Blog for One

Ed Bott writes of sneaky changes to Windows licensing terms Microsoft released for its Windows Vista Operating system. Worth a read if you are a Windows user, but not the point of this posting.

Here’s an interesting comment to Ed’s posting:

http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?foru

mID=1&threadID=26177&messageID=492071&start=0

“Lordy…I have 4 machines in a constant state of upgrade

As I said in the subject I have four machines here at home that are in a constant state of upgrade. I purchased an OEM package of licenses and typically have to reactivate each one about 3 or 4 times a year due to hard ware changes. Typically each gets a new motherboard about once a year. I’m now retired so four full featured copies of Vista, let alone office is out of the question. It looks like I’ll be staying with XP Pro as long as possible, but how much longer will they be supporting that and what happens if I have to reinstall one after that? Will I even be able to activate it, or will activation force me to abandon it?

Posted by: rdhalsteatzd Posted on: 10/12/06″

I updated to 2.02 and the experience was less than gratifying.

Now, I’ll have to slog through all my scripts to find and restore all the customizations.

I am not happy about this.  It seems to me that there should be a simpler process for these upgrades.

Stay tuned as the site morphs yet again.

Here’s a scary way to cook an egg using 2 cell phones, and a radio from the Wymsey Weekend Guide to Mobile Cooking.

Too much time on their hands.

Boing Boing: EFF suing AT&T for helping NSA illegally spy on Americans

From the article:

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The lawsuit also alleges that AT&T has given the government unfettered access to its over 300 terabyte “Daytona” database of caller information — one of the largest databases in the world. Moreover, by opening its network and databases to wholesale surveillance by the NSA, EFF alleges that AT&T has violated the privacy of its customers and the people they call and email, as well as broken longstanding communications privacy laws.

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This of course follows EFF actions against the TSA for their failure to follow the law.

I’m hooked up with technorati, and have started to play with plugins.

Good thing I have put automated backups in place, I may be needing them ;P