After allowing WGA Notifications to be installed, I'm not receiving any notices that my copy of Windows is not Genuine (apparantly it's genuine). However, now the entire Automatic Updates screen is greyed out. I've seen several other posts concerning this on other forums, and the resolution has always been "turn on the Automatic Update Service." However, my Automatic Update Service _is_ on, and the entire Automatic Updates screen is still greyed out (I've tried restarting the services several times). The part that concerns me is that I'm now apparently locked into the "Automatic (recommended)" selection since I can no longer change it.
I'm wondering if any other slashdotter has experienced this.
This sounds like a fork of the original MOSIX written by Professor Amnon Barak (Hebrew University, Isreal).
IANL, but the MOSIX License Agreement is very specific in terms how the code can be used, here are some quotes:
THE CODE is the intellectual property of the Copyright owner (currently, Amnon Barak or Amnon Shiloh or both).
You may make copies of THE CODE or its derivatives for yourself or for your company or for your organization.
Any use not specifically permitted by the Copyright owner is hereby excluded from this License Agreement. In particular, this also implies that you are not allowed to redistribute THE CODE or its derivatives outside your premises, your company or your organization.
Reverse-engineering of parts of THE CODE (if any) that are provided in binary and/or assembly form is not allowed.
...now if I could just get my workstation to roll off my desk and hide in a corner when I hit the Snooze Button on an appointment reminder in Outlook...:-D
I know other people have mentioned this Open Source project in other posts, but I wanted to highlight it to make sure it was seen. I've been using OpenOffice.org myself for about 2 years and have been very happy with it.
One of the things that I think is getting missed in this thread is the Level Designer's knowledge of the game community and game itself. For example, the people who concistently write great modules for NWN are people who've played the game its based on (D&D) for years.
One of the things you may want to take into consideration is how much you know about the game itself and the community that plays it. If you've played D&D since 1st Edition (and especially if you've been a DM), then NWN would be a natural extension of your existing knowledge and skills. For example, some of the best NWN levels I've played have been those that take the "standards" of the game and turn them completely upside down. If you didn't know what the "standards" for the underlying game are, you'd have no way of doing this.
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After allowing WGA Notifications to be installed, I'm not receiving any notices that my copy of Windows is not Genuine (apparantly it's genuine). However, now the entire Automatic Updates screen is greyed out. I've seen several other posts concerning this on other forums, and the resolution has always been "turn on the Automatic Update Service." However, my Automatic Update Service _is_ on, and the entire Automatic Updates screen is still greyed out (I've tried restarting the services several times). The part that concerns me is that I'm now apparently locked into the "Automatic (recommended)" selection since I can no longer change it.
I'm wondering if any other slashdotter has experienced this.
IANL, but the MOSIX License Agreement is very specific in terms how the code can be used, here are some quotes:
...now if I could just get my workstation to roll off my desk and hide in a corner when I hit the Snooze Button on an appointment reminder in Outlook... :-D
I know other people have mentioned this Open Source project in other posts, but I wanted to highlight it to make sure it was seen. I've been using OpenOffice.org myself for about 2 years and have been very happy with it.
One of the things that I think is getting missed in this thread is the Level Designer's knowledge of the game community and game itself. For example, the people who concistently write great modules for NWN are people who've played the game its based on (D&D) for years. One of the things you may want to take into consideration is how much you know about the game itself and the community that plays it. If you've played D&D since 1st Edition (and especially if you've been a DM), then NWN would be a natural extension of your existing knowledge and skills. For example, some of the best NWN levels I've played have been those that take the "standards" of the game and turn them completely upside down. If you didn't know what the "standards" for the underlying game are, you'd have no way of doing this.