The IEEE-USA, i.e., the United States branch of the IEEE, has in the past lobbied against visas for high-tech workers. They seem to like rather reactionary policies. I long dropped my membership for that very reason. The ACM and USENIX are much better anyway.
Import your mail from Outlook into Mozilla for Windows. Mozilla stores all email in the mbox format, which is easily imported into Apple Mail. You obviously still need to transfer the files to your Mac, but that should be easy. Look for the mbox files in C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\some weird string\Mail.
If you want to spend money, try Outlook2Mac (http://www.littlemachines.com/).
There are two types of region-free players: the not so good ones are set to region 0, making them region-non-specific, so to say. The hack described in the memo tests for such players and has been used by other movie studios (Disney) before. The better ones are region changeable, meaning you can switch the region. For example, if it's a player from the US, it's region 1 by default, but you can switch it to region 2 to watch Japanese DVDs.
Bottom line: most region-hacked players are region changeable, so this is not a problem.
The basic technology behin VMware (I suppose -- all three authors are cofounders of VMware) is described in research papers at http://www-flash.stanford.edu:80/Disco/ , if you want to find out the details.
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The IEEE-USA, i.e., the United States branch of the IEEE, has in the past lobbied against visas for high-tech workers. They seem to like rather reactionary policies. I long dropped my membership for that very reason. The ACM and USENIX are much better anyway.
Import your mail from Outlook into Mozilla for Windows. Mozilla stores all email in the mbox format, which is easily imported into Apple Mail. You obviously still need to transfer the files to your Mac, but that should be easy. Look for the mbox files in C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\some weird string\Mail.
If you want to spend money, try Outlook2Mac (http://www.littlemachines.com/).
There are two types of region-free players: the not so good ones are set to region 0, making them region-non-specific, so to say. The hack described in the memo tests for such players and has been used by other movie studios (Disney) before. The better ones are region changeable, meaning you can switch the region. For example, if it's a player from the US, it's region 1 by default, but you can switch it to region 2 to watch Japanese DVDs.
Bottom line: most region-hacked players are region changeable, so this is not a problem.
Robert