Computer Jargon

[kralster]

Well my dad is a pastor at a church and the church head office has an agreement with microsoft to provide software for parishes.

[Madaz]

hmmm might have to see if mine can do simular im guessing said parish has an IT guy (maybe you) that takes care of licensing and installations

[Aberax]

Or you come speak to me, I'll sell ya an OEM, once they are released.

[Nightcrawler]

Guys, you have to actually be an AGENT of the church in some fashion to qualify legally for oem church prices/software .... ie. you actually do work for the church on your PC. They are pretty particular about qualifying for it.

[Nightcrawler]

hey Abe, have MS actually hardened up the legal oem rules, or are MSY pulling our chains to get us to buy more gear? You used to be able to legally buy oem software if you bought a decent piece of hardware (like a HDD or mobo), but now MSY claim you have to buy a HDD, mobo AND ram to be able to buy oem software.

I remember tons of mobs on Ebay used to sell oem software and ship it with a HDD cable or busted floppy drive, and claim they were satisfying oem requirements - but was pretty sure this was never legal.

[Aberax]

hey Abe, have MS actually hardened up the legal oem rules, or are MSY pulling our chains to get us to buy more gear? You used to be able to legally buy oem software if you bought a decent piece of hardware (like a HDD or mobo), but now MSY claim you have to buy a HDD, mobo AND ram to be able to buy oem software.

I remember tons of mobs on Ebay used to sell oem software and ship it with a HDD cable or busted floppy drive, and claim they were satisfying oem requirements - but was pretty sure this was never legal.

Years ago you could just buy a keyboard or whatever and also buy a copy of XP OEM, then they changed it to something critical - ie, CPU, Hard Drive, etc. In recent years since just before vista's release they changed it to a whole package, so at my work we can only sell it with a new system or laptop, or we install it for you. But for some certain customers we can make some form of deal - some forum members have already seen me about the deals.

MSY imports all/most of there stock from China (grey imports), so you dont get any Australian warranty, but with software it doesn't matter, all you need is the CD Key. As the stock comes from China, they don't have to conform to the licensing of windows as much as we do, as our's is Australian stock.

Also be VERY careful of the ebay jobs, we have seen quite a few customers come in with copies of XP OEM they bought off of ebay - High Quality Fakes, it cost then about $120....then they came to us and it cost them about another $200 (cost of XP oem & install fee).

Edited June 4, 2009 by Aberax

[Madaz]

Andrew im not after windows for myself just getting all the pc's at the church on the one OS/package

[Dohmar]

Reformatted my EEE on Thursday and installed the new version of Fedora Linux (11)

Works very nicely. I have encrypted filesystem which requires a password before the OS can boot, graphical bootsequence (Plymouth with the spinfinity theme) and I have compiz fusion enabled with the multiwallpaper glcube rotator and the expo mirror plugin, also with emerald as the window manager, window transparencies, 'wobble' effects and other eye candy

have also setup wvdial to use my phone (via bluetooth) as a nextG modem which is quite nifty.... wireless lan, webcam, card reader, pretty much every piece of hardware works admirably so far

heres a demo of the expo plugin ;

Another compiz demo (showing off the zoom a bit) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s1nJWL3rs4

and another one :

Love it. and it runs on the little eee 901 admirably

-D

[dark.sky]

Does anyone know if you can use an iPhone as a modem on a pc?

My Internet is throttled because of download limit but I have heaps of data with optus on my iPhone.

Thanks in advance.

u sure can, i use mine as a modem for my eee pc when my dsl goes down.

need to jb it, and there are a few applications that u can use to share the internard from the iphone either by usb cable, or using the iphone as a wifi router

hit whorlpool forums for moar info

In 4 days Apple is releasing OS 3 for the iPhone, and it includes internet tethering!!!

Hit my download limit again on the home internet, so back to dialup speed again

Because my physical address cannot get ADSL, Im forced to use wireless and I have the biggest plan I could find which is 10GB a month on Telstra NextG, but I keep hitting it. Hopefully they make plans with bigger download limits soon. Im happy with the speed of it, when using speedtest.net I can get low 80's ping, with around 3Mbps download speed but yeah just wish I could have more downloads.

