What's the cheapest way to isolate my own apartment from the wireless
LAN radiation of my neighborhood?
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Any news about this one? :)
All these tools are just doing one thing: paint a screen. So
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I am very happy with wired phones.
I think wired phones uses less energy, right? Inconvinient Truth?
Also, the government could LOG EVERYTHING. Isn't it great? I like it
actually. :)
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
I am very happy with wired phones.
I think wired phones uses less energy, right? Inconvinient Truth?
Also, the government could LOG EVERYTHING. Isn't it great? I like it
actually. :)
I don't conduct military operations, so I really don't need wireless
stuff, except
I don't conduct military operations, so I really don't need wireless
stuff, except maybe the GPS system.
BUT GPS doesn't have to use wireless broadcasts right?
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
I don't conduct military operations, so I really don't need wireless
stuff, except maybe the GPS system.
BUT GPS doesn't have to use wireless broadcasts right?
Wireless stuff is possibly the biggest threat to USA. LOL...
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Paint all of the walls with radio-blocking paint, too:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2186428/wireless-blocking-paint
The paint used by the F117s are not yet available to civilians, right?
Note that I am *NOT* stopping others from eavedropping, but do *NOT* use
wirelss stuff for the sake
I hereby nominate this thread for a Michael Madigan [OT] Waste of
electrons award.
Then let's go back to the technology of shielding our homes from
un-necessary radiation.
Sorry for wondering into the domain of blondes' politics and militarism.
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I guess you could complain to the FCC. Don't be surprised if they tell you
that your neighbors are in compliance with regulations - a certain amount is
allowed under the law, it is unlikely that they exceed the regs.
Have US doctors ever communicated with FCC? Radiation could be deadly,
like
Man-wai Chang wrote:
... not anyone's life or death as well not like those US students
that shot their own classmates... :)
IN the end, I hate seeing people dying before me.
Not just people, life ... :)
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I guess you could complain to the FCC. Don't be surprised if they tell you
that your neighbors are in compliance with regulations - a certain amount is
allowed under the law, it is unlikely that they exceed the regs.
I remembered some PC manufacturers (it's IBM I think) that stop using
... not anyone's life or death as well not like those US students
that shot their own classmates... :)
IN the end, I hate seeing people dying before me.
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Fr嶮廨ic Steczycki wrote:
Hi,
I don't know if that one answers to your question (I think it doesn't, but
it's an opportunity for me to advertize the community... that is) but did you
hear about Guineu?
http://guineu.foxpert.com
It's vapor until there is/was a virtual machine coming out of
Don't know, as I said IANAL (I am not a lawyer).
Then is the regulations enforced? Will those regulations be transformed
into laws? I heard that motherboards has a emission requirement, at
least while I was learning about computers in my old days so what
happened to those requirements?
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Then let's go back to the technology of shielding our homes from
un-necessary radiation.
Sorry for wondering into the domain of blondes' politics and militarism.
DO NOT worry, I am NOT interested in your guns or girls. So spare this
thread, please
Then let's go back to the technology of shielding our homes from
un-necessary radiation.
Sorry for wondering into the domain of blondes' politics and militarism.
DO NOT worry, I am NOT interested in your guns or girls. So spare this
thread, please. :)
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Paper decreases/stops wifi. But for a best result I'd say a wire fence
connected to the earth.
Must the distance between each wire in the cage be smaller than the
wavelength of the incoming wave? If that's the case, it's not a mesh
cage, but a big sheet of metal :)
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This Guineu project, if it succeeds, could be huge, imo, and allow folks
to stay in VFP a lot longer. Others thoughts on this project?
I second that. A Foxpro VM could possibly kill the jobs Java programmers. :)
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Paul Newton wrote:
Man-wai Chang wrote:
Paper decreases/stops wifi. But for a best result I'd say a wire fence
connected to the earth.
