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Comment Re:Anti-Piracy Warnings (Score 1) 438

Yeah, I heard that too. It's time I start playing with some high brightness IR LEDs. Hell, you could even spell "idiots" and they wouldn't be able to do anything - it's not illegal to carry a battery and a bunch of LEDs.

I think having "PIRATE" spelt out across the back of my jacket would be brilliant, and it could result in a very funny conversation as you feign ignorance and they try and explain what they have seen.

Comment Re:Do not hate me. (Score 1) 821

I ran into the installation size surprise when I was testing server 2008 - I was pretty surprised when the system partition was about 20gb a few days after install without me installing anything on it.

This is how they fit 20gb onto a 3gb DVD.

So its using hardlinks, but the kicker is I think every installer, and explorer report the size as multiples of the actual file size.

Id love somone to tell me that I'm wrong here, as that seems pretty crazy to me!

Comment Re:ISPs (Score 1) 115

I was a ISP support chap in a previous life, during the blaster days.

A fairly common reaction when explaining to people that they had been infected, was to be shouted at for "sending my PC viruses".

Sadly I think that before any quarantine plans can be implemented a pretty major shift in user perception must occur - otherwise the level of bitching that will occur will be apocalyptic.

However, I don't work in support anymore - I say go for it ;)

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