That's correct. I didn't intend to say XP didn't support NTFS (I chose FAT32), but I've noticed (though I didn't look too hard,so correct me if I'm wrong), XP won't automount NTFS if it's installed FAT32.
Now my Win2k partition is 'protected' (my oldest is 7, I don't expect an accidental NTFS mount:), and completely seperate from the 'general use' OS that XP is to me.
I havn't eXPerienced a speed difference, except on bootup, and my Win2k is loaded to the hilt..
I have Win2k and XP on my home system. XP is Fat32, Win2k is NTFS.
3 drives:
6GB Installation HD. This is where the OS get's installed.
30GB Data (on ATA-66 controller)
30GB Data (on ATA-66 controller)
XP doesn't support my ATA-66 controller.
What does that mean? Well, I can setup my wife and kids on WinXP (It IS very nice for multiple users), and still run everything I need in Win2k.
A basic lack of driver support saves my critical data, and hides what I don't want the kids or wife to see (ie. pr0n, Rated M games, etc..)
And there is still enough space on the 6GB to install the kids' games. Each can have their own desktop and theme.
Sure all the pretty blondes in LA come from a bottle and your *cough* leaders don't have bank accounts offshore...
That's nice, but I live in Wisconsin. We have neither pretty blondes nor leaders. If we did I don't think they'd know or care if their Swiss bank accounts were Sweedish.
But I'm sure that cow out there isn't sweedish.
bork! bork! bork!
oh yes FP12. I'm sorry, multi-terminology. Real Player was half working when I touched it last. That is, half of us had it working.
Yest, FP12 was the 'big one' that increased addressable memory or something and allowed WinWord to crash after starting further than it did before:)
Don't get me wrong, I love OS/2, but it's the freaking application support that's the problem. And while I played some of my best Descent I/II games from OS/2 (OS/2-DOS is better than MS-DOS 7), it's a lot easier to get newer games running under Linux than OS/2.
I paid $87 for the Red Spine, Warp Connect v3. Why would you want to run Netscape? The only thing WebEx didn't support was tables, which weren't in use yet.
And WebEx let you change your 'busy' Icon to whatever you wanted.
I'm sorry, But I've used Odin and Warp 4 SP7(?). And people who complain that Wine doesn't run Win32 apps have it MADE compared to what Odin does.
Now, it's probably been a year since I've run Odin, but I can't fathom Odin coming FARTHER in a year, than Wine has come in the past 2 years. It's been over a year since the Odin project started syncing with the Wine Tree, and I highly doubt its further ahead (unless they've stopped, but I'd say they have more to LOSE by not staying in sync with Wine).
As for eComStation; I would LOVE to run a newer version of OS/2. To be able to install OS/2 without patching the boot disk for 2GB drives (What was is IBM1s506-> DANIS506? -Hell my ATA66 works better with DANIS506 than in Win2k) would be excellent in itself. But the PRICE! $250 for an UPGRADE from Mensys? And I only get 1/4 (at BEST) Win32 support?
Now connectix is definately a viable alternative, but the other two you mention have just as far to go as Wine does.
Keep in mind, when Win 3.1 was out there WAS a choice, OS/2, Win3.1, WABI. There wasn't a issue, so people just used what was easiest to get a hold of (the Win 3.1 preinstalled on their machine).
Now that they've been locked into Window9x, and have no other choice, you're seeing the backlash.
I ran OS/2 for quite a long time, and I still would if I could run the Win32 apps I need. OS/2 had the best mail reader for the longest time (It was a bit like Pan). I'd prefer to Run OS/2 or Linux apps to Win32 apps, but where the Win32 apps is better, I don't want to reboot.
Wine creates 'aliases' drives and paths within itself to Linux directories. It's kind of like the subst command.
c:\ =/home/user/fake_windows
f:\ =/home/user
The directory strutures are completed from there.. Wine puts some of it's own dll's under your c:\windows\system dir so they're accessible by the apps.
When an app installs, it generally just writes some stuff to the registry, and copies some files.
Unfortunately, I still can't install FoxPro. There is a hack (workaround) available, where you basically diff your registries before and after install, then import that into the wine registry. You also need to copy the correct files into the right places.
Doing this, I got my FoxPro apps running, but I can't use some of the OLE stuff (such as SCROLLING!) This is as of 10/4 I believe.
There's a saying that americans are ignorant - can't point out Egypt on a map, don't know that Sweden and Schwitzerland aren't the same countries etc.
