http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/windows-10-microsoft-can-disable-pirated-software-unauthorised-hardware/
So it seems in an update to the user agreement Microsoft have sneaked in
allows them to remotely disable 'pirated software and unauthorised
hardware'.
Ok,
Today I have upgraded a family member's laptop from Windows 8.1 to
Windows 10. First off the updates on 8.1 are abysmal. The progress bar
jumps in huge leaps and there is no activity sometimes for up to 10
minutes between. You are left wondering if it has crashed. Eventually
once all the
On 02/08/15 19:24, Gareth France wrote:
Today I have upgraded a family member's laptop from Windows 8.1 to
Windows 10.
I had Windows7 on a removable drive in a caddy on my desktop. A couple
of days ago, I downloaded the Win 10 iso and did the free upgrade. the
install process is painfully
On 02/08/15 21:07, Barry Drake wrote:
I had Windows7 on a removable drive in a caddy on my desktop. A couple
of days ago, I downloaded the Win 10 iso and did the free upgrade. the
install process is painfully slow - but it worked. I was surprised MS
allowed me to do it! Windows 10 itself
On 22/01/15 13:52, Barry Drake wrote:
On 22/01/15 13:43, Dave Morley wrote:
Why would it mention Linux it is a report on the Windows 10 tech
review launch yesterday
Because it mentions Google Chrome and Android - both of which are
non-Windows operating systems (and both of which are Linux
Hi there I quite like this:
http://view.email.telegraph.co.uk/?j=fe8917787060077572m=fe991570766c027975ls=fe1d1d70766c0d7f7d1176l=ff051570746503s=fe1b15767067037a7c1c76jb=ff991674ju=fe2615747c610774741c71r=0
Pity it doesn't mention Linux though.
Regards,Barry.
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Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:
Hi there I quite like this:
On 22/01/15 13:43, Dave Morley wrote:
Why would it mention Linux it is a report on the Windows 10 tech
review launch yesterday
Because it mentions Google Chrome and Android - both of which are
non-Windows operating systems (and both of which are Linux based).
Regards,Barry.
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On 30/01/14 21:21, Barry Drake wrote:
Microsoft has been forced into supporting ODF and is clearly very
annoyed by this. A little humility and listening to ordinary folk
might have gone a long way.
Humility seems to be in short supply in Redmond; here is a quote about
ODF standards from a
There is also the point that trying to open an ODT file in MS Office
prompts a message suggesting that file may be corrupt or contain
unreadable elements. This cleverly plants the idea in the MS user's
mind
that ODF files are in some way dodgy or of dubious quality. This is
clever, but
On 30/01/14 21:04, Gibbs wrote:
The only files I've ever encountered which I couldn't handle were a
few Microsoft Publisher .pub
Pub files are a right pain in the neck. I had a colleague once who did
EVERYTHING in Publisher - and as we all know, the ONLY app that will
open pub files is
On 29/01/14 21:03, Barry Drake wrote:
Hi there ... A couple of weeks ago, I did a BIOS (UEFI) update as
requested after reporting a bug. The result was that an installation of
Windows 7 which I had on a removable drive died completely and I lost
it. How unstable Windows can be at times
On 30/01/14 11:20, alan c wrote:
Congratulations Barry! I am surprised you could hold out so long! I
said good bye to Windows years ago now and I actually think my health
improved! Yes, really.
Hi Alan .. One thing I have to use a Windows program for is to
visit my local e-library. I
On 30/01/14 16:07, Barry Drake wrote:
I've also been looking at the Open Documents thread. I think it was
the last time we met, at a government consultation about this issue.
Government grinds very slowly Schools are still teaching
Microsoft BUT with kids using Android tablets
On 30 Jan 2014 16:07, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:
Schools are still teaching Microsoft
This is changing. Slowly, but it's changing.
J
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Hi!
Y'know the comical thing is: when I read the subject line I had a sudden
vision of Microsoft finally giving in and going open-source! ;-)
On 30/01/14 16:15, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 30/01/14 16:07, Barry Drake wrote:
I've also been looking at the Open Documents thread. I think
Within schools I think it is important to remember that Microsoft has
been outdoing itself to bring educational establishments into migrating
to Office365, which when you have Office 2013 and Windows 7 and above is
great. It's just not so good with everything else (as the IMAP thread on
this
On 30/01/14 16:34, Bea Groves wrote:
Y'know the comical thing is: when I read the subject line I had a
sudden vision of Microsoft finally giving in and going open-source! ;-)
Nice one! Oh, but if they do that folk might find out that bits of
their code are tortuous and outdated
On 29/01/14 21:03, Barry Drake wrote:
When I looked at my very rare need for Windows, I found that I only
have occasional need to use Microsoft Word to open a docx file which
is heavily formatted and shows complete garbage in Libreoffice, and
for the very occasional publisher file I am sent.
