Unless they decided to dump the DRM, why would anyone on Slashdot want to buy these?
It looks like you don't follow Sony very well. Recently Sony has so many surprise moves towards open standards. I own a Walkman player and a Sony reader and I have nothing to complain. The Sony PRS-505 Reader I'm owning right now is nothing like the Kindle. It reads txt, *ePub* and PDF natively and even plays MP3 and AAC files, and it even has two memory slots -- one of which is SD-HC -- to put your e-books into the device, on-the-fly. There is a killer software that goes very well with that reader, that is Calibre. The program downloads XKCD, The Register and even Slashdot and puts all of them neatly to my reader every time I connect it to my computer. So just want to let you know that Sony products now, are much better than the popular choices such as the iPod and the Kindle.
That- that's about it.
We have it here too.
The "Clean Security Agent," if I'm not wrong, is the Cisco Clean Access Agent that comes with the Cisco NAC Appilance, which runs on Windows only, and is a pain esp. for those who are running Vista. This beast have to run under Administrator privilesges and pops up a login window everytime you connect back to the network, and doesn't even want to accept certain types of Anti-virus software (such as Avira.)
Workaround: It doesn't run on Mac and Linux. If you use WIndows, you can convince the NAC you're using Linux and it will believe it until the appliance gets restarted. If you have Linux - great, the NAC just let you pass through. If you have Windows, Kevin, a program with a great icon, used to work but recently it didn't, but there is always an easy way to get over it: boot into Linux and fire up firefox and click on a link, and then boot back to Windows.
And just FYI: Due to an insane number of complaints received from the students, the IT Staff over here is getting rid of the Cisco CCA this summer
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