In defense of myself, I would say most people in the U.S. don't have anything to do with Sweden and/or Switzerland. And it depends on the syntax of the question. I would say they're 2 different countries, unless you said, "Do you believe Sweden and Switzerland are two different countries?" Now I'm doubting myself, because I havn't dealt with that question for YEARS.
It's equivalent to telling the new driver: "You know, Stop signs with white borders are optional."
All stop signs in the U.S. have white borders, you just don't realize it.
But, if some twit can't point out Egypt (umm The Nile), then they deserved to get flamed. I personally have a hard time with (Football now) the Washington Redskins, and the Baltimore Ravens.
Washington makes me think of the state, and Baltimore (don't ask why), makes me think of the St. Louis area. I know it's D.C. and MD, but it doesn't click that way.
Now I've never been to either place.. is it a memory thing (The mind ISN'T a good filter..)? Can the "hurricane in the shower" guy get funding for this?
... but would mean you'd never have to plug it into your machine (where the hell is that Firewire cable?).
I leave my Serial cable (for my digital camera), and my USB cable (for my moms camera) laying along side the case.
I have to sit down at the computer to do anything useful with the 'external device' anyways. Not that wireless isn't useful, but for an MP3 Player, I'd prefer they spent that money on more disk space. Load the whole thing up, and you don't need to 'dock' and freshen your stores.:)
It's like the argument that mail servers witl web-based configs are better than sendmail. What does it matter if I sit down, open a web browser, and type in an URL, or sit down, open vi with a parameter to edit configs?
You sit down at your Mac, and initiate a transfer to the MP3 player sitting right next to you. It's not like the MP3 player is going to be in your car.
Though it could be, and that would be cool. Too bad your PC is in the basement on the other side of the furnace. Don't try and deny it.
Exactly. So there's no reason for them to spend a ton of money, because it will stop nothing. By spending more money, they will require more money, which will be had by raising prices which will encourage more piracy.
Spending a million dollars to stop half a million in theft is not smart business. (Unless you believe the bloated numbers ANY business says they have 'lost' to piracy, or lack of air travel, or 'the terrorist act'...)
Even if legal, it would never work..
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And Usenet will immediately be filled with posts of RIAA IP addresses to filter..
Yeah that's a Good Idea(tm). Bring the pirate music industry closer together, then raise prices for the rest of us.
Well duh. It's not a move to combat piracy, it's an excuse to claim 'more pirated works exist than we thought..', and ensure prices stay high, or go up.
You mean like a site license?
No, shithead, I specifically said NO licence, following your presumption that they are invalid legally.
Did you even get past 6th grade reading? I said the EULA hasn't been truely tested, and you said:
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If you think the EULA is invalid, why buy 10 copies? Just buy one and install it on all of your machines -- it's completely legal to do this under bare software copyright law.
That's ONE copy. The ONE you purchased numb-nuts.
You can only run one copy of any purchased software at any given time.
Wrong. Read the Fucking Copyright Law. The only thing that prevents you from doing so is the EULA, which you don't think is valid.
Read it again, Sam. You cannot make multiple copies of electronic media for simultanious use.
He's got the licenses.
No he doesn't. He's just as illegal as if he warezed it off a Russian FTP site. The only difference is that he made a middleman $250 richer for naught. The only thing he's got is Plausible Deniability, which means naught in an MS audit where they track the serials.
Nope, He HAS the licenses. They say they came with his PC's. BSA audits are voluntary. Why should he submit to an audit, when he's got the licenses right there?
Do you really believe ANYONE would get prosecuted...
No. Like I said, I could give a shit if you don't want to follow the EULA or not. Just don't play games with yourself and tell yourself that legal because you bought the warez instead of getting it for free.
Nobody bought warez, he bought legitimate software licenses. If there's an issue, which any moron knows there isn't, talk to the vendor.
--babbling about headphones--
Why don't you take those headphones, along with the rest of your specious arguments, and shove them up your shoddy thinking ass?
Ohhhhh So YOU'RE the son of Goatse! You know, most of us don't have asses like that. You're really in the minority.
If you think the EULA is invalid, why buy 10 copies? Just buy one and install it on all of your machines -- it's completely legal to do this under bare software copyright law.
You mean like a site license? Of course. You have one physical copy, and 10 licenses for it.
That's not an EULA issue, it's basic piracy. You can't buy a video tape, copy it, and play it on multiple VCR's. You can only run one copy of any purchased software at any given time. Granted, you could run 10 NT machines on one copy, but not all at the same time.