Must the distance between each wire in the cage be smaller than the
wavelength of the incoming wave? If that's the case, it's not a mesh
cage
Stephen Russell wrote:
Are you talking about silverlight?
Dabo?? Hm... it's not Foxpro language.. :)
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Adam Buckland wrote:
Yes the FCC were told to take two aspirin and call back if it didn't
improve over the weekend.
So they authorized these manufacturers to spread deadly stuff everywhere...
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Man-wai: split personalities? Seems like you're having a conversation
amongst yourselves, replying several times to your own posts?;-)
Your Grave, sorry, Grace. Go back to the technology.
Must GPS be based on satellites?
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
What's the cheapest way to isolate my own apartment from the wireless
LAN radiation of my neighborhood?
Thanks to all replies.
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Model making. :)
http://www.dchome.net/viewthread.php?tid=424584
http://model.chingb.com/ModelGuest10.aspx
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Rather than hitting the 'N' key all the time, just hold down the shift key
and click no, in effect only copying those files that do not exist in the
destination folder.
Never knew about this one... thx:)
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sale now for $399. The Eee PC is made by Asus, a Taiwanese
manufacturer most known for making motherboards and laptops, and joins
the One Laptop Per Child project and Intel's Classmate PC in targeting
kids as its primary audience.
Solid-state HDD - very cool. Runs Linux. Comes with Firefox
to manage, not theirs to manage on my behalf. If I turn off automatic
updates, do not offer to correct that situatin and try to trick me into
allowing automatice upgrades that may interfere with how my machinery is set
up. Hands off pal, it is mine, not yours, ever.
To counter micro$oft's
Man-wai Chang wrote:
to manage, not theirs to manage on my behalf. If I turn off automatic
updates, do not offer to correct that situatin and try to trick me into
allowing automatice upgrades that may interfere with how my machinery is set
up. Hands off pal, it is mine, not yours, ever
mrgmhale wrote:
Technically speaking, I never break M$ rules. They break my agreements! If
they do not agree with that claim they can spend their precious legal fees
on trying to prove otherwise g... When I open a M$ shrink wrap agreement
From your perspectives, Micro$oft is trying to
From your perspectives, Micro$oft is trying to colonize your PC. :)
BUT ONE THING: you now have the choice not to use Micro$oft, when most
users buy it for DirectX games...
You are not supposed to buy it and then forcing Micro$oft to listen to
you. Don't take the bait in the first place. :)
Alan Bourke wrote:
Man-wai Chang wrote:
I wonder whether Micro$oft found in a loophole in the Constitution
Yes, many large corporations do, it's called having absolutely scads of
cash and major leverage in Washington.
If the constitution was designed to protect something, it should
What's the name for the tool/software/program that sets a USB flash
drive to behave like either a 1.44M floppy diskette or a hard disk?
Right now I am using a HP Drive Key Boot Utility.
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Right now I am using a HP Drive Key Boot Utility.
Under Window$, what's the method to do it if not via that HP tool?
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Right now I am using a HP Drive Key Boot Utility.
Under Window$, what's the method to do it if not via that HP tool?
I asked because I worries that tool would not work in Vi$ta and/or its
successor OS... :)
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Man-wai Chang wrote:
Right now I am using a HP Drive Key Boot Utility.
Under Window$, what's the method to do it if not via that HP tool?
I asked because I worries that tool would not work in Vi$ta and/or its
successor OS... :)
BTW, how could I do that under Linux
Legally speaking, you broke Micro$oft's license agreement right?
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
People will realize there is an alternative to Windows and they might like
it better, Vota said.
Would that fear forces Micro$oft to produce 64-bit drivers for older
hardware devices? :)
Because Linux x64 still provides 64-bit drivers for old hardware
Install FireFox instead ;)
I know. But still wondering about the possibility... ^.^
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I meant the Windows 3.1 version Would it work in WinXP, notably the
printing part?