On 30/01/14 21:04, Gibbs wrote:
I've noticed a lot more people using Libre Office, including big
companies like British Gas, which makes life easier for /everyone/.
Now that is interesting! Not so many years back, there was a deep
suspicion of open source programs. It is excellent complex
On 30 de enero de 2014 21:21:18 GMT, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com
wrote:
On 30/01/14 21:04, Gibbs wrote:
I've noticed a lot more people using Libre Office, including big
companies like British Gas, which makes life easier for /everyone/.
Now that is interesting! Not so many years
On 30 January 2014 16:34, Bea Groves beagro...@gmail.com wrote:
Y'know the comical thing is: when I read the subject line I had a sudden
vision of Microsoft finally giving in and going open-source! ;-)
Well, quite.
It should have said Windows-free at last! The missing hyphen changes
the
Hi there ... A couple of weeks ago, I did a BIOS (UEFI) update as
requested after reporting a bug. The result was that an installation of
Windows 7 which I had on a removable drive died completely and I lost
it. How unstable Windows can be at times like this!
When I looked at my very rare
On 29 January 2014 21:03, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:
Hi there ... A couple of weeks ago, I did a BIOS (UEFI) update as
requested after reporting a bug. The result was that an installation of
Windows 7 which I had on a removable drive died completely and I lost it.
How
My friend in Denmark has now got her Ubuntu. The main thing was, she had
to re-make the stick; she had made it wrongly in some respect, the first
time. It is not clear yet whether she managed the successful
installation without having disabled all the security features in the
BIOS or not. If
On 19/02/13 17:14, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
My friend in Denmark has now got her Ubuntu. The main thing was, she
had to re-make the stick; she had made it wrongly in some respect, the
first time. It is not clear yet whether she managed the successful
installation without having disabled all the
On 19/02/13 17:40, Gareth France wrote:
On 19/02/13 17:14, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
My friend in Denmark has now got her Ubuntu. The main thing was, she
had to re-make the stick; she had made it wrongly in some respect, the
first time. It is not clear yet whether she managed the successful
On 15/02/13 17:43, Alan Pope wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
He says: Windows 8 hardware uses the UEFI replacement for the
traditional BIOS, like Macs do. Some solid-state drive-equipped Windows
8 PCs boot so fast that you’d only have a 200 millisecond (that’s 0.2
seconds)
On 18/02/13 22:39, Alan Bell wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:43, Alan Pope wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
He says: Windows 8 hardware uses the UEFI replacement for the
traditional BIOS, like Macs do. Some solid-state drive-equipped Windows
8 PCs boot so fast that you’d only have a 200
My friend in Denmark has finally got into the BIOS on her Fujitsu
machine (the one on she installed Ubuntu to replace Windows 8 without
making the necessary alterations in the BIOS settings first), by hitting
F2 when she sees the Fujitsu logo. She has sent me a series of photos of
the screens.
I managed to get back in touch with my luckless friend in Denmark. She
said she was thinking of installing Windows 7 on the machine, which she
thought would give her access to BIOS. I replied as below. Comments and
corrections will be welcome, since after all I know very little.
Windows 7
On 15/02/13 13:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
I managed to get back in touch with my luckless friend in Denmark. She
said she was thinking of installing Windows 7 on the machine, which
she thought would give her access to BIOS. I replied as below.
