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Submission + - WARNING: driver updates causing Vista deactivation (apcmag.com)

Submitted by

KrispySausage

on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @08:48AM

KrispySausage writes: "After weeks of gruelling troubleshooting, I've finally had it confirmed by Microsoft Australia and USA — something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation.

Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into "reduced functionality" mode, where you can't do anything but use the web browser for half an hour.

How can this ridiculous situation occur, and what is Microsoft's response... read on."

Submission + - Google Search Screws Over SomethingAwful.com

Submitted by on Saturday February 17, 2007 @07:49PM

An anonymous reader writes: You may have heard of the humour website SomethingAwful.com. Apparently, for all of their long history they've been having a problem where their website is listed far down Google's results (often last) for searches related to the site (such as the names of features and articles on the site). For example, when I google for "Photoshop Phriday", the site isn't in the first ten pages of results, despite the fact that Google has indexed the relevent page. In fact, the first result is a noproxy.us proxied version of the relevant page, and the rest of the results are blog and forum entries referring to Something Awful. (Results are apparently better on many non-English versions of Google, however.)

It's far from clear what's causing this; the site's PageRank is apparently fine. Attempts to contact Google have fallen on deaf ears and dumb autoresponders. The site was even recently redesigned in the hope of fixing the problem, with no luck so far. Is the world's most popular search engine really this broken, and how much money are people bringing in from knowing the black magic to work around it?

Journal Journal: Rosetta Code -- Building a Programmer's Rosetta Stone 215

Journal by Short Circuit on Thursday January 18, 2007 @11:04PM

Did you ever run into the problem where you knew how to do something in one programming language, but really needed to do it in another? That's what Rosetta Code is all about. A variety of programming tasks are solved using as many languages as possible. You can examine existing tasks, or create your own.

Journal Journal: Pointless meme

Journal by Alioth on Monday December 04, 2006 @07:02PM

1. What is your occupation?
Weilder of the Wire Brush of Enlightenment and the Broadsword of Understanding. i.e. I'm doing system administration.

2. What color are your socks right now?
Black and yellow.

3. What are you listening to right now?
Spoon - Gimme Fiction

4. What was the last thing that you ate?
A strawberry trifle.

5. Can you drive a stick shift?
I only drive stick shifts. Automatics - eugh!

Submission + - Apple makes it official: New iPod Shuffle - 3 Nov

Submitted by

devilsecret

on Tuesday October 31, 2006 @01:40PM

devilsecret writes: "http://area-56.com/index.php?option=com_content&ta sk=view&id=12&Itemid=30"

Submission + - EiffelStudio 5.7 is released under dual license

Submitted by

manus_eiffel

on Tuesday October 31, 2006 @12:56PM

manus_eiffel writes: "Eiffel Software released EiffelStudio 5.7 last week. This is the first release of EiffelStudio under the dual license model announced a few months ago at http://www.eiffel.com/general/news/2006/2006_04_05 _pr.html. This version is available on many platforms (see http://www.eiffel.com/downloads/eiffelstudio.html) ."

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