In theory Vista and 7 have EFI support... Anyway, what I meant with the question is that how would Apple handle such a request. I guess the answer would be something like: "Sorry, it's a package deal".

This brings up the question: can I buy a Mac and then request a refund of the full retail price of Mac OS X, stating that I decline the OS X SLA (Software License Agreement, as they call it)?

*chuckles*

Apparently it's hosted in Romania and the local RIAA already tried to take it down.

Vista can resize partitions easily. But it cannot move them, so if you would want to grow that 20 GB partition, you would have to delete "D:" first, do the resize and then recreate D:. Oh, and the answer to your question: probably yes :p

You can do the install yourself. I haven't tried 9.04 PPC, but 8.10 ran pretty fine (with the obvious limitations of the PPC platform) on my iBook G4. If configured properly, it even feels snappier than OS X.

My ISP does it like this: outbound port 25 is blocked (probably inbound too, never tried) by default, you can use only their SMTP server. But if you need it, you can ask them to open it up for you, explaining shortly why you need it. The whole thing is done online, within their website. They specifically state there that if you're sending spam, they will block it again. Disclaimer: I'm in Europe, but I think such a solution would be legal even under the net neutrality act, and still prevent large amounts of spam from infected PCs. The approach seems right: if a user doesn't know what port 25 is, they probably don't need it. :)

How do you prevent the user from getting an SSL security warning? Or they just know what's going on and have to deal with it...

I have that same rule, with a slight variation:

How do sparse files relate to a failed ftp transfer?

I would be interested in how do you do that.

That depends on the ISP. My connection is PPPoE based, and most of the time bringing the connection down and up again is all it takes to get a new IP address (from a quite large pool).

Or just get a Mac. If you need Windows, run it in a VM. Without installing their client security shit, of course.

Interestingly, right now "other explained below" is third, with 671 votes. Yet, there are only 565 comments on the article. Looks like someone forgot to explain.

Nope, there's no reiserfs support.

Maybe I don't want to fire up google translate minden masodik kommentre?