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Offering to do it isn't a crime. :P There is a theory that Adobe, Autodesk and for that matter Microsoft tolerate and even encourage a certain level of piracy so that budding professionals use their tools while they're learning and therefore ask for those tools when they go out and get jobs.

I'm going to offer a different opinion: Adobe software pisses me off. It costs a lot of money, is generally obnoxious to support, has terrible interfaces, tends not to offer much value for your regular upgrade dollar, and for that matter, Adobe has foisted some really awful software off on just...

Bozo: It's very possible to run OSX on a standard PC. I've had it running at different times. You just need to find a proper, cracked installation ISO. I haven't seen one yet for the new Leopard release, but I'm sure it's out there. You're best off with an Intel chipset and an Intel CPU (945 or...

The only places I even turn lights on are the bathroom, kitchen and the one beside my bed. I am of the opinion that natural illumination should come from large monitors.

It's not what remote desktop is designed for. RDP essentially exists as an analog for Mainframe/Terminal operations. It's made so that hordes of peons can connect on computers too stupid to play solitaire on their own can connect to a single data entry application, or something similar to that...

I distinctly recall reading in a published-by-Microsoft Server 2000 study guide that console access from Terminal Services was not possible.

I did.

They do it yet again.

Most likely, TCP/IP and SMB ("Client for Microsoft Networking"). The usual syntax is something like \\some.i.p.address\sharename or \\servername\sharename I'm assuming by digital TV, you mean cable box or Tivo or something. A lot of those boxes have ports that are on the unit but not enabled...

You can install all the server mmcs on lesser versions of Windows. There's a big package of them in the server resource kits.

I was unaware of that option, but it does appear to work. Hm. Wonder how long that's been there?

Can I just interject that some little shithead shot up my car with a BB gun a couple months back and I haven't had needed body work done to fix the HOLES in my car because I can't find a body shop that can give me a specific estimate of how long it will take to conduct the repair? Seriously. I...

If you mean by "current session", the desktop you left open on the console, no, there isn't. It's a different device to the RDP server. You can look at that device through Remote Assistance, but that requires interaction at the console so it's not a good option either. If you leave an RDP...

Here's something I've been kind of telling people about, TV related: Miro is a nifty little combination between a Video Player and a bittorrent client. It lets you set "subscriptions" to TV shows that available from sites like Google Video or Revver.com and through Torrents. Torrent Episode...

Run your own mail server and handle things the way you want to handle them. :)

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POP3 is a broken and stupid protocol that should never be bothered with if IMAP is an option. Here's some stuff about setting up IMAP with Gmail. And no, google's tools all seem to be segregated into distinct elements, with no central point for wrapping up all your data.

There's some articles about doing that on lifehacker.com, actually. gmail is an IMAP server, so as I recall, what you end up doing, if you want to use Tbird in addition to Gmail, is basically forwarding yourself a bunch of messages. Also, GMAIL IS AN IMAP SERVER, which means you can use its...

Real Time with Bill Maher is usually deeply entertaining. It can depend greatly on his guests, but the show is almost always fun to watch. I particularly love it when the "entertainment" guest is informed enough to participate on the same level as the other guests on the show. My favorite...

I don't know how to ride a bike, but when I was little, I was riding on the back of my brother's bike when he wiped out on a road that was freshly tarred and graveled. He bounced off the bike and into a power pole and in fact knocked himself out. I skidded across hot tar and gravel for about...

Burn in is a really horrible problem with Plasma. All it takes is 10 or 15 minutes where even a part of the screen is static to get something that's never going to go away. I don't think I'd want to risk the possibility that the machine is NEVER going to lock up and that you're ALWAYS going to...

What that says to me is that IBM and Intel are probably undervalued in the current market.

I'm entirely inclined to just use the pre-cracked OEM Dell copies of Vista that are floating around right now, rather than put up with the Activation nonsense. I *really did* have a guy tell me he was going to sue because his copy of Vista Home Premium deactivated. He had a sticker on his PC and...

I always love seeing operations centers set up like that. Giant screens are the new blinkenlights.

