For goodness sake, the majority of comments I read about Win 7 are almost overwhelmingly positive. Why must Slashdot continue to moan when Microsoft appear to have learnt from their mistakes with Vista? It's fucking annoying.

Frankly this is the reason why I keep using Word. I'm not prepared to waste my time dealing with the politics of NOT using Word. Just install Windows on at least one machine and life will be simpler. It's not a battle worth fighting.

Does this mean Broadcom can finally stop acting like precious little bitches, resign themselves to the enviable and open-source their officials drivers so we can have complete support?

Why must they insist on holding out? It's obvious that if they don't open source their drivers, someone else will. Might as well supply official drivers in that case.

if I were your boss, I'd fire you, because you're clearly lacking in ethical stability

Lacking in ethical stability?

At my place of work this would be cause for a promotion!

Virtual machines baby, boot it up, run the keylogger, run the install up to the point where it gives you whatever you need to install, and then reset the hard drive state.

That works. My tactic is also to write the serial that is produced by a keygen into a text file so that in a future install I don't have to re-run the keygen, I just copy/paste the data safely from the file. Doesn't work for the more advanced keys which are based off a unique hash of the system's architecture, but for every else the text file is perfect. Heck, sometimes a key or keys are listed by someone in the comments of the torrent so that you don't HAVE to use a keygen, which is nice.

The bit about having to public disclose the method used for recovering the data is something I missed, which is probably not worth $500 if it was part of a company's secret strategy for recovering drives. You make a good point. :)

How the fuck was this modded Informative? What non-geek, who can barely be encouraged to use something other an IE is going to go to the effort of setting up their own email server? And how can you measure the tangible benefits when they could just use something like GMail and get on with their lives?

Do any of you geeks mingle with non-geeks once in a while?

Really, there's no need to wipe it more than once unless you honestly think it will matter. At least these guys think so:

http://16systems.com/zero

It's Windows, not Windos. Though you probably know this anyway yet choose to deliberately misspell it.

Hard to take someone's position seriously if they're prepared to act somewhat juvenile about it.

Games which utilize PunkBuster fuck up pretty badly in 64-bit systems. PB just doesn't like the environment for some reason, though that's not surprising given how invasive it is as a low-level system scanner. Since PB doesn't yet have a 64-bit binary, until it does it will continue to misunderstand the 64-bit architecture and kick/unauthenticate players.

This is from what I've read rather than personal experience so if my info is out of date I'll gladly suck a lemon.

For example I have a hobby redoing soundtrack from old games. It amuses me, and others seem to enjoy it.

Your handle sounded familiar so I checked your website and saw that it's you who made all those neat remixed DOOM tracks I downloaded ages ago. Completely off-topic but I just wanted to say thanks and show my appreciation for it.

Oh, and I agree with the rest of your post too.

Clippy IS dead. It's been abandoned in all recent MS products, it's only Slashdot that seems to have trouble understanding this.

What more do you want them to add.

Speed. A slick interface. Etc.

Ah. Now I'm reminded of why I don't have too many geek friends. They're obsessed with their operating systems more than what they can do with them. :)

You'll always have SOMEONE who wants to put down a wad of cash for a gaming PC.