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

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eporue
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?"

POLL: When I install an OS, I usually choose

Submitted by suso
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:People are dumb, so... (Score 1) 204

by Drencrom (#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 (#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.

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