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Submission + - WARNING: driver updates causing Vista deactivation (apcmag.com)

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KrispySausage

on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @08:48AM

KrispySausage writes: "After weeks of gruelling troubleshooting, I've finally had it confirmed by Microsoft Australia and USA — something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation.

Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into "reduced functionality" mode, where you can't do anything but use the web browser for half an hour.

How can this ridiculous situation occur, and what is Microsoft's response... read on."

Razorback2 Servers Seized 365

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 22, 2006 @12:11PM from the new-sterile-servers-back-online dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Slyck is reporting that Belgian and Swiss authorities have raided and seized Razorback2's servers. From the article: 'Razorback2 was an eDonkey2000 indexing server - very different in nature from an indexing site such as ShareReactor. Unlike indexing sites, Razorback2's index was only available through an eDonkey2000 client such as eMule. While it does not host any actual files or multimedia material, it does index the location of such files on the eDonkey2000 network. The legality of such indexing remains questionable, however this has not deterred copyright enforcement actions.'"

Comment Pales in comparison to Ruby On Rails (Score 0) 279

by the_pilif on Monday October 10, 2005 @05:40AM (#13755171) Attached to: TurboGears: Python on Rails?

Hi,

I've seen both quicktime movies now: Ruby on Rails and now this one. And this video is not nearly as impressing as the rails one is - mostly, because the python solution here is violating the DRY (don't repeat yourself) principle at many places.

This makes the demonstration look dull and complicated.

While I like the general idea of the project, there's still a large way to go till it reaches the ease and simplicity of Rails.

Philip

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