cost analysis of vista
the excutive summary was telling
Right. Sir. Honey.
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beth b - Feb 21, 2007 12:06:48 pm PST #645 of 25496
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2007 12:19:33 pm PST #646 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
the excutive summary was telling
Oh yeah. That phrase found its way all over the tech blogs last week...
Anyway, is this the future of HD video DRM? I so hope not.
Also, I'm pretty sure that XP (perhaps running as a virtual machine on a Mac) will fulfill my home Windows needs for the next ten years or so, so hopefully I can avoid all this Vista HD DRM crap until the their whole approach crashes and burns....
Atropa - Feb 21, 2007 12:26:34 pm PST #647 of 25496
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Someone's comment in Natter reminded me that I wanted to ask: has anyone here used those disposable digital cameras? How is the picture quality? Complete crap, or okay for a disposable camera?
Laga - Feb 21, 2007 12:56:09 pm PST #648 of 25496
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
has anyone here used those disposable digital cameras? How is the picture quality? Complete crap, or okay for a disposable camera?
The one I used was pretty crappy, the pictures took forever to be delivered. And they try to make you think you have to buy their editing software to be able to edit the photos. I'll see if I can find the brand so at least you know what not to try.
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2007 1:54:50 pm PST #649 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
People have hacked those disposable digital cameras to make them reusable and to allow USB connections, so you don't need to pay anything besides the cost of the camera. Of course, the companies that make them have made them harder to hack. Dunno what the current status of this arms race is.
Liese S. - Feb 21, 2007 2:27:52 pm PST #650 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
OMG I need to buy that commodore 64 joystick!
Pix - Feb 21, 2007 3:41:05 pm PST #651 of 25496
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
...If someone finds me screaming on top of a clocktower with a sawed off shotgun, you can blame the combination of high-pitched tech squeals coming from the entertainment center in the living room. I swear to God, I'm about ready to rip all of the plugs out of the wall.
Is there anything else I can do? Because I'm seriously being driven out of my house.
esse - Feb 21, 2007 3:54:00 pm PST #652 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Hey, I'm having a weird problem with Kubuntu over the last week or so. When I load the OS and get to the login panel, I log in fine with the correct u/p combination, but then the screen blanks out for a second and goes back to the login panel; the splash screen that normally indicates the system is loading doesn't show up. Every time I try to log in, the screen just blanks and takes me back to the log in panel. It's driving me mad.
When I log in at the command level, it logs me in properly; but I don't know how to load the GUI from the command line, or if the same problem would occur if I did try to load from the command line. Any suggestions?
Laga - Feb 21, 2007 4:19:35 pm PST #653 of 25496
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Kristin, is there a power strip you can turn off?
Gudanov - Feb 21, 2007 4:38:06 pm PST #654 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
You might try "startx" from the command line. I think Xorg isn't starting up for some reason.