Hungary?? 0.05 HUF is worth almost nothing, filler (0.01 HUF) coins haven't been in circulation for many years.

Neither is Hungary and Switzerland.

If different versions of OS X make no difference to your mom, I doubt newer or older versions of Firefox will.

Wanna run 10.4 for years to come? Fine, just stick with Firefox 3.6 or whatever will be the last Firefox supporting it.

(typing on an iBook G4 with Leopard, and being aware of the fact that it's the last version of OS X that it will run, but might do so for a few more years).

SDelete on Windows. I'm not aware of such a tool for other OSs.

In theory Vista and 7 have EFI support... Anyway, what I meant with the question is that how would Apple handle such a request. I guess the answer would be something like: "Sorry, it's a package deal".

This brings up the question: can I buy a Mac and then request a refund of the full retail price of Mac OS X, stating that I decline the OS X SLA (Software License Agreement, as they call it)?

*chuckles*

Apparently it's hosted in Romania and the local RIAA already tried to take it down.

Vista can resize partitions easily. But it cannot move them, so if you would want to grow that 20 GB partition, you would have to delete "D:" first, do the resize and then recreate D:. Oh, and the answer to your question: probably yes :p

You can do the install yourself. I haven't tried 9.04 PPC, but 8.10 ran pretty fine (with the obvious limitations of the PPC platform) on my iBook G4. If configured properly, it even feels snappier than OS X.

My ISP does it like this: outbound port 25 is blocked (probably inbound too, never tried) by default, you can use only their SMTP server. But if you need it, you can ask them to open it up for you, explaining shortly why you need it. The whole thing is done online, within their website. They specifically state there that if you're sending spam, they will block it again. Disclaimer: I'm in Europe, but I think such a solution would be legal even under the net neutrality act, and still prevent large amounts of spam from infected PCs. The approach seems right: if a user doesn't know what port 25 is, they probably don't need it. :)

How do you prevent the user from getting an SSL security warning? Or they just know what's going on and have to deal with it...

I have that same rule, with a slight variation:

How do sparse files relate to a failed ftp transfer?

I would be interested in how do you do that.

That depends on the ISP. My connection is PPPoE based, and most of the time bringing the connection down and up again is all it takes to get a new IP address (from a quite large pool).