He's got the licenses.
Do you really believe ANYONE would get prosecuted because they installed a copy of Win95 from their Packard Bell that was discarded, onto the system they built themselves?
It's a license agreement you have no choice but to accept, or not use a computer. 'Doublethink' would be, "Software does not wear out, therefore where the Warranty of Merchantibility says 'This product will last for a reasonable amount of time', I can get free upgrades because the software should work just fine for years to come..." He didn't get a free upgrade, he purchased a license that wasn't supposed to be sold because the software just happened to come in a box with a PC.
Wait, you can't sell those headphones seperately!
Sony bought those headphones, and Sony got them cheaper because they have a contract that says they can't allow a resale of the headphones seperate from the Walkman. Now how stupid is that?
In any case, if you think there's an issue with the licenses, get in touch with the vendor. If the vendor won't replace the licenses, threaten to contact Microsoft. If they still won't replace them, then contact Microsoft. If done right, he shouldn't be out anything.
I wasn't thinking of it as: Vendor bought 200 OEM licenses from Microsoft but now is reselling them as Full Licenses. BUT, I disagree that either has any affect on a consumer who is buying in good faith.
When I worked at a certain Very Large Airplane Company, we had a very simple procedure for emergency upgrades:
Patch the backup server (you do have a backup server, don't you?)
Fail over to the backup server (you do have a failover procedure, don't you?)
Patch the main production server
Fail back to main
Yeah, that's great, but I got stuck in Flordia because there was a fiber cut in Minnesota. What the hell does it matter if the servers have failover, if the connection doesn't?
Airlines might be one of FEW companies that MUST be running 24/7 (So where the hell was the backup to the fiber?) If you don't need to absolutely run 24/7, why buy 2 NT machines to suport your patching needs, when you can buy one unix system, and be done with it (Scheduling patches FAR ahead of time)?
The only thing that 'ties' a piece of software to a piece of hardware is the EULA, which, as it's been said before, hasn't been truely tested.
What does it matter if you're running the OEM software that shouldn't have been sold to you, or the OEM software that actually came with the PC?
Most places buy PC's in bulk, and toss the software that came with them anyways. Those places have already been screwed because they 'bought' that OEM software they aren't going to use.
You don't even know if his company ALREADY BOUGHT NT 4.0 OEM licenses, way back when, and tossed them because it wasn't part of the corporate standard. (We did that at Wisconsin Electric with Win95 licenses)
Are you NOT going to use a stereo you bought 2nd hand that you *think* could have been stolen?
Or are you going to turn that stereo off everytime a song is played from 'Artist B', who you heard was screwed by their record label?
Get off your high horse and live in the real world. People get screwed. He has a PC, he has an OEM license. He didn't try to transfer it, he's getting it for the first time.
I don't see any issue with that.
I hope you're not buying 'Grey Market' Intel chips. Intel doesn't like that either. Better report all those guys on pricewatch...
"You should understand that you can't fight terrorism with airplane carriers carrying the biggest penises of the world and dropping big, fully loaded balls from the biggest B2-penises on top of some sanded-mountains."
Huh? That's why there are ground troops. The point is, Afghan's didn't defeat the Soviets because they had an iron will. They had technology to back it up.
Without the technology, you're no match.
Havokmon says, "You stand 5'2" to me, and see if I give a shit what you say. Then when I don't listen, don't try to beat ME up. You'll be eating your teeth."
bin laden has been playing this mosquito game. Buzzing around and biting here and there. Now he's bit hard enough that his pissed off a good chunk of the world. And we're going to stop him.
"That said I also want to comment on Mr. bin Laden's little video conference. So he can use a camera and a satalite -- SO WHAT??? "
Change your perspective.. Only about 10% of the people in Afghanistan are literate, so what percentage do you think speak English? The fact that he has that equipment, means that he can speak directly to the people in Afghanistan. He can lie to them, get them pissed at us, and we can't do anything about it yet.
We need to get in there and take over the T.V. stations, and put the King back in charge..
But the point is, the Soviets HAD Afghanistan, until the U.S. followed up with more weaponry.
I don't care if you believe you're invincible. If all you have is a.38 and a goat-skin, and I'm wearing a kevlar vest and have an ak-47, I will defeat you, attitude or not.
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Yeah, until I decide to use XP myself, then my wife will hear my incessant bitching..
That's correct. I didn't intend to say XP didn't support NTFS (I chose FAT32), but I've noticed (though I didn't look too hard,so correct me if I'm wrong), XP won't automount NTFS if it's installed FAT32.
