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The Sunday 2007-05-06 at 07:24 -0400, Nick Zentena wrote:
> Unless you build a white box nobody needs to pirate windows. Try
> buying a
> prebuilt computer and not getting a new copy of windows installed with it.
> The vast majority of computers come from HP,Dell,Levono etc. They almost all
> come with windows. I bet many of us own multiple windows licenses.
In Spain we have a saying: «hecha la ley, hecha la trampa», meaning that
each law they make, there is also a loophole made the same time.
In this case? Vendors here offer linux installed in brand new computers,
not because they really install a fully functional linux, which they
don't, but because they expect the buyer to reformat the HD and install
their pirated copy of windows.
In fact, they test the new computer with windows, then reformat it with
any linux that merely boots (or plug in an untested image), and sell it.
We were talking about that recently in the Spanish list because a chap
requested a PC with linux installed and was very pissed when nothing
worked; when he complained, they told him what I said above... in fact,
the vendor doesn't know a word about linux, he just pops in the image.
And a major brand name, too, not a corner store.
> I'm thinking of using an old computer to hold all my music files.
> Headless
> connected to the network. How much hardware will this take? How much would it
> take under windows? Even assuming I already owned all the windows software?
They sell now small shoe box sized computers just for this very task. No
keyboard video or anything: just a HD, CPU, network and sound, at the 100
Eur range. Yeah, and old computer may be cheaper, but this boxes are way
smaller and less hungry, and silent too (no fan).
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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