Uh, also, the electronics industry is moving away from that technology. From what I've read, 2008 will probably be the last year that plasma screens are widely available.

Plasmas have more vibrant displays, but actually display a smaller gamut of color, limited lifespan and also have issues with burn-in. I don't think it would be a very good idea to use a Plasma screen as a PC display.

Generally, HDTVs don't look that good for primary displays. They're spectacular for gaming an multimedia, but not for 'real' computing applications. I have a PC hooked up to a 720P DLP set and another to a 1080P LCD, and while I'm glad to have them, my forum-ing and reading is done on actual...

I sell PCs to home users, and I have students I have to support. And I do know of at least one person affected by this issue.

Bullshit. You have customers calling and crying that their Windows install doesn't work, or worse, threatening lawsuits because you CLEARLY sold them an illegal copy of Windows, and that's not a big deal? What color is the sky in your world, ddrueding?

Not so much. You can do a repair install, or make the hardware switch halfway through an upgrade install, and it'll be OK.

All the time. You can pretty freely switch Intel and nVidia-based motherboards.

Also, Blackadder has the saddest series end of any comedy series ever.

I have two Q6600s sitting right here. :D

I thought this was a pretty good article.

Actually, hell is a Vista Premium laptop with 384MB RAM, a 4200rpm hard disk, Norton Internet Security Suite, WordPerfect and all of its font packages and Webroot Spysweeper installed. I worked on one last week where it took fully 45 minutes to install all 500MB of "drivers" that came with...

I just finished watching the Prisoner a few weeks ago. I had seen a couple episodes, but never the whole thing. I have to say that the last episode was disappointing.

I think they're just looking at the fact that HP is bigger right now, Apple earns vastly more on a per unit basis, and the edicts are coming down from on high for their engineers to find ways to save money. I do not think they're giving consideration to the long term in the slightest.

A couple models, yes. It's not a good fit, really, but I think Dell has given up on quality in the name of market share.

You might get more utility out of a BartPE USB boot drive or a Linux boot drive.

Remember that one of the things that makes a C2Q CPU so appealing is the sickening capacity to overclock. FBDIMMs cost pretty much double what DDR2 does and tops out with support for a 667MHz FSB. Also, Xeon has never been what you'd call an overclock-friendly CPU; anyone who makes a "server"...

AnyDVD does several things that make it worth the cash (or the effort to continuously pirate, whichever): They've been very good about updating to handle those broken DVDs and for that matter CDs, and also to handle HD Disc content keys, and also AnyDVD strips out HDCP requirements, which makes...

OK. What formats? Plain text? MS Word? PDF? Punch cards?

Uh, also, Ubuntu 7.10 is available now for people who like that sort of thing.

I generally find it easier to rip DVDs under Windows and/or WINE. ARCCOS copy protection is a stopping point for a lot of new releases (ARCCOS is also updated continuously, so something that can handle the ARCCOS of two years ago, like Ripit4Me isn't going to do much good vs. the ARCCOS of last...

I've seen a rather steep decline in the overall quality of Dell-badged hardware within the last year or so. Lots of blown power supplies and bad motherboards. It's not that hard to make a quality desktop or low end server, and they aren't doing it. My feeling is that Dell is probably cutting...

Too bad those CPUs are on a Dell.

Actually, the article says that it happens under a variety of circumstances, but most easily while Kapersky products are running. They're blaming a kernel memory leak. Some guy in the comments suggests it's a leak in Explorer and not the kernel, but frankly that's just as bad.

I considered the Q when I bought my 6800, but there were a couple down sides to that phone. One is the lack of integrated 802.11 - a feature I really appreciate, and the other is the compromise between the screen size and the keyboard. As much as I don't like iPods, the one positive thing to...

Why do you need audio in the restroom? A few easy answers: Get a boombox with detachable speakers that use real speaker wire. Run the speakers to strategic places in the ceiling. Get a pair of 900MHz wireless speakers. Put them in the ceiling. Get a pair of 802.11 speakers. Put them in the...