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Can I buy a Mac Air, install Ubuntu and get a refund for OS X ? 0

Submitted by

eporue

on Monday March 26, @03:10PM

eporue writes "From time to time I read reports of a hero that manages to buy a PC and after a long number of calls / emails / visits / complaints manages to get the money back for the windows that came installed with it.
But, has anyone ever challenged Apple ? Can I buy an Mac Air, install Ubuntu on it and get a refund for OS X? Or even buy the Mac Air with no OS at all?"

Comment: Re:What's an "inch"? (Score 1) 224

by Drencrom on Tuesday March 20, @11:42AM (#39413939) Attached to: Seagate Hits 1 Terabit Per Square Inch

I think the GP has a point, the article switches from metrical to imperial units all the time. I don't know what is the imperial unit for a nm though

Vans - Work Horses for the Long Run-> 0

Submitted by

Mitsubishi_Australia

on Wednesday March 14, @11:11PM

Mitsubishi_Australia writes "Vans are mainly commercial vehicles having sufficient space to carry goods and have been used for many years by businesses with a lot of success. After their initial introduction, many changes have been made by Japanese and European manufacturers to suit local conditions."
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Report: Amazon Cloud Backed by 450,000 Servers-> 0

Submitted by 1sockchuck on Wednesday March 14, @07:15PM

1sockchuck writes "How many servers does it take to power Amazon’s huge cloud computing operation? A researcher estimates that Amazon Web Services is using at least 454,400 servers in seven data center hubs around the globe. The analysis suggests up to 70 percent of those servers may be in Virginia."
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POLL: When I install an OS, I usually choose 0

Submitted by suso on Wednesday March 14, @03:07PM

suso writes "* Default options, default partitioning
* Default options, custom partitioning
* Custom options, default partitioning
* Custom options, custom partitioning
* As much customization as possible
* Apple pie from scratch"

Comment: Re:Seen at Fry's (or is that Spy's?) (Score 1) 189

by Drencrom on Tuesday December 20, @01:15PM (#38436554) Attached to: Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones?

Just like blue thunder!

Comment: Re:No support, no bug fixes (Score 1) 293

by Drencrom on Friday December 02, @04:17PM (#38242380) Attached to: The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix

... and its memory footprint is smaller than OS X or Ubuntu ...

[citation needed]

Really interested not trolling.

Comment: Re:Define professionals? (Score 1) 556

by Drencrom on Saturday October 15 2011, @01:45PM (#37724796) Attached to: Is Apple Pushing Away Professionals?

We all know that Macbook, iPhone, iPad and a Starbucks Grande-size Latte are the holy trinity in being "cool

I guess there is something unholy on that trinity of four :)

Comment: Re:People are dumb, so... (Score 1) 204

by Drencrom on Friday September 09 2011, @02:38PM (#37354744) Attached to: Researchers' Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail

They do the same with SSH. The other day I mispelled homelinux.org (that's a dyndns domain) and ended up in some server asking my password. They listen to SSH for all domains *.mispelled-homelinux.org (I don't remember the exact name) and harvest logins and passowrds. Luckily I only allow public keys in my home router so I could notice.

Comment: Re:It's not that big of deal (Score 2, Insightful) 334

by Drencrom on Sunday May 02 2010, @11:05PM (#32068808) Attached to: MATLAB Can't Manipulate 64-Bit Integers

Yes, they do. From the article you mention

"If you really need your results to add up exactly, especially when you work with money: use a special decimal datatype"

Is is true that the GP mentions small numbers and fp is in fact more precise with small numbers, but when the numbers get larger the difference between two representable fp numbers gets bigger also.