All my diskettes are oxidized by now... :)
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But then, is/was Micro$oft honest when designing the license agreement?
How many strings are introduced by inserting ambiguities?
And were those illegal copies of Window$ deliberately released into the
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
But then, is/was Micro$oft honest when designing the license agreement?
How many strings are introduced by inserting ambiguities?
And were those illegal copies of Window$ deliberately released into the
water?
Remember the Opium War decades ago between foreign nations
Man-wai Chang wrote:
Man-wai Chang wrote:
But then, is/was Micro$oft honest when designing the license agreement?
How many strings are introduced by inserting ambiguities?
And were those illegal copies of Window$ deliberately released into the
water?
Remember the Opium War decades ago
Adam Buckland wrote:
It's a few years old now but my system is:
MSI K80-NEO, AMD 64 3200, 2GB RAM, 2*160 GB SATA, Apple Mac Keyboard
Mouse, 64 Bit XP.
If what the technican told me was correct, my problem was called by the
Nvidia RAID of nForce 570 Ultra. My 2 Seagates are in RAID 0
People will realize there is an alternative to Windows and they might like
it better, Vota said.
Would that fear forces Micro$oft to produce 64-bit drivers for older
hardware devices? :)
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Adam Buckland wrote:
No it just has to be present on the hard disk, hence installing it twice but
only activating it once. Vista does not know that you are installing over an
un-activated copy and accepts that you are doing an upgrade.
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Adam Buckland wrote:
Not tried and no not at all it works OK on my AMD 64, in fact it worked on
AMD 64's before Intel had a 64 bit X86 on the market...
U using RAID?
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Adam Buckland wrote:
Mirroring..
Chipset? 64-bit Vi$ta?
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Anyone done it successfully? Is Vi$ta x64 for Intel motherboards only?
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Anyone done it successfully? Is Vi$ta x64 for Intel motherboards only?
BTW, the so called Vista-Ready, is it:
a. 32-bit
b. 64-bit
c. Both
d. None of the above
?
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2.6 will work with XP/Vista now as it had a fast processor patch (it
does have a distribution kit). Don't know about 2.5 but I guess you can
always try it.
I have FPW 2.5 working under XP... just wondering about its fate in
64-bit Vi$ta and beyond...
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Anyone done it successfully? Is Vi$ta x64 for Intel motherboards only?
The technician from Hong Kong's distributor for Asus said the problem
was caused by the RAID -.-
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I just talked to Micro$oft Hong Kong about them.
The guy in the phone said they not intended to be bought by hobbyists,
but real shops that sells PC hardware. The SB version must be sold with
a fully bootable PC. The items listed in the invoice must be a bootable PC.
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The guy in the phone said they not intended to be bought by hobbyists,
but real shops that sells PC hardware. The SB version must be sold with
a fully bootable PC. The items listed in the invoice must be a bootable PC.
Does an old 286 running DOS qualify?
It's qualified, but you need a real
Paul Hill wrote:
On 10/24/07, Man-wai Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just talked to Micro$oft Hong Kong about them.
The guy in the phone said they not intended to be bought by hobbyists,
but real shops that sells PC hardware. The SB version must be sold with
a fully bootable PC. The items
BTW, do you happen to know a open-sourced lawyers, aka, offering free
legal advices?
And does the US government has a department that offers free legal
advices to the poor?
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
The guy in the phone said they not intended to be bought by hobbyists,
but real shops that sells PC hardware. The SB version must be sold with
a fully bootable PC. The items listed in the invoice must be a bootable PC.
Does an old 286 running DOS qualify?
It's qualified
Man-wai Chang wrote:
David Smith wrote:
I have not read anywhere that it does, and as via MSDN you can download and
install it anywhere on the globe you'd think that if the key was
country-specific they'd either say so or ask you somewhere along the line
the nation it would be installed
Do they exist?
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Adam Buckland wrote:
Which translates to Don't walk on the grass
Mr. Ballmer's grasses? Or someone else higher?
