Comment Re:EU law too. (Score 3, Informative) 95
Switzerland is not in the EU, so it probably doesn't have much of an effect.
Comment Re:how on earth? (Score 1) 748
Oh, yes you can. I sell them!
Big retailers only sell Vista - I suspect but don't have proof that they get steep discounts on Vista if they agree not to sell XP.
Small Independants (that's me) will sell whatever the customer wants, and at the moment most of my customers want XP, so I'm buying OEM XP and pre-installing it for people.
Hell, even Dell offer laptops with XP as an option - the demand is there for it, after all - but the average customer will take what he's given to some extent, and that's what PC Hurled etc etc are banking on, that that's why all these "You can't return it unless it's physically faulty" vista policies are coming from (Go to curry's and ask about returning Vista and you'll be surprised!)
Big retailers only sell Vista - I suspect but don't have proof that they get steep discounts on Vista if they agree not to sell XP.
Small Independants (that's me) will sell whatever the customer wants, and at the moment most of my customers want XP, so I'm buying OEM XP and pre-installing it for people.
Hell, even Dell offer laptops with XP as an option - the demand is there for it, after all - but the average customer will take what he's given to some extent, and that's what PC Hurled etc etc are banking on, that that's why all these "You can't return it unless it's physically faulty" vista policies are coming from (Go to curry's and ask about returning Vista and you'll be surprised!)
Feed The Register: Pentagon bins home-front threat database (theregister.com)
Nobody in it but boring pacifists
The Pentagon moved yesterday to shut down a controversial military database used to record possible threats to the US services inside America.
Feed The Register: Mattel gets litigious on chinabarbie.com (theregister.com)
Trademark lawsuit seeks unspecified damages
Mattel yesterday filed suit in Manhattan federal court against www.chinabarbie.com for "using the toymaker's famed 'Barbie' trademark as part of the name for a pornographic website", Reuters reports.
Journal Journal: Viruses
Email sent to the senders of virus reports:
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Journal Journal: Website
Bloody webserver's gone down for good. Apparently the hosting provider sent me an email, which went into the email address I always sign (spammed email) and got fed into my bayesian filter. Damn.
Journal Journal: Collapse Game
I'm writing a java game for another uni project that uses blocks. You can click on 3 or more connected blocks and remove them.
I've now got the double-buffering working too. Discovered a bug in the prevois implementation which meant it didnt actually work. oops.
Journal Journal: MIPS sim
Now got a CLI working for my MIPSim as well as the gui. the only difficult bit was extracting a filename.
Possible filename inputs:
'load'
'load file'
'load this/file'
'load this/file '
'load "this" '
'load "this'
'load "this file" '
'load this "file " errr '
Journal Journal: Bloody Print Servers
Bloody print servers...
Setting up a wireless network with 1 pci card and 3 Access points, and 1 Access point/broadband router.
Estimated Time: 3 hours (expecting multiple subnets and complicated routing)
Actual Time: 0.5 hours (bridging mode)
Setting up a DesignJet 430 + printer server
Estimated Time: 1 hour
Actual Time: 4 hours
Journal Journal: Qube 2
whoo my^H^H a friends borrowed Qube 2 now has 256mb ram and a ssh server. mail sent to root@qube.home.tristanscott.co.uk works... but not from outside. i want broadband *waaaah*
Journal Journal: MIPS sim
my MIPS sim can now sll, sri, syscall
and normal add (register = register+register)
now, it'll run the sample program, but i need more... and a write up. i HATE writing up my projects.
On the bright side, my collapse game is now collapsing into the middle (round gravitational centre) rather than left.
Journal Journal: MIPS sim
got my MIPS simulator in java working, it will now beq, bne, addi, addui and j.
If you're wondering disbelievingly why on earth i'd code a emulator in a jvm... its a uni coursework. personally, i'd write it in c. or C++. java is pathetically slow...
Journal Journal: Qube 2
Borrowed a friends Qube 2 and mucked about with it. Downloaded and ran the restore cd (which wouldnt boot through our 100mBit switched hub). 256Mb ram on order, and im thinking of putting a later kernel on it... linux 2.0 would you believe! 32gb hard limit on partitions (or maybe disks, i forget)...and a 120Gb is a mere 50 quid (trade price ex-vat in GBP)... but 128mb 3.3v edo Simm is 38 quid each, also trade ex vat...
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