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Jobs doesn't believe in IPv6. He's planning to come out with Apple's own version, iPee v293

Now you're talking dirty, Lunar.

The list of supported OSes stops with XP. Does it work with Win 7?

It must at least be really cute.

Yer gettin old, fella.

Ouch!

The quality is evident! I also liked the "stealership" part - very apt :razz:

Thank you, kind Sir.

Also, can someone tell me, are the keys provided collectively for all the variants of a sw, or for each variant? In other words, if one gets two keys for Win 7, is it 2 keys for Win 7 Home Premium, 2 for Win 7 Pro, 2 for Win 7 Enterprise, etc., or two keys total for all variants of Win 7...

I know the feeling. At one job I had in the very early '90s, I was in charge of IT security, and used to get a list of terminations (in advance) every couple of days. After a few months, I would puke at the thought of this and quit my job in the middle of a major recession in S. CA, vowing never...

Depressing indeed. I confess I haven't yet read your link (it's a ginormous amount of material), but I have bookmarked it and will read it because the topic (energy) is close to my heart and worries me. Despite the writing on the wall, we seem to be rushing headlong pretty brazenly into a future...

Thanks all, for the patience and info. i think I will risk ordering one. It takes 4 weeks here! The only reseller that even knew what Technet was said he'd sold only one in all of 2010 till now, and that it is a special order item. Hopefully I will have it in my hands end Nov / early Dec. I...

This was true for MSDN (when I checked several years ago), which is why I never subscribed to that. The attraction with Technet is that it *is* forever. Can somebody who has it please read the EULA and tell me if BingBangBop is right?

Sir Howell, Not true, according to this. Please read from the sub-heading titled "It's forever". If this wasn't the case, I wouldn't bother. What I need is Win XP Pro, Win 7 and Office 2010.

I'm going to order a Technet Standard subscription (my first). What should I do as soon as I get it? Go to MS's website and ask for as many keys as is allowed for each sw I'm likely to use? I guess the download can happen anytime during the period of the sub. Or can I do it after that as well...

Mr. Cryptic strikes again.

Then you're at serious risk. At least use IE8 if you must use IE. MS themselves have warned, multiple times, not to use IE that is a lower version.

Thanks. I'm partly correct, though: Some TechNet Standard License Keys Drop from 10 to 2; Pro Drops from 10 to 5 Still should be enough for me.

On the Technet sub, I believe they dropped the keys to 2 from 10. I was thinking of getting one.

You actually wear clothes? I thought you were clad in armor...:D

My single experience with Gigabyte was bad. They returned the dodgy video card with a "works fine, no work necessary". True one swallow does not a summer make, but the experience certainly didn't inspire confidence...

Thanks; that was good reading!

Am seriously looking at using some kind of sandbox program for going online. Sandboxie?

I felt giddy just watching the damn video. I'm with Coug on this one.

Thanks all. I'm also going to talk to the IT guys at work to see if I can web VPN into our U.S. proxy server and activate from there.

Thanks Howell & DD. I can't get to it this week, perhaps the next. The big decision is whether to break the seal on the packaging or not. There is the possibility that they will refuse to activate if they cannot authenticate that the IP address is from the U.S. & Canada, so that may rule out...

On Aug 21, in the Win 7 thread, I wrote: "What's this I just found out about OEM versions not for end-users / hobbyists? If you don't use the pre-installation kit, don't put it on a brand new PC, and don't sell the PC to an unknown person, you're in violation of the license terms. I ordered...

Congrats, SD, happy for you!

With Flashblock on, I see nothing but a gazillion circles with an f in them. Is each f a gazillion dollars worth?

In Windows, since the scroll wheel became clickable. This is native in Windows, don't need no special drivers to be installed. This is the part of a mouse I wear out first; either the scroll wheel doesn't click anymore, or will bounce like a bad shock absorber, resulting in multiple clicks.

The mouse scroll wheel that doubles as a button has always done that for me. :scratch:

My data - stuff I really need to care about (legal, finance, etc.) is 3.4 GB. Other stuff I'd like to have is 6.5 GB. Downloads are 28 GB. All this is spread out on 3 drives (1 GB + 2 x 320 GB), replicated on to another drive out of the 3, so if a drive dies, I'm not SOL.

Happy Birthday, David!

Many traffic lights in the U.S. were switched to LEDs for obvious reasons. I've seen too many where several LEDs in the cluster would die, resulting in the dead pixel effect. If LEDs have such long lives, why does this happen?

Newegg has always shipeed drives with bad packaging. These RMA problems seem more recent. Probably due to the scale / size they've grown to. It takes extra effort to sustain quality processes as the business grows.

Looks like you're a master at working with nano-scale clearances, Coug!

I have the compatibility pack installed on my home PC. Also had it on my work laptop before it got upgraded to Win 7 Pro / Office 2007. Never experienced problems with either.

We put a man on the moon 40 years ago, but can't build a phone that works. Sigh.

Perhaps the built-in wi-fi is broken?

Don't they know strong winds will blow the clouds away? :)

Coming back to Win 7. What's this shit I just found out about OEM versions not for end-users / hobbyists? If you don't use the pre-installation kit, don't put it on a brand new PC, and don't sell the PC to an unknown person, you're in violation of the license terms. I ordered OEM Win 7 Pro...

How does it compare to Office 2007? Better? Worse? The same?

Sometimes too much of a good thing is bad. If your bedroom is dead silent, you'll never be able to sleep anywhere else - at a friend's place or a hotel when traveling. Moderation in every aspect of life is key!

Thanks for the reminder, Coug. I'm guilty, as charged. I'm not as diligent as I should be.

Couldn't agree more with the carpet / curtain suggestions. Every little bit of fabric will help, of course. I learned this the hard way when I moved back to India. Everything is hard - cement plastered brick walls, cement plastered concrete ceilings, hard tile floors. This is everywhere, both...

Looks real good - especially the Explorer and Copy improvements. I'll try it when I move to Win 7 - circa October.

Congrats, Merc! Keep 'em coming!

Done. Dell 2209wa. 22", e-IPS, 83% color gamut, 1680 x 1050 (16:10), $363 delivered. Decided against the wide-gamut types. I'm still a newbie (just out of the crawling stage, barely standing with support) in the Photoshop stuff, and didn't want to overload my wee brain with too many...

To an extreme closeup of an eye!