:), and completely seperate from the 'general use' OS that XP is to me.
Now my Win2k partition is 'protected' (my oldest is 7, I don't expect an accidental NTFS mount
I havn't eXPerienced a speed difference, except on bootup, and my Win2k is loaded to the hilt..
With that out of the way...
I have Win2k and XP on my home system. XP is Fat32, Win2k is NTFS.
3 drives:
6GB Installation HD. This is where the OS get's installed.
30GB Data (on ATA-66 controller)
30GB Data (on ATA-66 controller)
XP doesn't support my ATA-66 controller.
What does that mean? Well, I can setup my wife and kids on WinXP (It IS very nice for multiple users), and still run everything I need in Win2k.
A basic lack of driver support saves my critical data, and hides what I don't want the kids or wife to see (ie. pr0n, Rated M games, etc..)
And there is still enough space on the 6GB to install the kids' games. Each can have their own desktop and theme.
That's about all XP is good for.
Sure all the pretty blondes in LA come from a bottle and your *cough* leaders don't have bank accounts offshore...
That's nice, but I live in Wisconsin. We have neither pretty blondes nor leaders. If we did I don't think they'd know or care if their Swiss bank accounts were Sweedish.
But I'm sure that cow out there isn't sweedish.
bork! bork! bork!
You BASTARD! You know what this means?!?
Now I'll have to waste a few hours installing OS/2 again! ARGH!!!
oh yes FP12. I'm sorry, multi-terminology. Real Player was half working when I touched it last. That is, half of us had it working.
:)
Yest, FP12 was the 'big one' that increased addressable memory or something and allowed WinWord to crash after starting further than it did before
Don't get me wrong, I love OS/2, but it's the freaking application support that's the problem. And while I played some of my best Descent I/II games from OS/2 (OS/2-DOS is better than MS-DOS 7), it's a lot easier to get newer games running under Linux than OS/2.
I paid $87 for the Red Spine, Warp Connect v3. Why would you want to run Netscape? The only thing WebEx didn't support was tables, which weren't in use yet.
And WebEx let you change your 'busy' Icon to whatever you wanted.
I'm sorry, But I've used Odin and Warp 4 SP7(?). And people who complain that Wine doesn't run Win32 apps have it MADE compared to what Odin does.
Now, it's probably been a year since I've run Odin, but I can't fathom Odin coming FARTHER in a year, than Wine has come in the past 2 years. It's been over a year since the Odin project started syncing with the Wine Tree, and I highly doubt its further ahead (unless they've stopped, but I'd say they have more to LOSE by not staying in sync with Wine).
As for eComStation; I would LOVE to run a newer version of OS/2. To be able to install OS/2 without patching the boot disk for 2GB drives (What was is IBM1s506-> DANIS506? -Hell my ATA66 works better with DANIS506 than in Win2k) would be excellent in itself. But the PRICE! $250 for an UPGRADE from Mensys? And I only get 1/4 (at BEST) Win32 support?
Now connectix is definately a viable alternative, but the other two you mention have just as far to go as Wine does.
Keep in mind, when Win 3.1 was out there WAS a choice, OS/2, Win3.1, WABI. There wasn't a issue, so people just used what was easiest to get a hold of (the Win 3.1 preinstalled on their machine).
:)
Now that they've been locked into Window9x, and have no other choice, you're seeing the backlash.
I ran OS/2 for quite a long time, and I still would if I could run the Win32 apps I need. OS/2 had the best mail reader for the longest time (It was a bit like Pan). I'd prefer to Run OS/2 or Linux apps to Win32 apps, but where the Win32 apps is better, I don't want to reboot.
IRFANVIEW works GREAT in Wine
Wine creates 'aliases' drives and paths within itself to Linux directories. It's kind of like the subst command.
c:\ =
f:\ =
The directory strutures are completed from there.. Wine puts some of it's own dll's under your c:\windows\system dir so they're accessible by the apps.
When an app installs, it generally just writes some stuff to the registry, and copies some files.
Unfortunately, I still can't install FoxPro. There is a hack (workaround) available, where you basically diff your registries before and after install, then import that into the wine registry. You also need to copy the correct files into the right places.
Doing this, I got my FoxPro apps running, but I can't use some of the OLE stuff (such as SCROLLING!) This is as of 10/4 I believe.
But it's damn close..
