Good to know, - but not the outcome wanted.

Its been ten plus years since i personally last used a microsoft os.

It will happen to you one day

Yes i guess it got duplicate keygen'ed by something. Since nobody wants to 'help' loading linux will be my solution

More of linux shop here but the one remaining ms os pc which had updates until november has just been deemed illegal by somebody last month.

I briefly tried to deal with the issue - the supplier hp told me to get lost, and once through to the right region (hp's website royally sucks) the human blamed ms and gave me a wrong phone number for buck passing.

I have put the machine on a list for debian upgrades for next year.

Huhne is a businessman, and a 'johny come lately; to the iffy and corrupt politics route that is the ppe, or the fast track to m15 and m16. The French have a similar setup

Oxbridge talks to Oxbridge only on matters of its choosing and distrusts people such as the non member as he is.

I wont defend that some sell off's have issues as to value for money for the state. But British Telecom is a lot better than it used to be, there used to be waiting lists for telephones, when answer phones where bleeding edge. I do not rate BT as a good firm but at least with competitive framework the industry seems to be ok and a lot better now.

Governments can suck too

I was on unlimited but for a free speed upgrade we got a cap as part of the 'deal'. It was cheaper than the slow 512k thing and i kept our ip config. I have usage records and very rarely do we go over what the cap was adjusted down to.

Saved money, i can increase the limit but paying for wasted stuff appears pointless.

I would recommend my isp, they are local, i don't have issues with them, and i have a choice of other isp's.

On twitter recently #drm was trending over the ms new console. People might not think it issue 1 but somehow the eff have pushed in to people brains.

End to end encryption does not exist, a design flaw.

Ssl is tied to domain names, I had the recent experience of purchasing ssl on a site with no ssl. The irony of that statement i will let sink in

My last book i bought came from a charity shop as nobody sold it in my region in europe not even the independent book shops. The amazon version on e-reader would have cost me $100 dollars with device, it was cheaper to import the book from a foriegn location. Also as i like to use my lending library that all those elected people love closing down and so i am not buying into e-books. I do have some pdfs with my name and address in as well compliments of the publisher and are horrid to navigate.

I read a lot. On buying a ereader i am not buying a ereader thing that only works in one shop. As i use linux daily another issue is that drm or reading clients [adobe] are missing but not a problem in apple and windows land.

An e-reader sounds a great idea until i start shooting holes into the arguments. When i can load books via linux into an ereader, use my library with it and purchase books with it then consider me a customer.

Depends on the age of the infrastructure, and where it is. Certain telecoms providers [british telecom] often feel rural broadband and phones is not important and so leave places with iffy phone services. You know its crap as the whole village says there phones and broadband are unreliable. I know this as we have printed airline e-tickets for people flying.

The electricity distribution underground network cables in our street are beginning to expire and it takes a good day for a replacement to be dug out and replaced. The contents of the freezer become a concern in the summer months.

The amazon staff where unsure of that and the geolocation issues. I got a 'forget it'. when i enquired

Buying a drm and limited e-reader to one shop is not my idea of progress.

Mind you perhaps with amazon recruiting people who define that windows or mac the only platforms is an issue

Actually trying to give amazon money is hard as a linux person.

Short version of the story is about a book reviewed here on slashdot.

Only available in kindle, physical copies non existant unless you import it - i asked did the kindle reader 'app' work in linux Answer back was no as i was in the wrong region. A kindle was also more than it would cost to import the book from a foriegn land.

Six months later i find a physical book in a charity shop in my region. I dont plan on buying a kindle now.

Libraries can also be brilliant places and are worth supporting.

The average user does not seem to know that the gateway of the vpn directs all traffic to it. I run virtual os'es with one routes to a vpn and the other on my network.

Remind you of the film the running man ?

There always was some hardware switches and routers made before somebody at corporate decided that cisco was um was not something they would be fired for buying bit like ibm was.

Gandalf whom made hardware bridges got a bit secretive and probably lost support being that even looking at there web pages required that you be a reseller.

  I'm sure those with the clout can buy direct from china to there specs opposed to brand names.