Re: [H] Need Advice: My PC Build '07

[Brian Weeden]

Anandtech just updated their PC Builder Guide:

http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/guide-200703.ars

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Re: [H] Is There A Hardware Solution To The Problem Of Windows Piracy?

[FORC5]

piracy is a farce create by BG who knows how to.
Want to stop piracy, allow ppl to own what they buy and install it as many time 
as they want. problem over. :-!

MS gets most of their $$$ from the big manufacturers anyway. JMO
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At 02:46 PM 3/29/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poked the stick with:

>This is for conversation, only. We know that Microsoft is far too greedy for 
>their own good. I believe my ideas would pour more money into Microsoft than 
>hackable Windows being sold pours in.
>
>Can there be a hardware solution? Not with firmware that can be flashed such 
>as the BIOS on motherboards.
>
>What about a team effort with the CPU manufacturers and Microsoft to build the 
>authority to run Windows into the CPU? Naturally this would have to start with 
>a newer version of Windows in the future. Vista has already been hacked.
>
>Microsoft would have to give a lot on this. First of all Microsoft would not 
>be able to offer different versions of the operating system. Upgrades would be 
>impossible if Windows was linked to the CPU. There could be only one version, 
>the best!
>
>Microsoft would have to trash their OEM policy. If Windows was linked to the 
>CPU then Windows could be carried forward as far as the CPU could be carried 
>forward. This would slow down rapid advances in technology that require new 
>computers built around new CPU's. This would stimulate an industry that 
>specialized in rebuilding computers around older CPU's that authorized that 
>version of Windows to run. The trade off would be that in order to move up to 
>a newer operating system, one would have to buy a new computer with a new CPU.
>
>Does anyone care to comment on these ideas? If any agree with me that my ideas 
>are workable, they wouild be practically admitting that the largest problem 
>with operating system piracy is allowed by Microsoft. Microsoft refuses to use 
>a hardware solution that can not be flashed. Have you ever heard of altering 
>or flashing a CPU?
>
>Chuck 

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RE: [H] Is There A Hardware Solution To The Problem Of Windows Piracy?

[Hayes Elkins]

It's called windows embedded...



From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],The Hardware List 


To: "The Hardware List" 
Subject: [H] Is There A Hardware Solution To The Problem Of Windows Piracy?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:46:02 -0400


This is for conversation, only. We know that Microsoft is far too greedy 
for their own good. I believe my ideas would pour more money into Microsoft 
than hackable Windows being sold pours in.


Can there be a hardware solution? Not with firmware that can be flashed 
such as the BIOS on motherboards.


What about a team effort with the CPU manufacturers and Microsoft to build 
the authority to run Windows into the CPU? Naturally this would have to 
start with a newer version of Windows in the future. Vista has already been 
hacked.


Microsoft would have to give a lot on this. First of all Microsoft would 
not be able to offer different versions of the operating system. Upgrades 
would be impossible if Windows was linked to the CPU. There could be only 
one version, the best!


Microsoft would have to trash their OEM policy. If Windows was linked to 
the CPU then Windows could be carried forward as far as the CPU could be 
carried forward. This would slow down rapid advances in technology that 
require new computers built around new CPU's. This would stimulate an 
industry that specialized in rebuilding computers around older CPU's that 
authorized that version of Windows to run. The trade off would be that in 
order to move up to a newer operating system, one would have to buy a new 
computer with a new CPU.


Does anyone care to comment on these ideas? If any agree with me that my 
ideas are workable, they wouild be practically admitting that the largest 
problem with operating system piracy is allowed by Microsoft. Microsoft 
refuses to use a hardware solution that can not be flashed. Have you ever 
heard of altering or flashing a CPU?


Chuck



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Re: [H] -LO- Intel Preps Six Penyrn CPUs For 2007, Nehalem CPUs For 2008

[Jin-Wei Tioh]

At 06:33 PM 3/28/2007, you wrote:
Intel Preps Six Penyrn CPUs 
For 2007, Nehalem CPUs For 2008



Mike


Way to knock off AMD/ATi / DAMMiT ;)

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[H] Is There A Hardware Solution To The Problem Of Windows Piracy?