In defense of myself, I would say most people in the U.S. don't have anything to do with Sweden and /or Switzerland. And it depends on the syntax of the question. I would say they're 2 different countries, unless you said, "Do you believe Sweden and Switzerland are two different countries?" Now I'm doubting myself, because I havn't dealt with that question for YEARS.
It's equivalent to telling the new driver: "You know, Stop signs with white borders are optional." All stop signs in the U.S. have white borders, you just don't realize it.
But, if some twit can't point out Egypt (umm The Nile), then they deserved to get flamed. I personally have a hard time with (Football now) the Washington Redskins, and the Baltimore Ravens.
Washington makes me think of the state, and Baltimore (don't ask why), makes me think of the St. Louis area. I know it's D.C. and MD, but it doesn't click that way.
Now I've never been to either place.. is it a memory thing (The mind ISN'T a good filter..)? Can the "hurricane in the shower" guy get funding for this?
... but would mean you'd never have to plug it into your machine (where the hell is that Firewire cable?).
:)
I leave my Serial cable (for my digital camera), and my USB cable (for my moms camera) laying along side the case.
I have to sit down at the computer to do anything useful with the 'external device' anyways. Not that wireless isn't useful, but for an MP3 Player, I'd prefer they spent that money on more disk space. Load the whole thing up, and you don't need to 'dock' and freshen your stores.
Because it's smaller and has a wire?
How would wireless benefit you?
It's like the argument that mail servers witl web-based configs are better than sendmail. What does it matter if I sit down, open a web browser, and type in an URL, or sit down, open vi with a parameter to edit configs?
You sit down at your Mac, and initiate a transfer to the MP3 player sitting right next to you. It's not like the MP3 player is going to be in your car.
Though it could be, and that would be cool. Too bad your PC is in the basement on the other side of the furnace. Don't try and deny it.
Prohibition?
Then again, weed is currently illegal, while tobacco is legal. There's no logic to law, it's all based on the money-factor.
End of Prohibition: We found we can make more money taxing it, than we spent trying to stop it, and people will drink either way.
Exactly. So there's no reason for them to spend a ton of money, because it will stop nothing. By spending more money, they will require more money, which will be had by raising prices which will encourage more piracy.
Spending a million dollars to stop half a million in theft is not smart business. (Unless you believe the bloated numbers ANY business says they have 'lost' to piracy, or lack of air travel, or 'the terrorist act'...)
And Usenet will immediately be filled with posts of RIAA IP addresses to filter..
Yeah that's a Good Idea(tm). Bring the pirate music industry closer together, then raise prices for the rest of us.
Well duh. It's not a move to combat piracy, it's an excuse to claim 'more pirated works exist than we thought..', and ensure prices stay high, or go up.
No, shithead, I specifically said NO licence, following your presumption that they are invalid legally.
Did you even get past 6th grade reading? I said the EULA hasn't been truely tested, and you said:
---
If you think the EULA is invalid, why buy 10 copies? Just buy one and install it on all of your machines -- it's completely legal to do this under bare software copyright law.
That's ONE copy. The ONE you purchased numb-nuts.
You can only run one copy of any purchased software at any given time.
Wrong. Read the Fucking Copyright Law. The only thing that prevents you from doing so is the EULA, which you don't think is valid.
Read it again, Sam. You cannot make multiple copies of electronic media for simultanious use.
He's got the licenses.
No he doesn't. He's just as illegal as if he warezed it off a Russian FTP site. The only difference is that he made a middleman $250 richer for naught. The only thing he's got is Plausible Deniability, which means naught in an MS audit where they track the serials.
Nope, He HAS the licenses. They say they came with his PC's. BSA audits are voluntary. Why should he submit to an audit, when he's got the licenses right there?
Do you really believe ANYONE would get prosecuted...
No. Like I said, I could give a shit if you don't want to follow the EULA or not. Just don't play games with yourself and tell yourself that legal because you bought the warez instead of getting it for free.
Nobody bought warez, he bought legitimate software licenses. If there's an issue, which any moron knows there isn't, talk to the vendor.
--babbling about headphones--
Why don't you take those headphones, along with the rest of your specious arguments, and shove them up your shoddy thinking ass?
Ohhhhh So YOU'RE the son of Goatse! You know, most of us don't have asses like that. You're really in the minority.
You mean like a site license? Of course. You have one physical copy, and 10 licenses for it. That's not an EULA issue, it's basic piracy. You can't buy a video tape, copy it, and play it on multiple VCR's. You can only run one copy of any purchased software at any given time. Granted, you could run 10 NT machines on one copy, but not all at the same time.
He's got the licenses.
