Re:Will anyone gain anything from this? Not Linux
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I'll back him up on it. When I installed Ubuntu, almost everything I needed was available right out of the box. The only thing missing was my preferred IM client. Within 2 hours, I'm able to do a full install, fully update, install everything I want, everything I might like to have someday, grab lunch, and start being productive. 2 hours on Windows on the same machine, and the updates aren't even finished yet, forget about installing anything useful.
That's absolutely hilarious, and yet so disturbingly accurate.
But what happened to the kids of the RIAA executive who got sued for piracy? A "stern talking to"? Well can't the colleges promise to give the students a stern talking too instead? Or does that only work when someone rich gets sued by accident?
buy it if you think it still sounds affordable My problem is exactly this: I've looked at Vista, I've used the betas, I've seen the improvements, and it's just not worth it. I've already been swamped with people coming to me saying "Vista sucks and now my WinXP key won't work anymore and Microsoft told me it's been permanently de-registered so I want you to install Linux for me". Even people who had previously said that Linux wasn't good enough for them, because, as one person put it, "no modern system could be worse than Vista if it tried". Some people are even looking at moving to Mac.
It says a lot to me if even people who used to be Microsoft-loving Windows users are now adamant about a permanent move away from Microsoft. I'm not sure how long this "permanent" move will last for some of them, but I'm going to enjoy it while I can.
Yes, you still need an AIM ID. Which involves going onto their website, which is defined in the TOS as being an AIM Product. And if you somehow manage to get around that, you're still using their servers, so you're *still* using an AIM Product. If you look, you accept the TOS just by using any AIM Product, so just by going to their website you're expressing your acceptance of their TOS.
This does not work well on CS Instructors or other people who look closely at login scripts.
That's why you do it as a small C program.
Copy the iexplore.exe file to some obscure directory and edit it
Copy the unmodified iexplore.exe to some directory so you always have a "clean" file (as if IE can be clean...)
Write a C program to copy the "new and improved" file to the Internet Explorer directory
Rename both iexplore.exe files as something other than a.EXE file. Make sure it looks like an important file for that folder.
Write a small C program to copy the "new and improved" IE file to the Internet Explorer directory
Add a registry entry to make the program run on startup. To make sure it doesn't happen right away or often, make it only work on days divisible by 6 or something like that.
Note that thanks to how deeply IE is hooked into Windows, this may have other undesirable side effects. Of course, if you're doing this you probably want said side effects to happen anyway.
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I'll back him up on it. When I installed Ubuntu, almost everything I needed was available right out of the box. The only thing missing was my preferred IM client. Within 2 hours, I'm able to do a full install, fully update, install everything I want, everything I might like to have someday, grab lunch, and start being productive. 2 hours on Windows on the same machine, and the updates aren't even finished yet, forget about installing anything useful.
That's absolutely hilarious, and yet so disturbingly accurate. But what happened to the kids of the RIAA executive who got sued for piracy? A "stern talking to"? Well can't the colleges promise to give the students a stern talking too instead? Or does that only work when someone rich gets sued by accident?
It sure was there, and it's in the AIM TOS too.
Yes, you still need an AIM ID. Which involves going onto their website, which is defined in the TOS as being an AIM Product. And if you somehow manage to get around that, you're still using their servers, so you're *still* using an AIM Product. If you look, you accept the TOS just by using any AIM Product, so just by going to their website you're expressing your acceptance of their TOS.
That's why you do it as a small C program.
Note that thanks to how deeply IE is hooked into Windows, this may have other undesirable side effects. Of course, if you're doing this you probably want said side effects to happen anyway.