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I have several attorneys I work with for my business and personal matters.
I like them all, but hate calling them unless really necessary. And when I
am with them socially I make certain to never, ever discuss legal matters
involving myself or my business lest I either get billed for the
mrgmhale wrote:
And each license should be stamped by local government. :)
And if you live in Nigeria the license key code is tattooed onto your arm
(part of the way the government tries to fight Nigerian 419 scammers g).
Yes, just kidding...
It makes sense for the government to protect
Gee...what's the point for the Americans to drive out the Brits in the
war for independence?? :)
Did the Americans forget about something about their core values?
Reporting MWC, Hong Kong. :)
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Allen wrote:
so they can have more lawyers :)
Aka, upper-class nobles and royalties? ha.. Americans should sing God
Saves the Queen from now on. :)
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Allen wrote:
so they can have more lawyers :)
Aka, upper-class nobles and royalties? ha.. Americans should sing God
Saves the Queen from now on. :)
The blue-eye genes in America came from Britain anyway...
object-oriented, inheritance.
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Allen wrote:
so they can have more lawyers :)
I see.. it's a flick show to kill the real patriots. How dirty... LOL...
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Allen wrote:
so they can have more lawyers :)
I see.. it's a flick show to kill the real patriots. How dirty... LOL...
aka Star Wars -- Revenge of the Sith. Gee... LOL...
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Man-wai Chang wrote:
Allen wrote:
so they can have more lawyers :)
I see.. it's a flick show to kill the real patriots. How dirty... LOL...
aka Star Wars -- Revenge of the Sith. Gee... LOL...
A bit like what happened to dBase language... ??
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MB Software Solutions wrote:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=117tag=nl.e101
Two faces of the same coin :)
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
MB Software Solutions wrote:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=117tag=nl.e101
Two faces of the same coin :)
... war for independence again... LOL...
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Man-wai Chang wrote:
Man-wai Chang wrote:
Allen wrote:
so they can have more lawyers :)
I see.. it's a flick show to kill the real patriots. How dirty... LOL...
aka Star Wars -- Revenge of the Sith. Gee... LOL...
A bit like what happened to dBase language
Anyone bought, installed and activated it? Any special step?
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If it's a new drive just run the install but DO NOT try and register it
yet. Reboot and start up Vista. Then reinsert the DVD and rerun the
upgrade, this will upgrade your copy of Vista to Vista and allow you
legally to register it without having an old messy OS still on it.
I am going the
Now all I need to do is to activate this re-install, which should fail
according to M$
Yes. it failed.
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Now all I need to do is to activate this re-install, which should fail
according to M$
Yes. it failed.
Actually I went the route of telephone activation. After typing the long
serial numbers, the phone system asked me whether I was installing the
XP into:
1
Does it take account of country?
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mrgmhale wrote:
Ballmer will be *so* pissed at you.
Better than being pissed on by Ballmer (again)...
Is there to roll back that session? ;)
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Actually I went the route of telephone activation. After typing the long
serial numbers, the phone system asked me whether I was installing the
XP into:
1. the same PC
2. a different/new PC
If it's the Retail version, how could it differ? Will this question be
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license in Micro$oft's published articles?
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I can't quite remember, does it have a distribution kit?
Could the distributed EXE work in XP and Vi$ta now?
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Ballmer will be *so* pissed at you.
Better than being pissed on by Ballmer (again)...
What did these Fortune 500 companies promise Micro$oft? Why have they
choose to increase the net worth of Micro$oft?
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David Smith wrote:
I have not read anywhere that it does, and as via MSDN you can download and
install it anywhere on the globe you'd think that if the key was
country-specific they'd either say so or ask you somewhere along the line
the nation it would be installed in.
I think Micro$oft
I'm looking for a reliable, reasonably priced service (willing to pay a
little bit more) with a professional, easy to use interface.
http://www.dyndns.org
yahoo small business
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Ballmer will be *so* pissed at you.