[chuck]

This is for conversation, only. We know that Microsoft is far too greedy for 
their own good. I believe my ideas would pour more money into Microsoft than 
hackable Windows being sold pours in.


Can there be a hardware solution? Not with firmware that can be flashed such 
as the BIOS on motherboards.


What about a team effort with the CPU manufacturers and Microsoft to build 
the authority to run Windows into the CPU? Naturally this would have to 
start with a newer version of Windows in the future. Vista has already been 
hacked.


Microsoft would have to give a lot on this. First of all Microsoft would not 
be able to offer different versions of the operating system. Upgrades would 
be impossible if Windows was linked to the CPU. There could be only one 
version, the best!


Microsoft would have to trash their OEM policy. If Windows was linked to the 
CPU then Windows could be carried forward as far as the CPU could be carried 
forward. This would slow down rapid advances in technology that require new 
computers built around new CPU's. This would stimulate an industry that 
specialized in rebuilding computers around older CPU's that authorized that 
version of Windows to run. The trade off would be that in order to move up 
to a newer operating system, one would have to buy a new computer with a new 
CPU.


Does anyone care to comment on these ideas? If any agree with me that my 
ideas are workable, they wouild be practically admitting that the largest 
problem with operating system piracy is allowed by Microsoft. Microsoft 
refuses to use a hardware solution that can not be flashed. Have you ever 
heard of altering or flashing a CPU?


Chuck 

[H] Fwd: really-bad-wiring-jobs

[G.Waleed Kavalec]

I think I worked a couple of these places

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Re: [H] -LO- 60 mile WIFI?

[Thane Sherrington]

At 10:24 AM 29/03/2007, Hayes Elkins wrote:

Canada :)


Heh heh.  I guess with the fall of the Soviet block we would end up 
being second world.  Along with a lot of Europe.  :)


T 

Re: [H] -LO- 60 mile WIFI?

[chuck]

- Original Message - 
From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "The Hardware List" 
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [H] -LO- 60 mile WIFI?




Gee, I wonder what that will do for security ???  I guess I won't be 
buying that 7db antenna for my Linksys after all. ;-)




Is anything being developed that will be affordable to the many who live in 
rural areas of the US? Around Southwest Georgia (which Albany is the hub of) 
there are only two games in town, AT&T DSL and Mediacom Cable. Satellite is 
far too expensive and it seems that Verizon etc. have not set up wireless 
Internet service as of yet.


My question may sound elementary if I was referring to what is available 
right now, but I am not. I concede that nothing economical is available 
right now. I live close to the Southeast city limits line of Albany, GA and 
DSL is still not available in my area. People a mile South of me who live 
South of the city limits have DSL. They sure pick and choose! That area is 
far more sparsely populated and economically not as good a market as my 
area, yet they have DSL. If my memory serves me correctly, this is my 5th 
year with cable Internet. With gaps that wide in our area, there is no hope 
for either DSL or cable Internet for decades.


In the 50's and beyond, television and radio stations went to great lengths 
to penetrate the rural areas. They did not simply stay with low signals and 
thrive off of the metro areas, as the phone company is doing with its DSL 
service. They did not pick and choose and deny people living within city 
limits service for 5+ years a valuable service, such as the phone company is 
doing with DSL.


Are we relegated for decades to dial-up (those of us who can not afford 
$100.00 per month for Satellite Internet) or is the Calvary coming soon in 
some form of wireless and at a rate we can afford?


Chuck 

Re: [H] -LO- 60 mile WIFI?

[Hayes Elkins]

Canada :)



From: Wayne Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List 
To: The Hardware List 
Subject: Re: [H] -LO- 60 mile WIFI?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:33:18 -0400

At 14:09 03-28-2007, Thane Sherrington typed:
I'm guessing that regulations in non-third world countries will disallow 
this service.  So it'll be possible, but illegal.


Heck I'm still trying to figure out what the 2nd world countries are, never 
mind what are the 3rd world countries ? ;-)



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