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Microsoft WGA Phones Home Even When Told No 403

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @12:51PM from the huge-shocker-here dept.

Aviran writes "When you start WGA setup and get to the license agreement page but decided NOT to install the highly controversial WGA component and cancel the installation, the setup program will send information stored in your registry and the fact that you choose not to install WGA back to Microsoft's servers."

Apple Care Efficiency When Macs Break? 232

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @12:41PM from the what-has-been-your-experience dept.

cyber-dragon.net asks: "I have long been a staunch supporter of Apple and Macs, however my recent experience with trying to bring them into my department, at work, has been disappointing. We had a Mac Pro (the big quad processor monster) die after four days. Of course, this kind of stuff happens, and everything else has worked flawlessly. I even dealt with the inevitable teasing about the shiny new Mac being a lemon. Almost four hours dealing with Apple Care, three hours dropping off and picking up my computer at different stores, as per their instructions, trying to get this done quickly — I am beginning to wonder if Apple really wants business customers to rely on these machines. Much as I may dislike Dell, when my Linux box died it was fixed in four hours, and I spent maybe 20 minutes of my time setting up the repair. I have spent seven hours of my time so far on this Mac, and it still will not power up. Is this just me or have other people lost critical business machines to the depths of Apple Care inefficiency and lack of business level support?"

Feed 104 Grand for This Old Rag? (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @12:32PM

Among the Bond dinner jackets, Mel Gibson kilts and outfits from Evita that are auctioned off is the moth-eaten cloak worn by Alec Guinness in his portrayal Obi-Wan Kenobi. It fetches $104,000. Not bad. By the Associated Press.

Google's Academic TB Swap Project 190

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @12:00PM from the hey-look-it's-chris dept.

eldavojohn writes "Google is transferring data the old fashioned way — by mailing hard drive arrays around to collect information and then sending copies to other institutions. All in the name of science & education. From the article, 'The program is currently informal and not open to the general public. Google either approaches bodies that it knows has large data sets or is contacted by scientists themselves. One of the largest data sets copied and distributed was data from the Hubble telescope — 120 terabytes of data. One terabyte is equivalent to 1,000 gigabytes. Mr. DiBona said he hoped that Google could one day make the data available to the public.'"

First Retail Water-Cooled DDR2 Memory Tested 132

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @10:35AM from the everything-is-better-wet dept.

Twistedmelon writes "We've all heard of water cooling for processors and even graphics processors, in today's high end PCs. However, a water cooled memory module is something that hasn't been done until now. OCZ Technology recently announced their line of Flex XLC Water-Cooled RAM, with its integrated heat-spreaders that can be connected to any standard water cooling system. The memory operates much cooler under load with tight timings at DDR2-800 speeds. For those with water-cooling setups, these DIMMs could easily be tapped into an existing system allowing for quiet and robust cooling for your system memory as well."

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