Comments and corrections will be welcome, since
Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
12.10 using a USB stick. Given that F2 no longer works, and that the
Windows 8 machinery for getting into UEFI us no longer there, how in fact
would I
On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
12.10 using a USB stick. Given that F2 no longer works, and that the
Windows 8 machinery for getting into UEFI us
On 15/02/13 17:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
He says: Windows 8 hardware uses the UEFI replacement for the
traditional BIOS, like Macs do. Some solid-state drive-equipped Windows
8 PCs boot so fast that you’d only have a 200 millisecond (that’s 0.2
seconds) window of opportunity to press the key
On 15/02/13 17:40, Alan Pope wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
12.10 using a USB stick. Given that F2 no longer works, and that the
Windows
On 15/02/13 18:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:40, Alan Pope wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
12.10 using a USB stick. Given
On 14/02/13 17:57, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Hi,
An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical reach)
just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and tried to
install Ubuntu direct from the website, despite my detailed explanations
and warnings about this. She now has no
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Hi,
An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical
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On 14/02/13 17:57, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Hi,
An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical
reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and
tried to install Ubuntu direct
On 14/02/13 18:28, Dave Morley wrote:
On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical
reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and
tried to install Ubuntu direct from the website, despite my
detailed explanations and
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On 14/02/13 18:28, Dave Morley wrote:
On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical
reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it
and
On 14/02/13 19:29, Dave Morley wrote:
On 14/02/13 19:24, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On 14/02/13 18:28, Dave Morley wrote:
On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical
reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it
and tried to
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Sent: 08 June 2010 16:15
To: UK Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows XP CD
Hi James,
On 5 June 2010 16:29, James - SJ Computers ja...@sj-computers.com wrote:
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft don't have issues
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows XP CD
Hi Guys
I would caution that just because Microsoft (or any other software supplier
for that matter) says that a particular action constitutes a copyright
infringement does not necessarily make it legally true. For the time being
at least, the law
Hi James,
On 5 June 2010 16:29, James - SJ Computers ja...@sj-computers.com wrote:
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft don't have issues with the duplication of
their disks. It's the licences that matter. After all, Microsoft even offer
an option to download the ISO direct from them:
Hi Guys
I would caution that just because Microsoft (or any other software supplier for
that matter) says that a particular action constitutes a copyright infringement
does not necessarily make it legally true. For the time being at least, the law
of the land ultimately overrides a EULA.
Hi Guys
Haven't been on the list in ages! Hope everyone is well and enjoying
10.04 as much as I am :-)
I'm trying to fix a Computer of a friend of mine and it has Windows XP
Home edition on it. I only have a copy of Windows XP Professional.
I'm desperately in need of a XP Home Edition CD. Does
On 04/06/10 17:47, Michael G Fletcher wrote:
Hi Guys
Haven't been on the list in ages! Hope everyone is well and enjoying
10.04 as much as I am :-)
I'm trying to fix a Computer of a friend of mine and it has Windows XP
Home edition on it. I only have a copy of Windows XP Professional.
I'm
What make is his laptop?
Rob
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A Dell Inspiron 6000... trying to save his 38GB of music :-(
I got it to the point where it loads the Welcome screen, but when I
logon the user, it just automatically logs me out again. I can get
into the safe-mode with command prompt, and tried to install
On 04/06/10 19:11, Michael G Fletcher wrote:
What make is his laptop?
Rob
A Dell Inspiron 6000... trying to save his 38GB of music :-(
I got it to the point where it loads the Welcome screen, but when I
logon the user, it just automatically logs me out again. I can get
into the safe-mode
Michael, i have a burnt Windows XP Home CD due to the fact that mine
actually snapped
As long as you use the officially licensed product key, it is legal, i
can post it if you like as i no longer
have a need for it.
An OEM copy of XP will work, its just a case of having the drivers. If
it has a
Hi Daniel/all
On 4 June 2010 19:33, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
As long as you use the officially licensed product key, it is legal, i
can post it if you like as i no longer
have a need for it.
Ugh. Remember where you are. This is an Ubuntu list and it's not
really the
On 04/06/10 19:38, Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Daniel/all
On 4 June 2010 19:33, Daniel Casedanielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
As long as you use the officially licensed product key, it is legal, i
can post it if you like as i no longer
have a need for it.
Ugh. Remember where you are. This is an
Rob
In all honesty, you will stand a better chance of saving your friends 38 GiB
of music by using an Ubuntu Live CD (or similar) than you will with a Win XP
disc. Personally I would boot the machine from the live CD and then copy the
data off to a safe media. Then you can re-install Windows once
Hi Everyone
Please accept my apologies, I posted to the list as I reckoned most
were experienced computer users and would probably have an old copy of
windows floating around which they were no longer using seeing as they
were Ubuntu users.
Alan, please note I was not fully aware of the
Alan,
I was not aware either that it was copyright theft to use another CD
with your original license.