The phone exchange Im connected to has just had ADSL2+ made availible, but I have 6500-7000m line length if not running through the pair gains unit....

[Madaz]

ok about time a fellow geek posted up a finding

for those that don't know you can turn your windows ce based GPS into a fully fledged OS (sort of as i read it still playing)

ok here is original HP screen load up

then it proceeded to install the OS which took less than 5 mins on a dual core ARM11 cpu 600mhz

then this was the initial load screen just before glory

>>Mio Pocket 3.0<<

now i just have to figure out a few of the tools that i want like bluetooth and possibly GPS settings

[heslo]

That's pretty awesome Steve! With the GPS you have yes?

[Madaz]

yeah man took alot of reading through the different threads

oh and its installed on the SD so if i get sick of it or something doesnt work pull out SD and soft reboot and valla back to oasis OS

[heslo]

Sick, pirated OS though I take it? Naughty boy!

[Dohmar]

yeah man took alot of reading through the different threads

oh and its installed on the SD so if i get sick of it or something doesnt work pull out SD and soft reboot and valla back to oasis OS

thats pretty cool

i hacked my dads tomtom 910 go to add extra maps and unlock the bonus features (such as john cleese giving directions) only to find it was a strongarm200mhz with a 20gb hdd and a 6" touchscreen. Would be awesome to have a spare one to chuck linux on and see what I can do with it >

-D

[Madaz]

no Luke legit its free

What is MioPocket?

MioPocket is an unlock kit--an installable package of programs, scripts, registry files and skins--to unlock Mio-brand GPS devices (plus some other brands) and allow them to be used as PDAs (i.e. personal, handheld computers). MioPocket is the most-packed and most-fully-featured unlock for GPS devices available and is free and legal to use, as it consists 100% of freely-distributable content. What MioPocket is not is a replacement for MioMap or any other OEM navigation software. It is just a different environment from which one may launch such software.

[heslo]

Damn, you got me there

[bezender]

steve ur a 1337 h4x0r

[Dohmar]

Reformatted my EEE on Thursday and installed the new version of Fedora Linux (11)

After spending 2 weeks with this awesome distro, I can safely say I won't be switching back to slackware unless I have to recompile loads of c/c++ onto a non x86 platform

Spend around 6 hours last night reading thru a bunch of technical documentation regarding the ASUS U3100 usb digital tv dongle. Works fine under windows but I want it to work under fedora. Asus released their own driver and application but it was for ubuntu. After many glasses of coke and many experiments, I finally got the bugger working under F11. Turns out it was actually quite easy. but totally undocumented and the documentation I was reading from was up to 2 years old - such is live in the open source world.

That said, the TV software under linux is pretty lightweight. Its around 5 megs in total and does HD streams without maxxing out the cpu.

And this afternoon I installed VICE 64 (a commodore emulator) and managed to get it working fullscreen with a proper c64 joystick and stelladaptor.... just like the real deal

Spent the last hour playing wiz of wor. Fun stuff now I'm onto the last ninja.

Funny thing is, this eee has grossly exceeded its specs on paper... The eee connects wirelessly to the mobile phone for broadband, wirelessly via 802.11n for local LAN, DVB-T for Digital Tele and bluetooth to connect to the mouse and mobile phone. thats 4 independant wireless technologies. Bluetooth, 802.11n, DVB-T, NextG. Better not use it too much I'm guessing, I might get nut cancer.

Oh and incidentally the whole lot works seamlessly under compiz too..... I have an openGL rotating cube and it displays the c64 emu on one face, the digital tv, anotherone running totem which is playing an avi, another which is running a command prompt dumping a kernel recompile, and its all being mirrored on an openGL surface... all this on intel 950gfx and dualcore atom 1.6ghz (eee 901). Pretty damn good for a $550 laptop IMHO....

Technology makes the coochie go 'woo woo'

-D

[kralster]

^

You've made me wet.

[SLAPS]

Sex change?

Always thought you were a bit of a girl.

Edited June 30, 2009 by SLAPS