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Vista Can Run Without Activation for a Year 357

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday March 16, 2007 @07:22AM from the procrastinists-in-luck dept.

An anonymous reader gave us a heads up on this article for people who like putting things off. It begins: "Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end-run around one of Microsoft's key anti-piracy measures, Windows expert Brian Livingston said today. Livingston, who publishes the Windows Secrets newsletter, said that a single change to Vista's registry lets users put off the operating system's product activation requirement an additional eight times beyond the three disclosed last month. With more research, said Livingston, it may even be possible to find a way to postpone activation indefinitely."

Submission + - Generating hifi graphics: which language/libs?

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znerd

on Friday March 16, 2007 @05:32AM

znerd writes: "For an internet site, I need to develop an off-line graphics generator. Since it's off-line, there is not much of a performance-challenge, but quality is; the generated graphics must look absolutely slick. Among my requirements are GIF/JPEG/PNG generation, alpha blending and soft shadows. Generation of animated GIFs is a nice-to-have, but not a requirement. I have started evaluating both Java2D and Cocoa (Mac OS X, Objective C), and both seem acceptable, although Cocoa will probably give nicer results, considering the reputation of Apple's graphical interface.
Do you have experience with (high-volume) off-line generation of graphics? What technologies did you use and which recommendations can you make?"

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