Infact, i thought the following was true:
ttp://download.microsoft.com/download/9/A/9/9A90E11E-43A3-4E7E-A919-961AF15820CA/Refurbished%20PC%20License%20Guide.pdf
According to this, any PC that
On 4 June 2010 22:43, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
(2) The original recovery media or hard-disk based recovery image
associated with the PC.
How is a burnt Windows XP Home CD (your words) sent via post to
someone either 'original recovery' or 'hard-disk based recovery
image'?
On 4 June 2010 21:43, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
Alan,
I was not aware either that it was copyright theft to use another CD
with your original license.
Infact, i thought the following was true:
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
2009/9/19 Vinothan Shankar neversaymon...@googlemail.com:
Maximum CPU chips: probably 64 (standard in Linux kernel, I believe)
I thought it could scale to 4096 now? (Or was that just an xkcd comic?
I forget...)
I'm pretty sure that's just XKCD.
And it's certainly
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Hi
the following wiki pedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions
there is a comparison of windows 7 versions, just wondered if anyone
could imagine there was a column for ubuntu which features (or
2009/9/19 Vinothan Shankar neversaymon...@googlemail.com:
Maximum CPU chips: probably 64 (standard in Linux kernel, I believe)
I thought it could scale to 4096 now? (Or was that just an xkcd comic?
I forget...)
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Vinothan Shankar wrote:
Paul Sutton wrote:
Hi
the following wiki pedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions
there is a comparison of windows 7 versions, just wondered if anyone
could imagine there was a column for ubuntu
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Hi
the following wiki pedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions
there is a comparison of windows 7 versions, just wondered if anyone
could imagine there was a column for ubuntu which features (or equilvent
) would be ticked, for
On 06/08/09 00:51, Sean Miller wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Gordongbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting. I'm running RC at the moment and am NOT seeing it chock full
of those really annoying popups at all.
a. I ran it for several months under Virtualbox with 512mb allocated
and
Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com
wrote in message news:h5dvv8$ra...@ger.gmane.org...
Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99
:-) Getting mine for £44
Still thinking of using it in a VM.
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On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 08:34 +0100, Gordon wrote:
Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com
wrote in message news:h5dvv8$ra...@ger.gmane.org...
Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99
Surely that a description of Kubuntu?
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary
OS with virtually no applications doesn't float my boat.
If you pay £219.99
On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary
OS with virtually no applications
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com
wrote:
Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
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I have been running the Windows 7 beta under parallels for the iMac and it
runs a treat. I have also tried it in virtualbox running in a virtual
instance of Ubuntu on the iMac and again it performs really well.
Both tests out performed a native install on a dell 620 laptop (ok I know my
iMac is
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yes, a couple of times with various betas under VirtualBox...
It runs fine, and has nice wallpaper... :)
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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:05:40 +0100
From: Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?
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Gordon wrote:
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yes, I managed to get it running on VirtualBox. Basically as long as
you can give it enough memory (I think it's a minimum of 512MB, but more
ideally about 1 to 2GB) then it should work okay. Of course it'll
Mike Paglia wrote:
I have been running the Windows 7 beta under parallels for the iMac
and it runs a treat. I have also tried it in virtualbox running in a
virtual instance of Ubuntu on the iMac and again it performs really well.
You can VirtualBox on Ubuntu which was running in a VM?
That's
I have done it as well, in VMware (I downloaded a premade VMware image
of Windows 7). It worked okay, but I will not be buying a copy or using
it regularly. It is not as good as Linux, and although an improvement on
Vista, it is still not good value for money. Although the free beta
which
On 05/08/09 12:05, Gordon wrote:
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yep.
It ran fine in a VirtualBox VM on Ubuntu.
I hated it. Win7 was chock full of those really annoying popups and
wizards that try to tell you what you don't really want to do...
It didn't
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 19:13 +0100, Alan Lord (News)
alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
those really annoying popups and
wizards that try to tell you what you don't really want to do...
How I love those. Tell us more.
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Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com
wrote in message news:h5ci32$ua...@ger.gmane.org...
On 05/08/09 12:05, Gordon wrote:
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yep.
It ran fine in a VirtualBox VM on Ubuntu.
