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Submission + - Pre-installed software for a 15 year old

spxZA writes: It's my girlfriend's 14 year old son's birthday coming up and I have bought a notebook.

I'm not planning on paying for any software (even MS Office student licenses). The only exception to this might be minecraft.

To use my ESP and answer your questions in advance: Yes, it's running Windows 7. No, I'm not going to upgrade to *nix. It's running an i3-370M, Radeon HD 5470 (512MB), 4 GB RAM, 500GB HDD. 42.

Other than a browser for social networking, what would you recommend I pre-install for him?

Comment Re:What (Score 0) 218

Or anything that uses libtorrent. I modded libtorrent to work as a distributed content delivery system for an ex-employer. Remove the ignoring of unknown keys, add a bit of hackery elsewhere, and anything added into the swarm ends up on all clients. This was...um...1-2 years ago.

Comment Re:How about some metric figures? (Score 1) 263

<rant>
Officially it's 3 countries that refuse to move to metric: USA, Liberia and Myanmar. You bloody Americans! Really, get up to the 20th century. Because of you, we are often forced to convert units in our heads, since many manufacturers use imperial just because you are the largest buying market. Bastards!

There are others that use a mixture, but are moving towards complete metrification.

Oh, and why oh why oh why do you American programmers still insist on MM-DD-YYYY date format? The mixed endianess is stupid and has no place in our world!
</rant>

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