Comment Re:what happened to you, Austrailia? (Score 1) 674
I think you're getting confused with New Zealand
Comment Re:Another interesting tidbit (Score 2, Funny) 898
Comment Re:It will work... (Score 1) 907
OK, you win
Comment Re:It will work... (Score 5, Informative) 907
I wondered about the legality of using a mouse as a component to buy an OEM operating system, so I did some research.
Turns out prior to August 2005, you could buy a copy of an OEM operating system with an "essential, non-peripheral component" - so a mouse would not qualify, but an IEC power cable would.
The changed rules renamed the licenses "system builder" and made them available to anyone building their own PC - including end users.
Submission + - Help Find Jim Gray
An anonymous reader writes: Jim Grey has been missing for five days, and all attempts to find him so far have failed.
But there is still hope:
"Through a major effort by many people we were able to have the Digital Globe satellite make a run over the area on Thursday morning and have the data made available publicly. We have split these images into smaller tiles that can be easily scanned visually and stored into the Amazon S3 storage service. We then created tasks for reviewing these images and loaded then into the Amazon Mechanical Turk Service.... Now it is your turn, go find Jim Gray."
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/02/help_f ind_jim_gray.html
But there is still hope:
"Through a major effort by many people we were able to have the Digital Globe satellite make a run over the area on Thursday morning and have the data made available publicly. We have split these images into smaller tiles that can be easily scanned visually and stored into the Amazon S3 storage service. We then created tasks for reviewing these images and loaded then into the Amazon Mechanical Turk Service.... Now it is your turn, go find Jim Gray."
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/02/help_
