Here, have some Vegemite. You need to apply it about 6mm thick.

a - Setup a US redirecting service
b - Get an Aussie creditcard
c - Set the billing address of b to a
d - Setup a proxy


Order software via d on c.

Re the 'roos: I'd sooner hit the rock, it doesn't fight with you after it comes thru the windscreen.

Or clean the spammer with one.

I'm 45+, you insensitive clod(s)!

AFAIK, I've only done COBOL once, for a diesel sequencer IIRC. Most of the rest has been c and c++

About the same, which is why we *pretend* to be in the USA when we order. See http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/05/26/0411202/australian-it-price-hike-inquiry-kicks-off-submissions-wanted for more.

Or do the cheap and less elegant solution of asking your users to go to Sun and install it (and provide a link). If your user's a corporate, then their COE likely has it already. These days, a lot of home environment's have it. Not quite so brilliant these days, Sun.

If she's asking for advice on laptops, chances are she's not that computer literate. Less questions to answer later with a MBP.

Will the phaser wielding security guys wear red shirts?

You can use it to download Ubuntu.
You can buy an iMac online with it
You can buy an ICS phone with it.

You can safely stop using it now, you've got enough stuff to replace it.

People know what they represent, there's no need to alter them to something that they aren't going to know. (Although microsorft do this anyway - hey! its a new version! Lets change everything, and move it)