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Comrade Flier, I fear you are not up to snuff on your Marx and Engels. Socialism has nothing to do with sacrificing one's social rights and freedoms - that is, unless you are here referring to the 1 %'s «rights and freedoms» to trample on the remaining 99 %. The US Supreme Court is...
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Given that the number of internet users worldwide on 31 December 2011 was estimated at nearly 2, 300 million, or nearly 33 % of the world's population (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm), it seems hardly likely that there exists a single «perfect solution» for everybody's...
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Sounds like the perfect solution for her, Neil ! But let me ask, was «quit shop» a typo for «quilt shop» ? Otherwise, you'll have to explain to me just what it is she sells at the rate of 20-30 a month.... Henri
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Some posters on this thread seem to believe that no alternatives exist to upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. On the contrary, their exist a plethora of alternatives - GNU/Linux, BSD, etc, etc. Support contracts are offered by firms like Ubuntu and Red Hat, and migrating to a different OS is hardly...
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Well, as another of today's HotHardware's blogs (http://hothardware.com/News/Microsoft-Revamping-Terms-of-Service-Agreements-to-Block-Class-Action-Lawsuits/) points out - upgrading firms should remember that using a class-action lawsuit to attain redress if one is dissatisfied with a Microsoft...
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Wow - what amazing generosity on the part of Microsoft (with the kind aid of yet another dodgy US Supreme Court decision - http://www.citizen.org/documents/concepcion-anniversary-justice-denied-report.pdf) ! Why am I not surprised ? The only recourse for users would seem to be education and a subsequent...
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>> "If you still have some PCs running Windows XP and Office 2003 in your organization, now would be a good time to start migrating them to Windows 7 and Office 2010," Microsoft stated in a blog post. Or, switch to a more secure and less expensive alternative - like Russia and Iceland...
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I thought this very short video did a pretty good job of explaining the ubiquity of Linux and just how much momentum it has compared to the proprietary options. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpbFMhOAwE
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Those of us on the bleeding edge, noticed that the Linux 3.0.0 kernel hit the Oneiric 11.10 pre-alpha repos today. I'm working through troubleshooting a couple of bugs to report, but for the most part it seems to be working well.
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>> I think it wont be long until Linux starts showing up in retail machines (5-10yrs maybe?), http://www.walmart.com/ip/Asus-EB1007B0410/16332632 I've seen other Linux machines in retail outlets before, but they usually put it on the lowest-end hardware known to man. That's good in a way...