Better than being pissed on by Ballmer (again)...
What did these Fortune 500 companies promise Micro$oft? Why have they
choose to increase the net worth of Micro$oft?
Is Mr. Ballmer or someone in Micro$oft, their god/goddess
But what happens if you upgrade the PC? If you replace the graphics
card is that OK? What about the motherboard? It's still the same PC
:-)
Not applicable to my case. The IBM Thinkcentre A50 8090 motherboard
really died...
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John Harvey wrote:
Yes. You can just buy a case and it will qualify, or so I've been told by my
supplier.
I have just phoned Micro$oft Hong Kong again. You need a bootable PC to
be qualified for an OEM Vi$ta so your case is not following the rules.
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Allen wrote:
making linux sound good :) that never dies with a pc (as long as you made a
os disk that is)
I have yet to hear anything from Hong Kong Government on education and
open-sourced software.
On the other hand, maybe I should persuade my sister to let her daughter
use Linux first. If
On the other hand, maybe I should persuade my sister to let her daughter
use Linux first. If she couldn't do her homework with it, then I buy a
Vi$ta.
But... dam it... DirectX games? :)
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There are a series of triggering rules that it uses to decide if you've
changed too much.
Yes. When you make significant changes to the old PC, it's no longer the
PC that qualified for the original OEM license.
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Do USB keyboard and mouse work during the installation of Windows 2000 Pro?
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Do USB keyboard and mouse work during the installation of Windows 2000 Pro?
They work ... sorry.
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They can say whatever they want. If you have the legal firepower to
challenge them, be my guest.
So were there court cases related to the OEM license? What are their
results?
After all these conversation, OEM license is just like renting a
software ... but the rent is paid once only.
In Man-wai's case I think it could be worth going the new
motherboard way as long as the IBM is a standard case and
will take his preferred motherboard. Another alternative
Now that I had bought my motherboard and built a new PC, could I just
buy a OEM WinXP separately from shops? I noticed
Could it be dome or not? I don't have a Home Basic version to try it out
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Could it be dome or not? I don't have a Home Basic version to try it out
Officially no. Unofficially yes.
http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/13/enable-vista-aero-in-windows-vista-home-basic/
But have you ever tried it? Some said the reg. hack did not work...
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OK, I copied the I386 folder off the recovery partition of that dead IBM
ThinkCentre A50, and successfully installed the WinXP OEM into the new
PC from it.
Now all I need to do is to activate this re-install, which should fail
according to M$
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Malcolm Greene wrote:
[which is more painful] ... anything to do with Vista.
Strongly agree.
The re-assembled PC is for the kids of my sister. So Vi$ta is ok. No
advanced stuff is needed. Just plain OpenOffice and some MAME32 games. :)
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All our customers now have locked down workstations that prevent the
installation of ActiveX controls, updating key portions of the registry,
and distributing files to any of the Windows system folders (including
Program Files\Common Files).
What about Javascript or maybe AJAX?
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Man-wai Chang wrote:
Malcolm Greene wrote:
[which is more painful] ... anything to do with Vista.
Strongly agree.
The re-assembled PC is for the kids of my sister. So Vi$ta is ok. No
advanced stuff is needed. Just plain OpenOffice and some MAME32 games. :)
But out of curiosity
We frequently encounter:
1. Flash disabled
2. Older versions of Acrobat (going back to 4)
3. Extremely restricted access to websites our customers can visit
What about the Java VM? Is it launched as an ActiveX control?
I am not that familiar with the internals of the browsers.
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But out of curiosity, is that Office 2007 Home Student Edition meant
for 3 home users? I am thinking to buy it given its lower price... Of
course, I would only use it at home.
Have you tried Open Office? It's looking quite good.
For me, OpenOffice is fine. But it seems that most Hong Kong
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