I hated it. Win7 was chock full of those really
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Gordongbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting. I'm running RC at the moment and am NOT seeing it chock full
of those really annoying popups at all.
a. I ran it for several months under Virtualbox with 512mb allocated
and it was fine
b. I don't remember any
On 17/07/09 02:39, Liam Proven wrote:
snip /
There is a chance for Linux, but it's a very tough battle ahead.
Unfortunately, I think the bad experiences of hundreds of thousands of
people with Linux netbooks will put them off for a long time to come.
I don't think it is as bad as the press
Well i have down loaded installed Window 7 RC 7100 and at first glance yes
there seems to be a likeness to quite a few Linux OS's and for that matter
Mac OS X as well, but i think Micro$oft have learned from their failing of
Vista. So what i would say is to the Linux guy they better wake up cos
2009/7/16 Robert Flatters robert.flatt...@googlemail.com:
Well i have down loaded installed Window 7 RC 7100 and at first glance yes
there seems to be a likeness to quite a few Linux OS's and for that matter
Mac OS X as well, but i think Micro$oft have learned from their failing of
Vista. So
Just saw this on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_84367553_1?ie=UTF8docId=1000321063pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLEpf_rd_s=special-product-offers-3pf_rd_r=0VK1CGRWR4HF3J8C5951pf_rd_t=201pf_rd_p=470371973pf_rd_i=B002DUCMT2
[Quote]
*4. Does Windows 7 come with a Web Browser?*
Has anybody seen this, and does anybody have Windows 7 to compare.
I find this quite interesting though.
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2770tag=nl.e550
John
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John wrote:
Has anybody seen this, and does anybody have Windows 7 to compare.
I find this quite interesting though.
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2770tag=nl.e550
John
I did have Windows 7 installed, in fact I'll be sticking it on the
wife's PC this week too. I'd agree with some of
My two lads use only one thing outside of web browser and that is games and
that's changing as they prefer Eve rather than paying through the nose for
buggy software.
I personally, am a Google fan so do everything via that with only my Story
'Writers cafe' software separately. when that appears
What is Moblin, I have an Acer One with Ubuntu 9.04 on it, what does it
do? Does it run off the netbook or what?
John
Dale Clarke wrote:
My two lads use only one thing outside of web browser and that is
games and that's changing as they prefer Eve rather than paying
through the nose for
John
Just go here http://moblin.org/
Its a Linux Foundation project.
Dale
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:09 PM, John jake...@sky.com wrote:
What is Moblin, I have an Acer One with Ubuntu 9.04 on it, what does it
do? Does it run off the netbook or what?
John
Dale Clarke wrote:
My two lads
Someone has already thought of this before:
http://blog.markvdb.be/2007/10/support-free-software-buy-this-copy-of.html
Mj
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Russell Green
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/19 David King [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think that Microsoft reduced the price of Vista
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:11:53 +
Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/17 Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So I just won a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition in a prize draw
and figured that it's no use to me as an Ubuntu user. I'm pretty sure
that it's the retail version (not
++ to the idea of selling it and donating to your fave FOSS project. :)
BinaryDigit on UbuntuForums.org
Lizzeh.com
Support open source!
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Dave Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:11:53 +
Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/17
Why don't you just sell it and get the baby a new hat (or whatever treat
you feel like)
Eddie
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I think that Microsoft reduced the price of Vista recently, as it was
selling so badly. Now they have to give it away in competitions, so
trying to sell it probably will not raise much money.
David King
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Buy ubuntu get windows free?
2008/11/17 Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey guys,
So I just won a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition in a prize draw
and figured that it's no use to me as an Ubuntu user. I'm pretty sure
that it's the retail version (not OEM) and was just wondering if
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey guys,
So I just won a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition in a prize draw
and figured that it's no use to me as an Ubuntu user. I'm pretty sure
that it's the retail version (not OEM) and was just wondering if
Hey guys,
So I just won a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition in a prize draw
and figured that it's no use to me as an Ubuntu user. I'm pretty sure
that it's the retail version (not OEM) and was just wondering if
anyone had any tips on how a FOSS user could get some value from it
(e.g.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey guys,
So I just won a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition in a prize draw
and figured that it's no use to me as an Ubuntu user. I'm pretty sure
that it's the retail version (not OEM) and was just wondering if
Send it to MS, tell them it doesn't work and you want your money back :)
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 15:30 +, Jai Harrison wrote:
Hey guys,
So I just won a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition in a prize draw
and figured that it's no use to me as an Ubuntu user. I'm pretty sure
that it's
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