Do you really believe ANYONE would get prosecuted because they installed a copy of Win95 from their Packard Bell that was discarded, onto the system they built themselves?
It's a license agreement you have no choice but to accept, or not use a computer. 'Doublethink' would be, "Software does not wear out, therefore where the Warranty of Merchantibility says 'This product will last for a reasonable amount of time', I can get free upgrades because the software should work just fine for years to come..." He didn't get a free upgrade, he purchased a license that wasn't supposed to be sold because the software just happened to come in a box with a PC.
Wait, you can't sell those headphones seperately! Sony bought those headphones, and Sony got them cheaper because they have a contract that says they can't allow a resale of the headphones seperate from the Walkman. Now how stupid is that?
In any case, if you think there's an issue with the licenses, get in touch with the vendor. If the vendor won't replace the licenses, threaten to contact Microsoft. If they still won't replace them, then contact Microsoft. If done right, he shouldn't be out anything.
I wasn't thinking of it as: Vendor bought 200 OEM licenses from Microsoft but now is reselling them as Full Licenses. BUT, I disagree that either has any affect on a consumer who is buying in good faith.
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Eg. 2 articles are queued for 'display' (I obviously have no knowledge of the workings of slashdot).
Display 1 to the 'left' half of the world, the other to the right half.
Next hour, flip em.
At the very least, you could only let
When I worked at a certain Very Large Airplane Company, we had a very simple procedure for emergency upgrades:
Yeah, that's great, but I got stuck in Flordia because there was a fiber cut in Minnesota. What the hell does it matter if the servers have failover, if the connection doesn't?
Airlines might be one of FEW companies that MUST be running 24/7 (So where the hell was the backup to the fiber?) If you don't need to absolutely run 24/7, why buy 2 NT machines to suport your patching needs, when you can buy one unix system, and be done with it (Scheduling patches FAR ahead of time)?
It's not invalid. He didn't do anything wrong.
The only thing that 'ties' a piece of software to a piece of hardware is the EULA, which, as it's been said before, hasn't been truely tested.
What does it matter if you're running the OEM software that shouldn't have been sold to you, or the OEM software that actually came with the PC?
Most places buy PC's in bulk, and toss the software that came with them anyways. Those places have already been screwed because they 'bought' that OEM software they aren't going to use.
You don't even know if his company ALREADY BOUGHT NT 4.0 OEM licenses, way back when, and tossed them because it wasn't part of the corporate standard. (We did that at Wisconsin Electric with Win95 licenses)
Are you NOT going to use a stereo you bought 2nd hand that you *think* could have been stolen?
Or are you going to turn that stereo off everytime a song is played from 'Artist B', who you heard was screwed by their record label?
Get off your high horse and live in the real world. People get screwed. He has a PC, he has an OEM license. He didn't try to transfer it, he's getting it for the first time.
I don't see any issue with that.
I hope you're not buying 'Grey Market' Intel chips. Intel doesn't like that either. Better report all those guys on pricewatch...
Do you store your licenses WITH PC's?
What makes anyone think that that NT4.0 license didn't come with the PC that you installed Linux on?
You have a license, (IANAL, but) you didn't intend to purchase illegal merchandise. Personally, I would use it.
Huh? That's why there are ground troops. The point is, Afghan's didn't defeat the Soviets because they had an iron will. They had technology to back it up.
Without the technology, you're no match.
Havokmon says, "You stand 5'2" to me, and see if I give a shit what you say. Then when I don't listen, don't try to beat ME up. You'll be eating your teeth."
bin laden has been playing this mosquito game. Buzzing around and biting here and there. Now he's bit hard enough that his pissed off a good chunk of the world. And we're going to stop him.
Little penis or not, you have to recognize that.
"That said I also want to comment on Mr. bin Laden's little video conference. So he can use a camera and a satalite -- SO WHAT??? "
Change your perspective.. Only about 10% of the people in Afghanistan are literate, so what percentage do you think speak English? The fact that he has that equipment, means that he can speak directly to the people in Afghanistan. He can lie to them, get them pissed at us, and we can't do anything about it yet.
We need to get in there and take over the T.V. stations, and put the King back in charge..
But the point is, the Soviets HAD Afghanistan, until the U.S. followed up with more weaponry.
.38 and a goat-skin, and I'm wearing a kevlar vest and have an ak-47, I will defeat you, attitude or not.
I don't care if you believe you're invincible. If all you have is a
THAT'S WHY TECHNOLOGY IS IMPORTANT.