceeds to tell you that either you've already downloaded the file, or some other weird error message.
I use rapidshare occasionally, never had this problem.
I am using Kubuntu Edgy (6.10), Firefox 2.0.0.2+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10.
Yeah, and I'm sure the University sells all its vehicles when the warranty expires, and all the TVs they buy, and physical plant equipment, and typewriters, and etc etc etc.
Not warranty, support. You cannot get the support anymore for hardware and software older than three years with Apple it seems.
A piece of equipment having a useful life beyond its warranty and beyond the duration of official support is actually a great selling point.
A large amount of equipment that needs to work all year round that cannot repaired under low cost saving plans is not a great selling point.
Why go on an actual three-year replacement cycle because of obsolescence when you can get more effective use?
I don't know why/you/ would need to. But where I work, there is no point getting Apple hardware for the lack of support.
In my business, I have a beige G3 (1997) and a Sawtooth G4 (1999) still in active service.
In a company I work for, there is some much older hardware there and we still receive support for them.
Actually, my 7 year old Mac G3 can run the current version of MacOS X without any hardware upgrades, and it has fine performance under things like Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, or any of the Apple iLife applications.
Apple doesn't provide support services for hardware older than three years. So, this isn't really relevant.
Moving MacOS software versions generally does NOT require one to upgrade or replace any hardware.
It does if you still want to get corporate/enterprise support (I do believe educational support is the same except they pay less for it).
Opera has been faster than IE for at least the last six years. It has also been more stable than IE for that length of time. Back when I using IE 5.0 - and 5.5, that POS crashed on me daily, if not hourly.
Comparing IE7 and Opera right now... IE7 feels faster to me (opening cnn.com in tabs multiple times in both).
At the moment, since Firefox's file download process doesn't work with tons of Web sites (on Kubuntu Linux anyway, seems to be OK on Windows)
I use Kubuntu and Firefox, the download manager works fine. It's just annoying that it tries to use Gnome's default applications for filetypes instead of KDE's when you clck 'open'.
After hearing all the anger from many people over OpenOffice.org not having a Aqua UI, I don't think Krita will have a chance on the OS X platform anyway.
Several outlets are carrying the news that Live for Windows is coming in May to a PC near you. The announcement carried confirmation of a similar pricetag for Xbox Live
Coming soon to Windows near you. Pay a tax to play on your own servers, Internet connection etc. with your friends.
I get a distinct feeling that they're annoyed that they aren't making as much money as they could on typo domains (Microsoft redirecting unknown domains in IE to their search site). I have to wonder if this made any influence on their decision to go after cyber-squatters.
try having a PIII-733 Laptop with 256Mb of RAM (hard limit on that machine) that you want to actually USE as a Linux box.
I've had less and ran Kubuntu on it (I rebuilt most of the packages on another computer with apt-build after having set the optimizations for that hardware).
SuSE enterprise server regenerates chroot jails automatically when you start daemons.
nor when the repository is temporarily unavailable
Isn't this the same as when the Windows update server is temporarily unavailable?
or that you only updated the database
I got a message the next time I started Kontact (I think this was on the system running SuSE) asking me if I wanted to fix the dates.
Since the package manager can't know which localtime rules you want to use
I think Ubuntu did it right with having the option set in debconf. So the package manager knew. Not sure what SuSE or Mandriva does though.
And it can't know where else you might have a chroot jail which needs its own settings file
SuSE's chroot jails copy directly things from the main system when the daemons start. This is to make sure the settings are replicated and so any changes that were done through some exploit are undone.
If you're setting up chroots manually, that entirely depends on how you set it up. It's not distributions fault.
Relying on the distro to do it for you without double-checking what really took place is dangerous.
I can look at the source package of the update packages but I can't do that with Microsoft's updates...
Many MS users don't know what a driver is or where to find one, what do they do when their new printer doesn't come with linux-compatible drivers?
After plugging in the printer, I just open http://127.0.0.1:631/ in a webbrowser and if I couldn't find the model there, I just add a printer from the same series... Always worked for me!
He brings up a good point with the difficulties of providing tech support.
I'm sure including a piece of paper with the printer that says to choose model "X" from that list or whatever won't kill anyone.
On Windows, patches came with the standard Tuesday updates, and all I had to do was accept installation. Ok, for boxes without outbound internet access, I actually had to copy the patches and install them manually, but that was pointy-clicky-done, with no hassle whatsoever.
You need to manually fix the appointments and things you set in outlook and so on, so not done yet.
On my Linux boxes, I had to install (which for my Gentoo boxes means recompile) a new version of the timezone-data package (Arthur Olson time zones), then manually copy/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York to/etc/localtime, then also manually copy a zoneinfo file to etc/localtime in the chroot jails for both named and dhcpd, and restart these daemons, as well as ntpd (time server).
On my linux boxes, I just installed the updates (Mandriva, Debian, Kubuntu, SuSE) -- Might want to use a better distribution.
I still prefer Linux and Unix, but it's not easier, and I bet many people forgot to update the zoneinfo files manually for chrooted daemons.
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However, if the person in question does not rely DRM media. I would recommend they try Amarok which has far more features than iTunes.
Oh, and, I don't fit into your 'many people' assumption. I don't want to use OS X's dumbed down interface style.
Maybe you should get together with this guy?
(To get back your old settings and profile, delete
I am using Kubuntu Edgy (6.10), Firefox 2.0.0.2+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10.
Not really, Falcon Northwest's are superior.
Mac users expect drag and drop installations.
After hearing all the anger from many people over OpenOffice.org not having a Aqua UI, I don't think Krita will have a chance on the OS X platform anyway.
I get a distinct feeling that they're annoyed that they aren't making as much money as they could on typo domains (Microsoft redirecting unknown domains in IE to their search site). I have to wonder if this made any influence on their decision to go after cyber-squatters.
Why not use www.dell.com/linux ?
If you're setting up chroots manually, that entirely depends on how you set it up. It's not distributions fault.I can look at the source package of the update packages but I can't do that with Microsoft's updates...